Ok... Let's rewrite everything again... *sigh...
Btw... I might not be vegan, but I still believe that animals have feelings. But at the same time, that's how life works. It is normal for me to eat meat. Wherelse would I get proteins?
Salvation involves you to accept Christ in your heart.SnakeLord said:Ok, I'll take it, thanks. That's it, I'm saved now? Well, that certainly wasn't as hard as I might have previously thought. Still, I'm glad you told me when you did - I was about to sacrifice a cow
Nobody is born violent. People become violent through the system. Our system is very good in doing that...Sure but I view it like this..
I like the Eagles music, (Hotel California etc). I never sat down and said to myself "Snake, you're going to like the Eagles", it's something that can't be avoided. This can be said with anything.. Do you know why you like lamb, (example)?
By the same token, these people don't sit down and say "I want to be the kind of guy who likes being violent", it is a natural part of them and they have no choice in the matter.
Do me favour and read Mark Twain's 'What is man?'
I agree very much with that, and that might help you to understand what I'm getting at better than I have been able to type it.
Tigers kill to eat. Men many times kill just for sport. There is a big difference...Or, from his story 'Thou shalt not kill':
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The Ten Commandments were made for man alone. We should think it strange if they had been made for all the animals.
We should say "Thou shalt not kill" is too general, too sweeping. It includes the field mouse and the butterfly. They can't kill. And it includes the tiger, which can't help it.
It is a case of Temperament and Circumstance again. You can arrange no circumstances that can move the field mouse and the butterfly to kill; their temperaments will ill keep them unaffected by temptations to kill, they can avoid that crime without an effort. But it isn't so with the tiger. Throw a lamb in his way when he is hungry, and his temperament will compel him to kill it.
Butterflies and field mice are common among men; they can't kill, their temperaments make it impossible. There are tigers among men, also. Their temperaments move them to violence, and when Circumstance furnishes the opportunity and the powerful motive, they kill. They can't help it.
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Men's temperament is not to kill. Tiger's temperament is not to kill either. We kill to eat. God doesn't want us to kill just for sport, because that is a waste. Life is important. God doesn't want nobody to lose it for no reason at all. Besides, men should never kill men.Excerpt:
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He loved to kill. It was his temperament. He did not make his temperament, God gave it him at his birth. Gave it him and said Thou shalt not kill. It was like saying Thou shalt not eat. Both appetites were given him at birth. He could be obedient and starve both up to a certain point, but that was as far as he could go.
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Which other methods? Just because new methodes are "better", should we stop evolving?The great corruptable world of justice, that serves just as much injustice Still, I would submit it as being somewhat more reliable than older methods.
Yes...In these kind of instances we're not talking about 'people', we're talking about government and politics. I guess any person can fly over to Africa, walk into the middle of a war zone professing love for his fellow man. He will undoubtedly get shot..
Violence only creates more violence. The wisest people on earth have already said that...Solution usually comes in the form of armed forces, which often cause a lot of deaths, (even innocent deaths), to help achieve that peace and love we speak of.
Maybe is daydreaming. But it is better than simply accepting and giving up to our reality. If you just accept it and be defeated, you ain't going to change it.And yes, violence is entertainment. Is there anyone who didn't like Commando? Worst acting film you'll ever see, but a great film nonetheless. What would you propose be a better way? That man see no violence? A kind of see no evil, hear no evil? To even consider that there could be a planet of people who have nothing but love for each other, is daydreaming plain and simple.
Well... that's ok...Not me personally, but that's how the organisers go about it. £100+ (m) per year in red nose day, and it all goes abroad. Bizarre.
Well.. better try and be defeated than never try...Yeah, try telling them that
Do you think so? I have seen so many people posting images of their kids in the internet...! Oh well... that's too bad...No offence to you personally, but there are strange people out there who would perhaps get a little too excited over a photo of a 4 year old.
There would be no conflict if people would know what is better for them.Disagreement leads to conflict, that's the way it is. You can't expect a vegan to get along with a meat eater, a parent to get along with a paedophile, or a religious man to get along with an atheist.
If they know what is better for them and they accept that, there would be no conflict.The only way you can really have peace is if everyone is identical, which i've already stated. You can't make people something that they are not.
Being detached is as important as being involved.That still leaves a problem with our vegan and our meat eater. The meat eater loves the vegan who loves animals, and as such the meat eater can't kill the animal because it would hurt the vegan. Basically, it all comes down to the same thing that all men must be identical.
Variety is not the only variable. People should love one anther, and that would cancel the paedophile. The variety I'm talking abput is: I like photography and you don't. You like football and I don't. Etc...So you accept and embrace the variety of a paedophile, even though his very actions would hurt you- which you said wouldn't be done in any way by someone who loves, which means he'd have to not be a paedophile, which means there is no accepting or embracing variety because he'd actually be the same as you.
No, that is not true. A person that likes acting wouldn't hurt a person that likes photography.That is just one example, but it works for every example available. The only way anyone could do anything that doesn't hurt anyone else is if everyone does exactly the same things, which makes variety null and void.
There would be no people THAT imperfect if our educational system weren't so bad.Everyone should understand this, including the religious man who would tell people to love everyone. Imperfect people cannot be expected to love everyone - because they're imperfect, and you have to accept and embrace their variety of not loving anyone - which leaves little point in telling them they should love everyone. If you truly embraced their variety, you'd never even try telling them to love everyone.
What if the vegan don't see me eating them...Sure you can eat them? The vegan disagrees. You are exterminating those which the vegan loves.
Btw... I might not be vegan, but I still believe that animals have feelings. But at the same time, that's how life works. It is normal for me to eat meat. Wherelse would I get proteins?