Larissa666
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I am maybe going to sound “new-agey” a little bit here, but have your perception of animals shifted recently?
I used to view animals as barely alive beings before. I knew they were alive, but they seemed like some sort of automata to me, capable to breath, eat, drink, live, but not very conscious and on much lower level than us.
But recently, I started to experience them differently. When I see an animal, I see a being with a soul, which is, albeit different in appearance from us, not that much different. Just because they cannot talk, and cannot connect with us, that doesn’t mean they do not experience, think, love, hate, can be sad, can be happy, are capable of wonder and curiosity...basically everything we can do, they can do.
Yeah, they do not know how much is 2 + 2, or how many protons, electrons and neutrons are there in an atom of carbon, but does it matter? Do they need to know? Maybe not, maybe their worldview is fine without that. Just because we see things differently, that does not mean they are inferior to us. Not in any way.
With all this said, I see animals as other beings inhabiting this space and time together with us. They are different from us, but also we are very similar. We are just different shades of this huge phenomenon called life. Our attitude towards animals is based on what they teach us since we were kids. That animals are alive but inferior to us. This is from the enemy, it says in the bible that “god created animals to serve man and be inferior to him”. This is where all this sick behavior and attitude comes from.
I used to view animals as barely alive beings before. I knew they were alive, but they seemed like some sort of automata to me, capable to breath, eat, drink, live, but not very conscious and on much lower level than us.
But recently, I started to experience them differently. When I see an animal, I see a being with a soul, which is, albeit different in appearance from us, not that much different. Just because they cannot talk, and cannot connect with us, that doesn’t mean they do not experience, think, love, hate, can be sad, can be happy, are capable of wonder and curiosity...basically everything we can do, they can do.
Yeah, they do not know how much is 2 + 2, or how many protons, electrons and neutrons are there in an atom of carbon, but does it matter? Do they need to know? Maybe not, maybe their worldview is fine without that. Just because we see things differently, that does not mean they are inferior to us. Not in any way.
With all this said, I see animals as other beings inhabiting this space and time together with us. They are different from us, but also we are very similar. We are just different shades of this huge phenomenon called life. Our attitude towards animals is based on what they teach us since we were kids. That animals are alive but inferior to us. This is from the enemy, it says in the bible that “god created animals to serve man and be inferior to him”. This is where all this sick behavior and attitude comes from.