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Otac Isaija Jokić već 12 godina u mantiji spasava pse i mačke, pomazuje ih, a mnogi vernici njegovim službama u manastiru Ilinje prisustvuju zajedno sa svojim ljubimcima U prepunoj maloj crkvi je toplo, više od stotinu vernika iz različitih krajeva Srbije, ali i Republike Srpske, došlo je na službu Svetog tajnog jeleosvećenja. U manastiru Ilinje kod Bogatića otac Isaija čita jevanđelja, a potom sa svojim pomoćnicima pomazuje vernike osvećenim uljem. Među prvima je pomazao slepo mače, dok mu je kod nogu kuca Asija, koju je čovek udario tako jako da je postala invalid. Dobro ste pročitali, pas i mačka su u crkvi i otac Isaija ih pomazuje. Na isti način kao i vernike u ljudskom obliku. Jer i naši ljubimci su božja bića. Ako mene pitate - mnogo čistija od ljudi. Nešto kasnije ću se vratiti na samu službu. Želela sam samo da pokušam da vam dočaram tu divotu - životinje i ljudi zajedno na službi u crkvi. Baš onako kako bi i trebalo da bude. Tu je bilo još nekoliko pasa koje su vernici doveli sa sobom i tokom dva sata, koliko je trajalo jeleosvećenje, niko od njih se nije čuo, a kamoli neku štetu napravio. Mirno su sedeli, ležali tik do svojih ljudskih prijatelja. Jedino je slepa maca Stefan, kojoj su i prednje šapice deformisane, bila u rukama. Savršeno mirna i vesela... ŠUMA SMRTI - Punih 12 godina spasavamo životinje i udomljavamo ih. Mnogi vernici dođu autobusima, oduševe se ovim divnim psima i usvoje ih. Neki dođu i po drugog, trećeg... Nažalost, mnogi ljudi iz ovog kraja pse i dalje nazivaju džukelama i ophode se prema njima sa nepoštovanjem. Ili još gore, tuku ih, muče... Misle da je pas za lanac i koru hleba. Kad im više ne trebaju ili kada su na izdisaju, samo ih puste i onda ti isti ljudi dođu u crkvu. To nisu pravi vernici. Pravi vernik neće povrediti drugo biće - mirnim glasom govori otac Isaija, koji je u mantiji mnogo puta išao do "šume smrti", mesta nadomak manastira gde ljudi prosto bace životinje. Kao kesu đubreta. Samo istovare i produže... Užasna jeza me je prošla telom dok sam ovo slušala. Ali i od goreg ima gore... TOLIKO LJUBAVI - Našli smo mrtvu majku koja je, kako bi zaštitila štence od lovaca, primila metak. Lovcima je u Prnjavoru normalno da ubijaju napuštene pse. Sreća je ipak ta što nas posećuje dosta dece i što je dosta dece koja su ovde dolazila i koja i dalje dolaze u međuvremenu odraslo i sa ljubavlju se ophode prema životinjama. Znaju kako se koji pas zove, koji je bio bolestan, stalo im je. Oni će izrasti u prave ljude - mirnim glasom govori otac. Na pitanje koliko njih brine o četvoronošcima ovde, odgovara: - Troje. Nas troje im čistimo, kuvamo hranu, ponekad dodamo granule... Imali smo ranije i mačke, ali smo ih izmestili u kuću van manastira. Bile su uznemirene zbog pasa. Sada im je mnogo bolje. Toliko ljubavi i blagosti na jednom mestu ne pamtim kada sam osetila. I ne preterujem kada kažem da se u svakom kutku manastirskog imanja zna za red. Svaka pas ima svoje mesto, svi se slažu. Pomoć otac ne traži, ali ako žele, vernici i putnici-namernici mogu doneti hranu za životinje, poigrati se sa njima... Bar toliko im svi mi dugujemo. Radost uprkos bolu Otac Isaija kaže da mnogo pasa udome, ali i da ima onih koji će zauvek ostati u manastiru Ilinje. - To su invalidi. To je ovaj pekinezer, kome je izbijeno oko. To je Asija, kojoj je prednja noga unakažena. Većina ljudi posmatra životinju kao celinu i nije spremna na dodatnu "žrtvu" i posvećenost koju iziskuju invalidne životinje - naglašava otac. Na pitanje zbog čega je Asija uvek na predavanjima i među vernicima tokom i posle jeleosvećenja, nastojatelj manastira odgovara: - Ljudi treba da vide šta su joj učinili! I nikada da ne zaborave. Ali uprkos svom zlu koje su joj naneli, ona i dalje maše repom kada vidi čoveka. Raduje mu se. Od nje mnogi treba da uče... Samo kukavice tuku slabije - Niki je pas koji je tako jako udaren u kičmu da više nije mogao hodati. Operisan je tri puta i, na sreću, oporavio