Where does god stand ? Let’s have a look.
God orders the killing of countless innocent people even though one of the ten commandments says:
THOU SHALL NOT KILL!
God kills 70,000 innocent people simply because David ordered a census of the people. (1 Chronicles 21)
God orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women , and children of each city, and the looting of all of value. (Deuteronomy 3) He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife. Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody. In Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church. The biblical total = 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.
The God of love and caring also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 and Psalms 137:9).
Jesus, the other God?, promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven: “For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are Eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.” (Matthew 19:12 ASV) What next? The God of the Bible also advocated ritual human sacrifice and animal sacrifice.
If more people read the bible and actually understood the archaic language therein, they might begin to stop believing and start doubting the existence of a god, any god.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
THE SON IS THE FATHER?
Isaiah 9:6 says: “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and his name shall be called Mighty God, Everlasting Father.” In this verse, the “Mighty God” matches the ‘child’ and “Everlasting Father” matches the ‘son.’ Yes, He is a child, yet He is the Mighty god. The child who was born in the manger of Bethlehem was the Mighty God. Since the child and the Mighty God are one, so also the Son and the Everlasting Father are one. The Son is the Eternal Father. It is indeed difficult to explain this matter, yet the Scriptures have so said. “Unto us a son is given and his name shall be called Everlasting Father.” Does this not plainly say that the son is the Father? If we acknowledge that the ‘child’ of which this verse speaks is also the
Everlasting Father otherwise, we are not believing the clearly stated revelation of the Scriptures. But we do deeply believe that according to the words here the Lord Jesus who became the child is the Mighty God; and the Lord Jesus who is the Son is also the Eternal Father. Our Lord is the Son, and He is also the Father. Hallelujah!
John 14:7-11 says; “If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also; from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long with you and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that i say unto to you I speak not from myself but the Father abiding in me doeth his work. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” In these verses the Lord clearly reveals to us the mystery that He and the Father are one. He is in the Father, and the Father is in him; when he speaks, it is the Father who works; when men see Him , they see the Father; when they know Him, they know the Father, because He is the Father, He and the Father are one”(John 10:30
So now all is clear, right? Once there was a Father who we called God and Jesus who we called the son of God and sometimes called Jesus God which called for two Gods but lo and behold we now know there has been another miracle;
Jesus has usurped the role of God or possibly the Father God resigned because of old age
IN SHORT, JUST ADD THIS TO THE THE GIANT FAIRY TALE THAT HAS FOOLED MAN AND CONTINUES TO FOOL THOSE WHO ARE IN MORTAL FEAR OF DYING, NEXT STOP HEAVEN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. NO END, ONE JUST GOES ON LIVING SOMEHOW, MILK AND HONEY AND CONSTANT MUSIC. PICK YOUR OWN ANGEL TO SHOW YOU THE HEAVENLY ROPES AND ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS. LIKE: WHERE ARE THE SHOPPING CENTERS, THE RESTAURANTS, MY LOVED ONES WHO PASSED ON, HOUSING QUARTERS, CAR RENTALS, THEATERS, TELEPHONES? LISTEN MORTALS, WE ARE NOT IMMORTAL. BE HAPPY, LIVE FOR THE NOW, LIVE HONESTLY, BE CARING, BE JUST, BE REASONABLE, EXERCISE REASON. IT IS ENOUGH AND MORE THAN ENOUGH. UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO HEAVEN AND NO HELL. HAVE A GOOD LIFE YOU ALL!!!
Everlasting Father otherwise, we are not believing the clearly stated revelation of the Scriptures. But we do deeply believe that according to the words here the Lord Jesus who became the child is the Mighty God; and the Lord Jesus who is the Son is also the Eternal Father. Our Lord is the Son, and He is also the Father. Hallelujah!
