Mordacious

As usual I’ve been tied up with school, work and useless shit. It’s so depressing.

Well, I was feeling fine until I began browsing through DeviantART and I stumbled across =Viviphyd‘s work. It’s a lot of speed paintings, but he has movement mastered. I especially like this peice despite it’s simplicity. Wow, the characters look so alive sometimes, even if their face/clothes are indiscernible. It makes me realize that if I really want to write and draw my own comics, I’d better just PRACTICE and stop worrying about the little things. I mean, seriously, I fucking fret about the shape of the face for a half an hour sometimes; who the hell cares? Just me. I need to get over it and let loose. I need to speed draw/paint, write down all of my ideas and just relax. Maybe I’ll actually end up drawing shit or maybe I’ll end up with something I like.

Anyways, things are alright I suppose. I’m not sad, angry or happy; just kinda okay. Oh. I’m tired, that’s for sure. I’m tired of dealing with customers at work, using fake smiles and talking about shit. Ugh. I got stuck behind some ass at Walgreens this morning, who wouldn’t stop talkin’ to the cashier about some man who shot a 32 pt buck. Just, wow. Sure, I’ll bet the creature was probably beautiful, but it certainly isn’t any longer. It was fucking killed. For what? So people can brag? Stuff it on a wall? Holy crap people, I don’t want to hear how excited you were to hear this news. So shallow. Ugh, I just, I can’t even begin to express my thoughts in words. Honestly, what idiots.

He was so excited about this guy who killed this deer that he had to hold up the whole line just to tell the cashier about it! The hell?

So many people are just stupid and, going back to =Viviphyd’s journal, I realized that I’m tired of dealing with them; they’re so ignorant! And willingly so. I can’t say that I’m perfect, but at least I’m making an effort. I feel like I’m really tuned into some issues, and chances are that I’m deathly ignorant of others. I have my opinions and I stand for them. I’m also open to listening to the opposite side and if it’s compelling, I look into it. In fact, I hear about the opposite side all the time when I’m frank about my opinions.

Seriously, when I’m asked “why are you a vegetarian?” (I constantly get this one), I tell them all my reasons because I’ve really thought it through. I’ll ask them why they eat meat and the only answer they really have is “it tastes good.” It’s not like I’m asking everyone to become vegetarians; I’m asking people to be aware of the consequences of eating meat and to take action against them (if they see it necessary). Animals don’t have to be killed the way that they are; there are better ways to do it and I’d like to see things change. I don’t think “because it tastes good” is a good reason not to take action against the way the animals are being slaughtered.

Fuck. Look at me go. I swear, I was just about to go into animal rights again. I can’t help it. I empathize with them more. They don’t destroy and torture things like the human race does. People are so selfish. They hurt their own, things they deem lower and the world we’re living in. It’s disgusting, and I wish I had somewhere else to go.

I know why I feel shitty; it’s  because I have to live with it, with the idea that everything I do hurts somebody else. Our world is so developed, so molded. Just turning on a light is condoning the destruction of animals and other people. I can’t stop thinking of it and it’s fucking overwhelming. I want to let it go, or crawl off to a hole somewhere.

I don’t know if venting helps or makes it worse sometimes. Though there’s not much else to do right this moment. I guess I’ll try speed drawing or something. Anything to get my mind off in another, more productive, direction.

Kris

Warning: The unedited, graphic version of the Rise Against video “Ready to Fall.”

I suggest you watch it and pass it around; give kids nightmares for all I care. Maybe they’ll learn some respect and empathy, something that most people do not have for animals.

Rise Against – Ready to Fall

A video on animal rights. This needs to be seen. Think of all the genocide, abuse, and torture that people go through every day. Well, it pales in comparison to the pain that billions of animals, seen as insignificant to the ‘superior’ human race, are subjected to. Torn limb from limb, harvested in filthy plants, skinned alive, and treated like garbage, literally. When will we be satisfied with the conveniences that we have, thanks to the suffering of other creatures?

The music video is a good preview of all the videos you can find on the web, documenting the disgusting side of humanity.

It hurts to think that everything we do, thanks to the way society has been molded, kills so many in ways such as this. I feel a darkness deep within my soul, so deep. I feel helpless.

And people wonder why I don’t get along with others,

Kris

P.S.: Some more quotes that helped warm my soul after witnessing for the millionth time, human’s filthy nature:

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.  ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922

The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?”  ~Jeremy Bentham

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?  ~Pierre Troubetzkoy

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.  ~Albert Schweitzer

Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws.  ~U.S. News & World Report, 6 December 1999

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls.  They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal.  There you go.  I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.  ~Ellen DeGeneres

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal.  When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.  ~Joseph Wood Krutch

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons.  They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.  ~Alice Walker

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought:  in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis.  The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.  ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird.  He was laying there and something struck me.  Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.  ~Marv Levy

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out.  Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable.  Of the entire brood, he is the only one… that possesses malice.  He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.  ~Mark Twain

The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule:  we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.  ~Christine Stevens