se. Ponovo hoda. Ti koji tuku životinje udariće i ženu, dete... To su agresivni, prazni ljudi koji ne znaju kako nešto da dobiju na jedan normalan način, pa primenjuju silu. Žele da pokažu koliko su moćni, a zapravo su najnemoćniji. Slabije od sebe maltretiraju samo kukavice - priča otac Isaija dok mazi pekinezera koji je od udarca nogom ostao bez oka. Šta je jeleosvećenje U Svetoj tajni jeleosvećenja Bog Duh sveti silazi u pomoć kada se život čovečji nađe u velikoj nevolji i opasnosti od bolesti i nemoći. Cilj ove Svete tajne je opraštanje grehova i povratak zdravlja obolelog Sastoji se iz molitvi sveštenika i pomazivanja bolesnika osvećenim uljem Kroz ulje deluje božja blagodat za ozdravljenje bolesnika, a bolest ovde podrazumeva oboljenje duše ili tela Sveta tajna jeleosvećenja se može ponavljati više puta Na njoj mogu učestvovati (po potrebi i više puta godišnje) svi verni, a osveštano ulje i brašno može koristiti svaki pravoslavno kršten i miropomazan vernik O manastiru Ilinje Manastir je posvećen Svetom proroku Iliji Sagrađen je 1983. godine na imanju bračnog para Lacković Po blagoslovu episkopa šabačkog gospodina Lavrentija, 2006. za nastrojatelja postavljen je otac Isaija, a 2010. proizveden u čin Igumana Njegovim dolaskom pokrenut je duhovni život u manastiru, a počeli su i značajni radovi na dovršenju manastirske crkve i uređenju čitavog kompleksa Adaptiran je i osposobljen stari konak za smeštaj monaštva, bolesnih i gostiju Zbog velikog broja poseta podignut je novi konak i sala za prijem Manastir Ilinje je mesto gde vernici sve češće dolaze da traže duhovni mir i utočište, ozdravljenje, spas za bolesne i oproštaj grehova Ovaj manastir postao je i mesto gde se ljudi leče od bolesti zavisnosti SVETO MESTO KOD BOGATIĆA: Manastir u kome životinje pronalaze spas od ljudi WWW.REPUBLIKA.RS Otac Isaija Jokić već 12 godina u mantiji spasava pse i mačke, pomazuje ih, a mnogi vernici njegovim službama u manastiru Ilinje prisustvuju zajedno sa svojim ljubimcima

Emergency Podcast: Trump’s Chance To Reshape The Supreme Court MAY 18, 2018, AT 10:25 AM Humans Are Dumb At Figuring Out How Smart Animals Are And that has major implications for what rights we think they’re owed. By Maggie Koerth-Baker Filed under Animals Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was trained in American Sign Language in the 1970s, makes a gesture interpreted as the sign for “drink.” JERRY MOSEY / AP If an animal is smart enough, should we treat it like a human? An abstract question, but one that found its way into a courtroom recently. A case bidding for consideration by the New York State Court of Appeals sought to extend the legal concept of habeas corpus — which allows a person to petition a court for freedom from unlawful imprisonment — to cover two privately-owned chimpanzees. The case for giving the chimps a human right like freedom from unlawful incarceration is based on their similarity to humans — they can think, feel and plan, argue the people bringing the case on behalf of the chimpanzees, so shouldn’t they have some guarantees of liberty? The court declined to hear the case, but one judge did say that some highly intelligent animals probably should be treated more like people and less like property. It’s just one judge, but you hear this kind of thing a lot from animal rights activists. The Nonhuman Rights Project, the nonprofit behind the habeas corpus lawsuit, has a stated goal of securing increased, human-like rights for great apes, elephants, dolphins and whales — highly intelligent, charismatic mammals. So, does a chimpanzee deserve more rights than, say, a pigeon? The logic that leads to “yes” is clear enough, but putting it into practice would be tough, scientists say. Because when it comes to measuring intelligence, we’re actually a little dumb. One of the problems: Animals don’t stack up the way you’d expect. “[Pigeons have] knocked our socks off in our own lab and other people’s labs in terms of what they can do,” said Edward