Well, you just have to kill them humanely, and I promise to take off my heels before I stomp your foot.
(Or become vegetarian...) On 3 April 2015 at 05:27, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > Jason, If I stomp on your foot, it is you who will feel the pain not I, > nor, will your poor toes pain be distributed amongst 7 billion others, just > you. When we can grow meats without the animal we'll stop slaughtering > animals for example. Sometimes compassion must be bracketed by what we are > capable of doing at the time. Mayhap, in some future day, somebody will use > their time machine to travel back to 1347 with a cure for the black plague, > but that day is not today. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> > To: Everything List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 8:31 pm > Subject: Lovely Einstein Quote > > "A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part > limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and > feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of > consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to > our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our > task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of > compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its > beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and > the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall > require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive." > (Albert Einstein, 1954) > > > > I didn't know until today he also believed the egoist self was a > delusion. > > Jason > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
