Re: FIT FOR LIFE Guidelines


Visual Purple wrote:
> I do keep kosher, Steve. Got a problem with that?

COMMENT:
No, everybody has to have a hobby, as I said before.


> Kashrut is based on
> some very sound principles too, like not mixing various proteins.


COMMENT:
Not a sound principle. Scientific nonsense. Impossible to do in any
case (do you know how many different proteins there are in a peice of
meat? Tens of thousands.)


> Above and beyond that is the moral aspect of eating, like not cooking a
> calf in its mother's milk and shooing a bird away before taking her
> eggs.


COMMENT:

There's something moral about cooking or not cooking a lamb (not calf)
in it's mother's milk? Do explain.

In any case, it's pretty hard to get from not boiling baby animals in
mother's milk, to not thinking it's right to eat cold milk and (say)
cold chicken together. Or for that matter, not being able to eat milk
and chiken together, or chicken and fish together, but having no
problem with eating (say) milk and fish together. None of this makes
any scientific sense. If it makes you feel better religiously, then
fine.

As for a moral aspect, I can only observe than probably more Jews than
not cannot see it, since more Jews don't keep kosher than do. I suppose
most of the reform and even some of the conservative are morally blind?
Even among the orthodox there are people who have found various places
of comfort but call those who believe in more kosher rules fanatics,
and those who believe in fewer, heretics. This would be funny if they
all weren't so serious about it.

> Beyond that the Spiritual aspect of eating - matters which I
> won't even attempt to explain to you, as you do not evince the
> slightest ability to perceive so rarified a state.


COMMENT:
No, I admit not. Baking powder will be non-kosher if it has cream of
tartar prepared by goyim from grapes. Only grape products prepared by
Jews can be kosher because the goys might have secretly blessed the
cream of tartar or whatever, in their goyish ceremonies, and thus to
eat them would be idolatry for an orthodox Jew, and that's the reason.
That it would be idolatry to eat a grape chemical made by the goys?
Yep, I haven't the slighest ability to perceive such rarified states,
it's true.


> The principles of Natural Hygiene are a major threat to the medical
> establishement, because they work, because they are inexpensive and
> because they radically reduce the dependence of the public on the
> medical establishment. They also get people off being hooked on legal
> drugs, so Natural Hygience gets the pharmeceutical industry's panties
> into a twist.

COMMENT:
In your mind. Actually, the pharmaceutical companies don't care what
you eat. Nobody stays up night worrying about it. Try to deflate your
gross sense of self-importance a little.

COMMENT:
> You keep right on acting ridiculous though. As Pizza Girl pointed out,
> you sound like you're tottering on the brink every time you talk about
> Natural Hygiene.
>
> You sound threatened. You sound frightened. You sound out of your
> depth, so you resort to ethnic slurs and other off the wall
> denegrations.


COMMENT:
I hardly think it's an ethnic slur to point out that Jews widely
disagree with each other on this stuff, so it's not obvious even from
the religious viewpoint. As for the science, forget it. Most of the
stuff in the Diamond's book is handwashing foolishness.

> Please do keep posting. You're making a far better case for Natural
> Hygiene that I am!

I see. I point out that it's ridiculous, and you feel persecuted. And
validated. Well, everybody has to have a hobby.

SBH

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