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May 2009 
DeadIcant: Not Eating Sacred Life
Posted on Apr 24th, 2009
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Michael
Michael
DeadIcant is about holding all life as sacred and not eating anything that is still alive. Imagine that, eating something still alive. Disgusting. I just feel, strongly and intuitively that this shouldn't happen. Eating my food while it's still alive. Think of all those living cells, being eaten alive! argh. I'm not sure what the philosophy will be behind it, since nature herself arranges that most things end their life by being eaten alive…. bummer huh? But we'll fingure something out.
Though just as liberals justify hunting animals "if they eat it", we too can accept people eating living things if they kill it themselves beforehand That is, honoring the life we are turn into digestive pulp by giving it a sacred ending, a sacred death as it were. For instance, I eat oatmeal long after it's been thoroughly killed in a factory. And I put butter, which has been fully homogenized into the oatmeal. I can eat without putting anything sacred and living into my mouth, to be crushed between my teeth. Gosh what a horrible experience that would be for something livng as small as oats to be inside my mouth, like Jonah's whale, to be crushed to death, all the sacred life juice spilling forth as mere food for another life-form.
The reverse side, the sacrred side, is that my body becomes a Temple Of Transformation, where I take non-living food and transform it into more of living sacred humanity! Also, if we begin to create our own food, we can take like tons of oats and before we throw it into the mill, we give it sacred blessing and prayer of thankfullness. Then we throw it into the vats and turn the grinders on. Blessed Sacred Oatmeal, coming right up. Dead of course. Not alive. Won't be offended at my tooth fillings or bad breath. In fact, Sacred. A full life and well, a nice breakfast to boot. I know I'm going to feel better about this. I just hope some cynics don't start an Axis of Evil thing and start eating living food only. Maybe the people who view food really spiritually will join me? I think, I can remember their name, ah.... it's Raw Food People.
Wait! They mean still-alive!!! What are they thinking?!?
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Though just as liberals justify hunting animals "if they eat it", we too can accept people eating living things if they kill it themselves beforehand That is, honoring the life we are turn into digestive pulp by giving it a sacred ending, a sacred death as it were. For instance, I eat oatmeal long after it's been thoroughly killed in a factory. And I put butter, which has been fully homogenized into the oatmeal. I can eat without putting anything sacred and living into my mouth, to be crushed between my teeth. Gosh what a horrible experience that would be for something livng as small as oats to be inside my mouth, like Jonah's whale, to be crushed to death, all the sacred life juice spilling forth as mere food for another life-form.
The reverse side, the sacrred side, is that my body becomes a Temple Of Transformation, where I take non-living food and transform it into more of living sacred humanity! Also, if we begin to create our own food, we can take like tons of oats and before we throw it into the mill, we give it sacred blessing and prayer of thankfullness. Then we throw it into the vats and turn the grinders on. Blessed Sacred Oatmeal, coming right up. Dead of course. Not alive. Won't be offended at my tooth fillings or bad breath. In fact, Sacred. A full life and well, a nice breakfast to boot. I know I'm going to feel better about this. I just hope some cynics don't start an Axis of Evil thing and start eating living food only. Maybe the people who view food really spiritually will join me? I think, I can remember their name, ah.... it's Raw Food People.
Wait! They mean still-alive!!! What are they thinking?!?
Want to join my new campaign?
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