CHANGE

My selection of quotes about Change from there: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_changegrowth.html


The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol


ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER:
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

CHARLES DUBOIS:
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.


CHARLES KETTERING:
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

EPICTETUS:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

G. K. CHESTERTON:
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

G. K. CHESTERTON:
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

GENERAL ERIC SHINSEKI:
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. [Chief of Staff, U. S. Army]

GEORG C. LICHTENBERG:
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

GLORIA STEINEM:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.


GLORIA STEINEM:
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?


HENRI BERGSON:
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

HERACLITUS:
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. ca. 500 BCE

HERACLITUS:
All is flux; nothing stays still.


HERAKLIETOS OF EPHESOS:
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.


IRENE PETER:
Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed.

JAMES YORKE:
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.


JOHN F. KENNEDY:
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

LEO TOLSTOY:
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.


MADAME DE STAEL:
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. (L'esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais c'est progres en spirale.)

MARCUS AURELIUS:
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.


OVID:
All things change; nothing perishes.

Me and My Long Rant About Veganism, Animal Rights, etc...

A little girl ended up in a slaughterhouse, she was found holding the corpse of a calf, like a mutilated doll.



One carnivore asked me a question, in a human and polite way --which is rare. Why us, vegetarians and vegans, always feel the need to tell other people how to live? Saying it is a very superior attitude towards others. He continues with this :

If you are truly a person who seeks peace, then you would not be trying to push your beliefs onto other people. Ghandi said:

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

I do not try to force my beliefs on you, so what's your problem?

That's great. But I'm not forcing anyone or anything, just writing stuff. I'm not even an active activist for animal rights, not yet.You choose to read my words or not. You choose to try my doctrine on you if you want, to see if I'm lying or not. To quote Gandhi, he also said :

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

By some circumstances in my life, I came to a point where I finally understood something about life, animals, and my health. I changed, and became vegan. I'd like to share that discovery with others. But I can't make them change or even understand. It has to come from within their heart, I can only try to convince them to open their eyes and hearts, to at least try, so they could see another world that is presented to us with the milk and meat packed in cellophan in the grocery stores around the country, another world that McDonalds and Burger King show us. What's behind all this, it is kept secret. It is this that people need to see, the endless list of tragic consequences.



Cutting dogs in China

So here's my problem. The problem is that it is not only my problem, but the problem of everybody, of all inhabitants of Earth, animals included, and the problem of the planet itself.
If it was about wether or not to eat olives, that wouldn't bother me at all. But eating meat, dairies and eggs is something completely different.

PINK

Eventhough I don't eat animal products anymore, the fact that some other people do it concerns me. I don't like to mind the business of others and vice versa. But your business must not cause death and suffering all around.
The meat industry cause full of externalities. This notion applies to economy, ethic, health, ecology, etc. Rise of air pollution, water pollution, rise of healthcare, of violence, etc, etc...

You, meat eater, you contribute to the Holocaust of billions of innocent animals.
Thousands of animals are slaughtered every second, only in America.
I won't write all the numbers and statistics in this post, but see my posts labeled with "Stats/Facts". Suffice it to say that the extermination of 53 billion animals PER YEAR is the biggest massacre that humanity has ever perpetrated. 

All those poor animals didn't chose to be the main participant involved in this industry of murders.
You chose for them, in the name of the so-called human superiority over other species.
That attitude of superiority is specism, like racism, fascism, and sexism. (see the movie Earthlings on Google video)

All carnivore animals are murderers. All human carnivores kill or order killings by paying mercenaries. ALL MURDERERS EAT MEAT. 




They say: "we are omnivores", "we crave for meat", "we are carnivores", "we have canines", "cavemen ate meat", "humans are omnivores"... indeed they are, but they shouldn't be; they should be vegans, according to anatomy, physiology and biology; following the basic laws of life would avoid them their cancers and heart attacks. Humans are fruitarians. Humans are frugivores. Humans are whatever it is natural for them to be: Go in nature : will you pass a tree with fruits to go kill a cow? I don't think so.
MEATEATERS ARE JUST RETARDS FROM NEANDERTAL UNABLE TO EVOLVE.
Look, if you claim that humans are carnivore animals by nature, act like one, "walk your talk, or get back in your pram", like  Harley would say.  Go in the nature, go bite in the leg of a cow. Just try to kill an animal. You won't even be able to catch a squirrel. All you'll be able to kill are caterpillars, beetles and cockroaches. You'll have to eat ants, or a crushed skunk on the side of a road. But that's meat, so why don't you try it? Don't be so picky by choosing only lean meat and removing the skin, but rather eat the whole body, like real carnivores do. Meat eaters are ridiculous; you should eat the eyes, the brain, the sexual organs, everything, otherwise your diet will be incomplete. These body parts should be appealing to you.  You're supposed to be attracted by blood and rotten flesh, and you should enjoy to stuff your head in some stinky guts. Well, guess what, it's not the case...  We're primates, and just like apes,  the bonobos, the closest cousin related  to our specie, eats fruits, nuts, dark leafy greens, but no meat. If he eats animals, it's small insects, usually the ones that are on the greens, always a very small pourcentage of his diet. We have innoffensive bodies, except maybe Bruce Lee (who was a vegetarian), there is nothing agressive about how hands, our fingernails, our teeth. We are perfectly adapted to grab fruits in trees, we are not predators like lions and tigers.


