ML: Try these while you wait out the remaining years. Guaranteed not to taste like chicken!          

Chocolate Chirpie Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1 12-ounce chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 1/2 cup dry-roasted crickets

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour mixture and insects, mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood.html
 

beetree, you just deem something as you see it and then go smugly about your business.  You state nothing, like I've said before, yet you proclaim a victory of some sort, while using derision as your favored tool.  You never come out and say what's on your mind, you bait and run.

Just a footnote here, but relevant.  You want people to open your link?  Really?

There is no derision, Travels, sorry if you take it that way. I call it supreme confidence.

I have actually stated exactly what I have wanted to do and did exactly that. I have also addressed your accusation that I never "say what is on my mind". It really would help if people pay a bit more attention! I know you are sick, so I really don't want to get on you about that, it just doesn't seem fair to me!

This is where I stated what I wanted to do:

• I think that the Word of God is a very interesting idea to discuss, actually. I would think it stimulating for the mind to discuss this with someone who is not interested in a personal attack as a way to bolster their own self confidence.
• Maybe now we can get some people who aren't too intimidated to play, in what really is a critique of the humans who wrote the Bible, using the bias of our very own aethists to create the boundary of acceptable discussion.
   

​This is where I stated exactly what was on my mind:

• The story exists. I am asking for a critique of what has already been put down on paper or parchment, or clay, or vellum.  Why do you think "The Word" of any individual is the way to convey utmost power and respect to a ruler? Plenty of creation myths rely on different devices to endow creation dieties their powers. I just took an educated guess for my purposes, and looked at the Babylonian one right off the bat, and found indeed; The tablets include the word of the ruler as being unchangeable and powerful as a cultural idea of that time. 

• I find that interesting and sensible. I do think it a clever device in different ways, too. One perhaps that those ancient authors could not perceive when the Bible was written. Those aspects are perhaps the more remarkable ones. 

• ... why or why not a word could have the same or more power as the Old Testament God, (should there be some kind of rapture moment). I think one has to talk about the significance of being physically present, when I am discussing hearing the spoken word. I think that is important to my point.​

• The point is, it can't be a fairy tale because the probability of value to make and use the eventual material that in real time, was used—could never be paper. Therefore, it makes the idea of a certain type of fiction that a fairy tale is generally and universally considered to represent, a poor choice to base an argument during the time when the first copies, ever, of the Bible were made.

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How someone just skips over such pointedness is a mystery to me!

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P.S: Opening links is always a choice. I don't take it personally if they remain unopened. I posted it to document the source, so I wouldn't be in violation of TOS
 
 

Bee, thanks for the receipe. You've proven you're a great cook in the past.

I'm kind of stuffed for time lately with all that is going on around here. But I do have one, and only one question.

Is the last ingredient in your receipe optional? That could be the turning point for me. LOL

I don't want to bowdlerize your receipe, however in order tp proceed propitiously I can only hope that leaving out that last ingredient is not ineluctable.

beetree, I'll take you all the way through my "religious" life, if you'd like.  From whence my values stemmed, to where my doubts began and finally, where I place religion, or the deeper question of a supreme being, in my life and how it affects what I do or don't do.  That is where my particular "worldview" resides, but I don't think that necessarily sharing it does anything but muddy the waters.  You are attempting to go all the way back to deepest question and discuss it philosophically, but it never ends that way.  That's why we fight wars and restrict rights, because people get pissed when another view makes sense to others.  It's not too deep to understand that it must remain in the philosophical realm, because it's opinion at the innermost depths of ourselves.  We should remain more on the surface and choose our own circles in our personal lives.  Your approach will solve nothing, beyond your own curiosity, which speaks more to your doubts than others'.  Read some philosophy books instead.

I'm feeling quite a bit better today, but I'm still sneezing.  Now comes that mountain of laundry that built up this past week and I also have to clean the aquarium filters 

 

That's why we fight wars and restrict rights, because people get pissed when another view makes sense to others. 

Easy to make, delicious to eat, extremely fattening by choice and still good lo-fat!

One of my favorite recipes:

Cherry Surprise!

2 eggs, beaten fluffy
2 C flour
2 C sugar
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 can tart cherries, packed in water

Mix dry ingredients and blend into beaten eggs (the batter, at this point will be lumpy and irregular, that's okay).  Add drained cherries* and mix until the cherries break apart and release their liquid.  Mix until smooth.  Pour into greased 9 x 13 glass baking dish and bake at 350 for 40-50 minutes or until center is springy to the touch.
Once cool, cut into squares and serve with sauce, as desired.
*Drain cherries, but do not squeeze dry

Sauce:
1/2 cup butter
1 C sugar
1/2 C evaporated whole milk or heavy cream (I use evaporated milk)
Combine ingredients in a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth.  Do not boil!

The cake is very lo-fat, the sauce isn't :)  You can drizzle it or soak it, your preference!  Easy to make and really yummy!

Travels! One can not get more controlling in thought than what you just did in your above post! That took some dinosaur sized external testicles that swing like cedars! OMG! You can be sure I won't be following any of it!

I would like to hear about this though, since you offered!  

I'll take you all the way through my "religious" life, if you'd like. 

Edited: The recipe however...looks yummy! 

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Did you get a flu shot earlier in the season? It took me forever it seemed to feel better. Careful not to over do it, though, and go in a relapse! 
 

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ML: I haven't actually eaten any insects... on purpose. I would have to be dumped in a remote area with no survival tools and hopefully some clothes on my back, and begin to feel the pangs of starvation before their appeal would begin to grow on me. 

Money! What another great topic, and paper money at that! How does it motivate the reason for the first book creations by man? How can it? Certainly not paper money!

 

The devil's in the details.