i watch this cat playing with a mouse when a truck started coming down the road-the cat looked up saw the truck and pick up the mouse- the cat walked out into the road holding the mouse and waited till the truck got close-then the cat dropped the mouse and ran to the side of the road---truck missed the mouse and the cat caught it again and continued playing with it---it seems like the cat at least had sense of vicious humor-do you think it has spirituality also?
thanks in advance for any answers and please dont get to serious here--smile and enjoy the night
2007-10-20 16:30:52 · 14 answers · asked by lazaruslong138 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. I'm an animal.
2007-10-20 16:34:49 · answer #1 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That depends on your definition of "spirituality".
If spirituality is a belief in an after-life and/or god, that would require a certain level of sentience, which I don't believe exists in most animals.
The highest order of animals like apes might be able to comprehend a sense of spirituality, but I'm pretty sure a worm or cockroach doesn't have the intelligence or imagination to understand it.
There was an episode of Star Trek TNG that covers this topic pretty well called "Who Watches The Watchers". Basically, any creature that is significantly more powerful than another could be perceived as a god. A caveman would probably think we were gods because of our technology...
2007-10-20 23:51:41 · answer #2 · answered by Chris J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that animals care why they are here or where they came from. Not in a spiritual sense at least.
My cat thinks she is here to be fed 50 times a day, jump on me when I'm trying to sleep late and have her tummy rubbed for hours on end.
Gotta agree with the wicked sense of humor statement.
2007-10-20 23:43:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spirituality, no. intelligence, maybe. A cat will lose all of it's fuzzy toy mice under the fridge, but is smart enough to save it's live mouse "toy" from oncoming traffic? Crazy little bastards.
2007-10-20 23:36:19 · answer #4 · answered by daisy mcpoo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Numbers 31:28 (God speaking to MÅ´ses) And levy a tribute unto the LÃRD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
Ecclesiastes 3:18-21 (The Vain Philosophy of Seasons) 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spir´it of man that goeth upward, and the spir´it of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
2007-10-21 00:00:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2007-10-20 23:44:03 · answer #6 · answered by superninfreak777 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That sounds like a typical cat to me.
2007-10-20 23:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by Arggg 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes. My cat meditates. He will sit straight up with his eyes closed. He is awake beacuse his ears will swivel from timr to time.
2007-10-20 23:39:21 · answer #8 · answered by blue chaos soɐɥɔ ǝnlq 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I'll get a tad serious. Yes, I do believe animals have what humans have. We need to stop separating ourselves. At any rate, my dog is strangely human to me and she knows what pushes my buttons so anything is possible. Have a great night! (My dog actually wrote this for me...... that was lame...... have a good one)
2007-10-20 23:36:38 · answer #9 · answered by Yogini 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do. I don't exactly know how to explain why I think this... When you have a pet that you have been close with for many years, you just know this. They have souls just like you and I.
2007-10-20 23:36:46 · answer #10 · answered by MOL 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