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Offline zaprowsdower

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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #75 on: June 16, 2008, 02:33:08 PM »
Humans are people. Horses, dogs, cats, and farm animals aren't.
I love animals and I support animal rights! But I know at the end of the day my dog will hump my leg if it wants to; and that gorillas and chimps can't sing or draw. ::)
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #76 on: June 17, 2008, 07:36:33 AM »
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If this is referring to what the Yeerks do: I second that.  But there is no 'probably' about it: horses, dogs, cats, zoos, aquariums, farm animals, are all instances where we use our brains against other species because we can, and restrict their freedom.  And it is about our feelings about our own rights or freedoms: to have the freedom to own a guard dog, or a family pet; the freedom to participate in showjumping; the freedom to visit the zoo and see animals up close.  If anyone made a law against any of these things, chances are a lot of people on this forum, including me (although some zoos and circuses I would gladly see banned), would oppose it.  All these, I would argue, are much more trivial than the freedom to move and see and hear.

I agree with everything you said except this. You can't compare Yeerks : Humans and Humans : Animals. We are sentient. Those animals aren't. I know, some people take this too far and abuse animals, but most people love their pets. They care, feed, and love them. Yeerks don't do love.  :)
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #77 on: June 17, 2008, 09:29:56 AM »
well some yeerks do. not love, exactly, but a friendship.
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #78 on: June 17, 2008, 12:51:47 PM »
There's no evolutonary advantage to love, beacuse they form in threes and then die to form to reproduce.
And yet they still show sometimes the capacity for love.
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #79 on: June 17, 2008, 12:54:16 PM »
Read Visser.
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #80 on: June 18, 2008, 05:44:46 AM »
hehehehe... sorry... but hey, those two Yeerks were the only exception. And the reason they loved was probably because their hosts also loved each other... thus influencing them. But... I really can't imagine Yeerks loving... sure, friendship and loyalty were existing.. .but not really love... except Visser One and his subordinate of course...  :)
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #81 on: June 18, 2008, 05:48:15 AM »
what about that yeerk in #8?
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #82 on: June 18, 2008, 01:29:53 PM »
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those two Yeerks were the only exception


There is no such thing as "The Only Exception". Where there is one exception, there can be another.
Probability rules.
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #83 on: June 18, 2008, 04:57:34 PM »
I think the love that Yeerks can experience is a companionship sort of love, rather than a romantic love. The romantic part of their love has to be displayed through their hosts if they don't want to kick it.
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #84 on: June 18, 2008, 06:46:33 PM »
well, here is my theory:yeerk personalities are like anyother creature, the are a result of memories, learned experences, and the driving force (the thing that holds it altogether, it is also called the Soul).

but if a yeerk continually infests one type of person (not species but person) the yeerk starts to adopt (uncounisly) emotional traits of that host.

an example of this would be a yeerk who infests a host who has a overwheling love for an indiviual, will sooner or latter start feeling the same way. likewise, if a yeerk infests a host that is continually depressed, eventually the yeerk starts feel the same way.

the barriors between minds is a frailge thing and it is all to easy for one mind to (unknowingly) adopt the traits of another.


as for the topic it's self:

chances are we (the human race) would fight to the end and that end would problely end up being using the M.A.D. Staragy and nuking everyone and everything in process.
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #85 on: June 22, 2008, 06:29:42 PM »
How did this topic move from what would you do if earth was really invaded by the yeerks to yeerk romance? ???
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #86 on: June 22, 2008, 09:57:48 PM »
read all the previous posts and you'll probably find out.
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #87 on: June 22, 2008, 11:48:56 PM »
This sounds uber funny but...

Yeerks+ Human host= Yeerk love?

Since Jake's yeerk in 6 had no interpretation of love whatsoever....
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #88 on: July 02, 2008, 09:42:07 AM »
If the planet would be attacked... it depend on who I meet at first:
Andalite? Yeerk? Animorph?
Andalite or Animorph => I'd fight, of course... I'd be a kind of Rachel one... but who think more of course... and who try more to kill herself than the others ^_^' May be I wouldn't be a good part of the team! lol
Yeerk => already said... I'd become a resistant or make my Yeerk become crazy...

We can't really know since we aren't attacked ;)
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Re: If the yeerks really invaded earth...
« Reply #89 on: July 03, 2008, 06:30:13 AM »
Add FEAR to the mix... and it will mess up everything you have written there. I promise you that.
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