rawpriestess
04-29-2006, 01:22 PM
I was just reading a couple of posts, and I thought I would share my opinion.
I see people write how they eat raw for breakfast and lunch, and then they justify eating cooked for dinner, or on the weekend, or a planned cheat, or for holidays, or birthdays, or weddings, or reunions, or baptisms, or bat mitzvahs, or or or,
Trust me on this, there is an excuse for every day of the year, and it IS an excuse.
Now, don't get me wrong, I've done it too, that is how I can recognize these excuses.
it's the same with all things, that we really are afraid to do, for what ever reason, it is human behavior, a very specific science indeed.
Humans feel the need to justify their actions, I included, and they feel a need to get an "OKAY" from their supposed peers in this action, so we rationalize, and explain and defend and justify our actions, until we have a bunch of people who agree with us, then we think,"Well, if this many people agree with me, then this must be okay to do. or to continue doing."
But what happens is that no one benefits from this justification.
When you eat cooked food, you are eating dead food, plane and simple, when you are eating living or raw food, you are eating life.
so you can eat either a way to live or a way to die, it really is that simple.
and YES, I believe that eating raw is the best way to eat, 100% all the time, every day, and I've done it, not done it, done it, not done it, on off on off, justified my actions, and explained and defended my choices, but it all boils down to
if you really want to do something, --- you will
if you don't really want to do somethig --- you will find an excuse.
it's that easy.
it's not your hubby or your kids or yor mother or your friends, or your boss, or your work, or your job, or your career, or your doctor, or or or, it is YOUR body, your decision, and your choice RAW or not!
If you are having an emotional reaction to my post, it is because you are not doing it. that is also a normal human behavior, you may find yourself being angry, or sad, or frustrated, or upset, or depressed, or whatever but if you are having an emotional response, then I've hit a nerve, and that nerve is sayning, "Yeah, but", which means you will justify, explain or defend the one excuse or ten excuses you use to not eat raw.
I know this, because I've used them all before. I'm the Queen of excuses. LOL
I see people write how they eat raw for breakfast and lunch, and then they justify eating cooked for dinner, or on the weekend, or a planned cheat, or for holidays, or birthdays, or weddings, or reunions, or baptisms, or bat mitzvahs, or or or,
Trust me on this, there is an excuse for every day of the year, and it IS an excuse.
Now, don't get me wrong, I've done it too, that is how I can recognize these excuses.
it's the same with all things, that we really are afraid to do, for what ever reason, it is human behavior, a very specific science indeed.
Humans feel the need to justify their actions, I included, and they feel a need to get an "OKAY" from their supposed peers in this action, so we rationalize, and explain and defend and justify our actions, until we have a bunch of people who agree with us, then we think,"Well, if this many people agree with me, then this must be okay to do. or to continue doing."
But what happens is that no one benefits from this justification.
When you eat cooked food, you are eating dead food, plane and simple, when you are eating living or raw food, you are eating life.
so you can eat either a way to live or a way to die, it really is that simple.
and YES, I believe that eating raw is the best way to eat, 100% all the time, every day, and I've done it, not done it, done it, not done it, on off on off, justified my actions, and explained and defended my choices, but it all boils down to
if you really want to do something, --- you will
if you don't really want to do somethig --- you will find an excuse.
it's that easy.
it's not your hubby or your kids or yor mother or your friends, or your boss, or your work, or your job, or your career, or your doctor, or or or, it is YOUR body, your decision, and your choice RAW or not!
If you are having an emotional reaction to my post, it is because you are not doing it. that is also a normal human behavior, you may find yourself being angry, or sad, or frustrated, or upset, or depressed, or whatever but if you are having an emotional response, then I've hit a nerve, and that nerve is sayning, "Yeah, but", which means you will justify, explain or defend the one excuse or ten excuses you use to not eat raw.
I know this, because I've used them all before. I'm the Queen of excuses. LOL