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Ah. Well, a lot of boys will do that for a time, but they eventually develop sympathy for living things. Most of them. An egg is probably not a real life to them, after all they probably have eggs for breakfast, and maybe they don’t think of animals as having emotions like us.

If it helps any, the mother will mate again almost immediately.

I have a feeling you’re going to choose to become a vegetarian.

Mmmmm your post made me think about children in general these days. As Oster said probably they will develop sympathy for living things as they grow but if what we read in the papers every day (UK) and expereince on the street is anything to go by they maybe won’t. The root of these problems lies, I believe, in the fact that younger and younger children are playing on the streets unsupervised by adults - there are no family members around guiding their interactions and educating them as to what is right and wrong. I’m not suggesting here that you should have said anything to them because I don’t think you should, but what I am saying is that parents have a responsibility to know what their children are up to and where they are and also to teach them right from wrong. I live on a nice private estate. My children play out with some of the other children living nearby and I keep an eye on them - I’ve noticed that 4 year old children are on the street unsupervised by their parents and this goes on for hours on end with no sign of an adult. I’ve had to tell my children to stop going into a neighbours garden (a widowed old man who has recently had a heart attack). He has frogs in the garden and the children are fascinated - several of them just let themselves into the back garden and will not leave even when asked (age range from 4 - 8). I’ve explained to mine that the neighbour is ill and doesn’t want to children in his garden - they now do not go in, but have to stand on the pavement watching their friends go in because their parents haven’t stopped them - I guess my children think I’m mean stopping them - but I am trying to teach them to respect people and their property.

Sorry for the rant but you post triggered a raw nerve for me…

what a beautiful post to remind us all of what is important; thank you. We are the care takers of this planet… and a caretaker without anything to take care of is nothing. Alot of people will respond to such a story with; “boys will be boys”… which is true… they will be, but what makes them more sympathetic to their surroundings is that someone eventually teaches them.

Respect and responsibility are ancient words… but have not yet gone the way of Latin or Myan.
~Richard

Richard Cor de Lyon wrote:
what a beautiful post to remind us all of what is important; thank you. We are the care takers of this planet… and a caretaker without anything to take care of is nothing. Alot of people will respond to such a story with; “boys will be boys”… which is true… they will be, but what makes them more sympathetic to their surroundings is that someone eventually teaches them.

Respect and responsibility are ancient words… but have not yet gone the way of Latin or Myan.
~Richard

This is Beyond True… I agree Fully.

I wouldn’t say being silent about such things is the best approach, either. I think it would be ok for you to say so, but don’t expect them to change — they might think about it, think twice the next time, maybe not do such things in your presence.

From my own experience, I will say it wasn’t someone that taught me, it was shooting a squirrel when my dad took me hunting, and finding nothing but blood between, up and down two trees, but never finding the squirrel.

All kinds of lessons Oster… you were lucky to have one of the better lessons. I agree… a vocal lesson may not sink in…it’s better than nothing.. but usually the lesson you got is what it takes for most of us.

I’d like to hear your story, Rich.

It occurs to me that my family’s and culture’s views of animals didn’t exactly put them on the scale of emotional spiritual beings. One of my favorite stories about how some Native American cultures apologized to animals the killed comes to mind.

Heard a story recently about a boy burning ants with a magnifying glass. His father came out, took the glass from him, grabbed his hand and said, “you want to know how those ants feel?”

Hehe. I like that one.

hmmmmm in terms of animals… and even nature in general.. I think my lesson was a family hunting trip too. The entire side of one hill… ground squirrels massacured, not a pretty site… to the squirrels or their homes.

Now I teach my daughters about careing for the earth… and asking for permission to reap that which we have the authority to reap.

I know what you mean about the Native American. As a Druid, I have an affinity to their culture. I really like what Gibran wrote in The Prophet about Eating and Drinking: “… But since you must kill to eat, and rob the young of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship,

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in many.

When you kill a beast say to him in your heart,

“By the same power that slays you, I to am slain; and I too shall be consumed. For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand.

Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.”

Mmm. Indelible image.

Good quote. Come to think of it, I think this is the first time I’ve seen a KG quote on the site.

and u still think that life is good?

any way, do u know that plants bleed, when they cut a part of it andlooked at it with a spiecial kind of cameras, they saw red fountains of light that can’t be seen with the naked eye.

It’s called a KIRLIAN camera… and electromagnetics is used. The scientific community is not convinced, because the abilitly to reproduce effects is not consistant enough… but it does look pretty impressive to me.
~Richard

thanks alot richard :)

Hi there,

I’ve some anecdotal evidence relating to the Kirlian camera. I was at a Mind Body and Spirit convention (Quest) in the UK and had a series of photographs taken with one of these cameras. A man then interpreted the results and the first thing he said to me was that I was a healer - I laughed and said no. He went on to tell me other things about myself but kept on returning to this healing power that I supposedly have which was apparently evident in the throat area on the picture - I could see what he was talking about but really kept repeating that I was not a healer (which I am not). After scratching his head somewhat and conferring with his colleagues they had almost given up when one of them asked me if I’d ever had Reiki - I suddenly remembered that years before I’d been on a Reiki 1 course but had never really used it and had never really considered myself a healer as a result of it. Needless to say they were all very happy to discover that the beautiful colour which lit up my throat was as a result of the healing power of Reiki. The jury may be out as to the science behind the photography, but there is certainly something going on…

there r such things in every one of us, but we just need to find it, we r a part of nature,D&M try to improve urself, for ur good and evey one’s good. u might help many ppl with that.