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Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Wide-Eyes
I have a feeling a big technological setback is in our near future to fix this dichotomy. Either we are about to evolve significantly on a spiritual level, or we are about to get slapped back into the stone age where our egos and emotions belong.
edit on 11-8-2011 by getreadyalready because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by shtf2012
reply to post by felonius
You make very good points.
But i would like to add that yes many life forms are part of the food chain.
But we must do our very best when we take then we should renew the resource.
So many times we just take, and that is wrong on so many levels.
Originally posted by gwynnhwyfar
reply to post by felonius
Yes, I guess I would present the suggestion that if any alternatives to that 1000 year old diet of whale were available, perhaps they might be considered. I grew up eating meat. My ancestral diet includes lots of brats and mets and goetta, steak and hamburgers, chicken and turkey and fish, lamb, etc.
I became very uncomfortable with that practice and discontinued it. I hope it makes some little difference in our world, but I doubt it will. Still, I feel it is not wasted, and I don't desire meat in my diet at all these days.
Originally posted by neonitus
again, throughout this thread (a few) people have shown this story to be a hoax, most likely made up by a crazy vegetarian.
yes theres obvious animal cruelty, but before you call chinese people names remember animal cruelty happens in all countrys.
this thread is just highlighting the less intelligent members of ats.
Originally posted by Khurzon
We are omnivores...made that way...by our creator...
But, were are also self-aware...sentient...responsible for our higher "choices"...
(some barely sentient, but still...)
We should feel compassion for our brothers and sisters who are incarnate in other forms...yes even the plants; and if it is necessary to kill for survival, do it swiftly.. with respect, compassion and in the name of a greater humanity...
But, to not practice compassion for those who blindly transgress against life, (and their higher self), is also wrong.
Feel compassion for all your brothers and sisters in their ignorance...
We can hide from the truth in corporeal life, but we cannot hide from it in the hereafter...therein lies the "hell" that we build for our "self(s)"...
Humanity on Earth is not perfect...it is an intense study of duality that we must learn...
Respect for "other" is the hardest lesson, for we are barely out of our infancy of animal ego, and it is easy for us to deny the existance of our self-centeredness... especially cloistered from nature as most of us are in urbanality...
Take time to thank the life that sustains yours...
Have respect enough to avoid its destruction if you can...
When you cannot, be moved to humble by their sacrifice...and give thanks and praise to their spirit...
I think a good example of this, (a prominent memory in my mind), is a scene from the opening of a movie called, "The Last of the Mohicans".
I think just about all wrong in the world can be boiled down to a lack or blindness to r-e-s-p-e-c-t...
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