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jbibiza: At 14, I remember writing a poem filled with teen aged angst...comparing myself to an artichoke...

Would you prefer to be an artichoke...?

trish123: Hello Dorielle

trish123: This reminded me of something I read ages ago - I just found it again and it does sound really odd but I think it has a layer of truth........

The Onion Principle

Layer 1 is the outer layer with smooth protective skin. Outside this layer is the world at large including the people we meet, do business with, work with, and with whom we have social contact.

Layer 2 is the first inner layer. This is for friends, pals and others we know and like.

Layer 3 is the next inner layer. This is for close family members, and close friends we know and trust.

Layer 4 is for romantic, trusting friendship (boyfriend/girlfriend)

Layer 5 is for embarking on a loving long-term relationship

Layer 6 is for the children if the onion is a parent

Layer 7 is for a total partnership of love and commitment

Layer 8 is the innermost layer (the place where your "inner child" lives). It is your most personal, private inner emotional space.

It is important to understand that an onion does not practice universal mistrust of others. That’s unhealthy. An onion is simply a discerning person who knows that emotional layers are precious, and should only be revealed and shared when empathy, trust and understanding have reached a point where it’s safe to go to the next layer with another person.

Opening up a deep emotional layer to another person prematurely, especially to a person who will not, or cannot respond in kind, is a sure step towards a failed relationship. A problem for some people is that they naively confuse romantic infatuation with real love. This makes them think they can safely share their emotional layer 5 or even their layer 7 when, in reality, they should be only at emotional layer 3 or 4. If they discover that the other person has abused a deep inner emotional layer they have revealed and shared with that other person, the result can be devastating.

The happiest people I have met are the onions who understand themselves and the people around them. They manage their layers well, knowing which emotional layers are for acquaintances, friends, loved ones and their life partner.

Happy onions also know that taking responsibility for looking after their own inner emotional needs at layer 8 is the greatest gift they can give to themselves. Our inner layer needs our continuing care and attention if each of us is to thrive as an emotionally secure person.

I am a happy onion. Are you? If you are not, explore your inner self, identify your emotional layers and start learning how to manage your relationships with others. A good life coach can assist you if you need help.

Chris Joscelyne

mylifewithu: Most leather is taken from cattle that have been butchered for the meat, so I would rather the most is made out of the animal that just wasted.
Man has used the furr and leather since beginning of man to clothe hisself, after using the meat for food.

As for these pictures, if it was done in sport or tradition , which mostly likely was then this is Horrible.
For a small community doing it for food for the community and using all parts possible then I don't have a lot problem with that.
But most likely this was done for stupid reasons.

Conrad73: That WIKI-Article might set things in a more realistic Perspective.
Interesting though,that today we have the means to produce Proteins,and could do away with most of the Wholesale Animal Slaughter.
With Bio-Technology!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands

rolltideroll: OK People in america hunt and kill different animals but calling wild animals in like this and then killing them when they are the most helpless is very wrong. Some one diffently needs to contact the wild life protective service in this case. These people should be made to go in fishing boats just like the rest of the world to hunt and fish for their food. I would not want my child to participate in something so sickening as this. These people are sick before you know it they will be killing one another and finding justifaction for that as well.

rasgumby: agree,
The pictures alone really piss me off,
lets hear the story of why

PietroPaoloV: So, what is it that all the people in here are objecting to, just to make sure?

I don’t see a single Burger King or McDonald’s sign in any of those pictures. How do you think them burgers end up between buns, they magically grow out of the Poppelberry flower, spun by the violet sugar-spider?

There’s no point whatsoever in posting those pictures without adding the story attached. No point at all.

For all I know, this can be the one thing the country relies on for a living.

HJFinAZ: I don't always get to know why things happen.

I may spend hours, even days, trying to figure out why bad things have happened to me. I may get caught up in trying to understand other people, situations, and even my own thoughts.

Today I will accept that I don't have to know why things are the way they are. Instead I can pay attention to healing, growing, and learning.The "choices" we make....

Dusty45: Sticky Hair and Prince Five Weapons
Peace is the Way
Deepak Chopra
Epilogue p.237

Have you heard the Buddhist fable of Sticky Hair and Prince Five Weapons?

Sticky Hair was a monster, a giant ogre who lived deep in the woods in India. He fed off the villagers beyond the woods and kept them in a state of constant terror. One day a hero appeared on the scene to rescue them. He went by the curious name of Prince Five Weapons. When he was born the court astrologers gathered around his cradle. They predicted that the baby would grow up to become a mighty warrior, the master of not one weapon but five. Armed with his five weapons the prince set out to defeat the monster.

When the two of them met in the woods, the prince took out his bow and arrow and fired a volley into the ogre's side, but Sticky Hair's thick mat of fur was impenetrable, and every arrow uselessly stuck to him. The prince pulled out his sword and hacked at the ogre, but his sword too got stuck in the sticky fur, along with the prince's knife, club, and pike.

With his five weapons gone, the prince leapt onto the beast with his fists, but in a flash his hands and feet were also caught in Sticky Hair's fur. The monster would have eaten him immediately, but Prince Five Weapons' courage gave him pause. "If this hero can fight so bravely against me, maybe I'd better think this thing over, "Sticky Hair mused.

The prince was doomed, then suddenly he had a flash. "You don't dare eat me," he shouted defiantly. "All my weapons may be stuck to you, butI have a secret inside me. As soon as you swallow me up it will explode, and then you will die."

Sticky Hair was impressed, and not wanting to die, he let Prince Five Weapons go. But before he left, the monster wanted to know what the hidden secret was. "Is it a sixth weapon I've never seen?"

It is no weapon at all, but compassion ,"said the prince, who was well versed in the wisdom of the Buddha. "That was my hidden secret, which you could not have survived."

The monster was so moved that he became Prince Five Weapons' disiple from that day on. He learned the Eightfold Path. With the dawn of inner peace, he lost his violent nature. He learned that all his monstrous deeds were the result of past bad actions which could be atoned for. In the end Sticky Hair became enlightened, and thus the villagers were rescued from their monster in the woods.

This same hidden secret could save us if we turn to it. In thousands and thousands of hearts around the world compassion is doing its work. The opposite of compassion has to be renounced, because in anger, vengeance, mechanized death, and violence against Nature is our doom War won't end from any other cure. It won't be suffering that ends war, or the reckless hope of achieving total victory over evil. The real work for peace is proceeding one person at a time and eventually tipping the balance in the world. History has already sent beacons of compassion in Christ, Buddha, Lao-Tze, and countless saints from every faith, including Islam. We con't need any beacons. The message doesn't need delivering one more time.

You and I and many others feel no need for war, no satisfaction in it, and no allure. We got ourselves unstuck from Sticky Hair's fur. Every person who get unstuck is one unit of peace. I don't know how many units it takes to change the world. The ogre who devours humans doesn't want for victims. But the most horrific weapons have all been tried, aned now is the time to use the secret hidden inside. You and I are nothing compared to the huge machinery of mechanized death that has overwhelmed us. But we know that our hidden secret is real, and we should celebrate: ours is the one weapon that will surely blow up the monster.

Galactic_bodhi: Lovely to see you Dori. Great work, as usual

Crystal29: Brilliant .........

Hi BB hope you are feeling well today.... Cx