Does this ever happen to you hippies?

When someone tells me about someone cutting down a tree I have this great shiver run down my spine it disturbs me deeply. Sometimes when I watch my mom simply cut an orange it disturbs me. I'm a vegan but I feel sensitive to all life no matter how simple they may be perceived.

 

damn good thing you decided you wanted a place with more people, because the first time you whined about me cutting a tree down to keep your ass warm, your ass would have hit the road before the tree hit the ground...

 

Well I'd see the logic in it, but i'd probably cry anyways.

 

Why? Look around you, how many things are made from wood?

You want to feel bad about people clear cutting? I'll be right there beside you. But to be upset about a single tree being cut down? Come on....

 

I just appreciate life man, I know. Clear cutting is way worse. But like. replant atleast

 

Your heart is in the right spot. But, some trees just gotta go.
I shudder if one of my big trees needs to get cut down because I'll have to pay someone to do it.

 

This is where people lose me all the time...

Everything about everything we do, results in the death of something living.

Walking barefoot through a field kills plants, bugs and animals. To eat, things are killed all the time... animals AND plants. To build our homes, things are killed all the time.

You want to look at plastic and say, well nothing was killed to make that (seems it's from oil), but in reality, tons and tons and tons of living things died to produce that oil, in fact, that oil is the remains of them.

Even the monks that claim all life is sacred and sweep ants out of their way when they walk are part of the killing of tons of living things. Where their monastaries are built, there used to be living things. The materials they gathered and used to build them, as well as where they built them all had some form of life on them until it was killed to make way for them....

Being sensitive is one thing.... being sensitive and blind is a total other...

 

Have to let a tear when I see another onion get cut up..

 

run it under water while cutting it, and no more problems then....

 

Ah ok, drown them first right

 

silences their screams too

 

I'm not blind,I realise my mere existence destroys life. But, the point is to leave as little of a footprint behind as possible.

 

Which leaves a bigger footprint?

Cutting down a single tree

Or

Building a new house that won't be bothered by that tree?

A tree that is encroaching on a house, will constantly cause damage that needs to be repaired, using more resources every day.

 

all things must perish. this is something you sensitive hippie folk just have to figure out. there is no difference in life or death. it's all the same.

i can remember a time, though, when i smoked nearly an ounce of kush at one time with a friend and we were clearing land. i was super sensitive to my surroundings at that point and i could 'feel' the trees and bushes as i cut them down. i almost felt sorry for them.

but then i came back to reality and realized its just a tree and it's a waste of time to worry about stuff like that when i'm probably killing hundreds of bugs/animals/trees/people a day just through my lifestyle and the products i use and simply walking around and existing and breathing.

 

spot on old chap

:cheers2:

 

Nothing can be really wasted in this world except for time.

 

so are you pretty much sad all the time or what?

 

i cried every time a dinosaur crushed a tree

then i realized dinosaurs aren't here anymore, so i got really happy.

 

I used to work at a lumber yard. That was pretty fun.

 

Every time a tree dies, a dove cries. *sniff*