幽玄: yu-ugen; lit. profound mystery; truth beyond intellectual comprehension.

this blog includes random things I find interesting/important. my culture blog is: http://peoplesoftheearth.tumblr.com/

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  29th May

  goldenphoenixgirl:

  The voices of rape culture.

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  29th May
  Indiscriminate Heart: theveganabolitionist: littleojibwe: That awkward moment when a vegan...

  yuugen-reflections:

  indiscriminateheart:

  theveganabolitionist:

  littleojibwe:

  That awkward moment when a vegan kills 9 baby chickens at different stages to show non-vegans what we already know; eggs are baby chickens… Yeah you really care for animal rights don’t you?　

  Or they just found the pictures on the internet?

  Lol that awkward moment when you are too ignorant to realize that they would have been ground up, suffocated or forced to live a miserable life as an egg-laying hen anyway (depending on their gender) because your selfishness.

  As this argument includes two blogs that I like and one being a fellow Nichiren Buddhism follower (SGI?), I will say that first of all, I do not like posts such as the one the OP made because everyone has different reasons for eating what they eat so the thing with the eggs was really quite pointless. however, there is also no way of knowing that the eggs were from industrially raised chickens so no way of knowing for certain what type of life they would have had, so littleojibwe’s point is valid.

  also as a Buddhist, indiscriminateheart, I know that you know there is no good reason to commit an act of violence like that, regardless of what type of life the  chicks could have had. whoever made those pictures failed to take into consideration that people who eat animals products don’t always do it out of ignorance or lack of compassion, there are a multitude of reasons that make eating animals products necessary. I’m glad I can choose not to do that, but not everyone can, and those that have no choice in the matter should not be made to feel guilty about it. I think in this matter it’s necessary to have compassion for not only the animals, but also people that may have valid reasons for having to eat them. compassion doesn’t count for much when it’s easy to uphold. and as for those that make animals suffer with no compassion for them and no reason for having to commit such an act, you know that negative behaviour will come back to bite them. they don’t need anyone to tear them down, the universe will take care of that.

  1. Nope, not SGI, I’m an independent practitioner.

  2. Industrially raised or not, almost all chickens lives end too early and unnaturally.

  3.  Consumption of animal products is unnecessary. If you do consume animal products, you’re ignorant or uncompassionate. You should feel guilty as shit and then act on it. Period.

  4. My point was not to say that they would have died anyway. My point was that she was quick to say that a vegan opened those eggs and took the picture, insinuating we’re hypocrites, when the picture was likely found on the internet. She likely consumed that many eggs in the past 2 weeks and wants to absolve her own guilt of committed atrocities by pointing her finger at animal rights activists.

  To you fellow Nichiren Buddhist, do animals not deserve your compassion? Is not the point of Nichiren Buddhism to end suffering? Do believe you are above other sentient beings and that you should not have to try to end their suffering?

  Thanks for elaborating, I understand your meaning more now. I definitely feel that responsibility to end suffering deeply, I suppose we just go about doing that in different ways. I think all sentient beings are equal, there is no life more important than another. But whilst I may not agree with people eating animals products in any case, I know there are definitely some circumstances where not eating animals products at all makes getting enough food to survive incredibly difficult, sometimes impossible, for some people. people living in extremely cold/barren places for example. in cases such as that I don’t see how there is a right outcome, either a human or an animal has to suffer and I wouldn’t want either to. I just personally cannot go about dealing with that in a harsh way, I’d rather concentrate my efforts on looking for a long term resolution to that difficult circumstance. I understand your anger, I really do, I just have never seen problems solved merely by anger. It’s just my personal way of doing things, but when I am trying to bring about a positive change, I would rather go about doing that in as positive a way as possible, because that feels right to me. I just relate that to cause and effect, thinking about the energy I am putting out into the world. as I said, I understand your perspective, I just don’t feel that it’s necessarily going to make people stop eating animals products. maybe I am wrong though :)

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  29th May
  Indiscriminate Heart: theveganabolitionist: littleojibwe: That awkward moment when a vegan...

  indiscriminateheart:

  theveganabolitionist:

  littleojibwe:

  That awkward moment when a vegan kills 9 baby chickens at different stages to show non-vegans what we already know; eggs are baby chickens… Yeah you really care for animal rights don’t you?　

