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@patcharcana

People including fish in the pile of "not meat" foods [makes a lot of sense] in terms of "was allowed during Lent"

I never thought about that. What we learn growing up definitely affects how we do things. Thanks for this observation.

Food is an issue I should not have targeted in my stories as a peripheral issue for thoughtful ick moments and a differentiator between various people, but I have. My characters are pescatarians and lactoovo-vegatarians.Only. Except ick carnivorous exceptions.

Animals eat whatever seems like food. Humans turn everything into symbols. We eat symbols. We turn nature into symbols, or representations of our inner thoughts and what we think consciousness is. We posit universal consciousness not even agreeing we understand what conscious really is. Perhaps we're innate animists because of this fault, but because of this fault we empathize with the non-human world much like we do the subset of fellow humans in our in-group.

But we want to eat, need to. We like to like what we eat, but empathy reflects ourselves in others. They say we are reflected in their eyes. Cows and goats are a lot more like us than fish. Fish are mostly unreadable (unless you keep goldfish), so pescatarianism makes sense. They're "not-meat" is more like "I can't empathize with being a fish." Though, maybe, there's the fact that fish spoils quicker, so Lent dietary rules to preserve a scarce important resource? Makes sense, too. Are humans logica!? Or simply good at excuses?

The symbology and empathy of and for food sources goes further. We're stealing eggs from chickens who work hard to produce them, and honey from hard working bees, and milk from cows who feed their calves. Symbology combined with empathy generates philosophy as a byproduct, which is why veganism goes further than vegetarianism. We don't like to be forced to work. We don't like being enslaved, so…

Humans being humans, were our technology such that we could live without eating at least plants, some people would go that far. Technophagism anyone?

And. Yet. We have wars.

#philosophy A spontaneous little essay on food and consciousness. #BoostingIsSharing

#vegan #vegetarian #pescatarian #consciousness #empathy #RSEssay #author #writer #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

@patcharcana

People including fish in the pile of "not meat" foods [makes a lot of sense] in terms of "was allowed during Lent"

I never thought about that. What we learn growing up definitely affects how we do things. Thanks for this observation.

Food is an issue I should not have targeted in my stories as a peripheral issue for thoughtful ick moments and a differentiator between various people, but I have. My characters are pescatarians and lactoovo-vegatarians.Only. Except ick carnivorous exceptions.

Animals eat whatever seems like food. Humans turn everything into symbols. We eat symbols. We turn nature into symbols, or representations of our inner thoughts and what we think consciousness is. We posit universal consciousness not even agreeing we understand what conscious really is. Perhaps we're innate animists because of this fault, but because of this fault we empathize with the non-human world much like we do the subset of fellow humans in our in-group.

But we want to eat, need to. We like to like what we eat, but empathy reflects ourselves in others. They say we are reflected in their eyes. Cows and goats are a lot more like us than fish. Fish are mostly unreadable (unless you keep goldfish), so pescatarianism makes sense. They're "not-meat" is more like "I can't empathize with being a fish." Though, maybe, there's the fact that fish spoils quicker, so Lent dietary rules to preserve a scarce important resource? Makes sense, too. Are humans logica!? Or simply good at excuses?

The symbology and empathy of and for food sources goes further. We're stealing eggs from chickens who work hard to produce them, and honey from hard working bees, and milk from cows who feed their calves. Symbology combined with empathy generates philosophy as a byproduct, which is why veganism goes further than vegetarianism. We don't like to be forced to work. We don't like being enslaved, so…

Humans being humans, were our technology such that we could live without eating at least plants, some people would go that far. Technophagism anyone?

And. Yet. We have wars.

#philosophy A spontaneous little essay on food and consciousness. #BoostingIsSharing

#vegan #vegetarian #pescatarian #consciousness #empathy #RSEssay #author #writer #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

@patcharcana

People including fish in the pile of "not meat" foods [makes a lot of sense] in terms of "was allowed during Lent"

I never thought about that. What we learn growing up definitely affects how we do things. Thanks for this observation.

Food is an issue I should not have targeted in my stories as a peripheral issue for thoughtful ick moments and a differentiator between various people, but I have. My characters are pescatarians and lactoovo-vegatarians.Only. Except ick carnivorous exceptions.

Animals eat whatever seems like food. Humans turn everything into symbols. We eat symbols. We turn nature into symbols, or representations of our inner thoughts and what we think consciousness is. We posit universal consciousness not even agreeing we understand what conscious really is. Perhaps we're innate animists because of this fault, but because of this fault we empathize with the non-human world much like we do the subset of fellow humans in our in-group.

