From a religious perspective you’ve heard people asked why were we forced to be humans?
Its just as it is
We werent forced
Its just is
The law of universe made it happened in this way
This is what makes a human special, We know good and bad. From the tree of knowledge. So we could question and observe about this existence, and our free will given by God made us able to ‘want’ things. Since we are not as deeply wise as God. We could carry this knowledge in a dangerous way or in an abundant way appreciating honoring the wonderful creation of God. This knowledge we possessed could set us up to be destructive or constructive. Only God wise enough to carry the secrets knowledge of universe. We couldnt comprehend it fully because were built as mere humans with its own limited capacity to access a knowledge. Theres a mysterious thing too. Like in this case of a dog kept questioning why hes a dog. And kept looking at himself in the mirror. This shows how intricate and complex our God the creator of universe is. How this dog have such intriguing intelligent proofs that its not only human beings who could have complexity. We should appreciate the majestic existence of all living beings. Yes they feel love and have feelings of sadness and fear as well. So its not just humans. But humans now have become more or have been senseless since long ago towards other living beings as if they have taken over things on this earth in such a manipulative way. Both plants or trees and animals were destroyed for the selfishness we had.
The selfishness of wanting to have ‘pleasure’ consumed constantly and not in a form of survival anymore. Be it through destroying or taking over forest to build homes and skyscrapper buildings, we bring global climate and worsen pollution. Or through making slaughterhouses everywhere and to mass produce chickens, cows, pigs, animals that we can feed on, just so then we can kill all of them afterwards for our daily consumptions. Its not a survival anymore. And its somehow not appreciating the spirits of these animals. Even if there are religions showing respect and appreciation through prayers for these animals before they were being killed, but we still keep mass butchered many innocent animals that they only knew they were born to never see sunlight or green grass and peaceful life. All the knew was to wait in line and be thrown to slaughterhouse or butcher machine. Imagine how these animals have families and the babies and the mothets were scared of seeing eachother getting murdered in a senseless atrocious way by humans. Have we no empathy anymore when it comes to food that we want to obtain so we senselessly murder all these animals?
Even other animals that werent butchered for their meat were also abused. Such as racing horses, they could be treated with heartless treatment if the owner or the carrier didnt know how to communicate with them. Or like racing dogs for those betting competitions, If they were disabled suddenly or encountred accidents such as broken/ misssing legs whilst racing, they would possibly kill them right away because they werent useful anymore for the betting competitions. And I dont agree how some people could choose to inject anesthetic drugs to kill old dogs for example just because theyre old or sick? How could we treat them with less ethical conduct? There were only few ethical treatment towards animals if we see in some parts of the world. If they love the dog they should take care of them as a member of a family not consider them as bothersome just because theyre old or sick and then taking him down (except for some cases where the pain was so inevitable for the animal). Another case was how some humans could still abuse sheeps when they only needed the wools from their fur. Is it necessary to abuse and treat these animals in such a bad heartless way. Even there are still many people think that animals have no feelings and intellect, have no ability to understand the complexities of emotions and to do something to show compassion but all i often see that animals are way more compassionate to their companions. And we can never or should never compare ourselves with beasts who lives to survive so its already a rule of jungle for the hunter to chase their prey to be eaten. Do we live in the same way like beasts? We have lived a more developed society, we should do better to treat nature with respect
I saw animals cried, tears fell down from their eyes when they know they would be heading to a terrifying place and they also showed fear and sadness when danger came upon them or if the member of their family died or dying. Even when I see my own cat was dying because of a diseases, I remember how terrifying that was, I took a time to pray while he was dying slowly.
I had also dreamt certain unknown beautiful animals that never exist in this world, it made me feel in awe with animals around me especially because i felt deeply how majestic animals are. Because of this when I woke up noticing my cat was sleeping comfortably beside me, I said to my cat, “you live in the same period as me. We will die someday, im grateful I could experience moments of connecting with a cute being like you, we won’t be here anymore someday, I want to cherish this every seconds with you and save these moments to my soul” I really felt the majestic existence in animals and I feel amazed and also sad about it.
Where is our intellect and awareness to respect these majestic beings, they also have spirits like ours and not mere objects, they have feelings and intellect too. How could we become so arrogant and senselessly unaware. We are being given the rights of having free will and born similar like the image of God but we dare to say we are more supreme from angels and dare to be senseless to sacred majestic beings like animals and even now destroying the earth’s nature. I feel that we being humans, can be so arrogant in taking over everything on this earth and manipulate it, so its natural we had to suffer in certain way as well. The law of nature comes back to balance everything. We receive the karma for what he have been doing to this earth and all of its living beings. We should deeply humble ourselves and take responsibility for the destruction we create upon everything around us.
Written by Serpent