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On Tue, 20 May 1997, Dean Esmay wrote:
> >But the overall Scriptural ideal is pretty clear: agriculture and domesticated
> >livestock is the ideal society; a pretty clear contrast to the Paleodiet
> >ideal.
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> I'm afraid we have to disagree here.
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> What's clear to me is that scripturally, agriculture is one of the
> profoundest curses God laid on Man after the fall. Working the fields and
> eating bread is listed right next to the pain of childbirth as what God did
> to Man as punishment for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
BTW: Pain of childbirth is an agricultural phenomina. I don't
know if anyone's given ancidotes yet to Mr. Audette, but if you use a
combination of a Neanderthin style of diet and gravity (squatting instead
of laying down), they pop right out.
I have a Mongolian born friend who eats a traditional diet
(Neanderthin with lots of dairy), and she tells me, as a mother of four,
she didn't know what labor pain was until she saw someone else have it.
In Eden's myth we have three things.
1.) Ejection.
2.) Agriculture.
3.) Labor pain.
After studying the (un)Fertile Cressent as an undergrad I soon
formulated that it was just one thing, agriculture. Not only does
agriculture cause labor pain, but it also leads to the desertification of
the land (look at Iraq, once Babylon's garden paradice, now the perfect
sight for filming DUNE).
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Karl Alexis McKinnon|I live as the beasts in the fields, rejoicing in the
SP2 |fleshly life. I favor the edible and curse the inedible.
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