The lion-killing dentist

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Not until he changes "flake" to "flack".

I can be so flacky!

[clackamascoug]

I had an emotional reaction to Brother Cecil's death, because I was aware of him and the tracking project from before. Cecil was a rock star in the Lion world, and his death could be compared to Paul McCartney or Nelson Mandela.

I'll listen to TOTO tonight in tribute.

[Donuthole]

I had an emotional reaction to Brother Cecil's death, because I was aware of him and the tracking project from before. Cecil was a rock star in the Lion world, and his death could be compared to Paul McCartney or Nelson Mandela.

I'll listen to TOTO tonight in tribute.

I am as saddened today as I was the day I learned Paul McCartney died.

[Northwestcoug]

I am as saddened today as I was the day I learned Paul McCartney died.

Wow. I'm shocked. He didn't seem that old. I guess I need to visit the celebrity death thread more often.

[TripletDaddy]

Wow. I'm shocked. He didn't seem that old. I guess I need to visit the celebrity death thread more often.

He would have been 28 IF he were alive when Abbey Road was released.

[Moliere]

I'll consider myself lucky that I can't find anything about this on my FB feed. Looks like I've cleaned up my friends list pretty well.

[Northwestcoug]

He would have been 28 IF he were alive when Abbey Road was released.

[CJF]

Dwight deserves all the flake he gets over that typo.

Most likely not a typo when it is repeated within a couple of sentences.

[dabrockster]

I think Jimmy Kimmel confirmed to me that he is a big fat crybaby.. Seriously. crying over this.. Some people really have their priorities really effed up...

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think Jimmy Kimmel confirmed to me that he is a big fat crybaby.. Seriously. crying over this.. Some people really have their priorities really effed up...

[YOhio]

Did a bleeding heart liberal say the following? No. A prophet of God did.

https://www.lds.org/general-conferen...-live?lang=eng

Now, I also would like to add some of my feelings concerning the unnecessary shedding of blood and destruction of life. I think that every soul should be impressed by the sentiments that have been expressed here by the prophets.

And not less with reference to the killing of innocent birds is the wildlife of our country that live upon the vermin that are indeed enemies to the farmer and to mankind. It is not only wicked to destroy them, it is a shame, in my opinion. I think that this principle should extend not only to the bird life but to the life of all animals. For that purpose I read the scripture where the Lord gave us all the animals. Seemingly, he thought it was important that all these animals be on the earth for our use and encouragement.

President Joseph F. Smith said, “When I visited, a few years ago, the Yellowstone National Park, and saw in the streams and the beautiful lakes, birds swimming quite fearless of man, allowing passers-by to approach them as closely almost as tame birds, and apprehending no fear of them, and when I saw droves of beautiful deer [feeding] along the side of the road, as fearless of the presence of men as any domestic animal, it filled my heart with a degree of peace and joy that seemed to be almost a foretaste of that period hoped for when there shall be none to hurt and none to molest in all the land, especially among all the inhabitants of Zion. These same birds, if they were to visit other regions, inhabited by man, would, on account of their tameness, doubtless become more easily a prey to the gunner. The same may be said of those beautiful creatures—the deer and the antelope. If they should wander out of the park, beyond the protection that is established there for these animals, they would become, of course, an easy prey to those who were seeking their lives. I never could see why a man should be imbued with a blood-thirsty desire to kill and destroy animal life. I have known men—and they still exist among us—who enjoy what is, to them, the ‘sport’ of hunting birds and slaying them by the hundreds, and who will come in after a day’s sport, boasting of how many harmless birds they have had the skill to slaughter, and day after day, during the season when it is lawful for men to hunt and kill (the birds having had a season of protection and not apprehending danger) go out by scores or hundreds, and you may hear their guns early in the morning on the day of the opening, as if great armies had met in battle; and the terrible work of slaughtering the innocent birds goes on.

