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- From: altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar)
- Subject: Re: Vegetarianism or fanaticism
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:04:15 GMT
- Lines: 68
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- Mark Bevan writes:
-
- >. . .
- >I'm not in favour of trophy hunting and or English fox hunts.
-
- Mark, thank you for the confessio fidei, but I don't think any
- one here intended to vilify or question your person. That you
- are properly against trophy hunting, etc., is not at issue here,
- but thanks for helping us to understand a little better
- your personal stance.
- .
-
- >What make SOME vegetarian go off on Pseudo-religious tangents looking
- >for gurus who can reveal the scriptures in a light never seen before
- >(possibly not even by God). Is it the desire to attract attention.
-
- I really don't know who you are talking about here. Can you
- be more specific?
-
- That you seem to persist in flame-baiting by denigrating "some"
- unspecified vegetarians here on the net as religious votaries of
- some unnamed gurus, might well suggest that what you say about
- motivation for posting applies right here with your own posting,
- namely "the desire to attract attention". Is this a possibility?
-
-
-
- >Why do some insist if you cook your carrots wrong you will be
- >reincarnated as one?
- >Maybe they need a reason to eat healthly, like a law " Don't eat white
- >rice or it's 3 years of wild rice farming".
-
- This is all news to me. I don't know about the religious beliefs
- of all omnivores or vegetarians, but I do know that NO ONE here
- has seriously argued for such notions. I think you are setting
- up a STRAW MAN, or in this case, a CARROT MAN ;-)
-
-
-
- >Every hear of the story of the emperor clothes? Maybe they think
- >they have to prove they are right, so they have to come up with
- >stories and dogma, instead of letting their healthly appearance
- >stand as a witness to world.
-
- I have heard of this story. Have you heard of the sequel? When
- the emperor learned that the little boy saw and announced his
- nakedness, the emperor first proscribed him mad, irrational,
- a fanatic and then had him executed. Yes, the dominant culture
- doesn't like to be criticized or be told that vegetarianism
- has rational merits in addition to its health advantages. :-)
- .
-
- >I personally hate fanatics who don't have a balance, double for
- >religious idiots who read anything they want into something they
- >no nothing about, triple for religious idiots with degrees who quote
- >obscure chucks of scripture then "interpret" them to say something they
- >don't.
-
- Well, here we both are in full agreement. I would go further and
- suggest that we also not become so fanatic about fanaticism that
- we become fanatics ourselves. I remember Victor Hugo once writing
- somewhere that he was "religiously against religion", but there is
- the risk that by being fanatically against fanaticism wherever we
- might choose to see it, then we ourselves become that which we
- rightly detest. Just a thought.
-
- Happy Vegetarian New Year,
- ted
-