04-06-2019, 12:48 PM
(04-03-2019, 10:38 PM)Relaxo Wrote:(03-19-2019, 03:30 AM)Cainite Wrote: Why let animals suffer?
I 'wrestle' with this a lot of the time... especially what humans do to animals...
...just yesterday I saw a photo (via Sea Shepherd) of a dead pregnant whale ...
the sorrow is suffocating
It's possible that sometime along the path of the evolution of consciousness this sort of thing will make sense—that innocent beings suffer at the hands of humans—but even so, I take issue with such a system.
I don't console myself with the (in my view) human-centric idea that the animals, the plants, the insects, the planet, and all other beings here sharing this existence with humanity, have chosen to be used, tortured, and dismissed by humans who are ostensibly trying to evolve. I can't imagine how anyone can hear of the whale Relaxo mentioned and not be overcome with sadness and frustration.
When I say I take issue with such a system, this is aside from the idea that it is what it is here, and one can do what one can—"when one comes across a starving entity, the correct response is to feed the entity" (paraphrased)—not because I follow the LOO, but because that is a logical conclusion based on my own thinking.
It's true that doing what you can to help does mitigate the focus on the sorrow here. And as others have pointed out, it's good to remember and focus on so much beauty in this world. But doing so does not take the sorrow away, and it is still difficult to be here in such a troubled world.
I would like to add that the original channelings of Ra are subject to the idea that advanced beings of that caliber were communicating very complex ideas, and that we must consider our own paradigms, filters, and limitations through which we interpret and comprehend an enormity, let alone infinity, of apprehension about the workings of the cosmos.