Hi Clara,

Thanks so much for your comment. Yea, many of us became so numb to the cruelty. I sure wasn’t in touch with my real feelings about this for many years. I’m glad you’re considering being vegetarian. I was vegetarian first and then later went vegan as I learned about the practices in the dairy and egg industries :( Hummus has now become one of my primary meat and cheese replacements. Hummus is a complete protein! I have a really wonderful recipe for home-made hummus if you are interested in trying it :)

Yes I agree there is no comparison, and yet plants also are living creatures to be treated with respect. We can eat fruits and vegetables and nuts without killing anything. These are gifts from the plants. I think we need to give deep consideration to everything else, such as plants that must be killed to be eaten, trees that are cut down for construction and so forth … we must stop killing if we wish to save ourselves.

Hi Joseph,

I’m not a fan of factory farming and I agree it’s much worse than anything Native Americans did. Nor do I idolize Native Americans. We have to stop killing. It doesn’t matter if it’s blessed and romanticized. It doesn’t matter if “our ancestors did it” or “the animals do it to each other” – none of these arguments are persuasive – we have to stop killing.

yes of course animals are sentient beings just like us.

For me I do not see the Indigenous people or Native American Indians as evil, why would you? They did not treat the animals the way the big corporate farmers are treating the animals now, have you looked at some of the videos out there that show animals being slaughtered? There have been many animals escaping from the slaughter houses. I do volunteer work at the Gentle Barn who rescue these type of animals and the animals truly appreciate that they have been rescued. Look at this in a bigger picture then being judgmental of how you can be a drop in the lake that brings many ripples of compassion and love out to others.

Plants do not have any central nervous system a heart, a brain. Why people come up with nonsense about plants feeling pain for an excuse to eat animals is ridicules!

Hi Angela,

Thanks for commenting. We need to stop believing in the “truth” of the world we see. If we keep perpetuating what we see, we will continue to get what we’ve gotten. Which is sickness, misery, and death.

This is not about judgment, though when I wrote this article my own pain may have come across as judgment. It’s about putting our foot in the sand, deciding what kind of world we want to live in (i.e., one where people don’t go kill six people in Santa Barbara because they’ve been trained their whole life that life has no value), and then act accordingly.

To think that what “tribes” or “animals” do excuses us doing it is to give our power away. We created all of it, so rather than follow it blindly we need to lead it … back to a place of life, healing, and compassion.

Appreciate you taking the time to comment.

cheers,
Erika

I learned above all else that I will probably be permanently celibate. There is a reason these men in these relationships have had such poor character and lied, cheated, and stole to get sex. It’s because sex is body identification and is of the ego. It took me a long, long time to see the lesson the Holy Spirit was trying to teach me in these otherwise impossible-to-forgive situations … and now that I get it, it all just seems meaningless. And no matter how it appears on the outside, any other woman who is with these men sexually will find herself in a very low vibration and ultimately it results in pain, sickness, suffering, and death. The end of the ego is the end of the special relationship.

This is one of the greatest misconceptions in the world of healing. “Acceptance” does not mean accept murder. And it surely does not mean participate in it. An idea leaves not its source. Everyone must cleanse their lives of all violent practices as well as violent beliefs. The Holy Spirit is evaluative. That which causes us pain, including all death, sickness, and suffering, must be abolished by the fastest means possible. And any “healer” who tells you otherwise does not have the foggiest clue what healing means.