why did he do it??

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That was not meant to be toxic. If one has never been exposed to the topic, you can’t get it, no matter how good you are at reading between the lines. I was just providing a humorous reminder as to another reason someone might not “get” something. No more.

If anything, I was making fun of us oldsters, even to the point of suggesting we were fossils.

Frequently my humor is misunderstood. I probably should stop trying.

^ I cannot harm you , your memes are like a shield of steel

they left the water to top up their tan

(no lochdown was going to stop them)

I thought it was funny.

i thought 'This Comment' And Your
'Other Comment' Referencing me
Was A Light Hearted Way to get
A Point across; Softly, indeed...

True; There is Education
And There is Wisdom
That comes with Years
And Years and Decades
And Practically Almost
Centuries of Experience;
Nothing at all Cryptic
In Your Humor, i Find;
On the Other Hand, Perhaps
It is Because You Are Close to my Age;
It's Worth Noting That Excelling at Metaphors
Does Not Preclude one From a Diagnosis on the
Autism Spectrum; in Fact, in an Increasingly Mechanical
Minded Systemizing World; Ironically, Understanding Metaphors
And Even Creating
Them too;
may
indeed
Cause
Those who
Use them the
Same General
Difficulties in Social
Reciprocal Communication
As More Folks Become More Literal than Figurative, Overall;
We Haven't Really Been A Mechanically Oriented Mind Society
Until the Last Several Hundred Years; And on Topic Here, it
Begs The Question, Are Human Beings Still Evolving

this way or Not...

And No; Not
Necessarily
Specific to any
Label of 'Official' Disorder either...

He left the water....to retrieve a frisbee!

The budweiser frogs beckoned and so they came.

I thought Budweiser's claim to fame was clydesdales.

Never knew about Budweiser frogs.....

I guess you can educate an old dog

Why Did the Proto-Amphibian Leave the Pond?

• Aristotle: "To actualize its potential."

• Camille Paglia: "It was drawn by the subconscious chthonian power of the feminine which men can never understand, to leave the pond and focus itself on its task.  Male proto-amphibians are not capable of doing this -- their minds do not work that way.  Feminism tries vainly to pretend there is no real difference between them, falsely following Rousseau."

• Captain James T. Kirk: "To Boldy Go Where No Proto-Amphibian Has Gone Before!"

• David Hume: "Out of custom and habit."

• Diogenes: "It was looking for an honest mate."

• Epicurus: "For fun."

• Eric Hoffer: "When proto-amphibians are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

• Francis Bacon: "To retain his own dignity without intruding upon the liberty of others."

• Friedrich Nietzsche: "Because if you gaze too long at the land, the land gazes also at you."

• Gottfried Von Leibniz: "In this best possible world, the boundary between water and land was made for it to cross."

• Immanuel Kant: (1) "Because it was its duty." (2) "The proto-amphibian, being an autonomous being, chose to leave the pond of his own free will."

• Jacques Derrida: (1) "What is the difference?  The proto-amphibian was merely deferring from one environment to another.  And how do we get the idea of the proto-amphibian in the first place?  Does it exist outside of language?" (2) "Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the proto-amphibian leaving the pond, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!!"

• Jean-Paul Sartre: "In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the proto-amphibian found it necessary to leave the pond."

• John Locke: "Because he was exercising his natural right to liberty."

• John Stuart Mills: "It was a utilitarian function.  She had tasks that were better performed on land."

• Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The possibility of 'evolving' was encoded into the objects 'land', 'pond', and 'proto-amphibian', and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence."

• Machiavelli: (1) "So that its subjects would view it with admiration, as a proto-amphibian which has the daring and courage to boldly leave the pond, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of amphibian virtue?  In such a manner is the princely proto-amphibian's dominion maintained." (2) "The point is that the proto-amphibian left the pond.  Who cares why?  The ends of leaving the pond justify whatever motive there was."

• Plato: "For the greater good."

• Pyrrho the Skeptic: "What land?  What pond?  What proto-amphibian?"

• Rene Descartes: "It had sufficient reason to believe it was dreaming anyway."

• Socrates: (1) "I will think about it." (2) "To pick up some hemlock at the apothecary."

• Zeno The Skeptic: "Did she really leave the pond?  How can you be certain?"

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It is a great mystery, like why did the chicken cross the road.
I know she didn’t come on land looking for a bicycle.
Maybe cheaper rent ,good schools and a better location.

I really feel that this proto-amphibian probably smelled some food....and he/she/they, hungry, wanted to procure some.

Meh; 'Humans' And All Their 'Thinking';
Not Unlike 'Forrest Gump' And 'His' Run;
The Proto-Amphibian Left The Water 'TheNoW'
For Land Just Because 'It' Felt Like Doing 'It' NoWtheN'

THere Does Not Have to BE A ReaSoN in Feeling
And Sensing Life Now;

Sadly, What
Humans
Have
Devolved
to Most, Overall;
And the Current
ViRuS HuMaN CuLTuRES
Extended by Written Words
in Stone Cold HEarts Becoming...

NoW

THere Is A Frog Around Our Block
Named 'Homer'; He Meets Us in the
Same Place Each Night Catching Bugs As He SitS/HopS And We
WalK iN the Street Light; 'He' Does His Job Well as 'God' in Balance;

Yes, We Call that Frog 'He' As Well as Metaphor For 'God' And 'Homer' too...

In FacT,
'He' is
Enough;
'He' Has It All
Now More than
'Trumps' Will Ever
ReMeMBeR NoW;

Honestly,
It's More
A Question of 'Why Not'...

'Homer' is Practically A 'Living Legend'...

And That's Why We Name 'Homer' 'God' too...

Hmm; In the Words of 'Sam Harris' too; See How
Easy iT iS to STarT A 'Religion' And Destroy So Much of Living Nature...

Oh My Stars...

Oh My Holy Star...

My Only Star

For Real

i Do Believe
THis iS in
Alignment
With 'THE Spirit'
Of 'THE Original Op'...

PS: Happy 911 Day; i Hear the Nile Floods This 'Time' of Year';

The Frogs Love It So Much They Sing A Refrain of Do It Again

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if he wasn't first, then something else woulda been first.

It was an overachiever.