(08-02-2023, 09:24 AM)727Sky Wrote: [b]Ninurta there may be a sect of Buddhist that are vegetarian but I have not met any around here... The rice cake you were eating can have usually pork, or chicken, or whatever wrapped in the rice and banana leaf ... Some of the caddies bring them to munch on during a long stent of golf. [/b]
Once over 50 years ago Dah was getting ready to kill a fish for supper and I made the mistake of talking to the fish and saying I was sorry he was going to die...
We were not going to have fish that night until I stepped in and whacked our supper !!
Dah had more religion and caring in her little toe nail for all life, more than most people I have ever known.. quaint but touching IMO.
Makes sense - that particular monk was a Thai. Whatever that mystery meat was, it was pretty bright pink. Not uncooked, just unnaturally pink. Maybe some kind of dye in it or something. I dunno. The tea he brought was awesome - it was more like a meal than a drink, having those gelatin cubes in it, or in some cases filled up with shredded coconut.
Most of the stuff he brought came from the monastery he lived in, but he did put me on to a Vietnamese market in town. I used to go there and get some kind of Vietnamese noodles, like ramen noodles, but unlike the American ramens in that they had little grease packs and packs of hot pepper for seasonings in addition to the usual bullion pack for the broth. I'd buy those things by the case.
I take my religion seriously, but it ain't normal, not by any stretch of the imagination. I'd probably be a Christian, if I wasn't. I won't call myself a christian because I've never met one that believes as I do, and nearly all of them I've met are to some degree bigoted in favor of their own little clique of Christianity.
Most Christians also see everything in black and white, no shades of gray. On or off, black or white, yin or yang, either for them or against them, either saints or sinners, only two polarities, nothing in between. Because of that, there is an increasing proclivity on their part to see these alleged "aliens" as "demons", since they can't conceive of them as being angels. They do not consider that they might be something else entirely, and not give a flip either way about God or Satan.
I don't think science allows for them to be actual aliens from other planets though, either. Space is just too big and vast, the distances needing to be covered to far, for casual visitors from other planets.
So, contrary to both Christianity and Science, I think personally that they are likely from other dimensions - right next door, or even right here, but dimensionally "phased" so that normally neither they nor their worlds can be seen in THIS universe. That is, if they even really exist at all. I mean, I've seen things I cannot explain, but just because I can't explain them does not mean they are not explainable - it just means I don't know what that explanation is.
,