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[Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>]

On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:
> > The Dalai Llama advises that it is very difficult and not  advised
> > generally, to change religious cultures.
> Now you have opened the proverbial can of worms - pun intended.

Uh Oh.  Shall we stray from moats? hehe.

> ... - I have always believed  that the aversion to pork was health- 
> and-sanitation based, and stemmed from the sadly learned experience   
> -... pork was a source of certain death.

Quite possibly so. But
<Imagination machine ON>
Is it possible that one, just one, revered rabbi had a great uncle who  
succumbed to a fateful case of trichinosis or something?  And said  
rabbi proclaimed the evils of pork and so it went?

What was that about a butterfly landing on a loaf of bread in China  
and the result was the defeat of the army on the way to and back from  
Russia?

(I have a story about cutting the ends off the Daisy Ham that  
illuminates the origins of many long-held traditions, and will tell it  
if anyone wants to hear it.)

> And...how many of us gets to choose our religion, anyway? Just like  
> public
> schooling, we are indoctrinated from Day One, to carry on the  
> tradition,

MY tradition in a nutshell:

Father raised blue-blood Boston Episcopal
Mother (presumably) raised Swedish-in-this-country Lutheran
From my age 6 on we were in a small New England town with no such  
churches, so we went to the Congregational Church, about 8  minutes  
walk from our house
Later in life when I got to think for myself, I left it all to other  
folks,
Then much later, affiliated with the Unitarian Universalists, "UU's",  
as folks who seemed to make sense.
And, after a hiatus, may well re-connect with them at our new home in  
NY.

> and ensure the continued prosperity of The Establishment.
> Sandy  ...  Blissful Atheist

There are enough atheists among UU's to constitute "a voice".  And  
about half of UU's are "converted" Catholics or Jewish folks.  Odd  
thing is, they tend to ask such questions as: "What is prosperity,  
really?", and "Is the establishment good?", and further, "Can we  
improve on that?".

As they say on another of my favorite mailing lists:

Roy,
Running and ducking.

PS:  Further means "beyond in extent or degree", Farther means "beyond  
in distance", current usage being yet another blurring of a formerly  
well established nuance in the Uhmurrican version of the English  
Language.

PS2:  "English!  Why can't the British teach their children how to  
speak!"  ... words of a song heard by me sung by Richard Burton on a  
London Stage in person in London in the '70's.


Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180