Wasserman, a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Iowa. “Pigeons can blow the doors off monkeys in some tasks.” Experts who study animal intelligence across species say we can’t rank animals by their smarts — scientists don’t even try anymore — which means there’s no objective way to determine which animals would deserve more human-like rights. A little more than 100 years ago, scientists started to amass the data necessary to prove that animals had real, independent minds. But everyone still assumed that you could, with the right set of tests, line animals up in a great chain of relative intelligence. Chimpanzees somewhere near the top. Earthworms somewhere near the bottom. Offer respect accordingly. For most of the 20th century, Wasserman told me, the field of comparative psychology was dedicated to building the blueprints for this ladder. Researchers developed various tests meant to be the universal test of animal intelligence … and then were disappointed when they invariably proved less universal than hoped. “Learning sets” are a great example of this. First developed by Harry Harlow — the psychologist probably best known for traumatizing baby monkeyswith surrogate mothers made of wire — learning sets were, essentially, a test of how well a subject could learn to learn. Scientists might give an animal the choice of two doors to open, one of which had food hidden behind it. Then they’d do the same test, over and over, always with the food behind the same door. The animals t that figured out the game fastest were deemed to learn the best. Humans did better at this than chimps, Wasserman said, and chimps did better than rhesus monkeys, which did better than bush babies (a tiny primate native to Africa). It looked like some kind of cross-species hierarchy of IQ was emerging out of the data. “But then people studied blue jays and I’ll be damned if the blue jays didn’t look better than half the mammals tested,” he said. By 1969, scientists began to abandon the idea that organizing animal intelligence into a hierarchy even made sense. “I don’t know any comparative psychologist who even likes the word ‘smart’ or ‘intelligent’ in talking about animals,” said Kristin Andrews, a philosophy professor and cognitive scientist at York University who studies animal minds and ethics. “They just aren’t helpful.” Scientists know animals are capable of demonstrating an array of cognitive skills, and there are some skills that some animals are better at than others. But the problem is that a hierarchy assumes all animals (including humans) evolved for the same environment. And that just isn’t true. Animals are smart in the ways they need to be smart, Andrews said. And because environment and needs differ by animal, trying to rank them is futile. If a polar bear has different skills than an octopus, does that mean one is smarter than other — or does it just mean the ocean is different from an iceberg? Instead, comparative psychologists now use a range of tests to understand different kinds of abilities. And, on some of these tests, animals do better than people. Birds and mice, for instance, both do better than people on tests of how quickly an individual can navigate a maze and remember the locations of objects, said Louis Matzel, a psychology professor at Rutgers. That doesn’t mean those mice are smarter than men. It just means that’s a skill their species had more need of. Another barrier to sorting through the whole animal kingdom’s brainpower: There are a ton of animals. Some animals have been put through whole batteries of tests, while others have scarcely been studied, Wasserman said. Dolphins really are phenomenally intelligent, he told me, able to switch quickly between skills and demonstrate a range of abilities. But, he said, we don’t have enough data to know whether this ability is rare. “We’ve been studying task-switching in pigeons, and they’re pretty good, too,” he said. All of this complicates the idea of tying animal