Two Cents from Girth said: “Zenesque,
Me too…
Sorry, wont be shamed about how things are… Did not really delve into Religon (such a messy word anymore)at all, I mentioned God! Faith, oneness, communing are a bit different from the generic downgrade of just “Religon” youd have me pettle. With a call name like Zenesque, surely I though you’d get the concept of being away from all the crap, being out in the outdoors far from the constraints of others, have a few moments to reconnect and recharge your outlook. Obviously, all these concepts transend the confines of a narrow term Religion…Very, very devisive and counterproductive huh? Even gave you or others an out with admitting Chrisitans are flawed… do you read or just really wanted to write that to feel sophisitcated and some what superior because someone has the fuzz to mention, oh heavens no, not here, God!?? As if one little sentence would stop all controversy in the besieged “new age mind”. hehehhe
If that is touchy for you, how about placing comments on the other 25 or so sentences instead of writing a half shaming/half warning sentence about a beautiful concept to a vast majority of people who associate with nature and God…??? Idiots, it is not science or God, one is a knowledge of the other. Each explains and compliments the other. Again, duhh…
Is this a new debate, no, will you finally have the true answeres revealed, probally not. Will I feel compelled not to write about this in the future, noooo. So what gets solved?
Just stick with the kitty cats and big men with guns concept if the pond doesnt run that deep…
Dont mean to offend, just a point of view :)”

Ugh! For five years this comment has been allowed to rot on this site and stink up the joint. Keep your apparitions and fairies and let us have intellectual discussions about real, damn interesting things.
Stop trying to poke someone into a Great Debate, please. You’ve apparently not prepared well enough considering the spelling and grammar you have used. Hmm….maybe you aren’t making a case for sky fairies after all.
Maybe you’ll come back to visit the Comments section in another 5 years when you’ve graduated from primary school.

how are we not a part of nature? we are simply surviving and reproducing using the tools nature gave us (mainly that squishy pink thing between our ears) and I dont see the human race being “shaken off” particularly soon… unless we start a nuclear war of course. Populations go through cycles. Eventually our population will stop growing and start declining, but this is a natural cycle, and it will pick up again. This cycle is probably familiar to any high school biology student.

I always ponder statements like this.

You often read similar things about lions and sharks, crocs, plus plenty of other top predators.

If moneys are eaten by big cats, why not humans?

Wild animals will do whatever they need to to survive – who’s to say what’s natural?

The only reason I can think of as to why we are not ‘natural’ prey is that animals have learned to avoid the cunning, reasoning hairless monkey that projects sharp things, perhaps over the course of millions of years.

I think statements like the above come about because we have seen ourselves as separate from nature for so long, and have marked ourselves as different. If an animal kills a human, it is seen as unnatural because we no longer consider ourselves part of nature.

Please forgive the rather disconnected thoughts above, I’m at the tail-end of a migraine.”[/quote]

We are not considered their “natural” prey because a healthy tiger will not go and hunt for humans. They will of course eat us if they are hungry enough, or perhaps they kill a human they consider a threat and decide to not let us go to waste, or as mentioned in the article if they are unable to catch their normal choice of food due to physical impariments. Basically when a tiger goes out hunting he/she is thinking, “mmmm i sure could go for a buffalo right now,” not, “mmm it’s human time!” In fact the only animal that does think this way and will go out of its way to catch and eat a human is the polar bear, so we are in fact the natural prey of something.
PS sorry if someone already replied to this, i havent finished reading all the comments lol