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Magick Temple
Please send in your poetry as soon as possible. Whilst we've been waiting it would appear that Magick has started off on some thread that could end in disaster. first thought.
The only person I feel would ever be in a position to preach would be a straight edge
windfall fruitarian, without a car, living by choice without money, in a hand-made tent weaved
from sun-burnt hay, who spent their days meditating and playing free jazz on a hand made harp
constructed from driftwood and sun toughened windfall tomato-skin fibres - and to be honest, if
I met this person I would really *listen*. second thought.
If a windfall fruitarian witnessed a bird pluck a berry from a bush, then drop it as it flew
away, would they eat it, or would that be indirectly supporting zoocentric exploitation of
plants? Presumably, they couldn't justify eating hand-picked fruit on the basis someone else
picked it (see Rich DSS's second-hand leather 'tosser' argument), but to justify this sort of
plant abuse on the basis of species would surely be highly descriminatory. Please someone with real morals answer me soon... I won't be able to sleep until this question
is cleared up.
-Magick Temple 2000 Hi Magick,
in my view the windfall fruitarian is a windfall fruitarian. They would not be permitted to eat the berry lucked by the bird and then dropped.
However in an equal way, the wind plucks the berries so if a bird does so and then drops it thats ok.
Having said that if its ok for a bird to pluck berries then its ok for a fruitarian to pluck berries and therefore no need to be windfall only.
Thus I can prove that windfall fruitarians must not eat berries plucked and then dropped by birds. problem.
what if the windfall fruitarian falls asleep or is hiding in their hand-made tent weaved from sun-burnt hay for example. A bird comes along, steals a berry and then drops it in amongst other windfall berries already on the ground. How will the windfall fruitarian know which fruit are ok for ethical consumptuion and which fruit aren't. This means that the windfall fruitarian will only be able to eat food that they have watched fall to the ground with their own eyes to avoid unethical consumption. This cuts the available food sources down even further and means that it'll be a long time waiting for breakfast to fall each day if you haven't stocked the beach-combed-driftwood cupboards in the hand-weaved-tent in advance. In all the windfall fruitrian clearly needs to keep an eye on what they intend to eat. Maybe the idea of playing playing free jazz on a hand made harp is not so bad afterall. If the music *wasn't* free jazz and you had to read the music off your handmade, out-of-bits-of-dry-grass-and-reed-from-the-pond, paper...how would the fruitarian keep an eye out for wind falling fruit? Thus on the subject of looking for that all important next meal, the commonly used windfall fruitarian catchprase: ...............Eye or Die!
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