Your average minnow, Photo: sipppingmayflies.com
by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
Do I have a right to life? What are the grounds for making the Yes argument?
Let me ask you: Do you feel that a minnow has a right to life?
A moment ago, I google-searched “minnows are prey”. I instantly got a reply, expecting it to be from Wikipedia but no, the author is named “AI Overview”. Here it is:
“Minnows are prey for many larger animals, including fish, birds, reptiles, and mammals: Most larger fish eat minnows, including trout, pike, stripped bass, and walleyes. Many types of birds eat minnows. Snakes and turtles eat minnows. Some mammals eat minnows. Minnows are a vital part of the aquatic food chain because they eat plants, insects, and other small aquatic organisms, and then become food for larger animals.”
Hmm. In some whole-world sense, the individual minnow — call him Joe Minnow — not only does not have a right to live his life irrespective of any “responsibilities,” he is almost responsible for yielding his life when it is needed!
Don’t worry, I am not going to extrapolate from that to claim that next week if I need your kidney, I have an automatic right to it. Indeed, I won’t be using ordinary moral criteria to talk about the human right to life. My goal is to show that we foolishly proclaim our right to life without looking at the facts of what that “right” is based on.
Back to minnows. They are not lusting for the afterlife — they do attempt to stay alive. AI Overview notes:
“To avoid predators, minnows use a variety of strategies, including Traveling in schools typically groups of 4–6 fish; Hiding in sediment, seagrass, or algae; [and] Moving quickly to avoid predators.” [Plus one another strategy that I will mention later.]
The Homo Sapiens Arrangement
Our favorite species, H sapiens, is surely a part of Nature. It is as predictable as any other mammal in regard to rules of morphology, physiology, reproduction, etc. Also, in social behavior it predictably parallels the animal species that are social — be they penguins, baboons, dolphins, or ants. Such social behaviors may include altruism, group bonding, and intergroup competition.
Oh my, I have just asked my new research assistant, Artificial Intelligence, for “social species.” It replied:
“A social species is a group of animals that are highly interactive with other members of their species and whose psychological well-being is dependent on social interactions. Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures. For example, a mother wasp staying close to her larvae in the nest makes it less likely that parasites will eat the larvae.”
Those creature’s social behavior is innate, of course. The behavioral repertoire looks the same, generation after generation, even for millennia, requiring no culture to keep it going. (Some learning may be needed; the mother prods her kid to do this or that, but in some species a kid is ready at birth to do the whole job.)
What about humans? Is their social behavior innate? A friend of mine in Melbourne, who had recently birthed her first child, said to me “I would throw myself on the tram tracks to save him if I had to.” She expressed amazement at her new-found capacity for unselfishness, total unselfishness!
The Right to Life
Back to this article’s opening question: Do you have a right to life? As we saw, minnows do not particularly have a right to life. Of course they’ve never had the opportunity to think about it. They go with the flow. Still, they do have an underlying protection, the one I promised to mention. It’s sort of a chemical warfare thing. Quoting AI:
“When a minnow is injured or killed, it releases a chemical signal called Schreckstoff, which means “fear substance” in German. Other minnows in the area can detect the chemical and respond by changing their behavior to reduce the risk of predation.”
Let’s remember that word — shreks-toff. Or shrek-stoff. It bespeaks divine intervention. Well not really, but if the human species had such external help (members of our species giving off a death smell, alerting the group to run or hide), I bet we would ascribe it to God.
In the title of this article, I specifically “ruled out” that our oft-cited right to life is divine. But more than that, I do not think we have an actual right to life — therefore it is not divine or anything else. It does not exist.
Picture this, Joe Human is going to be attacked by a predator. Is he bound to stay alive based on some proclaimed “right to life”?
Surveying the whole society, here is how Joe could expect his right to life to materialize:
- He could fight the predator. Likely, the party with the best weapon or skill will prevail.
- He could live in a society where victims-to-be, such as Joe, can call upon others, such as by ringing an alarm, and these may defeat the predator.
- He could live in a society where his right to life is protected by law. Thus, a potential predator may be quite reluctant to prey on him — at least lethally — out of fear of society’s punishment, including the death penalty.
Where does God come into that? Perhaps God created the human species and every other species, using a sort of system, such as natural selection, whereby the whole of Nature would fit together — as it so beautifully does. But God did not promise to every human individual that he or she would be safe from predation.
