Posted on 11/22/2010 10:08:57 AM PST by mlizzy
What else is there to say?Thank you Tax-chick. Now, can I go get me some cookies and rice milk? It's d*** near time for bed. Er, maybe I should just grab a beer ...
I’m unfamiliar with Rice Milk. Boil some rice?
Maybe it depends on the service. I remember my dad talking about D&D going on in the carriers in the 80s, but PC games are much bigger now On a carrier, there’s probably still a pencil-and-paper-and-dice group or twenty, but a CG cutter has only a couple of hundred crew, and they work like dogs.
Anoreth and Tom, who are more alike than they want to believe, both enjoy online text roleplaying, which is basically a group of posters writing a piece of fiction together. Good for the typing skills, grammar, and imagination.
HEY!! Don’t bash 80s pop!! I get enough of that from my Philistine children.
The chief exorcist of Rome is “a random priest”? He is not someone with real knowledge and experience of the demonic, of evil? Wow. As the chief exorcist of Rome, he is the exorcist of the pope's diocese.
You're comparing the chief exorcist of Rome with Fr. Pfleger? Wow.
“While not infallible, Vatican officials have more authority to speak on matters which are their specialty.”
Yes, and the Pontifical Council on Culture has as its specialty is not film or book reviews, but rather, in a theological sense, how the Church interacts with culture, the various cultures of the world, and to study indifference in religion. The mandate of this council is to promote cooperation and understanding between those who are not believers but who are open to engagement with the Church. It isn't to determine the moral acceptability of individual works of literature.
Even so, you're elevating spontaneous remarks made by a priest in an interview to the level of authoritative teaching.
“Are you saying that Father Pfleger has just as much authority to speak on Catholicism as a Vatican official?”
When Fr. Pfleger isn't flogging heresy, when he is offering his prudential judgment (and that's all we're talking about here - prudential judgment of different priests), an appeal to authority isn't the appropriate response. Rather, an appeal to reason, to objective teaching, to rational argument. The problem with Fr. Pfleger isn't that he isn't an authority, but rather that he is disobedient to his bishop and that much of the stuff he says is lunatic, evil, or even against the authoritative teachings of the Church.
“It’s a very slippery slope.”
Only when one has greased the soles and heels of one’s shoes.
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I’m unfamiliar with Rice Milk. Boil some rice?I do not know how it gets in the container at the health food store. I think it's "magic."
Have you ever soaked the almonds first?
I often soak raw almonds overnight just to eat ‘em soaked. They taste almost like fresh coconut. I bet they’d blend easier. Come to think of it, decades ago I used to soak almonds and sunflower seeds and blend the next morning (no straining) add sweetener and a banana and drink it for breakfast. It was good!
It sounds like a lot of protein! I’m not that fond of almonds, but I bought a package of Slivered to make a Weight Watchers substitute for green bean casserole for Thanksgiving. Otherwise we’d have no green vegetables at all, only starch!
I know they sell rice milk and almond milk at our health food store. I need to go there for fresh-ground peanuts; I’m spending way too much on Smucker’s All Natural Chunky at Walmart. My husband and sons go through pounds of it!
That sounds perfect for Pat, the boy we can’t get enough calories down. Get those natural fats and oils in! I’ll bet it would go down with vanilla extract, too.
Yes, we usually soak. If there’s not much time, though, we’ll just go ahead and put our blender blades to the test. Your almond/sunflower mix sounds pretty good. You probably have a better blender than we have; I didn’t care too much for the mixture without it being strained first. We take the pulp, put it in the refrigerator overnight in an open container, so the moisture evaporates out somewhat, and then we put it in the oven (very low temperature) for a few hours, and it makes a nice crunchy addition (like croutons, bacon bits) to salads, sweet potatoes, etc.
Sort of like a granola cereal I’ve made, although I didn’t soak or blend first. Maybe that would make it stick together, which was always a problem.
Fresh ground peanut butter is so good. Does your family like it as much as Smucker’s?
Online rpg’s might not be so bad, much better than pac-man or whatever. In my opinion.
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“HEY!! Don’t bash 80s pop!!”
It is of the debbil. Whenever a kajagoogoo song is enjoyed by someone the Enemy smiles.
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They all like it better. It just takes a special trip to get it, so I often don’t. If I were cooking more with whole grains, I’d be at the store to get the ground peanuts anyway ...
I knew a family who had bought a grinder that handled peanuts on eBay or at a surplus sale. We could really use it!
Pac-Man seems to be preinstalled on operating systems now. My 8-year-old has been talking about it. NAAAAAAAARGH I wish we could move to Missouri and live in the 1940s. My cousins would let us use the house (which my parents sold them) as long as we camped out during deer, dove, turkey, and duck season!
Placemark.
Oh, this was decades ago. I might try it again, though. Sounds good with a bit of almond flavoring, and using the bits after is useful too. I hate to throw anything away. Strained bits would be good toasted into home made granola, which I’ve been thinking of making again.
Years ago I used to have a *very* natural cookbook called “Ten Talents” by a Seventh Day Adventist. They had a lot of granola recipes and used flour in them, I think it helps make the granola stick together in chunks better.
When my kids were small, I’d make banana and powdered milk smoothies (often too poor for fresh milk) and add some vanilla and a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter. They loved ‘em!
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