Here are two posts I made in the reasoning
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I just had an experience, not related to eating meat, but related to what I mentioned about Nazarites not going near a person who has died.
A woman who is a friend of my family, who I have known all my life and is like a grandmother to I just passed away. I just got a message at work from I mother saying that one of the daughters of the woman asked I to be a pallbearer at the funeral.
When I heard the message, it pained I because I loved the woman like a grandmother, and her children are like aunts and uncles to I, her son is even I Godfather, so I felt sad that I had to refuse the request, but I knew I had to refuse it. So I delayed calling for a few minutes to think about it, but no matter what went through I head, I couldn't convince Iself to make an exception. This reasoning topic came into I head while I was thinking about it.
So I called I mother to tell her, and then told her that I would call the daughter of the woman to tell her personally, because I didn't think it was right for I to let my mother give them I response, unless I had accepted.
So I called the daughter and told her that I couldn't do it, and I explained about the Nazarite vow and how I was not allowed to go that close to somebody who has died. I apologized and told her that I would have accepted if it wasn't for that, but that I couldn't do it.
She was understanding and didn't seem to be offended by my response.
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I attended the funeral of the woman I spoke about in the previous post. I stayed far from her throughout the whole proceeding, and while people went close to her to pay their last respects, I chanted for her from where I was.
Her children had no bad feelings and treated I as they always have, and I family was invited to come to their house afterwards, and the only other people there were the siblings of one family of cousins. I children brought happiness in their house, which comforted them in this time of sorrow.
When people have more Iverstanding of who I and I are and what restrictions I and I have, then they will have respect for these things; and when I and I Trod in their lives, the Blessings and Irits that I and I bring will show them the fullness of I and I Livity, and why I and I must stay away from certain things. So even if they don't have complete Iverstanding, they will have acceptance of I and I Trod.
I must speak about the woman who had her funeral this weekend, because she is a Blessed woman. Whenever I would come to her house she would always show such Love and Happiness, her Love would fill you with Joy. When I think of her, I can only think of her with a smile on her face. She is filled with the Irits of God, and it beams from her.
When one of the priests spoke about her, he refered to the Light that came out of her whenever he saw her, and the Love she showed. I Loved to hear him speak about that because that part of her must be known. She is an example for Ones and Ones Learn from. Selassie I is Love, so let I and I Love.
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