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Originally Posted by knightoflenity
You'll see from my comments elsewhere - especially in the thread "can a truly spiritual person eat meat" that I believe that nature alone dictates - humans try much like yourself saying that everyone should be vegetarian.
The rest of what you say is obviously a mantra that you tell yourself - it makes sense to you & whilst some points are valid you don't converse with others - you merely repeat statements over & over.
I grew out of parties along time ago dude - I used to go to them to check out the ladies  - now I'm married there is no reason to do so.
Political parties are stupid - they don't represent me they represent set ideals ... so what other party are you referring to?
I also worked in animal welfare so I've done a lot more for nature than most. I respect it's laws especially when animals attack.
Hang on - I'm gonna have a me party  we forgot those.
# click for a me party #
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I've been having a non-stop,
non-egotistical "me-party" for the past three days now! lol
Following on from the scenes of yesterday's celebrations, where I witnessed exactly
how the oral tradition of my culture gets passed down through successive generations according to the whole
smriti tradition.
...but oh wai, it's time for the next pictorial installment of 'scenes from Necro's memory mark II'.
The Royal Bali Sea-Cave Temple of Tanah Lot
http://www.orangesmile.com/extreme/i...anah-lot_1.jpg
This will be the location for today's 'me-party' - yes, we have shifted venues from the Ancient Prambanan Temple yesterday, with a side trip up to Borobudur to take in some traditional Javanese dancing.
Whilst at Tanah Lot, we'll see who can build the best Shiva sculpture on the beach eh? and I mean I think this guy wins it hands-down! yet another memory from my past:
Lord Shiva Sand Sculpture:
http://static.dnaindia.com/locality/...?itok=cMz_45nU
We used to do sculptures of Lingams in the sand all the time...write "Om Namah Shivaya" in the sand and watch the waves come and erase it all before doing it all over and over again...we'd float rudraksha beads on the waves...
Of course the festival/celebration yesterday was Thaipusam at Batu Caves, Malaysia, where devotees of the Lord became entranced and pierced their bodies all over with metal objects...today we'll stay in Bali, and because I mentioned the celebration of Nyepi before...I'm going to build a huge effigy of a Yaksha Demon and burn it...just like these guys do:
Balinese Nyepi Day Celebrations - After the Silence
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/m...jpg?1420503664
Oh why not? Nyepi basically occurs a month after Shiva Ratri, So I am going to take myself off to Amritsar and join the Sikh tradition for the day as they worship Lord Shiva
their way! So after a day of listening to 'Bhole Baba - Mast Malang' Sihk-inspired Bhangra beats, we join the children of the village:
School Children dressed as Lord Shiva take a 'SELFIE'
https://countzpr.com/2016/12/27/scho...-for-a-selfie/
How cute is that, right? I love the little babes dressed up as Hindu Gods...stirs my heart, it does!
So, I return to Bali and instead of catching a performance of the Wayang Kulit puppet show (the puppets made from pig-skin), I took in a performance of the Wayang Golek instead, using wooden puppets which have a multitude of features...and no two puppets are
ever the same because they represent humans and human nature. I used to collect the Wayang Golek as a child myself and I had hundreds of them! the oldest one I had dated back to 1850...here's what they look like:
Wayang Golek Collection
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fC0_PBBazF...yang-Golek.jpg
So, that's been my little 'me party' for the past 24 hours....and now you may all begin to see totally
why I am like I am.
It's not just book learning...studying the Hindu scriptures and all of that...NO! and of
course I did all that too...but all of these things provided the whole backdrop and laid the groundwork for it all to happen.