John 14:7-11 says; “If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also; from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long with you and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that i say unto to you I speak not from myself but the Father abiding in me doeth his work. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” In these verses the Lord clearly reveals to us the mystery that He and the Father are one. He is in the Father, and the Father is in him; when he speaks, it is the Father who works; when men see Him , they see the Father; when they know Him, they know the Father, because He is the Father, He and the Father are one”(John 10:30
So now all is clear, right? Once there was a Father who we called God and Jesus who we called the son of God and sometimes called Jesus God which called for two Gods but lo and behold we now know there has been another miracle;
Jesus has usurped the role of God or possibly the Father God resigned because of old age
IN SHORT, JUST ADD THIS TO THE THE GIANT FAIRY TALE THAT HAS FOOLED MAN AND CONTINUES TO FOOL THOSE WHO ARE IN MORTAL FEAR OF DYING, NEXT STOP HEAVEN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. NO END, ONE JUST GOES ON LIVING SOMEHOW, MILK AND HONEY AND CONSTANT MUSIC. PICK YOUR OWN ANGEL TO SHOW YOU THE HEAVENLY ROPES AND ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS. LIKE: WHERE ARE THE SHOPPING CENTERS, THE RESTAURANTS, MY LOVED ONES WHO PASSED ON, HOUSING QUARTERS, CAR RENTALS, THEATERS, TELEPHONES? LISTEN MORTALS, WE ARE NOT IMMORTAL. BE HAPPY, LIVE FOR THE NOW, LIVE HONESTLY, BE CARING, BE JUST, BE REASONABLE, EXERCISE REASON. IT IS ENOUGH AND MORE THAN ENOUGH. UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO HEAVEN AND NO HELL. HAVE A GOOD LIFE YOU ALL!!!
RANDOM NOTES
Where does God reside?
The bottom of the sea? Under ground? In heaven?
Among the stars and planets ?
If heaven , how high?
We understand that the distance to the stars are measured in Light years because the distance is too great to be measured in other ways. Light travels at 126,000 miles per second. The math tells us that just one Light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles away.
There are stars that are Multiple Light years away.
Maybe God just likes to hang out on one of the planets. Possibly Mars, a mere 425 million miles away. Does son Jesus keep him company? Or is the son and the father, one and the same?
How many languages does the Good Lord know? Ethnoloque lists 6912 living languages world-wide. Millions of silent and verbal prayers are being sent every minute of every day –just a mad guess. Are we to understand that both our silent and verbal prayers are somehow absorbed by a super, super, super, duper gigantic computer; decoded, assembled and digested and acted upon. Oh yes, He or is it She, works in mysterious ways, and prayers answered become miracles and the majority of those not answered can be classified as not being fervent enough. Right?
What is the will of God? Is it the mass murder that God ordered in the bible? Or is it the floods, the cyclones, the tsunamis,, the killing wars, the mass rapes, the quakes, the starvation and all the other goodies that our loving Lord, He, the issuer of miracles, He, the omnipotent, He, who gave us Adam who then , under Godly instructions, removed one of his ribs and lo and behold, there was Eve , naked as a Jaybird and then the sins started, oh yes the Sins.
There were so many sins, oh so many. God had Jesus nailed to the cross, to die agonizingly in order to expunge our collective sins? Have I got that right? Is that the only way he thought of to cleanse the world of our sins? Let’s have a closer look at this charade. God, the Father, decided to have his only son, born via immaculate conception, nailed to a cross where he agonizingly hung for at least one or more days in order to have him die for our sins? It simply does not make rational or humane sense. Apparently, he then had to be buried in order to have him bodily shipped to lala \ land somewhere in heaven. A grand resurrection indeed. So He the Son arrives via, heavenly transport at the gates of heaven, Peter opens the gate, after recognizing Jesus, salutes and leads him to his Father. They embrace – God looks at his son and exclaims, My god, (hold it, I’m God) my word, let me put some magical ointment on the holes in your body.
Let’s leave them alone while I just jot down one more relevant item or question. BY THE WAY, WHO MADE GOD? And who made the God who made God? Wow, there may have been hundreds if not thousands of previous Gods. So, those of you with faith at the ready, what now? Who are you actually praying to?
Someone said that we are the stewards of the land. So the question is, what does one of the multitude of Gods, do? Those responsible for making the world in seven days and also remembered to even start the human race by introducing an Adam with all the millions of cells and arteries and veins interlocking and even a moveable rib that Adam could remove, shake and presto Eve into existence.
