A bit of futurology: cancer + meat + marijuana

... with a bit of humor, too.

Interview to Krishna Nath

In 2013 we interviewed a friend of Krishnamurti, Professor Krishna Nath, at Valley School, Bangalore, India.
The Spanish translation is in progress.

Defending animals

Why do some people criticize those who oppose, say, the Toro de la Vega, arguing that there are animals that suffer much more throughout their lives?
In this they are quite right: the treatment of pigs in cages where they can barely move, or the treatment of dogs in Asia, etc can not be compared with the treatment given to the bulls.

But there are several errors of judgment here, the most important being ... how do these critics know that people who are concerned with the Toro de la Vega is not also concerned with the welfare of other animals? And with that way of seeing things, one should not help a poor Spaniard anymore, just because there are poors in much worse conditions in Somalia

The truly sensitive people seek to end all kinds of harm to animals, never mind whether the damage is little, or too much, and regardless of the numbers either.

One acts to end animal suffering in all its forms, in all times and in all places and that's it.

Let's see if they end with that mantra once !!!



Original post: http://galaxio.blogspot.com/2015/07/defender-los-animales.html

Open eyes

For so many years I thought that the problem of humanity was not to perceive the Good, to realize now that that is not enough, that more serious than that is not to perceive the Evil. 

Not to perceive both is to be blind. 
To perceive only the Good is to be one-eyed. 
To perceive both the Good and the Evil is to have both eyes open.



From: http://galaxio.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/ojos-abiertos-open-eyes.html

I hug you but I want you away

Listening to the Spanish anthem whistling at the final of the Copa del Rey ... ok, historical reasons that led to that are understandable, but there is something very strange that often go unnoticed.

Catalonian and Basque nationalists get along very well, hug each other, sing together, are twinned in the desire to separate from Spain, but they seem not to realize that, in seeking independence, not only want independence from Spain but also from each other.

That is, now the Basque Country and Catalonia are one country and speak a common language ... if they become independent of Spain, Euskadi also will become independent of Catalunya and vice versa. This implies that in the latter, there is also a rejection of the "comrade independentist"

Then indeed there is a friendly spirit of "I want to see you farther and farther away."

This is also problematic, because suppose that after the mutual independence both Basque and Catalan forget the Spanish language .... mmm ... will be good to see with what language they will communicate with each other as in practice they are currently promoting a monolinguistic education in their regions. As a result, today many more schoolchildren and young people are seen talking in Catalan and Basque than 10 years ago, although this increase is being discussed.

If they become monolingual (this is one of the possibilities if nationalist movements succeed), future generations of young Basques and Catalans will be at the same distance from one another than both are now from a young German, because of their mutually unintelligible languages.

So they are friends hugging each other in an intimate desire to be away from each other .... this is very strange.
Links (spanish):
Aumento del uso del catalán
Disminución del uso del catalán
Estado actual del uso del euskera

The influence of the stars

The influence of the stars is very small, but steady. Only becomes important in cases where the straw breaks the camel's back.

The sum of all the broken camels become visible in the statistics, but in everyday life you have to be more attentive to see the differences.

Economic corruption is just a reflection of something deeper

If I could vote today in Spain, I would vote PACMA. 

It is more important for this country, morally speaking, to stop hanging 30,000 greyhounds every year, to stop organizing "traditional fiestas" where teens kill calves in front of children and drunken parents, to stop spearing bulls, to stop throwing goats from bell towers, to stop tormenting donkeys... and the long list of cruelty to animals for which Spain is sadly notorious. It is more important that than ending economic corruption - even considering that the issue of corruption is really screwed here.

I think you can hit deeper in the Spanish group mind ending the mistreatment of animals than jailing 400 corrupts that sooner or later will receive what they deserve, anyway. 

Logically, if both things happen, well ... how wonderful! But if I were forced to choose, I'd rather start with the deep healing of the spirit, because the economic corruption is only a superficial manifestation of a deeper corruption: the corruption of the relationship with nature.

And that healing begins exactly like this: preventing cruelty, extending compassion.