comparing temperaments (no temperamental content)

[Carl Meyer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: comparing temperaments (no temperamental content)


> Pythagoras was a strict vegetarian. He truly despised
> carnivores >

Was he also a devout atheist?  God gave Noah permission to eat meat at the 9th chapter of Genesis.  Since that was true it follows that man did not eat meat before the flood.  Perhaps the reason was that the flood washed much of the earths minerals into the sea, and it was a necessary procedure to provide man with  needed nutrition.  Now I'll admit God didn't say eat it three time a day seven days a week, but abstain? Hardly?  

 More vegetarians: Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Nikolai
> Tesla ( inventor of alternating current, which makes
> long distance electrical transmission possible
> )Alexander Graham Bell and nearly vegetarian Thomas
> Alva Edison. I could name HUNDREDS more, highly
> revered men and women from every field!  >  

Hundreds?  A mere pittance!   Tens of thousand of carnivores are also highly revered.  Should I give greater respect to the minority?  

Hundreds of Gay persons have made significant contributions in certain fields as well.  They are also a minority.  Do you expect me to give them greater respect than the majority of heterosexuals who make great strides for humanity?  I don't want to pattern my life after them.

Sorry, God outranks Pythagorus as a role model for me. 

    And if one enters a notion of God into the
> equation ( who actualy owns everything we encounter
> )then surely that God would favor the soul who does
> vandalize Creation!
 
If you're invoking God's name to support you vegetarianism, it only works on the uninformed.  Did I mention I often read  statistics that refute the idea that vegetarians are healthier than meat eater?  

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 




>     Sincerely,
>     Gordon Lee Stelter
> 
> 
> --- Carl Meyer <cmpiano@attbi.com> wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Conrad Hoffsommer"
> > <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu>
> > 
> > > A number of years ago, I dated a physician at
> > Mayo, but we broke up over 
> > > religious differences.  She took great delight in
> > feeding the ducks and 
> > > geese which would come to her lakeside home.  I
> > would have taken great 
> > > delight in feeding ON them...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Conrad Hoffsommer
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm with you Conrad.  I didn't claw my way to the
> > top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.  Coulda
> > saved the geese for goose juice tho.  I love
> > animals, they're delicious.
> > 
> > Carnivorous Carl
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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