The realities of being Human.

So here is my question, ready its a complex one and has many sides to it like the old house in my

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Do you think we would respect life more if we hunted and shot our own meat. You know that stuff that you pick out at the supermarket sitting in Styrofoam and covered with clear wrap. Now in this regard I am talking about actual shooting it and gutting it and all the gross parts involved. Recently I received a freezer full of deer meat cut and wrapped. Awesome gift as times are tight and this gives me meat for the winter. It is wrapped up like beef from the butcher shop. I did not shoot it. It was a gift and  just arrived in my freezer. So I took out my first steaks and barbecued it and ate it. Now I am not one of those people that dissociates the whole posses like some. I think about it all the time when I am eating meat of any kind. I am one of those people that evolved to a point where I carry ants and spiders out side and do not kill them. I respect all forms of life. I was not always this way but I am now. So anyway you would think that me eating that deer meat would be no different than going to the supermarket and buying a steak for supper. It was not every bite I thought something gave up its life so I could live. It was weird, I was so surprised it actually bothered me. So now I am thinking not of becoming a vegetarian but the opposite that if I am going to continue to eat meat I should be man enough to kill it myself and all that goes with that responsibility. I believe that I will respect the gift of life much more if I am not removed from the reality of killing and eating meat. We take so much of life for-granted and are Hippocrates about it. I am one to face my fears and false beliefs and change them to reality. We will find out but I know I will not have the euphoric experience of the thrill of the hunt. I believe it will be the opposite I will be sad and grateful that a animal gave its life so I could eat. The way this world is going I also think we need to survive in a different way we take running water, power, Internet, heat all the things for granted. It would not take much to cripple our grocery stores. People don't know how to even cook anymore every thing is pre packaged and microwaveable. So acquiring some skills and tools to grow your own food and hunt if you choose and have a plan if this world goes for a shit sure can't hurt or at least think about it. I don't mean going to extremes just some baby steps in that direction. I believe that you would have a lot more respect for Life and the environment and our planet and the people in it if you kill your own deer or what ever it is. Now some might say the opposite but I believe for us evolved souls it would be the opposite that you would have a profound new respect for life.

We will find out because I hate hypocrites and I am not giving up meat at this time in my life.

 If any of you have any thoughts on this post. I would like to hear them. I am ever evolving and changing my mind and views on the world and people in it and me in my own skin. So thanks for your time and have a great day and Think. Don't be one of those people that hide behind soft language like the deer past away or when you cook your next roast in the oven you associated it with something inanimate that had no life. Even plants are alive and we kill them and eat them. Milk was taken from a live cow. Cheese and yogurt are living cultures just like us. Pro biyotics are not man made Plastic objects. I just want you to be real and think about reality and embrace it.

Thought does that and conversations like this with different prospective s invoke our personal enlightenment to I hope a better place in our minds. Deep eh. lol anyhow I can not escape or hide from my thoughts and nor do I want to anymore. So the roller coaster ride continues. Maybe this weekend Phil will post a comment or two on what he thinks about this idea of disassociation we all suffer from. 

Ps I took the photo's they make me imagine a different time where there was no choice but to live in alignment with the earth and respect what you have to do to stay alive and appreciate the little things.

Chow for now folks stay safe and stay real.