The countless trillions of beings you kill to satisfy your gluttonous appetites are sacred. They have the same spark you do. You will never evolve physically or spiritually as long as you are murdering others. Go vegan - for yourself as much as them!
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Imagine your father has died and, rather than wandering through his house and gardens to be close to him, you go to your home and sit in your closet and think of him. These are your “churches”. The divine is in the natural world, not your steeple houses. #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan
Look inward - the answers are there. Peace is there. Strength is there.
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#Compassion and #gratitude are two of our greatest ways of being. I try to live a compassionate life - go vegan - but sometimes have to slow down to live in gratitude. I remember the kindest and bravest influences of my life and I am grateful! Thinking of you all while sitting in front of fire. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/91ef696e0e311cbc195131d5e35a69b1373547c3cbf45abd9f7550ad595e9962/302ca455a757f7adc92c6eae64deee17280a5ecb0338ce9fa407a6cd44782e57.webp
If you want peace for yourself, but you deny it to another, you won’t have it, either.
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The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) have used the term “Friends” for more than 350 years. When will we be friends to animals?
Go vegan!
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All life is connected. The light we sense in ourselves is in others, too. Do not be part of extinguishing the light. We all suffer and are diminished when violence is inflicted.
Go vegan, for them and yourself.
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She conducts vigils for animals on their way to slaughter.
She 'bears witness' as animal trucks arrive and tries to provide comfort to the animals by making eye contact with them and by singing, playing music, and reciting mantras.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things. ***
The day has been, I grieve it to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated . . . upon the same footing as . . . animals are still.
The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. ***
It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate.
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps, the faculty for discourse? . . . the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? . . . The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes . . .
Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
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"By the 1650s Quakers were articulating a doctrine that individuals at peace with themselves belonged to a spiritual community, which had no use for coercion or violence. By 1661, Quakers issued a statement to Charles II condemning violence under any circumstance."
The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, pp 144-145
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We are a People that follow after those things that make for Peace, Love, and Ʋnity, it is our desire that others feet may walk in the same
Margaret Fell (1614-1702)
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. . . the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral if anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea of mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
Mahatma Gandhi
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"If we continually bear in mind the royal law of doing to others as we would be done by, we shall never think of bereaving our fellow creatures of that valuable blessing liberty, nor endure to grow rich by their bondage."
Anthony Benezet (1713 - 1784)
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Benjamin Lay, Quaker Activist and Abolitionist
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/0pzIhpRG4iheuHrypwRrv0?si=I1Zp_F5VQ4mrjSYqgjaGBg
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty . . .
(James Nayler)
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Unprogrammed meetings are where Quakers sit in silence, waiting for the spirit/light. I grew up in evangelical church where “pastor” spoke AT you and then I studied theology and learned to do these things. It never felt “right” to me. My first Quaker meeting felt right.
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If we don't want to become extinct, we need to live our values. Our approach to peace that excludes other beings is wrong. We need to be consistent to inspire. We were inconsistent as slave owners, we are inconsistent as omnivores.
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https://www.friendsjournal.org/what-people-really-want-from-church-and-quaker-meeting/
If you get more offended by people using a word, than by knowing that trillions of innocents die each year for our appetites, you need to reconsider your values and the wrongly focused outrage you generate. (I considered a bit of profanity to make the point, but you aren’t worthy.) #vegan #govegan
“That this Practice of ours is as directly opposite to our holy Principles as Light is to Darkness, Christ to Belial, or God to the Devil.”
“All Slave-keepers that keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates”
Benjamin Lay
What Friend Lay said about slave owners applies to animal exploitation. #vegan
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah 6:8 (KJV)
Love mercy - go vegan!
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Trying to use #openvibe to cross-post between #mastodon, #bluesky and #nostr and while there is an option to add alt text, it doesn’t seem to get pulled into final posts. Trying it yet again with the image in this post. Should have alt text: “Marlborough Sounds bay near home” https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/91ef696e0e311cbc195131d5e35a69b1373547c3cbf45abd9f7550ad595e9962/0e1b0bc15a8ede9f3531fb1f374ecd814e7911c82ac24e771a34520bf0166b2a.webp
Pulled alt text into Mastodon and Bluesky. Couldn’t get to display in Nostr.