Devilish or Angel

[Concetta]

Thoughts on eating animals? I have a hard time dealing with this. Is it Godlike consciousness or Devilish consciousness? 

[Matt8800]

@Concetta Its whatever is important to you. If you dont want to eat animals, dont. If you do, do. There are some health benefits and detriments of veganism depending on body types.

I love animals. I also eat meat and I dont have any ethical issue with it whatsoever. I do have an issue with the way animals are raised these days however. If we are going to eat them, we should make sure they live with the least amount of suffering and kill them painlessly.

People that say its "unconscious" dont know what being "conscious" means. Being awake means your awareness is locked into the flowing present moment. You know exactly what you do and why you do it (or dont do it). If you fit that definition, you are "concious"; or awake. Your subjectively chosen values guide your actions in the present moment, whatever that is.

A wise person will choose love and beauty as primary values. Regardless, I dont believe ending the life of an animal, without any suffering, disagrees with those values unless someone JUDGES death as being inherently and objectively "bad". That is a projection of their own egoic fears and aversions.

Edited January 5, 2020 by Matt8800

[Stakres]

@Concetta Do what feels right to you. It's your life, no one can tell you what's right for you.

Write the word "consciousness" and burn it. You just confuse yourself with it.

Edited January 5, 2020 by Stakres
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[Matt8800]

25 minutes ago, Stakres said:

@Matt8800 Do what feels right to you. It's your life, no one can tell you what's right for you.

Write the word "consciousness" and burn it. You just confuse yourself with it.

@Stakres Maybe you were referring to the poster but consciousness is the ONLY thing "I" am

[Stakres]

@Matt8800 Yeah sorry, I was referring to OP.

2 minutes ago, Matt8800 said:

@Stakres Maybe you were referring to the poster but consciousness is the ONLY thing "I" am

Burn the whole thing. Burn all ideas about reality, even the one about consciousness. How do you know that you are consciousness?