http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage Reviews and information on Spanish vacation destinations, accomodation, hotels, transport, weather and much more ... Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:07:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage/comment-page-1#comment-7772 Imacynic Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:29 +0000 http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage#comment-7772 On the one hand it does appear to be brutal, merciless, and barbaric. On the other hand, it can be seen as symbolic of the internal struggle within us that we all face since humans are a trinity of divinity, humanity, and beast. I doubt most spectators see this but in the ancient world the myth of Theseus slaying the minotaur and the secret rites of Mithraism (where a bull was slain) were seen as the victory of our higher nature over our lower nature. So, it depends on the state of consciousness of the person. To average man it is barbarism and senseless, but to the conscious individual where the same laws do not apply - it is archetypal and symbolic of the higher order of things since all physical representation is reflection and not reality. Peace. On the one hand it does appear to be brutal, merciless, and barbaric.
On the other hand, it can be seen as symbolic of the internal struggle within us that we all face since humans are a trinity of divinity, humanity, and beast.
I doubt most spectators see this but in the ancient world the myth of Theseus slaying the minotaur and the secret rites of Mithraism (where a bull was slain) were seen as the victory of our higher nature over our lower nature.
So, it depends on the state of consciousness of the person. To average man it is barbarism and senseless, but to the conscious individual where the same laws do not apply – it is archetypal and symbolic of the higher order of things since all physical representation is reflection and not reality.
Peace.

]]> http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage/comment-page-1#comment-7771 ಠ__ಠ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:43:01 +0000 http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage#comment-7771 It is their culture we have NO right to judge or to tell them what to do stop being ethnocentric, for me though its an art coz I am a guy and I love seeing blood (for some reason maybe I need a check up) It is their culture we have NO right to judge or to tell them what to do stop being ethnocentric, for me though its an art coz I am a guy and I love seeing blood (for some reason maybe I need a check up)

]]> http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage/comment-page-1#comment-7770 M Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:45:10 +0000 http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage#comment-7770 Scotgirl--for you, it's a cultural bias to call bullfighting an art. For aficionados of the sport, it's culturally-biased of YOU to pass judgment on it and dismiss it as "barbaric". You're judging it based on the mentality of fuzzy-feeling animal rights activism that has really only arisen in the last 50-100 years or so. Bulls in bullfights face a far less "barbaric" death than bulls who meet their demise in slaughterhouses; and the bulls don't even always die. Some are given a reprieve if they fight well, and some bullfights are no-kill. Bulls who ARE killed are used for meat, so it's not as if they go to waste. They also live better lives up until the point of the bullfight than most cattle do. Realize that your "unbiased" judgments of things you don't understand are anything BUT unbiased. Scotgirl–for you, it’s a cultural bias to call bullfighting an art.
For aficionados of the sport, it’s culturally-biased of YOU to pass judgment on it and dismiss it as “barbaric”. You’re judging it based on the mentality of fuzzy-feeling animal rights activism that has really only arisen in the last 50-100 years or so. Bulls in bullfights face a far less “barbaric” death than bulls who meet their demise in slaughterhouses; and the bulls don’t even always die. Some are given a reprieve if they fight well, and some bullfights are no-kill. Bulls who ARE killed are used for meat, so it’s not as if they go to waste. They also live better lives up until the point of the bullfight than most cattle do.
Realize that your “unbiased” judgments of things you don’t understand are anything BUT unbiased.

]]> http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage/comment-page-1#comment-7769 Spindrif Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:51:19 +0000 http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage#comment-7769 nice rant. nice rant.

]]> http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage/comment-page-1#comment-7768 gertysto Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:58:16 +0000 http://www.spainholidayreviews.com/posts/bullfighting%e2%80%94art-or-outrage#comment-7768 Outrage; how can anyone think this is in any way to be construed as ART???? You take a helpless animal, weaken it with picadors who stab it until it loses a lot of blood, then the brave matador comes out and finishes the dying animal off by stabbing it in the heart but many times misses and stabs it in the lungs. I never feel bad when a matador gets it in the groin,. That is karma. Outrage; how can anyone think this is in any way to be construed as ART???? You take a helpless animal, weaken it with picadors who stab it until it loses a lot of blood, then the brave matador comes out and finishes the dying animal off by stabbing it in the heart but many times misses and stabs it in the lungs. I never feel bad when a matador gets it in the groin,. That is karma.

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