Jesus Enters Jerusalem, Palm Sunday
It’s Palm Sunday, named
after the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and the people placed palms
on his path. The donkey symbolized Jesus’ humility, the palms, peace. Talk about
a demonstration! Peaceful though it was, it sparked the jealous and paranoid
violence of rulers, Roman and Hebrew.
Yesterday, students
marched worldwide for an end to gun violence. From Parkland, Florida to Rome,
Madrid, London, Paris, and small towns across the planet, children and adults
picked up signs and banners to combat violence with love. Paul McCartney
appeared in New York City to pay respects to “a good friend of his who was shot
nearby.”
When I think of peace
marchers, I see pink-hatted men and women with babies on their backs. When I
see pro-gun rallies, I see meat-eaters with guns; I see their violence in their
screwed-up, screaming faces and their brandishing fists.
Actor, Charlton Heston upholding his rifle
In 1979, when the
American hostages were taken in Iran, I remember one of the macrobiotic seniors
summing-up terrorism: “They’re eating meat in the desert.”
For a macro, this
statement is crystal clear. Meat is extreme yang and for human beings, very
hard to digest. The result in the human body is tension, anger, closed-minds,
stubbornness, and violence resulting from the continuing eating of meat: dirty
blood and all that follows: dehydration, constipation, organ stress and
failure, cancer, heart disease and other degenerative diseases. Eating meat
causes all that. Eating meat in the desert is not a balanced way, nor a
traditional desert way of life. The traditional eating of a desert-dweller, a
Bedouin, for instance, is lentils, yogurt (made from goat’s milk), grain, dried
fruits and tea. Traditional peoples of most cultures did not slaughter and eat
animals on a daily basis. Animals were slaughtered only for special occasions
and feast-days. The anger and violence that develop from meat-eating is intense
enough without adding the desert to the mix, extreme heat, dangerous dehydration, nor all the drugs most terrorists
are taking, including daily captagons, the pill that makes a violent terrorist
feel invincible for 24 hours.
To a macro, you’re not
really vegan if you’re eating sugar or taking drugs.
Drugs. Here’s where
Hitler (50-80 million killed in WWII) and Adam Lanza (who gunned down 20 first-graders
and six adults at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012) both
of whom claimed to be vegan, come in. I remember seeing a vegan video once in
which a young woman went through a super-market pointing out all the stuff that
was ok for vegans. Most of it was not real food at all, especially the boxes of
breakfast cereal she zeroed in on and exclaimed, “Vegan!” No, sorry, not
animal, but certainly not vegetable either.
Balance. Please don’t
try to be vegan while taking drugs. Macros consider all drugs to be drugs,
including the medications Adam Lanza was prescribed – I can see it in his eyes,
no need to deny it – or the bowls of pills Hitler gobbled up.
And don’t consume huge
amounts of sugar. And chemicals. You’ll wind up as stable as an inverted
triangle.
And, hopefully, not with
a gun or nuclear weapons of your own. At home, we wonder about what drugs Trump is on, and his buddy, Kim Jong-un.
Right now, desert terrorists
seem to favor a diet of chicken nuggets, Jolt Cola and captagons. I’ll close
with an example of the violence chicken nuggets can provoke:
For more on violence and diet, please see my post, Crime and Diet. (Click here.)
©Patricia Goodwin, 2018
Patricia Goodwin is the author of When Two Women Die, about Marblehead legends and true crime and its sequel, Dreamwater, about the Salem witch trials and the vicious 11-year-old pirate Ned Low. Holy Days is her third novel, about the sexual, psychological seduction of Gloria Wisher and her subsequent transformation. Her newest book is Telling Time By Apples, And Other Poems About Life On The Remnants of Olde Humphrey Farme, illustrated by the author.
