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What makes This...
...all the more amazing (even with double plumage!) is that we do all these things and have the nerve to claim sanction from a superior being!!!!
A God who allegedly made a beautiful Earth to be our home, and then said it was fine if we wreck the place and kill anything that gets in our way.
Makes a lot of sense, that does. Not.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on September 14, 2004 at 9:58 AM
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It's a Bit Sad...
...that an excellent post with some solid ideas is being buried under garbage about clicks and headlines.
Ah well. Freedom of speech does have it's downsides, i guess.
Anyway, I couldn't agree more. Evolution is about the survival of the fittest, indeed. However, humans are unique, but not in the way Christians like to believe.
A lion will kill a wildebeest for food, of course, but only when the lion needs food. In fact, lions and wildebeest live side by side most of the time, because most of the time, a lion doesn't need to eat. When it does, it eats what it needs.
Humans, allegedly a more evolved life form, can't manage this. We eat what we need, but we kill lots more. We do it for sport. We do it for skins. We do it for plumage. we do it for food. We do it to have exotic pets. We do it for plumage. We do it for convenience. We do it for greed. We do it for land. We do it a lot.
As a result, we've wiped out thousands of species, and are still wiping out thousands more. Worse, we wipe out fellow humans, too, such as indigenous tribes.
What makes us unique in the animal world is that we have lost the respect, the connection to the web of life. We see everything else as inferior, here for our own gratification. We've forgotten that every time a species is lost, a part of us is lost, too. We are all connected. We depend on one another - within and across species - and until we remember this, we will continue on our own uniquely disrespectful and destructive path.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on September 14, 2004 at 9:56 AM
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Kooka
What can I say? It's the nature of the beast! Looks like you've graduated from "Ariala's School of Blog Titling".
posted by
telemachus
on September 14, 2004 at 9:31 AM
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you did it kid
you pulled back ahead of me.
the worm turns.
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 14, 2004 at 5:58 AM
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are wildebeast created to be lion's food?
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 14, 2004 at 5:16 AM
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Good Post.
If you recognize that they are no threat…then let them go…in the back yard.
You are almost there kooka…keep writing…and “The Truth” will find you…you do try to preach “The Truth”…right???
It is all about "The Truth"…right???
You do want to see “The Truth”, upheld…don‘t you???
posted by
justAcarpenter
on September 14, 2004 at 12:45 AM
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Ody
You wrote a post under Religion and Spirituality and go figure, I thought you were talking about something that would be on topic. Of course I should have figured you rarely do that any more, but yet you still leave this Blog under the religion and spirituality category. A little confusing I guess.
I do find it interesting that you would write something that had such a romantic feel to it if you ahd such disturbing thoughts about it. I got no sign that you were feeling sorry for them. It really felt to me that you saw that they were in the place and that was just fine. I guess it is not very good poetry if you can not convey the desired emotions.
I am somewhat surprised by the clicks, although this is one of the few times I decided to go and use the tricks you and Ariala do your posts. I try to keep make sure my headline are about the topic at hand before I would ever think of using the tricks. In this case I was able to make it fit the topic and use the trick, so it worked. Although the blog has already done well with the last heading, that was not so much about the trick. You know as well as I do the actual topic of the post matters very little in getting the hits. It is all about the headline and the bloggers popularity.
posted by
kooka_lives
on September 13, 2004 at 7:12 PM
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Dang Kooka -
Did I say all that? The reality is that I was simply telling about a fun day outside. I sort of felt sorry for the calf and its mother because, well you know, it's ultimate demise will be the slaughter house, that's all. Glad it stimulated you to write though. I'll re-post the "I'd love to be God's Pet" for you again some time real soon. I'm really impressed by all the clicks you got with this. I hope all is well with you!
posted by
telemachus
on September 13, 2004 at 4:29 PM
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Kooka, if I were an atheist and still into Ayn Rand like I used to be, I'd
tell you that it's all about survival of the fittest. Even evolution teaches that. If the cow had the ability to dominate man, then the cow wins. As it stands, we, humans are more "fit" by nature to dominate and "use the cow for our pleasure and profit." Now, having said that, I don't really agree with that thinking. Like you, I have respect for all living things. I don't eat most meat, and don't think man should prance around thinking himself so much better than every other living creature. If man was more fit, he would find a way not to eat the flesh of dead things...that, to me, is barbaric, and a state of a devolved human being, not evolved.
As for Oddy, I think he was just writing that as a statement of observation as to what seems to be, but since he wrote it, he would have to explain his stand.
posted by
Ariala
on September 13, 2004 at 4:09 PM
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I don't believe that I have superior rights over any person or animal,
but if I find it dead on my plate, I'll eat it. 
posted by
TARZANA
on September 13, 2004 at 4:08 PM
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