The Sufferfree Community

Hello.

Welcome to Sufferfree.  We think differently about life, and love, and purpose.  If you keep reading, you may see that you have been thinking like this for some time too.  So let's start the conversation about your new spiritual home, right here.

It only takes your first pet, for you to realize that non-humans have feelings, they're fun, they have a sense of humour and they think up ways to engage with you as more than just the one who fills the food bowl.  They miss you when you're gone, and they are excited to see you when you get home.  They forgive you for the ways in which you misunderstand them, and they patiently wait for your actions to catch up to the kind intentions you have.

At some point in your life, you may get to figure out that processed foods aren't good for you, and then maybe, if you're lucky, you figure out that animal products are poisoning your body.  It takes a while, and you may start to cut down on meat, then on dairy, then on eggs.  When you do, something happens at the deepest point of your being. As you ingest less and less suffering, you become aware of the ways in which humans disrespect everyone around us.  Other humans.  Any specific group that isn't us.  Any species that can not dominate us.  Anything that shows kindness, mercy, patience, and asks for respect.

If you've come to the time in your life where you've reached the thinking that you, and I, are potentially the abuser, and the rescuer, the murderer and the vigilante, and it's a moment-to-moment choice which role you will fulfil?  Then you're ready to make mindful choices, to make decisions based on the reality, not on what you think would feel nice.

Albert Einstein noted, “Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.”

We unleash our unthinking selves on one another, and on those who are here with us.  It's time for us to be more, to do more, to be more true and real and kind.  Not just for non-human sentient beings, but for our own species, beyond the insignificant lines we've drawn inside our own homes - dividing us by arbitrary distinctions; thoughts, where we live, beliefs we hold, traits of bodies, and whom we love.

So today, we'd like to invite you to take this pledge, and sign up to belong with SufferFree.  We're here to make a difference, to live like we know why we're here, to show up as the very best version humans we can possibly be.