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Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? … It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.
real loving people
You can dream a little dream
Or you can live a little dream
I'd rather live it
Cuz dreamers always chase
But never get it
So after all the activities that we had the kids take part in, dodgeball, hiking, tug o' war, we gathered around the campfire. When it was time to get up, too many people were on one side of the bench and it tipped over. This "Super Bench" didn't fall all the way back cuz there was a tree right behind it. One girl got pinned between the bench and the tree. Starts whispering my name while she's on the ground as if she's taking her last breath. The other had her foot pinned under the bench. OY! Had to carry both of them to the van and send them on their way. Snuck off after all the comotion with flask in one hand and pottery in the other.