Sorry, this kind of thing upsets me more than makes me happy the pup is better now, because I had to see it terrified of being touched first.
It reminds me of the aspca commercials with abused animals, trying to touch your heart and get your donation, but that's abusive of the very people they are soliciting, animal lovers.
My wife blocked her sister on Facebook because she constantly posted similar videos and pictures, bumming my wife out to near tears daily.
I can't blame the poster, he labeled it well, but I still wasn't prepared for the screaming terror.
I need to go watch some more playing baby pygmy hippo now.

Edit: I must not have read the description when I said I can't blame the poster, because now that I see the message was his normal "if you eat meat you abuse animals" accusatory tripe, I totally blame him.

"You little bitch, I'll (?) you!"
-Takes pygmy cannibal creature into woodshed, scene obscured.

Well that's a bummer...

>> ^MichaelL:

It was reported just last week or the week before that this little guy died unfortunately.

>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^shinyblurry:
That is really cool..the japanese are masters of innovation..and cute packaging. This would be good if you were stuck in the middle of nowhere and your pet pygmy mouse lemur was hungry..oh and if you found an oasis with a microwave

The sun! <IMG class=smiley src="http://cdn.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/teeth.gif">


ahh soo

>> ^shinyblurry:

That is really cool..the japanese are masters of innovation..and cute packaging. This would be good if you were stuck in the middle of nowhere and your pet pygmy mouse lemur was hungry..oh and if you found an oasis with a microwave


The sun!

That is really cool..the japanese are masters of innovation..and cute packaging. This would be good if you were stuck in the middle of nowhere and your pet pygmy mouse lemur was hungry..oh and if you found an oasis with a microwave

Why are we paying attention to this creature? Why is this intellectual pygmy being granted media distribution of his psychotic brain leakage?

@dag @Fletch @LarsaruS

I think you're all forgetting that Hitler was a master of propaganda, and those statements affirming Christianity were just that. Hitler used a facade of piousness to cement his power with a predominantly Christian populace. Feel free to disagree, but then you have to deal with statements which he made to party loyalists, like these:

"National Socialism and religion cannot exist together....
"The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity....
"Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things." (p 6 & 7)

Night of July 11-12th 1941

"Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure." (p 43)

October 10th 1941

"The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity."

19th October, 1941, night

Doesn't seem like such a warrior for christ now, does he? The cult of personality that fletch is talking about just makes my point. When man tries to get rid of God, he just replaces God with himself. Human beings have the natural desire to worship, whether it is something like money, or power, or celebrity, or themselves, everyone who doesn't know the true God has at least one idol in their life they pay homage too.

To say there is no connection between atheism and communism is absurd. Atheism was at the roots of it, and that according to the communists themselves:

"Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism"

"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism"

Lenin

“With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.”

Karl Marx

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion”

Karl Marx

So you see there is a connection between atheism and the atheistic regimes that committed uncounted atrocities. Fletch, you're even denial about the definition of atheism, which is the denial of any deity according to the dictionary. A famous quote says that "without God everything is permissable". And that is the logical connection, that a man unrestrained by any thought of ultimate accountability can justify any kind of moral action to himself. Consider this quote from Joel Marks, the professor of philosophy at the University of New Haven

“This philosopher has been laboring under an unexamined assumption, namely that there is such a thing as right and wrong. I now believe there isn’t…The long and short of it is that I became convinced that atheism implies amorality; and since I am an atheist, I must therefore embrace amorality…I experienced my shocking epiphany that religious fundamentalists are correct; without God there is no morality. But they are incorrect, I still believe, about there being a God. Hence, I believe, there is no morality.

Even though words like “sinful” and “evil” come naturally to the tongue as say a description of child molesting. They do not describe any actual properties of anything. There are no literal sins in the world because there is no literal God…nothing is literally right or wrong because there is no Morality"

Please note, I am not saying atheists cannot be moral; I am simply saying that an amoral viewpoint can be a causal factor in committing atrocities, just as much as any zealout. Psychopaths suppress what they know is right and wrong, and dictators ordain it.

It goes back to my original point. It is human nature that is the problem, the corruption of which I attribute to sin. A moral person will be moral in every circumstance, whereas an immoral person will be immoral in every circumstance. You cannot chop it up to specific beliefs of methodologies..they only diagnose the symptom and not the cause.

>> ^Jinx:

If only we could invent some sort of machine to give us more foresight.
I'd say the real disease isn't ignorance, its apathy. I mean, everybody knows we are fucked right but the way people go about their everyday life almost convinces you that they don't feel the same way. Willful ignorance perhaps?


It's everything.

It's a lack of involvement in the world people find themselves in. It's a lack of curiosity about it and themselves. It's a lack of critical thinking or the desire to come to your own conclusions. It's a lack of will to engage in autodidacticism and take control of your own mind and future. It's a refusal to take responsibility for yourself, for your community, for your species, for the part you're playing in it all. It's the lack of will to care.

It's an almost nihilistic, deeply cowardly need to be an intellectual fucking pygmy, because otherwise it's just too damn hard, and people would have trouble getting to sleep at night.

>> ^Xax:

Was anyone else a bit creeped out how the owl slowly re-opened its eyes? Surely a vicious attack ensued.


"See humans? This is how you treat owls. Do you wish to see the repercussions of failure?"

DAWWWWSOME!>> ^BoneRemake:

DAWWWWWWW !! !

>> ^Yogi:

It's Eyes...They're drilling a HOLE into my SOUL!


Actually, he was just counting the individual elements in the CCD of the camera.

Your video, Tickling a Pygmy Owl, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^Yogi:

It's Eyes...They're drilling a HOLE into my SOUL!


I know. This is what it must feel like to be bottom of the food chain.

Owl theme song!!!