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This article is food for thought.

http://www.slate.com/id/2278240/

I suppose that could explain why so many more humans are being bred, and why a lot of them are being fattened up. I'm not sure that filling them full of nasty chemicals is a good idea though!

When there are too many people and not enough food this is the perfect solution

Its an interesting article, but I'll leave killing and eating the neighbours off the plan for now.
Now killing them and feeding them to pigs....

The article didn't mention the most obvious example of cannibalism in present-day human culture. Though symbolic only, don't christians still eat the bread and drink the wine? I wonder if the ceremony was, in some way, devised as a substitute for whatever went before ?

Jesus turned himself into crackers because he wanted us to eat him, but didnt want us to be canibals.

Grok?

Grok.

Sensible chap he was. But the fact that he felt it necessary to do so is, by itself, an interesting comment on our (ancestors') atitude to cannibalism.

RenewableCandy wrote:The article didn't mention the most obvious example of cannibalism in present-day human culture. Though symbolic only, don't christians still eat the bread and drink the wine? I wonder if the ceremony was, in some way, devised as a substitute for whatever went before ?

True believers will tell you that the bread and wine are NOT symbolic, they actually turn into blood and flesh upon ingestion. I have had this discussion with a converted Catholic girlfriend. Crackers indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharisti ... l_presence

Every church has its own different version of it.

madness!

featherstick wrote:Crackers indeed.

You mean wafers?

Seriously, I agree. It's bananas.

emordnilap wrote:Seriously, I agree. It's bananas.

Have you got a Bible reference for bananas? I don't remember them being mentioned in my misguided youth!

JohnB wrote:

emordnilap wrote:Seriously, I agree. It's bananas.

Have you got a Bible reference for bananas? I don't remember them being mentioned in my misguided youth!

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the jesus crackers thing was a south park quote, series 4, do the handicapped go to hell.

And yes, the specifics are a hotly contested topic, i think its one of the biggies that keep apart anglo and roman catholics.

The Catholic church were apparently content from a doctrinal point of view with the cannibalism following the Uruguayan AF Andes plane crash in the early 70s. Surviving members of the rugby team concluded it would have been a greater sin to have let themselves starve. And the two that managed to trek across into Chile to summon help were on increased 'rations' prior to their breakout.

I read Nando Parrado's book. Very well written. The film 'Alive' was good too.

What did they do on Fridays?