Termyn8or
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This can be a fascinating subject. A dog can lick your wounds and it'll help them heal. If you do it yourself you're likely to get an infection. Just how much of this is diet trelated and what is an actual difference in body chemistry is debatable. If the latter factor is more prevalent (like how the hell to tell) then that indicates that there may be an actual PHYSICAL symbiotic relationship between humans and animals. But then why should that be so surprising. We eat each other, use body compnents for cures and were all born into the same biosphere.
Again I must stress that within my knowledge lattice, or belief system if you must, there is nothing supernatural. When Demon (about an eighty pound redbone husky) comes over and sits on Sach's (a three hundred pound hillbilly) aching feet, that does not prove any form of empathy, it could be just an excretion of some hormone. Dogs are especially keen to that. They have been purported to be better judges of character than their Masters in some cases, apparently just by smelling when someone is lying. People don't just make this shit up.
We live in a time when wisdom will be found in folklore, and in stories written very long ago. They wrote for the exact same reasons we write. Some of them were pretty smart. Look at me in politics. I want to return to a document that is over two hundred years old for guidance on the Law. Even now people have a hard time arguing against that, just wait a few years and see what happens.
Now does someone want to read the article about the deer on an island, which I consider a very important and revealing study in sociology ? Or will everone dismiss it because it is forty years old, as if everybody back then dropped dead. Logic indicates that they did not, which proves the old ways worked.
Which could bring us to the subject of using leeches to cure certain problems. It must've worked on someone or everybody would have forgotten it.
There are more things in heaven and earth than you will ever understand, but what is really surprising about that deal is that you probably already know about half of it.
I don't keep pets. But I can see how they are like a connection between civilization and nature, thus their allure. And that doesn't even count emotions, which most people have. They throw a cute little kitten in your lap and there is a response, no doubt. True healers do pay attention to their patients' mental state, the body heals more quickly in a friendly environment. None of this is a mystery. But the truth we might eventually find by putting all the facts together, at the moment, still is.
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