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Beautifully said. To expand on that beautiful theme: Animals compete, human beings cooperate. Animals take advantage of others, human beings care for others

Beautifully said. To expand on that beautiful theme: Animals compete, human beings cooperate. Animals take advantage of others, human beings care for others by helping them and protecting them from harm. May compassion rule our hearts for the benefit of one and all and the Earth, herself. We can choose to end suffering. As the "$6 Million Man" intro said in the 70s, "We have the technology." The world has already learned how we MUST deal with people who act like Nazis, those who choose to emulate their brutal policies. The paradox of tolerance is also a part of Jesus's teachings for He "didn't come to bring peace, but a sword." His Divine love must be fierce in the face of cruel depradations, but must never embrace hatred or rage or cruelty. Tonight is the "Night of Power". Send some vibrations out asking our Creator to help you be a part of fixing this Earthwide deplorable mess. Make the Bhodisattva Vow. Ask our Creator to take Its spirit back into Itself to help cleanse and purify your soul of selfish vice, to help you become consumed by the Wisdom of Love (that's the meaning of the 1st Beatitude, called Hidayet in Sufism). All that we emanate resonates back within ourselves. The spiritual path of love is the process of tuning our vibrations towards effortful loving service and away from selfishly callous ignorance of the suffering of others. "Lasting peace and happiness for ALL human beings." --Me

watwut 2y ago
> Animals compete, human beings cooperate. Animals do cooperate, a lot and frequently. Including predators like lions. There are solitary animals, but cooperation is not rare. > Animals take advantage of others, human beings care for others by helping them and protecting them from harm. Animals do help others and try to protect them from harm.
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  > Animals do cooperate, a lot and frequently. Including predators like lions. There are solitary animals, but cooperation is not rare. That is just pack behavior. Animals are nearly always at war among their own for territory, and will often attack other kinds animals that compete for their food sources, unless there is mutual benefit (e.g. deers and monkeys sharing alarm calls for tigers). > Animals do help others and try to protect them from harm. Not their competitors, friend. I've seen all of Sir David Attenboroughs' nature serieses multiple times, save the Antarctica one, including the "Trials of Life" where the decades-ago TV commercial here in America had the line, "the relentless pursuit to continue the bloodline". I know what happens when a bear comes upon a wolfpack's kill. Ain't no sharing there, friend. Lions clawing the balls off a young wandering, trespassing male is the baseline root of animal nature. Any student of history knows this lionine behavior is closer to the driving impetus for human nature than pursuits of selflessly loving peace. "They are like the animals, only worse." That is our negative potential, each and every one of us. Only we have a mind to learn how to contemplate our potential self-evolution and our current amount of progress. And we are free to instead use our minds to just pursue worldly pleasures at the expense of anyone else's happiness. All potentials are available to us, though we cannot escape the price of karma we must each pay, and do, for better or worse, always accurately reaping what we have sown. Not a jot unaccounted for. God's teachings of love are here to help us self-evolve ourselves out of our selfishly animalistic negative potentials towards a peaceful, harmonious universally-compassionate integrated society of equals of different paths and cultures, sans abuse or oppression of any kind. One great example is how Guru Nanak (Sikh founding Guru) set his table where everyone sat together, not stratified by caste. That is the Way of human love, born of God's love for us.
  - watwut 2y ago
    > Animals are nearly always at war among their own for territory, This is not true. Quite a lot of animals are neither territorial nor at war constantly. > will often attack other kinds animals that compete for their food sources You should know that non aggressive animals exist. They are not some kind of exception at all. That being said, people have literal wars over important resources. They are no strangers of systematically abusing half the population or more ... or even enslaving them. There are people who believe empathy is weakness and they won election, because huge amounts of electorate agrees. > , unless there is mutual benefit (e.g. deers and monkeys sharing alarm calls for tigers). Nice example of cooperation. It is no different then humans cooperating with each other. > Not their competitors, friend. What kind of new standard you are putting on in there? How do you define competitor and is it really that different then social behavior of people? Like right now, you see half of America cheering on harm done to other Americans. You see them attacking other countries and people over percieved competition ... that completely their own construction.
    - MrMcCall 2y ago
      > What kind of new standard you are putting on in there? We act like animals -- mammals, specifically -- when we do not seek to become more humane, a better humanitarian. > half of America cheering on harm done to other Americans "They are like the animals, only worse." We are the only creatures that can consciously self-evolve ourselves toward complete compassion. That doesn't mean that 90% of us care enough about others to do it, as they obviously don't. That is the reason this world is in the mess it's in. We could choose to compassionately care for our fellow human beings, but most people are too self-absorbed and too self-righteous to take the necessary steps. As to what you say about animals, you're just plain wrong, but you're obviously committed to your worldview, so I wish you good luck with that.

