Comments on: A Bird with Deep Thoughts http://wttf.org/2007/03/30/a-bird-with-deep-thoughts/ Sporadic cartoons from my nether regions. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: ZaCloud http://wttf.org/2007/03/30/a-bird-with-deep-thoughts/#comment-3806 ZaCloud Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:14:04 +0000 http://wttf.org/2007/03/30/a-bird-with-deep-thoughts/#comment-3806 Forgot to finish... but yeah, animals might not get suicidal tendencies cuz they live in the moment and usually don't look at life as a whole. They're natural optimists and always figure something better will come their way. So they have no reason to leave life; any minute now they'll get food or a belly-rub or a snuggle with a friend or a nice tree to scratch an itch on. Forgot to finish… but yeah, animals might not get suicidal tendencies cuz they live in the moment and usually don’t look at life as a whole. They’re natural optimists and always figure something better will come their way. So they have no reason to leave life; any minute now they’ll get food or a belly-rub or a snuggle with a friend or a nice tree to scratch an itch on.

]]> By: ZaCloud http://wttf.org/2007/03/30/a-bird-with-deep-thoughts/#comment-3805 ZaCloud Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:10:05 +0000 http://wttf.org/2007/03/30/a-bird-with-deep-thoughts/#comment-3805 It's simple... When something sucks, it's instinct to get away from it. Fire burns, pull your hand away. Hungry lion growls, you get into the car. Life does nothing but suck, you get out of life. It's a desperation thing. It takes conscious effort to endure the pain and try to find enough benefits not to leave it. It’s simple… When something sucks, it’s instinct to get away from it. Fire burns, pull your hand away. Hungry lion growls, you get into the car. Life does nothing but suck, you get out of life.

It’s a desperation thing. It takes conscious effort to endure the pain and try to find enough benefits not to leave it.

]]> By: Katharine Osborne http://wttf.org/2007/03/30/a-bird-with-deep-thoughts/#comment-22 Katharine Osborne Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:33:56 +0000 http://wttf.org/2007/03/30/a-bird-with-deep-thoughts/#comment-22 Awesome comic! I just discovered it while doing some research into webcomics (thinking of starting my own). I love that the characters are virtually featureless stand-ins. I've been going back through the archive and every comic works. Kudos! On the matter of animal suicide, human suicide is a response to the pain of severe depression - a chemical imbalance in the brain. I think it falls into the category of an instinctual response. I don't think that people who haven't experienced severe depression really realize how strong the suicidal desire can be. Overcoming it is the choice part. Personally, I think our tendency to get severe depression might be an evolutionary quirk of how our brains work and the ritualized ways that we socialize (compared to similarly big-brained species like dolphins) and may be responsible for the uniqueness of suicide in humans. I'm not an anthropologist, so that's just conjecture. Awesome comic! I just discovered it while doing some research into webcomics (thinking of starting my own). I love that the characters are virtually featureless stand-ins. I’ve been going back through the archive and every comic works. Kudos!

On the matter of animal suicide, human suicide is a response to the pain of severe depression - a chemical imbalance in the brain. I think it falls into the category of an instinctual response. I don’t think that people who haven’t experienced severe depression really realize how strong the suicidal desire can be. Overcoming it is the choice part. Personally, I think our tendency to get severe depression might be an evolutionary quirk of how our brains work and the ritualized ways that we socialize (compared to similarly big-brained species like dolphins) and may be responsible for the uniqueness of suicide in humans. I’m not an anthropologist, so that’s just conjecture.

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