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Mystic Vegans
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 1:44 am
by Twizelby
There is a certain type of vegan that drives me nuts. These mystical health guru vegans kill me. It's not so much that they are interested in diet, I'm cool with that and I'm always interested in what studies they provide as many of them do cite sources, it's that they advertise it as a f****ing cure all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kfzZAPrSKA
The people who think that anything unnatural will kill you (vaccines), cancer doesn't occur in nature, and organic fruit will keep you alive forever. It's like atheism+...Vegan+
Re: Mystic Vegans
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:50 am
by TheVeganAtheist
I agree. I wish scepticism was more prevalent in the vegan community.
Re: Mystic Vegans
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:51 am
by CryoVirus
I have a few of those types in my school. During a conversation one of them walked up because my freind was talking about how he likes to hunt, (I am in Louisiana keep in mind.) I was saying that I count that as destroying the ecosystem, it's not as good as you think, ect., ect. The other guy (His name is Daniel) listened for a bit before just exploding on my freind (whose name is Mike) about how it's wrong, and that (Daniel is Christian too) he kills God's creations and he was litterally screaming at my freind before I finally got a few other people (a couple classmates) to make Daniel calm down, he finally did, but me and my freind were having a small debate, a freindly one. But when a Vegan (I have no problem with Vegans, I'm trying to get into it myself) just explodes on a person....it does make the community reputation drop. And about the "cure all" thing, during Flu season when everyone was getting shots, a few people were talking about how painful the shots are and such. and yet again , (Not Daniel, it's a girl, I have no idea what her name is) someone begins yelling saying it's unatrual to get shots to cure diseases, i only heard about it happening, i wasn't there. but it sounded like she was saying turning Vegan solves sickness of all kinds. *shakes head* I really don't care for people
Re: Mystic Vegans
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:38 pm
by brimstoneSalad
This is why I go much harder on fellow vegans when they say something absurd, incorrect, woo/moonbatty. To an extent, we are in the same community, and they will be seen to represent veganism. I want them to have the right information.
When a meat eater goes on about nutty things, I don't usually consider it worth my time, and just tell them they're idiots instead of trying very hard to convince them (if they're receptive, I'll explain why of course, but otherwise I leave them to it).
Re: Mystic Vegans
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:55 am
by bobo0100
sadly i must admit that this is what introduced me to the vegan community (back when I was a new-ager). much of this happens in the newaged community, such as Teal Scott, (or did she change her name to teal swan?) whom is a "mystic vegan" altho she has not advocated for it in her books or videos, and its hard to tell if she does it for spiritual or ethical reasonings. She is also a possible candidate for 'verses'.
Re: Mystic Vegans
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:09 am
by miniboes
I guess every group will have their radicals that will simply go too far, whether it be islam, atheism or veganism. It's an unfortunate reality. It's important to realize this though, and I wish more people did, because the whole group should not be judged by the actions of the radical individual.
Re: Mystic Vegans
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:59 pm
by brimstoneSalad
miniboes wrote:I guess every group will have their radicals that will simply go too far, whether it be islam, atheism or veganism. It's an unfortunate reality. It's important to realize this though, and I wish more people did, because the whole group should not be judged by the actions of the radical individual.
True. But I also see it as the group's responsibility to contain or control their own radicals, or if they can not, to distance themselves from the radicals by branching off and delineating the ideological differences clearly through a clearly different identity.