Eating and shitting

What is it with our culture? I think we should reverse the roles of Eating and Shitting. Eating is a social thing, whereas Shitting is a Shameful hidden thing. Well? Think about this...

Life feeds on life. That's the way it goes. Buddhists would rather it didn't, but Lions were around a lot longer than Buddhists. Even a plant is a living, breathing entity with it's own needs etc? So whatever we eat, we take a living thing, kill or mutilate it and stick it in our mouths so we can live another day. Something has to undergo death for us to survive.

Shitting on the other hand? Well, this is our chance to give something back. A huge wadge of steaming nutrients, and nobody has to die!

So for now, I think it's best we have a small room in the house set aside for us to do our shameful business of taking life (thus allowing veggies and carnies to live together without looking down on each other), and make sure there's a communal compost heap or family garden where everybody can share in the beautiful life giving act of pooing.

Surely that's something everybody would want to get involved in?

 

Sign me up.

 

Ha, I'm sure I wouldn't be scarred at all seeing my family shit over and over while growing up!

 

Oh, you just can't think culturally, can you? If it was the other way around, people would feel scarred if you saw them eating in front of you. You wouldn't feel scarred if it was The Way Things Are

 

oh come on, you know you'd love it!

 

it would certainly smell shitty outside, but sure! i'll poo outside in a compost pile! tee hee

 

The thing is, while shitting (not sure about anyone else), I like to pretend there is no one else within 5 miles of me, and I don't think its a learned feeling, I think its instinctual.

*flashes back to 18 years of father shitting in the living room*

 

Why oh why did I click on this thread when I saw what the title read? A big steaming wad of nutrients. Dear God I'm feeling sick.

 

I thought this thread was gonna be about eating while you're taking a shit. Yeah, I've done that before.

 

do we get to throw our feces around? that could be considered a wholesome family event, right?

 

i know that...i'm talking about families...like a family of 4 doing it as a family activity...?

 

thats the most inspiring thing i've read today

 

interesting...might have to bring the video camera then

 

Thats about the dumbest , most unsanitary thing ive ever heard.

Kids, everybody gather round the shitting table!!

 

come on, you know you love it

 

hahaha awesome. this idea does make a shit load of sense. i would just hate to have to be converted into that system but if i were born into it, it wouldn't be gross. i'm sure there would be some sort of sanatation and collection system so it wouldn't really be that gross. it's only gross to us now because things like the "indignity" of defication is drilled into our minds from every angle. there have been plenty of cultures that pee and poo in public with no problem.

of course, we would have modern systems for sanatation....

http://images.google.com/images?q=%20Ephesus%20Toilets%20%20%20&hl=en&hs=OMv&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&sa=N&tab=wi

 

my aunt and me shit in front of each other all the time she is my aunt but actualy 30 so she is only 4 years older

 

I have no problem shitting with guys around. Working in the bush, and hiking, it happens.

With girls, its a lot less comfortable.

As an aside, I knew a guy who used to get his girlfiend to hang out with him while he shat. But made her leave the room when he wiped.

 

Are you saying you wanna watch me take a shit?

 

what's that movie where the family is having people over and they all sit on their respective toilets around a table and talk and play cards and stuff, but when a little girl gets hungry she goes into the bathroom and eats her dinner, and then comes back and joins the family in their shitfest?