Lion Hunter criticised for killing "beautiful" animal (her words)

[Thunder Bolt]

Yup, John Varty is one who is trying to conserve Tigers in SA as an experiment. But no, they are not indigenous! His website is here http://www.jvbigcats.co.za if you are interested. He and his brother started Londolozi Game Reserve, where Mrs KZN and I went on our honeymoon - LOADS of Leopards.

This is where the problem lies with hunting - yes, there is money to be made from tourists with cameras, but if someone comes along offering them 50,000 dollars or more to shoot a lion, then they do not say no - especially to someone with big tits. That is what Varty is saying about Zambia - they overshot their quotas, no doubt because they were offered big money to do so. But Rhino poaching here is dreadfully bad at the moment, and you can bet that most of it is organised by SA "hunters".

Wow, what a great website. I love tigers and he seems to be doing a great job in his game reserve.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

She kills a black bear with a bow. Quite unbelievable how much pleasure you see her having - and then you see her rolling around on the ground laughing & hugging this dead animal with a big smile on her face.

I'm uncomfortable with anyone who derives PLEASURE from KILLING. No matter what it is they're killing.

There is something psychologically wrong with that.

She and her kind are seriously f.ucked up.

 

[wehatepalace]

She is quite fit though.
I shot some clay pigeons on Saturday. RIP clay pigeon.

 

[Nibble]

That's just not true my friend - Nandi is the vehicle of Lord Shiva, which makes the cow very sacred. They are certainly not killed for meat but maybe out of humane reasons.

We are both right of sorts. The Hindu's stopped killing cows because their milk was too valuable, a myth grew up that it was because they are sacred. It is seen as a strict taboo to kill cows for this reason. The scriptural reason for this obsession with cows and their protection is even stranger. Vedic Sanskrit is not the classical Sanskrit that exists today. It is an older, more difficult form of the language and one of the words for "light" that is used there is "Go." Now Go primarily meant "light," but it also meant "cows." In classical Sanskrit, the word means only the bovine friend. Thus, on the basis of a forgotten meaning of a word, Indian culture has wrapped itself round the protection of the cow and rendered it a sacred taboo. "Protector of the Go," in the Vedas meant the keeper of the light--not a cowherd! And all the admonitions about protecting the Go mean something else altogether, and makes a great deal more sense, too. However, it was too late, and the word came to mean, with all its nuances, cow protection and cow reverence! A change in language renders a single word archaic, but the impact on a society is amazing.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

We are both right of sorts. The Hindu's stopped killing cows because their milk was too valuable, a myth grew up that it was because they are sacred. It is seen as a strict taboo to kill cows for this reason. The scriptural reason for this obsession with cows and their protection is even stranger. Vedic Sanskrit is not the classical Sanskrit that exists today. It is an older, more difficult form of the language and one of the words for "light" that is used there is "Go." Now Go primarily meant "light," but it also meant "cows." In classical Sanskrit, the word means only the bovine friend. Thus, on the basis of a forgotten meaning of a word, Indian culture has wrapped itself round the protection of the cow and rendered it a sacred taboo. "Protector of the Go," in the Vedas meant the keeper of the light--not a cowherd! And all the admonitions about protecting the Go mean something else altogether, and makes a great deal more sense, too. However, it was too late, and the word came to mean, with all its nuances, cow protection and cow reverence! A change in language renders a single word archaic, but the impact on a society is amazing.

Ah very true. I spend a lot of time in a village called Gokarn - literally meaning 'cows ear'. It is one of the 5 holy Shiva sites. Legend has it that Brahma created the Earth but He didn't like it so he allowed Shiva to be born there. The Earth was likened to a cow and the cow's ear was at Gokarn - so Shiva was born out of the cow's ear and went about His destruction and re-creating to improve the Earth. Shiva's Atma Linga is also in Gokarn thanks to Ganapati who tricked The God-King of Sri Lanka who had taken it from Mt Kailash in an attempt to steal Shiva's ultimate power.

I love the stories of the Hindu pantheons and the utter literal, unswerving belief in these stories the local people have.