In regards to eating meat

[Tenet Nosce]

I've stated this so many times, I'm beginning to get hoarse! And time and time again, people still keep bringing up their own diet, or Carla's diet, or whatever. I really don't care what you, or Carla, or anyone else eats. It's not my place to judge, and I'm simply not interested in anyone's rationalizations. I'm interested in the philosophical, ethical, and spiritual implications of killing animals.

I do apologize for contributing to your hoarseness, though 740 posts is a little much for my mind to hold in its awareness all at once.

Well I think you and I may both agree that the argument is tiresome, and that we appear to be at a stalemate. Which is fine with me. As you know, the only reason those quotes reappeared here was due to our interaction in another thread. So I will briefly summarize my viewpoints.

Philosophically speaking, eating anything is an STS act. We must take the life of another physical being in order to sustain our own physical body. There is no way around this, given the rules of the 3D physical experience. The most we can do is try to draw a line somewhere in the natural food chain, according to our own inner wisdom, experience, and preferences, and let the chips fall where they may.

Ethically speaking, the abhorrent and abusive conditions to which humans subject animals raised for food is a reflection of the abhorrent and abusive conditions to which we subject ourselves. In a world rampant with such atrocious acts as ritual abuse, infant sex trafficking, genocide, hate crimes, terrorism, and financial enslavement, it is somewhat curious to me that one would choose to take up animal rights as their raison d'être. But it is simply a curiosity, and nothing more. To each their own.

Spiritually speaking, I do not at all believe the choice of foodstuffs has any significant impact on spiritual growth. Rather, I believe this idea to be a red herring, and a control mechanism designed to keep people distracted from attending to the myriad of dysfunctional thought patterns, inner demons, and self-destructive behaviors which are the true hindrance to spiritual growth. While this may be debatable, and I may in fact be wrong, I can certainly point to several examples of vegetarians to whom application of the word bellicose would be an understatement. Vile is the word which comes to mind. And I can just as easily point to many meat-eaters who don't have a bellicose bone in their bodies. For what it is worth, I have observed a general trend toward desiring less meat as I have grown in spiritual awareness. But that is the result of spiritual growth, not the cause of it.

OK. Peace, love, light, and all that jazz.