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<strong>Conversations</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Avant</strong>-<strong>garde</strong> <strong>Sages</strong><br />

TRIP: Very nice. Okay, I've got another tough one for you, darling<br />

[Laughs]. Another personal tougher for you. All right. You were a<br />

vegan, and you were an activist.<br />

LISA CAIRNS: Yes.<br />

TRIP: You were angry too, I guess, right?<br />

LISA CAIRNS: Yes.<br />

TRIP: And I'll probably lose some potential girlfriends here, but I<br />

haven't met, I've yet to meet a female vegan activist that wasn't a<br />

little bit angry. Now I married one, and then I bore children <strong>with</strong><br />

another, okay. Now I pinned the mother to the kids down on her<br />

anger and I suggested that it wasn't helping her bring people like<br />

myself into the fold, into the cause of caring for animals when the<br />

whole scene was being put out there in anger. And her response<br />

was this, she said, "As long as I live in a world where my friends<br />

are killed and tortured, my anger is an appropriate response".<br />

What do you have to say about that?<br />

LISA CAIRNS: Well as long as her anger is there, as long as that<br />

dynamic is there that she believes that her friends are being killed<br />

and tortured, there's going to be great suffering. And I know this<br />

from personal experience, this is the way it went in my story was<br />

from a very young age I become a vegetarian when I was eight<br />

years old. And I actually remember the dynamic of what<br />

happened, was I began to see suffering out in the world. I actually<br />

(this is going to sound a bit funny), but I think that often <strong>with</strong> kids<br />

the ego starts like maybe about one or two, but I think it didn't<br />

start 'til a bit later <strong>with</strong> me, I was a bit of a slow developer, I know<br />

that sounds funny. But when I was about eight I began to<br />

recognize suffering, I began to recognize myself, like the ego began<br />

to really grow, and I began to perceive myself as separate from the<br />

world. And I remember this happening and others as doing<br />

something. And I remembered when that dynamic began to grow,<br />

and I could see suffering, I then began to get the thoughts that I<br />

needed to protect others from suffering. And I remember that<br />

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