But we want to eat, need to. We like to like what we eat, but empathy reflects ourselves in others. They say we are reflected in their eyes. Cows and goats are a lot more like us than fish. Fish are mostly unreadable (unless you keep goldfish), so pescatarianism makes sense. They're "not-meat" is more like "I can't empathize with being a fish." Though, maybe, there's the fact that fish spoils quicker, so Lent dietary rules to preserve a scarce important resource? Makes sense, too. Are humans logica!? Or simply good at excuses?

The symbology and empathy of and for food sources goes further. We're stealing eggs from chickens who work hard to produce them, and honey from hard working bees, and milk from cows who feed their calves. Symbology combined with empathy generates philosophy as a byproduct, which is why veganism goes further than vegetarianism. We don't like to be forced to work. We don't like being enslaved, so…

Humans being humans, were our technology such that we could live without eating at least plants, some people would go that far. Technophagism anyone?

And. Yet. We have wars.

#philosophy A spontaneous little essay on food and consciousness. #BoostingIsSharing

#vegan #vegetarian #pescatarian #consciousness #empathy #RSEssay #author #writer #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

@patcharcana

People including fish in the pile of "not meat" foods [makes a lot of sense] in terms of "was allowed during Lent"

I never thought about that. What we learn growing up definitely affects how we do things. Thanks for this observation.

Food is an issue I should not have targeted in my stories as a peripheral issue for thoughtful ick moments and a differentiator between various people, but I have. My characters are pescatarians and lactoovo-vegatarians.Only. Except ick carnivorous exceptions.

Animals eat whatever seems like food. Humans turn everything into symbols. We eat symbols. We turn nature into symbols, or representations of our inner thoughts and what we think consciousness is. We posit universal consciousness not even agreeing we understand what conscious really is. Perhaps we're innate animists because of this fault, but because of this fault we empathize with the non-human world much like we do the subset of fellow humans in our in-group.

But we want to eat, need to. We like to like what we eat, but empathy reflects ourselves in others. They say we are reflected in their eyes. Cows and goats are a lot more like us than fish. Fish are mostly unreadable (unless you keep goldfish), so pescatarianism makes sense. They're "not-meat" is more like "I can't empathize with being a fish." Though, maybe, there's the fact that fish spoils quicker, so Lent dietary rules to preserve a scarce important resource? Makes sense, too. Are humans logica!? Or simply good at excuses?

The symbology and empathy of and for food sources goes further. We're stealing eggs from chickens who work hard to produce them, and honey from hard working bees, and milk from cows who feed their calves. Symbology combined with empathy generates philosophy as a byproduct, which is why veganism goes further than vegetarianism. We don't like to be forced to work. We don't like being enslaved, so…

Humans being humans, were our technology such that we could live without eating at least plants, some people would go that far. Technophagism anyone?

And. Yet. We have wars.

#philosophy A spontaneous little essay on food and consciousness. #BoostingIsSharing

#vegan #vegetarian #pescatarian #consciousness #empathy #RSEssay #author #writer #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

@patcharcana

People including fish in the pile of "not meat" foods [makes a lot of sense] in terms of "was allowed during Lent"

I never thought about that. What we learn growing up definitely affects how we do things. Thanks for this observation.

Food is an issue I should not have targeted in my stories as a peripheral issue for thoughtful ick moments and a differentiator between various people, but I have. My characters are pescatarians and lactoovo-vegatarians.Only. Except ick carnivorous exceptions.

Animals eat whatever seems like food. Humans turn everything into symbols. We eat symbols. We turn nature into symbols, or representations of our inner thoughts and what we think consciousness is. We posit universal consciousness not even agreeing we understand what conscious really is. Perhaps we're innate animists because of this fault, but because of this fault we empathize with the non-human world much like we do the subset of fellow humans in our in-group.

But we want to eat, need to. We like to like what we eat, but empathy reflects ourselves in others. They say we are reflected in their eyes. Cows and goats are a lot more like us than fish. Fish are mostly unreadable (unless you keep goldfish), so pescatarianism makes sense. They're "not-meat" is more like "I can't empathize with being a fish." Though, maybe, there's the fact that fish spoils quicker, so Lent dietary rules to preserve a scarce important resource? Makes sense, too. Are humans logica!? Or simply good at excuses?

The symbology and empathy of and for food sources goes further. We're stealing eggs from chickens who work hard to produce them, and honey from hard working bees, and milk from cows who feed their calves. Symbology combined with empathy generates philosophy as a byproduct, which is why veganism goes further than vegetarianism. We don't like to be forced to work. We don't like being enslaved, so…

Humans being humans, were our technology such that we could live without eating at least plants, some people would go that far. Technophagism anyone?

And. Yet. We have wars.

#philosophy A spontaneous little essay on food and consciousness. #BoostingIsSharing

#vegan #vegetarian #pescatarian #consciousness #empathy #RSEssay #author #writer #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity