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[Anonymous No.15985981]

Are dog owners or cat owners better philosophers?

[Anonymous No.15986035]

>>15985981

Owning a dog for sport or for home security is fine, or even treating one as a companion. But many people use the gregarious nature of canines to baby them, treating them as surrogate children which is really cringe and depraved behavior. Many women also have sex with them

[Anonymous No.15986047]

>>15985981
I know Schopenhauer and Lovecraft (not a philospher, but good writer) had cats.

I can't think of a single good writer known to own a dog.

[Anonymous No.15986055]

>>15985981
The Prophet (PBUH) preferred cats. He once cut a sleeve off his robe so that he would not disturb the cat sleeping on it.

[Anonymous No.15986061]

i think that's pretty irrelevant

[Anonymous No.15986070]

>>15986047
Schopenhauer famously had a dog. People in his town would refer to it as "the young Schopenhauer."

[Anonymous No.15986106]

>>15986070
those are dog's for women though

[Anonymous No.15986128]

>>15986035
i have dog because i want someone to sleep beside my bed. i get lonely alright.

[Anonymous No.15986223]

>>15986106
Poodles? They were bred for hunting

[Anonymous No.15986331]

>>15986035
Agreed, as an animal lover I find this coddling pets as if they were human children to be extremely cringe, and I place a great deal of blame on the fact that westerners in general have stopped having children and thus resort to these neotany-featured pets as surrogate children.

[Anonymous No.15986421]

>>15986035
>Owning a dog for sport
What? Dog for sport?

[Anonymous No.15986430]

>>15986331
One track minds on you bitches

[Anonymous No.15986444]

>>15986421
Hunting, dipshit

[Anonymous No.15986460]

>>15986106
Standard poodles are based as fuck though. they're very smart and they look like cute aliens.
>>15986331

[Anonymous No.15986498]

>>15986035
if everyone had sex with a dog the world would be 30% happier.

[Anonymous No.15986503]

>>15986106
>Standard poodles are based as fuck though. they're very smart and they're not tiny little rat dogs. They look like aliens though

[Anonymous No.15987847]

>>15986035
>treating them as surrogate children
I don't see the problem with this, faggot. I don't want actual human kids. I want pets that I treat as family though. I have cats, which I consider integral parts of my family, but when they pass away, I want a dog and parrot too. I don't want anymore pets after that. Calling them pets is wrongs by the way. I refer to them as my children.

[Anonymous No.15987870]

Dog owners, obviously. Cat owners are either women or faggots, both aren't good in anything.

[Anonymous No.15987879]

>>15986070
>the young Schopenhauer
cute

[Anonymous No.15987910]

>>15987870
dogs are slaves, cats are friends
cat owners are better people

[Anonymous No.15989026]

>>15986070
I thought it was Fräulein Schopenhauer. Either way, based.

[Anonymous No.15989078]

>>15987910
cats literally cannot treat people as anything other than slaves

[Anonymous No.15989107]

>>15986106
Nah, poodles are the most intelligent.

His were black, tho.
>>15986070
>the young Schopenhauer
This is actually a savage burn

[Anonymous No.15989120]

>>15987879
Holy shit is that real? The famous misogynist? I could see it in the early days.

[Anonymous No.15989194]

>>15987910
No sorry to break it to you pal but any intelligent animal can and will learn tricks. Cats are literally just too dumb, they dont have a human concept of dignity or independence.

[Anonymous No.15989202]

>>15985981
Bros, do you think Schopenhauer treated his dog nicely and patted it?

[Anonymous No.15989205]

>>15986498
If ever Canadian like yourself was thrown into the mouth of an open volcano the world would be 100% happier

[Anonymous No.15989230]

>>15989120
>The famous misogynist?
No, the great philosopher, the forerunner of modern physics, evolutionary theory and psychology. Why do you people have to magnify slightest faults while completely dismissing all merits? At any rate, the picture is from about 4 years ago, not that far back.

[Anonymous No.15989237]

>>15986421
Hunting, a lot of people jog/walk with their dogs too.

[Anonymous No.15989240]

>>15989230
>Why do you people have to magnify slightest faults while completely dismissing all merits?
I don't, wokeniggers at Google do.

Would they do a Schopenhauer doodle today? No.

[Anonymous No.15989241]

>>15986035
This.

[Anonymous No.15989286]

>>15989202
Of course he did anon.
>Whoever has never kept dogs does not know what it is to love and be loved.

[Anonymous No.15989307]

>>15989286
Pic related of course

[Anonymous No.15989312]

>>15989286
>I would have nothing against that.
Here is your modern Diogenes everyone. Based.

[Anonymous No.15991086]

>>15986055
Based

[Anonymous No.15991267]

>>15989286
Which is a spanish proverb, a language which Schopenhauer adored, showing him to be the true philosopher of his era and not that nigger Hegel.

[Anonymous No.15991279]

>>15991267
>true philosopher of his era and not that nigger Hegel
Holy based.

[Anonymous No.15991364]

>>15986055
based and allahpilled

[Anonymous No.15991373]

Having dog today is a larp, like having a horse.

[Anonymous No.15991378]

>>15989230
>the forerunner of modern physics, evolutionary theory and psychology

Darwin and Einstein were reading him?

[Anonymous No.15991428]

>>15985981
Idk, but cat owners are definitely the better poets

[Anonymous No.15991460]

A cat chooses. A dog obeys.

[Anonymous No.15992177]

>>15991378
Literally.

Einstein had a portrait of Schopenhauer on his wall and said this about him:
>[Schopenhauer is] continual consolation in the face of life's hardships, my own and others', and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance.
>I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

As for Darwin:
>With respect to the opposite form of selection, namely of the more attractive men by the women, although in civilised nations women have free or almost free choice, which is not the case with barbarous races, yet their choice is largely influenced by the social position and wealth of the men; and the success of the latter in life depends much on their intellectual powers and energy, or on the fruits of these same powers in their forefathers. No excuse is needed for treating this subject in some detail; for, as the German philosopher Schopenhauer remarks, "the final aim of all love intrigues, be they comic or tragic, is really of more importance than all other ends in human life. What it all turns upon is nothing less than the composition of the next generation. . . . It is not the weal or woe of any one individual, but that of the human race to come, which is here at stake."

[Anonymous No.15992198]

Pet ownership is immoral

[Anonymous No.15992564]

I don't get it how anybody can tolerate such hair loosing animals in their living spaces

[Anonymous No.15992617]

>>15989286
Wholesome

[Anonymous No.15993562]

>>15987879
cute

[Anonymous No.15993579]

>>15989078
Kek, my cat just hangs out with me despite me never feeding her

[Anonymous No.15993582]

>>15992198
Have you ever had a cat? I think you can ethically own one as long as you aren't a complete shithead and put effort into keeping them entertained. They are very content with lying in the sun, batting around their toys, chasing each other, getting pet, and stealing bits of tuna. I believe a pampered house cat is more satisfied than any human could ever be.

[Anonymous No.15993614]

>>15993579
Is this supposed to be cute and relatable or something? Feed your fucking cat you dipshit

[Anonymous No.15994388]

>>15986444
>>15989237
>he doesn't try to fight and kill his dog with his bare hands on a monthly basis
it's good exercise

[Anonymous No.15994424]

>>15993614
She just feeds on local birds. I'm in Hawaii btw