Did I mention the Ark? No, I guess not. Some God starts a world wide flood, drowning all the animals except two of a kind. Noah is instructed to save two of each species and sail away on the ark he built, with thousands of lucky animals shivering on board. Oh wait one little minute – did he remember to make sure there were both female and male in each category?
Eh, maybe that’s why the dinosaurs died out some eighty-five years ago ---- Noah forgot one of the sexes.
The bottom of the sea? Under ground? In heaven?
Among the stars and planets ?
If heaven , how high?
We understand that the distance to the stars are measured in Light years because the distance is too great to be measured in other ways. Light travels at 126,000 miles per second. The math tells us that just one Light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles away.
There are stars that are Multiple Light years away.
Maybe God just likes to hang out on one of the planets. Possibly Mars, a mere 425 million miles away. Does son Jesus keep him company? Or is the son and the father, one and the same?
How many languages does the Good Lord know? Ethnoloque lists 6912 living languages world-wide. Millions of silent and verbal prayers are being sent every minute of every day –just a mad guess. Are we to understand that both our silent and verbal prayers are somehow absorbed by a super, super, super, duper gigantic computer; decoded, assembled and digested and acted upon. Oh yes, He or is it She, works in mysterious ways, and prayers answered become miracles and the majority of those not answered can be classified as not being fervent enough. Right?
What is the will of God? Is it the mass murder that God ordered in the bible? Or is it the floods, the cyclones, the tsunamis,, the killing wars, the mass rapes, the quakes, the starvation and all the other goodies that our loving Lord, He, the issuer of miracles, He, the omnipotent, He, who gave us Adam who then , under Godly instructions, removed one of his ribs and lo and behold, there was Eve , naked as a Jaybird and then the sins started, oh yes the Sins.
There were so many sins, oh so many. God had Jesus nailed to the cross, to die agonizingly in order to expunge our collective sins? Have I got that right? Is that the only way he thought of to cleanse the world of our sins? Let’s have a closer look at this charade. God, the Father, decided to have his only son, born via immaculate conception, nailed to a cross where he agonizingly hung for at least one or more days in order to have him die for our sins? It simply does not make rational or humane sense. Apparently, he then had to be buried in order to have him bodily shipped to lala \ land somewhere in heaven. A grand resurrection indeed. So He the Son arrives via, heavenly transport at the gates of heaven, Peter opens the gate, after recognizing Jesus, salutes and leads him to his Father. They embrace – God looks at his son and exclaims, My god, (hold it, I’m God) my word, let me put some magical ointment on the holes in your body.
Let’s leave them alone while I just jot down one more relevant item or question. BY THE WAY, WHO MADE GOD? And who made the God who made God? Wow, there may have been hundreds if not thousands of previous Gods. So, those of you with faith at the ready, what now? Who are you actually praying to?
Someone said that we are the stewards of the land. So the question is, what does one of the multitude of Gods, do? Those responsible for making the world in seven days and also remembered to even start the human race by introducing an Adam with all the millions of cells and arteries and veins interlocking and even a moveable rib that Adam could remove, shake and presto Eve into existence.
Did I mention the Ark? No, I guess not. Some God starts a world wide flood, drowning all the animals except two of a kind. Noah is instructed to save two of each species and sail away on the ark he built, with thousands of lucky animals shivering on board. Oh wait one little minute – did he remember to make sure there were both female and male in each category?
Eh, maybe that’s why the dinosaurs died out some eighty-five years ago ---- Noah forgot one of the sexes.
WHAT IS AN ATHEIST?
A person who decides or forms opinions based on reason, not faith. Most atheists or freethinkers are humanists, basing morality on human needs, not imagined “cosmic attitudes,”
We embrace a respect for our planet, other animals, and feminist principles of equality.
Atheists are convinced that religious claims do not withstand the tests of reason. That there is nothing to be gained by believing in an untruth, and everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition.
There is meaning in life, and we atheists find it in human compassion, social progress, in art, music, literature,
in personal happiness, pleasure, joy, love ---- in the beauty of humanity and in the advancement of knowledge.
Religious leaders believe that life is so complex that there had to be a designer (God) responsible for life and everything that followed. We say that Darwin’s theory of evolution , with cumulative nonrandom natural selection designed for billions of years, has provided the explanation. A “Divine Designer” is no answer because the complexity of such a creature would be subject to the same scrutiny itself.
