In a first, researchers in Japan have captured the brain activity
of a living animal as it pursues its prey.
Not exact matches
Or
as Paul Shapiro, vice president
of policy at the Humane Society
of the United States and author
of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for
animals than what I've done with my
life.»
Ashley now shares her story, tips, and easy vegan recipes in hopes
of encouraging others to
live a
life that is not only kind their own bodies, but to the
animals and planet
as well!
Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million
animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14
animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few
of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude
living in the belly
of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back
as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»
He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions
of the market, a self made secure by the creation
of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems
as delicious experiences
of voyeurism, illusions
of direct access to the
life and thought
of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare
animal in a zoo.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his
life miserable or to stop flow
of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out
of you with tales and stories... There is another type
of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment
of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such
as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents
of public toilets and market places... Some
of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such
as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an
animal at night which could have been one
of them or possessed by one
of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes
as pleased...
The reason why Christians don't believe in evolution is because they believe god created every
animal for a purpose,
as can be demonstrated by the delicate balance and hierarchy
of life.
Here's the rest
of it:»... Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor,
as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited,
as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any
animal under changing conditions
of life, then the difficulty
of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered
as subversive
of the theory.
As an allegory about humanity's moral freedom, the Tree
of Life would represent the instinctual innocence
of the
animals and very young children.
Read the story
of Nebuchadnezzar who ended up
living as an
animal until he came to his senses and acknowledged God.
We see the same creativity
of God all around us today in the
life of plants and
animals and in all things such
as the waters
of the ocean and the air we breathe.
Thus, the transition from instinct to reason results in the radical transformation
of the
animal into man; matter
as it evolves toward the cell becomes radically transformed into
living matter; and vegetative
life becomes qualitatively changed into conscious
life.
Humans are
animals... we are
as much a part
of nature
as any other earth bound
life form.
More importantly a relatively fast global flood
as described in Genesis would have left fairly unmistakable indicators in the geologic records, e.g. a single layer
of a massive world - wide die - off
of the entire land - base plant and
animal life in existence followed by a common period
of re-expansion
of land - based
life from a single location.
Whatever is self - aware or able to value its own
life (for example) is designated
as a «person,» even if it is an
animal, while people lacking these attributes are denigrated
as human «non-persons» — an invidious category that includes all
of the unborn,
as well
as (for many bioethics practitioners) infants and those with profound cognitive disabilities.
Biologically speaking, we are
animals, and our development
as animals comes out
of a slow process and deep connection to all
of life.
The heuristic field is narrowed down; and a return is then seldom made to the question
of what
life is
as we spontaneously recognize it in the achievements
of animals and cells.
Although there is much cruelty in the treatment
of animals in the Indian subcontinent,
as elsewhere in the world, all the Indian religions teach a sense
of oneness with nature and a reverence for
life.
Unlike other
animals which (
as far
as we can tell)
live in a timeless present, we have a sense
of the passing
of time.
The Bible itself placed men and
animals in the same category by describing their Creation on the same day and thus distinguishing them
as a class from all other created forms
of life.
If the fetus does not have the same claim to
life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the
life of a newborn baby is
of less value to it than the
life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee is to the nonhuman
animal.
I do also recognize a hierarchy
of living beings in that I regard human
life as more valuable than
animal life and would not oppose essential medical experiments on
animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.
Fossil discoveries in China, «hailed
as among the most spectacular in this century,» turned up seventy species from the Cambrian period with «the appearance
of increasingly complex marine
animals in a riot
of shapes and anatomical designs anticipating much
of life as it is today.»
The significance
of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death
of Christ.The
animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ
as God he could remove sin in the past present and future
as he is outside
of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus
as well in the old testament
as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example
of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring
life and to bring mankind to salvation.
As for the free range analogy, it is a known fact that
animals under the care
of a kind master
live much longer and are much healthier than those in the wild.
6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role
as mentor in the
animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters
of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.
They
live, he claims,
as nice or unobsessed emotional solitaries, unmoved by love and death, but only by music that imitates the mechanical rutting
of animals.
To
live at all is to affirm the value
of living (even the act
of suicide affirms the value
of human action and
of human
life); similarly every
animal acts
as if the world were orderly.