rights to intelligence. At the very least, it means you can’t decide to bestow personhood on only someanimals. There’s no scientifically valid way to determine should be in or out of the club. Meanwhile, Andrews said, the legal side of the animal rights world isn’t really having discussions about the ladder of intelligence — or lack thereof — with the scientists who study the way animals think. As a result, there’s a risk of creating a new legal framework built on pseudoscience. She’d like research to build legal and ethical structures around how animal brains work, addressing the different needs and behaviors of different species. For instance, she said, we already know that pigs need to be challenged and entertained when they’re held in captivity. If that doesn’t happen, they get stressed out. And that’s something even the meat industry is interested in because stressed-out pigs don’t taste as good. Wasserman echoed that perspective. It’s useless to extend human rights to animals, he told me, because that’s inevitably going to be based on a hierarchy model of intelligence. Instead, we should be giving animals animal rights — starting with the right to a wild habitat. The biggest threat to any species is habitat destruction, he said. So he suggested we start there, and give each species the right to its native place to live, instead of trying to attach human rights to something that is not human. “How about we accord other species the respect they deserve?” Wasserman said. Maggie Koerth-Baker is a senior science writer for FiveThirtyEight.

Životinje mogu da osete hemijske promene u podzemnim vodama koje se dogode uoči zemljotresa, što bi, kažu naučnici, moglo da objasni bizarno ponašanje životinja pre katastrofe. Tim naučnika istraživao je ove hemijske efekte nakon što su videli koloniju žaba kako beži iz svoje bare u italijanskom gradu Akvila, svega nekoliko dana pre zemljotresa 2009, prenosi Bi-Bi-Si (BBC). Naučnici navode da stene u zemljinoj kori navodno ispuštaju čestice koje reaguju u kontaktu sa podzemnim vodama i životinje koje žive u blizini mogu da osete te promene i tako “predvide” kada će stene “skliznuti” i izazvati zemljotres. Tim, predvođen naučnicima sa britanskog Otvorenog univerziteta, nada se da će njihova hipoteza inspirisati biologe i geologe da zajedno rade kako bi otkrili na koji način životinje mogu da pomognu ljudima da vide neke od znakova zemljotresa koji sledi. Žabe iz Akvile nisu prvi primer čudnog ponašanja životinja pre velikih seizmičkih događaja. Kroz istoriju su se pojavljivali izveštaji o zmijama, žabama i ribama koje su se neobično ponašale pre zemljotresa. U Kini 1975. godine ljudi su primetili veliki broj zmija kako izlaze iz svojih skrovišta mesec dana pre nego što je zemljotres pogodio Haičeng. Ovo je bilo naoročito neobično jer su zmije izašle tokom zime kada hiberniraju i kada je izlazak na temperature ispod nule sigurna smrt za ove reptile. Ono što predstavlja problem je što su zaista veliki zemljotresi prilično retki tako da je nemoguće proučavati događaje koji ih najavljuju. Naučnici se, međutim, nadaju da će žabe iz Akvile pomoći u tome. Biolog Rejčel Grant proučavala je akvilsku koloniju žaba za svoj doktorat. Prema njenim rečima stotinak žaba je za tri dana potpuno nestalo iz svoje bare a nekoliko dana kasnije usledio je zemljotres. Ona je svoje obzervacije objavila u “Žurnalu zoologije” i nekoliko dana posle toga usledio je poziv iz američke svemirske agencije NASA koja je proučavala hemijske promene koje se dogode kada su stene pod velikim stresom i koji su se pitali da li su te promene povezane sa masovnim egzodusom žaba. Njihovi laboratorijski testovi sada su potvrdili da ove promene ne samo što su povezane, već da zemljina kora direktno utiče na hemijski sastav bare u kojoj su žabe živele u to vreme. Naučnici sada rade na temeljnom testiranju mehanizma promene hemijskog sastava i nadaju se da će, ako uspeju da razumeju sve veze, to pomoći u smanjenju žrtava zemljotresa. IZVOR