tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post4483967585952553846..comments2023-02-12T10:34:53.384-06:00Comments on veganelder: Veganlandia, home of the harmless human animals...veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-43059577246656742372011-12-15T06:35:31.583-06:002011-12-15T06:35:31.583-06:00Thank you for commenting Bea.
Jeez, you are much ...Thank you for commenting Bea.<br /><br />Jeez, you are much more energetic that me...I would fall over in a stupor if I went up and down like you seem to. I tend to stay in a sort of low level depression with some smiles and laughter interspersed that is often prompted by interactions with fur or feather beings and sometimes skin beings (humans). I'm not particularly impressed with my speciesveganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-42701390353894840112011-12-12T06:56:28.964-06:002011-12-12T06:56:28.964-06:00I suppose my outlook is fickle and arbitrary. It s...I suppose my outlook is fickle and arbitrary. It shifts often according to my energy level. Sometimes my hope-meter points to empty. <br /><br />But on better days I'm wide-eyed with optimism! I see the potential (driven by necessity) of cultured meat. I see urban communities thriving. Each one with magnificent towers of plant producing facilities. They'd provide all the clean energy Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-19927597642216946052011-12-08T07:23:49.855-06:002011-12-08T07:23:49.855-06:00Thank you for taking the time to comment HGV...I k...Thank you for taking the time to comment HGV...I know you're dealing with difficult times.<br /><br />I tend to agree with you about the 'screwed' thingee. But...I remind myself that I have seen in my lifetime the furor that occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas when African American children were integrated into a public school morph to a time when an African American was the president. veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-18829050250724571322011-12-07T21:44:50.552-06:002011-12-07T21:44:50.552-06:00Ah, to live in Veganville...
Put shortly, yes, th...Ah, to live in Veganville...<br /><br />Put shortly, yes, they (and we) are screwed. At least, that's how I feel most days. And while I still think that incremental change is better than no change (and that individuals are responsible for doing no harm even if societies around them are inherently harmful), the kind of massive shift that vegans envision will likely only occur when it becomes Have Gone Veganhttp://www.havegonevegan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-10712079382372299032011-12-05T10:06:10.026-06:002011-12-05T10:06:10.026-06:00Thank you for commenting Annie. Your statement rem...Thank you for commenting Annie. Your statement reminded me of something one of my favorite of grad school professors/mentors once told me. He said until we could put something into words...accurate and true words...it is hard to really make it our own. Whether that is true or not, I don't know but I do know that often being able to put the right words to something seems to assist in veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-92212371337179609752011-12-05T09:57:54.918-06:002011-12-05T09:57:54.918-06:00Thank you for commenting Joan.Kyler and thanks for...Thank you for commenting Joan.Kyler and thanks for your kind words.<br /><br />I agree, there is a terrible sort of narcissistic orientation we allow and encourage in ourselves...likely such is the foundation of all the deceptions we instigate and cling to. Narcissism is, at its core, willful ignorance...which is in the same neighborhood as lying.veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-16239427857464489682011-12-05T09:54:23.743-06:002011-12-05T09:54:23.743-06:00Thanks for commenting DEM and Molly.
DEM: Ah but ...Thanks for commenting DEM and Molly.<br /><br />DEM: Ah but if they invaded and you were minister of defense...they wouldn't have a chance. :-)<br /><br />Molly: On a much much smaller scale, I bet. :-)veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-51507903764373215892011-12-05T09:53:02.552-06:002011-12-05T09:53:02.552-06:00Thank you for commenting Jessie (signed on as Tenl...Thank you for commenting Jessie (signed on as Tenllamaz). I tend to agree with your thoughts re interdependence, I suspicion we aren't really equipped to operate in groups any larger than those wherein we can know each group member personally.<br /><br />Sad that anyone thinks they can't become compassionate because of their age...I doubt that age has much impact on whether someone veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-45443882003668575042011-12-03T12:06:10.756-06:002011-12-03T12:06:10.756-06:00Why I visit your blog:
to stop and THINK about wh...Why I visit your blog: <br />to stop and THINK about why I've made changes in my life and "lifestyle," and why they were important to make; to remind myself that I am not better or higher or superior to any of the other living beings with whom I share the planet; because of your ability to articulate what is easier to feel (and remain silent about).Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984355159069741863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-46373873759490777902011-12-02T07:19:22.379-06:002011-12-02T07:19:22.379-06:00I'm always impressed by the compassionate, int...I'm always impressed by the compassionate, intelligent thoughts posted here, both the blog post itself and the comments.<br /><br />I was just thinking, without doing the proper research, that it seems to me that the societies that held non-violence to be their foundation have lasted longer than those that embrace violence, like ours.<br /><br />We have so little respect for lives except for joan.kylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015342608992682333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-2694738588907423212011-12-01T20:53:33.264-06:002011-12-01T20:53:33.264-06:00Humans have so much potential, really. I've t...Humans have so much potential, really. I've thought about this a lot, too. I do think a vegan world would be so much better than our current one in so many ways. However, as human nature goes, there would still be problems, but probably on a smaller scale, at least?Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380657062351771136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-39543486101539764742011-12-01T20:49:44.302-06:002011-12-01T20:49:44.302-06:00How do the Jain of India do it? How long have the...How do the Jain of India do it? How long have they done it? It seems that a belief in transmigration of souls has stopped the murder of other animals ( because that rat or bug could be your mother.). Sometimes I imagine a vegan city & then I imagine being invaded for our clean water....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-89895106012141859582011-12-01T20:44:06.289-06:002011-12-01T20:44:06.289-06:00As an aspiring social worker, I pledge to do my p...As an aspiring social worker, I pledge to do my part to ease suffering in the society in which I live, while at the same time holding strongly to a belief that humanity<br />is on a runaway train to self-destruction. These, of course, conflict, and my personal views hold even further discrepancy in the fact that I am a Christian vegan, which <br />is a topic for another day.I held these views ofTenllamazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04137398299955976431noreply@blogger.com