i have this new issue that has popped up a couple of times recently. i will be sleeping, and a particular dream sequence will wake me up - it is usually vivid and seems very real to me. i will then try and go back to sleep and my brain will immediately go directly back to that sequence, or more to the point, that feeling of "wake up, i don't like ( Read more... )

another issue where dogma came up and got me thinking again about it, and why people have such an issue with the concept, and why i do not. once again it was in relation to being vegan, this time the question revolves around the vegan-ness of eating the eggs of "pet" chickens. which obviously isn't vegan, by definition. it may not be hurting ( Read more... )

so i decided to get a blood test to see how my B12 levels were, just out of curiosity, since i have been vegan well over ten years now ( Read more... )

yet more reasons to give up the stupid american diet.

pretty good article in the NYT regarding meat consumption in the U$. gives a pretty good breakdown of the issues and true costs from an economic/ environmental standpoint.

Meat-Guzzleri know, the title sounds like it should be something else ( Read more... )

the discussion about leather and being vegan kind of touched on this subject. i didn't want to get into it there (to avoid confusing issues), but i feel like its worth thinking about. probably because i think my take on it is different than your average sxe kid. well, i guess my take is that sex shouldn't be a part of straight edge at all. why ( Read more... )

Christians can just make up whatever they want to believe about the Bible, whether it makes any sense or not ( Read more... )

i also watched Wild Style the other day for the first time. pretty freaking awesome ( Read more... )

the movie was seriously awesome. i feel kind of dumb for waiting so long to see it now - even though i was kind of waiting because i had some wishy-washy plans to see it with a girl i was talking to (like a month ago). but she's back to not returning calls/messages/texts after telling me she definitely wanted to hang out like a week and a half ( Read more... )

and they have been really vivid. its so weird how in the dream state everything is so real, including emotions ( Read more... )

i'm on this community in LJ land, people often ask for advice and others give a lot of advice. it really leaves me dumbfounded that so many "vegans" still wear leather, and encourage others to do so as well ( Read more... )