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I think Vicky means aesthetic

How different we are then. I love really juicy rare steak, dripping with blood....


Oh yes...

I did thanks...oops the brainfade!

Ooh, a nice juicy - plum, or nectarine...

Vicky

Nahh you can't beat meat dripping in juiciness and blood...

Blood Pudding!

Actually yes I agree about fruit too. Juiciness running down your chin from oranges, plums, cherries, steak, lamb chops, nectarines, kiwi fruit ...all completely wonderful, all at once

Haggis!




Juiciness running down your chin from lungs, lights, oats ...all completely wonderful, all at once.

Juicy topic drift all at once..

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the dietary laws don't apply to Christians? why not

jesus was a jew and the dietry laws aplied to him

how do you like your steak???

rip its horns off, wipe its @rse, and slap it on a plate

Ok. Peaches. Big, fresh, tree-ripened peaches, so juicy you don't even bother peeling 'em. One bite and you'll have to wring out your shirt...

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Anyway, I've got another for The List:

3 (or 5, I'm really losing track..) Religion* insultingly and not infrequently claims that the human species is innately depraved; we are inherently sinful beings
Not only is this false, it is psychologically harmful, especially evil as it is typically taught to very young children.


*Disclaimer: I'm sure not all religions teach this, ok?

'Peaches. Big, fresh, tree-ripened peaches', etc.

Really like your peaches, Taliesin, like to shake your tree.

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Do what you will shall be the whole of the law

A. Crowley

Yep I think the sinful idea is very much a factor in the Abrahamic religions. Hence all the guilt

'Forgive us our trespasses'


I'd been saying the Lord's Prayer everyday at school, until about 10, when I finalled found out was a 'trespass' actually was. But I'd certainly got the message that it was something innate and sinful and bad. Like this trespass thing that inhabited my body...

Crowley was quite wrong, too, for different, but not wildly dissimilar reasons

@ Slapjack

Nice juicy steak I miss Steak Tartare now

>>Only if you leave out the NT!<<

That could have been an objection to more general religion, so including OT only is allowed

I would add objections but I would agree essentially with what was said before. Just because I don't want Az to smite my PS:

- the fact that some corrupt religious bigshots use it in a barely disguised fashion as a tool of power and control. And that they (hopefully pretend to) believe that even though they happily break whatever rule they try to enforce on ordinary believers, they have still some sort of divine protection and are 'better' than the (sincere) believer-in-the-street.

(There was a scandal in Greece once where some orthodox dignitary went to hospital during lent and it transpired that he had actually been eating meat or whatever is forbidden at that time )

22) It it solipsistic. It falsely that people have a central importance in the universe and that the figments of individual imaginations are cosmically significant.

23) It falsely attributes solipsism to Atheist materialism: we Atheists know our place!

22) ...it falsely claims...

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Euuwww.. My father called it Black Pudding and when he told me what it actually was.. But then Mum used to cook tripe in the pressure cooker. - aside(Anyone else old enough to remember pressure cookers?) /aside

Haggis, euuwwww, likewise...

But it's the great chieftan o' the puddin' race and takes its place aboun them a' - painch, tripe or thairm.

You can get vegetarian haggis.