I would like to be honest and open for once regarding the idea of eating animals. In the past I have been tiptoeing around this subject out of compassion for humans and their free will.
I find it extremely challenging and difficult to do this tiptoeing, but I do it out of respect for every person's right to their own journey. I thought on this site there would be a little more openness and willingness to discuss a subject so relevant to the evolutionary and spiritual path (and at times it is). And yet, the original (and infamous) thread discussing this subject turned into a huge conflict (In Regards to Eating Meat) and had to be "shut down."
I cannot understand, nor do I condone, nor do I have compassion for, the ignorance and willful selfishness that the meat industry perpetuates (and as a result of the mentality that condones it, animal testing). I take issue with the way our existence is even set up. That I must be here (I assume by choice and willingness so I must confess that I may have no right to complain), and have to watch so much suffering—most of it caused by humans and humans alone—is sometimes beyond bearing.
I am not evolved like Ra, or those beings who can look upon this planet and be removed enough from all this suffering to see it all as "well." I am torn continually between letting everything "be" and begging people to wake up.
It is mostly the animal kingdom that tears my heart to pieces. Humans as a collective have made their own suffering and so are culpable as a whole. This doesn't diminish human pain, rather, it accounts for it. But animals do not deserve our horribly cruel treatment, all of which is unnecessary.
I also feel compassion for plants and all living and conscious beings including the planet itself, which, like a mother, has supported us always. So this is not meant as a contention that animal life is better or more valued than plant life. I have addressed this exhaustively on that original thread.
But I do so sincerely hope and wish with my entire being that humanity will move beyond this long drawn-out phase of learning compassion, and cease the needless cruelty which fills our world with so much pain.
I find it extremely challenging and difficult to do this tiptoeing, but I do it out of respect for every person's right to their own journey. I thought on this site there would be a little more openness and willingness to discuss a subject so relevant to the evolutionary and spiritual path (and at times it is). And yet, the original (and infamous) thread discussing this subject turned into a huge conflict (In Regards to Eating Meat) and had to be "shut down."
I cannot understand, nor do I condone, nor do I have compassion for, the ignorance and willful selfishness that the meat industry perpetuates (and as a result of the mentality that condones it, animal testing). I take issue with the way our existence is even set up. That I must be here (I assume by choice and willingness so I must confess that I may have no right to complain), and have to watch so much suffering—most of it caused by humans and humans alone—is sometimes beyond bearing.
I am not evolved like Ra, or those beings who can look upon this planet and be removed enough from all this suffering to see it all as "well." I am torn continually between letting everything "be" and begging people to wake up.
It is mostly the animal kingdom that tears my heart to pieces. Humans as a collective have made their own suffering and so are culpable as a whole. This doesn't diminish human pain, rather, it accounts for it. But animals do not deserve our horribly cruel treatment, all of which is unnecessary.
I also feel compassion for plants and all living and conscious beings including the planet itself, which, like a mother, has supported us always. So this is not meant as a contention that animal life is better or more valued than plant life. I have addressed this exhaustively on that original thread.
But I do so sincerely hope and wish with my entire being that humanity will move beyond this long drawn-out phase of learning compassion, and cease the needless cruelty which fills our world with so much pain.
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