Are humans better off as sheep?

[Nungali]

No !  This is serious business ! 

 

Do you realize  all pretzels used to be soft ? !  Thats the original and true pretzel . It wasnt until that upstart  , Martin Luther  like , Julius Sturgis  ( an American , of course )  decided to intentionally bake hard pretzels and market them , thus splitting  the holy symbol into two  followings .  This 'Church of England  America Pretzel '  now has influence world wide ;

 

• Hard Pretzels: Account for approximately 57% to 76% of total market revenue.
• Soft Pretzels: Account for approximately 24% to 43% of total market revenue.

Thus overthrowing the once true and only pretzel . 

 

Gosh ! They are nearly like a 'Communion wafer ' !  ... except you can make them at home  .  

 

 

 

 

[ No, I have no idea what that is . ] 

[old3bob]

 

Lets not forget that are probably organic pretzels  to be had somewhere that are baked with ancient sea salt on them;  so watch out for those GMO ones with bleached salt that is minus  natural trace elements!

 

Btw, If I remember correctly Jesus had something to say about salt, and in his day most of it  probably had its natural trace elements.

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by old3bob

[old3bob]

9 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

Of course they are   ...  this is Abrahamic religions discussion forum    

 

 

 

It is apparently a Christian religious answer . I never made a good Christian as a little fellah ... apparently I asked too many questions and was encouraged to drop all that .... just 'be good' , plod along, dont cause trouble, no rocking the boat , and stop being interested in all that other stuff you want to know about  ... and eventually :  

 

 

 

did Jonah say there's light at the end of the whales belly?

[S:C]

4 hours ago, Nungali said:

Do you realize  all pretzels used to be soft ? !  Thats the original and true pretzel . It wasnt until that upstart  , Martin Luther  like , Julius Sturgis  ( an American , of course )  decided to intentionally bake hard pretzels

The question is, can you still call it a ‘pretzel’ if most of its substantial properties have been exchanged to others and only the resemblance of the form remains? 
 

Maybe we should differentiate between the traditional (Brezel, italian) and the consumerist/modern (Pretzel, American), to not have any misunderstandings come up? 
 

Words as empty vases. 

How can anyone ever be sure, the words and concepts sold to him/her/it in meaning and explanation are authentic / solid? If they aren’t? If you look at Edward Arthur Blair and ‘newspeak’ - in the modern world you might be sold something for something else entirely! 
 

Try religion, worldview or even concepts as love or enlightenment or death or spirits! 
 

So even if I here this is in the abrahamic section, just like other religions/worldviews, - at the basis of storytelling/fables/parables and myths,  there is an interpretation of gnosis or perception of world/other/self.  
 

Just if there isn’t or it cannot be seen or felt anymore, - to me it’s fake. ?! What is your take on this? When do you realize the essence (and all hope) is lost and the path a dead end? 
 

… but then again, there’s people who point out to the sacred in the most profane, so there still might be hope for Jona, whales, reptiles & the like. 

merry christmas, everyone ✨

[Nungali]

13 hours ago, old3bob said:

 

did Jonah say there's light at the end of the whales belly?

 

 

at the end of it .... that would be the whale's arsehole  .... so I am not sure what you inferred about the stairway to heaven   

 

... I dont know about all that lining up and all those stairs , it seems very tedious   and somewhat worse than Seaworld