tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045012646122727618.post6794199258866629645..comments2023-08-28T04:46:39.234-07:00Comments on Once upon a Vegan: Owning The Circle of Life...Bea Elliotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045012646122727618.post-59692074116427547252011-10-28T06:34:02.799-07:002011-10-28T06:34:02.799-07:00Debbie - I'm glad you found some worthwhile me...Debbie - I'm glad you found some worthwhile meaning in what feelings and thoughts I expressed.<br /><br />I don't think Touche' would have minded at all using his life and passing as a vehicle to tell the story of other lives too.<br /><br />Thanks for listening! <3Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045012646122727618.post-48741351083572441402011-10-19T22:49:36.806-07:002011-10-19T22:49:36.806-07:00This is a very beautiful post and a great message....This is a very beautiful post and a great message. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045012646122727618.post-7031308822537468702011-10-19T15:04:21.756-07:002011-10-19T15:04:21.756-07:00Yes CQ - Touche' was physicall beautiful as we...Yes CQ - Touche' was physicall beautiful as well... Although I can only recollect "ugly" critters as the ones manipulated by man - Either through intent or neglect. Saddest are those pug-nose dogs that can't breath right... I always feel so terrible for them. <br />:(<br /><br />That is so true on the Banality of Evil - That's exactly what these 4H groups and all animal exploiters do! They normalize the unthinkable cruelty so it looks like no big deal! It reminds me of this recent post on This Vegan Life in case you haven't seen it: http://www.thisveganlife.org/we-cant-see-the-truth-through-rose-colored-gl<br /><br />It all falls in with the states of denial that we refuse to admit because it requires that we do something to rectify it. Forbid the thought that we should rock the boat on 10,000 years of rubbish! Or hamper a $700 "profit" as the girl in this article was so pleased to have stolen. Grrrr!<br /><br />I appreciate your kind thoughts about Touche'. He was often my typing partner - laying on the corner of my desk, I'd struggle for a word or phrase - and then looking into his deep blue eyes always gave me a clue... "Speak truth". His presence will never be far away - Thanks.Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045012646122727618.post-25278110948715076992011-10-19T14:40:22.261-07:002011-10-19T14:40:22.261-07:00Hi VE - Yeah... That particular article really lai...Hi VE - Yeah... That particular article really laid it on thick. I re-read it several times and when I get to the part about showing sheep is a "cut throat" contest it just gags me every time! And then that these babies are sold after 11 months and claiming that the experience teaches "reality". Ugh! The timing of reading that piece really disgusted me...<br /><br />I'd like you to know that many times when I stroked Touche' - Lapin came to mind! So, so soft! And so was his demeanor - He wasn't a demanding cat... Just liked to be close in a nearby chair or asleep in a cozy spot in the room you were in. <br /> <br />He was a riot at times though when he'd run about the house with our tile/tarrazo floors. Just like a rabbit that has difficulty getting a grip on corners he'd slide everywhere! Then in a dignified way, lick his paw and calmly relay "I meant to do that you know!" He was something else... You would have liked him lots and vice versa. Please give a bunny-hug to a special furry in memory of him - Thanks! <3Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045012646122727618.post-1410027044815922592011-10-19T11:31:11.804-07:002011-10-19T11:31:11.804-07:00The "team" of blogger B.E. and commenter...The "team" of blogger B.E. and commenter V.E. seems to always say everything that needs saying.<br /><br />My heartfelt hugs go out to the humans and nonhumans who have been the devoted family of Touche lo these 16 loving years.<br /><br />I join V.E. in telling Touche' to fare well on his journey through the next stage in the circle of life, which expresses itself as infinite patience, eternal affection, forever caring. Yes, the circle of life is the opposite of taking from another; it is all about giving endlessly to one another. <br /><br />Touche' is beautiful, by the way. Thank you so much, Bea, for sharing his beautiful outer self with us, and, even more special, his beautiful inner self. <br /><br />V.E. mentions "denying evil." Just yesterday, the phrase "banality of evil" came to mind, in relation to this radio program: www.equaltimeradio.com (the October 17th program is titled "Our Relationship to the Meat We Eat"). <br /><br />Here's how the expression "banality of evil" came into being and what it means, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil: <br /><br />"Banality of evil is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt and incorporated in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.<br /><br />"It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.<br /><br />"Explaining this phenomenon, Edward S. Herman has emphasized the importance of 'normalizing the unthinkable.' According to him, 'doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on normalization. This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous, and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as the way things are done.'" <br /><br />Thank goodness Touche' has lived in a household where love is the norm, where evil doesn't stand a chance of becoming commonplace.CQhttp://www.creaturequotes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045012646122727618.post-4835578315670818832011-10-19T04:06:05.243-07:002011-10-19T04:06:05.243-07:00Bye Touche', I never met you and that was my l...Bye Touche', I never met you and that was my loss...fare well. <br /><br />Thanks for writing about the true circle of life...<br /><br />That stuff the propagandizers and exploiters spout is not about the circle of life...it is about stealing from other living beings that which belongs to them. It is the circle of death and destruction. It is about excusing atrocities and denying evil.<br /><br />Caring for living beings, that's what the circle of life is about.veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com