Honnestly I don't see a huge difference physically when comparing my vegan diet to as when I was eating meat. But that's because it's hard to tell. It's many years ago, I had a different activity level too, and I made a long transition from omnivore to vegetarian for 5 years and then vegan. But I do see improvements in physical activities that I do, and I notice a big increase of energy. But don't be fooled; energy ain't only physical. I think part of my energy comes from the mind; being happy or depressed for instance, has a huge impact on your health, and not only mental health. Personally I feel way better with myself emotionally and intellectually, and happiness gives energy.      

I agree with what Jeremy Moore says here :

I like the fact that I can wake up every day knowing I’m not going to be responsible for killing others. I only wish those other people woke up every day thinking about they animals they kill on a daily basis.

Some say "I need meat" some others say "I don't need meat" some others say "I need coffee or I won't function normally" and some others say caffeine is poison. I don't believe in that crap "what's poison for someone is good for someone else", we all have similar bodies with nearly identical digestive systems. Just different calorie needs.


Someone eating raw meat and stuff said about veganism and raw vegans: "Idealistic diets don't work. The body isn't nourished on ideal"... well what do you think your diet of raw meat is for you ? (He claims his health dramatically decreased during his 6 months as a raw vegan, losing his hair and muscles) and what was your mindset when you were raw vegan? happy or persuaded you were making a mistake? To be fit you need to believe it. You can't be in shape if u don't believe it.



Socrate predicted that meat eating would cause wars. We're now cutting down trees in other countries to have more territories to grow and feed cattles for meat.

Dr. Herbert Shelton, as well as other naturalists before him like Thielden, said that meat eating automatically and inevitably lead to cannibalism eventually. He was right.

PETA event


MEET YOUR MEAT





Cholesterol is only in the animal kingdom. Fibres are only in the vegetal kingdom. Vitamins, oxygen, chlorophyll, enzymes are mostly in fruits and greens. It is obvious that the wise choice to make is to opt for foods offered by the nature. Not wastes of the nature, like the animal corpses that are the animal products you eat.


Do you wanna be guilty of 100 murders per year, as well as being constipated by eating food with no fibres at all, and to die prematurely of an heart attack or cancer ?? Think about it.


Peace.

Conversations w/ G-d

(from the movie... and book)

You are not to worry about making a living. True masters are those who have chosen to make a life rather than a living. Do whatever you really love. Do nothing else. You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something foa a living that you don't like to do? That is not a living. That is a dying.

Incredible comments on the web about veganism

Comments on MEAT, ANIMALS, VEGANISM found on the web.
Most of them were not adressed to me, I just found them under articles on the internet or videos. 
Some comments we find on the web are so aberrant we can't ignore them. I've seen worse than the next ones there, but I see new ones everyday and I will compile them to make a Best of here because the authors of those extravaguant litterary stupidities deserve to be recognized worldwide and published a second time.
All those different thoughts and divergent opinions on so many different subjects, coming from all sides of the whole wide world, it is an almost infinite diversity : people on the Internet form a virtual community that is so disparate and heterogeneous, I find that fascinating to read.
Some of the comments here are really grotesque, they're always interressant to read because they offer a study of anthropology. We often think that humans are an evolved specie but how can if so how can we continue to murder other species and our own specie, that is not intelligent at all. Let's read what our brillant omnivores have to say about this.


from Javon133 on youtube:

ppl can eat meat if they want

from falling4j on youtube

You know, I have a dog and a cat. I love them dearly. I like my cows, but God put them here to feed us. If we all stopped eating meat then the hunger would be the problem. It would not be possible to produce enough food to feed the world without havinf meat fish and poultry. At some point you have to be realistic. If you want to try to save the animals then good luck. It will never happen so you are wasting your energy. Spend it on something worthwhile like the abortion issue, or reducing crime.

From the same guy

AGAIN, it is not your business what I eat. You assume that I buy meat from the store. You are wrong. I own 9 chickens, 2 turkeys and 14 cows. I buy pigs each year & raise them for the freezer. Our animals are kept in VERY clean conditions. When slaughtered it's done by a bullet. It is instant and they don'tsuffer. So get off of your bandwagon and mind your on business. If you spent as much time learning English as you do whining on You Tube, we would be able to understand what your writing.

