Permission or action (Score:1)
by zogger (617870) on 2009.01.18 7:28 (#26500707) Homepage Journal
Although God gave permission, it isn't clear when the action of humans eating meat again started, or how extensive it was. With the command to be good stewards of the planet, they could have held back for some time until the numbers reached a sustainable level.
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Re:Permission or action (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2009.01.18 9:59 (#26501955) Homepage Journal
Thanks! Zog!! I had no idea how to reply to his question. I sent him a letter as follows.
Hi, ..
I had thought about it for a while...My interpretation is secular one, allow me to express it!
I think people wouldn't start eating meat until it reached a sustainable numbers. Today we don't normally eat meat as a result of casual hunting, but through domestication. Animal meat is served through planned slaughtering from a stored pool of livestock evading extinction of precious source of protein.
The point is God gave us permission to make the most of animal as the source of nutrition, so we have to manage the privilege carefully enough.
My reply was not secular!
Mer
Today we take it for granted that we eat animal meat in our daily dietary, but there's a history for everything.
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Re:"Life is long" (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2009.01.17 21:53 (#26496097) Homepage Journal
Still three years to come till age half century.
20 years old.. that was a turning point in my life. The first twenty years is as good as the years for the rest of my life after 20 years old. I had felt as if I did almost everything in my minor days what I would do after twenty years old.
That does not mean I had sex, drunk, and smoked. Or rather I had never done these as adults usually do. On the contrary I hadn't done almost anything that ordinary youngsters usually do. I didn't watch TV from age 12 till 25, etc. The reason I felt I lived almost all my life in my minors is due to my psychological factors. There's scarce meaning in the length of life. What we did matters a lot more.
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Re:yep (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2009.01.12 5:12 (#26409247) Homepage Journal
In a sense all our life is illusory. Happy are those who are able to hold illusions in their life.
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Illusion

Re:Give? Deprive? (Score:1)
by Mer_panacea (1381133) on 2009.01.11 13:49 (#26405105) Homepage Journal
>You speak of subjective emotions connected to specific points in time.
Probably, so.
Mrs and Mr Mer have been in love for many years, I have stopped seeking for another love like so many years as well. If I lost her or if she said goodbye to me for unknown reasons, I'm sure I will be at a loss so sometimes I've got half a mind that love has been giving me an illusion -this happiness lasts for good, and will deprive me of everything if I rely on it too much.
As to Tillich's word, >Mankind is existentially estranged from the essential goodness of creation in God's image.
A woman was created from a man's rib, so we men seek for a woman to reclaim. Mankind is born to be perfect, but it is estranged because of the original sin they made. I understand these idea stand for Christian world view. But from scientific viewpoint all lives are originally only female and my viewpoint is humans are perfect because they made a mistake properly.
>essentially singular, but existentially plural.
Existence is prior to being.. Existentialism had been a fashion for a while after the war and also it was hard to understand. There were a number of atheistic existentialists as well as theistic ones, but their point was common - subjective judgement matters more than objective ones. I understand the phrase 'esentially singular, but existentially plural' means people are basically alone but they are happy when they are together in love.

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