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This thread is not really about food but I will begin with an illustration from today. I was out shopping and decided on a whim to have some fast food for lunch. I went to a KFC and a meal there. This is the first time since November (when I went to macDonalds) that I have had this kind of food. The chicken burger (called a 'classical' or something) was mostly tasteless but with some ice cold salad in it which was kind of off putting to crunch into. The fries were covered in a sweet and sour sauce and bits of bacon. I washed it down with a diet Pepsi which tasted mostly of aniseed. There were an unusually large number of overweight people in the restaurant. Parents and children. Everyone was well behaved and the staff were brilliant. In fact, because we had a loyalty card from a supermarket the meal was free!!! This was the best thing about it. I wouldn't go again, unless forced by circumstances; but I have nothing against the place and am happy to allow its continued existence given the need for variety and complexity in our world. It did get me to thinking though. Why is it, that on all levels, physical, emotional and factual our lives today are overflowing with slop. Why are fries coated with sticky sauce? Why is all the taste in the additives? It's the same with TV, the news, everything that is presented to us as being enjoyable. Anything on Facebook or Twitter. Even in lifestyle choices (to use that terrible phrase) we are encouraged to prefer slop and not things that are truly nutritious or wholesome. Is that why the birthrate is dropping? Because people trade the deeply rewarding experience of having children for self indulgent frippery??? Think about your day my friends and give me your best examples of daily slop. NB. Nothing political please!

When the Buddha achieved enlightenment he touched the earth. What is often not mentioned he then connected the live and neutral wires so that his LED aura would light up.

your Buddha’s wire has come loose

I think it’s better to understand maya as meaning ‘not what it appears to be’ rather than illusion.

Hi and welcome.

Portugal is the land of a thousand yapping dogs ... and I assume you know that sobreiros are in the same family as oak?

Awful

Take the last train to Badgate, And I’ll meet you on the station, You don’t need to buy ticket, Cos I booked a reservation, No no no, No no no. It looks as if your never coming home.

Humans go to war The brave and lusty ones who Also go to whore.

I went down to Bad Gateway, fell down on my knees, Down to Bad Gateway fell down on my knees, Asked the Lord for mercy, “Take me to DaoBums if you please.

Thanks that cheered me up - I’d better get to it.

If you are missing me I’m hanging out at the Bad Gateway - see you there.

but where I am not other people mostly are avoiding me now.

Perhaps it’s your age.

You are a complete genius- make the menu edible so the people can eat their words. I’m going to patent this immediately!!!!!!

If you are reasonably proficient at meditation then i would recommend fairly long periods of breath counting. This should if you are persistent take you to deeper levels of relaxation and more importantly link your mind to you body such that the breath begins to both release tension and become a whole body thing. At this point the pressure to contract your abdomen will change and the energy stored in your body will be allowed to circulate. If things are very chaotic it may take so e time but gentle persistence will win out in the end.

Fred Astaire??? Can’t dance???

The Reconquista in Spain (and Portugal) was from the Arab Muslim Caliphate (not the Ottomans) which had ruled much of Iberia for centuries. Also after this Barbary pirates raided the coast of northern Europe (and Italy) from 1500 onwards taking white slaves to the Ottoman Empire. So there was plenty of contact with Islam in Europe throughout this period and then later of course in WWI when the Ottoman Empire was defeated. Before that wars between the Eastern European states like Austria and Poland and the Ottomans were a regular occurrence. However the term antisemite was coined as you suggest as a euphemism for Jew hatred ... which was common and widespread in Christian Europe up until the present (for various spurious pretexts) it was the Holocaust which finally made it unacceptable.

Scottish Christian.

I just bought some 90% cacao chocolate made by Moser Roth. The ingredients list cacao pasta (paste presumably) cocoa butter sugar and ‘ emulgente soya lecithin and vanilla extract. it’s very bitter. Also warns of nut traces? Why not sure. Don’t like it much.

There is no new owner it is the same owner.

I think we might understand all the figures in the scene as being aspects of the Self. Even the cave which must have what I might call yoni relevance. I think if you can relate the struggle to your spiritual journey in that way it might begin to make sense.

… but I found the stone rolled away and the tomb was empty. Had a nice chat with the gardener though.

There is such a difference between simple proper food and slop. They are almost like totally different things. But why are we encouraged to eat slop? Who benefits? Who are the slop merchants?