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Originally Posted by innerlight
We're speaking about the soul itself. So who is to say the soul of the chicken did not make the choice long before it came to the body of the chicken? Who's to say the chicken and any animal knew what it was getting into coming to earth. Does the Zebra not come to earth because a lion would eat it in the wild? No. It's all part of the natural cycle of life.
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"Who is to say". Can you 'say'?
The natural cycle of life is that we live for a season then return to spirit, but bloodshed and cruelty are not pre-ordained, any more than war is.
I don't think 'you' can make a valid correlation. An animal is slave to its nature, or at least a carnivorous animal is. Herbivores don't kill or resort to savagery.
Humans should know better. 'We' certainly have the option of choice.
And as the whole purpose of earthly incarnation is to grow in wisdom, love and understanding, to continue in practices from Neanderthal times and before ....
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
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