Chapter 0

This next post is to hopefully get out there, educate some people and maybe help me take a journey into why I believe in it again. This time I am stepping away from my home, my neighborhood, religion and our soap boxes for finance. This time I am lending my voice to the ones who don't necessarily have one. Although they can speak we just don't understand it, and that seems to be a big part of what is wrong with us as people, if we don't understand something we are either afraid of it or we think we are better than it. Ego. We are all a victim of it, I know I haven't been the best person I could be my whole life, but nor have I been truly all that bad. Once we take a step away from ourselves and try and understand what we really are in the scheme of things, hopefully we can all appreciate other beings a little more. We are not our bank accounts, we are not our jobs, those things while nice are just an appendage of our abilities gifted to us. But what we don't understand is that all beings have these abilities and gifts, everything has a purpose. So in this story I will try and change some minds, or at least try and get it out there more.

Today, there is an atrocity going on. It, one of many, has been going on for some time now, roughly 20 years or more. I could get detailed and site a bunch of sources but I am merely writing on my beliefs and emotions so we will just stick to rough facts. In a small village in Taiji Japan there is an annual "hunt" that occurs. This so called "hunt" is more of a slaughter, and has always been. Upwards of two thousand dolphins are slaughtered there every year, not to mention whales. They have had many claim to why they do it, some sources say it is a cultural thing, but many Japanese know nothing about it. Some say it is for the meat, but many sources have documented that Dolphin meat is very toxic as it is way above the line for healthy consumption in mercury. So, with all these claims as to why they do it, so far they don't add up. One claim was the Dolphins eat to much fish and they need to remove some of the Dolphins in order to up there fishing, well seems to me, and many others that we have eaten to much fish. If you look at the numbers since man started fishing, we have definitely had our fair share. So again that does not add up. Other places such as Denmark are open about it being a cultural passage from boy into man when they carelessly slaughter every Dolphin they can get there hands on. Not that it would make things any better if Japan said this. Needless to say these things need to stop, are we not anywhere closer to an intellectual lifestyle and further from a barbaric one. These old practices of killing things to prove we are no longer children only shows to the world that you are still children in the purest form.

My opinions and statements are merely my own, maybe shared with a handful of human beings but are still my words. I am not "God", I don't see the future and foresee what might be if we continue down this path of terrestrial and aquatic destruction. I mean it is clear that if we kill of species that belong there, that serve a purpose whether we see it or not things will change. Not truly for the better as we believe everything will as long as we keep praying. Well I can go off in many different directions with this one but let's stay close to the path.

I, myself, am in the process of getting signed up and fundraising to be able to go to Taiji "The Cove" and protest in person. I can spend my entire life writing about these things but if I never get over there and see it in person then I don't feel my words hold much ground. I have a strong passion for it, and I follow what goes on there but if I am not there at least once in my life then I am just speaking on someone else's facts or opinions. I am aiming for the end of this year, assuming I can raise the proper funding to get over there and be able to live for a few months there. Also hope to record some of the "hunt", maybe interview some people there and just get a broader sense of the story. This will be a very epic chapter of my life, with maybe some scraped skin, many tears and a truly broken heart. This should be the defining chapter of my life, who I am, and who I truly aim to be. And hopefully through my story I can carve a path for our youth to take hold of this world from the grasp of the elders, the grasp of the ones slowly trying to destroy it. May we save all animals from the abuse of man, may we restore the trees to their home and give life back to these cultures, may we live within our means and stop thinking of money as the ultimate thing in life. "Pay it forward"