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Gadhimai returns
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Sad 
After the last Gadhimai Festival it was hoped that it would be the last. There were regulations and changes that should have been enough. 

https://www.asiaforanimals.com/news/post...urt-ruling

However not all the regulations were implemented. Because there was no proper follow through by the government,  things have built up to the new festival this year. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/world-s-lar...-1.4712474

It is going to be brutal.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/g...21298.html



Work has continued to prevent this years massacre. Various activists groups, in particular, Humane Society International, the Federation of Animal Welfare Nepal, Animal Welfare Network Nepal and People For Animals have all worked hard. 
They did many things like radio and online ads, billboards and street theatre. They have encouraged people to take flowers and seeds as an offering and leave the animals behind. 
The hope is to someday have a bloodless festival.


https://www.hsi.org/animal-slaughter-at-gadhimai/

It doesn't look like this is going to be the year of a bloodless Gadhimai. Last time efforts reduced the slaughter greatly. 
It can only be hoped that the numbers will be lower this year.

People are already there with animals and they have every intention of having them killed. 

It seems impossible to think that people in the 21st century still perform animal sacrifice.
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The concept that killing an innocent animal will somehow placate or even please a deity is so crude and wrong. If they want to please some deity, they would do better to help some suffering animals in need of care and/or medical attention.
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(12-04-2019, 05:56 AM)LPC Wrote: The concept that killing an innocent animal will somehow placate or even please a deity is so crude and wrong. If they want to please some deity, they would do better to help some suffering animals in need of care and/or medical attention.

I agree, LPC. Cruelty and causing suffering is not pleasing to any Soul, and there is so much damage to the one who does those things.

Love, kindness and compassion are the things we should all strive for as they elevate the Soul, and those to whom the kindness is given..
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Quote:The concept that killing an innocent animal will somehow placate or even please a deity is so crude and wrong. If they want to please some deity, they would do better to help some suffering animals in need of care and/or medical attention.
Quote:I agree, LPC. Cruelty and causing suffering is not pleasing to any Soul, and there is so much damage to the one who does those things.

Love, kindness and compassion are the things we should all strive for as they elevate the Soul, and those to whom the kindness is given..


Any so called deity that would be pleased by the killing of an animal is not worthy of our respect let alone our worship.
Why would they think that the worst of human behavior would impress anyone.

The damage to the ones doing the killing or witnessing it, is beyond measure. Look at the faces of the butchers. You can see the damage to their spirits in their eyes and their whole demeanor. Exposing a child to this brutality would do harm that may be irreversible. A whole lifetime of atoning with acts of love and goodness might not be able to bring peace to someone damaged by such an experience.

I don't like to think that anyone is beyond hope, but I doubt that the butchers can be rehumanized and their spirits restored.
They have gone so far from goodness that it is no longer possible for them. Something would have to shock them from their ways.
I can't imagine anything strong enough to overcome their vicious blood lust.

This level of brutality in some way damages all of us. If knowing of goodness uplifts us, then knowing about evil brings us down.
For the sake of all of us, human and animal, this must be stopped.
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