A declined invitation: an example of paradmigmatic thinking

Recently I wrote to an Orthodox mission organization in Mexico which runs an orphanage.  I asked if I could volanteer for a good long time and offered to pay my way.  The administrator asked me to come and seemed excited about the prospect.  He explained that they lived near a town and it was quite easy to take a bus into the city to go shopping.  I explained to him that I had some food intolerance’s and would need to do my own cooking.  I explained that I grew extremely silk if I had milk products, wheat, soy, and even rice.  I said I was used to buying and preparing my own food wherever I went.  He said everyone eats together and so basically not an option, don’t come.  Wow!  This is an extreme example of paradigmatic thinking.  With many people I know, vegetarianism and veganism is an ideology that goes beyond common sense.  Because it is assumed a-priori that meat is bad, they reason, soy is good.  The assumption is: meet is bad and let all the discussion bafterwards be based on that assumption.  So why are these friends and acquaintances getting so sick all the time?  All I hear about within these circles is one illness after another so that sometimes monasteries are forced into hospitals.  Soy causes homosexuality and makes men effeminate and unable to have children or think clearly.  Americans are deprived of fat.  In Buenos Aires where they eat steak every night, usually very rare—they are relatively free from the deaseses which plague Americans.  I ate cow throat last weekend with Gregory and it was unbelievable.  It is a delicacy in Argentina but cheep here because it’s only being discovered.  Some naturalpathic physicians give cow throat, pig eyes and cow brains to people who have week throats and week brains and week eyes.  This form of therapy is extremely effective.  The medicine that is practiced at the conventional doctors offices and hospitals is based on the scientific method, on statistics and on math and science and you know what…it doesn’t work.  It is not effective for treating people.  I know from personal experience.  There are alternative ways of treating people but you have to search.  The administrator for the Orthodox orphanage in Mexico who didn’t want me to come if I wasn’t going to eat bread, soy and milk products is an example of paradigmatic thinking.  I’ve often heard people say, “Americans eat so much more meat and fatty foods than other people.”  So not only is it a spectacular propaganda achievement that fat is bad, it also that Americans prefer meat and fat.  It goes against all common sense and yet people actually believe this. Compared with countries like Argentina, we are a relatively fat-free society.  Yet I’m not able to bring this up around my many friends and acquaintences (getting sicker and sicker and sicker) who advocate the health effects of veganism.  Maybe if more people spent time getting to know eachother in bars and cafes, we would be able to have these discussions without people attacking the messenger.          I have now heard back from the administrator and he welcomed me to come.  They don’t check their emails so often in south American and Mexico, I have noticed.  The words COULD be relevent, though, with people who don’t understand about food intolerences and many of the other observations are relevent and so I am keeping this up.  Nobody reads my blog anyway.