Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[saint dreya]

Fiddlers Green

Well, this is a good day. 3nodding

what's got your day so good?  

[Fiddlers Green]

Relaxation. 3nodding  

[queertastrophy]

Highlight of this past weekend: Brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner, when my sister decides to announce that her dorm-mate in college is black. My "Catholic" parents both flip and go on a tirade...much to my brother, sister-in-law's, and my dislike. I made the comment, mostly to them, "Ah, racism at the dinner table, surely where Jesus would want it."

Got yelled at by the parents, but my brother slipped me a fifty before he left. xd  

[Fiddlers Green]

Ah Xians... taking the Christ out of Christianity since 36 CE. xd  

[TeaDidikai]

BlueRoseTorn

Highlight of this past weekend: Brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner, when my sister decides to announce that her dorm-mate in college is black. My "Catholic" parents both flip and go on a tirade...much to my brother, sister-in-law's, and my dislike. I made the comment, mostly to them, "Ah, racism at the dinner table, surely where Jesus would want it."

Got yelled at by the parents, but my brother slipped me a fifty before he left. xd

To be fair, race based slavery was scantioned by Papal Bull.

Hey- remind me Blue, is your Love pagan?  

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TeaDidikai

BlueRoseTorn

Highlight of this past weekend: Brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner, when my sister decides to announce that her dorm-mate in college is black. My "Catholic" parents both flip and go on a tirade...much to my brother, sister-in-law's, and my dislike. I made the comment, mostly to them, "Ah, racism at the dinner table, surely where Jesus would want it."

Got yelled at by the parents, but my brother slipped me a fifty before he left. xd

To be fair, race based slavery was scantioned by Papal Bull.

I thought it was overturned? http://users.binary.net/polycarp/slave.html

Quote:

In 1839, Pope Gregory XVI issued a Bull, entitled In Supremo. Its main focus was against slave trading, but it also clearly condemned racial slavery:

We, by apostolic authority, warn and strongly exhort in the Lord faithful Christians of every condition that no one in the future dare bother unjustly, despoil of their possessions, or reduce to slavery Indians, Blacks or other such peoples. [Ibid., pp.101]

Catholic sanctions are by no means my forte, so I could just be misinterpreting it.

TeaDidikai

Hey- remind me Blue, is your Love pagan?

Nope, he's an incredibly lax Christian. More often than not he seems agnostic to me, though.  

[Striga]

BlueRoseTorn

Highlight of this past weekend: Brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner, when my sister decides to announce that her dorm-mate in college is black. My "Catholic" parents both flip and go on a tirade...much to my brother, sister-in-law's, and my dislike. I made the comment, mostly to them, "Ah, racism at the dinner table, surely where Jesus would want it."

Got yelled at by the parents, but my brother slipped me a fifty before he left. xd

If you want to take it one step further, there's several bits of the Roman Catholic Catechism that pretty clearly oppose racism and discrimination.
Barraketh hates it when I bring those up xd  

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Striga

BlueRoseTorn

Highlight of this past weekend: Brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner, when my sister decides to announce that her dorm-mate in college is black. My "Catholic" parents both flip and go on a tirade...much to my brother, sister-in-law's, and my dislike. I made the comment, mostly to them, "Ah, racism at the dinner table, surely where Jesus would want it."

Got yelled at by the parents, but my brother slipped me a fifty before he left. xd

If you want to take it one step further, there's several bits of the Roman Catholic Catechism that pretty clearly oppose racism and discrimination.
Barraketh hates it when I bring those up xd

I saw the thread on it, the one where he outright said "I don't care what the Catechism says." xd

I'll leave it be for now, since I'm leaving home soon, and I won't have to deal with it. Besides, they're one of those "set in their ways" types.  

[TeaDidikai]

BlueRoseTorn

TeaDidikai

BlueRoseTorn

Highlight of this past weekend: Brother and sister-in-law came over for dinner, when my sister decides to announce that her dorm-mate in college is black. My "Catholic" parents both flip and go on a tirade...much to my brother, sister-in-law's, and my dislike. I made the comment, mostly to them, "Ah, racism at the dinner table, surely where Jesus would want it."

