For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear? But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear? But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
I had to smile. There's a "type" at large right now declaring their compassion for all creatures, seemingly worse than true-blue commies in that at least communists are consistent, yet spurn the little birds? Who had their heads gnawed off? Multiple heads? Imagine the pain. So much suffering. And birds have a higher body temperature than dogs, sort of like overclocking a computer, everything becoming so much more intense.
Now I'm not suggesting the agony quotient should be on an exponential scale, having divided avian capacity for pain by the lesser capacity of mammals or even lizards (which simply grow body parts back if they're bitten off, seemingly unperturbed) but it could be. When my body temperature is raised, for example, I certainly want to be jabbed with things less than I normally do, which is zero, so dividing by 0 supposedly gives ∞ however my aversion when overclocking (recently I had a cold so it's fresh in my memory) is not infinitely greater than normal. But did we hear a word about the birds?
No.
“What is more distressing (for a dog)?” I wondered. “To be accompanied with a delicious snack to an outdoor fireside, sit there enjoying it, enjoying the warmth, then unannounced a third party fires a rifle in its head (from behind)?” In this case I suppose I'd be the 3rd party, the dog the 2nd party, with the executioner—having initiated the scheme by dint of owning the dog—as the 1st party. But you get the idea: or coercing the wretched animal into a box, driving it somewhere else and getting a 4th party to inject it with poison in an unfamiliar environment? Dogs are not so stupid they wouldn't know something was afoot: I know which I'd prefer!
Comment