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  • From: Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Pork Fat
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:40:13 -0400

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







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