In regards to eating meat

[Tenet Nosce]

Y'all jumped right past the first half of the post in which I was talking about philosophical arguments for vegetarianism based on an extreme ideal of harmlessness that is impossible to embody in the 3D world.

Sorry. I should have stated that I do agree with you on that. It truly is impossible.

Well that's all I really wanted to get at. I guess it may have appeared that I came in shouting ahimsa out of nowhere.

I will explain where I was coming from. I have been looking into the philosophical doctrines of the six great philosophers of antiquity: Mahavira, Siddharta Gautama, Pythagoras, Zoroaster, Laozi, and Confucius.

When I realized that all of these guys had lived within a few generations from one another, I thought to myself that surely can't be coincidence! So I began to get curious and hypothesize that these six entities were all working together... or perhaps against one another. I am making an attempt at understanding this from a group mind perspective, and viewing it from not only a 4D, but 5D and 6D perspective as well.

See, the thing is that they all forward philosophical doctrines that are on one level nearly identical, but on another level seemingly antithetical. Quite the paradox!

[By the way does anybody recall the word for when something has meaning on more than one level? I've been trying to remember that one all day.]

Vegetarianism happens to be one of the areas where there are striking differences in the teachings. As many of my patients are vegetarians, or thinking of becoming vegetarians, I felt it was important for me to understand what, if any, philosophical underpinnings there may be to the idea. So that is why this thread caught my eye in the first place.

Well, at any rate I can tell you with 100% certainty that the vegetarian debate goes back at least 2500 years. And the thread here has 18,300 hits and counting. Kind of curious that we just can't seem to all find a common ground on this particular subject. I wonder why that is?