(November 15, 2015 at 7:08 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:(November 15, 2015 at 4:56 am)Little Rik Wrote: Meat is s.hit but low form of consciousness could deal with that.
All this talk of low vs high forms of consciousness is based on .. what, exactly? What makes the quality of consciousness supported by vegetarianism 'higher'? What you call 'lower' is what I would call your humanity. You eschew that in order to obtain what you call 'higher' consciousness. But even if you could, why would you want to leave behind your humanity? What urgent business requires such a sacrifice? Becoming a 'disembodied' intelligence is essentially an escapist mission. I leave you to it.
Few hundred years ago there were no cars, no planes so people used to travel by foot or on carriages pulled by horses.
There was nothing wrong with that really.
In those times people never see the advent of cars and planes.
They were happy with what they had.
We are also happy the way we are.
We do not really think seriously that in the future we may get all our nourishment by swallow a tablet and we may travel from planet to planet in short time with a spacecraft.
Things change Whatever.
I don't really put down our ancestors for the way they used to live.
All i am saying is that as the time goes things must change in order to progress.
What used to work more or less in the past can not possibly work these days.
The vehicles of today run on a particular type of fuel.
The vehicles of tomorrow will need a different type of fuel.
In the same way the consciousness of today can not possibly carry on with the same type of material-physical-mental nourishment of yesterday.
