TESTING ONE, TWO, THREE

Hello Lindesfarne,

glad that you have made contact with us, or us to you whichever you view as appropriate. I have to argue against some of my other posters in that how your world may seem better without humans, since we seem to be facing the same problems reguardless of a my species existance or not. I have had the privledge of viewing you and your family from afar and noticed that you too have a problem with global warming, war, and the wastes generated from the development of society. While some one our side would blame these things on humanity, it seems that the blame (or perhaps source is a better word) of these problems are from the fact that we are both sentient beings having developed in world steeped in conflict, occupantes of dynamic planets with climates that have, can, and will change reguardless of our existance, and live in societies that have developed to a point in which the materials we generate to exist do not decay readily or harmlessly. I have also noticed that several members of your species live inside living trees and are able to form their homes within. Sadly this is an impossibility here on this version of Earth as no tree exists which can support human habitation within so we use them as building material for our homes. This may seem almost scandlous for a species to do this, but for us we are only using the resources available to survive in environments that don't care for our own existance. On another topic I have noticed that while your society has developed on the basis of diet, our societies have been based off of such things as religion, amount of relative wealth, and sociopolitical tradition. Another thing that you may find odd is that since the human race is the only sentient one on this planet there is no hunting of other intellegent races to support diet (at least for a majority of the earth), in fact the idea of eating another intellegent races' flesh would be considered canabalism and therefore a crime and a sin from certain theological points of view. This is not to say that humans do not kill one another outside of war. Sadly murder has been all to common in our past, present, and most likely our future. However, it is a serious crime that can be punished by state-sanctioned exicution or encarseration depending on the rullings of the court involved in procecuting the case. On the subject of human physical limitations: while from your prosective they may seem detremental an incapable of surviving your world, it has forced us (humans) to develop technology to provide and defend ourselves. Where predators from your world look down on such things as guns, here they are an everday tool of some peoples lives and the use and expertice in them is veiwed by some, including myself, as source of historic and cultural pride. The lack of certain physical tools as claws has also forced us to develop simple tools such knives and axes, and later into more complex devices such as computers and similar items of equal technology. Getting back to the topic of food, humans are ominvores as you know but different from all other animals of our planet in that we cultivate, grow, and maintain our own food supplies through either domestication of other animals or growing of plants and certain fungus. I'm not sure how different this may seem to you but, at least in my culture, great care is given to the nonsentient animals which we share the world with. This includes our household pets, and well as caring for animals that are outside of our homes. While it is true that we kill creatures for food, sport, clothing, and other reasons, it is not uncommon for a human (myself included) to see a wounded animal and take pity on it so that they are willing to take the animal to a vet for no other reason that in feels right. I have seen citizens of your world show more baser natures and kill a wounded sentient being for food. I understand that such is the way of nature on your world, and a certainty on a planet in which each living organism seems to be sentient, but from my standpoint at least that would be sickening. Again, this is probably due to the fact that humanity is the only sentient lifeform on this version of earth and tries to hold itself above those nonsentient among us. And important consept to understand about humanity is that we view ourselves either rightly or wrongly as masters of this planet and the resources thereof. For some that means to exploit them for self benifit reguardless of consequences and causing all sorts of problems, for others it means that we should be living in a manner of our ancient ansestors reguardless of consiquences and causing just as many problems, but to many more it is and understanding that we should use the resouces available to us by Devine Provedence to better the lives of our fellow man but having the personal responcibility not to abuse these gifts such that they will be able to be enjoyed by our heirs and that they too may pass it down to their childern. I hope that this has shown some light on the differences between your and our world without sounding judgemental to those differneces. As to how I have the ability to state these assurtions, I am a graduated Geologist from a top university of our world with backgrounds in World History and American History as well as a a lifelong absession in Paleontology and Paleobiology currently employed in the field of petroleum exploration in the great State of North Dakota, so I believe that I have some understanding as to what I am talking about. I hope that you have a better understanding of my planet and that this will be of use to you in the future.