The new Pope Benedict XVI on factory farming:
" Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible."
http://www.goveg.com/feat/PopeBenedictXVI/
Originally posted by ivanhoeWouldn't being full of wisdom leave you empty of God?
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."
Sophocles
ivanhoe:
01 May '05 00:10 :: 0 recommendations
"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."
Meister Eckhart
http://www.timeforchess.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=20465&page=6
Originally posted by PhlabibitAnd if god is omnipresent, surely the sentences "To be full of things is to be empty of God." and "To be empty of things is to be full of God." are both ridiculous paradoxes
Wouldn't being full of wisdom leave you empty of God?
ivanhoe:
01 May '05 00:10 :: 0 recommendations
"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."
Meister Eckhart
http://www.timeforchess.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=20465&page=6