In regards to eating meat

[3DMonkey]

Austin, I absolutely do not buy into the theory that if I buy a product in a store then I am contributing to an all encompassing practicalities of its origination. I don't even want to discuss the topic, because I KNOW it will be a heated one. It's not right to do in this thread, at the least.

If you don't wish to discuss it, it is fine, but it escapes me that you cannot see how supporting a system perpetuates its continuation.

I'll try to answer you and Diana with this post. (I'm gonna pull a "unity100" and say that we shouldn't go further down the road with it).

To me...

The only relevance in life is direct personal relationships. I think Ra explicitly agrees.

If this is true (and it is to me), then the practices of a Free Will 3D entity at a slaughter house is entirely between that person and who/whatever he/she has a direct personal relationship with. If it were me at the slaughter house, then you would see "me" act as I would choose to act. The worker has his choice as well. My purchase does not affect his/her decision at his/her personal relationship level. Put me in a direct personal relationship with that worker, and that worker and I will create a bond, good bad or indifferent. That is where spiritual evolution is born.

@Diana, if I go down the road of "every action I take affects the entire chain of events leading up to it" then I am personally responsible for every single act ever known to this planet. I'm not, and neither are you.

You see, the way I see it, the "perpetuators" are the ones that want to label, condemn, shift the power. Everyone thinks their own way is the right way, and people who want to fight.... well they are perpetuating fighting on the planet. The end to all of it is to accept. It is the only true way. (not that I do it, or that I'm optimistic it will ever happen.) If Gaia is so important, let Gaia handle it.