Should We Give Up?
This article was partly prompted by what appears to me to be a growing resignation of my conspecifics to the fact that we’re all about to die. As in “Ho hum, well you know how it is, guys, there’s probably something up there in the 5G towers that will do the job….”
I’m guessing that this defeatist attitude is based on an unconscious awareness that we are outgunned. It is likely that the 5G towers were erected — rather hastily during the pandemic — without much explanation and public debate.
And, on August 8, 2023, we saw that in Hawaii there was a major kill-off of residents of Maui, without any legal reaction. It was a Ho-hummer like I have never seen before. The predators may have been grabbers of real estate. See Michelle Melendez’ book The Great Maui Land Grab.
(Also, please see my articles on this subject. I became a presidential candidate in the 2024 New Hampshire Republican primary, hoping to run a single-issue campaign on the matter of this genocidal hit on Hawaii, but no one “twigged” on the message. Also, to run against Trump was considered a sacrilege. What anti-patriotism that was!)
The Right to Life of the Other Group
Recapping Joe’s prospects as an individual fighting a predator, or any attacker, I said he could 1. use his own aggression, 2. rely on neighbors backing him up, or 3. put hope in the law. In the United States, in the late 20th century, all three methods were feasible. Today we tend to scoff at Number three — Law — because it isn’t enforced and has all but fallen off the list. It could be brought back by new cultural effort. Of course.
Anyway, though, as a species we have an innate tendency to live in groups. Such groups may have to compete for resources. We do not have biological moral restraint here — there is no instinct to hold back on stealing that group’s stuff or killing them outright.
Hence, if we were to look at a Group’s “right to life,” instead of Joe Human’s right to life, there wouldn’t be a Number Three. A group can use its own aggression and also call for help from allies, but it has no hope (in my opinion) of getting the law to dissuade a group that plans a hit.
Back to the minnows again. The quote above was: “Minnows are a vital part of the aquatic food chain because they eat plants, insects, and other small aquatic organisms, and then become food for larger animals.” Personally, I do not see us having a role “within all of Nature” such that Nature would give us a motive to stop harming other groups. Do you?
Anyway, It’s Private Criminality, Isn’t It?
My guess is that the attackers in Maui, which may have been working from satellites, are American. Certainly you didn’t hear our national government yell “Eeks the Chinese have stuck our westernmost state.” But you also didn’t hear our national government threaten to punish the Americans who did it. This brings up the whole natter of our so-called government not working for us but being toadies or the globalists.
Suddenly the globalists appear to be running everything. Right now, the WHO (World Health Organization, a part of the UN) boasts of its plan to become The Ultimate Boss! And since nations are not saying “WHO, kindly drop dead,” it can be assumed that nations lack the power
Nota bene: Our innate species behavior is not geared up for this! Offhand, it looks as though only Number One on the above list of human protections against predation is currently extant. That is, you can use your own aggression. But Number Two is dead: you can’t ring a bell to call on your group since the leaders of your group are busy kowtowing to this new entity — the globalist club. As for Number Three, Nature never did give humans the means to hold back a foreign aggressor, at least not automatically.
Please don’t say “Bring it to Jesus.” Give Jesus a break. The only way we’re going to get out of the coming catastrophe is by using whatever human talents can come to the fore.
I’ll bet there are some. Please step forward with your portion. If you know how to make some type of Schreckstoff, let us know. You don’t have to be a MIT grad. You only have to be human.
Don’t be shy. Above all, don’t be embarrassed by an accusation that you are unwarrantedly “nervous.” Nervousness could hardly be more warranted — the aggressors at the top say openly that we need to end up with half a billion people instead of today’s 9 billion.
Peeps, there’s trouble at the OK Corral. Get it?
Stop blathering on about your right to life. Wake up. Fix the situation.
Boston is not New York.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E0J_TVOLPoY
Press a button. What do you expect?
Lady Greensleeves?
like saying the gold coast is not Brisbane. Same same. Your not same same Mary, I hold you in deep regard, so hope you know that, so I can keep on going on. agreed your are more pertanent but thats not all – wink
“Bring it to Jesus. Give Jesus a break.”
Well, for once I have to thank you for that.
Worse still when Jesus is implicated in the crimes people commit.
