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  1. Booko

    Should Restaurants Be Made To Provide Nutritional Facts?

    "Feel free to not give your business to those who will not provides a means for you to enter their premises if you are bound to a wheelchair, if you feel so inclined." That's the equivalent of what you're saying, and to millions of Americans, you do realize that yes? I daresay there are more...
  2. Booko

    Converting to another religion when marrying

    Good Heavens! They already knew I was a Baha'i and my husband Catholic. Oh sure, there are rules under canon law for situations like that. We had to apply for a dispensation with the local Archbishop. Apparently the fact I had been properly baptized with a formula acceptable to the Church...
  3. Booko

    Should Restaurants Be Made To Provide Nutritional Facts?

    Trust me, the waitstaff does not know anything about what they're serving. I was at a restaurant with a friend of mine who has gluten allergy and she asked if there was any wheat in the cornbread (well we figured "gluten" was too obscure) and the waitress came back and said "no, just flour."...
  4. Booko

    African American?

    It will stop on its own as our somewhat separated cultures get over our past. It did when the Irish and Italians became fully accepted as Americans, when Catholics became accepted fully as Americans, and when that largely happens for those of African descent, and they really *are* viewed as...
  5. Booko

    No Adam = no Original Sin - right?

    Yeah, I was not being very exact there. But 99.44% of the time when I read someone referring to "original sin" they're talking about St. Augustine's idea of it, not the idea that we are born into a fallen world or being implicated. I haven't seen you around in forever, Scott. I hope you've...
  6. Booko

    Should Restaurants Be Made To Provide Nutritional Facts?

    Am I psychic that I should know whether they use xantham gum in the salad dressing? They don't know what they're feeding you? They should, because they will be responsible if something happens and they've been negligent. Why should restaurant food be exempt from the same sort labeling other...
  7. Booko

    Should Restaurants Be Made To Provide Nutritional Facts?

    Affirmative argument: Since some people might be made seriously ill or even killed by consuming certain ingredients, yes.
  8. Booko

    No Adam = no Original Sin - right?

    Nice thought, but not even remotely historical. Look up Bishop Iraneus and Augustine of Hippo sometime. As for original sin, I was hoping someone who was a member of the Orthodox Christian Church would pop into this thread, but they don't do original sin and never have. It's a strictly...
  9. Booko

    Converting to another religion when marrying

    Yes, and your Church also asks a lot of questions during a rather long process to any couple that wishes to get married, which I found a very fruitful experience. Divorce is very much discouraged in your Church, but you do your best up front to avoid people marrying for the wrong reasons. I...
  10. Booko

    Will the USA be remembered as the nation that put its food into its gas tank?

    There is still the issue of deforestation going on in Brazil to make way for cropland for biofuels. And more important, but hardly ever mentioned, is that biofuels are not exactly renewable, because you can't make them without topsoil, and topsoil is not a renewable as one might think. I don't...
  11. Booko

    Word Association:

    sushi
  12. Booko

    What other forums do you frequent regularly?

    Any time! Was there anything of particular interest you were looking for? I'm always looking for forums about old-fashioned cooking, healthful homemade products and cleaners, canning, baking, home remedies, "alternative" medicine, that sort of thing. I have a list of other forums I scan...
  13. Booko

    Baha'ism compared to Islam?

    :thud: I knew there was something off when I typed that, but then the pasta was boiling over. That's what I get for multitasking!
  14. Booko

    Can you remember Satan's first visits??

    Meh...when you have grey or white hairs and they're not all on your head, you are *really* outdated...:eek: I don't wait for invitations! I throw my own. All you have to do is offer free food. If you feed them they will come. ;) And Windows 2000 and Vista, most certainly.
  15. Booko

    Word Association:

    kebab!
  16. Booko

    African American?

    Did I miss a post where someone accused you have having something to do with it or where someone suggested you owed someone something?
  17. Booko

    African American?

    Try "human." It's the only meaningful descriptor anyway, and while we're not there yet, eventually humanity will figure out as much. In a more humourous vein, I have a friend who describes himself as "Heinz 57". Also one of the best pieces I ever read on the futility of definitions of races...
  18. Booko

    African American?

    I dunno, why do you assume I meant "every" when I did not say so and how is it you did not recognize the snippet of mine that you quoted as the generalization it obviously was? Are we going to have some sort of meaningful dialogue on this subject or just twiddle with insignificant twaddle?
  19. Booko

    African American?

    Oh, much worse, FVM. Your collective identity was defined by another group...one which had defined your group as non-human at one point in order to justify their horrific actions.
  20. Booko

    African American?

    It depends on whether you're discussing pigment (matter) or light (energy). Pigment: white reflects all colors thus has "no" color. Light: white light is the presence of all colors (think of how prisms break out the frequencies into separate bits) Here endeth the (Physics) lesson. ;)
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