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...Read this document to: Understand activist methods that will further your activism. Discover practical animal rights activities you can do. Know what animal rights means and how it differs from other outlooks. Be aware of potential conflict with the law and how you can handle it. Find inspiration from biographies of a selectio...

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...Humans have been killing animals for millennia and now scientists acknowledge that we are living in a mass extinction of life caused by humanity. Added to this is an animal holocaust in which increasing numbers of people endlessly demand animals to e...

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...About This Guide 5 Author & Email 5 Animal Rights Motto 6 1 Introduction 1.1 The Broad Setting 7 - the big problem. 1.2 Mass Extinction 9 - we live in the Sixth Extinction. 1.3 Animal Holocaust 11 - we live in an enduring and worsening Animal Holocaust...

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Issues in ethics: the right to life, cloning, abortion, animal rights and other controversial topics.

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...r. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism and animal rights who influenced the development of liberalism. The essay Offences Against One's Self (c. 1785), argued for the liberalisation of laws prohibiting homosexuality. The essay remained unpublished during Bentham's lif...

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... based assumptions 210 Immoral from God based assumptions 211 Moral for society based assumptions 211 Immoral from a societal point of view.212 HUMAN RIGHTS 213 Moral from a self-centered point of view. 217 Immoral from a self-centered point of view.217 Moral from a God based point of view. 217 Immoral from a God based point of view. 217 Moral from a society based point of...

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... ―As you know, one of the basic questions in psychology, anthropology and philosophy is whether humans have instincts. It is clear that animal... ...im. If we have instincts we can‘t be blamed for not following the path that some people say God has commanded. ―A powerful example of animal... ...This needs to be studied. But we often fear knowledge because it jars us from the ruts that guide the routine of our lives. If we are rational animal... ...e Godless materialism that has made some small inroads into our traditions. And I cannot accept the instinct inspired ideas that we are merely animal... ...a force must have a direction. The powerful drive toward which our energy pushed us must be toward pleasure -- for humans are pleasure-seeking animal... ... Is it that our inferiority complexes will seek any avenue that may lead to superiority? Is it that our values of right and wrong or of human rights... ...ainst each other—and even against themselves. Look at the clashes between the Orthodox Armenians and the Orthodox Greek priests over cleaning rights... ...enians and the Orthodox Greek priests over cleaning rights at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem at Christmas in 2007 and for worshiping rights...

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...elicately and dimly in the empty air, apparently aimlessly seeking and reaching out to meet something indefinite. You may, if you wish, call this an animal action, but it is not thereby comprehended....

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...g in mutual perSonal relation, is a controlling factor distinct from our "rights 88 individuals" and our inherited. racial and cultural gifts. This... ...ry word, becomes one who reveals. How we are educated by children and by animals! We live our lives inscrutably included within the streaming mutua... ...hing out to meet something indefinite. You may, if you wish, call this an animal action, but it is not thereby comprehended. For these very glances ... ... to myself, to be lived together, and in being lived they are one. * An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. Independently, wit... ...nxiety of beComing. This condition of the mystery is known only by the , animal, it alone can disclose it to us-and this con­ dition only lets itsel... ...and can proclai.m. Sometimes I look into a cat's eyes. The domesti­ cated animal has not as it were received from us (as we sometimes imagine) the g...

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... According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers 1057 Steeles... ....................................................56 A Communal Society Among Animals ........................................... 57 Interdependenc... ...here the will to exist is greater than in the vegetative. For the most part, animals live in groups, packs. They are very mobile and must constantl... ...le and must constantly roam in search of food and suitable living conditions. Animals eat other animals or other plants, and relate to them as a sou... ...e is Everything 35 sations and emotions, and lends a unique character to each animal. Every animal senses its environment on a personal level, bring... ...he beneficial, and moves farther away from the detrimental. The life cycle of animals is also individual. Each lives and dies in its own time, unlik...

