I could take a gun very easily and start shooting those beings that walk around looking like PEOPLE, looking like they have souls, and they do not. I could stand up in a line several different types of "Soul less people", from those that rape or maim children and women, or line up fellow students and shoot them like a carnival game.

Right now I am watching the news. Amoung all the depressing, degrading, and demorilizing news stories, they had on a cat that some kids dosed with a flammable, lit the poor defenseless animal, and then threw it from a moving car onto a freeway. I can not imagine being able to DO SOMETHING so horrible. it could have been a child, it could have been a little old lady. I have tears for the disease that robs some people of their very souls......for surely one has to be souless, dead inside, to even THINK this stuff up, let alone DO it. they showed the cat/kitten...As much as I love animals, I would have had to humanely put it to sleep, but now the "hero's " are making the story, so they are "doctoring" the poor creature, there is no fur left, the ears are burnt off, it has no paws.....

I have said I am not a violent person, but I could be, I COULD BE

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Answers

I know, I saw the same thing...

Only humans are capable of sensless cruelty like that... makes you proud of your species, heh?

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

SAR01, I sympathize with you totally.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Sar,

Calm down. You are being tested, and you gave them exactly the result they were looking for. You saw something on TV that created an emotional reaction of anger, upset, and even the thought of taking violent action. You know you are vulnerable to these sort of tests since you are also doing good work on the opposite side. Those who are attempting to do good work are constantly being given situations that may unravel everything they believe in, at least temporarily. You know that as well. In this situation you played right into the Predator's hands. They must be very pleased to see they can still control your life in that way.

Please remember that all you saw was the negative balance, in your face, and you can't change that. Can't correct that. It's required to be there. It's all part of the cosmic balance of STS and STO forces. Try a little refresher of one of the Cass pages. Pay particular attention to the section regarding the Don Juan teachings. You can get through this "upset" and come out seeing clearly again.

Link

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

I couldn't read the whole thing, SAR, it upsets me too much. I did three years trying to get a horrible Louisiana dog pound replaced by a humane shelter. Cleveland Amory came down and was appalled; a seasoned La. Senator was in tears; the American Humane Society came and called it "a Dachau for animals." In the meantime, we ran a "homeless" SPCA, dealing with cruelty and rescue cases and unwanted animals. Instead of making me less sensitized, it had the opposite effect. I can't read or listen to cruelty stories any more, animals or kids, because I've seen the victims and can provide a mental picture for every story. My bosses know I won't listen to such reports, that I switch off the scanner until I figure it's been dealt with. It's a symptom of an even greater evil about which nobody seems able (or willing) to do anything--that's what upsets me so much.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

Relieved I missed the report. Like Git, I would have had to turn it off.

I, too, would have and could have killed the cat to put it out of its misery. And I agree that the "heroes" intentions are misplaced. Saw this all the time at the raptor rehab program, especially with orphaned hawks. By the time we saw them they had rickets because the folk couldn't believe that there noble intentions could lead them astray. They might as well as shot the birds.

At any rate, we have all sorts of ways to justify our actions. No explaining or understanding someone so faultily wired as to torture an animal like that, but farther down the cruelty line there are all sorts of excuses that our culture seems willing to accept.

Usually that we are better than they are, because any other view would be too damaging to our self-image.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

Yuck. This is another story that leads me to believe that my TV should remain off. I haven't watched it in the last several weeks, and I don't think that I've missed much.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

"I have said I am not a violent person, but I could be, I COULD BE."

Saro -- Think about that.

Most of us resist our own desire for violent action. The people who abuse animals don't resist theirs. We share a common element -- that urge to do violence.

Where does it come from? How do we all learn that?

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

I think what most of us learn is the ability to resist. Unfortunately, some don't see their actions as being violent or cruel. For instance, it wasn't that long ago it was assumed that animals were just automatons, not capable of feeling pain. It was even less time ago that individuals assumed a societal role to correct or chide inappropriate behavior on the street. Now we leave that increasingly up to institutions.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

It was even less time ago that individuals assumed a societal role to correct or chide inappropriate behavior on the street. Now we leave that increasingly up to institutions.

Nowadays if we chide someone on the street, chances are we'll get shot, stabbed, beaten, or something. And not by a legal gun either.

In a case like this, I think public humiliation is in order for the perps. Whippings in the town square for example. Caning, aired on the evening news. Monetary punishment means nothing these days. Imprisonment costs us too much.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

Thank you all for your comments. I AM a nice person, just every once in a while, I "overload".

Gordon, I KNOW you are right.....I KNOW I should have been a "better" person, and loved unconditionally those that did this, but I am still here, so that means I am still facing hurdles, and that is one hurdle I DO HAVE TROUBLE WITH.

But I will re-read the Cass. material in your link, it does refresh my soul. In the mean time, I have stuff to do today, and will not have the news on, so I can use my "energy" to assimulate and rise obove this incident.

I am better today, still angry, still hurt and sad.....I wish there was a way I could "ask for and recieve" "instant Karma" for those that did this....caneing, whipping, naaaaaaaw....I think a slow burning over 92% of THEIR bodies might come close. (Did I say I was over it....?)

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001