  Or they just found the pictures on the internet?

  Lol that awkward moment when you are too ignorant to realize that they would have been ground up, suffocated or forced to live a miserable life as an egg-laying hen anyway (depending on their gender) because your selfishness.

  As this argument includes two blogs that I like and one being a fellow Nichiren Buddhism follower (SGI?), I will say that first of all, I do not like posts such as the one the OP made because everyone has different reasons for eating what they eat so the thing with the eggs was really quite pointless. however, there is also no way of knowing that the eggs were from industrially raised chickens so no way of knowing for certain what type of life they would have had, so littleojibwe’s point is valid.

  also as a Buddhist, indiscriminateheart, I know that you know there is no good reason to commit an act of violence like that, regardless of what type of life the  chicks could have had. whoever made those pictures failed to take into consideration that people who eat animals products don’t always do it out of ignorance or lack of compassion, there are a multitude of reasons that make eating animals products necessary. I’m glad I can choose not to do that, but not everyone can, and those that have no choice in the matter should not be made to feel guilty about it. I think in this matter it’s necessary to have compassion for not only the animals, but also people that may have valid reasons for having to eat them. compassion doesn’t count for much when it’s easy to uphold. and as for those that make animals suffer with no compassion for them and no reason for having to commit such an act, you know that negative behaviour will come back to bite them. they don’t need anyone to tear them down, the universe will take care of that.

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• 
  28th May

  poohead189:

  sciencecenter:

  Don’t look now, but the world’s fisheries are plummeting.

  D: 

  This is one of the few things that truly pisses me off.

  This may seem extreme but is accurate. At the moment it looks likely to be past the tipping point for saving our oceans, if not very close to it, as climate scientists are unsure how much worse climate change will get, and the increasing temperatures are causung very serious ocean acidification, which is bleaching (and thereby killing) coral reefs, which support a lot of marine life. Add to that the fact the pollution is making a lot of marine animals toxic to eat anyway, especially things like whale, shark and seal, which are some of the animals that isolated places rely on as a primary food source. So this isn’t just about the death of marine life, this is also about the deaths of people that are and will be caused by overfishing and ocean pollution.

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• 
  27th May

  elige:

  yourmaj3sty:

  globalconsciousevolution:

  [Pyramids of Glass Submerged in the Bermuda Triangle]

  “These strange underwater pyramid structures at a depth of two thousand meters were identified with the help of a sonar according to oceanographer Dr. Verlag Meyer. Studies of other structures like Yonaguni in modern day Japan have allowed scientists to determine that the two giant pyramids, apparently made of something like a thick glass, are really impressive - each of them is larger than the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.”

  I’ve heard, a while back that there’s a pyramid underwater near the Bahama Straight or something like that. The infor I’ve heard is that on a bright clear day, you can actually see a pyramid sitting on the ocean floor…and that it has an eye on it and that it’s visible when the Sun hits it at the right angle. This MAY be it but, I’m not sure…

  lovely

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• "Where the mood of the moment is solitary and quiet it is called sabi. When the artist is feeling depressed or sad, and this particular feeling of emptiness catches a glimpse of something rather ordinary and unpretentious in its incredible “suchness,” the mood is called wabi. When the moment evokes a much more intense, nostalgic sadness connected with autumn and the vanishing away of the world, it is called aware. And when the vision is hinting at an unknown never to be discovered, the mood is called yugen."
  27th May
  Source: From Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen, p. 176. (via thenightlymirror)
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• 27th May

  meanderingwind:

  7 Random Uses for Used Tea Bags

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• "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again."
  23rd May
  Source: Gautama Buddha  (via ceyris)

  (Source: nirvikalpa)

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• "If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears."
  23rd May
  Source: Stephen Fry (via disobey)

  (Source: caffeine-in-my-veins)

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  23rd May
  The word ‘gypsy’
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  22nd May

  lulushka:

  flowers-for-hamlet:

  conservativebrew:

