10-02-2014, 06:55 PM
(10-02-2014, 03:12 PM)Monica Wrote: Your bigot comment is offensive, but I forgive you. I understand that it's easier to lash out at others, rather than face one's own feelings of guilt. I feel zero guilt about eating plants. Go ahead and try to guilt-trip me about plants. It won't work.
If anyone feels guilt about eating animals, that isn't my fault.
I won't be engaging in conversation with you, Parsons.
I was not lashing out at you by calling your behavior bigoted and my intent was to use the dictionary definition of the word bigot which was not intended to be offensive. You clearly have an image of the word 'bigot' which is harsher than the actual dictionary definition. Even if it is offensive, it is no more offensive than calling my actions 'STS' or 'controlling' when you know that I eat meat. I don't think you have a conscious intention to be offensive to me by categorizing someone who chooses to eat meat and knows how some of the animals are treated as STS/control. But I fit into that category, so that is what you are ostensibly doing. If you take out the 'meat' part of the equation and replace it with a general 'choice', you are judging my 'choice' to be STS/controlling when I have professed that is not the case;hence my usage of the word bigot.
Quote:big·ot ˈbiɡət/ noun
a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.
It would only be fair to point out I have consciously recognized that I tend to be intolerant of what I perceive as intolerant behavior towards others. Ironically, you could say I am bigoted against bigotry. I am certain this is catalyst with which I have an opportunity work through this bias.
I take every meal as a gift from the Creator to the Creator to enable me to continue to exist in this form, whether it is meat or otherwise. I thank that 2D lifeform for providing me with physical material I need to survive.
If I had my way, I would have all my meat be animals which were range-fed and kept in kindness and love. Very importantly, I would have the person who slaughtered the animal show the utmost respect and understand that the animal is a part of the Creator giving itself to the Creator and thank It for It's gift to Itself. My previous sentence also applies to vegetables/fruits/nuts/any other 2D life I consume as I feel they are commonly treated with the same level of disrespect and cruelty. I simply choose to make no distinction on what 2D creatures I eat on different levels of 2D consciousness (except perhaps pets, which are borderline 3D).
As previously stated, it would be even more ideal if I did not have to consume 2D life at all.