The act of eating is a service.

[Monica]

I didn't say that in reference to diana's new question.

I didn't say you did. I just missed your post, then replied to it later when I saw it, and my reply to you happened to fall right after my reply to Diana.

Amazing how we can jump to conclusions such as "she is deliberately misquoting me and taking my words out of context" when that wasn't the intention at all!

If you go back to the conversation prior, then it might possibly make sense to you. ( when you and Tenet were rehashing the ' other' thread, seemed off- topic to me ).

Oh, me and Tenet? But your comments were directed only to me. I wonder why?

It makes it difficult to discuss something when one is frequently misquoted, and accused of being inflammatory, when I was not doing so.

Noticing 2 people engaging in something one thinks is off-topic, but then choosing to single out only one of them, is inflammatory.

Emulating pickle' s comments and trolling style would be more inflammatory if you ask me.

Good heavens!!! I was trying to make light of your inflammatory comments about my supposedly inflammatory comments, instead of doing what we're doing now, which is arguing about it! So even when I try to make light, you apparently don't approve!!!

So, let me see if I can get this straight. My "point by point" discussion style isn't acceptable. And Pickle's "make light of it and diffuse the situation with humor" isn't acceptable either.

What, then, would you have us do? Must we change our convictions altogether, in order to be accepted around here? Or is Bring4th doomed to perpetual discord as long as vegetarians are allowed to run around freely expressing their opinions in....ONE single thread? (Only one before, and only one now, since the others are gone.)

No sarcasm intended. I'm just genuinely perplexed about why there is so much butthurt whenever the vegetarians do what everyone else does all the time: express our viewpoints.

Why is this particular viewpoint so UNaccepted? Why are WE so UNaccepted? All this talk about love and acceptance...and yet a few fellow seekers are being considered the source of discord, just for having different opinions. It's not how we say anything or whether it's off-topic or any of that...it's our viewpoint itself that is UNaccepted.