Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00943)

This is not widely known. In clinical terms of physical/mental
addiction, you cannot become addicted unless you develop a tolerance
to something.

In essence, one must become more tolerant to something in order to
become addicted. In the sense of alchohol, you will need more to
acquire the same feeling. Meat does not do this; hence you really
can't call it an addiction. It's more of a habit.

I'm just playing devil's advocate.

-Mark H.



On 4/17/05, Niki Durand <nikidurand@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Mark Hamilton Jr.
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