We MUST Put These Criminals In Prison

December 4, 2003

Wait 'til you see what modern factory lumbering does to the strip-mined

National Parks.

On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 02:29 PM, (AT) (DOT)

com wrote:

> Message: 22

> Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:11:13 -0000

> " Feral " <terebinthus

> Re: They Want to be Us?

>

> Yeah, some people just cannot understand that we

> [most of us anyway] aren't out to convert others to be

> like us. I mean, I am not saying it wouldn't be great if

> everyone went veggie and the planet was healed faster

> from all the damage brought about by modern factory

> farming practices due to the demand for inexpensive

> meat items in large quntities. But on the same token

> I am hardly one to stand upon a soap box yelling at the

> world that they better change and be like me or else.

> I much prefer to be the change I want to see in the world

> and hope that others will eventually come around to

> vegetarianism on their own. I think just showing people

> that it tastes great and isn't a big deprivation diet goes a

> long way towards this end.; smiles and friendliness help too.

> Nothing worse in my mind than bitter, cranky vegetarians

> on a mission.

>

> ~ feral ~

>

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The image of an extinguished fire carried no connotations of annihilation

for the early Buddhists. Rather, the aspects of fire that to them had

significance for the mind-fire analogy are these: Fire, when burning, is

in a state of agitation, dependence, attachment, and entrapment—both

clinging and being stuck to its sustenance. Extinguished, it becomes calm,

independent, indeterminate, and unattached: It lets go of its sustenance

and is released.

-Thanissaro Bhikkhu, " Mind Like Fire Unbound "

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