Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 >Namaste, > >Same old tired meat eater retort. > >A carrot doesn't have a developed nervous system, and even though >plants can react to stimulus they don't feel the pain the same way as >a sentint being. One has to start somewhere and make the effort. ONS >Tony. Hi Tony :-) You are not a carrot and not a rock and animals DO feel pain in a more complex way. For example your developed system is convinced that people who are vegetarian or clean (perhaps) are nearer to Godliness. Diet and hygiene are important but I will not be hoovering my way to heaven or eating my way there. If you can. Good luck. My apologies if my hygiene and dietary practices is not according to prescribed Holiness and Harmlessness. :-) Kosher Lobster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 >Namaste Lobster, > >I don't think a lobster is kosher? It is true that as a scavenger lobster is an unclean animal (like a dog in Islam) and therefore anti-Semitic or non-kosher or whatever is the correct term. However I am kosher (because I am not - this will come as a surprise - a real lobster) Kosher in the mystical sense is unlawful knowledge or food. >I was referring to Ahimsa when talking of meat eating. I have read >Bose and the Secret Life of plants etc. Plants do react to >stimulation, but again they do not have the developed nervous system >of a human or an animal. It has nothing to do with holiness but with >developing one's spiritual awareness sheath, the vijnanamayakosa. If >you wish to eat meat fine, it just indicates a lack of compassion for >the animal versus an egoistic desire. This lack of awareness is common >to most human animals. We can only do our best, if you are a meat >eater that is the stage you are at... LOL I recently heard a talk by a highly realised person who described the insects that are killed during ground clearing during ploughing during spraying and during harvesting. m m m - Just so your stage of 'harmlessness' can be attained during lower life form (plant) production. To live is to kill. We just decide that one way is more compassionate. Some of us (at our stage) live in the world as it is. Or one animal is of more value . . . Let us hope we all evolve some animals who I have eaten will go to a better incarnation and I in my compassion have aided and respected their sacrifice. The dangerous omnivorous Lobster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2001 Report Share Posted April 30, 2001 , Lobster <lobster@b...> wrote: > > >Namaste, > > > >Same old tired meat eater retort. > > > >A carrot doesn't have a developed nervous system, and even though > >plants can react to stimulus they don't feel the pain the same way as > >a sentint being. One has to start somewhere and make the effort. ONS > >Tony. > > Hi Tony :-) > You are not a carrot > and not a rock > and animals DO feel pain > in a more complex way. > For example your developed > system is convinced that > people who are vegetarian > or clean (perhaps) > are nearer to Godliness. > Diet and hygiene are important > but I will not > be hoovering my way to heaven > or eating my way there. > If you can. > Good luck. > My apologies if my hygiene and > dietary practices is not according > to prescribed Holiness and Harmlessness. > > :-) > Kosher Lobster Namaste Lobster, I don't think a lobster is kosher? Tail is full of arsenic anyway! I was referring to Ahimsa when talking of meat eating. I have read Bose and the Secret Life of plants etc. Plants do react to stimulation, but again they do not have the developed nervous system of a human or an animal. It has nothing to do with holiness but with developing one's spiritual awareness sheath, the vijnanamayakosa. If you wish to eat meat fine, it just indicates a lack of compassion for the animal versus an egoistic desire. This lack of awareness is common to most human animals. We can only do our best, if you are a meat eater that is the stage you are at... Om Namah Sivaya....Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2001 Report Share Posted April 30, 2001 Namaste, None so blind! Exactly my point.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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