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Question: Thx for the updates I love getting these in the morning. I'm a Christan and I was just wondering Aron what website u got that information about Jesus being a vegetarian. Thx for your time.
Answer: Actually this was information that I acquired while studying in a monestary in north Iceland. The Rev. Dr. Djuvok Nurthveinder, my tutor, had a particularly keen interest in Christian mythology that traveled as far north as Scandanavia in the first century. In his research trying to pick apart the truth from the myth (eg Jesus never blessed or healed any trolls, as many northern scandanavians might tell you) Dr. Nurthveinder became associated with a number of Greek translators that are studying some of the earliest found gospel text. Among this they have found evidence that though Jesus preached to fishers, he himself never partook upon any meat. However much of this is lost in modern translations as the earliest interpretors of biblical text into common language were in societies that had no vegetarians, thus no way of understanding what a vegetarian is.
This information is still being discussed and debated, and thus Gullible is the first of any non-academic research to make any public notice of this. I'm sure as the information becomes more widely available there will be many more websites following suit.
Is it possible that He was vegan? I myself think that it's unbelievably cruel to keep animals in captivity so that we can eat what they produce, so it is hard for me to imagine Jesus, who was never cruel to anyone, doing such a thing. I also don't ever remember anything about Him drinking milk or eating cheese in the bible. He did eat a lot of bread though. Did bread in those days have eggs or milk in it?
off topic a bit, is a vegan likewise forbidden to perform or receive oral sex, as such could be perceived as the same as drinking mother's milk while adult or sucking eggs when in senior state?
how do vegans justify breathing, as various micro-critters are consumed and destroyed in both inspiration and expiration?
can a vegan logically be an ecologist? after all, a vegan can eat no flesh but a true greenie can harm no flora. what to eat then? dirt? (no, wait, that violates both as one would displacing earthworms, et alia, from their native land; cf european effect on native amerind culture)
i eat wot i want; but curious...
off topic a bit, is a vegan likewise forbidden to perform or receive oral sex, as such could be perceived as the same as drinking mother's milk while adult or sucking eggs when in senior state?
--it's more about animal cruelty. I've asked the same question and they all say "no" to it.
how do vegans justify breathing, as various micro-critters are consumed and destroyed in both inspiration and expiration?
--that's more of a religious thing, with some eastern monks claiming that you should wear a mask so as not to harm them. Vegans care mostly about harm and suffering, again. For instance, most wouldn't stop eating salad despite that there are oftentimes insects or larvae which would forbid a kosher restaurant from serving them.
can a vegan logically be an ecologist? after all, a vegan can eat no flesh but a true greenie can harm no flora. what to eat then? dirt? (no, wait, that violates both as one would displacing earthworms, et alia, from their native land; cf european effect on native amerind culture)
---being a vegan has little to do with ecology, but yes, IMHO they would make better ecologists than somebody who eats meat from the factory farm
Re: Did bread in those days have eggs or milk in it?
During the time of Jesus, unleavened bread consisted of durum flour, water, and salt. Leavened (risen) bread was made with goat milk, and leavened by kneading the dough with the feet, which activated the yeast naturally ocurring between the toes. Thus the bread would rise. Sources cannot confirm or deny whether Jesus consumed leavened bread.
On that note, should vegans eat leavened bread containing yeast? Yeast is a living single-celled organism, after all.
Re: off topic a bit, is a vegan likewise forbidden to perform or receive oral sex?
At the risk of sounding prudish, no-one should ever perform oral sex on men. It's not only anti-vegetarian, but could also be considered homocide. It's fine for women, though, vegetarian or not.
Life is short...eat out more often.
How is it possible for scientists to conclude that Jesus was a vegetarian outright?
Vegans and modern Western society don't get along in a number of ways, some alluded to above. One of these issues showed up in today's facts:
• Orthodox vegans typically spend only coins since U.S. paper currency has animal oils in the ink and a credit card's plastic is manufactured with animal fats.
I discovered this little tidbit while at Trader Joe's (an "alternative" grocery store), where, nearly every time I go, someone was holding up the line by paying their entire bill with coins. Usually, it wouldn't be too bad bacause they'd already be rolled up into convenient denominations, however, sometimes the person paying would just have pockets full of coins which would have to be individually counted. One day, after having two such payers in the line in front of me, my curiosity got the better of me and I struck up a conversation with the cashier. He explained to me that the really hard-core vegans refuse to even touch things like paper money and credit cards because of the animal products used in their manufacture.
Some quick research at my university library proved him to be correct.
What didn't come out until the fact was fully vetted by the Gullible.Info fact checkers was that not all Western vegans follow such teachings. The sect known as "Orthodox vegans" are most well known for this behavior, yet they only comprise about 20% of Americans who consider themselves to be "vegan".
It also seems that Orthodox vegans look down on "Westernized" vegans the same way that "Westernized" vegans look down on vegetarians. They consider the other to just be following the teaching that are convenient for them, and not making a true commitment to the lifestyle.
I think being hardcore Vegan sort of complicates things a bit too much. What if you buy $100 worth of *vegan* groceries, and have to pay in quarters?
That's 400 quarters! 2.268 Kg!
Eek. I'd hate to be behind that guy in line...
I'm not sure if you've ever been in a strict vegan grocery store, but I lived in Eugene Oregon for a while...they've got the highest number of vegans per capita of any US city. All of the vegan stores I went to had coin machines at the cash register, so you just dumped in your hemp bag of coins and it rang you up. Funny enough, most of the time it was a lot faster than the people who paid with cash. And a lot more socially conscious, too.
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