What a meaty thread. I should feast later, though it’s too bad that SwayStar123 mistook
my sincere attempt to engage with her constructively as an invitation to Argue On The Internet. No wonder this is such an extremely toxic community!
Helpfulness is unacknowledged; and fresh perspectives are merely an opening for knee-jerk reactions, instead of an opportunity to learn something new. Sad!
As for the whole meat thing...I suspect that the media is working in overdrive as they support the NWO plan on getting us all to eat cockroaches. I just can't believe that people on this board are spouting off the propaganda as if it's all true. People who know how much they lie about Bitcoin and still believe their lies about meat. It's a damn shame. Maybe the media has been too kind to Bitcoin...it was perhaps a better filter when it was being attacked as just being used for drugs on the darkweb.
It is religiosity. People who leave traditional religions (or are raised without them) usually find a modern substitute. theymos has his transhumanism, for example. Hereby lately, I have also been ignoring a quasi-religious theological war between the Marxist wealth redistributors, and the Reformed Capitalists who repose their faith in the godliness of the free market; there is not much sense on either side.
Veganism is attractive to those with Puritanical tendencies, such as those with a prior history of
demanding the deletion of the Wall Observer. It is based on self-denial of things that are healthy and pleasurable. It is loaded with
thou shalt not. Meat is
sinful. Vegans now even have a doomsday eschatology: Cow farts are literally destroying the world!
Cf. my previous observations on Greta Thunberg and the Children’s Crusade.
Now, take a walk through the religions of the past and present, and see how many more or less deprecate the eating of meat. Comparison and contrast is left as an exercise to the reader.
He looked like a caricature of man, like an abortion: he had become a “sinner,” he was caged up, he had been imprisoned behind a host of appalling notions. He now lay there, sick, wretched, malevolent even toward himself: full of hate for the instincts of life, full of suspicion in regard to all that is still strong and happy. In short a “Christian.” “vegan.”
disgusting. you meat lovers are fucking psychos.
You do understand that without meat you wouldn't exist or if you would, you wouldn't be able to put together an intelligent line of words?
Fact check: He
can’t put together an intelligent line of words. Evidence is above.
Anyway
<edit>, since you spoke of evolution in part of the quote that I snipped in my haste here
</edit>...
Vegans, as most liberals and other religious fanatics, are evolution deniers who believe in human exceptionalism.
The cat hunts mice, the wolf hunts deer, the lion hunts gazelle—but o talking monkey,
thou shalt not.
In truth, talking monkeys are only exceptional inasmuch as their brains swelled up until they became stupider than other animals.
Bitcoin down 25% last week and this place is discussing meat.
Yawn. It will be back up. Hey, didn’t I say that
Bitcoin is boring (and that’s a good thing).
Thank me later for the increase in discord brought by
my innocent little quote from the founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Meat is totally on-topic in any Bitcoin thread!
I am a person of faith... I even have some education in theology. And I agree strongly with your basic assertion that veganism can be attractive in the same way much religious expression can be attractive. It is often held as a sort of righteous ascetism, or self flagulation. The ethical arguments for vegetarianism have been beaten to death, but those who still hold closely to the tenets of this sort of "faith" cannot be easily convinced.
It is as if the sorts of personalities who would be crusaders IN a faith can express the same sorts of things in the name of the 'environment', or 'the animals', or 'equity' (barf). These folks the disciples of zeitgeist following the post-modern faith of humanism, and their holy scriptures are 'science'. Although what they call science is also so strange. We have heard the phrase "trust the science" from these folks a lot recently. A phrase in itself mostly religious, and about as anti-science as you can get with just three words.
I cannot help but also be reminded of the sanctimonious actions of the antifa "black bloc" types storming restaurants and demanding people repeat certain phrases, raise their fists or somehow otherwise genuflect. To me this is the same sort of (strangely fascist) "convert or die" sort of attitude that has been also used by various extreme religious folks.
I would put forth that this can be a natural progression for people who have no healthy faith in the first place and they are just as annoying, and possibly even more dangerous than those who ack this way in the name of God.