After all we have been through as humans nobody should be in ant doubt that favors from God are an unwarranted kindness.
None the less as we are all human we should not need to justify ourselves to each other either,
so no virtue signalling from me.
“Please don’t say “Bring it to Jesus.” Give Jesus a break. The only way we’re going to get out of the coming catastrophe is by using whatever human talents can come to the fore.”
On the contrary , He may be our only hope . We have the promise on how to handle this and can win by Him should we so desire .
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Oh ye of little faith !
∆ 2 Chronicles 7:14 ∆
off topic — not sure
seems I have been cancelled/censored on gumshoe -maybe for the term of my natural life–maybe something to do with Long Island New York Boston and inter dimensional activity.
However the title activated a response– My right to a life and the three factors???
“Your Right to Life Is Contingent on Three Factors, None of Them Divine”
“Within the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Riteconcordant body of Freemasonry, the Eighteenth Degree is specifically concerned with the rose cross and confers the title of “Knight Rose Croix”. Of one version of the degree, Albert Pike wrote in 1871,
The Degree of Rose Cross teaches three things;—the unity, immutability and goodness of God; the immortality of the Soul; and the ultimate defeat and extinction of evil and wrong and sorrow, by a Redeemer or Messiah, yet to come, if he has not already appeared.[23]
Thomas De Quincey in his work titled; Rosicrucians and Freemasonry, suggested that Freemasonry was possibly an outgrowth of Rosicrucianism.”
This is of interest Mary — A Psychiatrist from Melbourne University – I wonder if she has read “A Brain of My Own” by Wendy Hoffman, or read Steve McMurrays MKULTRA in Australia
The Brain Didn’t Evolve – A Psychiatrist Explains Why
Good vid, ta.
Never lose sight of the difference between knowing and knowing
“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it”:
https://biblehub.com/asv/psalms/139.htm
I don’t read like most, hardly at al, I did buy a Richard Dawkins book, “the dawkins or noahrahrari style one”. It was in the discount bin, two bucks, anywho I bought the book but not the concept, once sped read
I give up on BS.
We are here within of our spirit world to recognise that we know SFA.
Slice a tomato and know! that it screams.
A significant statement by Putin. Wrap your head around it – shit can get real very quickly. – OR, maybe you will just wait for the ‘white hats’ to save you.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/uh-oh-putin-the-united-states-is-a-danger-to-humanity
Protect yourself, nobody else will…
Protect yourself, nobody else will…
I dunno , Democrats seem to care an awful lot about protecting people and their feelings ……..as long as those people are child raping sex offenders
https://tinyurl.com/bdz5dju5
A Special Announcement: Russia, China, Iran and… Aliens? How to Think Through the Psyops
Christopher Steel Steps Back into the Ring: Russia is Behind the Migration Crisis!
Lambs for slaughter.
Unfortunately, most have been brainwashed thinking modern Israel is home for the chosen and that they will be blessed for supporting/sending billions in aid.
For us these blessings include,
a lower standard of living
loss of jobs to free trade globalism
mass immigration
destruction of honest family business
rise of korporate greed monopoly
promotion of filth
progressive rising personal debts
violence murder divorce and rapes
more unemployables
innocents slaughtered in wars
dangerous GM foods
rising inflation
chemtrails and fluoride in water
a bloated medical monopoly
increasing taxes
more billionaires and corrupt politicks tranceforming all into a komunist gulag replacing the middle class with psycho warfare and toxic distractions to accept our own cleansing.
The parable of the fish gathered from the sea represents all seeds. The good fish are gathered for Him and the bad fish are cast away as weeds pulled from the garden.
If everyone knew nothing about religion except this:
The fruits of the spirit of God are: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
There would be no Zionism.
Their fruits are evil, and we all know the difference between good and evil.
Psalm 50:2
“Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.”
Psalm 132:13
“For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.”
Psalm 87:5
“But of Zion it shall be said, ‘This one and that one were born in her’;
And the Most High Himself will establish her.”
Joel 3:16
“The Lord roars from Zion
And utters His voice from Jerusalem,
And the heavens and the earth tremble.
But the Lord is a refuge for His people
And a stronghold to the sons of Israel.”
