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Vegans & Vegetarian Sharing

  • Posted on October 18, 2011 at 7:52 am
I have been a "flexitarian" for a long time, eating meat and eggs only rarely but after seeing the improvement in my cholesterol (320 to 192 in two months), blood pressure and weight when I reduced my consumption of animal products to a bare minimum, have moved to a fully plant-based (aka vegan) diet.
[LIST][*]If you have a recipe that is animal-free or could be converted easily, let's see

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Vegans & Vegetarians Sharing

  • Posted on October 18, 2011 at 7:52 am
I have been a "flexitarian" for a long time, eating meat and eggs only rarely but after seeing the improvement in my cholesterol (320 to 192 in two months), blood pressure and weight when I reduced my consumption of animal products to a bare minimum, have moved to a fully plant-based (aka vegan) diet.
[LIST][*]If you have a recipe that is animal-free or could be converted easily, let's see

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Home economics and useful tricks

  • Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:59 am
The idea of this thread is to share ideas to make life simpler.

Preserving Eggs.
1 -If you get a lot of eggs open them and beat them, adding a bit of salt or sugar (don't overdo it). Place the mix on one of those ice cube trays. The eggs will be preserved for up to 6 months that way. To use them , just remove them from the tray, defrost and cook.
2 -Boil the eggs and put them inside lard or vegetable oil (still with the shells). Make sure that there is no air inside the oil or lard, and that the eggs are well covered.
3 - That was a total surprise to me . Pickled eggs. Hard boil them, remove the shell and place them inside a solution of water, vinegar, salt and spices.

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Raising Children in Alternative Religions

  • Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:26 pm
So me and the wife are thinking about raising our child Buddhist. It's the religion we feel is the last offensive, while also being the closest among major religions to my genuine feelings. My wife is an atheist. Neither of us, of course, were raised Buddhist. Of course we intend to be completely honest about our beliefs with the children, but when it comes to crises and we need to turn to a big fellow in the sky to provide support and narrative for our children, we're going to go with the Buddha.

Have any of you had experience raising children in a belief system other than the one you were raised with? I imagine most of you that have children have. I'm not really looking for "tips" I guess, just sharing and stories.

Oh, BTW, I'm having a baby. We just entered the second trimester, due date is July 14, two days after my sister's birthday and one day before my best friend has his first child. We don't know if it will be a girl or a boy yet, but I'm hoping for a girl. Girls give their fathers hugs for a longer period of time.

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Raising Children in Alternative Religions

  • Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:26 pm
So me and the wife are thinking about raising our child Buddhist. It's the religion we feel is the last offensive, while also being the closest among major religions to my genuine feelings. My wife is an atheist. Neither of us, of course, were raised Buddhist. Of course we intend to be completely honest about our beliefs with the children, but when it comes to crises and we need to turn to a big fellow in the sky to provide support and narrative for our children, we're going to go with the Buddha.

Have any of you had experience raising children in a belief system other than the one you were raised with? I imagine most of you that have children have. I'm not really looking for "tips" I guess, just sharing and stories.

Oh, BTW, I'm having a baby. We just entered the second trimester, due date is July 14, two days after my sister's birthday and one day before my best friend has his first child. We don't know if it will be a girl or a boy yet, but I'm hoping for a girl. Girls give their fathers hugs for a longer period of time.

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Raising Children in Alternative Religions

  • Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:26 pm
So me and the wife are thinking about raising our child Buddhist. It's the religion we feel is the least offensive, while also being the closest among major religions to my genuine feelings. My wife is an atheist. Neither of us, of course, were raised Buddhist. Of course we intend to be completely honest about our beliefs with the children, but when it comes to crises and we need to turn to a big fellow in the sky to provide support and narrative for our children, we're going to go with the Buddha.

Have any of you had experience raising children in a belief system other than the one you were raised with? I imagine most of you that have children have. I'm not really looking for "tips" I guess, just sharing and stories.

Oh, BTW, I'm having a baby. We just entered the second trimester, due date is July 14, two days after my sister's birthday and one day before my best friend has his first child. We don't know if it will be a girl or a boy yet, but I'm hoping for a girl. Girls give their fathers hugs for a longer period of time.

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Raising Children in Alternative Religions

  • Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:26 pm
So me and the wife are thinking about raising our child Buddhist. It's the religion we feel is the last offensive, while also being the closest among major religions to my genuine feelings. My wife is an atheist. Neither of us, of course, were raised Buddhist. Of course we intend to be completely honest about our beliefs with the children, but when it comes to crises and we need to turn to a big fellow in the sky to provide support and narrative for our children, we're going to go with the Buddha.

