Forcing the Violation of Conscience, Respect for Life, and Rights, Utopia, and Freedom (part 2)

(The Case for Life as a Mystical Scared Unfathomable Gift.) Part II

Leapin' Lizards and hotsmokin' Valley of Josaphat. Can you say 1984? Or is it 2012?
There are
Tiny Little Machines   (huge inside)
everywhere
that record everything you do,
   want,
       buy,
          look at,
              say,
               write,
                    text tweet
                                  and have.

like this pause

--part one here.

But did you really think the government would make the decision that lipids are bad, latex is good, and begin to take charge of your children while you were still alive?

condoms for children

I want to explore why the recent move towards getting rid of the superstitious, dreamy, mystically stuff like religion is so important to some.
but first:
it's happy hour............
ok .I'm coming back here to put forth the idea of why some consider life
to be Sacred.

The Case for Life as a Mystical Scared Unfathomable Gift:

Ask yourself, why the big debate over abortion? If you are 'only' 25 years old, that question evokes a COMPLETELY different set of neuron firings than if you are 50 or 70.

It is impossible to argue or discuss issues unless one is willing to listen;
one wants to understand;
one is not focused on persuading the other but in
expanding understanding.
Like, Margaret Meade was not trying to make the villagers buy a dishwasher to scald the bacteria off the plates.
(Although in the case of throwing babies into volcanos, perhaps a quick diversion might be attempted...)

SO--
If one is a practicing Buddhist, or was raised a practicing Catholic, or studied many of the major and minor religions,
Life is a concept of wonder  to  ponder  respect  poetecize  value.
[In fact, if one studies the Values associated with Life, it becomes even more complicated (part III)]
But for now,
Just consider Life.
Meditate on Life.
and here is a little film to assist
embedded is the preview. The last 5 minutes of the film itself struck The Life in my very core.

OK so watch the whole show, then come back.

The Himalayas.

Watch The Himalayas - Preview on PBS. See more from Nature.

Can you be forced to violate your conscience regarding issues of life? 
related posts
 here  and   HERE 
and here

part 2.5 Can you be forced to kill and eat meat???

poem  http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/softer-than-milkweed.html

Respecting the Life of a Throw-away with "Unabashed Affection" and Dolly's Foundation

Harper the Pit bull: This little deformed dog was to die in a terrible way.

Get a kleenex. Video below.

" On Aug. 31, a woman in Sanford, Fla., first encountered the little dog when she spotted a squirming garbage bag. There was a man outside the Save-A-Lot selling pit-bull puppies for Fifty bucks a pop,” Daniel explained. “This woman approached him and noticed a noise coming from a garbage bag he was holding. She asked him, ‘What’s in the bag?’ and he said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ ”The woman pressed the issue and the man opened — and gave her — the contents of the bag. Inside was a puppy so deformed that it couldn’t walk or hold up its head. Shelter workers and veterinarians grimaced when they saw the dog and came to the same conclusion: It really should be euthanized.That’s when Daniel, a regular at the local animal shelter, stepped in. She decided to take the puppy home for one full and final day of unabashed affection. “I had to show her what it was like to be loved,” Daniel said. “I’d planned on taking her home that night, letting her sleep in bed with us, and having her humanely euthanized in the morning.” What a difference a day can make. Today, Harper is not only alive — she’s thriving. The frisky gray puppy is gaining more and more mobility each day, to the astonishment of onlookers and medical professionals.

Save the baby seals and pitbulls and humans and whales and oh, save it all...

By the way, i hope someone put that unscrupulous "salesman" out of his misery.

Y'know,

with some sensitivity training.

sorry ghandi

(Pray for people you feel disgust, hatred, anger, or violence toward-- do not let violence beget violence in your own heart...)
OK
So go to this link above to help out with the foundation, or to read the complete story.

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Dollys Foundation: HERE