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Your objection seems more pointedly towards theocracy than a literalist fundamentalism. You don't need to counter the religious efforts at political c...

Nestle's is Swiss, like cheese. They did that so this cheese/chocolate conversation would work. Coinkeedink? I think not.

They standardized and mechanized their production in the 1960s. You ain't that old. https://www.insider.com/history-krispy-kreme-doughnuts-iconic-glaz...

You're more a Dunkin guy it sounds like.

My apologies to me lady. Musta been someone else's stench.

The portions are too small.

You're from York?

I knew a guy named Colby. I'll ask him if I see him.

I remember back about 10 years ago there was this really swampy musky smell everywhere I went. That might have been when your sister was here. Check. ...

Well lookee here: https://www.greedygourmet.com/ingredients/velveeta-substitutes/#:~:text=Colby%20Cheese&text=It%20has%20a%20very%20mild,of%20Velveeta...

I was in line at Kroger and I realized I needed some cheese and the guy in front of me hadn't yet paid, so I ran to the cheese aisle to grab me some c...

Still laughing over my last post. :rofl:

I feel like the word "coleslaw" is a euphamism in this sentence, but I could be misreading.

But this just again misses the point. It's not that I'm evasive at all. You're just not following the argument or you're choosing not to. If I were to...

Yeah, but a rain soaked e-book is toast. My son dropped his phone in some water and heard that if you put it in a bag of rice it would dry it out. It ...

Along those lines, generally the interpretation of a poem isn't accomplished by cross examining the poet. That would imply the poem is a puzzle with a...

So, the Jews fled Pharaoh and on their way to the promised land were attacked unprovoked by the Amelek, and so the commandment was made that every Ama...

The William James twist on Pascal's wager I thought interesting. One needn't think of the safety from eternal damnation as the basis for belief, but o...

The ole theodicy problem.

I thought brining was just throwing something in salt water, like a turkey on Thanksgiving. I also think salt is like ketchup in that it's rude to add...

If defer to rabbinic interpretation as much as you'd defer to a literary critic.

I didn't defer to an interpreter.

Pay attention or leave the conversation. This entire conversation revolves around my position that the literal truth is irrelevant and the historicity...

I'm not sure what you're suggesting you're summarizing, my view or a simplified view of Orthodoxy? It sounds like neither.

I think Frankl and Weisel speak to that. I defer to those who bore witness.

So the story goes, at Mt. Sinai, not only was the written law handed down (the Torah, meaning the five books of Moses), but also the oral law, which w...

Since the value of the work of fiction is in its interpretation in terms of what it evokes from the reader and not as much in the literalism of the te...

The baked beans make me question not only the British breakfast enterprise, but the entire British empire.

Certainly the owner has the right to do as he wishes, but creating a condition that will limit sales with no financial advantage to the seller might r...

That's a violation not only if etiquette but of the law of all you can eat places. They weigh the leftovers and charge you for it. Mustard goes on sau...

My American restaurant is going to shut down your Marxist restaurant and I'm going to season my food with your tears. They put a stack of plates at yo...

I think your response to your own question was correct because your question implied a scientific response only to someone so programmed to look for o...

I don't see that so often, and that could be either I don't eat at fancy enough restaurants or I'm in the US where the customer is always right, meani...

And an offshoot of theism, which is that there is an intentional creator, is that the non-fiction is as much a creation as the human fiction, allowing...

The point is often missed that fiction and truth are not opposites. The point of most fiction, or at least the well written sort, is that it contains ...

My best guess from extensive research is what got lost in translation is this pepper infused vodka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horilka. Peppercorn...

I looked for a recipe for this, but my Google search only located me various sandwich shops in Odessa, Texas. Is the cheese a soft goat cheese? If it ...

More from my peeps: https://youtu.be/8LFaCov_63s

I didn't know someone could sing such a rousing rendition of simon tov. It depends upon how orthodox the synagogue is and whether it is on the sabbath...

5,000 years and we've finally gotten there!! This is cause for celebration!! https://fb.watch/kW4AJEk5Vd/

But who wouldn't be a hoper in your scenario? It would seem I could think the past has borne nothing of worth or value but stil hope tomorrow it will....

I'm in favor of whatever reason proposed for not trying to proselytize, so if that's another reason, then that's good by me. I've known people of all ...

Well, I'm speaking of emunah and bitachon of course (duh), and while there is merit to what you say regarding the fact that there can in fact be suffe...

Feel free to copy my lingo as you see fit. Next time things are completely chaotic and seem to make no sense, you can take great comfort in knowing th...

Yeah, well you know my views on this, which is radical optimism.

I think this is fair to an extent. I would just change the need to want, meaning I could live without religion. I just don't want to. Part of the assu...

“God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him! How shall we console our selves, the most murderous of all murderers? The holiest and the migh...

The reference was to Stalin, hoping to illustrate that these attempts are not benign. Yes, logic is just a shiney diversionary tactic. I'll try to avo...

Let's first focus on eliminating the ongoing repercussions of the last failed attempts before we start rolling out the next five year plan.

If you can't offer an example of an atheistic leader who is evil even in the hypothetical because definitionaly their exercise of power is "religious"...