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Incarcerated Creatures

By Citizen Correspondent Brennpunkt of the DPC
Date Posted: 05/09/08
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These poor animals, what did they do? They did not kill, nor rape, nor steal, they are not terrorists, they did not pollute the environment nor wrong anyone or anything... yet these many animals will spend most of their sad existence in tiny cages, cells, trapped within living domains eating disgusting food that though improved from the earliest days of zoos, all conditions at the world famous San Diego Zoo are still sad misrepresentations of what their lives would be like out in nature, born free! Music by Intermix ~ Blackhole Amizon. Location: San Diego Zoo.

Many pro-zoo factions will assert that it is for their own benefit, that out in the wild they would be killed off, and surely, on most of the placards describing their classifications as creatures of earth, more than 95% were listed as endangered because of loss of habitat due to humanity.

But what does this say really, it is merely an analytical explanation of total madness and highly educated stupidity, without any emotion or necessary freak out over the bewildered realization that we are killing all life on Earth and destroying the life support systems of our own ecosystem, that we are ignoring the symbiosis we are all a part of!

This was a truly sad day in my life, similar to visiting Sea World or any park where humanity has imprisoned innocent creatures for our own temporary gratification. Of notable absurdities on this day, though it was all sickening to me, was a young woman who described a majestic eagle as the ugliest thing she had ever seen... so not only was this sad eagle crying out in psychological pain for having its massive wings clipped and being stuck in a cage with no room to fly around, but that some stupid girl should come and judge its appearance?

I wanted to tell her expression was the ugliest thing I had ever witnessed, but I repressed my outrage as so many of us who are witnessing the shallow mentalities of humanity expressing its own self-hatred in a hall of mirrors.

I wonder how is it that the masses of humanity can so carelessly witness these many innocent prisoners living a tortured existence and never once think how that little space is the only world those incarcerated creatures will ever know while alive...


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Re: Incarcerated Creatures

By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 11, 2008 at 08:36

Yeah, that spirit inside of our species has no room for the true connection to all life on the planet, due to our addiction to "removed" monotheism (where god is not part of nature, but superior to it). The creeds of these huge political movements, cloaked as religions, assert humans as being rulers of our planet created in the image of god, not just another connected life form. It is from the lies of organized religion that we get this distorted view of ourselves, which was installed so that we may have dominion over the beasts, to satisfy human greed, to rape the resources without guilt. Religion is the mechanism for creating huge lies in our society, artificial constructs not compatible with nature, and has been for two millennium. You will see morons defending these vile institutions here in these columns as being harassed by Atheists. Poor witch, Astec, Muslim burning, hard put upon, totall rulers of human society up until this century, christians. These morons are the problem keeping humanity blind generation after generation, keeping the lie alive.. http://www.topix.com/forum/ca/vancouver-bc/TTHAE72HT8ABGRGJM

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