Online Disinhibition Effect

Originally posted by @tom-wolsey
Nice to meet you and thanks!

Vegan, eh.

Guards! SEIZE HIM!!! 😠

Vegetarian. (Fish eating).

Vegans are insane.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Vegetarian. (Fish eating).

Vegans are insane.

If you eat fish, then you're not a vegetarian.

The Vegetarian Society defines a vegetarian as follows:
"A vegetarian is someone who lives on a diet of grains, pulses, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits, fungi, algae, yeast and/or some other non-animal-based foods (e.g. salt) with, or without, dairy products, honey and/or eggs. A vegetarian does not eat foods that consist of, or have been produced with the aid of products consisting of or created from, any part of the body of a living or dead animal. This includes meat, poultry, fish, shellfish*, insects, by-products of slaughter** or any food made with processing aids created from these."

https://www.vegsoc.org/definition

Pescatarian would best describe you.

Originally posted by @secondson
It's a central tenet. Infallible, inspired and preserved too.

Infallible, inspired and preserved, I wholeheartedly agree with.

Central tenet, I do not as Christians do not live under the Mosaic law, though obviously God’s character, history of the world and condition of man and Messianic prophecies are important.

But the way in which a Christian is to live his or her life - which was the point of Ghost’s initial post on this subject - is not in the Old Testament. It’s in the New Testament.

Originally posted by @thinkofone
If you eat fish, then you're not a vegetarian.

The Vegetarian Society defines a vegetarian as follows:
"A vegetarian is someone who lives on a diet of grains, pulses, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits, fungi, algae, yeast and/or some other non-animal-based foods (e.g. salt) with, or without, dairy products, honey and/or eggs. A vegeta ...[text shortened]... these."

https://www.vegsoc.org/definition

Pescatarian would best describe you.

<<If you eat fish, then you're not a vegetarian.>>

And being crazy doesn’t make one a mental health professional. At least not in reality.

Perhaps you could inform Ghost of that, though he’s “ignoring” me by reading and responding to most of my posts. 🙄

Originally posted by @thinkofone
If you eat fish, then you're not a vegetarian.

The Vegetarian Society defines a vegetarian as follows:
"A vegetarian is someone who lives on a diet of grains, pulses, legumes, nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits, fungi, algae, yeast and/or some other non-animal-based foods (e.g. salt) with, or without, dairy products, honey and/or eggs. A vegeta ...[text shortened]... these."

https://www.vegsoc.org/definition

Pescatarian would best describe you.

Technically sir, technically.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Technically sir, technically.

Sure. As someone who eats beef isn't "technically" a vegetarian either.

Originally posted by @thinkofone
Sure. As someone who eats beef isn't "technically" a vegetarian either.

Yep. Can't argue with that. Been describing myself as a vegetarian since I was 12, and every couple of years someone will say, "But you eat fish?"

I'll never remember pescatarian.

Originally posted by @tom-wolsey
This place is completely nuts. Not that it's a bad thing LOL. I've been reading up on threads and trying to figure out who stands where and apart from a couple of folks, I haven't the foggiest. Somehow a group of people with extremely unorthodox beliefs have all congregated here on a chess website forum. 🙄

Indeed. This thread and a couple of related ones are revolving around a few doctrinal impasses that lack clear unbiased description. Their protagonists on this forum lack the discipline and/or interest to organize the content of these impasses, that have become malignant stalemates.”

These impasses are not new. As Terrence Tilley, Professor of Theology and Chair of the Department at Fordham University, says, “These malignant stalemates destroyed the possibility of ecclesial unity – and will not be overcome as long as the shepherds of one flock demand that separated brethren repent of their errors to be accepted back into their sheepfold.

https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ctsa/article/download/4927/439

So those of us on the outside of BOTH sides - while not united among ourselves - can only watch and wait, and perhaps try to avoid becoming complicators, even common enemies against whom they can unite, setting their impasses on a back burner while they deal with us.

Originally posted by @romans1009
<<I'm an atheist sir. Degree in Theology, vegetarian, manage a mental health team.>>

Two of these are blatant lies.

You're not helping anyone's attitudes about you by continuing in this vein.

Just sayin'.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Yep. Can't argue with that. Been describing myself as a vegetarian since I was 12, and every couple of years someone will say, "But you eat fish?"

I'll never remember pescatarian.

Sounds about your speed.

Originally posted by @suzianne
You're not helping anyone's attitudes about you by continuing in this vein.

Just sayin'.

And you’re assuming I care what people think.

Ghost may have you fooled, but not me.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Vegetarian. (Fish eating).

Vegans are insane.

I'm insane too, but I'm a carnivore.

Originally posted by @romans1009
Infallible, inspired and preserved, I wholeheartedly agree with.

Central tenet, I do not as Christians do not live under the Mosaic law, though obviously God’s character, history of the world and condition of man and Messianic prophecies are important.

But the way in which a Christian is to live his or her life - which was the point of Ghost’s initial post on this subject - is not in the Old Testament. It’s in the New Testament.

I believe the principles of living are the same in both the new and old testaments with one important difference. The old covenant was based on man's faith toward God, but the new covenant, which is superior in every way, is based on God's faith toward man.

What say you?

FMF: Christianity is much closer to Islam, theologically, than to Judaism

Originally posted by @tom-wolsey
That's just plain bizarre. Christianity expands on Judaism and embraces the entire OT as the Word of God. Islam has its own prophet and a completely different book. Muhammad considered Jews and Christians his enemies.

For Muslims, the God of Islam is the God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus and they believe the diversity of religions we have is according to a Divine plan.

All three Abrahamic religions share much of the OT. To the Jews, Christians were deceived by a false messiah.

Both Muslims and Christians believe that Jesus was sent by God. Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet born to the virgin Mary and that he will return to Earth for Day of Judgment to restore justice and to defeat the Antichrist.

The prophet Muhammed's thing was that the Christians had got the Jesus story wrong by seeing him as the messiah and not as a prophet.

The Jews saw Jesus as an imposter and fraud and have absolutely no beliefs regarding him returning.

Clearly, Christianity is much closer to Islam, than to Judaism theologically speaking.

Originally posted by @secondson
I believe the principles of living are the same in both the new and old testaments with one important difference. The old covenant was based on man's faith toward God, but the new covenant, which is superior in every way, is based on God's faith toward man.

What say you?

You have a reference that explains that? That sounds like more church speak and unbiblical. The New Covenant is that through the blood of Christ, Christians now have a new life and a new arrangement where the sacrifice of animals is not required. Christ is there for remission of sins. Paul in Hebrews 9 and 10 explains in detail how this new arrangements operates. But like all of Pauls explanations church Christians read the nice part and ignore the warnings, which is that under the New Covenant..

.. if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, (Hebrews 10:26 KJV)

Its not all fun and games.