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My one and only hunt .

I was about 10 years old.  We were visiting my grandfather and grandmother in rural Arkansas..   he had a 22 rifle . . I took it into the woods.. saw a rabbit..  shot and missed .. it ran  then stopped  in an attempt to hide..  I saw it .. walked up near to it and shot and missed again .. it ran into the weeds and stopped.. I walked over there, saw it, and shot it..   I hit it and it didn't  run, but it was convulsing. So I shot it several more times .. ..dead ..then I went on looking for something else to kill...going deeper into the woods . .I shot at birds..finally killing one .. i forget the species   but when i walked over to look at it on the ground.. I looked around and  realized that the trees all around  were full of birds of the same species....looking at me ..

this implies that Gaia is present in all consciousness and can control animal behavior.....and that any killing for fun is wrong and that animals belong in tribes and care about each other

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