Whitney Edwards

The difference is only in perception and social conditioning.

True.

Enough of your insulting Other's intelligence. The fact that you cannot make arguments without resorting to insulting and demeaning shows how little empathy you have for anyone at all, let alone animals. Done with your BS, good luck with your life with that attitude.

True. Also plants are killed and vegans assume it's stupid.

In such a case, Leo might find a way to personally contact us. He will find another way to give us access to his content. Maybe ask Leo personally what he plans to do. Chances are that platforms like YouTube and other free speech news sites and platforms might suffer threats under Trump presidency. You can never know. This is a valid fear. Because the first thing dictators do is they cut down free communication between the public. And Trump constantly calls genuine media outlets "fake news." So no wonder he might try to control the free media to some extent. I don't know, he might go bonkers with it.

Yea sometimes comes from suffering. Amen.

Why do you always measure everything in units of pleasure? i have noticed this a lot in your posts.

This is something we can't just figure out now. It's catastrophizing future events even before they happen (or not). At worst it's fear mongering. I don't like Trump but let's not go the deeper end and lose ourselves in this Trump rabbit hole. Focus on yourself is the best solution. Don't fall for your inner mind baiting you. It's just intrusive thoughts. We should discuss and engage conscious politics but we should not let the negativity rot our brain.

Everyone has a good heart and everyone is a good person. Nobody is eating meat because they want to kill animals. Sorry but I expected more out of you than calling others stupid. It wasn't an anti-vegan aegument. You can always be a vegan if you truly want to be. I was a vegan for a whole year and I didn't need any motivation for that. Yet it caused a drop in my nutrition levels in the end so I gave up. To each his own. It's not okay to ask others for motivation when the motivation should be intrinsic, it's like you just want to anger people who eat meat or make them feel less which is usually the general rhetoric of the forum. And nobody is a saint for being vegan because they still hurt plants.

But you are hurting plants. Who says plants don't feel pain when cut, harvested, uprooted etc? As long as something is living matter, it has consciousness and will experience pain when it's survival is ended prematurely. Even in experiments they have found that plants react to emotional music. This means plants are capable of experiencing things, just not able to articulate it as well as animals do. Also man is an omnivore. So man is an agent of survival and continuation in the food chain. Anything that exists, only exists by consuming another, this is the basic rule of survival in the food chain. So as long as you are trying to survive, you're always consuming something to aid your survival, in the process causing pain to the one you're consuming, unless your consuming a non living object like soap or a piece of metal. But if you are consuming a living surviving being, plant or animal, you're still causing pain to that living being because they are alive, they have cells breathing, they are living, you cut them, chop them or end their survival in some form to break them up into nutrients in your stomach to feed your blood. So you cause pain anyway, one way or another. This does not necessarily mean that you're the causer of pain, since it's not your fault. You didn't cause it directly. But you are a part of the food chain and survival is your inbuilt agenda so what you do is something you have to do. And by that logic, people who eat animals are in the same boat as you, they aren't by any means morally inferior to you.

The constitution must prevent Trump from a third term. No?

Maybe you could have a joint IFS therapy session with his entire family to make them understand his situation. Generally IFS therapy has been found to be helpful in family related scenarios is what I've heard.

Thank you.

Women have rape fantasies because they feel the need to be dominated. Some women.

Cashews,wine and cheese as well.

(note - this is sarcasm)

Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are going to be a part of his administration. What ya'll folks think about it? Trump had this to say about them -

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How do you know identity is imaginary?

Why is it mentally ill? Any logical explanation?

Usually eat them after a meal so that acidity is reduced a bit. Or drink a fruit juice (just a bit like half cup) with a meal. You shouldn't be eating early in the morning or bedtime though. It causes me acidity as well and that's why I eat with caution.

Yea that too.

Berries give me that feeling especially blueberries.