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  • in reply to: Coping with Suffering of Other Beings? #414535
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    in reply to: Coping with Suffering of Other Beings? #414534
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    Oh, I see what you misinterpreted now; I “blamed” humanity. I guess I should have put a 🤪 or whatever. This is not a matter of pointing the finger at Joe Normal and saying something to him in an angry voice like, You suck. 😡 You know, it’s like, You watch how people drive on the road, or what music they listen to, or how they resolve inter-personal or international conflict, it’s like, you’d kinda have to be a little uptight to say: Humanity—We’re Always The Best We Can Be. Most people are insane, you know. You just have to get used to it.

    in reply to: Coping with Suffering of Other Beings? #414532
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    Hmm, I manually checked back here and found a reply, but I actually checked the box that said for the site to e-mail me when this thread was updated, which did not happen—does anybody who knows the site understand this?

    As for the content, although I certainly didn’t join this site to argue with people, anymore than I “blame” people I don’t know for things—factory farming did not exist before the 20th century, although it’s how 99% of meat is processed in the USA today. I read “Eating Animals”, which, although I was trying to be funny, was actually a great book, which you might consider reading, or some other book like that, as I don’t expect anyone to have a conversion experience from me writing one or two paragraphs. But just briefly, our ancestors are far less meat than we do today, which was acquired far more humanely, and there were far fewer of them. The environmental effects of factory farming today actually have a negative influence on the human race surviving.

    But I also don’t go around “blaming” people, as I thought I made clear. I actually think meat eaters are far more likely to spout off about vegetarians than the reverse (Anthony Bourdain made this joking comparison of us to “terrorists” I guess because we don’t eat the “American way”—even if it tastes the same!). People can get incredibly blame-y at the very idea of other people trying to make good choices, even if those people never blame or even ad-blitz them the way that the 95% of the food industry that eats meat ad-blitzes everyone else.

    My apologies if that sounds angry or whatever; sometimes I think I sound angry even when I am not. I just like to line up all the arguments into a satisfying little row, you know.

    have a nice day.

    in reply to: Coping with Suffering of Other Beings? #414525
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    When I first became a vegetarian, I started leaving copies of “Eating Animals” in libraries and I even gave it to someone I knew, one of my few acquaintances, a spiritual leader, and she decided to become a vegetarian because of that book and because her daughter is a vegetarian…. And now at community functions, she sometimes in this irritated way introduces me as The Person Who Made Me Give Up Meat, and I’m like 😯

     

    So I give up. I stopped promoting that book. But, I also never ate another animal.

    Sometimes people suck; they can’t figure it out. They just look around them at the other people, you know. 🤧

     

    …. I don’t know, right.

    in reply to: I feel alone #414508
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    Hey Javairia: Have you ever tried going to ACA meetings? They’re 12-step meetings for people from dysfunctional families. I kinda just go to meditation meetings now myself, because with all the talking sometimes there’s too much content for me, but I’m still planning on doing a 5th step with a therapist soon. And I read the ACA book sometimes. I read a lot, but when we read the book in the meetings, I feel bad that I haven’t read the whole book yet, because I like designing my own self study/read my own books, you know!

    of course, giving advice like this can be very codependent, but my biggest problem is isolation, so. 😸

     

    what country are you in? You have a language barrier? That must make you sad!

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