I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Alexandria, that rule truly IS oppressive! Just asked my husband and he didn't know about that restriction either. I never took to most traditional Jewish foods, especially the gefelte fish (YUK). I do like the matza balls and latkes, especially with sour cream. Um, um good!

This lady is 100 years old and is as bright as those shiny things in the sky.

http://www.lolbucket.com/video/KN5K8Y4S1AMA/100-year-old-Idaho-woman-on-Jay-Leno-show

I may take up the harmonica.

Taking off for a few hours.  Catch you all later!

I have it on good authority that carnivores exist on this thread.  I love mushrooms, green peppers and onions on the grill ... but there is going to be a steak or chicken breast right there keeping them company.

I suspect that there were originally health reasons behind a lot of the old dietary laws.  Pork for example was not safe to eat and the religious leaders helped to prevent people from eating it anyway and getting sick by calling it unclean and forbidding it.*

None of my dogs will eat raw veggies at all.  A carrot gets spit halfway across the room and I get a WTH was that look. 

Wish I thought cucumbers would survive a trip in the mail ... I'd be boxing them up today.  I did mail tomatoes to my sister in CA and step-daughter in FL one year.  Took ice packs and priority mail but most of them survived the trips.

*what Linda said while I was typing ... LOL        

Oh good Lord Bluester............you COOKED the bone and marrow.............

 you never give dogs cooked bones..........

 (just want to make sure that your newbies have the FULL story)..........

 you ladies have a wonderful day.........

shokker

Good morning!  I am just dropping by to say hi before I go back to my oars on the slave boat I am working on this week.

So much for my bonding time with my husband while monsters at camp as I have worked late every night this week. Then again, we did bond watching one of those radical PBS shows about physics and the universe (geeks should only marry other geeks!).  I never studied physics.  I have always been a math weenies.  But with this whole higgs particle stuff, I am thinking I should stretch my brain and try.  Who knows maybe I will be able to make new neural pathways to save myself from craziness in my old age!

What I got out of it--space is not empty. . . .space is full of stuff.  Not just the space out around the earth but all the space. . .even the space between my fingers and the keyboard.  And it bends. . . And the universe is still expanding. . . .Of course this makes my tiny head just spin and spin and spin...

My dear Gardengumby, hope springs eternal!  up here on the 28th floor I can see lots of blue sky.  As soon as the fog bank rolls back to the Olympics, you wil be seeing it too.

We are engaging in a vegetarian experiment in our house.  Oldest has issues with eatting animals--has always been a sensitive sort so I'm not really surprised.   So we are doing a one month gig as vegetarians --- all of us even the highly carnivorous siblings.  I am four days in and doing fine.  DH blew it the first day with two burgers on our road trip.

I decided for myself some years back --having done a year or two of veggie ness in my college days--that I was okay being a human who eats meat but what I was not okay with was the whole torture of animals on their way to being meat.  So I stopped purchasing mass produced factory farmed meat & eggs and turned to my local farmers.  yes I am one of those wacky persons who knows exactly what the Thanksgiving turkey looked like before it hit the table. 

as for housepets and raw meat, our one cat can smell raw meat and comes shooting down the stairs to beg whenever I am cooking something.  I have taken to giving her some and she is happy as a clam.  I figure those pointy teeth in her little head mean she is not supposed to be just eatting cat chow.

But what she really wants is for me to let her out on the roof so she can go help herself to the baby barn swallows nesting in the eaves of the house!

back to my labors!  hugs to all! 

Religious dietary rules are not about self-control exactly, but it is about discipline, in the sense of religious discipline. If you keep food rules for religious reasons, it means that you will keep your religion in mind as part of your daily life.



Blue, zucchini flower fritters are the best. Sometimes cancer is a wonderful thing. Last month we visited some friends, and the grandma had made zucchini flower fritters, a huge bowl of them. I ate almost the whole bowl by myself, cheered on by everyone, because I need my strength after all.

Waving at shokk - you have an English sense of humor - I like that.
 

Having a frustrating time with a research database - keeps timing out on me every time I try to customize something...grrrr.

Gardengumby, I think it's the cumulative effect of the animals' flatulance plus all the man-made pollutants. When it was just critters doing their thing, our climate wasn't in trouble. Reminds me of that meme, don't mess with Mother Nature.

Blue, when you mentioned zucchini fritters a few days ago, I found a receipe in the New York Times. Great minds!

Jews and Muslims have a lot of religious rules, but the monks and nuns of Buddhism have them all beat even though the rules only apply to the ordained.  The rules are actually called the Discipline, Vinaya.

There are 227 rules for monks and over 300 for nuns.

Discipline is for the sake of restraint,
restraint for the sake of freedom from remorse,
freedom from remorse for the sake of joy,... http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/ariyesako/layguide.html

gardengumby I will happily take your zucchini!  I like zucchini, especially zucchini pancakes (like latkes but substitute zucchini for the potato).  But blue is right--you can take the flowers and fry them and them fewer zucchini.  Stuff with a bit of ricotta and chopped herbs. . . .

I am down closer to the water overlooking pioneer square, the harbor and today, Mt. Rainier!  I confess, I truly love my view of the mt.  Puts so much in perspective.

There are definitely LOTS of rules in the Buddhist tradition.  Someone told me the reason for more rules for nuns than monks but I can't remember it.  But the other two--Judaism and Islam-- have ample rules for living too.  I used to know lots of them --I found them interesting like the part about only eatting fish with scales (so no swordfish for you if you are orthodox) or having more than one wife--not just how it came about but what to do once you did it.  For example, you can't have more than one wife if you can't treat them absolutely equal.  So bring back a gold bracelet for one, bring back equal gold bracelets for all.  Equal housing and even equal amounts of sex!  All of which goes to show that rules are created but most people don't really seem to adhere to them.

there really were 10 "commandments" that were given to Moses - in addition to those there are a host of other rules, including dietary.  I'm not Jewish, but the religion I was raised in was heavily into the old testament.