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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 5:14:44 GMT -5
Yet you slap a mosquito without a second thought... Right, because that damn mosquito bites me!
And I squash a cockroach and use some methods to get ants away from my food and absolutely can't stand to have flies on my food!
and so it goes... Most of these creatures spread diseases, so you have a choice, kill them or they kill/infect you. Which choice do you take?
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Post by rational on Nov 5, 2016 9:23:54 GMT -5
Right, because that damn mosquito bites me!
And I squash a cockroach and use some methods to get ants away from my food and absolutely can't stand to have flies on my food!
and so it goes... Most of these creatures spread diseases, so you have a choice, kill them or they kill/infect you. Which choice do you take? Humans spread disease as well. Humans are a vector in the spread of malaria. Humans spread the flu. In 1918 it is estimated that 500 million people were killed by influenza. My comments were directed towards those who were preaching the sanctity of life but obviously had a very limited view of what they defined as life. Human existence would be impossible without killing.
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Nov 5, 2016 13:05:30 GMT -5
Good morning folk. I have just been out for a first light hunt. Three lovely rabbits later I am home. They will feed me and my girlfriend for about 5 days. They also do not contain any additives such as the antibiotics that are fed to chickens to make them grow quick. One of the keys to living a healthy life is to eat off the land if possible. I have had exercise this morning. I will eat well and I saw the sun come up in the east. As it has always done ever since this pile of rock and water that we live on was spun together by the actions of the universe.
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Post by dmmichgood on Nov 5, 2016 15:16:05 GMT -5
Good morning folk. I have just been out for a first light hunt. Three lovely rabbits later I am home. They will feed me and my girlfriend for about 5 days. They also do not contain any additives such as the antibiotics that are fed to chickens to make them grow quick. One of the keys to living a healthy life is to eat off the land if possible. I have had exercise this morning. I will eat well and I saw the sun come up in the east. As it has always done ever since this pile of rock and water that we live on was spun together by the actions of the universe. Sounds good!
I'm all for living off the land when possible.
I ALWAYS have a garden.
No matter what I might declare the previous fall, "I AM NOT having a garden next year!" it is too dry, the insects (or rabbits) eating every thing or any other of a long list of complaints.
My husband would just say "Yes, I heard that LAST year." .
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Post by iam on Feb 18, 2020 19:01:28 GMT -5
if you stay away from your previous sins you wont have a problem come judgement day your sin is covered by Jesus blood. but if you still engage in your sin you will have to answer for it. I don't think it's as easy as that, Wally. Repentance is more than discontinuing the sin, it is also doing what we can to make right the damage we have caused. It wasn't until Zachias told Jesus that he would repay FOUR TIMES the amount he stole from others...THEN Jesus said "now is salvation come to thy house." It's not just about the thefts Zachias may have done, it's really about the wrong we have done to others. To have the desire and try to go to any length to make it right... beyond what we have taken. Four times. That's true repentance.
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Post by iam on Feb 18, 2020 19:14:02 GMT -5
we call them trophy hunters here in the USA thier just out for the rack and nothing else... Well, then that being so again raises the question as to why is there something in killing "for sport" that fulfills a psychological desire in someone; does it not?Killing for sport does not sound like something that would please God. I remember reading somewhere in the old testament about God's judgments and I have a vague recollection of reading something about that. I should try to find that again. There are reasons to kill animals but for sport doesn't sound like one of them.
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Post by matisse on Feb 18, 2020 19:20:20 GMT -5
Well, then that being so again raises the question as to why is there something in killing "for sport" that fulfills a psychological desire in someone; does it not? Killing for sport does not sound like something that would please God. I remember reading somewhere in the old testament about God's judgments and I have a vague recollection of reading something about that. I should try to find that again. There are reasons to kill animals but for sport doesn't sound like one of them. The Hebrew god seems to have had a penchant for the smell of burned flesh. All sorts of animals were sacrificed to him as "burnt offerings".
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Post by iam on Feb 18, 2020 19:22:47 GMT -5
Yes, but what is sport for them is death for the animals. All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, the Lorde God made them all. Rise Peter, kill and eat, what God has cleansed call no one common or unclean. It appears that we can kill for food etc, culling or if threatened perhaps? but not just for sport like pigeon shooting- game. Discussions regarding killing need to be looked at on a sliding scale. What should be killed and what shouldn't? In my state it is illegal to kill your own dog or cat even if it is ill. But you can kill a woodchuck with impunity. Or a pig or cow. On the other hand who would not try to kill parasites living in their intestines. And you hardly ever see people protesting the wholesale killing of Trichinella spiralis. Ants are sprayed with nerve poison without giving it a thought that life is being terminated in a painful way. Mice are trapped in sticky traps and left to starve to death. Is there a difference between a trophy hunter and a lepidopterist? Maybe not.
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