In regards to eating meat

[Tenet Nosce]

Our mind/spirit complex incarnates into a body.

So does the cow's. The cow is not its' body, as neither are humans their bodies. Didn't the cow's mind/spirit complex know what it was getting itself into when it came to earth? Didn't it have a choice whether or not to be here/now? Didn't it have a choice whether to be a cow on a Texas ranch rather than any of the other trillions of animals that are not slaughtered for food? Is the cow here against their will?

We cannot avoid killing microbes, but that doesn't negate the value of avoiding the killing of those we can avoid.

Now why would the sub-Logos have created a world where we cannot avoid doing something "bad"?

But I'm not going to be the one to facilitate that croaking. I'll leave that task to an STS entity who, I'm sure, will be more than happy to oblige.

Eh? I have a friend who works a slaughterhouse. I am quite sure he makes the 51% grade.

Humans die in uninspiring ways too, like car crashes and brutal murders.

When the soul allows a human to die in a gory car crash, do we declare the soul to be "not compassionate"? According to your logic (it seems) if the soul did nothing to prevent the death of the body, then it is STS? Or...?

Again, we can't control the killing of bugs and microbes (unless we're spraying insecticides of course). But we can control the unnecessary suffering of animals.

Whomever said that positive change results from more control? Actually, hasn't history proven this methodology ineffective?

Would you apply that logic to humans who work for humanitarian causes?

Sure, why not? I will use the global warming/climate change debate. Environmentalists jump at any opportunity to point to evidence of climate change on earth. But what about the climate change occurring on most of the other planets and their moons? Why leave that part out? Because it doesn't support "The Cause"?

If you're praying for the cow, then sure. But in this discussion, people were talking mostly about sending love to the dead meat so it would be healthier for them.

For reals? Seriously, I had always assumed that the prayers and love were primarily intended toward the animal. People are absurd.

What if you found a dog on the side of the road, who had just been hit by a car, and was injured, bleeding and in pain? Would you feel compassion for the dog? Would you try to help relieve the pain and take the dog to the vet? Or would you leave it by the side of the road to die a slow, agonizing death?

You forgot the third option. Many humans would consider it a compassionate act to kill the dog. Just sayin- whomever said death is "not compassionate"?

If those billions of cows and chickens are now ready to graduate to 3D, then I shudder to think of what kind of horrible, barbaric planet they will be inhabiting![/b]

The same one with all of the humans who need to repeat 3D? They will need some animals over there too, right? What do you suppose would constitute a selection process? Forced? Volunteer?

What if we are unintentionally populating a dark planet, right now, with all those billions of cow, pig and chicken souls, incarnating as humans on a barbaric world?

Maybe we are living on that barbaric world right now? But seriously, I am not totally following your logic here. If a human is murdered, would they be sent back to a more barbaric world?

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Well dang maybe carrots are close to becoming people after all!