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RosieH Wrote:

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> I'd eat some of the people on the forum.


Now that you mention it, I rather fancy your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.


> And that's Catholics HAL, not Christians per se.


No - I don't think so. All Christians (even vegans) are supposed to take communion - even if only symbolically. Otherwise they're not true Christians. What sort of Christians were you thinking of?

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I used to decant a 1.5 pint Bachelors packet soup mix into three equal portions and eat with two

> slices of bread and a one inch-cubed square of cheddar ('number two') - every day - for two years.


Is that what brought on the asterisks?

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> If it took my life to save ten I'd happily give

> it.......so I wouldn't do absolutely 'anything' to

> survive. We are nothing important at the end of

> the day. The world will not stop turning because

> anyone of us lives or dies.

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I TOTALLY agree!

I mean if it were like 8 or 9 people there is no way I'd do myself in for that!!

Anything over ten is cool though.

;-)

I think when push comes to shove most people would do anything to survive.

We live in a very insulated society and most people seriously believe that events like genocide happen to 'other people and not us'.

I'm not so certain how far we really are from all that.

We just kid ourselves.

RosieH Wrote:

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> My point is that it's only symbolic if you're not

> Catholic - it's still just bread and wine. Only

> Catholics suppose themselves to be eating the

> actual body and blood of Christ through the magic

> of transubstantiation.

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Add some cheese & a few "hail bloody marys" for a Sunday hangover picnic

These days I think it behoves us all to take along some Ryvita breakfast biscuits when travelling by plane over the Andes or hiking in the mountains, so that we don't HAVE to eat each other. That said, I don't think you can slit the jugular and drink the still-warm blood of a biscuit.

Hmmm...how far would you go if alone, if with a loved one or with strangers...


If I knew there was no other option, I might consider cutting my arm off but being an optimistic type usually, I think I'd probably hope that someone did come along to my godforsaken spot and wait until I was too weak to actually survive cutting off my arm and die anyhow...


Plane-wise - I do count the seats to the emergency exit and if in a window seat with people who don't look like good survival candidates in the aisle rows, I have amused myself by figuring out the best route over the top of the seats to avoid being stuck behind them. :-$

Usually in an air crash they are sweeping up tiny bits and pieces from a three mile radius, and in the case of the Lockerby crash it left a crater deep enough to drop a four storey block of flats.


The idea of hopping across the backs of seats to beat everyone to safety is unlikely.


When there is an investigation following a crash, most of the time is spent working out who died first and what the order of death came to the travellers for the sake of insurance companies.

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