People of faith say that religion has done tremendous good in the world. Many religionists are good people but they would be good anyway. Religion does not have a monopoly on good deeds. Many non-religionists have enriched humanity – people like Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Sanger, H.L. Mencken, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady and many, many others.
We are free to do our own thinking, free from restraints of orthodoxy, of the blind maintenance of ancient superstitions or self-effacing prostration before divine tyrants known only through primitive revelations. We are truly free.
We embrace a respect for our planet, other animals, and feminist principles of equality.
Atheists are convinced that religious claims do not withstand the tests of reason. That there is nothing to be gained by believing in an untruth, and everything to lose when we sacrifice the indispensable tool of reason on the altar of superstition.
There is meaning in life, and we atheists find it in human compassion, social progress, in art, music, literature,
in personal happiness, pleasure, joy, love ---- in the beauty of humanity and in the advancement of knowledge.
Religious leaders believe that life is so complex that there had to be a designer (God) responsible for life and everything that followed. We say that Darwin’s theory of evolution , with cumulative nonrandom natural selection designed for billions of years, has provided the explanation. A “Divine Designer” is no answer because the complexity of such a creature would be subject to the same scrutiny itself.
People of faith say that religion has done tremendous good in the world. Many religionists are good people but they would be good anyway. Religion does not have a monopoly on good deeds. Many non-religionists have enriched humanity – people like Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Sanger, H.L. Mencken, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady and many, many others.
We are free to do our own thinking, free from restraints of orthodoxy, of the blind maintenance of ancient superstitions or self-effacing prostration before divine tyrants known only through primitive revelations. We are truly free.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
THE PROS OF CIRCUMCISION
CIRCUMCISION is as old or older than prostitution. Millions of males have gone through the mill and lived to tell the tale.
Looking back I can attest to feeling absolutely no pain, I was all of 8 days when I found myself sitting on my father's lap and waiting for my foreskin to be removed. This is either done by a doctor or in my case by a Mohel who is called upon to do the removal for Jewish boys, called a Bris, kind of a religious, traditional ceremony. He does it with a steady, practiced hand, after some thousands of accurate cuts.
To make it easier and less painful, the Mohel dipped some cotton batting in some wine and gently slipped it into my waiting mouth and before I could count ten it was over and I did not feel a thing, so there. Everybody then cries Mazel tov and begins to eat everthing in sight, along with some wine or a shot of brandy or just eating non-stop.
So now a little bit of what circumcision really is and some of the advantages. At birth, boys have skin that covers the end of the penis or weewee as it is called in polite circles. This is called the foreskin and is removed so that the tip of the penis (the glans) and the opening through which the baby urinates (the urethra) are exposed.
Now for the advantages. Chances of getting a urinary tract infection in the first year of life is lessened. Cancer of the penis
is essentially eliminated in circumcised males. The risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases are lower. Circumcision eliminates foreskin infection that may occur at the peak ages of 3 to 5 years. Phimosis, a narrow opening that makes it impossible to retract the foreskin at a later age, is prevented by the famous cut. And finally, genital hygiene, which is particularly important in unsanitary conditions, maybe easier after circumcision. Oops, one more thing; cleansing in and around the area is much easier with circumcised males, no smegma (a cheesy sebaceous matter that collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.) Oy vay!!!
So mothers or anybody that's listening, give a little listen and make your boy happy, healthy, and ready to plunge easily and effectively. Ooh, did I say a bad word?
Looking back I can attest to feeling absolutely no pain, I was all of 8 days when I found myself sitting on my father's lap and waiting for my foreskin to be removed. This is either done by a doctor or in my case by a Mohel who is called upon to do the removal for Jewish boys, called a Bris, kind of a religious, traditional ceremony. He does it with a steady, practiced hand, after some thousands of accurate cuts.
To make it easier and less painful, the Mohel dipped some cotton batting in some wine and gently slipped it into my waiting mouth and before I could count ten it was over and I did not feel a thing, so there. Everybody then cries Mazel tov and begins to eat everthing in sight, along with some wine or a shot of brandy or just eating non-stop.
