I have a friend who doesn't believe there is evil in the world. If you've ever seen video of the abuse at a dairy or pig farm, you know that's not true.



A good person sees their true nature very clearly, even when they're wrong.

An evil person acts on impulse and cannot see themselves clearly.

A good person is kind without hope of anything in return.

An evil person only does things that are beneficial to themselves or harmful to others.

A good person is happy for others achievements.

An evil person is not happy for others achievements and is envious and manipulative.

A good person thinks on a high vibration of love, light and compassion.

An evil person has low vibration (highly sexual, glutton, selfish and dark).

A good person doesn't have to tell people they are good.

An evil person pretends to be good and wants to make sure everyone knows what they do.

A good person shares other's sorrow.

An evil person either feels nothing or enjoys other's pain.

A good person tries to become a better person daily.

An evil person tries to become better on Sunday and raises hell every other day.

A good person gives of themselves freely, rarely taking what they deserve.

An evil person gets annoyed when asked for something and takes more than they deserve.

A good person has real love in their life, whether with someone else or alone.

An evil person is unhappy with who they are with or cannot find love and is lonely.

A good person is well-liked and has genuine friends.

An evil person is a fake friend and is surrounded by fake friends.

A good person is happy and they know it.

An evil person is miserable 99% of the time and doesn't even know it.

A good person is in heaven on Earth.

An evil person suffers all the time and is in Hell on Earth.

Hello Beautiful Souls,

I haven't been blogging lately because #1 I've been fighting OFF a cold. The sun and me don't get along very well. I tell people I'm allergic to the sun and they laugh, but it's true. Because of my B-12 deficiency from being vegan, I have to make nice with the sun occasionally. But it always leaves me cold ... that was funny, right?

Anyway, the latest in the world of Ambrosia:

1. I'm working on my album due out in October, called "Abyssal Plane".

2. Working on an art project for Art Basel in the Winter.

3. Coordinating my "Slumber Party Meditation" series to begin in October.

4. Rewriting my nonfiction book about energy transfer to be more of an autobiography.

5. DJ'ing as usual, spreading my love of ambient music to the masses.

Bear with me, I'll be back soon. Just trying to make my mark on the world before 2012.

;-)

~inga~

Inga Ambrosia for President

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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are in wedded bliss and are eager to show it.

The newlyweds exchanged their personal vows in front of their closest family and friends at their home in Los Angeles last Saturday.

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Amid candles and flowers by Mark's Garden, both brides, dressed in Zac Posen, sat on floor pillows with author Wayne Dyer, who officiated the ceremony. They exchanged Neil Lane rings, before sitting down to feast on an all-vegan menu designed by their personal chef and a vegan red velvet wedding cake.

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I would've loved to see Ellen in a dress and Portia in a tuxedo. ;-)

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I am a serious games player and always have been. Not video games, XBOX 3??? or wow wiiii ... I play logic games, games that make you think. It organizes my brain the way classical music does. When I'm in a rut or having a mental block, I play at least one game a day to put me back into focus.

This game claims to Revitalize your chakras and helps you encounter your inner chi ... You know what? It does ... after an hour of this game, you can do anything. It kicks your butt, but you can see how fast your brain adjusts to what seems to be an impossible level to win. You can see how your fears take over, until you release them and let your intuition guide you to the answers.

I don't want to tell you too much, just download it. You can play for FREE if you watch some advertising ... its worth it in my book ... ;-)

Average Rating: (94 ratings)

Game Features:

• Two gameplay modes, journey and zen.
• 50 levels of gameplay throughout 10 worlds.
• 5 Different Busts: Small, Column, Ring, Change, and Color.
• Soothing music helps all players unwind from a long day!

Here is a clip from a NY Times Blog regarding why vegans don't eat honey:

Rynn Berry, the author of “The Vegan Guide to New York City,” answered City Room readers’ questions this week about his views on shopping, eating and living a vegan lifestyle in New York.

Can you address why some vegans do not eat honey? I understand the thoughts behind not eating eggs and dairy, but have not heard anything convincing about the ill-effects of honey production.

And just a quick comment for #67 - I had the opposite effect of switching to a primarily vegan diet. My cholesterol when from a high in the 220s to 167 after ceasing to eat animal products with cholesterol.

— Posted by Melissa

Vegans eschew honey because they regard it as an unethical food. In the first place, honey is the work product of the bee, intended to nourish their offspring. Beekeepers snatch honey from the hive and substitute sugar water, depriving the young of their proper nourishment. Stealing honey is not only unconscionable — it is a violation of the precepts of asteya (non-stealing) and ahimsa (non-violence) that are promulgated by the oldest religions on the planet, Buddhism and Jainism, that promote non-violence and non-violent eating.

Aesthetically, honey is an unlovely food. Honey is nectar exuded by flowers, swallowed by bees then regurgitated by them. Ethical vegans accurately refer to honey as “bee spit,” or “bee vomit.”

At the core of every beehive is the queen bee—the only bee capable of laying eggs. While worker bees live only for a few months, queens live as long as several years.

However, in commercial beekeeping, the same remorseless practices associated with factory farming are applied to bees. The queens are killed every six months, and replaced by virgin queens that are mass-produced by specialist breeders. These virgin queens are artificially inseminated by sperm collected from crushed males. The queen has her wings cut off –to prevent her from swarming, which is the natural reproductive activity of the colony.