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...to them). This balance proves very effective. The balance of interests and rights. The voting power is equal everywhere on Earth. So, counterbalance i... ...ith a pure peaceful radiance. There were luminous flowers and trees and animals here; and luminous people and cities and rivers ; and mountains and... ...ss, love. How does this centre work? The following experiment with a test animal tells us. Into the pleasure-centre of the test animal an electrode i... ...e the pleasure-centre is activated by a specific electric current. And the animal experiences real pleasure. The electric current is switched on by a ... ...s real pleasure. The electric current is switched on by a button which the animal is trained to press. Thus, the animal may activate its own pleasure-... ...ts own pleasure-centre whenever it likes. And it likes it pretty much. The animal soon starts to activate its pleasure-experience time and time again,... ...ts. And thus, these fundamental needs and interests become our fundamental RIGHTS, as well: 1. To be limited 2. To be limitless 3. To be blissful. The... ...2. To be limitless 3. To be blissful. These are our fundamental individual rights. Well, we might say, but these individual rights still seem too abst... ...es, the first practical thing to do is to clearly formulate our individual rights. So, this is how each individual right is formulated for our everyda...

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... Dusk Conspiracy by Lakisha Spletzer Copyright 2010 Lakisha Spletzer. All rights reserved. http://www.kishazworld.com Cover and Interior Images desig... ...d.com Cover and Interior Images design Copyright © 2010 JD Hollyfield. All rights reserved. http://www.jdhollyfield.com This is a work of fiction. Na... ...blishments, events or locales is entirely incidental. Without limiting the rights under the copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may ... ... electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author's rights is appreciated. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment o... ...run into their various Were forms. Felines, wolves, horses and even avian animals rushed at the human guards barring the entrance. The Weres in the... ...s under her paws, the stirring of fur from a breeze and the scents of the animals she hunted made her grin. Of course, none of it would matter if she... ...uffed panther toy from her bureau. Yeah, she was still collecting stuffed animal toys. Britta teased her about it, but Laylah didn’t mind. She felt a... ...he pillow and snuggled the panther. “It’s you and me, Protector.” All her animals had names and even though the lion was king of cats, there was some... ...complete. This time, however, was different. The room was filled with more animals than the two who normally kept her company. There were felines of ...

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...ined by the "Bnei Baruch" group of kabbalists Copyright ©1996. Bnei Baruch. All rights reserved. Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies ... ...ined by the group of kabbalists "Bnei Baruch" Copyright ©1996. Bnei Baruch. All rights reserved. Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies ... ...ained by the group of Kabbalists "Bnei Baruch" Copyright ©1996. Bnei Baruch. All rights reserved. Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies ... ...ined by the group of kabbalists "Bnei Baruch" Copyright ©1996. Bnei Baruch. All rights reserved. Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies ... ...re many souls with small desires, earthly, looking for a comfortable life in an animal-like manner: food, sex, sleep. The next layer comprises fewer... ...tuality does not contain names – just feelings and forces without the mantle of animal, mineral, vegetable, or speech – Kabbalists use names of bran... ...u are all I have left.” Now I have begun to experience lights around people and animals. Isn’t this a manifestation of Kabbalah? I want to know God ... ...our material world and shapes everything existing in it: inanimate, vegetative, animal and human. Thanks to Kabbalah our world can be studied correct... ...dictions have nothing to do with Kabbalah. They are related to the body and its animal property to sense different things. Dogs and cats can also fe...

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...e people plant and reap. Who can count all of their Insignificant names?-- Animals that are not created sensible enough To propagate unless lost to fr... ...d then strips and pours upon himself, The water from a hose, and that both animal and plant Glisten in the sun As if they have been greased; Falling i... ...e shovels scattered cacti leaves from out of the back Of the pickup to his animals; And living in the dry ravine surrounded by houses made of wood Tha... ... On the dull walls of the vagina. They had that freedom--those inalienable rights-- Her to be banged and to squeal To her friends that she was in love...