No Stone Age family could possible manage the «
life - support» needs, (for weeks - to - months)
of «ALL - THE -
ANIMALS -, TWO - BY - TWO», (
as biblically - postulated), on a wooden ship less than 3/4's the size
of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, (centerpiece, N.Y.C.'s Intrepid museum)!
As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the se
As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden
of Eden...
as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the se
as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies
of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation
of planet plant and
animal life, the upheaval
of mountains, and history
of the sea.
What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle
of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the
living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is
as a thousand years, and a thousand years is
as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects
of animal husbandry, which is a form
of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts
of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm
of Divine probability by biblical accounts,
as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum
of the laws
of nature.
People would stop
living for and generally being obsessed with themselves
as individuals and start
living as social
animals for the species, finding their happiness primarily in the pleasures and duties
of families and friendship.
(I interpret «
life and death» here to refer to the impermanence spoken
of above, also to the fragmentation
of values
as scattered about, a little in me, some in you, some in other higher
animals, indeed
as Buddhists assert some even in lower
animals, all
of these perishable.)
But these people who were doing it all wrong were not qualified priests to be performing such sacrifices that allows the killing
of an
animal so Krishna, the original preceptor
of the Vedas, came
as Buddha and told them to forget the Vedas and
live a
life of non-violence (ahimsa) and to just follow his precepts.
The «pro-life» ideology might also include being a vegetarian, not so much to spare the
lives of animals as for other health - and conservation - related reasons.
It presupposes, therefore, that God demands and will accept the surrender
of the
life of the
animal for that
of man
as a substitutionary sign, and mans participation in the reconciliation [namely, reconciliation through the death
of God's Son
as a lamb slain] thereby signified [Church Dogmatics III, 1, p. 210].
It's not just
life / human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot
of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side
as well... and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might
as well be
living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still
animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any
of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?
Although they
lived in comparative isolation, a part
of farm and other forest produce like wax, honey and dried meat
of animals was marketed for cash through Muslim traders.5 Many
of their houses were good substantial erections
of wood and stone,» although a majority preferred to
live in temporary huts
of mud and bamboos
as the «survivors often dislike
living in a dwelling in which the head
of the family has died.
There often comes to us the desire to put our arms around a young tree and feel the same surge
of life as in ourselves or to read our own most special mystery in the eyes
of a dumb
animal.
On the other hand efforts at genetic modification
of seeds, plant and
animal life can lead to dangers to human
life itself
as seen in the recent instances
of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution
of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.
Nobody can assess the mental qualities
of a dog without having once possessed the love
of one, and the same thing applies to many other intelligent socially
living animals, such
as ravens, jackdaws, large parrots, wild geese and monkeys.
From Hart, we ask whether he does mean by his arguments that particular
animals will return to
life, perhaps insofar
as they are integrally connected to the identity
of particular humans.
The presence
of this other
animal may be
of great importance
as a source
of food or a threat to
life.
As such it emerged very early in the course
of animal life.
In that universe
of discourse, belief in God spells trust in
life and man,
as capable
of transcending the potentialities
of evil that inhere in his
animal heredity, in his social heritage, and in the conditions
of his environment.
Unless,
of course, there was a major disaster that rapidly buried all sorts
of plant and
animal life under extreme pressure, in which case science would allow for fossil fuels to develop in such a circu.mstance (
as evidenced in the Mt. St Helens eruption)... but said disaster never occured in the bible, did it?
(II Samuel xv - xviii) Again, if we isolate those parts which in our proposed classification would have to be labelled «Religion», some
of them do not appear to have any particular relevance to the religious
life as it is understood by civilized men in our contemporary world; such
as the detailed regulations for the ritual slaughter
of animals in the Book
of Leviticus.
This is in addition to the Stegosaurus and hundreds
of other species, all
of which, while not
as large and fearsome
as the above, were all larger than any elephant or other
living land
animal.
Are we going back to the beginning
of the bible when
animals and man
lived as one and did not eat meat.
Worship,
as a characteristic action
of man the religious
animal, consists in the offering
of self to God and the returning gift
of enhanced
life, in communion with God, for man.