Isaiah 37:32
“For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”’
1 Peter 2:6
“For this is contained in Scripture:’Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed’”
The Lord that came out of Zion is Jesus, and all are welcome, though he may be regarded as foolishness to the Greek, and a stumbling block to the Jew. Stumbling block He is indeed, because there was never a replacement, only the fulfillment of an old promise. No wonder there is such a flood of resourses redirecting Bible teachings in favor of the new artificial state called Israel. You have every weapon at your disposal but the truth. By all means let the nation find Jesus and become a better version of itself, but don’t endorse the bad things that it does.
Which means in view of the scriptures referenced in my
19 Oct 11:58am comment, you reckon that Christ is going to return to, defend, and rule from an “artificial state”
What apparently don’t get is that there’s no dispute on my behalf that Israel, in it’s current condition, is beset by major issues, that as Art Katz said, the Jews “are not innocent victims” by and large they have very obviously, quote, “failed to desire to be chosen, and to be for God what He has always intended.”
But that has no bearing on the fact that, quote:
“God has made Israel central to all the nations—for the law must go forth out of Zion—or there never will be a turning of swords into ploughshears. Israel is the pivot,
and nations cannot be related, and recognize the boundaries and purposes of God, independent
of their recognition of, and their submission to, the centrality of Israel for all nations.
‘When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.’
(Deuteronomy 32:8)
It is a statement in Scripture that no one ever sees or refers to, and yet it is the center of God’s
design for the nations. There will never be peace and justice in the world until it comes back to
God’s intention as at the first.
‘Thus says the Lord God, “This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with
lands around her.” ‘(Ezekiel 5:5)
This is not just the issue of God’s strategy and design; it is the issue of God as God. That is
why men oppose it. It is not just the way in which He wants real estate to be understood, but
the way in which He wants Himself to be understood, by appointing what He appoints, and choosing what He chooses. Nations want to be autonomous so that they can choose their own
course, and perform their own will, in the seeking of their own glory. The very existence of
Israel in the world is a stubborn reminder of a God whose will they hate. To remove Israel is to remove God’s righteous demand upon them. To blot Israel out from their sight, by the
liquidation of that people, is one of the reasons why Jews have suffered near annihilation in all
their history. They were not innocent victims though, for their own sinful conduct justified the
wrath that has been poured out upon them. Both things are true at the same time. Nations
ventilating their hatred against God, and the fury that comes upon Israel, are exactly Israel’s
deserving in proportion to their sins—not least being their failure to desire to be chosen, and to be for God what He has always intended. The greatest drama of the Last Days (which is already in process) is the attempt to annihilate
Israel by the nations so as to remove God’s very provision for their relatedness to Him. That is
why the “nations rage and take thought against God and His Anointed and want to break their
bands from them” (Psalm 2). If you want to be freed from the requirement of God, as a nation,
in the relationship of nations to God, then you must remove the nation Israel. That explains
why the last drama in history, before the Lord’s coming, is the attempt again to annihilate
Israel, as well as the motive for it.”
https://ia902209.us.archive.org/14/items/ApostolicFoundationByArthurKatz/Apostolic%20Foundation%20by%20Arthur%20Katz.pdf
No I think Antichrist will defend and rule from an artificial state. Christ will not come for any state but for His people. In a previous time His people were called Israel. It will be the end of the world as we know it, and nobody will have to go anywhere to find Him.
“In essence, Replacement theology removes from Israel a national destiny back in the land of Canaan because of her rejection of Jesus and his Messianic credentials. All the biblical statements of Israel enjoying future blessings in the land of Canaan are said to be descriptions of the spiritual blessings that now accrue to the Church. The expectation of a physical kingdom has been spiritualized, taken from Israel, and given to the Gentiles (Matthew 21:43), even though Jesus never denied that the physical kingdom would be restored to Israel (Acts 1:6-7).”
https://www.icej.org/understand-israel/biblical-teachings/the-challenge-of-replacement-theology/
Interesting update from Benjamin Fulford :
https://tinyurl.com/2ev66fdv
I thought I was the only one around here following Fulford.
Yep, always interesting and heaps of fun.
His Judea forecast usually gives the genuine Jews and Palestinians some hope.
Even the silver peasants are smiling this morning……SILVER OVER $A50.00.
