posted March 31, 2009 06:32 PM         

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I am quite capable of learning something new thanks, so quit the snidey, immature comments. I expect better from you.

*** for tat is for the playground. I have just wased valuable time trying to show you a new angle and you don't wanna know. So who is the one who is too blinkered to learn?

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posted March 31, 2009 06:34 PM         

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posted March 31, 2009 06:43 PM         

Sipping on tonic blessed herbs with spring water.

The diet of the future : ~superfood~

forget beef, potatoes and rice...blah...

bring on the cacao, gojis, spirulina, marine phyto plankton, and camu camu berries (just to name a few faves)!

Less is more. Costs the same as a steak. Twice the iron, thousand times more antioxidants, complete protein, omega 3,6

Sometimes it's just a matter of maths!

..and feeling goooooood.

posted March 31, 2009 06:44 PM         

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I'm so sick of al this bullsh1t on this site... why can't people just graciously receive good decent info anymore without becoming resentful or bitter in some way?

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This isn't about bitterness, its about you trying to shove info with little factual basis down our throats . And then you accusing us of ignorance and ungratefulness....as a heavy mercurial person I don't take those kind of insults to my intelligence very lightly.

posted March 31, 2009 06:50 PM         

one each...

posted March 31, 2009 06:54 PM         

Let go... no one mention one more thing about someone else...

it only is something because people choose to hang on to it.

It doesn't really matter. LOL

posted March 31, 2009 06:57 PM           

"Power comes to its full strength in weakness."
~ 2 Corinthians 12:9

"See how what is forbidden kings to enjoy is wholly denied to priests, and is known to be more dangerous than any food. And yet, so spiritual a man as St Benedict himself is compelled to allow it to monks as a sort of concession to the times in which he lived. 'Although', he says, 'we read that wine is no drink for monks, yet because nowadays monks cannot be persuaded of this, etc.' He had read, if I am not mistaken, these passages in Lives of The Saints."
~ Heloise to Abelard
The Letters of Direction

"There was once a celebration of the Mass on the Mount abba Antony, and a jar of wine was found there. One of the elders took a small vessel, carried a cupful to abba Sisoi and gave it to him. He drank once, and a second time he took it and drank, but when it was offered a third time he refused, saying, 'Peace, brother, do you not know that it is Satan?'"
~ Vitae Patrum

"On the question of meat: where, I ask you, has this ever been condemned by God or forbidden to monks? Look, pray, and mark how of necessity St Benedict modifies the Rule on this point too (though it is more dangerous for monks and he knew it was not for them), because in his day it was impossible to persuade monks to abstain from meat. I would like to see the same dispensation granted in our own times, with a similar modification regarding matters which fall between good and evil and are called indifferent, so that vows would not compel what cannot now be gained by persuation. If concession were made without scandal on neutral points, it would be enough to forbid only what is sinful... For things which do not prepare us for the Kingdom of God or commend us least to God call for no special attention. These are all outward works which are common to the damned and elect alike, as much to hypocrites as to the religious. For nothing so divides Jew from Christian as the distinction between outward and inner works, especially since between the children of God and those of the devil love alone distinguishes: what the Apostle calls the sum of the law and the object of what is commanded. And so he also disparages pride in works in order to set above it the righteousness of faith."
~ Heloise to Abelard
The Letters of Direction

"What room then is left for human pride?
It is excluded. And on what principle?
Of works? No, but through the principle of faith.
For our argument is that a man is justified by faith
without observances of the law."
~ Romans 3:27-8

posted April 01, 2009 05:10 AM         

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Some men beat their wives.

It doesnt mean they don't love them.

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WTF?????????????????????????????

Yeah, I felt really... LOVED... when my ex slammed me into a post and kicked me off the edge of the decking into the nettles.

HSC, if you're gonna use analogies can you think about what you're saying? Please?

That behaviour is NOT love. You wouldn't have felt loved either, I can assure you.

posted April 01, 2009 05:25 AM         

Although I also agree with her and others who said vegetarians really haven't got a leg to stand on in the argument. Vegan's the way to go. I eat vegan a hell of a lot. But I don't label myself vegetarian. The best I can do is to call myself "Someone who is trying really hard not to eat meat and dairy". I haven't eaten meat or fish for about 8 months.

I think anyone who tries to cut down on meat and dairy consumption is to be encouraged. It's more sustainable in terms of world resources, and meat in moderation is healthier. I won't go into the cruelty aspect because I'm wearing leather shoes and have milk in my coffee today.

I wish I'd never tasted cheese though.

posted April 01, 2009 06:17 PM           

I was being facetious to make a point.

Have I succeeded?

Can you love animals, and treat them this way?

posted April 02, 2009 06:31 AM         

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"No murderer has a place in the Kingdom of Christ and of God."
~ 1 John 3:15

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Referring to animals? Christians may tell you that God has placed animals here to keep people alive. That is why food is blessed before eating it, whether it's a lamb chop or pumpkin soup.