Another thought provoking and beautifully crafted read. Thank you. What a joy to wake up to your letters and what a privilege to journey through your incredible mind, for a bit. When I was old enough to comprehend that there is death and that the ten commandments say thou shalt not kill, it was very simple for me, you don't kill. It was black and white. I like simple. So I stopped eating animal, as a young child and the medical profession railed against me and insisted my parents feed me animal and I had no choice. I was sent mixed messages and this confused my pure view of the world, and that's when I started to witness that life is not black and white, but it would take me decades to just resign myself to the shades of grey. Where does one draw the line? Thou shalt not kill. Yet there are rules for how to kill an animal. The only way I can find peace with it all is to accept that this life, this world, this earth, this solar system is but a drop in the ocean, a tiny fraction of what there is to life. We are only, on what some term as this prison planet, experiencing not even the tip of the iceberg. This is not utopia, it never will be. It's a phase.
Another thought provoking and beautifully crafted read. Thank you. What a joy to wake up to your letters and what a privilege to journey through your incredible mind, for a bit. When I was old enough to comprehend that there is death and that the ten commandments say thou shalt not kill, it was very simple for me, you don't kill. It was black and white. I like simple. So I stopped eating animal, as a young child and the medical profession railed against me and insisted my parents feed me animal and I had no choice. I was sent mixed messages and this confused my pure view of the world, and that's when I started to witness that life is not black and white, but it would take me decades to just resign myself to the shades of grey. Where does one draw the line? Thou shalt not kill. Yet there are rules for how to kill an animal. The only way I can find peace with it all is to accept that this life, this world, this earth, this solar system is but a drop in the ocean, a tiny fraction of what there is to life. We are only, on what some term as this prison planet, experiencing not even the tip of the iceberg. This is not utopia, it never will be. It's a phase.