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How to not hate peope.

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Catyren Catyren WA Posts: 542
31 7 Sep 2011
Amos* said:
I too spewed all day and all night from 8-18weeks pregnant, lost over ten kgs... worst time of my life, I couldn't move fo so many days just glued to my spew bowl, could not keep water down ugh horrific memories. I also found pregnancy very uncomfortable, but absolutely magical. I'll never forget those first flutters, and the fun of poking a little elbow sticking out of my tummy only to have it push back, amazing!

I had a long labour of a few days but the real pain was only in the last hour and extremely so in the last ten mins or so. Yes the pain was the worst but in a way it's the most bearable because you know what it's for iykwim? But oh my god the feelings afterward are indescribable. watching her dad bawl his eyes out, I've never seen him so filled with joy and holding our tiny little person for the first time *mindblowing* especially when she started hiccupping -she hiccupped all through the pregnancy and I remember when she first came out, looking into her eyes thinking who are you, then she hiccupped and I knew!

All the puking pain and gore was worth it though, which is why we're trying for number 2 right now happy


PS I have a few friends who do the whole positive thinking hypnobirthing thing and claim it didnt hurt.
I'm interested in the water birth idea, looks interesting. I want a baby someday, regardless of the pain and the 'morning' sickness. Just makes me feel a bit selfish when we're so overpopulated and so many kids in the world that have no parents or can't be cared for by their biological parents.
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katherooni katherooni SA Posts: 209
32 8 Sep 2011
I am a bit torn with the kids thing...some days I think 'why should i bring another selfish human into this world, what would it be like for them in 25 years?' but then I think if anyone should be bringing new people into the world it should be us!!!

bring on the caring, ethical population!
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Pegs Pegs VIC Posts: 1538
33 8 Sep 2011
Supercalifragilisticexpiali... said:
Adoption is fantastice but incredibly difficult in Australia. I know at least three couples who have gone through all the processes and come out years later still with no child.
My Aunty had to wait 6 and a half YEARS to get her baby! Little Li Li is so cute though, cutest little baby i've ever seen happy
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GoldAutumn GoldAutumn NSW Posts: 137
34 7 Jul 2012
Nobody said:
Honestly, I don't know how I cope.

When I first went veg, my depression actually left me (for the first time in many years). Knowing I was making a difference by changing to a more compassionate lifestyle made me so happy. I also removed some distasteful people from my life - I felt great!

But a few months ago my depression came back - After seeing so many video clips and news stories revealing the destructive and disgusting side of humans.
So many people don't care. They live their lives like careless, thoughtless zombies... and the world is suffering for it.
And of course, no matter how Earth friendly I try to be, I'm still leaving my own carbon footprint on this planet.
It is very depressing.

I try to lift my spirits, telling myself I'm doing the best I can... I guess that's how I cope.
I know exactly how you feel! I drift between being proud of myself for saving lives and being depressed at the cruelty animals still suffer.
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Mr Gone Mr Gone NSW Posts: 141
35 7 Jul 2012
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Casper.s2 Casper.s2 SA Posts: 1640
36 8 Jul 2012
Scuba-addict said:
Hi peeps of unleashed.

So I'm really new to the vegetarian lifestyle (1 month wooohoo! Veggie as I eat eggs, but no meat or dairy) and was wondering how everyone felt when they first 'turned'.

In the last two months i've seen things (Earthlings, The Cove, Home etc) and learnt so much about the way animals and our planet is being treated and i'll be honest. Its downright depressing.

So how do you all 'cope'? Any tips on how to not hate humans?! As as a species we are comepletly destroying our world and I can't see how we are ever going to stop...we will just end up killing everything...

Sorry for being super depressing!!
*Howls!!!
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Casper.s2 Casper.s2 SA Posts: 1640
37 8 Jul 2012
katherooni said:
I am a bit torn with the kids thing...some days I think 'why should i bring another selfish human into this world, what would it be like for them in 25 years?' but then I think if anyone should be bringing new people into the world it should be us!!!

bring on the caring, ethical population!
hum.. yes indeed.. you're far more capable (perhaps) of raising a non-selfish child if with the bent, of those whom choose not to have children.. aka for ethical reasons.

(I mean if you forego the luxury of spoiling your children in all the wrong ways,
you're more likely to be caring for them and supporting them as they add to you,
as any relationship should. Instead of being a cope of compromise or regression.)


the rational should overcome the ethical in this instance...

who are — setting an example for...? the tribes i which having 7 kids makes you less of a mother... proving your fertile and thus importance/self with 20 kids.

it would make more sense to raise your own children..

would adopting solve that issue, as these people breed until collapse? as in... have as many kids as they can or even can't sustain.

so.. it is like a space for another body to fill.

well I don't know... hmm

I think... this choice falls short on this premise, but holds great substance in the focuses it allows for a life. though maybe it is those drives of raising young which give the later years?

maybe without those drives engaged, one would stop growing... as such

though we're talking about a scrupulous and perspicacious individual of un-quantifiable constitution. so again, maybe those drives un-engaged with ones' own possession (a child)... this is what those focuses (i choose not to be more unequivocal) are in lieu of...

one or the other perhaps? in a dedicated sense of being.

(I refer to a self pruned tree, who bares no seed, but also loses no branches to a misguided life ~ haha then gets technical like the purpose of fallen branches in slowing water movement and fallen bark in allowing time for rain to soak down in mulch)
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Bright eyes33 Bright eyes33 NSW Posts: 64
38 9 Jul 2012
It feels like my heart was broken and now im trying to mend it.
It does changes your whole perception on shit.

You just have to know that your doing your best, and be proud that you do not fund or endorse the rape of animals.

I found myself needing to prove myself, i started working out frequently and studying hard so if that helps and it might also help to have an idle to motivate you such as mac danzig if your a fighter or woody harrleson or joaquin phoenix...

It also helps to have a vegan partner.
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