"You create your reality"

[Diana]

I appreciate your opinion, Diana. I understand what anagogy's points were, and if I implied that I didn't, that was a mistake. I've even said I agree with many of them. I was just attempting to make my own point. I am also truly grateful that you shared your feelings on my judgemental attitude. It's obviously not intentional, so it looks like I have work to do. I was just standing up for what I thought was a pattern of cruelty being perpetrated against posters.

If I was being willfully ignorant it was because I felt that I was arguing against others who were being willfully ignorant to me. Obviously we are all struggling to make our points here. Anagogy's analogy doesn't work for me because it talks about an attack by a wild animal, when we're talking about human vs. human interaction. But I really don't see a need to dredge this part of the discussion up, I feel we've moved past it.

I have worked really hard in this forum to be clear. It's not easy and I feel I fail all the time. As a writer, I have a vested interest in verbal communication.

It behooves us all, especially when canvassing deeper meanings and higher consciousness thinking, to stretch ourselves to communicate with clarity. Given all the conflict on the vegetarian threads, I also think it behooves us to embrace other points of view with an open mind, and widen one's perspectives to consider outside of one's box.

If you are sincere in being grateful to me for pointing out my perception of your sometimes judgmental-sounding communications, which I assume you are since I have no reason to think you are shining me on, I would suggest you ask yourself how much you think you know, and how much of an authority you think you are.

There are only working theories in my opinion, no facts.