  Let’s see if this is actually true. ALL of the following men where Roman Catholic priests:

  • Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli (1817–1899) – Botanist who was one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology
  • Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294) – Significant contributions to mathematics and optics; forerunner of modern scientific method
  • Eugenio Barsanti (1821–1864) – Possible inventor of the internal combustion engine
  • Daniello Bartoli (1608–1685) – Bartoli and fellow Jesuit astronomer Niccolò Zucchi are credited as probably having been the first to see the equatorial belts on the planet Jupiter
  • Paolo Boccone (1633–1704) – Cistercian botanist who contributed to the fields of medicine and toxicology
  • Anselmus de Boodt (1550–1632) – One of the founders of mineralogy
  • Theodoric Borgognoni (1205–1298) – Medieval Surgeon who made important contributions to antiseptic practice and anaesthetics
  • Christopher Borrus (1583–1632) – Mathematician and astronomy who made observations on the magnetic variation of the compass
  • Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787) – formulation of modern atomic theory, important contributions to astronomy
  • Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1290–1349) – Mathematician who contributed to mean speed theorem; one of the Oxford Calculators
  • Jean Buridan (c. 1300 – after 1358) – Early ideas of momentum and inertial motion; sowed the seeds of the Copernican revolution in Europe
  • Jean Baptiste Carnoy (1836–1899) – Founder of the science of cytology
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647) – He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on the precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the introduction of logarithms to Italy. Cavalieri’s principle in geometry partially anticipated integral calculus
  • Charles-Michel de l’Épée (1712–1789) – Known as the “father of the deaf” and established the world’s first free school for the deaf
  • Václav Prokop Diviš (1698–1765) – Studied the lightning rod independent of Franklin; constructed the first electrified musical instrument in history
  • Jean-Charles de la Faille (1597–1652) – Jesuit mathematician who determined the center of gravity of the sector of a circle for the first time
  • Andrew Gordon (Benedictine) (1712–1751) – Benedictine monk, physicist, and inventor who made the first electric motor
  • Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) – Philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist who is often referred to as the “father of acoustics”
  • Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175 – 1253) – One of the most knowledgeable men of the Middle Ages; has been called “the first man to write down a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment.”
  • Antoine de Laloubère (1600–1664) – The first mathematician to study the properties of the helix
  • James B. Macelwane (1883–1956) – “The best-known Jesuit seismologist” and “one of the most honored practicioners of the science of all time”; wrote the first textbook on seismology in America
  • Pierre Macq (1930– ) – Physicist who was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences for his work on experimental nuclear physics
  • Christian Mayer (astronomer) (1719–1783) – Jesuit astronomer most noted for pioneering the study of binary stars

  Two of my favorites:

  • Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) – Augustinian monk and father of genetics
  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) –Renaissance astronomer famous for his heliocentric cosmology that set in motion the Copernican Revolution

  And of course, my all-time favorite:

  • Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) – Father of the Big Bang Theory

  This is simply a short list of an even greater number of cleric-scientist. So, you can either believe the rant of an atheist or, actual, recorded, historical and factual data…your call.

  Yeah… I’ve always been of the opinion that, if God created this universe and we are the stewards, we are 100% responsible for studying the hows and the whys to the way things work in order to be proper stewards and best take care of the world.

  I respect Richard Dawkins, he’s an intelligent man, but I think this is a GROSS over-generalization about religion in general.

  My significant others mother is a geneticist, and a devout member of the Russian Orthodox church. Just because Mr. Dawkins could not comprehend being both religious and scientific ..doesnt mean others are not able to.

  reblogging for the comments. Richard Dawkins’ views on religion are just as dangerous as those of religious extremists. both religion and science are tools, the problem is when people take an either/or point of view, start believing in absolutes and refuse to consider other’s perspectives.

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• 
  22nd May

  valscrapbook:

  theforbiddencolors: Poppy seed pods, by Dragan

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  22nd May

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  22nd May

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  22nd May

  raspberrytart:

  Dandelion escape (by *December Sun)

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