souls.
I watched a movie called Earthlings. www.isawearthlings.com
well...tried to.
I have never watched ANY of those peta propaganda films. i know full well the horrors of animal abuse and side with them on the issue and feel no need to subject myself to such things. i get the picture. Earthlings, however, seemed different. it is a full length documentary narrated by joaquin phoenix about mans dependency on animals; how necessary they are for our very existence, and our treatment of said animals that give their very lives so that ours are a bit better.
it's broken down into sections; pets, food, ect. but i couldnt make it past the pets section. i made it all the way to the end, the final scene a grainy video of stray animal population control in turkey-a dog being loaded into the back of a garbage truck and then the compactor coming over it.
yeah. that'll be etched into my mind forever. thanks 3rd world country.
after that i shut it off. i understand the need for these movies to show this type of footage. showing it in excess would be equal to shock but they didnt do that here. they have to show this because you simply cant say 'people treat animals badly' and have them go 'ok, lets do something about it.' people need to SEE this with their own two eyes. to understand. to see that look of fear or even trust these creatures have in the ones about to annihilate them. but i couldn't take any more. i didnt need to see the food portion. which is a shame because now i'll never know the point this movie was trying to drive home. or in what way they were going to do so anyway.
but it does bring me to the point of this post.
i have a theory.
its still in development and has been for some time but this movie has got me thinking and im gonna unleash it upon the world and see if any feedback helps to develop it further.
i theorize that most people on this planet these days dont have souls. we crossed a threshold during the industrial revolution that allowed us to exist outside the balance of nature. in 'disharmony' with the universe. our ability to create became irreversibly entangled with our ability to destroy. there was a time when the living replaced the dead and the dead replaced the living with relatively equal numbers (yes the population slowly growing with agricultural and energy advancements, but essentially still 'living off the land').
perhaps there was only a certain number of souls to go around and inhabit these frail bodies. with our population about to crest 7 BILLION, these days it seems the majority of humans are more heartless and thoughtless and cruel than ever. the lack of compassion for fellow man, beast, and planet shows a total absence of the basic concepts that are instilled in all living things to not kill, torture, or destroy unless required for survival.
there also appears to be a frightening decline in intellectual thought. discussion of higher concepts are shunned by the herd in this society. everything around us is designed for only the most inept among us to understand. seemingly because they simply CANNOT understand these things. genetics. astronomy. religion. politics. our place in the world, both in daily life and in the grand scheme of things, should be important to every last person out there. but instead the mere mention of something as innocuous as vegetarianism is shunned repeatedly, given no chance of rational discussion as to why it MAY be a viable option for the individual.
the ability to comprehend and understand grand ideas, i propose, is proof of the presence of a soul. something higher that transcends the body. assuming that to be the true, the lack thereof must, therefore, mean there is no soul inside the vessel. THESE are the true zombies. THESE are the true plague. the virus that destroys the planet.
the ones that must be eliminated.
well...tried to.
I have never watched ANY of those peta propaganda films. i know full well the horrors of animal abuse and side with them on the issue and feel no need to subject myself to such things. i get the picture. Earthlings, however, seemed different. it is a full length documentary narrated by joaquin phoenix about mans dependency on animals; how necessary they are for our very existence, and our treatment of said animals that give their very lives so that ours are a bit better.
it's broken down into sections; pets, food, ect. but i couldnt make it past the pets section. i made it all the way to the end, the final scene a grainy video of stray animal population control in turkey-a dog being loaded into the back of a garbage truck and then the compactor coming over it.
yeah. that'll be etched into my mind forever. thanks 3rd world country.
after that i shut it off. i understand the need for these movies to show this type of footage. showing it in excess would be equal to shock but they didnt do that here. they have to show this because you simply cant say 'people treat animals badly' and have them go 'ok, lets do something about it.' people need to SEE this with their own two eyes. to understand. to see that look of fear or even trust these creatures have in the ones about to annihilate them. but i couldn't take any more. i didnt need to see the food portion. which is a shame because now i'll never know the point this movie was trying to drive home. or in what way they were going to do so anyway.
but it does bring me to the point of this post.
i have a theory.
its still in development and has been for some time but this movie has got me thinking and im gonna unleash it upon the world and see if any feedback helps to develop it further.
i theorize that most people on this planet these days dont have souls. we crossed a threshold during the industrial revolution that allowed us to exist outside the balance of nature. in 'disharmony' with the universe. our ability to create became irreversibly entangled with our ability to destroy. there was a time when the living replaced the dead and the dead replaced the living with relatively equal numbers (yes the population slowly growing with agricultural and energy advancements, but essentially still 'living off the land').
perhaps there was only a certain number of souls to go around and inhabit these frail bodies. with our population about to crest 7 BILLION, these days it seems the majority of humans are more heartless and thoughtless and cruel than ever. the lack of compassion for fellow man, beast, and planet shows a total absence of the basic concepts that are instilled in all living things to not kill, torture, or destroy unless required for survival.
there also appears to be a frightening decline in intellectual thought. discussion of higher concepts are shunned by the herd in this society. everything around us is designed for only the most inept among us to understand. seemingly because they simply CANNOT understand these things. genetics. astronomy. religion. politics. our place in the world, both in daily life and in the grand scheme of things, should be important to every last person out there. but instead the mere mention of something as innocuous as vegetarianism is shunned repeatedly, given no chance of rational discussion as to why it MAY be a viable option for the individual.
the ability to comprehend and understand grand ideas, i propose, is proof of the presence of a soul. something higher that transcends the body. assuming that to be the true, the lack thereof must, therefore, mean there is no soul inside the vessel. THESE are the true zombies. THESE are the true plague. the virus that destroys the planet.
the ones that must be eliminated.