“Unraveling the layers”
I remember in school when we were told to dissect living frogs, I refused... “but they are tranquilized” the teacher said, as if that made it OK. Then, my father, who had his PhD and worked as a researcher, brought home Guinea pigs and rats for us to keep as pets, rejects from the experiments they were performing at the companies he worked for like Pfizer, etc., animals that were to be killed when they were finished with them if they didn’t die first. Monkeys are valuable commodities in labs. I think of all those monkeys in cages that are tortured and killed, all in the name of “science”. Dogs, cats, pigs, bats, frogs, mice, rats and more...all expendable for science.
I remember too, when I was shown a cow, which have several stomachs (ruminants), at the research “facility” with a porthole in its side to access its stomach for observation and sampling. I was shocked by all these things. Fox hunts and trophy hunting disgusted me, that was in the name of pleasure...killing for pleasure.
Acceptable killing….
Many humans have degenerated to new lows in designing disease bearing poisons to be used in biological warfare...one step from killing plants with pesticides and herbicides. This is all perpetrated by the “rational mind”, something capable of killing our mother if asked. The mind is an amazing tool, able to go from “A” to “Z” in any number of ways very efficiently, but what happened to our hearts?
Ethics, morals, compassion, wisdom, love, caring, sharing and more seemed to go out the window with humanity’s embrace of “science”. The scientific mind became the new god and universities, degrees and linear near-sightedness took over for holistic thinking.
Cruelty, killing, poisons, separation and divisiveness became the new paradigm replacing our humane beings and these became acceptable in the name of science.
I am done with the evil it has perpetrated, even when it seemed rationally OK when first presented. We instinctively know what is right. I have expended a lot of energy in my life to stop the killing, the incarceration and destruction of the animal world and the poisoning and elimination of the plant world. These living beings are us, we are them, what we do to one, we do to ourselves and now the human rational mind has been programmed to destroy itself...”Oh,” they say, “but not you or me...just the others”. The separation of us all including the natural world has made it OK that others suffer or die...at least some people have accepted this premise...mostly with the use of science or some other rational excuse.
Well Karma is a “bitch” they say, and it comes back around. Our hearts are teachers and too many people have lost “heart” and soul. Empathy or consciousness of “others” has become objective with people narcissistically wrapped up in themselves for profit, gain, power, pleasure or survival. Many humans are being reduced to that level and the only way is OUT. Maintaining honesty, truth, integrity and courage is medicine against this darkness. Listening to our hearts, if they haven’t been too “hacked” by poisons or pain shows us the way. We are not what we are being led to believe....We are still alive.
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