Quote: Only through depression and suffering full wisdom can be achieved. You still live in your own favourite reality tunnel and calm yourself with optimistic thoughts. Ignorance at its finest.
In this world, we are given a choice. We are given the choice to see and react to the world how ever we want. Just because we choose to live in our "favourite reality tunnel and calm ourselves with optimistic thoughts", in no way means we are ignorant. The only pain, suffering, and misery we experience in our life depends on the way we react to outside forces. If someone pokes fun of you at school, you are given the choice to react in whatever way you deem fit. Ignorant people never even consider this choice actively. Ignorant people let their subconsiousness make the choice. These ignorant people never consider advantages and disadvantages of the choices, or even think of what choices they DO have. If someone at school makes fun of the ignorant person, he either lunges across the table and starts choking him, or lets everything build inside him to the point that he brings a gun to school and makes national headlines. Myself, I consider the ways I can react. The less I get hung up on this guy making fun of me, the less I react and don't let it bother me, the less I worry about what is going to happen, if he is going to make fun of me tomorrow, the less ENERGY I spend on some irrelevant, meaningless thing. I'd rather save the energy for my bass guitar.
Quote: Anyway, imagine approaching a sheep and trying to explain it that creatures called men or domesticated apes, own this sheep. And that everything they do, feed it, provide shelter etc is so that they could kill it at the end and profit from it.
Sheep would be able to realize what is going on if they were not ignorant or had the equipment necessary to not act blindly. Imagine approaching an overprotective mom and trying to explain that she is doing her child wrong by sheltering him from life. Maybe she would be able to get off the couch, forget her depressing, security hang ups, go get a job, get involved with a house remodeling project, or start a fucking garden to grow delicioius food in. Now, would you rather know there is no point to life, and hide from life because of it, or would you rather experience the good qualities of life, even if in the end, it is pointless?
Quote: Same thing happens at our level. If i told you that you are like sheep, that somebody owns you, (most) have no freedom whatsoever, and some time in future you're all are going to be slaughtered would you believe me?
I have no freedom whatsoever? Who in this world controls my thoughts and my reaction to the world? NOT FUCKING YOU. NOT ANYONE BUT MYSELF. Maybe if you had some reasonable points to consider and think over, I would analyze what you said and try finding some truth in it. Yelling your opinion isn't going to change anyone's mind about anything.
Quote: It amazes me how humans can colonize animals, chickens for example, thousands in cages, bred just to be slaughtered in the most cruel imaginable way. Anyone of you seen scenes from slaughter houses? let me fill you in. Chickens are put in a conveyer where they get their heads torn off. The remains scattered on the floor where it gets collected, refines, half thrown away and the rest put into your hamburgers.
And this is the biggest flaw in your post. See, chickens don't go into hamburgers, cows do. 
Quote: You think you can breed, consume resources, breed again and again, kill more animals in more and more cruel ways, poison the planet, breed and multiply again just because your under impression that your untouchable, special, unique creatures and nothing bad will ever happen two you.
Um, I don't think this. I'm sure a lot of people don't think this, especially on this forum. Most of the people that contribute to what you are saying don't even know they are doing it. I mean, the rich owners of logging companies and oil industries DO know it. That's a small minority. They deceive the masses to never know that they are doing harm. Maybe if this is an issue of concern for yourself, maybe, instead of bitching about the world and how it sucks, you should come up with a plan to get awareness out to these "ignorant" people in the hopes of stopping the murder and pillaging. However, if you'll take a sugesstion from me, I wouldn't go about it the way you did here. Using stereotypes "you", "because you are under the impression", etc.) is an almost definite sign of ignorance. Go do some research, build your vocaulary and speech skills, make a plan. I like people that believe in something and then go about spreading the word, instead of making accusations, spreading hate and opinions. Go out and make an impact. Most "enlightened" people don't go around, telling everyone that they are ignorant.
Quote: But now back to sacrifices. Aztecs killed thousands and thousands, so did inquisition, Romans, nazi and many others. Sacrifices can be found at every point on the planet at any given time in history.
So, it's always been this way, so we might as well keep it this way. Change is a universal law. Sticking to traditions that no one alive knows why they were started in the first place resists Change. Resisting Change is going to build up negative pressure that will have to be released. Not allowing for a change is a sign of ignorance.
Quote: To understand it you need to approach this issue from a scientific angle. You need to know what these so called gods are. For instance, you can see Horus hawk everywhere. I'm sure you've all seen it million times but carefully ignored it million times too. Where can you find it? Romans used it, so did nazis, USA, you can see it on the dollar bill. You can see it above Saddam at his press conferences. You see it but you ignore it each and every time.
So, if this this your "scientific angle", you have given me a sad, sad view of the scientific process. I want you to TELL me what is so signifigant and important about this symbol. I don't know, and you have the information, so you can give me this knowledge to spread the ideas you have, or you be like these people you rally agansit i.e. (the government) and hide this information from me, but tell me what I should think on the subject.
Open your eyes and ears, my friend. Don't make assumptions.
Peace.
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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
Wrapped in the warmth of you
Loving every breath of you
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