Have any of you had experience raising children in a belief system other than the one you were raised with? I imagine most of you that have children have. I'm not really looking for "tips" I guess, just sharing and stories.

Oh, BTW, I'm having a baby. We just entered the second trimester, due date is July 14, two days after my sister's birthday and one day before my best friend has his first child. We don't know if it will be a girl or a boy yet, but I'm hoping for a girl. Girls give their fathers hugs for a longer period of time.

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Raising Children in Alternative Religions

  • Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:26 pm
So me and the wife are thinking about raising our child Buddhist. It's the religion we feel is the last offensive, while also being the closest among major religions to my genuine feelings. My wife is an atheist. Neither of us, of course, were raised Buddhist. Of course we intend to be completely honest about our beliefs with the children, but when it comes to crises and we need to turn to a big fellow in the sky to provide support and narrative for our children, we're going to go with the Buddha.

Have any of you had experience raising children in a belief system other than the one you were raised with? I imagine most of you that have children have. I'm not really looking for "tips" I guess, just sharing and stories.

Oh, BTW, I'm having a baby. We just entered the second trimester, due date is July 14, two days after my sister's birthday and one day before my best friend has his first child. We don't know if it will be a girl or a boy yet, but I'm hoping for a girl. Girls give their fathers hugs for a longer period of time.

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Raising Children in Alternative Religions

  • Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:26 pm
So me and the wife are thinking about raising our child Buddhist. It's the religion we feel is the last offensive, while also being the closest among major religions to my genuine feelings. My wife is an atheist. Neither of us, of course, were raised Buddhist. Of course we intend to be completely honest about our beliefs with the children, but when it comes to crises and we need to turn to a big fellow in the sky to provide support and narrative for our children, we're going to go with the Buddha.

Have any of you had experience raising children in a belief system other than the one you were raised with? I imagine most of you that have children have. I'm not really looking for "tips" I guess, just sharing and stories.

Oh, BTW, I'm having a baby. We just entered the second trimester, due date is July 14, two days after my sister's birthday and one day before my best friend has his first child. We don't know if it will be a girl or a boy yet, but I'm hoping for a girl. Girls give their fathers hugs for a longer period of time.

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[Article] Juliette of the Herbs

  • Posted on December 6, 2010 at 8:33 am
Juliette of the Herbs

By Renée A.D.

And as this year winds down, I find myself spending more time inside making dinners with friends, sipping cordials and (of course) watching movies. One that I’ve recently (and finally!) seen is Juliette of the Herbs. It’s a movie about Juliette de Bairacli Levy, the Gypsy herbalist of Europe and pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine.

Read More Here...

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Cavalier’s Guide to being Aladdin: A Cheap-O Oil Lamp

  • Posted on October 16, 2010 at 4:59 am
What you will need:

1x standard paper clip.

1x metal, ceramic, or other non-flammable, non-metal cup, saucer.

About a teaspoon to a tablespoon worth of olive oil of whatever grade.

1x cotton ball

1x length of string.

1x A lighter, match, or other suitable ignition source.

Instructions:

1. Bend the paper clip so that it has both a wide best to rest upon and that one part of it is raised about a quarter to half an inch higher than the base. Straighten out one curve so there is a nice surface running parrallel to the base on the raised portion.

2. Twine the small length of string around the paper clip's raised part and down around the base. Allow extra to soak into the oil. This doesn't have to be too tight and indeed is probably not that necessary if you use a cotton ball.

3. Place the cotton ball on the pointy end of the raised section. Press the raised section down so that the bottom half of the cotton ball will be submerged into the oil once poured.

4. Pour said oil. If you are using a lot, first pour some water and then gently layer that with a layer of oil. This is so that if the lamp turns over it will self-extinguish and save you from what could be a very serious fire.

5. Allow the string and cotton ball to soak in the olive oil for five minutes.

6. Light the cottom ball with the source of ignition. If done properly, the ball will catch fire and draw up the oil into it to replenish it until the oil is exhausted. There ought to be very little smoke and very little smell.

Tada! You have made an oil lamp. Now if only you had a genie...

Word of caution: Don't place your oil lamp on a wooden surface if there is any sort of residue at all. The metal lamp base must have had something black on the bottom as it lead to said black residue scorching the wooden surface. I had to buff it out with sand paper.

Also, you should have about half an hour of burning with a teaspoon of oil. This is quite nice, says I!

