Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00230)

Hallo Netemara and all of you,

Thanks for your answer.
It was precisely those issues you metnion I was thinking about.

from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "netemara888" <netemara888@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Should I give up meat?


> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-
> theosophy@a...> wrote:
> > Hallo all of you,
> > 
> > My views are:
> > 
> > Permit me to ask:
> > Does this then imply, that one shouldn't walk around among sinners 
> anymore,
> > so to help them ?
> 
> Hello Sufi, and yes i will forward it.
> 
> Yes, in a way it does imply that there is a sort of social or 
> spiritual distance or disconnect between those who are sinners 
> (because they eat meat?) and just plain sinners. In fact it was 
> pointed out by AAB (in her unfinished autobiography) and by others 
> that those who were vegetarian in her group were especially nasty in 
> their criticism of others.
> 
> She pointed out that it made people who were vegetarian feel 
> themselves somehow superior and they were snobs in their attitude 
> towards others. 
> 
> AAB felt that this was antiChristian in attitude but not that 
> vegetarianism was anti Christian. I found in myself that when I 
> first became a vegetarian I was totally given over to feeling 
> superior and wanted to convert everyone to vegetarianism.
> 
> In fact, I did convert for a short and long time most of my family 
> to giving up meat. Some went back to meat eventually. But this is a 
> good point and a good question which deserves some thought.
> 
> Later, after realizing that I was being heavy handed I stopped 
> pushing my diet on others and then became more reclusive. I know 
> that even though HPB had a lot of people around her she was quite 
> reserved in her inner attitude and truly a recluse for much of her 
> life! But she was not a vegetarian in any strict sense but for a 
> short part of her extraordinary life.
> 
> Thanks for asking
> 
> Netemara
> 
> 
> > I think Jesus Christ did that.
> > 
> > I think it is important to forward this question.
> > 
> > from
> > M. Sufilight with peace and love...
> > 
> >