comparing temperaments (no temperamental content)

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu
Wed, 04 Sep 2002 04:39:24 -0500


Please,

a little nit-picking, here...

>Subject: Re: comparing temperaments (no temperamental content)
>
> > Pythagoras was a strict vegetarian. He truly despised carnivores

That would be like lions and tigers, right?  Homo sapiens is an OMNIVORE by 
nature and construction. Dentition and anatomy are clues to diet.  Bovines 
have teeth designed for grinding vegetable matter, and multiple stomachs 
needed to extract every last scrap of meager nutrition provided by that 
diet.  Sharks have only teeth designed for ripping and tearing of flesh, 
tilted toward the throat so that food is forced in.  Homo sapiens have a 
variety of teeth designed to deal with a diet which includes all (omni) 
types of available nutritional sources.

>Was he also a devout atheist?  God gave Noah permission to eat meat at the 
>9th chapter of Genesis.

Not being a follower of a (then) small semitic monotheistic religion does 
not necessarily make Pythagoras an atheist.  Greece at the time was a 
polytheistic society.


Conrad Hoffsommer - Decorah, Ia.  mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu
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