Benjamin Fulford claims that Israel no longer exists:
https://benjaminfulford.net/israel-ends-and-us-civil-war-begins/
So how does that tee up with what the bible has to say re Christ’s return:
“The first piece of business for Jesus upon His return will be to deal with those assembled to defeat Israel. Zechariah 14:2 tells us, “I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked.” Revelation 16:14 and 16 tells us that “the battle on the great day of God Almighty” will be in “the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.” The exact location of Armageddon is unclear, as there is no single mountain called “Meggido.” However, interpretation of the term leads to “hill” and most likely the hill country surrounding the plain of Meggido, which is about sixty miles north of Jerusalem.
As soon as Jesus returns to earth, He sets out to defeat this confederation of nations seeking to eliminate His beloved Israel. As mentioned in Zechariah 14, the reason that God draws them together in one place is so He can battle them all at once, a strategy any commanding officer would appreciate. This “battle” isn’t much of a struggle, as Revelation 19:21 describes the enemies of God being “killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse”—Jesus wins the victory by simply speaking. Game, set, match.
After His monumental victory over the attacking nations, Jesus will stand on a specific location. Zechariah 14:4 states, “On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.” The Mount of Olives is a fitting place for Jesus to return. Not only will He be standing on the very mountain where He preached the Olivet Discourse to His disciples, but that is also the place where He ascended into heaven after His resurrection (Acts 1:1–10).”
https://www.gotquestions.org/where-will-Jesus-return.html
As would be expected, none of his Freemason-facilitated claims line up with this either:
“all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory”
https://biblehub.com/matthew/24-30.htm
I notice that you prefer modern Bible commentators. Bible hub uses Mathew Henry sometimes, but few other old ones. I have searched your verses in older commentaries but they match Israel prophesies with other historical events. Were they all freemasons? I doubt it. Freemasonry is a watered down system of Judaism.
“you prefer modern Bible commentators”
A conclusion that’s based on ?
There’s actually no record of my referencing any bible commentaries , “Got Questions” is simply a parachurch ministry:
https://www.gotquestions.org/about.html
Bible hub is nothing more than a compilation of different bible translations and commentaries, it doesn’t “use” any particular one
My reference to “Freemason-facilitated claims” was obviously in relation to the Benjamin Fulford write-up I posted, quote, “P3 Freemasons”, a write-up that, in my view, is total woo woo
Right to life contingent on three factors – perhaps beans, bullets and bullion.
Crikey, silver over $50, I didn’t catch that. However, gold is up, doing the conversion rate it is A$4,185.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/gold-panic-has-begun/
Well Terry, (Mr Sixpence!) we cannot fix stupid we have been saying it for at least two years
Houses too going up, as did petrol originally to “ignite” the inflation, none of which is true, it’s an inversion because the dollar is in freefall and working-class incomes along with it.
Yesterday I saw something like:
the boss of the cops got an 8% pay rise while the cops got 1.5%
Typical, the guys that do the work get a pittance while the ones with the ‘pull’ get more. That will only keep going until it won’t.
“It’s not a Love story, it’s business.”
Wendy, last year.
Should I believe this ?
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/australia-faces-population-collapse-as-fertility-rate-hits-record-low-and-excess-deaths-soar/
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With society going fully electrical, it leaves people vulnerable to a power outage. Cuba just ran into that problem.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/the-country-just-went-dark-cuba-faces-major-power-crisis-after-antonio-guiteras-plant-fails-affecting-millions/
Here in Australia we also face the same potential issue. – I bought another kerosene lantern today from a second hand shop. I’ve got four big lanterns and three small lanterns. If the electrical power goes out, I’ve got lanterns for my neighbors.
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This comment turned up in the wrong place. It is my reply to EB at 5:10pm:
No I think Antichrist will defend and rule from an artificial state. Christ will not come for any state but for His people. In a previous time His people were called Israel. It will be the end of the world as we know it, and nobody will have to go anywhere to find Him.
The bible actually refers to a “kingdom”, a place in which “the government will be on His shoulder”:
https://biblehub.com/kjv/isaiah/9.htm
The argument that said passage is purely figurative is belied by the previous chapter in the same book:
https://biblehub.com/kjv/isaiah/8.htm
Yes, according to other sources and archaeological records the respective Assyrian invasion did take place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_siege_of_Jerusalem
I’ve just been eating my recent batch of sauerkraut. Not only is it more nutritious, but it tastes better than commercial sauerkraut. Now I have to plant more cabbages and start producing more kraut. Crikey, what a discovery!