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Animals
Romanticism,
Anthropomorphism, Animal Theosis
Animal
– A living organism having sensation and voluntary motion, without rigid cell walls, and dependent on
organic substances for food; an animal other than a human being.
Romanticism – A tendency
towards romance or romantic views.
Anthropomorphism –
Ascription of human form, attributes, or personality to God, a god, an animal, or something impersonal.
Animal Theosis –
Deification of animals. Oxford Dictionary
The term ‘blind nature’
is a well-known term which refers to the natural process of species propagation being survival of the species
most fitted to the environment. The instincts of the more primitive animals can be described as ‘What can
eat me? – what can I eat?’, and added to this is the instinctual program for reproduction. Hence the
animal instincts are fear, aggression, nurture and desire. In the human animal, this instinctual program is
translated into instinctual passions, emotions and feelings.
The current fashionation is to
study, glamourize and glorify the instinctual passion of nurture in operation in other mammals and one can see
this in operation in much of society. Even tigers, wolves and poisonous snakes are seen as warm-hearted beings
who are misunderstood. I guess if they make animals out to be as ‘good’ as humans, then we can all ‘accept’
that the Human Condition is ‘as good as it gets’. The fervently good even grant ‘rights’ to animals
and then proceed to fight for these rights, but the good always love fighting for causes.
The other advantage of granting ‘rights’ to
animals is that one can then get angry, sad and depressed when these ‘rights’ are abused, like when some
bad people hunt and kill animals for food or profit.
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