TS, I'm totally with you. And as Ra said, "there is no right or wrong for all things will be reconciled at some point in time/space." I don't think killing is right or wrong. We each make our own decisions and experiance the experiences that we wish to. There is no judgement against that. But what I desire to see is people examining themselves and being honest with themselves about the reasons they act the way they do. As Ra memtions in his discussion on the effects of the pyramid on the initiate, most people have a hard time confronting themselves. My call to mankind (and myself) is: KNOW THYSELF. My reasoning for being an omnivore previously didn't hold up to honest discussion within myself and thus, in knowing myself truly, I dispelled an unconsannant distortion of my being and embraced a larger scope of compassion.
When I see a gazelle torn open by a lion, I have no pity for the gazelle. It's just an energy exchange from one species to another. In nature nothing is wasted. In a sense I turn off my empathy for a gazelle and in turn empathize with a larger picture. In interactions of a 2D nature I feel no need to interfere or get emotionally involved.
But when it comes go an interaction of 3D to 2D I do feel a responsibility to be involved and create a more harmonious (of course the definition of harmonious is created by my own perception) interaction with 2D other/selves. Violence is a part of 2D nature, but in 3D we have the ability to have compassion. Darwin wrote another book about how he believes it is our compassion that made/defines us higher in our evolution from animals and not our violence.
I know vegans who would take their compassion to an unreasonable place of saving a gazelle from a lion because they hate violence, but that is not a moral imperative to interfere with 2D energy exchanges. I agree with you we must be able to accept death, but as the serenity prayer puts it:
And in regards to putting and animal out of its misery goes, it all depends on circumstances, IMO. I've put a pet goat of mine out of its misery. (And afterwards found the simple cure online for its agonizing condition) I felt I did what I needed to do at that time and don't hold any guilt about it now, but moving forward I would make sure I exhausted more resources to save it (within reason) before I put it out of its misery.
When I see a gazelle torn open by a lion, I have no pity for the gazelle. It's just an energy exchange from one species to another. In nature nothing is wasted. In a sense I turn off my empathy for a gazelle and in turn empathize with a larger picture. In interactions of a 2D nature I feel no need to interfere or get emotionally involved.
But when it comes go an interaction of 3D to 2D I do feel a responsibility to be involved and create a more harmonious (of course the definition of harmonious is created by my own perception) interaction with 2D other/selves. Violence is a part of 2D nature, but in 3D we have the ability to have compassion. Darwin wrote another book about how he believes it is our compassion that made/defines us higher in our evolution from animals and not our violence.
I know vegans who would take their compassion to an unreasonable place of saving a gazelle from a lion because they hate violence, but that is not a moral imperative to interfere with 2D energy exchanges. I agree with you we must be able to accept death, but as the serenity prayer puts it:
Quote:God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
And in regards to putting and animal out of its misery goes, it all depends on circumstances, IMO. I've put a pet goat of mine out of its misery. (And afterwards found the simple cure online for its agonizing condition) I felt I did what I needed to do at that time and don't hold any guilt about it now, but moving forward I would make sure I exhausted more resources to save it (within reason) before I put it out of its misery.