Blitz Post #2

[altarflame]

There is a lot of very compelling ecumenism in my religion class - which I raved about here - that makes me think. One Saturday was all about "health and spirituality", citing studies that show things like open heart surgery patients being three times more likely to survive if they depend on a (any) religion, and the increased immune function of people who attend (any) religious services weekly. The lists of pros to being spiritual even in a philosophical (Buddhist, for instance) or solitary (meditation and feng shui) way is extremely long, and significant to (at least what I see as) quality of life - decreased stress, sense of connectedness, supportive community, meaning in loss, and a bunch of other things I can't remember right now.

We watched Baraka, and I was genuinely shocked to find we were looking at the inside of a Sufi (mysticism of Islam) temple in the middle east, because I had been sure it was Orthodox (mysticism of) Christianity - the priests dress the same, with the same hair and beards, and carry the same swinging incense past candles and everyone is kissing things and they have something locked up front that looks just like a tabernacle.

I sometimes find all this not in conflict with Christianity and very comforting overall; other times it seems to speak to a larger truth I can't quite put my finger on, but have been pondering over for years. Then it all blurs.

I'm sitting here staring at the word "larger" in the last paragraph.

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(Sorry for the weird angles in a couple of these)

The mushroom soup I mentioned last night, full of spring onions and garlic and chicken and beef broths...I puree some of it and add it back in at the end. Yum.


We went over to Kristin's for the afternoon/evening last Saturday. Grant was working on her chicken coop and she made awesomely delicious spring rolls for us.

Chopped veggies.


Plus sprouts and boiled up rice noodles and a pack of spinach just out of the shot.


Kristin wrapping, Aaron and Oliver soaking more rice paper wrappers.






It's hard to be patient, especially when the cooks are taking their sweet time chatting and changing the music and feeding things to the bird.


She crushed a bunch of garlic and ginger into some soy sauce, too, and got out some rooster sauce. Kristin's big on presentation, there is lots more sauce out of the shot.

Mmm, pocky.



Kids love them!


Especially with fancy little glasses of pink tea.



More to come...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

more like islam and christianity stemmed from judaism. either that or moses surely gets around, that tart. no one corrupted anyone lol sorry but this just proved that most faith based persons dont know the religions they follow.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I don't know how other people view comment threads, but when I see one person with a name and an identity and a relationship to the original poster speaking honestly, choosing words carefully, knowing it's a public journal, and some anonymous people coming in and insulting that person (most likely knowing about the relationship between the poster and commenter) and being all "no caps lol", it's very obvious who the ignorant person is. Hint: they're also the coward, and the asshole in the conversation.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

Did I not just say that Islam was influenced by Judaism? I would readily agree as well that Christianity is not only heavily influenced by Judiasm, but is the child of Judaism. It is not an accident that Orthodox worship looks hauntingly like Jewish Temple worship as it is described in ancient texts. It is pointless to argue about who knows more about the religions of the world. I was sharing from my belief system, not intending to give a dissertation about world religions.