Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[kennyc]

Ran across this as the first story in "You've Got to Read This"

James Agee: A Mothers Tale
http://www.amybrown.net/women/mother.html

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Mortis

"If God didn't want us to eat meat, they wouldn't taste so good!"

"If the Jou-Jou had meant us not to eat people,
He wouldn't have made us of meat."

— The Reluctant Cannibal, Flanders and Swann

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

"If the Jou-Jou had meant us not to eat people,
He wouldn't have made us of meat."

— The Reluctant Cannibal, Flanders and Swann

Having never partaken in the flesh of man, I cannot comment on the taste, but I suspect that it would be eaten more prolifically if it were to taste good

Spoiler:

For the love of all thats is holy and good in this world, I am not suggesting we eat people!

[Sweetpea]

Still figuring out how to get Win7 to behave like I want it to. Partly succeeding only...

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Still figuring out how to get Win7 to behave like I want it to. Partly succeeding only...

Uninstall and reinstall XP

Hey I would have suggested Mac OSX Snow Leopard, but I know you're a Windows purest

[DixieGal]

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[Mortis]

I think people think too much about what they eat. If someone wants to be a vegetarian thats their choice, personally I like to eat meat, dead critter what ever you want to call it

[beppe]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Sentimental reasons for not eating meat. I don't know about that, Beppe.
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Thank you for sharing your views in such a deeply felt way, dear human individual.

Your reasons, strong and totally acceptable for me, are within reason, but are irrational. (irrational does not have any negative connotation for me).

I also love all forms of life, and respect all of them, in and around the space that I occupy, with the only exception of wasps that I consider an objective danger. I left a garden tool outside and with the heat wave I found a net full of tiny golden spiders over it. A wonder. My girls were horrified, while I was fascinated. I deposited them on the compost heap. Were they good for my garden, are they a pest? The thought did not even appear in my mind. I just loved them. I imagined mother spider, all her efforts to arrive there, how neat she thought the rake handle to deposit her load. Why disappoint her and make vain all that work.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Mortis

Having never partaken in the flesh of man, I cannot comment on the taste, but I suspect that it would be eaten more prolifically if it were to taste good

Spoiler:

For the love of all thats is holy and good in this world, I am not suggesting we eat people!

I just watched this American Experience show on PBS last night about the famine in Russia after WWII that Herbert Hoover played an incredible part in helping save thousands/millions of lives. Apparently so bad they had to post guards around graveyards to protect the recent dead.

[Mortis]

Humans are resourceful, its disgusting to think about it when you have lots to eat, but when it comes down to it. There are many documented cases of cannibalism.

All shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia the rest of the article is here
During the Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941–1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

In February 1943, roughly 100,000 German soldiers were taken prisoner of war (POW). Almost all of them were sent to POW camps in Siberia or Central Asia where, due to being chronically underfed by their Soviet captors, many resorted to cannibalism. Fewer than 5,000 of the prisoners taken at Stalingrad survived captivity. Many died early in their captivity, but cannibalism was reported.

Documented Japanese soldiers' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war.
In some cases, flesh was cut from living people. An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali (later a citizen of Pakistan), testified that in New Guinea: "the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers. I personally saw this happen and about 100 prisoners were eaten at this place by the Japanese. The remainder of us were taken to another spot 50 miles [80 km] away where 10 prisoners died of sickness. At this place, the Japanese again started selecting prisoners to eat. Those selected were taken to a hut where their flesh was cut from their bodies while they were alive and they were thrown into a ditch where they later died.

Another well-documented case occurred in Chichijima in February 1945, when Japanese soldiers killed and consumed five American airmen. This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, five (Maj. Matoba, Gen. Tachibana, Adm. Mori, Capt. Yoshii, and Dr. Teraki) were found guilty and hanged.

The Aghoris of northern India are a splinter sect of Hinduism who practice cannibalism in which they consume the flesh of the dead floated in the Ganges in pursuit of immortality and supernatural powers. Members of the Aghori drink from human skulls and practice cannibalism in the belief that eating human flesh confers spiritual and physical benefits, such as prevention of aging.

The list goes on and on.

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by beppe

I also love all forms of life, and respect all of them, in and around the space that I occupy...

Me, too! Your spider story reminded me that I haven't told what happened in my sister's classroom on Monday. She teaches ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), and had a group of kindergartners in her room. They were studying animals, and had just covered "S is for snake" when one of the children called out, "Hey, look, Mrs. A. has a toy snake back here for us to see!" My sis jumped up quickly, saying that she had NOT brought in any toy snakes and to not touch it, and ran over to look. A very small banded watersnake was in her room. It had tried to crawl over a piece of posterboard that had some sticky tape on the back, and was stuck. My nephew went up there and rescued it and took it to the lake in front of his house and released it. It swam off happily. A very exciting morning, indeed! S is for Snake!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

Me, too! Your spider story reminded me that I haven't told what happened in my sister's classroom on Monday. She teaches ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), and had a group of kindergartners in her room. They were studying animals, and had just covered "S is for snake" when one of the children called out, "Hey, look, Mrs. A. has a toy snake back here for us to see!" My sis jumped up quickly, saying that she had NOT brought in any toy snakes and to not touch it, and ran over to look. A very small banded watersnake was in her room. It had tried to crawl over a piece of posterboard that had some sticky tape on the back, and was stuck. My nephew went up there and rescued it and took it to the lake in front of his house and released it. It swam off happily. A very exciting morning, indeed! S is for Snake!

Great story! Reminds me of an episode of Harry O (the old crime drama starring David Janssen). As he entered a darkened room, he noticed a snake on the floor. He became very still, and slowly pulled his revolver from its holster, being very careful not to make any sudden moves. You could see beads of sweat begin to appear on his forehead as he slowly inched the gun into firing position. Then just before he was ready to shoot, a kid walked in, grabbed the snake, and put it in its cage.

[wyndslash]

right now i am charging my brand new kindle and figuring out the collections thingy here in calibre...

[GeoffC]

thinking of where and how I'm going to plant 105 saplings ..... arriving next Wednesday ...

[Stitchawl]

I just planted a whole double row of Cheerios!
With good rain and plenty of sun, in 63 days I figure I should have a nice crop of donuts!


Stitchawl