how do I resist yogic diet indoctrination?

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crazysam

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hi there

I live with a guy who is a yogi, but he eats a yogic diet (no onions and garlic). I am not a yogi nor probably will ever be one but I am a vegan and I know the importance of well balanced and healthy diet but since he feels so strongly he is setting up a kitchen in the basement just so he doesn't have to be around me and others in the house cooking with onions and garlic.
I find that his beliefs are more like indoctrination than rational beliefs he says that these veg hinder controlling of the mind and release too much passion and just smelling them in the house, he finds it hard.
I am not one to make another suffer because of my actions but I have nothing to say in response apart from being naive and arrogant. The only thing I have thought of is that he is basing his beliefs purely on indoctrination and has no rational thought about it.
what should I do?

sam
 
[lang=zh-CN]Onions and garlic have their benefits for a human being.It has been scientifically proven that garlic can reduce blood pressure and prove good in digestion.I think people should be aware about it.If they will stop eating these stuff,how would they expect their youngsters to utilize it![/lang]
 
Here's what you do:
Cook every meal with EXTRA onions and garlic and one night cook like 10 pounds of onions and garlic in a big open pot then set up a little fan that blows the smell down stairs contaminating his entire stupid religious kitchen. Your douchebag wannabe roomie will either come to his senses or move the fck out. Either way you win! And you're doing him a favor by pulling his head out of his a s s for him.
 
You don't have to do anything. Live and let live. Whether he's come to this conclusion through experience or he's been told by a teacher, it's his business.
 
There's not much you can do. Sounds like he's found a solution, he will prepare his food in another area. What's the problem? You don't have to adopt each other's beliefs to share a space together. It's like religion, philosophy and lifestyle beliefs, we all have freedom of choice in those areas. Just agree to disagree and respect each other's freedom of choice.
 
Simple. Just let him set up his own kitchen like he wants to. That way you are not bothered by his onionlessness.

This is just like if you were living with somebody who eats meat and having a hard time smelling the meat. No reason why the meat eater should change his eating habits.

In other words, you can simply say "I respect your beliefs, but as your beliefs don't apply to me you can't expect me to change my lifestyle to suit your beliefs.."
 
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