Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00672)

> > Nothing can justify eating flesh of innocent animals.

> Laws of morality depend on stage of evolution.
I agree with you here.

> For men, they must always avoid cruelty.
I can only agree with you on this if you change your statement

<<< For men at your stage of evolution on the path that you are 
following, they must always avoid cruelty. >>>

It is right for you not to eat meat of any kind, because that is a 
decision that you made that is appropriate for where you are on your 
spiritual and evolutional path, but I do not believe that you can tell 
me that I am wrong because I choose to have approximately one meal a day 
that includes meat. (I call myself a half-vegetarian).

Likewise, even if someone overdoes the meat in his diet, like the crazy 
idiots who get that mega-bomb at that fast-food giant that wants to give 
people a giant sandwich with double or triple the calories needed for a 
daily intake, it is not up to us to judge them. If I tell a person he is 
wrong for his behavior, I am judging him, and that I find wrong. (Though 
sometimes, I find myself judging the huge companies who appear to be 
making their decisions based only on what is probably wrong for the 
recipients, like the article in today's newspaper about McDonald's 50th 
birthday coming up, and their realization that sales would be bigger if 
they emphasized sugar and other bad things in their ingredients lists.)

I'm reminded of a dream that I had I don't know how long ago. In it, I 
had earlier performed some duty for this person for which I was paid a 
thousand dollars. He then gave me a check for a second thousand dollars 
for which I was supposed to kill someone. The next day, I returned the 
check to him and told him that while it was right for him to kill the 
person, it was wrong for me to do it.

That dream is part of the reason that I do not judge people for doing 
something that I consider to be wrong, because God might have his 
reasons for it being right for that other person to do those things. 
(I'm not saying that it's right for them to do it and that they should 
get away with it based on that defense, just that between them and God, 
it is not for me to judge.)

I've had other interesting dreams, including a number of what I call 
"Dream within a Dream" which I feel to be the most spiritual. I keep 
meaning to expand on one or two of them, since a month ago, someone 
asked about the topic, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It was in 
one such dream that I "met God", at first, without knowing that he was 
God. In his physical presence, before I knew who he was, we talked like 
regular people, and I helped him get ready for a train show he was going 
to do for that city celebration. I remembered what we talked about in 
the physical presence.

But when I found myself in his godly presence rather than just his 
physical presence, he had all these wonderful things to say to me, but 
when I woke up out of the inner dream, I told the people in the 
Christian Commune where I had slept in that outer dream that I met God 
and that he had all these wonderful things to say to me, but that I 
couldn't remember one thing that he had said. A voice came to me and 
told me that the reason I couldn't remember what God had said to me was 
that God's message is different for each of us, and if I had repeated 
what God said to me, that somebody else might think that it was for 
them, too.

That dream is one of the reasons I do not insist that people agree with 
me on matters of spirituality. I have my own path to follow, and I'll be 
glad to tell others about my path, but I emphasize that their path can 
be different from mine.

I have others that I should comment on sometime, including one dream 
within a dream in the outer dream of which I promised to tell a family 
about my night of three major dreams (which actually happened months 
earlier) but woke up before I could tell them about them. (I was looking 
forward to hearing myself tell them about them.)

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