Animals

I'd like to share this video I came across recently on here. In a sane world we would never lock up animals in zoos nor do experiments on them. They are incredibly intelligent beings, every single one of them, more intelligent than most humans actually. They are not secondary to us, they should have every right to be free and live as they are meant to. I have had pets in the past so I don't judge anyone who has a pet (and I can't say for sure I wouldn't again) but my feeling is that there is a way we could live alongside them as friends without needing to 'own' them as pets. In the neighbourhood where I live cats often roam around and I've observed they will come over to you and make friends with you by themselves. After a while it's not much different to saying 'hello' to a human in the neighbourhood. We are obviously far away from that reality with wild animals because we have abused them for so long and so they don't trust us and have to attack first. What we see as the savageness of wild animals and nature is a distortion anyway. If we changed I feel that would be reflected back to us in their behaviour. The natural world would become more peaceful if we became more peaceful. I've observed this with spiders in the house. If you don't kill them or bother them, they will gradually come to trust you and will just go about their business without being scared of you or causing problems. If you need to move them, you can put them in a jar and take them out the house and they will respect that.

When you realise these things about animals it puts into perspective what so-called "heroes" like Elon Musk really are. People think this guy is some sort of genius and yet he has tortured monkeys testing out his brain chips. Do we really want people like him and Gates leading the way for humanity?

Freedom for ALL beings!

About a week after writing the above paragraphs I saw a frog on a footpath I was walking in nature. I stopped and observed it for a while. Then it went down this hill. Later when I got to the bottom of the hill I was observing a blackbird that looked like it was eating something resembling a frog. I wondered if it was the same frog so tried to get closer to look but the bird kept flying off. As I was doing this I heard a scream from the footpath behind me and saw that an old lady had been knocked over by a dog running. A few minutes later I was back on the footpath and saw a lone frog and thought to myself, perhaps it hadn't been eaten by the blackbird. Then a trio of frogs, on each other's back, appeared, and then another lone one. I'd never seen so many frogs at one time. Just as I was crouched down observing one on the footpath this couple with a pram came by and before I had a chance to warn them, they squashed the frog right in front of me. Their reaction was typical of humans these days... they basically just shrugged and went "oh was that a frog?" and walked on.

A few seconds later the old lady who'd been knocked over by the dog appeared beside me with her friend, noticed the frog and I explained it had just been run over. It was still alive but it's belly area was dented. I was trying to see if it could move. The old ladies were shaking their heads at the way people are today too. I asked if I was correct that one of them had been knocked over by a dog, she confirmed so, saying her arm was really sore. They told me the people with the dog just walked on, didn't bother to see if she was alright. We chatted a bit about how apathetic a lot of people are today and about foraging. Although concerned about the frog, one of them wondered should we just put it out of it's misery. I said no, and used some sticks to lift it over onto the other frogs to see if they'd carry it, which they did. I've no idea if it survived but at least it was still alive and with it's own kind as I left it.

It was a strange sequence of events, all occurring in a short space of time, and there was a lot to learn about both animals and humans in that situation. Interestingly, seeing frogs in a spiritual sense is meant to indicate good luck, wealth and abundance and so the people squashing it in front of me takes on a different significance in that context.