The dangers of our protein diet obsession

http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/the-dangers-of-our-protein-diet-obsession/

This article provides convenient support for the previous post: Cancer: Is It Just Bad Luck or Failed Research?

By no stretch, however, is it meant to suggest that consuming animal products is ok: animal foods are a symptom of one group’s tendency to dominate others – in this case other animals. Thankfully, overcoming this problem is straightforward, and is a base for us to address other injustices: http://www.howdoigovegan.com/

Cancer: Just Bad Luck or Failed Research?

Cancer-Is-It-Just-Bad-Luck-or-Failed-Research

Arthur Schopenhauer

I don’t agree that Arthur’s ideas should get the same kind of devotion that Buddhism does – that’s about making ideas into religion, rather than reason. That said, he has some intriguing thoughts, that invite you to consider them. Amusing and dour at once, i guess Mrs Schopenhauer appreciated him ; )

Our Taste for ‘Aquatic Bushmeat’ Is Killing the Sea

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/08/21/our-taste-aquatic-bushmeat-killing-sea-361140.html

Water ‘bushmeat’ is just one aspect of the issue of animal use.
There’s no need to exploit other animals for food – our domination of them is a vestige of our warring, colonial side.

There’s a more up to date, practical and less violent alternative: http://www.howdoigovegan.com/

Michael Newton on Suicide

Destiny of Souls, released in 2000, is a book based on the hypnotic regression work of Michael Newton.

This is an excerpt from it related to suicide:

When I work with clients who have committed suicide in former lives, the first thing most exclaim right after the moment of death is, “Oh, my God, how could I have been so stupid!” These are physically healthy people, not those who are suffering from a debilitating physical illness. Suicide by a person, young or old, whose physical state has reduced the quality of their life to almost nothing is treated differently in the spirit world than those who had healthy bodies. While all suicide cases are treated with kindness and understanding, people who killed themselves with a healthy body do have a reckoning.

Do we have free will?

http://lifebetweenlivesregression.com.au/do-we-have-free-will-or-are-our-lives-planned/

I don’t know whether the timeframe between incarnations is unusual – Dolores Cannon suggests otherwise in Between Life and Death – but an interesting article all the same.

Not all sand is made from fish poop

Not all sand is made from fish poop, but some is. I disagree that poop that’s so benign and helpful is in any way gross, and particularly reject the references to parrotfish tasting good.

Fish, like other animals, shouldn’t have to die for us when we can live on a vegan diet: http://www.howdoigovegan.com/

The great religions are the ships…

“The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.”

–Hafiz, interpreted by Daniel Ladinsky

Bender, upset

Bender, upset about something.

Location: in someone’s front yard, not far from where i live.

The Big Lie About the ‘Life of the Mind’

This article is about people being encouraged into graduate school for humanities though job prospects in the area are slim.

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Big-Lie-About-the-Life-of/63937/