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...rt A Source of Delight for My Soul copyright © 2010 by Michael laitman all rights reserved. Published by laitman Kabbalah Publishers www.kabbalah.info... ...enon. the desire to receive in us has evolved and wishes to transcend the animal level of our bodies. the animal level has nothing further to give u... ...rce, which oper- ates in creation and turns inanimate matter into plants, animals, and humans. Without it, matter would remain lifeless and unchangi... ...ial spark of light. Following the inanimate nature, plants appeared, then animals, and finally man. the interpretation of evolution based on its sup...

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...of Spiritual Fulfillment 2006 First Printing © 2006 by Michael Laitman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans- mitted in... ... astonish us with their inconceiv- able contradictions. For example, young animals mature in a matter of weeks or months, while humans need many years... ...ver, during the transitional phases, humans are much weaker than any other animal. If we did not vii Awakening to Kabbalah text 9/29/05 1:20 PM Pag... ...nal outcome, we would reach the opposite conclu- sion—that it is the young animal who will become the master of creation and the human who will lead a... ... ours. Instead of flesh and blood fig- ures, such as Moses and Pharaoh, or animals and nations, we will see spiritual forces. If we remove the outer s...

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...ut express written permission of a father or husband. They had no property rights, not even to their own clothing and jewelry. They had no legal s... ...se pages. Jacket design by James Courtney (c) Sharon E. Cathcart, 2009. All rights reserved. 2 Chapter 1 Paris, France March, 1889 “Who did this to ... ...lock each evening, while the hands from the stables are caring for your own animals. You will provide his evening feed of the same treacle and grai... ...nd finished grooming the horse. Since I had begun to care for the handsome animal, I braided his mane and tail as the last bit of my routine; when ... ... the hair rippled and shimmered. I had no doubt that whoever rode the fine animal made quite a picture. I completed my tasks and returned to my cham... ...ry, Philippe and I. He was a very handsome man, and understood my love for animals. I’ve always had a gift for healing them.” I looked just beyond... ...h reminds me, I would love to know where that white Lipizzan came from. By rights, she should have been in bed with a concussion after what you did ... ...slide in and out of the siding. “It will never work again unless I put it to rights,” he explained. “It buys us some time.” I followed him, almost ru... ...ent times, and I about growing up an only child whose friends were books and animals. We bathed one another until the water became too cool for comf...

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... to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be rep... ..., had long evaded the law, because the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travelle... ...little beauty!’ and holding the back of her hand against the horse’s nostrils, allowed the little animal to sniff her gently. THE CURSE OF KALI 6... ...vin, too, was restless; she could hear him pacing up and down in the adjoining room like a caged animal and then she heard the door to the landing o... ...w that it was a ruse to keep Isabel by Gavin’s side. Had she, by refusing her husband his marital rights, made Isabel even more indispensable to Gav... ...cipating her urge to turn back, leaned forward and restrained Sultana’s reigns causing the little animal to shy at these unexpectedly forceful hands... ...on and to provide his hunting guests annually with superb specimens. It is not often that a rogue animal preys on human settlements unless it is too... ...ue, she had been the first to raise a barrier between them when she had refused him his conjugal rights but in the days and months that followed, Ga...

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...until now. Order existed on the planet earth as long as only vegetable and animal life lived on it. When human life appeared, it is mankind who intr... ...f the life of the universe and human beings that prefer to remain cultural animals; between human beings who want to become Persons and Sophia-Artis... ...two distinct causes: the father and the mother. This is also true for every animal and for every plant. And I also know that the father and the mothe... ...ore complex forms rise from inferior, less complex ones? Human beings from animals, animals from plants, plants from minerals, and all of it reduced... ...the contrary, if I refuse to transform myself, I could remain simply a man animal that falls into the nothingness and annihilation of its subjectivi... ...r having blinded his son. The devouring mother does not easily give up her rights and she is deeply offended if her children affirm their own rights...

