Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00014)

Nov 2 1999

Fortunately the world is not based on a dog-eat-dog condition.

That is an exaggerated view of the situation.
Why not listen to what the Buddha said"

	"Kill not--for Pity's sake-- and lest ye slay
   	The meanest think upon its upward way.
	Give freely and receive, but take from none
	By greed, or force, or fraud, what is his own.

>From "The Light of Asia" -- Sir Edwin Arnold

Dallas

Dallas
dalval@nwc.net=A0

-----Original Message-----
> From: hesse600 [mailto:hesse600@tem.nhl.nl]
> Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:58 AM
> Subject: Re: carnivorism question

> Is there a sage out there who can answer this question:
>
> Why is the world based upon carnivorism?  Even in a broader
sense all life
> depends for its sustenance on the destruction of other life.
Even
> vegetarians are killers.
Well, perhaps it is not killing but symbiosis that makes
life develop new forms. I know that this is sidestepping
the issue a bit, but our eukariotic cells (that is the
cells of plants, animals and us: with a nucleus and other
organs in the cell) are probably evolved from cells that
ate other cells, but instead of being destroyed, the eaten
cells continued existence and added to the functioning of
the original cell. So perhaps a lion eating a small animal
is just natures way of making sure the lion can live? But I
know that that does not really answer the question, it may
help growing thought, though.

> Why would whoever is responsible for the world create such
atrocity when so
> many other options would be available to someone with
omnipotence.?
I don't believe in anybody with omnipotence, so the
question is unanswerable for me.

Katinka
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NHL Leeuwarden
hesse600@tem.nhl.nl

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