Animals are conscious and should be treated as such

[AngelofDeath]

I would perhaps note for myself that I don't really have any actual 'beliefs'. All of this is, from my perspective, an on-going exercise in the balancing of polarized opposites in the mind. When there is something before me, I shape to it as its opposite. Then, being its opposite, I invert and become that thing which is then balanced with its opposite in my awareness and I realize both as possibilities of thought and experience. They then 'go quiet'.

This is my process as well.

May I append that a blackhole is not just a concept; you're against Science here.

I'm not 'against' Science, that's a ridiculous supposition. I don't deny there is an object in experience described by the words "black hole", but undeniably "black" and "hole" are words which are descriptors and signifying. If the scientists had decided to use different words for the description, the object in experience would still exist, but the words "black hole" would never appear in our sense of ideas, concepts or conversation. Since "black" and "hole" automatically also have other thoughts associated with them, especially for one who has no idea of black holes or that they exist, those words in themselves would be useless in conveying the description of that object in experience without a whole lot of other words to describe the context in which the object has been experienced.