So now a little bit of what circumcision really is and some of the advantages. At birth, boys have skin that covers the end of the penis or weewee as it is called in polite circles. This is called the foreskin and is removed so that the tip of the penis (the glans) and the opening through which the baby urinates (the urethra) are exposed.
Now for the advantages. Chances of getting a urinary tract infection in the first year of life is lessened. Cancer of the penis
is essentially eliminated in circumcised males. The risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases are lower. Circumcision eliminates foreskin infection that may occur at the peak ages of 3 to 5 years. Phimosis, a narrow opening that makes it impossible to retract the foreskin at a later age, is prevented by the famous cut. And finally, genital hygiene, which is particularly important in unsanitary conditions, maybe easier after circumcision. Oops, one more thing; cleansing in and around the area is much easier with circumcised males, no smegma (a cheesy sebaceous matter that collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.) Oy vay!!!
So mothers or anybody that's listening, give a little listen and make your boy happy, healthy, and ready to plunge easily and effectively. Ooh, did I say a bad word?
Sunday, April 27, 2008
CELEBRITY VEGETARIANS/VEGANS
A VERY SMALL SAMPLE OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUND A HUMANE AND HEALTHIER WAY OF LIVING.
NATALIE PORTMAN: Israeli and American actress
"I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really, love animals
and I act on my values ... I am really against cruelty to animals."
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: Singer, songwriter, composer, poet,
painter, multi-instrumentalist,
entrepaneur, animal rights activist
"I am a vegetarian because I realize that even little chickens
suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and
emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including
dogs, cats and even primates."
PAMELA ANDERSON: Actress, sex symbol, producer.
"Chickens, pigs, and other animals? They are interesting
individuals with personalities and intelligence. What
people need to understand is if they are eating animals,
they are promoting cruelty to animals."
JOAQUIN PHOENIX: Actor
"Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by
example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends
of mine, people I have never discussed animal rights or
vegetariaism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because
they see it."
ALICIA SILVERSTONE: Actress.
"Since i've gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better
and my taste buds have been opened to a whole
new world. It's one of the most rewarding choices I'v e
ever made and I invite you to jon me in living a healthy,
cruelty-free lifestyle."
RUSSELL SIMMONS: Music and fashion mogul.
"Chickens raised for food today are covered in excrement,
they're diseased, and they are drugged with all sorts of
toxins that you are ingestng if you eat chickens. One
recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has
four times as much arsenic -- yes arsenic, the poison
(which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as
any other meat .... I have been a vegan for many years."
CONSTANCE MARIE: Dancer, actress.
"I stopped eating meat when I was working on the movie
Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five
hours -- if you hold it and feel its little heart beatng for
hours, you just can't think about eating it.
LONNIE RASHID (STAGE NAME,COMMON): Singer, songwriter.
"I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform better, and my voice is
clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I
couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am
proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became
clear."
ALEC BALDWIN: Actor, political activist.
"Everytime we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please
choose vegetarianism. Do it for ... animals. Do it for the
environment and do it for your health."
JAMES CROMWELL: Film and tlevision actor.
"So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes
in a warehouse, chopping off beaks, and tails and genitals
with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns
repeatedley by branding cows, ripping out the teeth of pigs,
and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done for dogs
or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty."
KRISTEN BELL: Television and film actress.
"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard tme
disassociating the animals I cuddled with -- dogs and cats,
for example -- from the animals on my plate, and I never
really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my
Brussels sprouts."
ALYSSA MILANO: Actress.
"The world has so much suffering in it already -- choosing
to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the
suffering on a daily basis."
THE DALAI LAMA: Humanist.
"I have been particularly concerned with the sufferings of
chickens for many years. It was a death of a chicken that
finally strengthened my resolve to become vegetarian.
These days, when I see a row of plucked chickens hanging
in a meat shop it hurts. I find it unacceptable that violence
is the basis of some of our food habits."
CASEY AFFLECK: Actor.
"I don't eat meat or any other animal products because
they're unhealthy and they're the product of a violent and
inhumane industry."
TOBEY MAGUIRE: Actor.
"I just never really liked meat. I had a tough time even
eating chicken. I would start imagining what I was eating
and the life of the animals and all that kind of stuff."
