the new and improved ouija board will now have emojis on it
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I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.
If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.
If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.
If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.
We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.
My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.
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“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
— Richard Feynman
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“Sometimes you just have to stay silent because no words can explain what’s going on in your heart and mind.”
— Unknown
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“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.”
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
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caterpillars have more muscles than humans but i’d like to see one try to fight me irl and see what happens
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i hate when people start typin while I’m still typin like I kno u see them dots ho wait ya turn
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“The secret to happiness…be satisfied and be grateful.”
— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith
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“Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain and still succeed.”
— Misty Copeland
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“Your peace is more important than driving yourself crazy trying to understand why something happened the way it did. Let it go.”
— Mandy Hale
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“Something I learned about people. If they do it once, they’ll do it again.”
— lomasdope
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“you can’t force someone to care about you. if you have to, they aren’t worth it”
— Unknown
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