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By meat I hope of course you include fish in that definition? Christians like to treat fish as non-meat to be carnivorous during the Lent.

Yep, fish is meat.

If Hinduists go vegan do they eat fungi too?

edited 22nd Dec '13 4:27:06 PM by CaptainKatsura

We rarely go vegan, as the consumption of milk is one of the reasons why we don't eat beef, but I see no reason why fungi should not be included in a vegan diet.

It's quite wasteful to slay cows since they give milk, but I don't mind male beef.

edited 22nd Dec '13 4:36:19 PM by CaptainKatsura

There are actually multiple, deeply-rooted reasons for avoiding beef, but they can get weirdly complicated. So, most people don't really get too much into the reasons, and simply don't eat it.

edited 22nd Dec '13 4:43:28 PM by SpaceWolf

I just think of it like Cattle = Wealth. You don't fuck around with people's status symbols, no matter what the specific significance is.

Actually, Furiko, that's the basic way of putting it.

Or, more accurately, the cow is a selfless surrogate-mother, who provides us with wealth and nourishment. And Krishna herded cattle. And Shiva's vehicle/friend/sidekick/symbolic animal is a bull. And the Vedas forbid beef consumption for a variety of reasons.

But you're right; the specifics are less important than the fact that we just don't eat beef.

edited 22nd Dec '13 6:45:04 PM by SpaceWolf

Oh, I like Krishna. /watched that one international adaptation of the Mahabharat, writer-brain went all whoosh, came down with a case of the feels

Shiva seems like a total bro, too.

edited 22nd Dec '13 6:48:38 PM by FurikoMaru

Which one is it? Is it the one from the '80s, or one of the newer ones?

And I don't actually worship Shiva. I just acknowledge him as a member of the Trimurti (Hindu trinity).

edited 22nd Dec '13 6:51:07 PM by SpaceWolf

Definitely the '80s one. Some of the acting was iffy, sure, but those are difficult roles for any actor.

Plus, if I may be completely shallow for a moment, the guy who played Karna was brutally hot. Scrumptious, in that Yeah, I've Done Time kind of way. Although that may just have been the acting - I'm a little weird and easily-swayed that way.

edited 22nd Dec '13 6:53:54 PM by FurikoMaru

That's cool. I wouldn't know, as I'm a straight male. But, to each, their own.

I have yet to actually read or watch the Mahabharata, as full translations are hard to find. And it's SUPER FUCKING HUGE. War And Peace is its bitch.

There're a bunch of adaptations with subtitles up on Youtube. Finding well-acted ones is a bitch and a half, though.

And I'd likely have to watch them in chunks.

What is that one...? Like 67 episodes, an hour and a half each?

The '80s one has something like 95 episodes, and I'm guessing that it's still abridged.

Pecunia is derived from pecus, and Weles, one of two creator deities in the Slavic pantheon, was the god of cattle and merchants as well.

Proto-Indoeuropeans must have loved dem cows.

edited 23rd Dec '13 10:13:02 AM by CaptainKatsura

Oh, yeah. Reverence of cattle, along with deities that are connected with cattle, seems to have been pretty wide-spread, among the Protos. Things like Greek and Cretan bull-worship also derive from their traditions.

A question: Would you eat kangaroo meat even if tastes like beef?

I don't eat kangaroo meat. But, if I did, I guess so… What kind of question is that?

Katsura, would you eat rat meat, even if it tasted like pineapple?

edited 23rd Dec '13 3:55:00 PM by SpaceWolf

Snarkiness aside, I'm okay with the TASTE of beef; I just prefer not to eat it. I do occasionally eat it, when I don't have much of a choice, but I end up feeling like shit.

edited 23rd Dec '13 6:17:14 PM by SpaceWolf

I mean, I wanted to know if Hunduists also rejects meat that is too close taste wise to beef. Sorry if that was stupid question.

I don't, but I can't speak for others.

And it wasn't a stupid question.

edited 23rd Dec '13 7:19:49 PM by SpaceWolf

I'm bored, so I'm bumping my own thread.

edited 27th Dec '13 6:48:34 PM by SpaceWolf

What up.

You got any opinion on RG Veda?