INCONCEIVABLE TRUE EXAMPLES OF CAUSALITY —KILLING ANIMALS
My family name is Chen. I live in Chiayi, Taiwan. Recently, I have
heard about some stories of people cruelly killing animals and then
encountering horrible retributions. I have no way to forget them from my
memory. Therefore, I wanted very much to put these incidents into
writing, to cause people in the world to raise their vigilance.
The first one was told recently by a friend of mine living in Sihu.
It was about a deceased old farmer who was his next-door neighbor.
While he was alive and making living from farming in the past, he often
spread his harvested grains in his yard to dry under the sun. Sometimes,
chickens and ducks of his neighbors came to eat the grains. This farmer
was very furious to see that and immediately used a bamboo stick to
expel them. However, the chickens and ducks still came to steal the food
when he was not around. Due to his anger, this neighbor used a big
fishing net to catch the chickens and ducks which stole food. Whenever
he caught any of them, this farmer would break one leg of each of them
by brutal force. Thus, those chickens and ducks would be in a miserable
state of unable to walk. Since he was using such cruel means, many
people tried to persuade him not to crucify animals in this way.
However, he was still stubbornly indifferent and continued his acts. No
one could have imagined that a few years later, this farmer was suddenly
no longer able to walk. His two feet started to swell and then the
muscles began to putrefy. The tremendous pain that he was experiencing
often caused him to scream miserably. Although he looked for treatment
everywhere and even tried to seek help from divination and other
alternatives of spiritual power, there seemed to be no effect from any
of these. He suffered in such torment for six years or more before he
passed away.
According to many neighbors, during the last several months of his
life, the farmer often shouted while on his sickbed, “Shoo! Shoo!”
Meanwhile, his hands were also making the movement of pushing animals
away. When people asked what he was doing, he said that he “saw” a group
of chickens and ducks with broken legs coming and surrounding him.
Moreover, each of them used its sharp and hard beak to hit and bite his
legs, causing the skin and muscle on his legs to break and bleed and
bringing him tremendous pain. That was why he had to often wave his
hands and shout loudly to try to get rid of them. Unfortunately, such
efforts were all futile and useless. Not long after, this farmer ended
his miserable life under the torment of such pain and suffering.
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