Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00029)

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--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "nhcareyta" <nhcareyta@...> wrote:
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> A recent blog contribution to this issue from one A. Viirlaid. 
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> "I think the whale hunt is cruel, hypocritical, and not worthy of 
> humans.
> We need to protect and serve life.
> Otherwise we lose our primary reason for living.
> I wrote a poem about the whaling last year and it has now happened.
> A mother whale and her calf are gone from our midst.
> Please protect all of our friends in the oceans.
> 
> Lament of Mother Whale
> 
> I cry for our shared grace
> I cry for your human family
> I cry for your whaler's family
> I cry for my family
> I cry for me
> 
> With your warm hand you could stroke my skin like so many of your 
> family have chosen to do
> You would feel my warmth and gratitude
> 
> Why do you touch me only with your cold harpoon as you thrust it 
into 
> my flesh?
> I thought after so much killing that we would both crave harmony
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> That we had learned that we both feel and love
> That we both treasure life
> That we revere our comrades
> That we embrace our children
> 
> That we share the same blood of our ancestors
> That our hearts both beat the rhyme of life
> 
> How my child will cling to me as you haul my dying carcass out of 
the 
> sea
> How she will cry
> Until you kill her too." 
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> http://blogs.thewest.com.au/news/news-blog-should-we-intervene-to-
> stop-this-slaughter/
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "nhcareyta" <nhcareyta@> wrote:
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> > http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=57621
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