Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00082)

Hallo everyone,

A view:

It could be that a hardcore vegetarian Theosophist quite often resembles a
refined barbarian with either no or only a small amount of understanding of
social behaviour. True ?

The readers will have to decide that.

from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stevestubbs" <stevestubbs@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World En: vegetarianism


> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> > There were rules against cruelty to animals before you kill them,
> and
> > killing them in the most humane way possible.
>
> There was also an argument about whether or not one had to be
> vegetarian to be spiritual. That argument is not new as you assume.
>
> > Ah, taking the Noam Chomsky track of conveniently leaving out that
> the
> > people he was killing were trying very hard to kill or enslave him
> and
> > his people...
>
> Mope. Just wondering aloud if the fellow who came up with the
> admonition against killing was a reformer. I believe he was.
>
> > Can you say SELF DEFENSE? Or do you believe that people do not have
> > that basic right? Or is it just people you don't like who don't
> have
> > that basic right?
>
> You are making the erroneous assumption that people in an ancient and
> barbarous age had the same values as you have in this modern and
> barbarous age.
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