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Winter is my kind of weather, and it’s on its way soon. Fall is equally good, for different reasons. Mushroom season is just about ready to burst forth upon the beautiful northwest. This is my home, my temperate rainforest climate. I love it here. If only there were fewer people, then it would be all the better. I would’ve loved to have seen Oregon two hundred years ago — three hundred, even. When left on its own, Nature does create a pristine balance, total harmony is established.

My gripe with earthen humans is that they abuse Nature, they abuse Creation, and they constantly break natural laws, living in struggle, violence, competition and total disharmony with one another and the natural world. The human being has incredible gifts bestowed upon them by Creation, but incredible gifts bear great responsibility with them, and this responsibility is shirked by the majority of humans here; they abandon their duties and live in discord, they abuse themselves and others, create torment and destroy all balance, all harmony and equilibrium they encounter. 

It is unacceptable. Humans are meant to be wardens of Nature, sentinels of the natural world – at the very least, humans are meant to be in wonder of the natural world, filled with awe when they encounter it, because the average person is (at the very best) a potential peasant who is actually generally just too dumb to have more complex thoughts. Certainly, though, we are never meant to destroy, to rape and pillage and utterly devastate the natural world as we have.

In this world there is no real respect for the balance of nature, the harmony of things when humans are not interfering with their presence. People anthropomorphize certain species of animals based on their ‘cuteness’ factor, and restrict their diet to fewer still — but disregard the existence of thousands of animals they have never heard of, of all the animals that creep and crawl and live beneath us in the ground, etc. After all, who would eat a deer, or buffalo, who would eat rabbit or goose but a red-neck hunter type? That’s just so uncivilized… or so people behave. But they will eat the mass-produced, hormone-ridden, tortured and miserable chicken? They even enjoy it. 

They will not eat duck eggs, nor peacock or quail, but they will eat the mass-produced eggs of hens that never move or see the light of day, who live in squalor and misery in battery cages. They will not drink goat milk, let alone horse milk, but they will drink the milk of cows who are given hormones to increase their milk production to 100 galleons a day (naturally, a cow can produce up to 10 galleons a day).

Most people in the so-called civilized world would never dream of eating a llama or a whale, they won’t even eat most things that come out of the ocean. Nor would most people be inclined to eat dandelion greens, although they are edible and nutritious (bitter, though), and they wouldn’t think of drinking catnip tea to help insomnia. Most people eat only vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, turnips, beets, carrots, squash (yellow, zucchini, etc.), a few types of peppers (bell, jalapeno, pepperocini, etc.) tomatoes, perhaps mushrooms, soy beans, etc. 

People of the western world cringe to think of eating a dog or a cat, but they allow pigs to be raised up by the billions to be slaughtered after short, torturous lives and they gobble them down with zeal.

Everywhere, double standards are evident. Hypocrisy is the rule of the day, and everyone feels that because it is ‘the norm’ for people to be wrapped up in their own little version of reality, totally disconnected from objective reality as if they live in a bubble — this is totally acceptable behaviour and no one should ever comment about it really. The truth is too harsh, and the average person can’t separate a criticism of their behaviour from a pure ad hominem attack because they have this idea of their identity as being indelibly connected to their behaviours/actions/past, etc. 

Therefore, people cannot be confronted with the truth, nor accept it, because it would entail admitting that they have screwed up in the past, perhaps quite, quite recently, and they must take responsibility for their actions and seek to remedy their behaviour in all future situations. This they cannot do.  

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