What Do You Do When God Is Eating All Your Food?
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You see in Northern India, the place where tigers regularly eat people, the smart, cute, and voracious rhesus macaques is adored. Just like a God, and that’s because in this part of the world that’s precisely what this furry little critter represents: God.
The problem however, is when your God all of a sudden starts competing with you and your family. What a dilemma. After all, you can’t kill God, or can you?
From the BBC:
Imagine you have worked long and hard growing food for your family.
You’ve tended your fields, overcome adverse weather and finally, after months of effort, you are close to harvesting your crop that will keep you in business for a year.
And then God bounds into your field and starts eating it all.
Taking the form of a monkey, God has taken a liking to your crop and is now trampling it, feasting upon it, trashing all your work.
Would you be overjoyed? Would you sigh and accept it as God’s prerogative? Or if it happened year after year, would you finally snap, and throw a stick at God, driving him off or worse?
That’s the dilemma facing farmers each year in northern India.
There, people venerate the rhesus macaque, a small species of monkey.
It is a religious icon in India, culturally revered as a living representative of the Hindu deity Hanuman.
There, people venerate the rhesus macaque, a small species of monkey.
It is a religious icon in India, culturally revered as a living representative of the Hindu deity Hanuman.
But rhesus macaques are also common agricultural pests, which along with some other species are triggering conflict between people and wildlife. The fear is that if such conflicts escalate, people may start to persecute wild animals, eventually threatening their survival.
To better understand the issue, scientists have now studied how farmers react to wild animals that damage their crops in India. Their findings are published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research.
Led by Sindhu Radhakrishna of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India the researchers paid particular attention to the attitudes of farmers to macaques and how they treat them, given the monkey’s special status.
For six months they interviewed farmers living in the Bilaspur district in the outer hills of the Himalayas, in the state of Himachal Pradeshin in northern India.
Farmers were asked about the extent of the damage to their crops, which animal was responsible, and to rank the threat posed to their livelihood by the animals, and how they compared to other threats such as drought or pests.
Read more at the BBC.com…..
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This whole thing is really odd you know. I watched show on Nat. Geo. about elephants being a problem for the Indian farmers also only when the Indian farmers tried to deal with them the elephants trampled the farmers. But I like Jess’ idea. It might solve a lot of problems.
Now you promote godless monkey orgies Jess. Bad enough they could have sex with reckless abandon knowing they wont be blessed with offspring, God’s reward for sex, but they will be subject to His punishment of venereal disease with all the godless screwing they will be doing. The Hindus will be worshipping gods with syphilis woman!
I was stoned as hell last night and was thinking about this all day so I had to go with it. I am all for equality in godless orgies Joe, monkeys or no, I do not discriminate you monkeyist. This is why they already have my asbestos suit waiting in the cloakroom of hell. Although godless monkey orgies is a good name for a band, you should write that down somewhere.
LOL…I made a note of the band name, in the event I will be starting a band anytime soon 🙂
The name of my band was “Discharge.” Make of that whatever you want.
LOL…hey good name dude, provided it wasn’t premature.
Ya gotta love those Hindus 🙂
Ok, so I’ve had a couple of bowls and thought about this article some more. yeah you know what’s coming next is a stream of unfiltered bullshit right out of my ass, get ready. I wonder why they don’t take some of them and give them all slut pills to lower the population of the little god like creatures. It’s not as if they will be an endangered species with the numbers they have and it’s a way more humane thing than killing the greedy little bastards for eating all the food from the poors in the area. Damn religion again, screwing things up. Look ma, stoned as fuck and no typos.
LOL LOL!! Good job Jess 🙂