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read yesterday about the Buckeye egg farm in Ohio closing.
15 million hens there for them to get rid of.
a shelter took one thousand.

even if they allowed all the hens to go to shelters
instead of killing them,
and even if each shelter took a whole thousand hens,
there would need to be 15 thousand shelters.
that would be about 300 shelters per state in the United States.
impossible.
what can they do but kill them?

so many chickens. doomed.
and that's just from one big egg "farm".
of course farm is a misnomer.
it's one big factory.
one big disgusting factory.

and even if that place weren't closing down,
considering that the lifespan of hens
is 1 to 2 years in these places,
that means they've been going through 15 million hens
every couple of years they've been in operation.
not even counting the chicks that were killed after hatching
for being male and incapable of laying eggs.

..

numbers.
large numbers.

i try to remind myself
that no matter how many beings suffer in the world,
it's not the numbers that really matter.

each being is an individual.
like me.
each being only suffers for a single lifetime.
at a time, at least.
each being only feels the pain of their own body and mind.
it's not suffering multiplied by n million.
it's just one.
one at a time.

each hen at that place doesn't feel fifteen million times worse
for there being that many other hens there experiencing the same thing.

i don't feel uncountably worse than i do
for the existence of everyone else's pain.
i only feel my own ration of it.
while it may cause me mental misery
to consider all the suffering that exists elsewhere,
i don't actually experience that suffering.
each individual only experiences the amount of suffering
that one individual can experience.

unless the universe has its own consciousness
which feels everything.

who hears every single voice cry out?
who hears the past and the future,
the near and the far?

i only hear myself and the things around me.
everything else is imagined.
not quite real.

and yet, even if i truly did feel someone else's pain...
there's a thought here that i can't put into words right now.
an old thought.
something related to whether a hundred mosquito bites
is really any worse than ten.

..

having a dog
gives one an excuse to go for walks.
it gives one a reason
to do that which one otherwise might like to do,
but wouldn't for there being no real purpose to it.
and one doesn't have to go alone.
and one doesn't have to listen to someone else chattering
while one is trying to listen to the outside world
and to one's own inner voice.

yes. today. rambling.

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003 08:24 pm
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so. many horrible things happening in the world and i'm spending my time writing computer programs. it seems rather short-sighted... hiding away tinkering with machines... but if the people who are free from such suffering don't enjoy their freedom, what good is it?... yeah, right. flippety flip. wars in africa. the scary stories of africa and latin america and everywhere else. check check check. you're dead. because we can kill you. you're imprisoned, because we can imprision you. we're in power, because... why do people do it? because they can, just because. forces of nature. there's no reasoning it. be aware of the evil but don't let it hurt you... tripoli said something. still in the center of the storm. i am a force of nature too. machetes starvation gunshots to the head mass-graves. and then there is everyone who doesn't think killing animals is evil. the blood runs out... the cages... they're too stupid to have any compassion for... too alien, dumb animals... if that's not evil, why should anything else be? nothing's evil. just forces of nature. incomprehensible. it makes sense to them. you're the enemy, you're bad, that's why it's ok to kill you, to electrocute you, to come in a helicopter and gun you down and walk away as if life goes on in a good way for anyone after that. the cia assassinating people, hiding secrets too hideous... and when things aren't secret anymore, nothing happens. nothing changes. hollywood is america's PR machine. the lovely wonderful place of freedom and french-fries and fast cars. it doesn't matter what we do, hollywood is what people see. and what they remember until the truth is too obvious to be covered over with shiny paint and catchy tunes. and by then, it's too late.

the doggy-oh. oh, oh. i'm getting attached, but i'm not letting myself. the most cat-like dog i've encountered. stubborn eater. as if he forgets that food exists. turning his little head away... but then gobbling it up minutes later, proving that he's not all that cat-like. doing his little tap-dance of anticipation on the kitchen floor...
but we can't keep a dog. we don't want to. we don't have the time, the effort, the long-term commitment. he would be better off with someone who cares, really cares... i can't care. the shelter will find someone to adopt him... i always have to wash my hands after touching animals... even humans... i'll have to get over that some day too, perhaps. if there's a reason. i feel bad thinking that he'll have gotten attached to us, and then be disappointed by us giving him up... like we'll be letting him down. or maybe he'll be glad to have someone else... what good are we... no litter-box to clean, at least. wait a minute, wasn't there a mockingbird trapped in the backyard yesterday, i'd better check... oh, dear. it's dark already again.

pixme'n'yoda

Saturday, July 19th, 2003 02:35 am
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pictures of beautiful me and cute doggie... )

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