To increase crop yields, beekeepers often transport colonies to areas where crops are in flower, so that bees may artificially pollinate them. The unintended consequence of this is that it drives out the native pollinators, such as birds, bats, moths, butterflies, and other winged creatures. This creates a monoculture of pollinators that is subject to disease and dearth. Hence the recent alarming decline in honeybee populations in the US.

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Head Spins: Inga Ambrosia

Miami's most unconventional DJ.

By John Hood

Published on August 07, 2008

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I love my puppies just as much as anyone else, but people should probably get a mental health exam before being allowed to sell their home for this procedure, ~$50k - $100k. This woman cloned her dog "Booger" - ok first sign that she is off - that died, then she got in her own words "5 more mini-boogers".... (laughing hysterically at keyboard)

Okay.. need I say any more?

One more thing - they are precciioouuss!!

~inga~

A friend of mine told me that lightning comes from the ground. That it moves so fast that it only looks like it's moving downward. Naturally, I told him he was nuts. So I looked it up. Did you know there were so many types of lightning? The one he was talking about its called "ground-to-cloud lightning". I looked it up on Wikipedia to blast him, and learned something instead. Never underestimate people. He was wrong but still, so was I ... ;-)

Check it:

Ground-to-cloud lightning

Ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning discharge between the ground and a cumulonimbus cloud from an upward-moving leader stroke.

Cloud-to-ground

Cloud-to-ground lightning is a great lightning discharge between a cumulonimbus cloud and the ground initiated by the downward-moving leader stroke. This is the second most common type of lightning, and poses the greatest threat to life and property of all known types.

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I love when someone writes an article that really puts it out there. Putting it bluntly, I think flexitarians are ridiculous. Anyone that tells me they eat meat or dairy occasionally is someone who just can't decide whether they care about animals or not. These people are not vegans, part-vegans, semi veg or anything. Yes, it helps the environment, but what if the world was full of these kinds of on-the-fence people, we still would have a problem. Because a flexitarian is just one hamburger away from being a carnivore.

Since I made the sacrifice to not consume meat or dairy in over 5 years, I don't feel like applauding people who are too weak to make the same sacrifice. When my vegan friends tell me they eat honey and occasionally consume dairy, it makes me cringe. They are impostors but I'm not going to pull the plug on them. I do want to take their vegan card away though.

It's just like the "light green" concept John Mayer proposed. It's bullshit. I know I'm an extreme, Type A personality that is punctual, makes lists, is obsessed with time, mine and others ... I just don't get the half-assed concept. Someone called me militant the other day, without even meeting me. Ok! I might appear that way because I am a no nonsense kind of person. Being vegan is hard, its not for everyone. Just like being a good person is hard, some people have too much evil inside to contend with.

Anyway, read this article I found today. I don't agree with everything he says, but its informative to say the least, even if he is on the other side it seems. Here is an excellent explanation as to why I refuse to eat honey. Decide for yourself:

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Old-guard vegans have no patience for this sort of equivocation: Animal products are off-limits, period. Indeed, the first Vegan Society was created in 1944 to counter the detestable, flexitarian tendencies of early animal rights activists. Founder Donald Watson called their namby-pamby lacto-vegetarianism "a halfway house between flesh-eating and a truly human, civilized diet" and implored his followers to join him in making the "full journey." That journey, as the society has since defined it, takes no uncertain position on honey—it's summarily banned, along with bee pollen, bee venom, propolis, and royal jelly.

The hard-liners argue that beekeeping, like dairy farming, is cruel and exploitative. The bees are forced to construct their honeycombs in racks of removable trays, according to a design that standardizes the size of each hexagonal chamber. (Some say the more chaotic combs found in the wild are less vulnerable to parasitic mites.) Queens are imprisoned in certain parts of the hive, while colonies are split to increase production and sprinkled with prophylactic antibiotics. In the meantime, keepers control the animals by pumping their hives full of smoke, which masks the scent of their alarm pheromones and keeps them from defending their honey stores. And some say the bees aren't making the honey for us, so its removal from the hive could be construed as a form of theft. (Last year's animated feature, Bee Movie, imagined the legal implications of this idea.)

So, any vegan who eats honey but avoids milk is making the tacit assumption that the pain experienced by a bee counts for something less than the pain experienced by a cow. It's exactly the sort of compromise that so appalled Watson and the early vegans. Once you've allowed yourself to equivocate on animal suffering, how do you handle all the other borderline cases of insect exploitation? What about silkworms and cochineal bugs? Come to think of it, does a bee feel any less pain than a scallop or an oyster? Why can't we eat them, too?

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By LESLEY ABRAVANEL

lank@aol.com

It's no secret that some of us, ahem, love little, off-the-beaten-path places, especially in this town, where paths may be off and may be beaten but rarely does the twain meet. One of those places is Circa 28 in Wynwood. On Friday, a bigger than usual fusion of art, poetry and music will occur, beginning with a live performance by monthly resident band Elastic Bond at 11 p.m. and continuing with poetry by Debrorah Magdalena, graffiti by Rok One, Fisik and Audet, a photo shoot by Alissa Christine (who's got a very cool project chronicling the city going on), and DJ Inga Ambrosia. It's an Attention Deficit Disorder's delight!

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