Nature is endless fascinating and often beautiful, but crikey it’s cruel. This is one of the things that led me away from religion. Why would an omnipotent, omniscient creator make so much pain and suffering such a large part of most creatures’ lives, when he could easily have set it up differently? Every day millions, maybe billions, of creatures are eaten alive by other creatures. Throw in ichneumon wasps, loa loa worms, ebola…and I honestly don’t see why everyone doesn’t realize such a creator would necessarily be, you know, evil.
Now I get why they’re called cuddlefish. They see fish and they cuddle them.
ironflangesays
The fish, except for that one, seem strangely apathetic. What’s the deal?
Cuttlefishsays
ironflange@#12:
We’re very good.
marcolisays
Mesmerizing. Even without the cuttlefish psychodelic color waves. I wonder if their expanding funnel of webbed arms creates a vacuum to help draw in their prey.
davidnangle says
He just wants to hug you, with his whole body.
Cuttlefish says
Fine, then. You’re not invited. Hmph.
stillacrazycanuck says
Poetry? So they are related to Vogons?
Cuttlefish says
Technically, we don’t call it poetry. It’s verse.
Cuttlefish says
Much, much verse.
tbp1 says
Nature is endless fascinating and often beautiful, but crikey it’s cruel. This is one of the things that led me away from religion. Why would an omnipotent, omniscient creator make so much pain and suffering such a large part of most creatures’ lives, when he could easily have set it up differently? Every day millions, maybe billions, of creatures are eaten alive by other creatures. Throw in ichneumon wasps, loa loa worms, ebola…and I honestly don’t see why everyone doesn’t realize such a creator would necessarily be, you know, evil.
richardelguru says
Is The Ninth REALLY appropriate for all this carnage?
Freude! / Freude! / Freude, schöner Götterfunken and all that???
richardelguru says
Oh! And Cuttlefish… your verse is bite-ier than your bark!
philipelliott says
Multiverse?
chigau (ever-elliptical) says
richardelguru #7
It’s like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)
kevinalexander says
Now I get why they’re called cuddlefish. They see fish and they cuddle them.
ironflange says
The fish, except for that one, seem strangely apathetic. What’s the deal?
Cuttlefish says
ironflange@#12:
We’re very good.
marcoli says
Mesmerizing. Even without the cuttlefish psychodelic color waves. I wonder if their expanding funnel of webbed arms creates a vacuum to help draw in their prey.