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Occultist Money Making

  • Posted on September 3, 2010 at 1:42 am
We all know much too well how badly wage labor suits the average occultist (or the average human). We all dream of finding ways to get around it, but few of us it seems have actually made it out of the workaday world. I for one am sick of it.

Who has an idea for getting out of having to work? I have a few, let's see what you think.

1. Start cults. Preferably more than one, play them off each other and always make sure your cultists are paying in to the church's coffers. Of course you would be known to the cult(s) by a pseudonym so they can't discover that you run more than one "True Religion."

2. Offer cult deprogramming. specialize of course in deprogramming members of your own cult (and steering them towards your other cults!). Again, pseudonymously.

3. Tarot card readings and other divinations?

4. Spells for hire?

Those last two seem like an already bloated market that would be hard to get into.

Who has a better idea?

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Grasshoppers!

  • Posted on July 20, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Grasshoppers are INSANE this year in South Dakota, at least in the Pierre area. They've eaten my entire garden. They ate all my lettuce (except the little stalks, so it looks like some kind of alien plant in my gaden) and the tassels off my corn. My strawberries are gone and the carrots have no tops anymore. They're really making me question my devotion to organic gardening. What can I do about them? Does anyone know a good organic way to repel grasshoppers? I can't just kill them because there's millions roaming the area. If I kill every grasshopper that's in my garden today, it'll be full tomorrow of the grasshoppers that were in my neighbor's yard, or a few blocks away. I'm seriously hating grasshoppers right now.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

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New friends

  • Posted on July 14, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Firslty I know this all may make me sound like a prude, well I guess I plead guilty on all counts. I can't change who I am inside, nor do I have any desire too, I simply intend to live my life how I see fit and with whom I choose.

That being said this whole post is but a humble plead for help, I am at my wits end, and am on my knees begging for help here, please any advice for a troubled soul.

So I have recently cut myself off from my old social circle, ironically enough it was I that spearheaded the social networking -and I mean in person I don't use web based social networking- that brought together the two social circles into one much larger one. Ironically aswell I left my friends shortly before a party I was planning with two friends who I am still friends with. The party is tomorrow.

Anyhow I have exited that social circle as it is a cesspool of promiscuity, and only one other person in the circle has interest in the occult and I no longer associate with them as they are part of the cesspool, and her actions are causing pain to a friend of mine as she is sleeping with my friends boyfriend.

I fell like a foreigner and an alien, not because I am not accepted socially, as that is not the case, I am accepted, but I cannot relate to people who are not occultists, I am fairly good at socializing, but I feel no real connection to mundane oriented people. I literally feel like I walk amongst people of half my spiritual prowess, like I am literally an alien soul from a distant place of a metaphysically empowered race and I walk amongst feeble fools, that cannot see the forest before the trees.

I have for over a year longed too associate nearly exclusively with dedicated and passionate occultists.
I simply do not know how and where to find these people, in my area that is.
I just want to find my people and live up too my potential, my relationship with society at large is holding me back.
I am not saying I believe I am an alien that is just what it feels like, and powerfully feels like.

I currently live in the midwest of the USA, but I am more than willing to relocate to where the grass is greener so to speak.
This city has been dubbed std capitol of the region, which is directly reflective of the dominant promiscuous trend here, this place is a cesspool.

So if anyone would be willing to point me in the right direction, I am looking for a city that has a strong social scene of occultists and where monogamy is predominate in that scene, I love Hermetic Kabbalah, the Golden Dawn system, and love the Book of Thoth tarot deck, so I have considered moving somewhere with an OTO lodge, but I have heard that OTO is known for it's debauchery, and assume that the lodges are run amuck with promiscuity, is this a false assumption?

I do not know of any occult orders in my area, which naturally would lead to meeting people, I have looked on the net and found none to exist in these parts but a few wiccan covens and I am personally(no offense meant) not compatible with wicca, or at least the wiccan philosophy these particular covens espouse, but may just join up anyway.


I just want to make it clear that I am not a bigot, a racist or a homophobe,
I just vomit inside over the lack of reverence for love and partnership.
In my book romantic love is 2 people, no more, no less, maybe both are women, maybe both are men, maybe 1 is a man and 1 is a women, whatever.
I was just a groomsmen in a mixed race wedding I assure you I am no bigot.
I am pro love, anti promiscuity. I am a conscientious objector to the war on true love I witness all around me, I see the fall out every where.

Sorry for the rant. I just disassociated myself from dozens of friends over this so please bear with me.

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[Video] Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government & True Independence

  • Posted on July 10, 2010 at 7:46 am
BORKED

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