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Requesting prayers. I found out Thursday that I have a fast growing cataract that needs surgery. It's in the one eye I see with, and because I am a high risk case due to retinal detachment in both eyes as a baby, there's a good chance that, if the surgery doesn't go spectacularly for me, I could go blind - just for a different reason (a retinal tear versus the cataract).
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Dec 15, 2018 18:07
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Good luck Jcdent and Spacewolf.
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Dec 15, 2018 18:59
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JcDent posted:Also, I've watched that gif way too many times. It's mesmerizing.
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Dec 15, 2018 22:24
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Seen on a Lutheran church sign today: "Baby God do do dododo do"
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Dec 15, 2018 23:10
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A bumper sticker I ran across on the way out of Wal-Mart: "Do you follow Jesus this closely?"
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Dec 15, 2018 23:30
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Keromaru5 posted:A bumper sticker I ran across on the way out of Wal-Mart: ...There's two very different meanings one could take from that, and I have no idea which is meant. 
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Dec 15, 2018 23:34
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Pretty sure it's a snide comment aimed at tailgaters. Which... if you're gonna be snide with your bumper stickers, be snide with style.
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Got some sad news today - the oldest member of our congregation, and one of our founding members, died last night in her sleep. She was 95, and grew up as a Jewish lesbian in Dusseldorf in the 1930s. She was hardcore as hell, and advocated relentlessly for refugees and for LGBT Jews. She was still sharp as an axe right up to the end - she was teaching me Hebrew not six months ago. זיכרונה לברכה - may her memory be a blessing.
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Liquid Communism posted:Seen on a Lutheran church sign today: Really leaning into the Incarnation, I see.
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Dec 16, 2018 05:22
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Someone want to give a go at what modern Deism looks like?
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HEY GUNS posted:the cat may be playing, but it also knows exactly where the neck is I like that one moment where the cat is on the neck and using its body as a pendulum to slam the baby down. It looks like a wrestling move.
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Dec 18, 2018 07:35
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Grem posted:Someone want to give a go at what modern Deism looks like? This thread is mostly about organized, liturgical flavors of Christianity. I'm sure that several of our posters could give you some info on historical and modern deist thought, but I think it might be hard to say what modern deism "looks like" because it's far from a coherent, organized belief system. That's not to discourage your question, I'm just not really sure what you're asking, and I'm not familiar with any modern schools of thought that strongly identify with deism. My understanding is that it was big a couple hundred years ago but is pretty nebulous and not terribly popular today. edit: i mean, we could talk about catastrophism vs. uniformitarianism if you like, that's kind of related? Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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Dec 18, 2018 08:11
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Pellisworth posted:This thread is mostly about organized, liturgical flavors of Christianity. I'm sure that several of our posters could give you some info on historical and modern deist thought, but I think it might be hard to say what modern deism "looks like" because it's far from a coherent, organized belief system. Huh, ok. I really kind of thought it would be popular today. I'm taking a theology class for funsies and a lot of the syllabus is on deism. Must be the professor's pet interest or something.
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Grem posted:Huh, ok. I really kind of thought it would be popular today. I'm taking a theology class for funsies and a lot of the syllabus is on deism. Must be the professor's pet interest or something. Well, deism was famously pretty popular among the American Founding Fathers so if the professor specializes in early American or British history around that time that might explain things. It seems kind of a weird topic to spend a lot of time on in a basic theology course, though. I'm not aware of it being a popular idea today. It sort of fits in with agnosticism but I don't think there's a significant modern deist movement. For deism as a strongly-held theological belief you probably need to look back in history a century or two. edit: it's not that deism is extinct, it's just not a major thing in the last century or so. edit2: I guess the Intelligent Design crowd could include some people that are vaguely deist but intelligent design got demolished pretty hard by scientific advances in the 90s and 00s Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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StashAugustine posted:Anyone have recommendations for 'international' (meaning non-US) Christmas themed food (for a potluck)? homemade liver pate, roast pig and gravy, kale salads and pickled kale, duck are all super tasty and staples of a Danish christmas. User "Dane" had an amazing thread on Danish christmas food once, which unfortunately seems to have disappeared from the forums. But seriously, can't go wrong with the pigge, pate and gravy on potatoes. E: I just made my own christmas liver pate (christmas means you put cloves in it), and it is kicking rad. However, the slurry of blended innards from two different pigs and a chicken (and four anchovies) suddenly gaining malevolent sentience and burping out of my food processor at me has reaffirmed my belief in evil. Tias fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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fecking hell, i need to make chopped liver again (the american word for liver pate) edit: livers, cook them, let them cool. A SHITLOAD of fat (you can use lard or butter but the traditional way to do it in the US is with chicken fat because in the US, this recipe is Jewish). Put it all in a food processor with spices of your choice and lots of caramelized onions. spread on bread and eat with pickles on the side. kind of like this but i don't use the crackling because i don't render my own chicken fat, i put way more onions in mine, and this woman puts eggs in hers, which: ??????>??? https://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/chopped-liver/ "Nutrition Information: Why Are You Even Here. You Know What We're About." HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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Dec 18, 2018 13:13
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I think a fairly modern deism type philosophy would be the panentheistic process Theism. It doesn't ask for much out of believers in a way reminiscent of deism.