This is again from the same guy who love God but likes to continually violate the Sixth Commandment "Do Not Kill"

If you want to discuss choice, then let's talk about abortion. You need to spend your time trying to save the lives of those babies being killed instead of trying to get people to stop eating meat. It will never happen.God made a FOOD CHAIN. GET IT?????

Right, the food chain : eat fruits and greens.

as a vegeterian, I eat fish because I know I would be able to kill them, not like bigger animals

Aberrant COMMENTS on the Web - Science & Life

Personnal views which I don’t agree with. They all reflect the opposite of my thoughts, so I don’t need to comment on most of them. Sometimes silence is the best. When someone says something stupid, remain silent, what he just said will as if it didn't hit his interlocutor and will rebound toward him, forcing him to face what he says, to think about it. Sometimes I will add just a quote from a great thinker that said something brillant related to what I just heard.

"If we believe absurdities, we commit atrocities"-Voltaire

"The custom is to accept any atrocity." -- George Bernard Shaw

Extreme stupidity is a weapon as powerful as irony is a great tool to serve a good cause. I just want to expose common sense to the world, by turning those comments against themselves.

Sometimes stupidity is so big it is funny, or sad, depending on who reads it. But one thing is sure, stupidity

-on dangerous new technologies that are still unknown, like the LHC (that could produce tiny black holes on Earth) and that are hasardous. We know that big accidents already happened : Tchernobyl, Bhopal, GMO’s, spacecraft explosions, etc. Should we or not risk people life in the name of science and progress ? Is technical progress so important or can we live (much happier) without any technologies even electricity ?
Youtube- autor unknown -

Wow, you are so terribly ignorant... without science we wouldn't have cars, electricity, healthcare and medicine, you favorites toys, hell you probably wouldn't even exist because there wouldn't have been enough food for all of us... We as species are so successful that within a couple of years we will reach a point where we are with so many that it really isn't going to matter at all if we are going to lose a few anyways. We are where we are now really mainly because of science.

-Posted by Brian W. about a text called “Have You Eaten Your Genetically Modified Food Today?” there.

As a biotechnophile (I wonder if anyone else has ever used that word...) it is my opinion that fear of GM foods is based purely on ignorance. I have to wonder how many of those people who hate GM foods even know what a gene does in general. I'd go so far as to say I dislike organic foods. For thousands of years humans have been breeding the nutrition OUT of crops. Farmers have always picked the plants with the highest yeilds to breed, but in order for a plant to make a bigger yield, it has to ditch some of its nutritional value. Today our staple crops are full of starch, and seriously lacking in protein. Genetically modifying these crops could put the nutrition back in them, among other things. So what if my wheat has a fish gene in it. All it does is make an extra protein that protects it from cold weather. It's not gonna taste like fish for god's sake. People also fear GM crops getting into the wild and contaminating the natural gene pool. To that I say: so what? A GM crops gets into the wild and....? Now we have the ocassional plant the can survive colder weather too. Big deal. To be sure we should move forward slowly, and we should test these GM crops carefully, but this irrational fear is foolish. Learn what a gene does (codes for a protein), and become less ignorant before you pass judgement on GM foods.

-Of course, I agree  with the comments of Heretic616:

Looks like a couple of Joe Six Packs responded. Let's see, Brian says we need to become less ignorant, but he says "Big Deal" if an unintended consequence of GE occurs that just happens to be beneficial. What about the other not so beneficial outcomes that you realize down the road. These changes are in some cases irreversible and self perpetuating. BTW it was a flounder gene placed into a tomato to keep it from freezing. I try to buy all organic thank you. At least there is a standard that still has some meaning.
I suppose you think it's "irrational or foolish" to require labeling all GE foods so that consumers can make a choice to be guinea pigs or not?
Senor Craig equates today’s laboratory gene manipulation field trials (experiments) with yesterdays grafting and crossbreeding. Are you serious? You think the motive is to feed the world's hungry you're mistaken buddy. It's about maximizing profit, sold under the guise of altruism. I'm sure you also bought "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and "Clear Skies Initiative" and "Healthy Forests Initiative" eh?
Science beating down religion? You've got it all wrong. The population crisis and most wars can attributed to your wonderful religions. I'll stick with science thanks but not Monsanto's irresponsible brand.

A guy who claims he’s an African Buddhist  wrote on his profile:

Books: Who wants to READ !?

When Humans Had No Brain

I want to post a comment on youtube to reply to what a weird guy said about this video:

But there's a bug that stops me from posting it, like it often happens on youtube. So I'll post it here until it works someday :

In this post, I'll developp my thesis that demonstrates that Man was eating meat because he had no significant brain at the time, and that moving towards a vegan diet is just part of the natural evolution of human intelligentsia.

