Back when I was just starting out in San Francisco's local advertising industry I used to read all locally produced media, including an advert-only magazine called Common Ground. In addition to the ads for yoga classes, natural clothing, crystal therapy, sex seminars (you need a seminar?), and meditation instruction there were always a couple of ads for places like this. Of all the bogus stuff I read in Common Ground this dolphin garbage always disgusted me the most. At least all the other stuff had people learning from people or spirits, beings equal to or greater than themselves. But the elevation of wild animals to a place of teacher of humans was totally offensive to me. Now I wonder how the dolphin worshipers are taking the news that their gods like to kill their own peaceful spiritual offspring and the peaceful spiritual porpoises, too.
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Don't you just love the adjectives used in the article? "Peace-loving" porpoises and "murders" now take place between species of animals. Oh my gosh, and how could a dolphin kill its young? But people do it every day. Of course, people are not "enlightened" like the dolphin...
Since when have we elevated the dolphin and even the elephant to such spiritual and rational heights? People will believe anything, just repeat whatever regurgitated fact often enough and use the language improperly and people will believe with all of the sad little hearts. Critical thinking is dead.
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