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Hare Krishna. PAMHO AGTSP.

 

Thank you very much to all of you for the many very

interesting and thought provoking insights that we are

receiving on this conference. As someone who is

pushing for a present day realistic worldwide viable

cow protection, often with a more materialistic bent,

I find my appreciation of the depth of love and

understanding from Prabhupada and his devotees

increasing.

 

In many ways I have been unfair with this conference

in taking the side of an out-right karmi (though in

some ways I'm not far off) and not as a devotee, which

once bitten is always smitten. I did this to entirely

make the point that all living entities, both

devotional or not, need to be taken under the wings of

the Absolute and not locked in the blinkers of a

sectarian religion, which ISKCON too often seems to

be.

 

Wether or not it is unfair I don't know, but now that

Syamasundra has taken up my main points I would like

to relax from such an antagonistic position to the

extent that I can.

 

Syamasundra has put forward the points of how much

work, money, skills are needed for a family man to

make a living in today's world in the UK, the USA -

the developed world - and how to obtain that through

the sole occupation of cow protection.

 

What is "a living"? We all live in houses on land,

some have have cars, tellies, gas, water, everything.

So, this then takes me back to where I started, of a

nuts and bolts approach to the business of protecting

cows - the inputs, processes, outputs and the

acceptable profits to be made.

 

Another more personal point is to be made - I feel on

this conference as a sore thumb waiting for

amputation, and often some people are quite happy to

throw the knife; and I am very often stabbing knives

into the heart of your beliefs. The thing is I, as you

all, am a person with all my complexities, and I feel

you know me not as this person, only the loud mouthed

basher of ideas; and I know you not as you are.

Obviously on an internet forum it is difficult to

express personality totally, but I would like a more

personal style to enter between us - if you still want

me here that is - as we attempt to bring cow

protection to the whole world.

 

 

Other than that, I hope all our fine and gross words

do not just stay as that, and that we really do take

up further the mantle of an economically, socially and

environmentally sustainable agricultural system with

the "profitable" lifetime protection of all farm

animals.

 

Your friend,

 

Mark

 

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