Got yelled at by the parents, but my brother slipped me a fifty before he left. xd

To be fair, race based slavery was scantioned by Papal Bull.

I thought it was overturned? http://users.binary.net/polycarp/slave.html

Quote:

In 1839, Pope Gregory XVI issued a Bull, entitled In Supremo. Its main focus was against slave trading, but it also clearly condemned racial slavery:

We, by apostolic authority, warn and strongly exhort in the Lord faithful Christians of every condition that no one in the future dare bother unjustly, despoil of their possessions, or reduce to slavery Indians, Blacks or other such peoples. [Ibid., pp.101]

Catholic sanctions are by no means my forte, so I could just be misinterpreting it.

Nope, you're spot on. I was just pointing out that your folks where a few hundred years behind the Church.

Quote:

Nope, he's an incredibly lax Christian. More often than not he seems agnostic to me, though.

So noted.

I'm starting the prep work for SummerStar and given that we don't hate each other on sight, I'd welcome you to camp out with my group. Saves a few bucks on entrence fees  

[patch99329]

Thanks to tea's 'tea' thread, I had a serious think about just why we use teabags now and not leaves.
So I went and asked my dad (he literally drinks tea by the pint). He explained that we buy a rather expensive tea bag that has the same quality assam tea in it as the leaves. No dust! surprised
He also told me about the history of tea, what tea is, tea in the war and the quality of tea.
So now i'm all enlightened on the subject ^_^ and I'm celebrating with a fresh cup of tea. xd  

[TeaDidikai]

patch99329

Thanks to tea's 'tea' thread, I had a serious think about just why we use teabags now and not leaves.
So I went and asked my dad (he literally drinks tea by the pint). He explained that we buy a rather expensive tea bag that has the same quality assam tea in it as the leaves. No dust! surprised
He also told me about the history of tea, what tea is, tea in the war and the quality of tea.
So now i'm all enlightened on the subject ^_^ and I'm celebrating with a fresh cup of tea. xd

Actually, due to the side of tea bags, you still get tea dust. The bags do not allow for orthodox or CTC rolled leaves to expand and thus infuse.

Expensive Floor Sweepings.

Oh- did he go into detail on the Opium War and it's relation to the Tea Wars?  

[patch99329]

TeaDidikai

patch99329

Thanks to tea's 'tea' thread, I had a serious think about just why we use teabags now and not leaves.
So I went and asked my dad (he literally drinks tea by the pint). He explained that we buy a rather expensive tea bag that has the same quality assam tea in it as the leaves. No dust! surprised
He also told me about the history of tea, what tea is, tea in the war and the quality of tea.
So now i'm all enlightened on the subject ^_^ and I'm celebrating with a fresh cup of tea. xd

Oh- did he go into detail on the Opium War and it's relation to the Tea Wars?

Nope. Please explain!

He was talking about tea in WW2.  

[PhantomPhoenix0]

Well, my World's Religions class shall prove to be interesting. As part of my grade, I am required to visit a Hindu or Buddhist Temple, and a non-Christian "Western Religion" place of worship.  

[TeaDidikai]

patch99329

Nope. Please explain!

He was talking about tea in WW2.

The secret of growing tea was guarded by the Chinese for ages. It's introduction to Western Asia was fairly recient all things considered. The Brits had been importing tea from China, but the Chinese were not interested in the heavy broadcloth that the British exported, thus the Brtis had to pay hard silver.

In an attempt to even out the flow of silver the Brits began to take opium from India into China. This of course allowed for tea trade until the opium addiction was so strong that China outlawed opium and burned many chests of opium on it's boarders and beaches in an act of protest.

The British response was to declare the Opium and Tea Wars. Smugglers both ways continued to carry tea and opium to and fro until finally the seeds of wild tea plants where brought to India. The wild plants where hardier and had a bolder flavor and were able to be grown without the Chinese secrets thus an end to the Opium and Tea Wars.  

[TeaDidikai]

PhantomPhoenix0

Well, my World's Religions class shall prove to be interesting. As part of my grade, I am required to visit a Hindu or Buddhist Temple, and a non-Christian "Western Religion" place of worship.

That's pretty standard.

So- what "Western Religion" place of worship do you plan to attend?