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So thanks to Tias I'm making chopped liver tonight, and speaking of translation influencing what we feel about something: "pate on baguette toasts with cornichons"  "leberwurst on brot with guerken"  and"chopped liver on rye with pickles"  are the exact same food Tias, whenever I'm feeling like making something exceptionally dense and sweet, I add chestnuts to my chopped liver. Something for you to think about maybe? HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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Dec 18, 2018 18:43
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Glad you're liverposting  Well, I make traditional Danish yuletide leverpostej which isn't just chopped liver, but also smoked lard, allspice, anchovies and other stuff, and it's tangy and sweet too. Thanks for the recommendation though, nuts go well in most things.
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Dec 18, 2018 21:18
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Chestnuts aren't like most nuts! They cook up into a soft texture and you can easily blend them into paste. They are more carb-heavy than fatty like other nuts.
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Oh and of course I top it with my mothers pickled red beets 
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Tias posted:Oh and of course I top it with my mothers pickled red beets !!!!!! I topped mine with Vietnamese pickled carrots/radishes, p deece
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Grem posted:Huh, ok. I really kind of thought it would be popular today. I'm taking a theology class for funsies and a lot of the syllabus is on deism. Must be the professor's pet interest or something. Honestly I'm not sure classical deism makes sense any more. It was based on a lot of teleological arguments that have just become more abstracted as we get a better understanding of the history of the universe. You can still believe in a distant creator deity, but a God who made trees and mountains is a lot more relatable than a God who made strong nuclear force and gravity. PrinceRandom posted:I think a fairly modern deism type philosophy would be the panentheistic process Theism. It doesn't ask for much out of believers in a way reminiscent of deism. Yeah, there's stuff like this. Or moralistic theraputic deism. But they are much more emotive and imminent than classical deism, which was basically seeing God as sort of hypothesised fundamental force who was only perceivable through our observations of the natural world. Here's an article some of you may enjoy about occultism among anglo-catholics: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/14-december/features/features/on-the-wings-of-the-dawn-the-lure-of-the-occult And completely off topic, I've just come back from a walking holiday on Dartmoor, and I know at least some of you will enjoy some (bad) pictures of feral ponies I took.  
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Those ponies are adorably stout and round
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HI FAT BUDDIES
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Somewhere, Kate Beaton is smiling.
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I don't know why it isn't the UK tourism board's biggest selling point. "We have like ten completely different kinds of fat little ponies which live up hills and don't take poo poo from anyone". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_and_moorland_pony_breeds
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HELLO FAT FRIEEEEEEEENDS  they're even called m&ms
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Liquid Communism posted:Seen on a Lutheran church sign today: I'd pay like 5 invisible fun bucks for a picture of that to show my kid. He's obsessed with that song.
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Jedi425 posted:I'd pay like 5 invisible fun bucks for a picture of that to show my kid. He's obsessed with that song. I'll snap a shot on the way home this morning if it's still up.
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Mr Enderby posted:feral ponies The only thing that sounds more ridiculous than "feral pony" would be "dire pony"
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Growing up biscuits was my Christmas treat. Granny made a lot of different types, my favourite was always the lemon and nuts kind. not quite as sweet as the other types, but so tasty.
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JcDent posted:The only thing that sounds more ridiculous than "feral pony" would be "dire pony"
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BattyKiara posted:Growing up biscuits was my Christmas treat. Granny made a lot of different types, my favourite was always the lemon and nuts kind. not quite as sweet as the other types, but so tasty. recipes!? also how you doing? we're here for you
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Dec 19, 2018 14:24
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My old professors just finished sending my last few letters of rec and the trial of application times is over now. Thank you all for your support. Knowing someone is praying for you really does help with the anxiety.
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Dec 19, 2018 14:25
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pidan posted:We have so many different Christmas biscuits / cookies but I don't like any of them. i could live happily on Lebkuchen for the rest of my life (non-frosted please)
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Night10194 posted:My old professors just finished sending my last few letters of rec and the trial of application times is over now. Thank you all for your support. Knowing someone is praying for you really does help with the anxiety. I'm where you are, just exiting not entering. It's hard.
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