It’s Friday! Which seat can you take?
Today’s Hili is a bit cryptic, but I think I understand it. (Jacek helps with the technical site of Listy)
Hili: We have readers in Beijing, India, Sicilly, but do we have readers in Egypt?A: I don’t know. We will have to ask Jacek, but why do you care?Hili: If you were a cat you would understand.
In Polish:
Hili: Mamy czytelników w Pekinie, w Indiach, na Sycylii, ale czy są nasi czytelnicy w Egipcie?
Ja: Nie wiem, musimy zapytać Jacka, ale dlaczego ci na tym zależy?
Hili: Gdybyś był kotem pewnie byś rozumiał.
The one TRUE god: Bast!
What do you mean, “one”?
That’s one of the great things about being an atheist: you get to have your pick of all the gods! And the Egyptians have lots of feline deities….
Cheers,
b&
Indeed, today I worship the rice Gods. I am eating fried rice so now there be hundreds of Gods in me belly.
Many, many great gods of grass….
b&
And the Egyptians have lots of feline deities….
Poor Christians! They have only 3 gods and none of them cats …
Oh, they’ve got lots more than three. If Hades and Set are both gods — as they most assuredly are — then so, too, is Satan. And if the Olympians are gods, then all the Heavenly Host, all the cherubim and seraphim and what-not, they’re all gods. And if the ancestor spirits of all sorts of religions are gods, then all the saints and all the humans who pass through the Pearly Gates are also gods, and so on and so forth.
But you’re right about the cats….
b&
Is it possible that Hili is making a reference to Egyptian cat dieties like Bast?
Weren’t cats first domesticated in Egypt?
Weren’t cats first domesticated in Egypt?
Um … I’m sure you meant ‘weren’t humans first domesticated in Egypt?’
NO. IF U RESEARCH IT RITE, I FINKZ U WILL FIND DAT KATS FURST DOMESTICATD HUMANZ IN EGYPT.
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Forgive me, Ceiling Cat, for I have sinned. 🙁
LOL
It’s the other way around, that’s when humans were first domesticated by cats.
SCUSE ME… IZ THAR AN ECHO IN HER?
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Oy! Be compassionate, Butter. For is it not written: to err is human, to forgive feline?
🙂 URE RITE. I FINKZ I HAVENT HAD MAH TENDR VITTLEZ DIS MORNIN.
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Just translating for everyone 🙂
Or how about the Sphinx/Sphynx angle ? (the statue/cat breed similar spelling and same sound or more simply referring to the breed only ?).
Hili is on the lookout for cat worshippers.
If people only worshiped cats…ah the epistemological prosperity.
“If you were a cat, you’d understand” is a reply I frequently get from Gus. “Gus, why are you shredding paper?” “Gus, why won’t you even touch the same flavor of canned food that you devoured yesterday?” “Gus, why do you sharpen your claws on the carpeted steps instead of using the expensive scratching post I bought you?”
“If you were a cat you would understand” sums up so many things, really 🙂
But, if you understood, would that make you a cat?
That’s the theory. Alas, all attempts at comprehension have failed, so we haven’t yet had the opportunity to observe spontaneous felification.
…but one can hope….
b&