dudemanflab's Diaryland Diary

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fur and fang and skin

In this dream, I'm on a mountain or a house in high elevation. The porch or cave entrance is high. Snakes thrall around my feet, but I have a knife. And with boldness I chop the head off each one I see. I turn rocks over to kill more. Then I find mountain lions, a mother and two cubs. Someone's above me. "Hurry! Kill it!" but it takes longer than the snakes. The whole time I wonder why I am possessed. Who would want to kill a lion cub?

Then, Janice Trone told me about a dream she had this week. A deer/cow is on the back porch dead/notdead. Her husband sends her out with a rock to kill it so they can eat dinner. She hits it, but not hard enough to kill it, and she repeats the blows again and again, lamenting the suffering she's causing it by taking so long. Finally, it dies.

Here's what I wonder:

If the world became vegetarians would the dreams go away?

Or would we still kill animals in our sleep?

Why does it matter that John the Baptist only ate insects or insect products?

Killing a chicken with my own hands-- Would it bring goodness, or set me against other creatures?

If pigs wrote a Bible would they claim that God created them in his image?

Or

Is the being created in the image of God being able to write "We are created in the image of God"?

(Surely all things are created in the image of God.)

OR

Are we less "Other" to him than the others?

OR

Is God as we/he write/s him/self writing us less other to us/him than the animals?

Why the verbal antics?
(We wrote who we were; we write who we are.)

Is overpopulation a sin?
Is being fruitful being a father?
Multiplying making babies?

If God destroys the earth, why care for it?

Does caring for the earth mean rejection of grace, divine intervention, providence?

(Stop pandering. You are divine intervention.)

Can one tend a grace already given?
Or must it die and be received again?

How much of being for the earth requires I be against humans?

Can a snake eat its tail?
Can a man lick his elbow?

If God is for us then who can be against us?
Do the beasts live as though no one is against them?
If God is for us then why do we still create enemies?

(Knowing won't make you whole, but asking can bring you closer)

10:44 p.m. - October 29, 2007

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