Sneaky (cat!)

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Last night, I was working at my computer and Sneaky was sleeping in my arms like a baby, as he always does. Suddenly, he wakes up and sits on the palm of my hand and starts LICKING HIS BUTT
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while I am still holding him. Seriously, cat? Couldn't go somewhere else to do that? Then he went back to sleep.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
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Last night, I was working at my computer and Sneaky was sleeping in my arms like a baby, as he always does. Suddenly, he wakes up and sits on the palm of my hand and starts LICKING HIS BUTT
👅
while I am still holding him. Seriously, cat? Couldn't go somewhere else to do that? Then he went back to sleep.
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Hey, a cat's gotta do what a cat's gotta do...
 
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Sneaky's been sick; losing weight despite eating a lot. I took him to the vet yesterday and she thought he probably had gotten worms from a bunny he ate a few months ago. She gave him dewoming meds, so hopefully he starts gaining back his weight.

Here's a photo of him cuddling with me while I was working a few nights ago. I'm holding him with my left arm so I could use my right hand to type and use the mouse. Every time I did, Sneaky would put his back feet on my right arm, then get annoyed when I moved it too much!
 
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Update on Sneaky's health 😺

As many of you know, Sneaky has been sick and losing weight. Last Monday, Sneaky's vet gave him de-worming meds because he got tapeworms from eating a rabbit he killed a while back. I'm happy to report that he is feeling better. He even caught a mouse a couple nights ago! Thankfully, he did NOT eat that!
 
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Tonight Sneaky enjoyed steak for dinner. After eating most of it, he asked to go out. A few minutes ago, I open the door to let him back in, and find him sitting on the doorstep next to another dead bunny 😢 At least he didn't eat this one! The last one gave him tapeworms 🤮

After killing the rabbit, he came back in and ate the rest of his steak!

He looks annoyed in the pic because he wanted to eat and didn't like me taking pictures.
 
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chuckroast said:
Well, at least we know the Sneakmeister isn't a Pagan - he doesn't venerate the bunnies, he kills 'em...
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That reminds me of a really hardcore Baptist I used to work with when I was in college 25 yrs ago. He always called the Easter Bunny the "Ishtar Bunny" because he said rabbits were associated with the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar and it was a sin to use the Easter Bunny as part of a Christian holiday. He always called Santa Claus "Satan Claus." lol
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
That reminds me of a really hardcore Baptist I used to work with when I was in college 25 yrs ago. He always called the Easter Bunny the "Ishtar Bunny" because he said rabbits were associated with the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar and it was a sin to use the Easter Bunny as part of a Christian holiday. He always called Santa Claus "Satan Claus." lol
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That's pretty hardcore.

The Easter Bunny certainly does have its roots in paganism. Santa Claus, on the other hand, was Saint Nicholas, as far as I know. I don't think he is the problem. It's what we have made of him and Christmas that may offend.

- Murray
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
That reminds me of a really hardcore Baptist I used to work with when I was in college 25 yrs ago. He always called the Easter Bunny the "Ishtar Bunny" because he said rabbits were associated with the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar and it was a sin to use the Easter Bunny as part of a Christian holiday. He always called Santa Claus "Satan Claus." lol
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Well, neither Christmas or Easter are exactly Christian in origin. Neither of them are at the historically likely times of the year for Jesus' birth or crucifixion. The date for Easter was selected by the Council of Nicea in 325AD to get it to line up with Passover. The choice of Dec. 25 for Christmas likely is a reflection of the Roman pagan festivals around the winter solstice.

There is no real support of the Easter Bunny being derived from Ishtar and probably has more to do with European fertility celebrations, not Mesopotamia.

Santa Claus is sort of watered down and secularized variant of St. Nicholas popularized by things like the poem .A Visit from St. Nicholas'.

So your colleagues were sort of right and sort of wrong. Also, my claim that the Sneakmeister couldn't be Pagan is misplaced since Easter isn't really a pagan holiday.

But Christmas, in particular, has become a festival of retail more Pagan than anyone dancing around a pole naked could have ever imagined.
 
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chuckroast said:
Well, neither Christmas or Easter are exactly Christian in origin. Neither of them are at the historically likely times of the year for Jesus' birth or crucifixion. The date for Easter was selected by the Council of Nicea in 325AD to get it to line up with Passover. The choice of Dec. 25 for Christmas likely is a reflection of the Roman pagan festivals around the winter solstice.

There is no real support of the Easter Bunny being derived from Ishar and probably has more to do with European fertility celebrations, not Mesopotamia.

Santa Claus is sort of watered down and secularized variant of St. Nicholas popularized by things like the poem .A Visit from St. Nicholas'.

So your colleagues were sort of right and sort of wrong. Also, my claim that the Sneakmeister couldn't be Pagan is misplaced since Easter isn't really a pagan holiday.

But Christmas, in particular, has become a festival of retail more Pagan than anyone dancing around a pole naked could have ever imagined.
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Your post will no doubt offend the sort of the people who tend to get offended by the facts. Good for you!
As for Sneaky, all cats are Satan's minions. One of many reasons I'm a cat person.
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Your post will no doubt offend the sort of the people who tend to get offended by the facts. Good for you!
As for Sneaky, all cats are Satan's minions. One of many reasons I'm a cat person.
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I'm devoutly Protestant Christian and never found facts like that troublesome. Then again, my fellow believers tend to get twitchy when I tell 'em I don't think Christmas is very Christian ;)

As to the moral composition of cats, I think they are perfect creatures put here to keep us in our place...
 
As I see it, it's all good mythology. After all there is so much of it to be researched and read and enjoyed.

A useful exercise for the open and active mind is to research the similarities between the early Asian religions and Christianity. The Old Testament is full of stories 'borrowed' from Hindu and Buddhist legends. Also Islam.

As for Christmas, where I live (note my RFF name) it's now an enjoyable pagan ritual. Families and friends get together to roast meats and issue from the oceans and other tasty edibles on open fires and quaff endless bottles of the fermented juices of pressed grapes. I mostly pass on the animal flesh consuming rituals but I give thanks to the Roman gods who made popular the enjoyment of wine. Although we no longer use vessels made from lead for these.

There is much to be learned from a dedicated study of the religions of the world. Notably how much of those are basically the same.
 
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As I see it, it's all good mythology. After all there is so much of it to be researched and read and enjoyed.

A useful exercise for the open and active mind is to research the similarities between the early Asian religions and Christianity. The Old Testament is full of stories 'borrowed' from Hindu and Buddhist legends. Also Islam.
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They may have borrowed from Hinduism. But the Old Testament canon well well in place and done by the 5th or 6th century BC when Buddhism kicks of. Islam doesn't get going until 610 AD - a thousand years later. So there's no way either Buddhism or Islam could have influenced the Old Testament. The New Testament canon was also locked and loaded well before Islam was even a glimmer.

There are some parallels to the ancient Hebrew writings and stories from Persia, but a direct link has never been definitively proven. It does makes sense, given the extended captivity of the ancient Hebrews experienced at the hands of the Persians. The entire book of Esther centers on that very period.
 
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