Weltschmerz
Sometimes I wish I could just escape – just fuck off to some remote area where I could make a significant difference to the world. Teach the children in the jungle, conserve endangered species, be a tree-hugger – whatever.
I need a purpose for my life, and right now I feel like I’m going nowhere, and yet my mind is everywhere, thanks to the technology called television which enables me to waste about 60% of my time getting in touch with the world.
And what I find is not to my liking.
I skip the political debates most often, skim the stupid sinetrons and tuned in on the programmes about wildlife and deforestation.
There was a program called Earth from Above which I saw today, and it was showing thousands of baby seals being massacred by human because they think seals mess up the population of fish, making it hard for fishermen to earn their living, even though a research had been done and shown that the seals were not the cause of the lack of fish population, but it was due to human taking more than they should.
When seeing how those baby seals were beaten to death, I cried. I cried so hard as if I’d lost a parent. I felt sick of this world, sick of its cruelty, sick of the way human treat nature and all its habitat. I feel sick to the stomach and I wish I was dead.
I wish I didn’t have to live in this cruel world where the human keep taking and never giving back. Where human think it’s okay to keep murdering animals and ruining their habitats until there’s nothing left, and for what?
For a stupid piece of paper called money.
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thanks for making me imagine the baby seals beaten to death.
made my day *notice the very heavy sarcasm and tears running down my face*
but yeah, i sometimes feel like this too and it makes me wonder how there are people so cruel when i can’t even kill a fly.
strange innit?
i live in a country where they cry about not having enough gas.
i cry because those women are searching for food in a garbage dump.
thankyou.
i need to borrow this for folks here.
thanks for making a good day for me (imagining baby seals being massacred)
love for money is the root of all evil
THEY BEAT THE BABY SEALS TO DEATH??
typical humans…..always blame someone for their own faults… *cries imagining the poor poor baby seals*
Umm… I rather not open the clip, then. I do have a weak heart when it comes to this shit. But I do understand your point about ruining the food system and what not. I guess they didn’t think about that.
Therry
Its not a bad idea. There was a recent story about a nurse from canada who joined medicin san frontiers. She was recently kidnapped by rebels in dafur. Apparently now she has been released. Have to admit thats pretty exiting. She is actually making a difference. Can be rough though…
Now about this seal business…..
You’ve left it to me to defend the indefensible. Oh well its fun to take a contrary position.
Can you really explain how killing baby seals is any worse than killing, goats, chickens, cows, pigs, or force feeding geese to make foie gras and then killing them. Apart from the fact that baby seals are more cute and appear to be crying that is. Sealing is a small industry and has been sustainable for 300 years. Ironically enough the sealing industry is dwarfed by the animal rights industry that uses sealing as a poster boy in order to solicit an obscene amount of money and pay themselves obscene salaries.
And if ur a vegan how do you think farmers control pest like rats for example…ask them not to eat the grain…they poison em.
So pretty much anything ya eat, you are going to be using some poor critters headstone for a plate. Cruel i suppose but until we develop photosnynthetic humans there we are.
regards
According to the title, where “weltschmerz” (German) is a “world pain”, I am sure our world where we are living together feel so painful today caused by a greediness of the foolish.
The foolish chop the big tree down with an axe but he/she still stays under the tree. Same thing with the story that you wrote, people do everything they like and they don’t realize they kill themselves slowly but sure.
Unfortunately the video has been removed.
its such a loss for the babies to get killed that way. a lot of things happen in the wrong time, at the wrong place.
but for whatever we loss, we gain something. so save your tears, for something greater is awaited ahead ther.
look at the bright side and you shall rejoice.
perhaps you and I should be give being a vegetarian a serious consideration
Beaten baby seals? it make me want to strangle someone to death..
but whooo
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well done miss……….
therry, thank you for posting this… it’s good to know someone else is sharing this point of view. i feel sick of the world too, most of the time. sick of people being so ignorant, so self-centered.
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