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Topic: How should I socialze with meat-eaters as a vegetarian? Advice needed
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D for Defiant
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posted July 19, 2006 05:30 AM
 
What would you suggest?------------------
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AcousticGod
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posted July 19, 2006 12:12 PM
Here's how I would deal with it:Realize that people take their cue from you and your reactions. As such you've just got to be strong enough to act like it's no big deal. To you, eating only plant-based food is the most normal thing you can do, so you don't feel any need to be sensitive about it. Treat your own vegetarian eating habits with the same lack of judgment that you'd like everyone else to. Also, remember this: whatever you spend your time concentrating on the Universe will say, "yes" to. So if you go around concerned about how people might interact with you, then the Universe will grant you the situations that you imagine. Re-program your mind to imagine situations in the best possible light for you. Instead of thinking about what the meat-eaters might say, think about what wonderful contacts you might make by joining them in a meal. Maybe somebody will be inspired by the way you're so nonchalant about being a vegetarian that they'll finally gather the courage to try it themselves. IP: Logged |
Gooberzlostlovefound
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posted July 19, 2006 03:34 PM
From my experience...If you don't make a big deal about what you are/are not eating, no one else is likely to, either.
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pidaua
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posted July 19, 2006 04:48 PM
Yep... I have to agree.. if you turn it into a big deal then so will they. I have a few Vegan and Vegetarian friends here (Bisbee is pretty hippy) they accept that I eat meat and I accept that they don't. End of story.... One of them did try to lecture me, I laughed and said I'd give up meat if they gave up veges...  Your friend is entitled to not be around anyone that cooks meat- that's his choice, but if he went around talking about the cruelty of it all - well that would get old and I'm sure others would make it uncomfortable to stay in the hostel. I'm going to have my lunch now..... I will not say what it is IP: Logged |
Nephthys
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posted July 19, 2006 05:03 PM
 Good answer, AG. I have been vegetarian for 8 years and I have never heard of a vegetarian worried about carnivores being bothered by their eating vegetarian items. Do these carnivores not eat bread, vegetables, grains, fruits, cereals, popcorn, chips, yoghurt, cheese, eggs, etc. etc.????  What I have a hard time with is people talking about loving "meat" right in front of me, knowing I am vegetarian for compassionate reasons. So that's a good time to clear the table.  IP: Logged |
Kim Rogers
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posted July 20, 2006 01:32 AM
It would be my guess that omnivors are more afraid of offending you. That may make them uncomfortable; it's like drinking around an alcoholic.Just raise your fork of veggies & say Bon appetite. IP: Logged |
D for Defiant
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posted July 20, 2006 07:23 AM
Thanks guys For your practical, sensible and just sound advice. Now I realize that the first step I should take is perhaps try not to make it such a big deal...and relax.  ------------------
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Venusian Love
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posted July 21, 2006 08:27 PM
I'm a Vegan.I don't want to eat a slaughtered animal. ------------------
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -William Shakespeare IP: Logged |
Venusian Love
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posted July 21, 2006 08:27 PM
No sea food, no nothing.
Ewwww.
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TheEvolution
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posted July 23, 2006 04:53 PM
there is nature's balance over here.there is not enough veg food for all humanity to survive on it
and there is not enough meat for environmental balance to sustain if every human ate meat. i am a veg by religion but i never mind hanging out with those who eat non veg. infact i enjoy it a few times. once a brahmin (considered to be the purest hindus by caste system followers in india) friend asked me to forget about jainism and eat meat to prove i am a man! (there is this disbelief among some idiots that it makes u a man if u eat meat, in india!)
i said " alright but we will start off with beef ( cow is considered holy by the brahmins)." and that shut him up. enjoy tyhe way u are and don't care if people don't enjoy the way u are. IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted July 23, 2006 05:00 PM
RomansChapter 14
1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
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So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
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But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
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D for Defiant
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posted July 25, 2006 04:08 AM
Thanks, guys TheEvolution, thanks for pointing out that there has been lack of balance- a point quite close to that made by a Libran acqaintance of mine. Interesting. HSC, thanks for the excerpt- and I'll try thinking more about it. All in all, I believe I will be able to learn how to feel more comfortable with what I eat and what I don't eat- and that of others' as well ------------------
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