Deborah S. - My Care2

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Cedarcreek, MO, USA
female
married, 2 children
Joined Sep 17, 2007

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Joined	Sep 17, 2007	Activist Aspirations	Rabid
Here for	Support a Cause
Group Host of	none yet
Groups	Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund - Electing Pro-Wildlife Leaders, Greenpeace, Legions Legion, WWF-World Wildlife Fund

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Birthday	May 26
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About Me
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Lifestyle
Pets	10 dogs, 3 cats, 6 goats &amp, 30 chickens
Activist Aspirations	Rabid
Political Leaning	Very Liberal
Religions	Atheist with pantheistic tendencies, Pantheist/animist
Eating Habits	Almost vegan! Getting there., only eat eggs from my own happy chickens, changing nutritional yeast for cheese
Wild Fact About Me
My Philosophy	Morality is personal, and not the product of religion. If you believe something is wrong, all the world can say it is right and it still will not be -- for you. If it feels wrong, it is wrong. Do it anyway and you have committed a moral breach. By the same token, right is a matter of truly believing something is right. But... this is important... it is only right if your heart KNOWS that it is so -- pretending something is right and doing it anyway, is as wrong as if you admitted its wrongness beforehand. Our internal right/wrong meter is always speaking to us, but it is up to us to listen carefully.
What Gives Me Hope	Not much! Climate worsens daily, People do not seem to care about anything but themselves.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	Make climate change legislation the #1 priority. We only have one planet -- everything else is secondary to saving it!
What/who changed my life and why	Nothing specific changed my life, but my ex-biology teacher Leo Welch inspired me to become the environmentalist I am today. I never understood how important activism is or even knew enough to be alarmed until I met him.
What Bugs Me	Blind adherence to dogma, People who NEVER change their minds, people who refuse to listen, people who refuse to think
Passions	animals, environment, EARTH!
Inspirations	nature, animals, little kids
What Scares Me	STUPID people w/ power and money
Favorites
Role Models	Nelson Mandela, Jean Pierre Hallet, Carl Sagan, my ex-biology teacher Leo Welch, Dennis Kucinich, Robert Redford, Ghandi
Quotation	Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?� It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beautyand grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being. �Plutarch
Interests
Books	LOVE anything from 16th - 18th century, Not big on modern literature!, I love Burroughs (he of Tarzan fame), The old H. Rider Haggard books - esp She, W.H. Hudson books -- esp. Green Mansions, Charles Dickens books
Music	Andean flute, New Age, classical, Folk, bluegrass, Ballads, love songs, Celtic music
Movies	Lots! Here are a few..., Wake of Ned Devine, Whale Rider, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (old version)
TV Shows	I watch some BBC tv on my computer but.., I do NOT watch American TV!
Favorite Foods	Fresh vegetables, tempeh, seitan, homemade pizza, pickled eggs
Favorite Places	Natural and wild places untouched by man
Can't Live Without	My kids and my dogs &amp, cats
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