What do YOU think. I've always been pro-life, and my posting history will bear that out...
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
I don't believe wholesale slaughter to be necessary or morally acceptable.
What about RAID on wasp nests? Or foggers to kill bugs? What about mowing the grass. I noticed sometimes I kill crickets and grasshoppers. Once even got a baby rabbit.
Why are cows more worthy then rodents. For farming you have to kill innocent ants, grasshoppers, crickets, and rats among other creatures. Why must they die for you to eat vegetables. Vegetables are for bugs to eat.
I have a problem killing any innocent creature. I doubt I'd have a problem killing a creature that attacked me however, no matter what species. As far as bugs, I don't kill them unless they BUG me. In regards to farming, there's usually natural alternatives to pesticides, as well as natural alternatives in eliminating vermin and other pests that damage crops.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
In regards to farming, there's usually natural alternatives to pesticides, as well as natural alternatives in eliminating vermin and other pests that damage crops.
What do YOU think. I've always been pro-life, and my posting history will bear that out...
Excellent !
It's difficult to get behind all the "Save the (blanks)" who can't even defend the basic rights of unborn men and women.
4um Traitor "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
But how pro life are you. Do you support the death penalty for abortionists and the "mothers".
Do you support the death penalty for other crimes?
I don't support the death penalty for the mothers, as they are confused and misguided. I do think there would be some moral justification in seeking the death penalty against those who do the misguiding, and who actually perform the "procedure" except in the very rare case of medical necessity.
As far as other cases of the death penalty, I'd support it in cases where the person is truly guilty of cold blooded murder of innocent life, especially when children are kidnapped from their parents, abused, and murdered.
Then again, perhaps a lifetime of torment would suit them better. Perhaps when I'm a bit more spiritually pure I'd condemn the taking of ANY life whatsoever, but I'm not there yet...
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
Bugs aren't necessarily harmed by tilling the earth. They can usually either fly away or survive the disturbance.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
I don't believe wholesale slaughter to be necessary or morally acceptable.
LOL! We are talking about thinning not "wholesale slaughter".
Perhaps you could cure your seemingly irrational hysteria concerning this matter by spearheading a project to repopulate wolves in your area. They roamed most of north America only a few hundred years ago.
When we get crossover into outright worship of the Creation (versus the Creator), please ping me. ;-)
4um Traitor "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
That's what I find extremely interesting in terms of the Essenes and their way of life, as it IS in harmony with Nature, and what a truly spiritual person would seek.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
A similar project was considered in my old stomping grounds.
The adults prevailed. ;-)
4um Traitor "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
i've never seen charlotte's web, but i could name dozens of shows and movies with animals in which i have cried. i even sobbed when i watched Free Willy. if i had my way, no living creature would suffer or die like in the Garden of Eden.
Please give us all YOUR definition of "a truly spiritual person" if you would.
4um Traitor "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
if i had my way, no living creature would suffer or die like in the Garden of Eden.
IIRC, man became a meat eater after Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Could be wrong though.
4um Traitor "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I like animals and stuff too. When I fish. I cut them up and I feel kind of bad for them. I cut them up nevertheless. Catfish for example get a nail through the head the filleted on the stump.
They roamed most of north America only a few hundred years ago.
So did the many other animals, who are now practically extinct.
Perhaps one day you'll be reincarnated as one of those creatures, and you can see how life is when your kind are hunted down by helicopter (or other more effective means of aerial flight in the future)...
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
What about if a confused and misguided guy goes in a liquor store and kills someone in a moment of bad judgement.
Life penalty. As far as the death penalty for moms, is that what you support?
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
IIRC, man became a meat eater after Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Could be wrong though.
No, you have it right. Thing is, that Garden of Eden wasn't necessarily within this realm, nor on this physical world.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
man became a meat eater after Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Could be wrong though.
Think about this. They were naked before the fall. If they hadn't fallen it would always be nice out and the women would always be naked. Damn you Adam.
was it a better world then or were we blissfully ignorant? i know the music was better. :)
I remember it as both - forgive the paradox. WOW, the music was SO great!
"I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in - yeah, yeah; ooh yeah..."
War was dangerous and sex was fun; talk about nostalgia!
From "The Big Chill," to "The Great Chill." Man, like where did the freakin' time go? We need to locate Grampa Gump; he always had the correct answers.
Uh, hey! Quit looking at me like that; I don't have no stinkin' answers!
Please give us all YOUR definition of "a truly spiritual person" if you would.
One who has forsaken material desires and devoted him or herself to seeking communication with God through various techniques including prayer and meditation, as well as the rejection of any animal flesh for food.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
Perhaps you could cure your seemingly irrational hysteria concerning this matter by spearheading a project to repopulate wolves in your area. They roamed most of north America only a few hundred years ago.
Wolf populations increased because they had a larger food supply. White man's intruduction of small pox wiped out 90% of the native populations. There is speculation that this is why there were so many buffalo on the pains, their prime preditor had died off.
No, you have it right. Thing is, that Garden of Eden wasn't necessarily within this realm, nor on this physical world.
O K there FL. LOL
Pardon me if I consider your 'spiritual musings' with a grain of salt.
I've read a lot of what you've put forward about 'spirituality' and as much work as I need I can still tell that on such matters you are as lost as a goose in a blizzard.
No offense. ;-)
4um Traitor "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
Think about this. They were naked before the fall. If they hadn't fallen it would always be nice out and the women would always be naked. Damn you Adam.
And if they hadn't succombed to tempation they wouldn't have known lust.
Yes, God's manifest glory in the Garden and on Adam and Even must have been ... glorious.
4um Traitor "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I've read a lot of what you've put forward about 'spirituality' and as much work as I need I can still tell that on such matters you are as lost as a goose in a blizzard.
Yet you believe some dude in the sky snapped his fingers and created the world in a day, and all that exists in seven of those days, correct?
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen