Kamakazi Turkish Sheep...

It's behavior like this that makes me wonder why sheep and shepherds are such a prevailing metaphor for Christianity.

You can keep the good shepherd and be good sheep; I'll stick to being a monkey, thanks. Monkeys can climb.
 
Sheep are completely stupid. If spooked, they will run into a barbed wire fence and pile up until most of them are dead or injured.

You would have thought that natural selection would have elimininated the species altogether by now. Oh, yeah, we domesticated them.

Sheep are a better metaphor for lemmings than lemmings are.
 
Oh, so "If [insert name of random friend] jumped of a cliff, would you do it too?" :D
 
From my opwn experience, sheep are remarkably human-like in their behaviour. On their own they can be quite intelligent, but in groups they display some of the most stupid behaviour you are likely to see.
 
I read somewhere that the only way to make sheep board a ship is to take the lead/alpha sheep and carry it onboard and then the rest of the herd will follow. I guess that in this case the lead sheep fell/jumped of the cliff and the herd followed. They don't call them herd animals for nothing
 
"There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted," Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam.
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I've been pretty wasted in my time, but these guys ... :th:
 
Drooper said:
From my opwn experience, sheep are remarkably human-like in their behaviour. On their own they can be quite intelligent, but in groups they display some of the most stupid behaviour you are likely to see.
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Like Wall Street.
 
bangdazap said:
They don't call them herd animals for nothing
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That would be "flock animals" in context.

from TragicMonkey
It's behavior like this that makes me wonder why sheep and shepherds are such a prevailing metaphor for Christianity
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See above. The fish analogy was abandoned early on; it didn't have the legs.
 
Gah, bloody sheep. The first degree I started was in Agriculture and I worked on a sheep / wheat farm. I prefered the wheat. Bangdazap's comment about herd behaviour is correct in my experience - get one or two going up the ramp and no matter how many sheepdogs (or Uni students) you have, they'll get their bottoms moving in the right direction. Probably the only comparison that springs to mind is a little like guiding water with your hands; they move in a certain way that ensures their protection - safety in numbers. How unfortunate for the farmers though! :(
 
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