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...some that most people might not have ever considered; this being sentient rights to freedom. This book was put together to contain in an easily acces... ... might have to actually rethink the way they see the world. Like a caged animal that simply sits motionless when it’s been freed after a lifetime l... ...e white people treated people of color half a century ago; like less than animals, not deserving of the right to life. And rather than changing the ... ...s. Who are any of you to say that someone else is undeserving of the same rights, respect, and freedoms that you yourself enjoy, or expect? People e... ...achine intelligences are - eventually will be - worth the same respect and rights as any other sentient beings. This particular item may be the most ... ...for. Once something is alive and aware, then doesn’t it deserve all of the rights that any sentient being - sentient defined as "Having sense percept... ...h it off. In addition to this, there is the other aspect of protecting the rights of Machine intelligences: maybe it seems like a far stretch to you.... ...hemselves. Everyone who is lost simply because the human race is the only animal that teaches conformity as a survival instinct. Not restrictive or ...

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...mmercial edition. © 2002, 2005 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used ... ... law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson herself thought of giving up the... ...or instance - their combined weight is four times the combined weight of all other animals in the area. Ants have brains. The main nerve - similar ... ...x The appendix is located at the beginning of the large intestine. Many types of animals have it, including rabbits and rodents. It contains gut ... ...45 were conscripted to the army as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals or in menial jobs. When Russian Armenians recruited Turk... ...tors and buyers were fooled into purchasing "works of art" created by monkeys. The animals "painted" by dipping their paws in pigments and running ... ...posing flesh and has is covered with hair-like pelt, the better to simulate a dead animal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/weird/az/pr.shtml http://n... ...rmond of South Carolina spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to a civil rights measure. This is the American filibuster record. In 1964,... ...outhern senators led by Russell Long of Louisiana extended the debate on the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word me...

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...ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME All rights reserved. Original title: Il Mito di Ulisse e la Bellezz... ...Ulysses can go home and live out a serene old age. 32 We have abolished animal sacrifices, and rightly so, but we cannot escape from offering up ... ...y and that does not allow the artistic I to emerge – dies, every time his animalistic parts, based on thievery and violence that he has carried wit... ...immortal because by facing inner death many times, he went from the fetal, animal dimension of intrauterine life, which imprisons every human being ... ... in Pangea that gave rise to the various continents; in the progression of animals to hominids and hominids to human beings. It happens on a cultura... ...e various definitions we already know of, human beings are either rational animals (Aristotle) or digestive tubes (science); they are children of God...

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...his mouth. What's up with me indeed. She couldn't fault the dog. He was an animal. An animal whose company she, most of the time, enjoyed and reveled ... ...Ah, what he wouldn't do to get his hands on a miswak. His mawla's infernal animal barked from the bedroom and Kane tensed in a corner of the green che... ...is arms to welcome her and Darius released her slowly to smile down at the animal. "Well, well, well. What do we have here?" The Rott yelped and got o... ... such figures through art. Creation of living things that moved—humans and animals—was considered the realm of God. This was one of the first things T... ...hiny coat. No breath sounds or movement. He smoothed his fingers along the animal's neck, back, and ribcage, found what he was looking for. Snake bite... ...ed. "And you have not been eating well of late. Justice is well within his rights to be concerned, as am I." "I said I'm not hungry!" Therese shoved t...

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...mercial edition. © 2002-10 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used ... ...gh learning and experience. Does this process of acquisition endow us with property rights? It would seem that property rights pertaining to human ... ...and strives to enforce copyrights, patents and other forms of intellectual property rights. This dichotomy is curious. For what is intellectual pr... ...ntradiction? We are deemed by the law to be capable of holding full and unmitigated rights to the PRODUCTS of our brain activity, to the recording a... ...y, to the recording and documentation of our brain waves. But we hold only partial rights to the brain itself, their originator. This can be somew... ...is nectar to another. Water can be either toxic or indispensable, depending on the animal, the automaton, or the system. Scorching temperatures, su... ...nning, foresight, and utilitarian thinking. We don‟t know if and cannot prove that animals (such as pets) are possessed of a will even when they ar... ...such as Earth. Aliens exist on our very planet. The minds of newborn babies and of animals are as inaccessible to us as would be the minds of littl...