lilytheamazingfaintingpony's status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-11 19:44:19 UTC
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@critialcloudkicker My story? Okay, but in order for the story to work, you must realise that at fifteen, I was not as tolerant as any of you guys are. I was a bible-thumping homophobic conservative. For some reason, my family still allowed me to interact with the world at large, so when someone at school invited me to this anti-drug youth camp, I went. I then met lots of people with opinions different from me, including Vegans and (#thehorror) gays. So...it took me two or three years to really work through what I'd experienced and find a way to fit those experiences with my religion. Hint: I didn't. I'm an extremist at heart, so I needed some sort of abstract principle to guide. The way I saw it, the only abstract that I could be totally sure of was the #Ahimsa principle - i.e. try to make as little negative impact on the world as possible. And that's how I became a vegetarian.
