I certainly do believe - it's real and tangible. However, I also believe that one must have a rational mind in order to work with the elements without huge repercussions. Cursing others, for one, is a hugely naive thing to do. I learned that the hard way by invoking Sekhmet on someone who had hurt me deeply, - it worked - but I paid dearly for it, for a couple of years. What we send out, we receive many times over. I have practiced for several decades, and always use it to connect with Nature, and to heal. Every once in awhile I will perform a binding on someone who is out of control (like a psychic vampire), but that's just to get them to go away, not harm them. If we practice in anger, it's like being drunk ? we do things we shouldn't. Love is all you need.
Lone Raven
@Lone Raven
Interests
Animal and Human Rights, Music, Environment
Latest posts made by Lone Raven
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RE: Do you believe in magick?
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RE: MEAT EATERS-SHAME ON YOU
jonesing:
I'm considering becoming a vegetarian. Is there a particular site anyone can recommend, that details the transition process from meat eater to vegetarian? Thank you.
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RE: MEAT EATERS-SHAME ON YOU
hey_kittay:
I was just thinking: Is cannibalism, as in human meat consumption by humans okay as well? I mean it IS just another type of meat. What is the difference to meat eaters? I am really wondering what you all think about cannibalism of human beings who are overpopulating the world. Some tribes in the world practise it, among other groups of humans. Is that acceptable too?
Meat is meat. It's all dead flesh, no difference.
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RE: MEAT EATERS-SHAME ON YOU
Love the pic, Rahil. Pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
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RE: MEAT EATERS-SHAME ON YOU
We're watching the dialogue out here. Watching the carnist loser try to make her case (which is basically "I don't give a F*CK about animals and the people who do care PISS ME OFF!"). I'd be embarrassed if I were her, telling someone from Trinidad that English is probably their second language. Ignorance is as ignorance does, and for the ignorant, ad hominem attacks are the only way to think you've won an argument - if all else fails. I hate people like that, so I guess we're even. Too stupid to engage in an argument based on the actual points of the argument, too dumb to admit that they are the problem. Too arrogant to realize that they are the ones with the false sense of superiority, and truly not worthy of the two minutes it took to type this - but I needed to express that Rahil is not alone on the site and you, my dear, are definitely not lording anything over the vegans here. We have found the path, the one that the Beatles wrote about many moons ago. And the one that Paul advocates. And you're simply angry and jealous about it. Now, get off your high horse. You're welcome.
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RE: MEAT EATERS-SHAME ON YOU
I always wonder about the source when I see comments directed towards vegans like "look up Temple Grandin" (as if we don't know how she "changed" the industry to pull more wool over consumers' eyes with the Humane Myth - animals are treated worse than ever, and all of the "improvements" have only made the killing faster and more agonizing for animals); or vegans offering information are called all kinds of names like "obnoxious" and "aggressive" when it's only a projection of personal shame somewhere in that cognizant dissonance that animal consumers live with. We all know it hurts to hear the truth about our complicity. We went through it ourselves, and had to throw off the inane objections like "I respect your choice to be vegan, please respect mine to eat meat," because those "arguments" truly make NO SENSE. Vegans have committed to a life of respecting all beings, their habitats, and in turn actually help humanity by gnawing at the root of our inherent violent tendencies, and are fully aware that those "choices" animal consumers make are not without victims, so the argument actually sounds pretty dumb to us. There's a holocaust going on. It's sad that it offends people to hear about it. But they should be offended at the industry, the very idea that animals are ours to torture, than at the messengers. Seriously, respect is earned, not given, for harmful behavior. We are lovers of life, and respectful of the world. Humans have had free rein to torture and destroy - respecting their actions is not earned or warranted. Our anger at hearing the same useless, uninformed arguments are for good reason. Any sensible person would not only balk at the treatment of animals, but also refuse to partake in the bloodshed. To protect your "choice" is to deny that you have any responsibility towards compassion. It really is the definition of selfish, if you look at it with your eyes wide open. I also wonder at the restraint of other vegans in the face of verbal abuse. We are expected to take a lot of completely thoughtless rhetoric without batting an eye. It doesn't work that way because we're human, too.