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(harm none' is the first of the five Buddhist precepts... it directly recommends that you consider the well-being of all sentient beings.... this includes ones' self...)

Interesting tht you should mention it.
if however you have anything to do with Buddhism, no surprise at all that you should mention it - *giggle!* <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

As a Christian, I understand that God commands to "harm none" including yourself because we do not belong to ourselves but to the God that created us.

Well then harming none gives us all something in common then <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

It's nice to find common ground <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Jane

I never doubted it for a second <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

It's all labels... Buddhist, Christian, hindu.... We're all sentient Beings, that's the 'be all and end all of it'... <img src="/images/graemlins/lovers.gif" alt="" />

Hey davey, guess what! You just said "As a Christian, I understand that God commands to "harm none". Well, it's funny you should say that, as I'm sure you wrote in a post earlier that you're a hunter and go around blasting animals to pieces. Well that doesn't sound like you're harmless to me - right matey! I mean, I love your work, but you're a bit scary-chicken-neck* sometimes. I shall say no more. I think we'll just leave it there. Look, are you still reading this - stop it right now! Personally I think people that kill animals for fun should get a ruddy good punch up the trousers!!!! As my mother always used to say "good manners cost nothing"** which is completely true!

* no offence
** which means...oh just look it up

An animal is not a person and if you eat meat you pay someone else to kill an animal for you. I hunt, yes. I eat what I hunt. Animals are not morally equivalent to humans. No big deal.

Actually I'm a vegan, so I don't eat meat.

I realise some people enjoy eating meat, I have no problem with that, but the majority of them don't enjoy stalking, killing and watching the animal die for their plate. You need to be a particularly loathesome type to consider this sort of thing a 'sport'.

Killing is not a sport. The sport is in finding the game. That is why they call it hunting and not killing. The kill is just the harvest. It is not barbaric as many would believe. A sucessful hunter finds the game, stalks, and then makes a clean instant kill with little or no suffering. Poachers are the ones who give hunting a bad name. Much like motorcycle gangs give a bad name to an otherwise wonderful passtime of motorcycling.

Yea you tell the freak! I believe he is Pure Evil.
Anybody who hurts an animal is [email]fu@!ed[/email] in the head.

Game hunting is considered a sport by the mindless 'killers' that participate. And I'm sure they're not all able to make such an expert 'clean instant kill' as you are - plently of animals escape wounded and die with horrible suffering.

What is it that you actually enjoy about it? Is it the element of 'playing god'? Being able to choose which animal lives or dies? If you're such a christian guy, then why not do charitable things with your free time, mission work, stuff like that, rather than stalking through the woods with a gun and blasting apart defenceless animals?

You say you visit this forum to 'spread the word', but you're giving christianity a bad name.