--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > <big snip> > > > > > Recruit > > > them from kids who grew up on the myths created by people > > > like Gandhi or Buddha or Martin Luther King, and who can > > > thus think of more than two solutions to the problems of > > > the world. > > > > Why the Buddha? Buddha wasn't shot, he just died of poisoned meat. > > > Do you mean "meat gone bad", that is rancid, spoiled, and thus > food-poisoning? Or do you mean someone put poison in his meat?
The former. I just had meant to say, that Buddha somewhat stands out from Gandhi or Martin Luther King as he wasn't shot, and these are the guys meaningful writers are supposed to turn to in order to prevent insane shooting. That was sort of just a pun. I guess, some will argue that he just accepted the meat being a guest, and that he wasn't a regular meat eater. He took it AFAIK to bless his host. > Soem will say its my limitations, but somehow I prefer saints (and > their wisdom) who don't eat meat. > One story is that SBS died of food poisoning. If Buddha did too, its > an odd and interesting trend among saints, and in Buddha's case an > avatar (per some). Perhaps Buddha had a secretary who poisened him, we should roll up the case again. > Hard to fathom karma, much less the karma and taking on of collective > karma of saints. It just seems an odd way for Buddha to go -- eating > meat. Even that may be moral tale. > > Then again, animal sacrafice was an integral part of many religions in > theri pre-modern forms. In pre 70AD judiasm, before destruction of the > temple, sacrafices were done right in the temple. I guess eating the > prasad of sacrafice has a logic. If one gets over the hurdle of the > idea that killing animals is a way to please god and atone for sins. I tend to thing that suicid bombing is a more modern form of human sacrifice. Perhaps there are some kind of vital beings who live on that kind of thing. Maybe the reason in the recent uprise of islam. > And in the modern age, eating meat, and supporting the whole caged > meat industry complex, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions > -- methane in particular. Global warming doesn't seem to be a divine > reward for righteous activity. But then Buddha didn't know of greenhouse gas yet. I always took his eating meat as a teaching on being non dogmatic. Being vegetarian myself, I don't want to be dogmatic about it.
