Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00046)

While we speak of the cruelty to animals, we should also keep in mind the
maiming, death and destruction casued in wars and sacrificing of healthy
young men and women for the sake of "world peace", "national security",
"democrary", "freedom", "emancipation of women" etc.  Also when we look at
people (even theosophists)  who organize treatments/therapies for those
coming back from war with mental problems, these are the same people who say
not a word about the war itself which is the root cause of all these
suffering. This reminds me of the comments of Ted Turner, the guy who
started CNN said before the war -- it is the dumbest thing to do and he
repeated it even recently.

mkr

On 2/9/08, adelasie <adelasie@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>   Interesting comparison, Cass,
>
> ...as barbaric as a savage eating the heart of a lion to transfer its
> strength to the eater.
>
> The "savages" might have known more than we do about the unity of all
> life. To pray to the animal to come so that the people might be fed,
> or the courage might be shared, to use all the parts of the animal
> for goods that would be made by hand, the only source of such goods,
> to express gratitude to the animal for its sacrifice, to face the
> animal on foot with hand made weapons, this presents quite a
> different scenario. Now we use technology to create weapons that no
> animal could survive. Do we use all the parts of the animal and waste
> nothing? Do we express our gratitude to another life form for its
> sacrifice that we may live? Do we kill an animal so that our tribe
> can survive? Or are we motivated by profit above all?
>
> It seems reasonable to realize that the Japanese are not the only
> nation engaged in some such activity. Maybe we are the "savages."
>
> Adelasie
> 
>


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