[split] Obtaining Animal Blood

[Diana]

No one has forced you Yera, by the way, to respond. No one has forced anyone here at B4 to react, respond, be offended, or feel judged concerning the "meat" issue. It's not possible to MAKE anyone feel anything. Feelings, reactions, attitudes are a person's own responsibility. 

I've seen this used a couple of time on bring4th and it's made me question, if true, does that mean that individuals don't have any responsibility in how they make other's feel and that we are each entirely responsible for our feelings (I believe Spaced brought up this point in another thread)?  Have I misunderstood something?  If true, I've got some serious work to do.

All individuals are responsible for themselves—their words, actions, intentions, reactions etc. If I say something hurtful to another person, I am responsible for my words. The person I said the hurtful words to is responsible for their reaction to the words. 

This is not to say it's okay for me to hurt another with words. But I must go within and recognize my actions within the context of my path (STO or STS), and work on my own evolution accordingly. The person who reacted to my words must go within and work on themselves and why they reacted. In this way we are mirrors—but I disagree with some here that the mirror is a simple reflection. One person might need to learn compassion (balancing with the "all"), and the other to learn self-confidence (reaching higher potentials of self-realization), and in this way we have helped each other to bring awareness of self to the surface.