from a television show on the history of food::
Average Greek ate less than 3 lbs of meat a year. The Upperclass ate more. Butchers titled by the meat they specialized in. Still they saw it as a secondary food source.
Romans thought meat impure & that it rotted as soon as killed - except for pork which they thouht was good.
Since blood was the life force & th gods controlled the process of life and death the Hebrews drained animals of blood as part of a sacrifice.
To Arabs to dream of fish was a sign of good fortune and fertility.
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Pastt Will Not Give Women a Future by Cynthia Eller (Beacon, $26). The idea of an older , peaceful goddess culture may be appealing, but it has no factual basis - or so argues Eller in this engaging critique of a popular but perhaps self-defeating belief.
- Mark Odegard, Utne Reader, Oct 2000."Human beings are in-between technology - like an obsolete eight-track cassette deck from the '70s."
--Sook-Yin Lee, multimedia artist, Mix (Spring 2000)
"For teachers and writers, ideas are in process. We don't walk aroun with a Decalogue wriiten in stone. We are testing our ideas all the time."
--Gerald Locklin, opet, L.A. Weekly (June 9, 2000)
"It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are we busy about?"
-- Henry David Thoreau
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
"Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible wiht machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness...."
--Mustapha Mond (
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley)
dhikr- praise of God
tawakkul - trust in God
odds and ends:
Psychology Today:
July 1975 dr Elizabeth Hall
"The Sufi tradition: some gurus are frankly phonies , and they don't try to hide it from me, they think I am one too."
Pre-flood, Genesis 1:24, Man is given all the plants to eat as meat. Chapter 9, post flood, Man is given animals to eat. The caveat is that thre is now emmity between animals and man
Paul Revere- Binary Code:
1 if by land
2 if by sea
"Only the state can know which liberties are to be left to he individual and which are too important to be entrusted to anything but the state."
- Mussolini
"I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy; nor do I urge objections of a moral nature, in view of possible consequences of insurrection and massacre of the South."
- Abraham Lincoln
US Supreme Court: "Prize Cases" (EDc 1862) : "[Congress] cannot declare war against a State or any number of States by virtue of any clause in the Constitution . . . [The President] has no power to initiate or declare war against a foriegn or a domestic State. . . "
Franz Grillparzer - Austrian writer - prophesied that hummanity would be carried, by means of nationality, all the way to bestiality; an accute prognosis that would be fulfilled in Nazism, in the ideology of biological purity as he only politcal value
Garibaldi -
?Pre-Socratic (
?) Greeks:
Parmenides
Heraclitus
Plontius
Medieval:
Eckhardt
