Caring and Compassion, Ecology and Sustainability

The working Model

Commercial veganism requires increasing external growth via conversion to 'the cause' to continue, unabated, consumerism of anything that is not defined as an animal product.

A model based on ecology and sustainability is the antithesis of consumerism. The perfect model does not abide consumption or conversion, for sustainability cannot be at the expense of some unwitting sacrifice: as plants being eaten to procrastinate the inevitable demise of the consumer.

The working model is the collective images of skins and values, strewn around to enforce the web of consumer addiction. The beauty in, these abominations, or more gentle termed, this rubbish, is that the pattern of self destruction is always evident which inevitably provokes the notion of immortality, sustainability: the perfect model.

6th Sept
Spiritual Awakening is the action of not ascending the soul, how not to be a user or to be used. However it may seem to those in pursuit of ascendancy that such enlightenment confers extra status on a person which can be used for further advancement through a hierarchical system.

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Watching Stargate gave me impetus for thought on the issue of ascendency

Most animal focus is on improvement of status, even the basic needs of warmth, shelter, water and food are arguably about ensuring the creatures survival so that it can procreate and have descendants. Along with the notion of descendants come ancestors, who have usually acquired some respect, not least by their descendants and are in a position of ascendency.

Being an ascendant being requires there are others that prostrate themselves, be it children or employees.

Plants do not seem to require this nature, their ascendency is based on power absorbed by feeding on sunlight, water and minerals, without recourse to subjugation .

Being an animal addicted to notion of subjugation, even as a vegan I subject plants to my will, I have to consider the idea of transcendence as a means of developing conciousness. However there is no conceivable way of attaining this state. All use of mind within the confines of the body require the maintenance of the body corporeal which is built on ascendency.

Training the mind to reduce dependence on subjugation there is an inevitable discovery of santhara

See also santhara: sacrifice or suicide on page 2

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Consumption, Absorption, Crop Circles, Aliens and Conciousness

Absorption is where one body enshrines another but does not change the characteristics of the absorbed body. For example a sponge may absorb water, but the water is still a separate entity.

Although sugar may dissolve in water, being originally a solid sugar required a separation of molecules from their respective crystals and as such is not termed absorption although the sugar has not been destroyed.

Consumption is an altogether different process and results in the destruction of one to the other's gain.

In animals water can be said to be both absorbed and consumed.Although consume would be the more common term, most water used by humans is absorbed to use it's ability to transport soluble and miscible nutrients, biological engines and waste.

The reason we use the word consume is that water is a common resource that animals compete over. Water absorbed by one is not available for another. Given human use of water for many other purpose other than internal body function it is more sensible to see water as a limited resource and therefore use the word consume.

So we have a simple product that is absorbed and used to such a degree that it's use constitutes a consumption in relation to other animals, and plants for that matter.

So where are we going? How does consciousness relate to consumption. Something that cannot survive without absorption is a consumer. So the sun exists due to gravital absorption. Yet the sheer volume of absorption in the sun can destroy the things absorbed and so it's consumption becomes evident.

These arguments are applied relative to the macro-cosmic world of particle physics and conjunctions wherein the bodies have identity.

It is the identity of a sponge, the sun, or an animal that is used to define the absorption of consumption.

An Alien Conciousness
So is it sensible that evolving conciousness is define by consumption? I would argue that absorption would be a better practice to hone. That is the requirement to grow being fed not on the destruction of other forms by by integration. This is however a far fetched scenario, yet could there be aliens that exist in this manner.

If not we have the prospect of only meeting aliens as consumers, and, unless we get out there first, we are the ones to be consumed.

What of Crop Circles?
It is highly unlikely that an alien consumer would use it's resources to draw pretty pictures on a far away planet, for what purpose. let us forget the question of how, for such technology would be beyond our usual conception let alone our material ability.

But the purpose may be discussed. Yet what if the Alien was not a consumer, but an absorber. The technology would till be irrelevant but the reason for drawing a crop circle could be positively argued, unlike that for the consumer.

So what are the arguments for a crop circle. Yes lets avoid how they are made whether by sponge, the sun or jack the lad.

Who, not what would make a crop circle. Well lets start with jack-the-lad and rule out sponge-bob.

Hardly a consumer action, so the alien wasn't engaged in consumption, at this point. Is it a communication that they exist. I doubt it, why would a consumer let us know they are coming to get us, why waste their value resources on squashing crops?

So we have the more sensible idea that aliens that only absorb do exist and have no desire to destroy us, but may well absorb us.

Conciousness
How and when are irrelevant as it equates to time, which is a tool for consumption, but why? Is it still that consciousness has little choice but to grow and advance conciousness does this through absorption not consumption. There may be understandable benefits to this practice, but it still leaves the question as to why does conciousness need to grow.

Any conciousness that has the power to draw crop circles from afar is more powerful that the su,. generally beyond our understanding, whereas the sun is within possible consumption as is all material form.

So what of non material forms can conciousness exist with all form yet not use such as a resource. Can conciousness grow without fear of depletion if it needs to consume or absorb. Maybe the goal is to be absorbed or consumed yet not loose identity. Such a goal is that of the soul not that of the body which is hell bent on consumption, with the laurel leaf of absorption.

All a far cry from political environmental concerns for sustainability, the sham of the green parties, the eco-vegan and transition tout all presenting solutions on how to eke out the resources for future consumption. Sad bastards all. That I could be apart from it, in this space not some future blog.

• The Standard Model is the simplest set of ingredients - elementary particles - needed to make up the world we see in the heavens and in the laboratory

• Quarks combine together to make, for example, the proton and neutron - which make up the nuclei of atoms today - though more exotic combinations were around in the Universe's early days

• Leptons come in charged and uncharged versions; electrons - the most familiar charged lepton - together with quarks make up all the matter we can see; the uncharged leptons are neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter

• The "force carriers" are particles whose movements are observed as familiar forces such as those behind electricity and light (electromagnetism) and radioactive decay (the weak nuclear force)

• The Higgs boson came about because although the Standard Model holds together neatly, nothing requires the particles to have mass; for a fuller theory, the Higgs - or something else - must fill in that gap

When I was very young I wanted to understand my surroundings and chemistry and atomic physics seemed a way of understanding. There were things I didn't like, like fruit and veg, the girls I lke going out with my bet friends. A bit later i added being bullied.

Much later after running away from home I fell in with a groupof hippies. What with my firt foray into LSD I bcame a bit paranoid but overll the hippies were a good bunch of people and that led me to question myself, I was not so good. Once I had this idea of goodness the heirachy became ever more evident, but soon i was recoiling from the companionship of god and angels and evn renounced the shroud of the bodisatva.

What was all too evident now was the coruptuon of those seeking to climb the heirachial ladder and all that I have in mind since is to get off and keep away from the path. Easier said than done I note.

One of the hurdles is my weakness and hence need for others, so I sucmb to their power and in turn exert what power I can muster over those less fortunate tham I. Embeded in this is the idea that equality may be future goal acheived not by ensuring every creature has the same awesome power to control and consmue as those at the top, but by bringing the power back to the masses. After all do not those who reap great benefits do so at the expense of and from the labour of those that actually work.

But with renewed insight into my own weakness and tendency to be complicit in exploitation of the weak the only logical course is to leave the pyramid by the bottom, to move sideways away from the masses. This requires a will to manage my own afairs, grow my own food and keep warm. Although this canot be done with any purity that does not mean I am unablke to acheive some measurable freedom. Freedom not form the heirachy, which can stay as long as those who support it need it, but freedom from my own feeling of unchalenged complicitness in everthing think say and do.

I am still very weak and physically grow more so with passing seasons, yet my increasing comfort is that I no longer care about the greater good or evil, the fight to climb or demolish the pyramid to reach the all seeing eye. For when autmun and spring leaves are more vibrant than memories and dreams, it becomes clear that the space to be is between the worlds of time.

The original work was 'The Temple of Strife', but only the
uneducated would use the word 'Strife'

Generations ago there was the Mighty Kingdom of Kinship. Mighty and
Kingdom are not the words then used to described the Kinship, for there
was no power hierarchy that would need might to form such a kingdom.
But kingdoms have devolved from that place and might is now the measure
of placement within the kingdom.

That the kingdom seems split into factions alludes to the strife between
rival over the finite resources.

To the educated these rivalries are trifles and it is the lot of the
well educated to sell these to the poor. Of course the poor cannot
afford such arguments and that is at least the second trifle.

Origin would have it that growth was unbounded and the resource that
supported this was at least evenly provided. But as the consciousness
grew the small differences in this equality became evident, for the
Earth was not flat and those over the hills and around the curvature
may have greater resources. So migration became rife and henceforth
came strife.

The all powerful ingredient in this newly devolved consumer was that
the ability to measure outstripped the object of focus. No longer was
there any illusion of equality and so each small being lost it's kinship
and from this pain arose strife and a longing for kindness. For
kindness was a reminder of kinship from which original conciousness
grew. The knowledge that all beings belong to the resources they consume
and that we at least in part hold to a common resource.

That common resource is still available but not to the devolved beings
and so to further educate or better to free the mind from the devisive
arguments that resources are finite then re-education or de-education
would be a palatable layer of trifle for those intellects that still hold
to the kinship.

Kindness is not an act of kinship any more than an act of war is one of
separation. Even in war there is the agreement of the resource that
shall be fought over

De-education is to travel deep within the parameters of resources and
the logic that holds then all together.

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