Earthlings
have strange customs.
Newborns
are celebrated as lifetime achievements whereby people congratulate each
other, that which occurs in the animal kingdom as ordinary events
resulting from sexual relations between male and female.
Dogs have
babies, cats have babies, pigs have babies, elephants have babies, even mice
have babies, all as a result of sexual relations between male and female. It
happens all the time in the animal kingdom, day in, day out, without fanfare of
any sort. You have sex, the female gets pregnant, a baby is born. Simple as
that. What's all the fuss about? What makes it an achievement of a lifetime?
A kingdom
may have cause to celebrate the royal birth of a son, an heir to the throne,
but who's to say he will rule as wisely as his father did? Who's to say he
won't bring about ruination instead? Is celebrating his royal birth not
presumptuous in such a case? What about all the illegitimate children sired by
the king as happens when a king's sexual appetite overflows from the royal
bedroom into the royal harem? Are they celebrated when they are born? Are they
not swept under the royal carpet as dirty royal secrets instead?
You have
sex, the female gets pregnant, a baby is born. What's so difficult about that?
Happens all the time in the animal kingdom, day in, day out, from the largest
creature to the smallest. What's all the fuss about?
Another
strange custom is celebrating the aging process each year with birthday cakes
and party hats from childhood until old age. What's so joyous about indirectly
celebrating the onset of inevitable death as people approach it with the
passage of time from childhood to old age?
Mighty
strange customs indeed hath earthlings.
