To: LLCF who wrote (23162 ) 3/12/2006 10:43:33 PM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931 And people are so astounded by the 'animalistic' things people can do! Too funny. People have to remember where they 'came from'. And where we are still today ... But it's not all about eat or be eaten , or is it ? Safety in numbers , safety in linked beliefs, safety from the threat of percieved oppressors and foreign invasion into the motherland/holyland and the Father's land . Thru religion those "safety boundries " were extended . In Paternalistic societies the King and the Father were as Gods , so naturally the Creator/God also became the Father/God protecting his chosen valley. All things procede out of Nature and Nature's relationships even "God" not the other way around imo , in nature looked at from the widest of perspectives including past, present and future ...and cosomologically , the most sublime balances are kept . But don't tread where the bears go wildly , or you may be the one who is eaten , but no more than bear we are a mix of proteins , bone & cartilige and sinew every bit as much "food" as they ... maybe perhaps just as "good" a death or better , being eaten than dying on a freeway of roadrage, at least it furthers anothers life . But we continue to in many places to contruct air-tight aluminum boxes in which to protect our remains from the earth , as if to mimic "eternal life". Very strange stuff , but consider the source . Cremation is unthinkable widely across the sects of the monotheist religions . Timothy Treadwell & Amie Huguenard , eaten by Bears:outside.away.com Katmai rangers touched down first. They hiked to a small knob above the camp, but before they could get closer, a large male grizzly approached out of the bushes. Ranger Joel Ellis, flanked by two others standing by with shotguns, fired his pistol 11 times at the lanky brown bear, which fell dead 12 feet away. At the camp, the team found Treadwell's and Huguenard's shoes lined up neatly outside the tent; Treadwell's glasses were still in their case. Then they discovered the couple's partially buried remains nearby, the bodies mostly consumed. As the rangers loaded their plane with the victims' cameras, gear, and remains, a smaller bear approached—too persistently, they thought—and they killed it, too. The Cessna 206 lifted off, leaving Kaflia Bay looking as pristine as it had for thousands of years. After two days of bad weather, authorities returned. The smaller grizzly, a three-year-old, had been eaten by other bears; only its head remained. There was no way to determine if it had fed on the couple's bodies. A necropsy described the larger bear as a thousand-pound, 28-year-old male, reasonably healthy despite the fact that, like many older grizzlies, it had broken teeth. Its stomach contained human flesh and clothing.