Sunday, May 25, 2025

The Future is Vegan 🌻

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

Mahatma Gandhi


I have from an early age abjured 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.

Leonardo da Vinci




Animals have the purity humans have lost.
Brigitte Bardot


Jesus answered... For I tell you truly,
he who kills, kills himself, and whoso
eats the flesh of slain beasts
eats the body of death.

The Essene Gospel of Peace Book One 38-41


The greatness of humanity is not in being human,
but in being humane.

Mahatma Gandhi


My own view is that being vegan is not an end
 in itself, but a means towards reducing both
human and animal suffering and leaving
a habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer



While vegans and meat-eaters disagree,
we can all be united in our fear and hatred
for the horror that is factory farming.

Joel Salatin


 Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,
which is the goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming all other living beings,
we are still savages.

Thomas Edison


Freethinkers are those who are willing to use
their minds without prejudice and without
fearing to understand things that clash with
their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
This state of mind is not common,
but it is essential for right thinking.

Leo Tolstoy


Change is the only constant in life.
Ones ability to adapt to those changes
will determine your success in life.

Benjamin Franklin


One day the absurdity of the almost universal
human belief in the slavery of other animals
will be palpable. We shall then have discovered
our souls and become worthier of sharing
this planet with them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Educate the children and it won't
be necessary to punish the men.

Pythagoras


The arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


The true measure of any society can be found
in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Mahatma Gandhi


You never change things by fighting
the existing reality. To change something,
build a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller


The measure of intelligence
is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein


Why are you so afraid of change? Nothing
in this world can be without change. Only
one rule is constant: do not do anything
inhumane to others.

Marcus Aurelius


Don't be pushed by your problems.
Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental
 test... consists of its attitude towards those
who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera


It is not an act of kindness to treat animals
respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Tom Regan


The day may come when the rest of the animal
creation may acquire those rights which never
could have been witholden from them
but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham


Just as we have tried to end racism, sexism and
ageism, we can also try to end speciesism.
A vegan lifestyle is the ultimate protest
against animal exploitation.

Benjamin Zephaniah


The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge
but imagination.

Albert Einstein

It's Time.

You see things; and you say 'Why'?
But I dream things that never were,
and I say 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw

Happy Mother's Day

A mother's love does not derive from the intellect
but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides






We're taught as children that milk
comes from cows when in reality,
milk comes from mothers.

Preacher Lawson



I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.
Fred Rogers


Sunday, May 18, 2025

You were Designed for Influence

The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso


The greatest gift you have to give
is that of your own self-transformation.

Lao Tzu


I believe that we are all creative beings and
that you were placed here on this earth
to create something of value to the world.
Something that will help others break free,
something that lights you up with passion
and something that is larger than just you.

Mastin Kipp


The only questions that really matter
are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin


Recognize that your birth was a response to
the world's requirements, not solely
your own wishes.

Epictetus


The purpose of life is not to be happy.
It is to be useful, to be honorable,
to be compassionate, to have it make some
difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Think about what your skills are, and what you
enjoy doing, or what you're good at and
employ those specific skills to make
the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur


Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing,
you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer


What you do makes a difference, and you have to
decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall



Champions are made from something they have
deep inside of them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Mahatma Gandhi


Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings


Pursue what's in your heart, and
the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll


The best way to find yourself is to
lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi


We change the world not by what we say or do
but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins


A burning passion coupled with absolute
detachment is the key to all success.

Mahatma Gandhi


Find out what makes you kinder,
what opens you up and brings out
the most loving, generous,
and unafraid version of you,
and go after those things
as if nothing else matters.

George Saunders


I don't know what your destiny will be,
but one thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer


Everything that's happened in your life
up until now has been preparing you to live
your purpose. These have been lessons and now
it's your time to step into your purpose and make
your mark. You are stronger than your
circumstances and what other people say.
There is something within you that is
only yours to give. Give us all you've got.

Mastin Kipp

Monday, May 5, 2025

Consciousness & A.I. 🤖

Emotion is the chief source of consciousness.
There is no change from darkness to light or
from inertia to movement without emotion.

Carl Jung


Man is an animal with primary instincts
of survival. Consequently his ingenuity
has developed first and his soul afterwards.
The progress of science is far ahead
of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin


Gods always behave like the people
who created them.

Zora Neale Hurston


The femme fatale expresses woman's ancient
and eternal control of the sexual realm.
The specter of the femme fatale stalks
all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia




Computers will overtake humans with AI
within the next 100 years. When that happens,
we need to make sure the computers
have goals aligned with ours.

Stephen Hawking


Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental
test... consists of its attitude towards those
who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera


True empathy is not self-focused but
other-oriented. Instead of making humanity
the measure of all things, we need to evaluate
other species by what they are.

Frans de Waal



Compassion is the signature
of higher consciousness.

Amit Ray


When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie


The Creature includes animals within its moral
codes, but is thwarted and deeply frustrated
when seeking to be included within the moral
codes of humanity. It learns that regardless
of its own inclusive moral standards, the human
circle is drawn in such a way that both it
and the other animals are excluded from it.

Carol J. Adams


If a group of beings were to land on Earth -
beings who considered themselves as superior
to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals
would you concede them the rights over you
that you assume over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw


The basis of all animal rights should be
the Golden Rule: we should treat them
as we would wish them to treat us, were
any other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens


The question is not, "Can they reason?"
nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham


The destiny of civilized humanity depends more
than ever on the moral forces it is capable
of generating.

Albert Einstein


Man worships an invisible God and destroys
a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature
he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves