Baraka_Guru

I can see a parallel between this and the following:

Let's say there's a movement to make Monday a "Turn Off the TV and Read" Day. Let's say the movement is meant to help young people and older people alike with their literacy. Let's say it is a way to help support local and national culture. Let's say it's sold as a rewarding experience that cannot be offered by TV, and that studies show that too much TV and not enough reading is bad for you. Let's also say that Americans watch 4 hours of TV a day on average.

The "other direction" in this case would be to adopt a Double TV Day, where one would go ahead and watch 8 hours of TV instead of the usual 4.

In other words, indulge if you like...but you're going to miss out on the ultimate point of such a movement. That is, however, your choice to make. In my opinion, 8 hours of TV in one day would be akin to peering into a void, or perhaps into the death of the human spirit.

I do like the sound of a double cheeseburger though. But it's not like I eat a hamburger 7 days a week though. It would be an odd thing for me to eat meat once a day for 7 days straight. I probably have meat on average 4 to 5 days a week.... maybe 4 to 10 servings total in a week. [It varies: it wouldn't be a big deal to me to go a whole week without meat.]

If I were normally eating 2 or 3 servings of meat a day, I think the idea of a double cheeseburger would seem rather different. In situations where I do end up eating 10 servings of meat in a week—which is rare—I tend to lean towards wanting meatless meals for a while. I go in cycles. I get "meat overload" at times and will go essentially vegetarian to balance things out.

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