Today was the first of shotgun deer season in Illinois and I as I heard the first shots of the morning I started thinking of times past.
One year a neighbor and his boy was hunting the first day. They had went to a spot several miles away from home and things was slow and they never shot at anything. Before noon they started home and as they neared home out in the middle of a wheat field they saw two big bucks fighting. The dad hits the brakes and the boy jumps out and grabs his gun from the back of the truck and took off running toward the deer trying to get a little closer. When he got within his range he shot one of the bucks and he dropped. His dad got the truck parked and got his gun out and really wasn't in a big hurry because he thought the other buck would run off. But no, he kept on fighting the dead buck. I guess he thought he was winning, lol. The dad shot him.


There is a story I read that was wrote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about a deer that was ashamed of his feet. His feet were not very pretty and jagged from the rocks. But he had a very magnificent rack and he was very proud of it. One dad a hunter got after him and he ran across an open field and got away from the hunter, but the rack he was so proud of got him hung in the brush as he left the open field and the hunter was able to get his arrow to hit the mark. The deer's feet that he was so ashamed of saved him from the hunter, but the rack he was so proud of caused his demise. Nature doesn't only pertain to the animals, but we all have a little Absalom in us that we have to keep in check !

Interesting Story

Humanizing animals, not sure that helps us. The three legged deer post pretty much spells it out. Animals don’t have opinions about themselves, they work with what they’ve got. That’s a much better lesson for us than how one feels about itself.

You may be right about the humanizing animals. But it seems Disney has that covered pretty good. Who knows, one could actually start thinking donkeys can talk, lol.

That’s certain what the feeble mind would think however, the donkey didn’t talk on its own. lol

And I suppose the one who made the donkey talk isn't around any longer?

Why would God breathe into Adams nostrils and not his mouth? Or maybe some believe he breathed on his own without any help?

Because kissing another man is despicable to Him.

Your turn. lol

Would you agree that breathing into nostrils would signify a difference between spirit man and animal?

And the necessity to agree is of what importance?

Well, in the end reincarnation. As one on here used to say he didn't believe in reincarnation in his last life nor this one. I'm starting to wonder if the reincarnation isn't going the opposite way one would think. Either that or humans are just dumbing down!

Stop being a politician and stay on topic, which is, we don’t need to humanize animals.

If the deer was truly being humanized,
It would be the doe with a nice rack that got the buck in trouble.

Baloney, that ship has already sailed. You show me a household that does not have a cat or dog that isn't part of the family. They even talk to each other, lol. If an animal doesn't think then we must have a lot of robots among us already , either way its not a winnable fight.
With the Hindu population on the increase, I think its important to establish some lines where the human and animal separate.

You want to blow some minds just mention bringing back animal sacrifice in the millennial !

That’s it what happened on this thread and you know it. lol

Who is right the Three legged deer post or the “oh my I have terrible looking feet” post?

You must drive an automatic, shifting gears seems hard for you, lol!

This reminds me of the blonde coyote.
She chewed of three of her legs,
And she was still in the trap.

Reminds me of the guy that was afraid to sleep at night because a guy was hiding under his bed. He didn't have the money for a shrink to help him, so he borrowed a saw off of his carpenter friend and cut the legs off his bed so the guy couldn't get under there!

Why did Transcendentalism end?
Because the leading transcendentalists began to focus their efforts on eliminating chattel slavery, transcendentalism faded from the scene by the 1850s

Google is a friend that talks to me and I only have to feed it once a month, lol.

Alongside Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott was one of the pioneers of American Transcendentalism. In 1843 he co-founded a Utopian farm based on transcendentalist, pacifist, and vegetarian principles named Fruitlands in Harvard, Massachusetts.