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Re: Being an admin here....
By: AJ Date: December 31, 2020, 5:43 pm
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Love that heat!
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Re: Being an admin here....
By: The Dudely Lama Date: January 1, 2021, 8:04 am
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couple years back i was playing a regional burning man event,
and invited a muso friend i hadnt seen in 15 years... we were
in my first band together and he went on to his masters in
keyboard and he retired last year from south carolina school
systems, kinda sorta... anyhow, he brought some venison jerky.
everything in it was from his farm, including the carolina
reapers he used to spice it up! he handed me a one gallon
freezer bag half full of this tenderloin venison jerky thebfirst
morning and said, i know you dont eat meat, but the only
processing on this was done by my hand. you wont hurt my
feelings, i understand, but you might want to think on it a
minute before you decide.”
it was delightful... i remembered to make a spirit plate and
offer it before i ate, as i was taught by my navajo elders...
its a way of paying thanks forward to Creation. you take an
offering of food and drink and place it at the roots of a tree
or near a stone and leave a little tobacco... 20 yards in
front of my dome was a lake, several small pines... perfect! i
left my offering, said my prayer and started back to get my
breakfast. i prefer to fast three or four days before an event,
it helps me focus and keeps me more conscious and aware. i was
hungry! before i could walk twenty yards back to the dome, i
was gifted a freshly toasted breakfast sandwich, home made bun,
avocado,my fav breakfast food, tomato, a pure, handcrafted
vegan delight, another camper ran out with a citrus hibiscus
herbal tea and a huge spliff that looked like a cigar! as im
settling in to the joy that first morning, an eagle... 40, maybe
50 feet overhead, screams and lands in the pine where the spirit
plate was offered... screams again and swoooops down to the
lake, takes a fish and returns to the tree to join us for
breakfast! the venison jerky i had been gifted was exquisite!
the only bits i didnt eat were the bits shared... and one piece
i saved for a spirit plate to offer when i returned home.
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Re: Being an admin here....
By: AJ Date: January 1, 2021, 8:47 am
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[quote author=The Dudely Lama link=topic=715.msg6388#msg6388
date=1609509869]
couple years back i was playing a regional burning man event,
and invited a muso friend i hadnt seen in 15 years... we were
in my first band together and he went on to his masters in
keyboard and he retired last year from south carolina school
systems, kinda sorta... anyhow, he brought some venison jerky.
everything in it was from his farm, including the carolina
reapers he used to spice it up! he handed me a one gallon
freezer bag half full of this tenderloin venison jerky thebfirst
morning and said, i know you dont eat meat, but the only
processing on this was done by my hand. you wont hurt my
feelings, i understand, but you might want to think on it a
minute before you decide.”
it was delightful... i remembered to make a spirit plate and
offer it before i ate, as i was taught by my navajo elders...
its a way of paying thanks forward to Creation. you take an
offering of food and drink and place it at the roots of a tree
or near a stone and leave a little tobacco... 20 yards in
front of my dome was a lake, several small pines... perfect! i
left my offering, said my prayer and started back to get my
breakfast. i prefer to fast three or four days before an event,
it helps me focus and keeps me more conscious and aware. i was
hungry! before i could walk twenty yards back to the dome, i
was gifted a freshly toasted breakfast sandwich, home made bun,
avocado,my fav breakfast food, tomato, a pure, handcrafted
vegan delight, another camper ran out with a citrus hibiscus
herbal tea and a huge spliff that looked like a cigar! as im
settling in to the joy that first morning, an eagle... 40, maybe
50 feet overhead, screams and lands in the pine where the spirit
plate was offered... screams again and swoooops down to the
lake, takes a fish and returns to the tree to join us for
breakfast! the venison jerky i had been gifted was exquisite!
the only bits i didnt eat were the bits shared... and one piece
i saved for a spirit plate to offer when i returned home.
[/quote]
That’s a great share Jamie...I am not vegan, but respect those
that are as long as they don’t begrudge me my meats. Version
makes for some wonderful, lean jerky. We’ve a few hunters at the
shop and fortunately they are generous with the bounty they
harvest during the season. Deer jerky, fried blackstrap, chili,
sausage....delicious, lean alternatives to beef.
