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Default The First Thanksgiving - by Rynn Berry

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 23:33:30 -0800 (PST), "Mr.Smartypants"
> wrote:

>On Dec 3, 3:29*pm, dh@. wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:45:01 -0800 (PST), "Mr.Smartypants"
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>> >On Nov 29, 3:16 pm, Goo wrote:
>> >> dh pointed out:
>> >> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:18:56 -0800, Goo wrote:

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>> >> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:02:30 -0500, dh pointed out:

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>> >> >>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:38:01 -0800, Goo wrote:

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>> >> >>>> On 11/22/2012 12:57 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
>> >> >>>>> The First Vegetarian Thanksgiving

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>> >> >>>>> [ Subject: The First Vegetarian Thanksgiving
>> >> >>>>> [ From:
>> >> >>>>> [ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004

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>> >> >>>>> The First Vegetarian Thanksgiving

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>> >> >>>>> By Rynn Berry

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>> >> >>>>>http://all-creatures.org/articles/tgveg-rb.html

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>> >> >>>>> [Ed.] "But it's tradition," is the cry when vegetarians
>> >> >>>>> wonder why killing an animal should make Thanksgiving
>> >> >>>>> special. Vegetarian historian Rynn Berry begs to differ.

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>> >> >>>>> The story of the Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving -- and
>> >> >>>>> turkey's place in it -- has been shown to be largely a
>> >> >>>>> myth.

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>> >> >>>> No, it hasn't.

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>> >> >>> Whether or no, millions of turkeys today experience life

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>> >> Meaningless. Their "getting to experience life" has no moral meaning,
>> >> and therefore it deserves and gets no consideration from rational people.

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>> >You must have considered it in order to decide it doesn't get
>> >consideration which defines you as irrational, Gooby.

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>> * * It's another classic Goobal self-outstupidification by Goo having no idea
>> how he wants people to think he thinks he disagrees with himself:
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>> "I give the lives of animals that exist *LOTS*
>> of consideration. *I also give the not-yet-begun lives
>> of animals that are "in the pipeline", so to speak, a
>> lot of consideration" - Goo

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>and by his own definition he said he's irrational. Poor stupid Goo.


Could it be he's not too stupid to realise that disagreeing with himself as
much as he does could be seen as irrational?