(11-20-2011, 12:38 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote:(11-20-2011, 01:29 AM)Diana Wrote: Cancer cells grow as a result of a body being out of balance. They are always in the body, and proliferate when the body is out of balance. This can be compared to humans throwing the ecosystem out of balance, and we have a diseased planet.
Right. But then the value of physical life is relative to how well it relates to the overall ecosystem. So the argument that "All life is precious" therefore "Harm no living thing" gets tossed out the window when some other living thing is causing harm to our physical bodies, or the overall ecosystem.
The cancer cells are not "aware." Humans are. We make the choice to harm. Cancer cells don't make a choice to harm; they are in survival mode only; they have a mandate to survive and proliferate according to the environmental conditions.
(11-20-2011, 01:14 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: What about the masses of insects which are murdered every year by farmers growing crops to feed humans?
I am totally against that. For many reasons. I buy organic. Now if you are going to split hairs, there is harm in any commercial operation, even organic. I am in the process of creating a greenhouse on my property so that I can provide my own food.
Become aware; use the information to discern; make decisions in harmony with your path, and the environment you have chosen to exist in.
(11-20-2011, 01:14 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: Do you wash your hair? Because there are all sorts of tiny bugs that like to live in human hair. What about if a housepet got fleas? Would you just let them be?
Diana Wrote:About the microbes: what I meant about the size was, how would microbes get around the fact that because of their microscopic size they get smushed easily, hence, the effects of such a happening would be accepted as it is inevitable. Not so with larger beings.
Fine. But then you are not making an assessment based upon "what is alive". You are making an assessment based upon "what is large".
Are you kidding me?
I answered most of this with my statements about intention. However, I use shampoos, soaps, and for that matter, all household cleaners that are earth-friendly, and I have been doing that since they first came out (and were cost-prohibitive). In this way I do the best I can.
I am very healthy, so I don't have a lot of the microbes, parasites, or "bugs" that unhealthy people have. Have you ever read that because of healthy soil, organic vegetables don't get the "pests" that unhealthy one do?