VEGANGELICA

Hey Veggie,
I have a distinct memory of being 17 the day or so after high school graduation as I was sitting on the bed thinking, "And now, at last, my life begins." In retrospect there were many things I would have done differently during my teen years...such as learn more about the world (outside my tiny sphere), learn about all the problems others have that I could help solve, and study intensively the topics that interested me to become an expert early on...but the good news for you is that I feel life really *did* get better after high school. I hope you will also find life seems better once you are out of high school and have more control over your life in many ways.

My No-Thanks Giving gripe is about Thanksgiving, which every year reminds me again how different I am from my meat-eating acquaintances as I sit staring at some dead turkey people killed, and the people, like strange alien creatures, happily ask for a god to "bless this meal" before they perkily enjoy the skin-covered carcass. I always think to myself, "If that turkey were *really* blessed, wouldn't s/he be alive?!?!"

Then today the meat-eating propaganda creators sent my child home with a lovely little coloring book the first graders made by coloring all these happy-looking turkeys and filling in the blanks of sentences to select the correct word: "I love to (blank) turkey," with the only choices being "ate, eat, eaten." GAA!!! No "care for," no "protect," no "love," no "befriend." Just eat. EAT. EAT!!! It's all they ever seem to think about!!

I always wonder what is going on psychologically with adults such that they feel the need to make kids color giant pictures of beautiful, happy, LIVING turkeys (even having the kids translate what the gobbles mean), only to turn around, with zero compassion or real interest in turkeys, and have the kids eat these self-same animals. If people like living turkeys so much, then why don't they stop eating them and stop breeding them with such heavy breasts that the turkeys can't even have SEX anymore, which humans deal with by collecting turkey semen and inseminating the females (inter-species sexual activity)!?

What these turkey-eaters teach children in school about turkeys seems no different to me than if someone said of a dog, "Oh, look how cute Fido is! Let's color pictures of happy Fido! What is Fido saying when he barks? Isn't Fido playful? Look how much fun he is having! Now, here, have some delicious fido."

Creepy.

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music_phantom13

I topped up a response to that, but then realized it would probably make you hate me and you seem cool, so I'm replacing it with this. Sorry Thanksgiving sucks, but at least it's a time you get to see family and hopefully you have lots of blessings to count

Freebase dali, you ****ing rule. My dad actually had a few enclosures amongst the many things he's gotten from work that they were going to toss. I asked him about it, we took it off, and he showed me how to fix it. Sadly part of the hard drive was scratched, destroyed, whatever but I did manage to get probably 75% of my music so far and I'm struggling to get every folder that will transfer. I was going insane all day at work flipping out trying to figure out some way to get some of my nice organized, tagged music back. There's something to be thankful for! That complaint now comes off my No Thanksgiving list.

Freebase Dali

I'm glad it worked out for you!

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Freebase Dali

I think that's the main thing.. If their way is being payed for them, a lot of them take it for granted. But when you have to work your ass off to be able to put yourself through school, the priorities definitely become clear.

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sidewinder

Fuck this weekend. I'm taking tomorrow off just to chill out but probably have to work the rest of it. Even though I'm on paid holiday Thursday and Friday. Fuck it all.

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I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

wad

thanksgiving is awesome. family is great. if you hate it i feel sorry for you, i guess crawl in a hole y'all sad sacks

sidewinder

Some of us don't have family around to celebrate with.

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I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

Freebase Dali

Wad, you probably insulted someone's dead parents just now.

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stormjh

I'm presuming you don't wear anything with dead animals in or eat battery farmed eggs and the like?

lucifer_sam

as of tonight...

apparently my cousins are tagging up and marrying off this summer, i count at least three. my brother is getting married as soon as he gets enough money together and so is my older uncle, the weddings will be piling up this spring/summer.

and now my parents are looking at me.

i haven't so much as brought a girl home to meet them in ages and they keep pestering me about the relationships i have in college. i don't want to have to explain to them what my sex life is like, it would only make them think of me as a bigger shithead than i already appear to be. even still, now they expect me to have some sort of consistent girlfriend coming out of college and i have no plans of the sort on my table. everyone in my family has either married or had kids young, and it's not on my schedule for another decade at minimum.

fuck thanksgiving.

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