thoughts on spiritual awakening in today's world
Fresh from the UCC newsroom: the entire photo-diary page SpongeBob goes to church ».
I love the message, “Jesus didn’t turn people away. Neither do we,” but I also can’t wait to see what The Door » magazine will do with this. Hmm. Looks like they changed their name *back* to “The Wittenburg Door.”
The United Church of Christ has extended an official welcome to SpongeBob Squarepants. See the UCC home page » for a great picture. Thanks to Bob Griffith for posting this on his blog, Hypersync ».
James Dobson claims he wasn’t objecting to the squishy chipper guy *per se,* but to a supposed “gay agenda” being promoted by the cartoon character remix of “We Are Family” via the website of the We Are Family Foundation ».
Tinky-Winky… SpongeBob… They’re EVERYWHERE!
But I just can’t tolerate Barney. Barney must die.
I’ve been reading a book called *Eat Fat, Lose Fat,* by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig. It emphasizes natural, organic foods, and the historic importance of *lacto-fermentation* as a means of preserving foods and making them digestible. Fallon also suggests that its *easy* to home-brew natural, organic sodas with kefir powder or liquid whey and distilled or filtered water.
What the heck! I decided to try brewing some berry squeezin’s. Only thing was, I couldn’t find either liquid whey nor kefir powder. So I tried a Spirulina whey protein mix from a health food store, and let it sit for two days. Results:
1. Carbonation happens. If anyone ever doubted that carbonation would happen, let them rest assured, that distilled water was quite carbonated tonight!
2. There’s an art to doing this.
3. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing!
It took me a long time to scoop the sickly mush out of the jar (and out of the sink, and off things near the sink, etc. etc. Did I mention carbonation happens?) The residue in the jar did look kind of like Cherry 7up, but ahem, a small taste was enough. It needed more sugar, but I wasn’t going to waste that when there was still some purple algae in there. Perhaps I’ll give it another whirl sometime later. Yeah, with REAL whey!
Carry on, my whey-ward son,
There will be peas when you are done.
Lacto weary head to rest,
Don’t ferment no more!
What can I say? That’s Jedi life in the real world.
* How to be Like Rich DeVos
* A Course in Miracles in 5 Minutes
* Jesus: the Last of the Pharoahs
I kid you not, I saw all of these tonight at B&N and Borders!
In other news, last night I saw my teacher at our weekly Zen satsang. He helped me a lot with understanding the nature of conflict and spiritual warfare, within the universal Oneness of God. I checked out Trev’s blog when I got home, and found that someone else had been having similar questions, so I posted a comment, which Trev made into an entire entry. I might expand it into a static page later on.
On Coleman Fannin’s blog I found a link to this hilarious piece by Mad magazine. I think it’s the funniest piece of election humor I seen since JibJab’s “This Land.” Says a lot, doesn’t it?
This is the funniest Flash movie I’ve ever seen! Check it out! This Land