Epicwish

wow. i havn't been able to get on the internet for over a month, coz our internets stuffed up, and still hasn't been fixed, and i'm at school right now, and just realised that........DEVIANTART ISN'T BLOCKED ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY. so while i can't get on at home, i can get on at school, but it will still be difficult in getting pics up.......

it was my birthday about a month ago, just after our internet stuffed which was so annoyng, coz i wanted to put up a b-day journal and everything.    oh well it was still a good b-day. i had lunch at a GREAT vegan restaurant, and then spent the afternoon in the city with friends being one of them. then we watched movies all night! so much fun!

uhoh bells teacher is coming around to check what we're doing!

cyas!!!

i was Talking TO my friend karen Today and she said someThing that deeply desturbed me. she said that what makes humans different to other animals is that we have souls and they don't.

is this true? do animals have souls?





i found this online. please take the time to read it.




Do Animals Have Souls?
by Stacy Mantle

I was talking with a coworker the other day and he informed me that animals do not have emotions. This is just after he told me (the day that I put my dog of 17yrs down) that animals do not have souls and therefore will never enjoy the concept of heaven. Now, this coworker has the disadvantage of being, what I refer to, as a "bible-thumper." He is, in fact, a born-again Christian. Please bear in mind that I have nothing against Christians, nor do I have anything against religion in general. I do, however, have a problem with this coworker passing along faulty information.

Animals do have emotions and they also have souls, and I'll tell you how I know that. In over twenty years of working with animals, I have never seen a kitten duct-tape a live human baby to a freeway. I also have never seen a cat find enjoyment from setting a human on fire. I've never gone hiking in the desert to find a child that dogs have left tied to a stake, without food and water, subjecting it to a painful death in the desert heat. I have never seen a chicken force two unwilling humans to fight in a ring with razor blades attached to their feet while the chickens place bets on who will be the first to die. I haven't seen a puppy place eight children in a gunnysack and drown them in a river. Neither have I seen an eagle aim a shotgun at an unarmed human. I have yet to see a bear kill a human simply to place a head on the wall of their cave. And to this day, I have not seen a pigeon drive a car down the road and aim for humans who were walking around the park.

Let me tell you what I have seen. I have seen my own cats sleep next to me so they may keep me a little warmer while I was ill. I've seen my dogs play games with me just to force a smile to my face. I have seen a cat rush into a burning home not once, not twice, but six times to save her kittens, nearly losing her own life in the process. I have seen a ferret pull a frightened kitten out of a deep hole in the ground. I have seen a coyote fetch another dog so that it may get the proper medical care that it needs. I've seen a dog, who loves to jump on people, avoid jumping on me when I injured my back. I've seen elephants cry. I've seen monkeys scream in empathy when one of their own were injured. I've seen puppies whine all night long when they were separated from their mothers. I've seen a dog pull a child away from a fire.

These are only a few of the things that I've seen. To list them all would take a lifetime, and I think you get my point. As for the soul thing? Well, it is my humble opinion that if you have emotions, any kind of emotions, then you have a soul. Ironically, the pope of the Roman Catholic Church recently stated that he feels the same way.

Now, I can't prove that animals have souls. But then, I can't prove that you or I have one either. And for all those people who firmly believe that animals don't have souls - well, I suppose if there really is a heaven, you'll probably have the job of cleaning out all the litter boxes...




i found this here: vetmedicine.about.com/library/…





do animals have souls?

i just recently started working at a dog kennel and cattery, and i love it. itss really great, and i like to take photos of the dogs and cats for reference pics for some drawings and paintings, and i'd like to put them on deviantart for other people to see, but i'm not sure if it would be a great idea. i mean if it were your dog you might not want pictures of him/her on the internet. what do you think?

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