Let's Go Mammoth Hunting

[Speaker to Animals]

You think Harambe was cute?

[apeman]

You think Harambe was cute?

I'm about to get un-invited to speak at a conference here.

[C-Mag]

You think Harambe was cute?

I'm about to get un-invited to speak at a conference here.

Fire away buddy !

[apeman]

Fire away buddy !

too soon, carlus, too soon

[SuburbanFarmer]

What I'm seeing is a hard conflict between the Natural and Society. We have this cognitive dissonance everywhere in modern life, and it's enough to make you crazy, if you let it.

I can't wrap my head around going out in the woods to murder an animal not for food or training and then going back to a shit office cubicle and constant repression of emotion, and pretending that you 'got it all out'. It's never 'out'. It's part of what we are.

So you get DSL in here, ranting about how killing anything relates to abortions, trying to shock us into empathizing with cell clusters, Otern giving a reasoned but wishy-washy point of view which leans toward total anarchy in the woods, Apeman tying it to bugs because 'something died', and Monte against hunting almost entirely. Carlus is difficult to read, but I think he's coming down on "life is shit deal with it".

All have good points, in a way, but it shows clearly how confused we all are, by what we're supposed to be. I just feel the need to point it out.

We have no good answer for this, and it's been ignored by society for too long, imo. The emotional need to be human is being repressed in our society, and it's leading to bizarre domestic mass shootings, rapes, and other crime. People are literally losing their minds over this - some more than others.

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Good Post

'Life is Shit' not really what I'm getting at, my points are that man is merely an animal, we've removed ourselves from our natural world, and we view nature through the lense of human societal interaction and it doesn't fit. Man is better when he experiences nature, preferably untamed nature. Man is better when he challenges himself. Nature is a great avenue for that, standing in line for the latest iPhone is not.

I'm OK with tribal and primal man, be it Africans hunting elephants, the Makha whales or Jack Donovan wrestling in the mud with his pals.

Right on. But how to reconcile that with our sanitized, PC culture? Can we really exist in both without some of us losing our minds and joining the Tea Party? (Sorry that was just hanging there)

Seriously tho, Cognitive Dissonance kills.

[C-Mag]

+1
Good Post

'Life is Shit' not really what I'm getting at, my points are that man is merely an animal, we've removed ourselves from our natural world, and we view nature through the lense of human societal interaction and it doesn't fit. Man is better when he experiences nature, preferably untamed nature. Man is better when he challenges himself. Nature is a great avenue for that, standing in line for the latest iPhone is not.

I'm OK with tribal and primal man, be it Africans hunting elephants, the Makha whales or Jack Donovan wrestling in the mud with his pals.

Right on. But how to reconcile that with our sanitized, PC culture? Can we really exist in both without some of us losing our minds and joining the Tea Party? (Sorry that was just hanging there)

Seriously tho, Cognitive Dissonance kills.

Tea Party !
Hey, we've got extra Tri-Corn hats and AR's for ya when you come to our side buddy.

It's terribly difficult to find a balance. I guess for me the first thing is, lets leave people alone that are leading old school traditional lives. Really, WTF, why mess with them. Whether it's the last remaining wild tribe in the Amazon or dumbass Bundy grazing cows. Where do we get going after those tiny, miniscule minority of people that are strange and different. To me, it's the same thinking as Ishi appears and we decide he needs to wear our clothes and live in a house.

A buddy mine says there is no hope until we have a big die off, just too many rats in the cage right now.

[SuburbanFarmer]

+1
Good Post

'Life is Shit' not really what I'm getting at, my points are that man is merely an animal, we've removed ourselves from our natural world, and we view nature through the lense of human societal interaction and it doesn't fit. Man is better when he experiences nature, preferably untamed nature. Man is better when he challenges himself. Nature is a great avenue for that, standing in line for the latest iPhone is not.

I'm OK with tribal and primal man, be it Africans hunting elephants, the Makha whales or Jack Donovan wrestling in the mud with his pals.

Right on. But how to reconcile that with our sanitized, PC culture? Can we really exist in both without some of us losing our minds and joining the Tea Party? (Sorry that was just hanging there)

Seriously tho, Cognitive Dissonance kills.

Tea Party !
Hey, we've got extra Tri-Corn hats and AR's for ya when you come to our side buddy.

It's terribly difficult to find a balance. I guess for me the first thing is, lets leave people alone that are leading old school traditional lives. Really, WTF, why mess with them. Whether it's the last remaining wild tribe in the Amazon or dumbass Bundy grazing cows. Where do we get going after those tiny, miniscule minority of people that are strange and different. To me, it's the same thinking as Ishi appears and we decide he needs to wear our clothes and live in a house.

A buddy mine says there is no hope until we have a big die off, just too many rats in the cage right now.

Amazonian tribes are a pretty far cry from an industrial rancher not paying his grazing fees.

[Speaker to Animals]

Nothing has been the same since the Jews killed Harambe.

[C-Mag]

Fire away buddy !

too soon, carlus, too soon

No, it's perfect.

The first thing Irwin said to Harambe,

Kricke, I'm glad you're here.


I was waiting for someone strong enough to pull this bloody thing out of my chest.




Too much ?

[Montegriffo]

It's terribly difficult to find a balance. I guess for me the first thing is, lets leave people alone that are leading old school traditional lives. Really, WTF, why mess with them. Whether it's the last remaining wild tribe in the Amazon or dumbass Bundy grazing cows. Where do we get going after those tiny, miniscule minority of people that are strange and different. To me, it's the same thinking as Ishi appears and we decide he needs to wear our clothes and live in a house.

A buddy mine says there is no hope until we have a big die off, just too many rats in the cage right now.

I think there's a difference between living a traditional tribal life, which I have no problem with, and copying a long lost tribal life to try to return to some notion of traditional hunting long after your society has advanced into the modern world.