“I do not believe any man should kill animals or birds unless he needs them for food, and then he should not kill innocent little birds that are not intended for food for man. I think it is wicked for men to thirst in their souls to kill almost everything which possesses animal life. It is wrong, and I have been surprised at prominent men whom I have seen whose very souls seemed to be athirst for the shedding of animal blood.” (Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed., Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1939, pp. 265–66.)

One of the poets stated in this connection:

Take not away the life you cannot give,
For all things have an equal right to live.
—and I might add there also, because God gave it to them, and they were to be used only, as I understand, for food and to supply the needs of men.

It is quite a different matter when a pioneer crossing the plains would kill a buffalo to bring food to his children and his family. There were also those vicious men who would kill buffalo only for their tongues and skins, permitting the life to be sacrificed and the food also to be wasted.

When asked how he governed so many people, the Prophet Joseph Smith said, “I teach them correct principles, and they govern themselves.”

We look to the Prophet Joseph Smith for proper teaching. He said once: “We crossed the Embarras river and encamped on a small branch of the same about one mile west. In pitching my tent we found three massasaugas or prairie rattlesnakes, which the brethren were about to kill, but I said, ‘Let them alone—don’t hurt them! How will the serpent ever lose his venom, while the servants of God possess the same disposition and continue to make war upon it? Men must become harmless, before the brute creation; and when men lose their vicious dispositions and cease to destroy the animal race, the lion and the lamb can dwell together, and the sucking child can play with the serpent in safety.’ The brethren took the serpents carefully on sticks and carried them across the creek. I exhorted the brethren not to kill a serpent, bird, or an animal of any kind during our journey unless it became necessary in order to preserve ourselves from hunger.” (History of the Church, 2:71–72.)

[TripletDaddy]

“We crossed the Embarras river and encamped on a small branch of the same about one mile west. In pitching my tent we found three massasaugas or prairie rattlesnakes, which the brethren were about to kill, but I said, ‘Let them alone—don’t hurt them! How will the serpent ever lose his venom, while the servants of God possess the same disposition and continue to make war upon it? Men must become harmless, before the brute creation; and when men lose their vicious dispositions and cease to destroy the animal race, the lion and the lamb can dwell together, and the sucking child can play with the serpent in safety.’

wow. Super serious camping trip.

[Bo Diddley]

Did a bleeding heart liberal say the following? No. A prophet of God did.

https://www.lds.org/general-conferen...-live?lang=eng

My sidekick here at work is a HUGE hunter. I was asking him not long ago how many animals he's killed. Fish is easily in the thousands, though he doesn't ever eat them. Other animals are also in the thousands if you include small game. But even large game, he's on every hunt you can think of in Utah every year. He knows exactly where to go to hunt whatever is in season, and is very successful.

He's single handedly making a mark on God's creations, no doubt about it. He'd like to go after a lion.

[imanihonjin]

My sidekick here at work is a HUGE hunter. I was asking him not long ago how many animals he's killed. Fish is easily in the thousands, though he doesn't ever eat them. Other animals are also in the thousands if you include small game. But even large game, he's on every hunt you can think of in Utah every year. He knows exactly where to go to hunt whatever is in season, and is very successful.

He's single handedly making a mark on God's creations, no doubt about it. He'd like to go after a lion.

I don't understand this. It is one thing if you are doing it for sustenance, but I don't understand the need to hunt for the sake of trophy killing alone.

[Jeff Lebowski]

My sidekick here at work is a HUGE hunter. I was asking him not long ago how many animals he's killed. Fish is easily in the thousands, though he doesn't ever eat them. Other animals are also in the thousands if you include small game. But even large game, he's on every hunt you can think of in Utah every year. He knows exactly where to go to hunt whatever is in season, and is very successful.

He's single handedly making a mark on God's creations, no doubt about it. He'd like to go after a lion.

What? Why in the hell is he catching and killing fish if he doesn't eat them? Sounds like an a-hole.