CosmicBDog with guest speaker Daniel Priestley

I hear what you're saying Jaki… i find it a challenge though and I question our generations over tolerance and acceptance of differing beliefs. People tell me I need to be more tolerant of other beings beliefs… but often its coming from people who don't show me that is how they deserve to be treated because they completely overlook every animals beliefs that wind up on the plate.

“Each to their own!*” they say in defense of you drawing on their lack of morals and peaceful judgements. With a little asterix pointing you to the footnote in their commentary which says “unless you're an animal I eat… then no each for you.”.

 I just honestly don't want to tipsy toe around this situation. Say you're walking through the park one day, and you see a girl being raped… do you yell out “RAPIST!! HELP!!!” or do you go and give the guy the hug he never got from his mum when he was growing up?

Like 50 Cent says “i call a circle a circle and a square a square, and if you're a bitch I'll call you a bitch, probably call you right back and shit”. While not the most enlightening lyrics, there is some relevance to my point here, and that here we are in a movement of people who have joined an era of spiritualists, where we are often passively aggresive. On the surface, we run around introducing ourselves with 'namaste' and 'inlakesh' and other phrases of unity, while doing this so that we don't have to admit that there is also a very real and perceivable reality that we are different, judge each other and do not agree or feel a unity. Without admitting this difference we are fooling ourselves. Its a false getting along, where underneath storms brew and bubbles pop.

I'll be one of the first to see myself in life. I look at myself in situations and I see stupid things in society. I question my own stupidity. Because isn't the reality that we are in illusion here? So isn't it impossible to move towards the truth without admitting we are in illusion? Confronting ourselves? Realising the reality that we are actually stupid in the scheme of things? Isn't pretending to be advanced and intelligent while we run around messing up the planet, no matter how eco minded you may think you are, just a big self deluded destruction making mindset?

Why can't stupidity work? For me it did wonders. I woke up one day and said “Man, you are one fucked up dude… why did you do all these things for? You're an idiot. You're a hipcrit. Feel this shame for what you've done. How dare you think you could live a happy and free life while you run around murdering and raping animals of earth. Feel this pain you bloodlusting motherfucker. Wake up”. 

Bang… it snapped me out of it. Am I perfect? No, but I don't run around chanting messages of peace and unity anymore while chomping on murder. I'm not a hipocrit like that anymore. And who can knock me down? Who can give me a worse criticism then what I've given myself? Without admitting this vital peice of reflection to myself, that I was fucking up my home, that I was destroying lives… that I was ignorant and foolish and everything else, how could I speak my truth without being afraid somebody would knock me down into some humble quiet state of passivity? How is it possible to move forward without this fear of confronting others in such a way that you have nothing to lose? How can one take a step forward without knowing whether he is standing on solid earth, or in the ocean, or flying through the clouds? Its just the paradigm that there's a whole movement of people trying to walk on the earth while they are actually floating in the clouds. 

“I am love… I am one with all… I do unto others”*

But there is that asterix again… nicely cancelling out the whole beliefs they may have about karma and as it is below being the world that fractals above when it comes to the torture and dominion and ensalvement of creatures.

“I'm an animal lover” says the pet owner. “I love my dog… here dog, want some of this left over cow I'm eating? Wow, we're so loving, we even love animals in the flesh way as well… ahh, we are enlightened and loving”. *buzzer sound* wrong… Thats stupid. Its laughable. Its got ignorance and blindness written right on the forehead. Its not compassion… its murder. Its rape. Its not admitting what it is which is a cult of blood lust. Its people being so stupid that they don't see that they are eating animal. And without admitting “I am stupid for not making this connection every time I buy a package of meat which is no different to my pet dog” is how people tolerate it within themselves. Its how meat eaters don't mind eating meat in front of vegetarians because there isn't enough shame and guilt around it.

Is it possible, that these new ideas of shame and guilt being wrong, is actually societies way of collectively getting together to defend a stupid paradigm? So instead of everybody actually looking at how we are fucking the mother earth up together, lets be all accepting of each others destruction. Because this person over here wants to stay drug fucked, while this person wants to be bedroom pedophile, while this other person wants to be a animal rapist, while this person wants to be a land destroyer… we all have these dark hidden things we do, so instead of confronting ourselves and the messed up things we do, lets create a nice idea where we accept one another…ahhh… namaste… see, how god does this feel? My little boy in the basement is ok because thats my choice… so respect my choice… its not disgusting. My war in the middle east is alright to fuel my dark destructiv ways of being an oil guzzling car driver… its ok, because I'm an eco head who recycles plastic and I give money to greenpeace. And I donate money to the Animal Welfare society, because I don't like animal cruelty, but I eat chops and sausages cuz I'm demented and don't make a connection how rediculously moronic and contradictory my life is, hence why I'm powerless and pluggin away trying to communicate my potential as an ocean through a little straw.

My ridicule is toungue in cheek. Why? Because its so insanely hard to confront how stupid we all are. We're in a vast and infinite universe just starting to wake up… and the more we wake up the more infinite we realise it is and how miniscule and asleep we are and little we know. By taking ourselves so seriously that we can't recognise our stupidity, then I feel there is no chance to grow. I can tell you this little becon of light here didn't get where he was from pats on the back alone, but brutal honesties and considering the reality that what he is doing is creating carnage and chaos for others. 

If some big tough guy had of come up to me 20 years ago and said “Bobby, if you eat Betty, if you eat any of my animals… man, I am going to seriously fuck you up big time. I will tear you limb to limb.” I would have stopped eating meat then and there. Sure, maybe once the big man was in the distance, I would be back to eating animals, but then if there were many men like him running around… and perhaps if there were woman showing me their disgust for eating meat and making me feel horrible for doing it, that would have worked as well. But instead, most vegetarians also tap into this thing of being compassionate and accepting and because they are a minority, they don't get the chance to investigate the power and influence of being direct and brutal in a loving way.

Personally, me telling somebody they are stupid and haven't gained my full support is one of the kindest things I can do. While on a level below, I feel very close to everybody, the superficial confrontation of helping somebody see a much deeper and longlasting personal experience is worth it to me. It just repulses me to pretend and I see so much fakeness amongst the apparent spiritual tribes around the world. I see fear where they are such a minority and so afraid of losing connection with the few other spiritual or likeminded people they find that they step so lightly around another that they don't ever confront the real situations. 

So I hear what you're saying. Don't call people stupid even though I think it about a lot of them. But at the end of the day, I'm not killing people… I'm not raping… My comments of 'stupidity' don't even begin to weigh up against the actions of murder.