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Malarki
16:08 / 11.11.05
Think this is probably the right place to post this question that I've been putting to people for a while as I believe its a sorta ontological:

Can veggies/vegans eat angels?

I've my own answer to this but interested to see what others think the answer is and also how they understand the question.
 
 
sleazenation
16:32 / 11.11.05
Sort of ontological, only if you want to engage with it.

The most throw away, but no less valid, reply would surely be 'Angels don't exist, therefore the question is meaningless.'
 
 
Persephone
16:34 / 11.11.05
There's a medieval question about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and the answer is An infinite number of angels, because angels have no bodies. The modern rejoinder is, If they have no bodies, then how do they dance?

So apart from whether or not vegans ~may eat angels, I'm not sure what they *can eat of an angel.
 
 
Persephone
16:36 / 11.11.05
Angels don't exist

Well, yes. There's that, too.
 
 
Malarki
16:50 / 11.11.05
Angels don't exist

Exactly why it's an ontological question.
 
 
matthew.
17:07 / 11.11.05
Why would people eat angels? Would they have any nutritional value? (I'm being serious)
 
 
*
17:25 / 11.11.05
Get thee to Conversation, go!
 
 
Jack Fear
17:57 / 11.11.05
Vegetarians and vegans may receive the Blessed Sacrament "without qualm": given that angels are beings of pure Spirit, I imagine the same would be true of them.

There's a lovely scene in the book Towing Jehovah, wherein the crew of the massive oil tanker hauling the two-mile-high corpse of God to a tomb prepared for Him at the North Pole have lost their food supply, and are forced to eat The Body for sustenance. The ship's chaplain performs a sort of Black Mass over the flesh, reciting the communion rite backwards in a reverse transubstantiation—ritually transforming the literal Body and Blood of God into earthly food and drink.
 
 
Char Aina
18:10 / 11.11.05
speaking as a vegetarian i could only eat an angel if it was beaten to brain death, to the point where it becomes a 'vegetable'.
same for people.
and maybe cows.

definitely for dolphins.
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
19:12 / 11.11.05
I don't really have a good answer to the question, so instead I turn this topic over to...

...Homer J. Simpson! Take it away, Homer!

Homer: "Mmmmm, sacralicious."
 
 
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19:16 / 11.11.05
disgrace.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:54 / 11.11.05
I ate lots of Angel Delight as a child and it never did me any harm.

Probably imperiled my immortal soul, come to think of it. It was delicious, particularly the Butterscotch flavour stuff.
 
 
HCE
22:33 / 12.11.05
How do you wrestle one if they haven't got bodies.
 
 
Jack Fear
02:22 / 13.11.05
Y'know, the other day my conscience got me in a wicked half-nelson—then it tagged off to my ego; and how that fucker managed to get a folding metal chair in the ring, I'll never know.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:15 / 13.11.05
Bloody hell, Jack, that's harsh. Mine normally just kicks me in the bollocks and has done with it.
 
 
Malarki
10:31 / 13.11.05
Get thee to Conversation, go!

Oh, I did mean this as a serious philosophical discussion about the nature of Being of Angels and dietary choices.....oh well.
 
 
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11:56 / 13.11.05
Oh, I did mean this as a serious philosophical discussion about the nature of Being of Angels and dietary choices.....oh well.

...irony!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:34 / 13.11.05
Maybe a meatier opening post would have helped kick off the discussion, Malarki? I know it's disappointing when a thread doesn't develop the way you'd hoped, but I think an idea like this might need a bit more than five lines to really give it any chance of a serious reception.

(Full disclosure: I proposed the move to Convo. At least 2 other mods must have felt the same way, though, or the move wouldn't have gone through.)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:34 / 13.11.05
I've often wondered a similar thing about transubstantiation, though in that case it would largely depend on your reasons for vegetarianism. If the sacrament actually becomes the body and blood of Christ which was freely given and you're a vegetarian for reasons having to do with animal welfare, for example, it wouldn't be a problem.
 
 
Jack Fear
15:26 / 13.11.05
Rather like the Dish Of The Day, hm?

"Righto, I'm just off to the kitchen to shoot myself... enjoy me!"
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:22 / 13.11.05
I'm so glad I wasn't the only person who thought of that.
 
 
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16:25 / 13.11.05
Anyone who confesses to ever having Angel Wings and Chips is going on my ignore list. :'-(
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:57 / 13.11.05
I did actually think of the Dish of the Day just after hitting "post", and was gonna post again- then the Barb went all mysql-tastic, so I went to the pub.
I forget my point. Carry on.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:33 / 13.11.05
eon- don't worry. Nobody has chips with angel wings. A nice Greek salad, maybe, but CHIPS??? What do you think of us- that we're all stuck in 1979?
 
 
Malarki
19:18 / 13.11.05
...irony!

I don't know the meaning of the word darling.
 
 
Malarki
19:21 / 13.11.05
Mordant Carnival - just was interested to see how other might understand and unpack it. Didn't necessarily want to influence the direction it might go in or the interpretations it might get. So kept it short and sweet. Ho hum. Matters not.
 
 
Spaniel
19:25 / 13.11.05
You're right there.
 
 
quixote
22:31 / 13.11.05
Let's see. Karl Rove could eat angels (and probably does) because he makes his own reality. He said so. (It was an unattributed source, but those of us with a direct line to God know these things.) Of course, I doubt he's a vegetarian, so that's a tangential case.

For people who don't make their own reality, it's hard to say. If they were on a diet, the no-cal aspect might be appealing. Otherwise, wouldn't they be better off listening to the angels sing, or look at them being effulgent, or something else angels are actually good at? I mean, it seems a waste, just turning them into empty calories.
 
 
Loomis
08:58 / 14.11.05
I'm vegan and I don't eat angels.

But then I'm very selfish in bed.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
11:20 / 14.11.05
And it took 28 posts for someone to crack that gag...

I never usually think this, but perhaps something really is wrong with Barbelith.
 
 
Loomis
11:36 / 14.11.05
I was rather surprised myself. I'd been away all weekend and had to read through the thread twice to make sure no one had said it yet.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
11:38 / 14.11.05
Yeah... I did that too.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
12:17 / 14.11.05
There was a moment when angels were thought to be made of the quintessence - the one which wasn't air, earth, fire or water, and was responible for 'stuff you can't easily box'. In which case the answer would be yes, in theory - although I strongly suspect that Heaven would have views on this subject, including but not limited to: smiting, plagues, rains of fire, damnation, divinve wrath (various) and (in the C of E) a joilly stern talking-to.
 
 
gravitybitch
14:04 / 14.11.05
A lot of vegetarians trot out the line about not ingesting parts of anything that has a face... by that standard, angels are definitely a no-no.

Could you? Seriously. Look at an angel, in all its terrible beauty, verify that it has a face, and then consider eating it?
 
 
Char Aina
14:14 / 14.11.05
faces and arseholes, i heard.
i thought angels were action man smooth.
 
  

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