watwut 2y ago

> Animals compete, human beings cooperate. Animals do cooperate, a lot and frequently. Including predators like lions. There are solitary animals, but cooperation is not rare. > Animals take advantage of others, human beings care for others by helping them and protecting them from harm. Animals do help others and try to protect them from harm.

MrMcCall 2y ago
> Animals do cooperate, a lot and frequently. Including predators like lions. There are solitary animals, but cooperation is not rare. That is just pack behavior. Animals are nearly always at war among their own for territory, and will often attack other kinds animals that compete for their food sources, unless there is mutual benefit (e.g. deers and monkeys sharing alarm calls for tigers). > Animals do help others and try to protect them from harm. Not their competitors, friend. I've seen all of Sir David Attenboroughs' nature serieses multiple times, save the Antarctica one, including the "Trials of Life" where the decades-ago TV commercial here in America had the line, "the relentless pursuit to continue the bloodline". I know what happens when a bear comes upon a wolfpack's kill. Ain't no sharing there, friend. Lions clawing the balls off a young wandering, trespassing male is the baseline root of animal nature. Any student of history knows this lionine behavior is closer to the driving impetus for human nature than pursuits of selflessly loving peace. "They are like the animals, only worse." That is our negative potential, each and every one of us. Only we have a mind to learn how to contemplate our potential self-evolution and our current amount of progress. And we are free to instead use our minds to just pursue worldly pleasures at the expense of anyone else's happiness. All potentials are available to us, though we cannot escape the price of karma we must each pay, and do, for better or worse, always accurately reaping what we have sown. Not a jot unaccounted for. God's teachings of love are here to help us self-evolve ourselves out of our selfishly animalistic negative potentials towards a peaceful, harmonious universally-compassionate integrated society of equals of different paths and cultures, sans abuse or oppression of any kind. One great example is how Guru Nanak (Sikh founding Guru) set his table where everyone sat together, not stratified by caste. That is the Way of human love, born of God's love for us.
- watwut 2y ago
  > Animals are nearly always at war among their own for territory, This is not true. Quite a lot of animals are neither territorial nor at war constantly. > will often attack other kinds animals that compete for their food sources You should know that non aggressive animals exist. They are not some kind of exception at all. That being said, people have literal wars over important resources. They are no strangers of systematically abusing half the population or more ... or even enslaving them. There are people who believe empathy is weakness and they won election, because huge amounts of electorate agrees. > , unless there is mutual benefit (e.g. deers and monkeys sharing alarm calls for tigers). Nice example of cooperation. It is no different then humans cooperating with each other. > Not their competitors, friend. What kind of new standard you are putting on in there? How do you define competitor and is it really that different then social behavior of people? Like right now, you see half of America cheering on harm done to other Americans. You see them attacking other countries and people over percieved competition ... that completely their own construction.
  - MrMcCall 2y ago
    > What kind of new standard you are putting on in there? We act like animals -- mammals, specifically -- when we do not seek to become more humane, a better humanitarian. > half of America cheering on harm done to other Americans "They are like the animals, only worse." We are the only creatures that can consciously self-evolve ourselves toward complete compassion. That doesn't mean that 90% of us care enough about others to do it, as they obviously don't. That is the reason this world is in the mess it's in. We could choose to compassionately care for our fellow human beings, but most people are too self-absorbed and too self-righteous to take the necessary steps. As to what you say about animals, you're just plain wrong, but you're obviously committed to your worldview, so I wish you good luck with that.