CARL LEWIS, ROBERT PARISH, DESMOND HOWARD, BILL PEARL,
KEITH HOLMES, CHRIS EVERT, AND EDWIN MOSES, all
vegetarians: Just a small sample of the many athletes
who practice healthy and humane living.
Beside receiving optimal nutrition from plant foods,
vegetarians also weigh less, on average, and have better
cardiovascular health and more stamima than meat-eaters.
Vegetarians and Vegans can choose from a large variety of
delicious and nutritous foods that make love to the taste buds.
See you all in the gym.
NATALIE PORTMAN: Israeli and American actress
"I am a very strict vegetarian ... I just really, really, love animals
and I act on my values ... I am really against cruelty to animals."
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: Singer, songwriter, composer, poet,
painter, multi-instrumentalist,
entrepaneur, animal rights activist
"I am a vegetarian because I realize that even little chickens
suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and
emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including
dogs, cats and even primates."
PAMELA ANDERSON: Actress, sex symbol, producer.
"Chickens, pigs, and other animals? They are interesting
individuals with personalities and intelligence. What
people need to understand is if they are eating animals,
they are promoting cruelty to animals."
JOAQUIN PHOENIX: Actor
"Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by
example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends
of mine, people I have never discussed animal rights or
vegetariaism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because
they see it."
ALICIA SILVERSTONE: Actress.
"Since i've gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better
and my taste buds have been opened to a whole
new world. It's one of the most rewarding choices I'v e
ever made and I invite you to jon me in living a healthy,
cruelty-free lifestyle."
RUSSELL SIMMONS: Music and fashion mogul.
"Chickens raised for food today are covered in excrement,
they're diseased, and they are drugged with all sorts of
toxins that you are ingestng if you eat chickens. One
recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has
four times as much arsenic -- yes arsenic, the poison
(which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as
any other meat .... I have been a vegan for many years."
CONSTANCE MARIE: Dancer, actress.
"I stopped eating meat when I was working on the movie
Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five
hours -- if you hold it and feel its little heart beatng for
hours, you just can't think about eating it.
LONNIE RASHID (STAGE NAME,COMMON): Singer, songwriter.
"I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform better, and my voice is
clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I
couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am
proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became
clear."
ALEC BALDWIN: Actor, political activist.
"Everytime we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please
choose vegetarianism. Do it for ... animals. Do it for the
environment and do it for your health."
JAMES CROMWELL: Film and tlevision actor.
"So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes
in a warehouse, chopping off beaks, and tails and genitals
with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns
repeatedley by branding cows, ripping out the teeth of pigs,
and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done for dogs
or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty."
KRISTEN BELL: Television and film actress.
"I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard tme
disassociating the animals I cuddled with -- dogs and cats,
for example -- from the animals on my plate, and I never
really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my
Brussels sprouts."
ALYSSA MILANO: Actress.
"The world has so much suffering in it already -- choosing
to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the
suffering on a daily basis."
THE DALAI LAMA: Humanist.
"I have been particularly concerned with the sufferings of
chickens for many years. It was a death of a chicken that
finally strengthened my resolve to become vegetarian.
These days, when I see a row of plucked chickens hanging
in a meat shop it hurts. I find it unacceptable that violence
is the basis of some of our food habits."
CASEY AFFLECK: Actor.
"I don't eat meat or any other animal products because
they're unhealthy and they're the product of a violent and
inhumane industry."
TOBEY MAGUIRE: Actor.
"I just never really liked meat. I had a tough time even
eating chicken. I would start imagining what I was eating
and the life of the animals and all that kind of stuff."
CARL LEWIS, ROBERT PARISH, DESMOND HOWARD, BILL PEARL,
KEITH HOLMES, CHRIS EVERT, AND EDWIN MOSES, all
vegetarians: Just a small sample of the many athletes
who practice healthy and humane living.
Beside receiving optimal nutrition from plant foods,
vegetarians also weigh less, on average, and have better
cardiovascular health and more stamima than meat-eaters.
Vegetarians and Vegans can choose from a large variety of
delicious and nutritous foods that make love to the taste buds.
See you all in the gym.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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