wasn't there a buddhism thread yesterday?

Anyone use Buddhism as public rationale for vegetarianism?

“Well yes, recently I’ve converted to zen so”

The only necessary rationale is "I've decided this is what I would like to do". If this necessitates some difficult adjustments by others, those same adjustments would be required no matter what rationale you give.

Riiiiight

sometimes use meditation as an excuse not to drink

which, hm, now that I look at that sentence, might be puzzling to some people

Are the actual rationales for vegetarianism deficient or embarrassing in some way?

I don't think I've ever heard anyone dismiss vegetarianism out of hand aside from chauvinistic Frenchmen and Eastern Europeans. I can assure you that citing Buddhism would only make things worse with those crowds.

If you liked to eat fish every Friday, would you feel the need to claim you were converting to Catholicism when you weren't? It might raise some embarrassing questions about why you never seem to attend mass, or confession, or take communion, or even learn the catechism. Why not just say you want to eat fish?

happens to me less often than it used to but some people are really keen to draw you into a "debate" about why you're not eating meat which i imagine could be easier to avoid by citing religion. unless they're the type to start a thing about that as well (some overlap between militant meateaters and militant atheists ime, i assume militant christians too but i don't know any)

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I suggest you either act so diffident that there is nothing for them to debate against, or lie completely and say your doctor said meat-eating would kill you.

If you become a monk of Shaolin it's your protected religious right to use the Buddha finger on anyone who chats shit about dietary choices.

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first there is a buddhistthread thenthereisno buddhist thread thenthereis.
It's like Schroedinger's famous feline sometimes.
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I mean first there is no vibrating palm technique thenthere is a vibrating palm technique then there is no vegan, then there is

I stopped eating meat and dairy about a year ago and mostly people shrug but there are significant chunk of people that seem to want to catch me out. Like, I'll be having my lunch and they'll ask me in intimate detail about what I'm eating and will say 'hasn't that got dairy etc in it?' It's sort of banter I think but there's definitely an edge to it.

what religion do you tell people you converted to when you tell them you aren't having sex anymore

some people are really keen to draw you into a "debate" about why you're not eating meat

Let them tell you all the reasons why you "should" eat meat, then tell them you'd rather not. Or else just say "you might have a point there, I'll think about it", then don't. The point is that there's no debate if you don't engage.

If you want to lie to get them to shut up, just say meat makes you nauseous so that you want to throw up, and would they like you to demonstrate?

Tell them to fuck off

well, there's that, too