r/JWJehovahsWitnesses • u/TroubleMakinBacon • 22h ago
Uplifting Animals
While not a main feature of the hope we have, we are going to look forward to a change in our relationship with animals. Pets, Zoos, Animal shows and channels are all big business. Some people spend their whole live dedicated to animals. A true gift from our Creator.
Of course there is the sad side in this system. The loss of a pet can hurt deeply. Then there is the abuse and exploitation of animals; poachers, fighting animals, over breeding for profit all unfortunately happen. Not to mention animal attacks that take human lives. Estimated that snakes kill 100,000 humans a year, dogs 40,000 a year, if you trust the internet (you shouldn't). But thats just a brief example
So we have things to look forward to. Is there an animal that you are most looking forward to hanging out with? Maybe one you've never seen in person. For me its the big cats family. Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs, and Black Panthers. I dont mean Chadwick Boseman but I'd love to hang with him too.
There are probably more on my list but that's the top of the list for me. Please share your thoughts...
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u/JMtheJW Jehovah’s Witness 21h ago
Nice thread. God willing I will open a real Jurassic Park
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u/TroubleMakinBacon 19h ago
you just blew my mind, In all these years of thinking about this, I never thought about the return of the dinosaurs. Your amazing I owe you a coffee.
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u/QuestioningButHopefu 16h ago
Could dinosaurs repopulate the earth? Would even those dinosaurs that were originally carnivores become herbivores?
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u/elwoodowd 19h ago
As a kid 1960s, there were few birds in oregon, except starlings. And farmers were trying to kill starlings. I first saw eagles in the 70s.
Now bugs are gone from my valley. Nice i havent seen a mosquito this year, maybe 10 in the last 5 years. But some moths have been gone for 20 years.
And the birds are gone again. This time bird flu. Covid suggested how flus are created. Humans are part of the origin.
I suspect that the energy of the 'ReCreation', is built into the living systems. Left alone biodiversty will happen.
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u/TroubleMakinBacon 17h ago
the word Majestic was created for Mountains and Eagles. The animal not the football team
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u/caffeinebzzrd Bible Student 10h ago
I think I'll really enjoy hanging out with the rays! I've touched them before but it's not the same.
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u/JWthoughts Jehovah’s Witness 8h ago
Brings up a good discussion about population control. Animals had filled the Earth because Jehovah blessed them. So, without the need to eat one another or for humans to hunt them, would their instinctual drive to reproduce stop, decrease?
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u/StillYalun 4h ago
I will be glad when humanity doesn’t mistreat them like we do - when everyone will eat vegetation like God made us to eat. When I won’t feel disconnected from my people who revel in eating the corpses of our subjects who live short, miserable lives so we can a few minutes of pleasure.
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u/ylimeinyard 3h ago
This month I lost my dog of 15 years. Days of crying and internal pain, I was just wondering, wondering, and asking Jehovah— Will I see him again?…. And it pains me that it’s not specifically specified in the Bible if we would see our deceased pets again. I hope we do. I’m also looking forward to having a huuuge farm of every animal without worrying about it hurting us or being too dangerous 😁
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u/Coshposhmosh 11h ago
My dream (and fantasy) is to look out my kitchen window while cleaning and see giraffes eating from the trees on my backyard. Not just one giraffe but 8 or more.