I haven’t hunted anything but fish for a very long time now. I
loved the rituals of the hunt. The camp outs, the quiet of the
blind early in the morning. The campfire meals. I just never
enjoyed the actual kill. The adrenaline rush of the spotting the
prey, the waiting for the right shot, but always the remorse
right after the shot brought down a creature of rare beauty that
posed absolutely no threat to me at all. The fact that there was
no need to harvest this animal when the stores were full of
meats for purchase.
Economics played a big part in my ceasing the practice as well.
It costs a small fortune to hunt. The cost of the lease being
the main one. It ends up making deer meat three times as much as
Wagu beefsteak.
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Re: Being an admin here....
By: The Dudely Lama Date: January 1, 2021, 1:40 pm
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as soon as i say vegan... lol... i enjoy how i feel about
killing less now than i have before. but thats not what
prompted a plant based diet with me. it has to do more with how
i perceive efficiency in the machine. the closer to source, the
more pure the energy derived. with each subsequent step it
becomes diluted, and requires more energy to process. theres
more waste to be dealt with... each step down the food chain
takes it down another level of magnitude. plants are the most
efficient users of energy on our planet...deriving everything
they need from the immediate environment... and all their
energy to carry on life, from the sun... starlight. cannabis
seeds contain EVERY amino acid needed for maintaining human
life. all the tryptophans, lysine... you can literally live on
a diet of nothing but and expect to have a long, healthy life.
there is a sect of monks that has done this for centuries.
there are others. now, an herbivore gets the second flush...
and a carnivore gets the third... sometimes we get sloppy
fourths, sometimes we fool ourselves that we were designed to be
meat eaters and we get closer, but never better than third
place, if you eat meat. while i can certainly appreciate and
do, enjoy not needing to be a killer of some of the advanced
life forms on your planet, efficiency of being was the original
impetus. im not saying we cant process meat, we just aren’t
designed for it. i can recite examples of strict
herbivores,(horses’) surviving on dried camel meat for weeks...
otherwise, the last breeding pair of pure strain arabian horses
would have died... but they certainly arent nor could they ever
be carnivores. it has more to do with physiology than human made
up names of teeth, or bacon tastes gud... i am not a preacher,
im a preachers son... i dont believe any being has the right to
dictate anothers path. period. what i say i like, i like for
me. if it fits try it and see... if you dont like it, lay it
down because it must belong to someone else... the science is
right on, and if that comes into new light, im open to it... we
are truly, by scientific and physiology, strict herbivores. not
even omnivores. we can eat other things but no matter,
do you know what you are,
you are what you is,
you is what you am,
(a cow dont make ham...)
you aint what youre not,
to see what you got,
you are what you is,
and thats all it tis...
fz
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Re: Being an admin here....
By: guest13 Date: January 3, 2021, 1:38 pm
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=715.msg6366#msg6366 date=1609356405]
[quote author=Danocoustic link=topic=715.msg6364#msg6364
date=1609346082]
"Sympathy" can be found in the dictionary. It's between "shit"
and "syphilis".
Gawddambit, Jim. You allow others to attack me, then gig me
when I respond. What is this? What kind of nonsense?
Take responsibility for your actions.
Or shutdafuckUP.
You may delete me if that's unacceptable to you.
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It’s my forum and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry
if I want to.
How did I gig you?
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Did you not create the rowdy room to deal with conflict?---and
make it absoclear that it was the place for such, under penalty
of punishment?
---yet Jamie can ambush me, jump my ass anywhere and any time he
chooses without consequence.
When I respond in kind, you threaten ME with punishment. He gets
away with it. "I'll temp ban you both". Horseshit.
It's your house, you run it the way you see fit. But don't blow
any sunshine up my ass. I didn't JUST fall off the truck.
Again---if my sense of fair play doesn't suit ya, you know what
to do.
This is bullshit.
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Re: Being an admin here....
By: AJ Date: January 3, 2021, 2:30 pm
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I guess I have to prove I’m serious.
Both you and Jamie are ugly as shit to each other.
Both of you take a 2 week vacation. If you want to come back,
great. If not, I guess I will live with it.
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