[Johnny_Lim]

“Earthlings” is some strong Dhamma medicine to remind us on the intense sufferings animals had gone through, are currently going through, and will be going through in future. I often reflect on this…why is it that I can be born a human in this life whereas an animal has to be born an animal? Which god in this universe will create animals to go through such horrific sufferings? I felt really sorry for the animals. In the documentary, the part where it was mentioned that 8.5 million chickens are culled every week in the United States, and that’s chicken alone in one country, let alone the massive varieties of animals out there roaming on Mother Earth. If we were to normalise all beings (say from the smallest ant to the largest whale) to the size of a human being and put everyone on the same level playing field, obviously we need a planet much much larger than our Earth to contain everyone of us! Imagine a mighty creator god were to give us a chance to reborn as a human. All we have to do is to throw a baseball into the crowd and see whether we get to hit on a human being. If we do, bingo, we get to be reborn as a human being again. Otherwise, we will be reborn as an animal. Just by using logical evaluation, from a probability point of view, we can see that the chance of us hitting on a human being is almost zero.