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This one was an impromptu effort that turned out to be popular with my vegetarian guests. Sorry if it is not more accurate, I am a chaot.

Not shepherds pie:

Cook blacklentils (I like them with rosemary and black cumin. If you use them, heat whetever fat you use, throw them in and add the lentils and water after they start smelling and before xsomething burns.)
Cook and mash potatoes. Add chili powder and parsley.
Grate zuchini and carrots and add them to the lentils.

Put the lentils in a deep pan, cover them with the mashed potatoes. You can finish with a thin layer of crumbled cheese. Cover them with foil and bake for about (Ok, 15 minutes in medium heat will suffice but it is a lot better if it stays in the oven for an hour in very low heat. It is more a matter

Serve with tomato sauce with garlic and green olives or capers.

Incidentaly, it would appear that tireless scientists are working their asses off to make flying safer...
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14013-inflight-surveillance-could-foil-terrorists-in-the-sky.html?feedId=online-news_rss20


I must learn to keep my face under control. Dito any urges that will me get close to the cockpit.

And there has never been such a thing as a synod. Or a synod that was later revoked, or whatever the correct theological vocabulary is.

Amato said the church does not feel authorized to change the will of Christ,

This one will never cease to amuse me.

I suspect that I should consider myself happy that I saw it while at work where I could not hear it.

You are really talking about something like this?

And Hoopla, thanks. It is really too vague. It started with an menacing undertone but I dropped that because it seemed to be too ...easy, somehow.

Its both observation and analysis and fine tuning the self. One cant go without the other. Manipulation would only come into it if you need to manipulate someone.

Agreed. But why would you want to be able to foresee a reaction before you communicate?

I have never thought about it that way. I should have thought that in order to anticipate the reaction of others you would have to study them closely instead of finetunig yourself.

Unless you are talking about manipulation, which of course is useful.

I actually had to use that allegory to explain to one of my retarded friends that he was indeed a part of the silent majority. It took almost an hour and was the funniest discussion I've had in a long time.

Amazing as your text is I cannot help thinking that your retards are more intelligent than mine.

time travel is irrelevant. what you're really looking for is tourism/escapism. this is why somebody needs to build an industry based on Anton LaVey's "Total Communities" - where entire towns are constructed, for people to live in permanently, which recreate in every detail other worlds or times. We could build a medieval township where people must live as if it is the year 1153 AD, or a Classical Roman township, or whatever else. That way you get a taste of life in the past without the trouble of going there.

I'd rather just wait a few years for full immersion virtual reality.

That is obvious.

Isn't it, for a shirt dress?

Whip or no whip?

What you call a mind is a capacity you know little about. However, you might know by now that it is a collective, a tribe. That cannot be governed. We are the test of your belief in freedom.

You could say that I collect debris although I would not call it that. To me what I collect is precious. Is what you disregard, knowingly and not.

Part of that are your implications. What is it that you'd rather hint at subtly, why do you prefer not to outright say something. Which are the implication that make you not talk about something at all?

You believe you know those reasons? Good for you. Do you want to compare your findings with mine? Would you want me to tell you how accurate, how truthful you are with yourself?

What really interests me however is what you leave out completely. What you say about every topic that you choose to talk about is but a fragment of a larger context. I know that, living in time as you do, you have to choose something. Still: Why did you pick the fragment you picked and not an entirely different one? Not the almost identical next one? Why did you pick it now, and since we are at it, how did you pick it? Circumstances and personality, you say? Well, of course. Why do you think do I care?

No matter what tone you will pick for talking, I will love listening to it. I will be listening to it closely. You see, I for one believe in your freedom of choice and why you choose what you choose is what I will be ascertaining from the scraps you dropped.

But, you might ask, do I understand what I collect?
I do not know. If there is such a thing as "understanding". But rest assured that an opinion I do have and that the others to whom I will pass my findings will listen to it. This they will then evaluate and they may even be. Understanding.

Personally, I neither know nor care. I just collect. And on the canvas you choose and with the brushes you pick I will paint what you actually say and do. A picture for the tribe of me to look at and decide.

Finished rereading Half asleep in Frog Pajamas.

I haven't read the Invisibles but Castaneda is funny and occasionally inspiring. And I should like that PM, too.