Fossilized human excrements were found in different continents and belonging to different prehistoric ages. By analizing the DNA, scientists made a shocking discovery, even for them. Analysis showed very little animal proteins, but almost only DNA of the plant kingdom : proteins of crushed seeds and nuts, grains, etc.

So, contrary to most people think, humans haven't always eat meat, even in prehistoric ages. There's always been some vegan nations, before, now, and probably more in the future -- I hope...

All animal proteins are foods of second category, they offer less quality nutritional properties. Men have always been eating foods from the nature, like the simple gesture to pick a fruit. That being said, there were times and occasions where men had no other choice to eat meat, so they were forced, that is why meat is called a survival food, and because it doesn't provide health benefits other than just to survive. This happened during the Ice Age, or even right now in Alaska, Groenland, Yukon, et cetera.

It is true that Mas was killing animals and eating their dead flesh when his brain wasn't developped enough.
Once human brain evolved to a superior level, he invented a complex system of agriculture. We learned what is the optimal nutrition for humans. We stopped moving to find food, we became sedentary and started to invent and build things, the first societies were born.

Today, we're completely disconnected to reality and to our real needs. We're connected to what the medias say. They're braindead, and sometimes for a brief moment they awake when they're  immersed in nature or if they witness acts of cruelty to an animal. If they're lucky, they might learn something from it, but unfortunately most of them, most of the times, it will be placed into a dark place of their brain and they will fall again into simple routine of accepting and ignoring all stupidities and murders surrounding them.

Would it be exagerated to say that people who eat meat nowadays don't have a brain ? It is permitted to think whatever we judge reasonnable, but I would rather say that when a meateater decides to make the transition to a plant-based diet, it is a great step for this person, her soul, karma, and there's certainly no con in the whole Universe resulting this choice. It necessitates to be conscious and aware of more things and it shows this person learned how to utilize more potential of her brain.
It is not a choice anymore, so much the actual situation is critic. It is our duty as Earthlings (those who innhabits planet Earth). We'll soon be 9 billion of people on Earth, and it is simply impossible to continue on using energies the way we do and with that kind of nutrition based on animal exploitation. Lack of space, explosion of pollution, et cetera.
Vegetarianism don't solve any problems, it is purely a choice for dietary tastes ("I don't like the taste of meat") or for health (no meat). The dairy cows, their babies, the laying hens, sheep for their wool, they're all being killed even if everybody was vegetarian.
Veganism solve ALL problems related to human nutrition and animals rights, no matter what frustrated meateaters can say.

When I hear omnivores today saying : "we should eat meat, even cavemen were eating meat". Well, if they are the model you chose to base your life on, fine. Therefore you should also go hunt by yourself, with rudimentary tools.
For my part, I prefer to chose as role models modern geniuses like Einstein or other great minds such as Pythagoras, Darwin... who were all vegetarians or vegans.

It is obvious that a vegan diet is the future.

EINSTEIN:
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

LEONARDO DA VINCI
He considered the bodies of meat-eaters to be "burial places," graveyards for the animals they eat. His notebooks are full of passages that show his compassion for living creatures. He lamented, "Endless numbers of these animals shall have their little children taken from them, ripped open, and barbarously slaughtered."

"I have learned from an early age to abjure the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."

PYTHAGORAS
"As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."

Why don't you kill yourself instead of doing this to others ?

We often say : if you would visit a slaughtherhouse or kill for your own meat, everybody would become vegetarian. Obviously that’s not the case, since workers in those places are not all vegetarian, in fact maybe none of them are. Then how can they keep inflicting pain everyday? They don’t, most of them quit their job after a short time. How many of them will become vegetarian when they quit their job, we don’t know. The workers who continue to work there for a long time are either psychopath morons with no feelings at all, or sadists who like to see others suffering.

Funny than Man dare calling himself "human" as if it meant to be "intelligent" and "civilized", yet he kill innocent living beings, of other species and it's own, for no reason. This is worse than stupidity it is cruelty and I refuse to participate in this.



"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Mahatma Gandhi
Hindu pacifist, spiritual leader

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

Immanuel Kant
German Philosopher

"To admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering is to destroy the very basis of human society."

John Galsworthy
English novelist and dramatist

“May those who turn a blind eye to the suffering of non-human sentient beings finally see” – Buddhist Prayer

"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then who can you hurt? What harm can you do?"

The Buddha
Indian Avatar

-"I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians."

Howard Lyman
Ex-cattle rancher, International lecturer
Author of Mad Cowboy

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
-- Paul and Linda McCartney

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
-Thomas More