Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00935)

Vlad-

How else could I make my reply but by reading your
words? Duh! Sly insults, sweetie, are like catnip to
moi...

And, yer splitting hairs, are you a barber? Nice 'do,
that one! Similarities! C'mon, can't you stand behind
your words?! And here are some of them again, "If one
can't live without consuming meat, it is a kind of
disease like addiction to drugs (tobacco and alcohol
included)." So, if yer showning a "similarity" does
that not eventually mean equation? I know when I
compare I'm trying to show "this equals this"...

And, don't you know sarcasm when you read it? I was
being quite facetious when I asked if you had more
wisdom...quoting scripture won't do it for me, Vlad-
try relating to me as if my opinion actually matters.
That gets my attention every time!

Peace and a Big, Fat Juicy Range Free Steak!

Niki


--- Vladimir <forums@sova.us> wrote:
> 
> Saturday, April 16, 2005, 11:54:20 AM, Niki wrote:
> 
> > Equating the eating of meat with alcoholism and
> drug
> > addiction?
> 
> Had you read my words you would see I was not
> equating, but showing
> similarities. These kinds of addiction are indeed
> similar: they are
> not necessary for the human's well-being and
> they are more or less
> harmful for it.
> 
> 
> > Any more "wisdom" like that?
> 
> Sure. Since this is a theosophical forum, here is
> a quote about the
> subject from "The Key to Theosophy" by HPB:
> 
> 
> One of the great German scientists has shown that
> every kind of animal
> tissue, however you may cook it, still 
> retains certain marked
> characteristics of the animal which it 
> belonged to, which
> characteristics can be recognised. And apart
> from that, every one
> knows by the taste what meat he is eating. We go a
> step farther, and
> prove that when the flesh of animals is assimilated
> by man as food, it
> imparts to him, physiologically, some of the
> characteristics of the
> animal it came from. Moreover, occult science
> teaches and proves this
> to its students by ocular demonstration, 
> showing also that this
> "coarsening" or "animalizing" effect on man is
> greatest from the flesh
> of the larger animals, less for birds, still less
> for fish and other
> cold-blooded animals, and least of all when he eats
> only vegetables.
> 
> http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/key/key-13.htm
> 
> Thus vegetarianism is better not only morally, but
> physically as well.
> 
> 
> > Oh, and how do you explain that our bodies are
> > naturally made to eat animal flesh...
> 
> Very simply: they are not made that way. Scientists
> have been arguing
> about it for decades. But of course humans can feed
> on anything, which
> they happily do.
> 
> 
> > And, these bodies need a certain amount of
> flesh to be properly
> > maintained...
> 
> They need it if they are tuned to be in such a need.
> E.g. my own body
> is free from this dependance.
> 
> 
> > I always thought a vegetarian diet was a moral
> choice,
> > not a biological imperative. Myself, I go through
> > regular detoxes, where I eliminate all flesh from
> my
> > diet...but I eat flesh, usually. And I make sure
> it's
> > free range, rendered with care and respect...
> 
> Well, sure, you can sin and repent, sin and
> repent as our good Holy
> Fathers teach us. And you can fill your needy body
> with junk and then
> try to cleanse it. And you also can just avoid
> letting the junk in, or
> at least content yourself with the cleanest sorts
> of junk. The choice
> is always yours.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Vladimir
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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