It's frustrating that I want to order Chinese food so I can have a non-meat dish to eat for lunch tomorrow. It's not like I'm a practicing Catholic anymore, but it's Lent and I'll feel guilty if I eat my pork chili.
Yes. And painful when you know the church finds you a degenerate sinner doomed to hell... and yet, you miss it and wish it weren't so closed-minded and slow-to-change. And you miss the community.
But by the time gays are welcomed, women are allowed to be priests and deacons and contraception is considered a good rather than an evil, me and mine will be dead 4,000 years.
Really, there was a perfectly nice fellow handing out flyers for a Baptist church when I passed through the subway station today, and for a moment I was tempted to talk to him. It would have gone something like this:
"If I wanted to go to church, there is a perfectly fine Catholic parish right across the street from me. And if I were going to go to a Protestant church, I'd be going Episcopalian because the last time I went to church I was at the cathedral downtown to hear a friend sing in the choir and they are sane and pretty and women-friendly and yet quite like Catholics, but I'm not that dedicated and anyway the compromises they just did to stay in the Anglican Communion disappointed me very much."
But that would be oversharing.
So, think I should order the seafood special anyway to avoid the guilt tomorrow?
Probably. I *still* feel guilty eating meat... and I still have a special dispensation because of my various health issues! *hangs head in abject shame*
Well, let's see if the place I ordered from is any good. It's going to take the last of my cash (I try not to have much beyond $20 in my wallet, unless I'm going to the farmer's market), and I'll be straight out of luck for lunch if it's not any good.
Depends on what you're used to, methinks. I grew up with canned tuna (hard to find any other kind of fish in Arizona, except nasty catfish and talapia). I don't like sushi. Fortunately, neither does my lifepartner. My brother, otoh, would eat it every day.
I grew up on it and hated it, but now I like it. :) Whereas I hated mustard and sour and now I love stone ground mustard and pickled beets and cabbage. Re: the food - how about a grilled cheeze with tomato? That's my favourite old Lenten standby.
For me to get good bread, means at least a two-bus trip. Neither grocery store in walking distance has good bread, though the stuff at Safeway I will at least eat up in a week.
I usually save me major grocery shopping for the weekend, when I can hit the farmer's markets and get good bread and in-season greens.
There is a Trader Joe's with good bread that I can get to if I change my bus home slightly, but since it is weak on produce, I only go there once every other month. It's actually easier to take the Metro on the weekends to the farmer's market or a Whole Foods downtown. I often stop at Whole Foods if I'm down in the city visiting friends, since there are at least two stores that are just off Metro stops.
You're near a few of my friends. :) In Maryland and DE to be specific. That's cool. We love Trader Joe's. We'd shop only at Whole Foods if we could afford it. Thank the deities-that-may-be for the local Farmer's Market. We even get honey at ours. Last go round, we got some truly scrummy chaparral honey. *slurp*
The way I understood it in Catholic school, the purpose of not eating meat was to feel for the poor who couldn't afford it and ate meatless meals most every day. But times have changed and these days in this country, even the poorest probably get meat fairly frequently. (And think about it-- Fish is often just as expensive, if not more so.)
Some people have taken the wrong message in regards to Lenten Fridays and started eating shrimp, lobster, and other expensive things in place of cheaper beef and chicken, turning the whole thing on its head.
Maybe focus on eating frugally and cheaply, instead of whether or not it contains non-fish animals.
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But by the time gays are welcomed, women are allowed to be priests and deacons and contraception is considered a good rather than an evil, me and mine will be dead 4,000 years.
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Really, there was a perfectly nice fellow handing out flyers for a Baptist church when I passed through the subway station today, and for a moment I was tempted to talk to him. It would have gone something like this:
"If I wanted to go to church, there is a perfectly fine Catholic parish right across the street from me. And if I were going to go to a Protestant church, I'd be going Episcopalian because the last time I went to church I was at the cathedral downtown to hear a friend sing in the choir and they are sane and pretty and women-friendly and yet quite like Catholics, but I'm not that dedicated and anyway the compromises they just did to stay in the Anglican Communion disappointed me very much."
But that would be oversharing.
So, think I should order the seafood special anyway to avoid the guilt tomorrow?
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Fresh tuna steak however, like the stuff used in sushi, is delicious..
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Verdict on the Chinese food: edible, but next time make soup.
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Re: the food - how about a grilled cheeze with tomato? That's my favourite old Lenten standby.
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I usually save me major grocery shopping for the weekend, when I can hit the farmer's markets and get good bread and in-season greens.
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*forgets own name sometimes, much less lj'ers locales*
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There is a Trader Joe's with good bread that I can get to if I change my bus home slightly, but since it is weak on produce, I only go there once every other month. It's actually easier to take the Metro on the weekends to the farmer's market or a Whole Foods downtown. I often stop at Whole Foods if I'm down in the city visiting friends, since there are at least two stores that are just off Metro stops.
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Some people have taken the wrong message in regards to Lenten Fridays and started eating shrimp, lobster, and other expensive things in place of cheaper beef and chicken, turning the whole thing on its head.
Maybe focus on eating frugally and cheaply, instead of whether or not it contains non-fish animals.
Just my atheist two-cents...