Guest guest Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Humans superior to animals? This makes me laugh out loud. Humans have the gift of spoken word. Humans can rationalize away anything to suit our needs. We also hide behind the guises of society, religion, even yoga when necessary. You have your belief about milk and the use of animals. However, much, much time is spent rationalizing this away to serve...what purpose? Convention? Convenience? Excuses? Resolve of guilt? If I speak two languages fluently. Does that make me superior to someone who only speaks one language? Of course not. If I can telepath a message to a friend. Does that make me superior to someone who can only communicate with a spoken word? Of course not. We are conceived and breathe in and out just like our co-existent animals. We are here for different experiences seen through different eyes. That's all. Learn and absorb what you can in your human body and share in the soul of all. It is far easier through a healthy, well maintained body vessel. If an animal is sacrificed is the animal then transformed. Well, of course. Just as you would be if that happened to you. Do you think a living being of energy just ceases? Laws of physics (regardless of religious or personal beliefs) tell us that the energy must transform. I've learned more from animals than from any human. It is a different and evolved type of communication. They do communicate with each other and with us if we open our selves to listen. If you aren't open to this possibility, even through observation alone, they teach us so much. They are wonderful, natural herbalists. I've learned much about the effects of herbs and foliage by just watching my dogs' browsing and grazing selections. For example, their use of couch grass and dandelion root. Just be aware and the answers are there for you. Health and Happiness, Heidi ------------ Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Hurrah Heidi, I agree 100%, we are not more than other animals, they can teach us and I pity anyone who doesn't realize that. I don't like to use animals for our own benefit, we need to co-exist with other living things on this planet. As Henry Beston wrote; "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. and therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; They are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." This is the best description of how we should view other animals... One thing for sure, those animals, unlike males of our species, do not make wars, don't kill for the fun of it, only to eat when necessary...they don't kill for fun. They also don't pollute our World with chemicals, machines, etc... I think we are the uncivilized species here. When are we going to learn to get along in this world without war-ing? Wolves are social animals, they live in family groups, what has happened to our families, divorce, miles apart, we lose touch so easily, no, I don't feel we have the right to feel superior to any other living beings. Deanna on West Island @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Take a "time out" to breathe. When you feel upset or stressed, simply take a few moments to focus on your breathing, rather than any negative thoughts, to quiet your mind & calm your body. Exercise--make it a regular & lifelong part of your schedule. - Dr. Christiane Northrup Visit My Aussie Nizhoni-Tipsoo album ~ http://community.webshots.com/user/tipanna La Mer, @( ~ ~ )@ et Tipsoo @=@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 As I tell my biology students - humans ARE animals, we are members of the animal kingdom too! Dee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2002 Report Share Posted December 16, 2002 Heidi, That was such a thoughtful response. I was going to respond, then I thought, let me see if someone has already answered. Animals must be our intellectual inferior- look how long they have inhabited the planet and did not create even one toxic waste dump...Did not cause the extinction of a single species. True the animal world is not all a peaceful garden of Eden, violence exists. But not the twisted violence which human is partial to. Some people try to justify human violence because animals are too. But ...ahem...we are supposed to be guided by moral principles, not instinct. Kartar Kaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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