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VeganLit: Haiku

~ VeganMusa ~ wrote 14 hours ago: ~ in vegan lingo: A-B-C to Thiamine an earthen livin’ ~ @ ~ paws on two feet run along the coa … more →

Tags: Ranting Herbivore, Animal Rights, animals, Carnism, flesh eating, Food, Haiku, Herbivore, litarature

VeganLit: Spare a breath of me, dear omnivore, spare a breath of me

~ VeganMusa ~ wrote 18 hours ago: ~ spare a breath of me in the silence of your plate while i whisper the meekest ode; spare this agon … more →

Tags: Ranting Herbivore, Animal Rights, animals, Carnism, corpses, death, Dinner, flesh eating, Food

The ethical case for eating oysters and mussels3 comments

Sentientist wrote 2 days ago: “So, do mussels have like, tiny faces?” -a vegan friend It was five years ago this month … more →

Tags: Biology, vegan, Aquaculture, basal ganglia, biology 2, bivalves, clams, David Pearce, Dredging

That which makes us sapient

djr40 wrote 3 days ago: The nature of the creature: The claim is made that the monster’s actions, particularly near the end … more →

Tags: Blog #2 Replies, Mary Shelley, frankenstein, frankenstein's-monster, knowledge, humans

A few thoughts on "intelligence" and other species....

The Joyless Vegan wrote 1 week ago: Humans are so arrogant. We are willing to extend empathy and compassion to those non-human animals w … more →

Tags: Veganism, Vegans, Animal Rights, animals, intelligence, Sheep, non humans

The ethics of eating talking plants

ethicsbeyondcompliance wrote 1 week ago: In a blog post on The Atlantic Wire, Sara Morrison writes, “Just when moral vegetarians thought thei … more →

Tags: Bioethics, ethics, suffering, Animal Rights, vegetarian, bentham, Dennett, Descartes, Pain

Moms2 comments

Bruce Fertman wrote 1 week ago: Photo: B. Fertman  …from Where This Path Begins Renderings from the Tao Te Ching by Bruce Fert … more →

Tags: bruce fertman, gratitude, Lao Tzu, Loss, Love, Maturity, naturalness, Parenting, Peace

On Feminism2 comments

hmpittman wrote 2 weeks ago: You wouldn’t treat a woman as property, impregnate her against her will so that she begins to lactat … more →

Tags: vegan, Veganism, Feminism, the abolitionist approach, Cow, Property

Haiku 74

ScribblerBrown wrote 2 weeks ago: Between sense and thought In the belly of my brain I will digest you … more →

Tags: Haiku, Romantic, Creativity, Science, Faith, Epistemology, knowledge, Thought, Perception

The Aesthetic of Health2 comments

Nathan Daley wrote 2 weeks ago: In retaliation to the rapidly growing Quantified Self movement, which uses self-monitoring technolog … more →

Tags: ontology, Complexity, ecological medicine, Ecological Embodiment, Science, Philosophy, Wisdom, ways of knowing, Self-Realization or Self-Actualization

Group Sentience

pk wrote 2 weeks ago: Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teach … more →

Tags: reality, Group

Blood on the Starscape

dereknewmanstille wrote 3 weeks ago: A review of Peter Watts’ Blindsight (Tor, 2006) By Derek Newman-Stille Cover photo courtesy of http: … more →

Tags: Fiction Book Reviews, Reviews, Disability, Space, Alien, VAMPIRE, Outsider, prosthetic, normalcy

48. Upon the Brink of Destruction6 comments

Thomas Davis wrote 3 weeks ago: a passage from The Dragon Epic by Thomas Davis 1 As Sshruunak and his followers began To flee the vi … more →

Tags: Poetry, thomas davis, The Dragon Epic, dragons, Poems, Beauty, Fear, epic poetry, chaos

And never wake.

fumigatemymind wrote 3 weeks ago: I recently came across a pretty overwhelming stash of depressing poems and thought I should share th … more →

Tags: Melancholia, Poetry, Misery, Existence

The Growling of Animal Hymns

hlaird2013 wrote 3 weeks ago: I observed from the erratic growling of animal hymns, that sentience had rubbed your mind bare, and … more →

Tags: Love, WorDs, Madness

Bright Refrain1 comment

birchpoet wrote 3 weeks ago: A rolling stone on rivers bed, moves slowly towards the sea. Smoothing all abrasions there, the wate … more →

Tags: Poetry, Nature, Love, Divinity, Mother Earth, Sacred, Shine, Truth, Consciousness

"The Pale Blue Dot"

Dreamer of Dreams wrote 1 month ago: “The Pale Blue Dot“ Saw this image (click on link above) on Facebook today, and this occ … more →

Tags: Awake in Real Time: Coffee-induced Meditations and Jour, The Pale Blue Dot, vastness, Earth, Self Awareness

SEED by Rob Zeigler

heckhound wrote 1 month ago: In the ruins of what once was The United States, food is scarce, and life sucks, like really sucks. … more →

Tags: The Road, chupacabra, Open Ended, DNA, modification, Atwood, Ustopia, Discord, Red

One

L-FM wrote 1 month ago: It’s Friday, It’s Friday! Nobody ever gets tired of hearing about how it’s Friday. … more →

Tags: General, Fiction, Sci-Fi, writing, Afemi, sff, Short Stories, Machines, Friday


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