Jesus hates your pagan Easter ham!

[Sean]

Fair enough. So what makes you think he does is for religious/compassionate reasons? Has he told you this?

[loCAtek]

He's said he hated the suffering of the fish, seeing them on his family's fisheries ...long ago. 'Tis, why as he doesn't eat fish to this day. If that's not compassion, I don't know what is.

[Sean]

Again, fair enough. And the religious bit?

[loCAtek]

i said, I do It for religious/compassionate reasons; if he's compassionate or religious, you have to ask him to admit that. I've only said I thought he might be, I don't speak for him.

That's called a disclaimer BTW

[Sean]

Actually, what you said was, "I do it for religious/compassionate reasons. I think he does too".

I simply asked you why you thought his reasons were religious/compassionate.

Carry on though... I'm beginning to enjoy watching you try to squirm out of the holes you dig for yourself...

[loCAtek]

i don't speak for others; I can speculate as to their motives but if you want specifics, you'd have to ask them

...which is why I provide disclaimers.

[Sean]

And I asked (nicely I might add) if you had any reason to speculate this. If not, I can only conclude that you are trolling again...

[loCAtek]

I didn't speculate: he's said the suffering of the fish troubled him.

Did you think, he shouldn't care abut the suffering of other creatures?

[Sean]

"i don't speak for others; I can speculate as to their motives"

Followed 14 minutes later by:

"I didn't speculate: he's said the suffering of the fish troubled him."


Anyway, you keep avoiding, I'll keep asking... You said you thought his motives were religious/compassionate like yours. You've adequately explained the compassion bit, but what makes you think that his motives were in any way religious?

Has he said something to this effect or is it simply that you are trying to bait a response?

[loCAtek]

Well, you know I believe in spiritual religion; if you have compassion for another creature's spirit, then you have some spirituality.

[Sean]

Well that's a bunch of arse right there!

[thestoat]

If nobody ate pig, wouldn't they become extinct? Personally I won't eat something that died cruelly ...

[Rick]

John Barleycorn...

[Big RR]

If nobody ate pig, wouldn't they become extinct? Personally I won't eat something that died cruelly ...

Well, pigs wouldn't be killed and butchered according to kosher/halal laws and traditions (hung p with the throat slit so they bleed out), so if you are conerned with cruelty you might want to eat pig.

[@meric@nwom@n]

If nobody ate pig, wouldn't they become extinct? Personally I won't eat something that died cruelly ...

They would still need them for greased pig contests.

[dales]

[MajGenl.Meade]

Edited to erase a misunderstanding


(This is true) On the way back from church on Sunday Margaretta and I saw a pig - a pitch black boar, all bristles and edges on the verge of the N8. Suddenly it began to race in the same direction we were travelling, moving piggy fast. And on the other side of the fence, starting to run (I swear) at the same time as the pig was a pitch black horse. The two buggers were having a race! Didn't see who won because we were doing 100kph and left them behind. It was bizarre.

A real Easter ham racing a horse.... on Easter Sunday....

Meade

[thestoat]

I must remember the greased pig contests

so if you are conerned with cruelty you might want to eat pig.

Oh yes - I love my bacon. But I have seen that sharks are killed cruelly for their fins and so wouldn't eat shark fin soup. Also, monkey brain is out because they are killed cruelly too (I was told this in Singapore ... in fact ...

whilst there I was taken out a lot by colleagues to various places to eat. I'd order things like duck web, chicken feet, etc, trying to eat traditional stuff, and they would eat the same. One time I asked them

"So how often do you eat this stuff?"

"Never", was the reply.

"But you are eating it now!"

"Well, we saw you eating it and thought we should too".

"So, what do you eat normally?"

"MacDonnalds"

)

[Big RR]

LOL

[oldr_n_wsr]

If nobody ate pig, wouldn't they become extinct? Personally I won't eat something that died cruelly ...

Doubtful. There is a serious feral pig problem in the southern USA. They are multiplying like rabbits and ruining crops, pasture and forests with their rooting. And somewhere along hte line, some got crossbred with some kind of Russian boar and they are hitting the 800+ pound range, sporting some really big tusks and a really nasty attitude.