So I come back to this thread thinking that it was a bit narrow of me to decline interest in Jax's interview on a topic I'm into merely because it'd be her views in the center of the discussion, fully intending to read the final two thirds and hopefully contribute with some insightful non-self-centered feedback - and I find that half the conversation thus far has been about me. That is really most unfair towards my excellent intentions.
I'd just like to add that I appreciate most of you, even those I've argued with. I try to reserve my most conflictive side for those known to have a taste for it like Jax and Rockwulf, but that's more because I respect their presumed abilities to take it and dish it back out than because I like them and the things they say less than others. Finding stuff to dislike in people is perfectly easy and equally useless; I try not to bother unless there's nothing else to observe.
Oh, quite. Wanna see what I looked like a few years back as a cute little pigtailed teenage drag princess, taking crappy auto-timer pictures of herself aspiring to some sort of cheap slutty feminine aesthetic to put on the internets?
Uh…its no big deal or anything but i was refering to your post to Morning Glory where you basically said that one of the reasons you keep coming back to CH is because of the animal gore scenes. I think its fair to presume that if you keep coming back for something then you enjoy it on some level.
Something for the record:
I like cannibal holocaust a lot. When I watched the movie the first time I really enjoyed it; mainly for the gore and the music. I didn’t know when I saw it that the animals being killed/mutilated were real. As I said I like the movie but yeh, I’d prefer it if the animals being killed weren’t real. In saying that, i honestly wouldn’t even bring it up in a general discussion of CH but for you to say that one of the reasons you actually like the movie is because there are real animals being killed, well for me that’s questionable. Thats why i posted.
I dont exactly enjoy shooting or gutting deer either. But I love the meat.
Also, every animal that was killed in that movie was eaten (or so I remember reading).
I guess maybe Im a little desensitized to killing animals for food. I mean, when I was younger I lived in Turkey and watched lambs get killed right in front of me, then I ate them. Same for chickens. It wasnt a big deal, they did it right on the side of the road. When I was younger than that I helped degut deer and turtles. And then we ate them.
And Ill tell you something, while death doesnt bother me, when I watch the faces/traces of death series, I cant look when it comes to animal scenes. Sensless killing of animals sickens me. People...not so much. Killing of animals for food? Well, Ive watched the animal Im about to eat get killed. I know where my burgers I buy at the butcher shop come from. When I was in high school and the FFA, we raised calves, kept one and let it mature and three years later wed have a huge BBQ. So at any given time we had 3 steers raised for food on the FFA property. Knowing the calf we were giving milk to was going to be food was hard, but that was their purpose.
Like you, I dont think many people really give a shit.
I dont buy meat from grocery stores. I usually go to local butchers because I know that animal was treated very well up until time of death. They arent stuffed in cages or in small stalls with no opportunity to actually live. Plus, the meat tastes a million times better. Im pretty lucky living where I do, because there are a ton of areas I can drive to within 30 mins where local farmers sell their own produce. Id gladly pay the extra money to support the people who raise their animals humanely and grow their crops without all the crap on them;]
I think if more people actually gave a shit about where their meat came from, conditions for the animals raised for food would improve greatly.
Re: Jax - The Horror and Gore Interview
