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I know some will disagree with the contention in this post. That's fine. Christians may disagree agreeably over lots of things. I wish to simply lay out the basics of why I believe the sacrifice of our Lord was not only universal in extent but also specific in intent. My focus is not on the universal but on the specific. It is for me a cause for great wonder and gratitude that God not only loved the world of rebellious humanity but in a specific sense the Son of God loved me, and gave himself for me.
In this snapshot of the atonement then the universal aspects of Christ's sacrifice are assumed. The Bible is clear that the sacrifice of Christ had a cleansing effect in heaven itself. I have no doubt that Christ loved the world -the whole world – and gave himself for it. My focus is not on these, nor Is it to deny or diminish these, but to demonstrate that there is a specific focus in the atonement that is more than merely a subset of the whole but is tied in some way to purpose and intent. In a word, there is clearly a sense in which the atonement is because God loves the world but there is just as clearly a sense in which it is because he loves his own. If we as humans are capable of such different kinds of love it would be strange if God were not. If we are capable of making sacrifices that have the potential to benefit many while having a definite intention to benefit our own, why not God.
So where is specificity taught? The best place to begin is with the idea of covenant. In OT times covenants were made between specific parties. Major covenants were often ratified by a covenant blood sacrifice and covenant meal. Both sacrifice and meal were exclusive to those bound in covenant relationship. The specificity of the sacrifice was underlined by its blood being sprinkled on the covenant people. In the OT these features can be seen in various significant covenants between God and those with whom he chooses to enter into covenant. When we come to the NT we see the same covenantal features in the New Covenant. The covenant sacrifice of the NC is the death of Christ. In the Upper Room as Jesus eats the Passover Meal (associated with an old people and an old redemption and an old covenant) with his disciples, he introduces a new meal commemorating a new redemption associated with a new covenant with a new (or renewed) people. We read,
Luke 22:20
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Specificity is stamped on the sacrifice. It is for the covenant people guaranteeing the covenant promises to them. The covenant people are not indeterminate. They are not nebulous and undefined, a mere potentiality. They are specific and concrete, those who have faith in Christ. It is specifically for them the sacrifice is made, upon them it's blood is sprinkled (1 Peter 1:2), and it is they who participate in the covenant meal. They are 'the many' of Isaiah 52, 53. Those who shall be astonished and understand. Those with whom he shall share a portion and divide the spoil; his offspring (53:10).
In Hebrews this specificity is enhanced.
Hebrews 9:15
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins commiintted under the first
Notice the new covenant sacrifice guarantees salvation blessings for the covenant people. Those in covenant relationship will receive the promised eternal inheritance, the mediator will ensure it and the certainty rests on what his sacrifice achieved. It didn't merely potentially ransom them, it actually ransomed them; it set them free from sins. The sacrifice effected the salvation of the covenant people.
While it is true that the new covenant people are those who believe, in Hebrews it is not their belief that is the focus it God's call. The NC people are 'the called'. This is of course consistent with how the main covenants work. It is God (the greater covenant partner) who is sovereign. The covenant and the covenant partner is always his initiative. He chooses those with whom he will enter covenant and he decides the terms. In the NC the divine initiative could not be clearer. The covenant is monergistic; its his will and power that accomplishes it. It is a covenant of 'I will' (Jer 31:33,34; Ezek 36:22-32). In this covenant faith, as with all else, is itself a covenant gift (Eph 2:8,9; Roms 12:3; 1 Tim 1:14,14; Phil 1:29; 2Thess 1:3; Luke 22:31,32; Mark 9:24; Luke 17:5). In the NC God meets its obligations. Thus those 'called' will receive the 'promised inheritance' – the death of Christ secures it.
This specificity in the death of Christ is seen elsewhere too. We see it in John 10 where the shepherd's death is specifically for the sheep.
John 10:11-15
11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 "I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep."
The death of the shepherd arises from his love for his sheep. The sheep are a defined flock. They are those known by the Shepherd and who know him. They are those the Father has given (10:29). They are his 'own' (10:3, 14). It is for these sheep he dies. He cares about them in a unique way. They are the focus of his death.
Special love also lies at the heart of the next example; Christ's love for his bride, the church.
Eph 5:25-27
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
It is impossible to view this love is just part of the general love that God has for the world. The whole image demands a discriminating, choosing, and bestowing love. It is the wonder of an inexplicable love for a moral Cinderella; a purposeful love that intends to transform her into something more wonderful than any fairy tale ending. It would be perverse to muddy this image with injecting the bride's choice of her lover. The whole focus is the love of the lover. It is his delight in someone who is now 'bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh'. In a patriarchal culture the selecting love is the initiative of the male. In this unique, undivided, exclusive love the bride is called to luxuriate and delight. In it she finds security and dignity.
And this exclusive love is the reason Christ dies. Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. Hallelujah.
The high priest, Caiaphas, declared (albeit unwittingly) the targeted nature of the atonement when he said ,
John 11:52
50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish." 51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Likewise the redeemed in heaven understand that the blood ransom of the cross was designed not to ransom every tribe and language and people and nation but to ransom from among every tribe and language and people and nation.
Revelation 5:9
9 And they sang a new song, saying,
"Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
Thus as one writer well says, 'though Christ died for all men in some sense, he didn't die for all men in the same sense'. While the atonement is designed to be sufficient for all it is intended to be efficient for the many.
In the words of Romans 3,
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all (universal) and upon all them that believe (specific).


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It was that last moment which eluded him entirely - the green light and the fluttering Veil. Sirius Black could sit on this bench in the empty village green for all eternity, his memory nothing more than a collection of confusing fragments. He was dead, but he didn't know that yet.
Genres: Romance, Angst Era: Other Characters: Lily , Sirius Pairings: Sirius/Lily
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2009 SAYS Award Winner :: Most Creative Cliché
This is a tragic and unnecessary account of Rose and Scorpiuss love. It is poorly written, the plot is driven by exhausted clichés, everyone goes out of character at least once, and it ends with an epic apocalypsetacular that you wont want to miss!
Genres: Humor, Romance, Angst Era: Next Generation Characters: Albus, OC , Rose, Scorpius Pairings: Rose/Scorpius, Other Pairing
Advisory: Strong Language, Strong Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Substance Use or Abuse, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme, Contains Spoilers
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Written for Namechange's Character/Title Challenge. Most of my encounters with women involved some form of screaming and the occasional bout of fainting. The idea of a woman not finding me attractive, or at least worthy of attention, well, it was unprecedented. It was unheard of. And I was pretty sure it was illegal in at least five countries.
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And then he could not go on, for there was a pain in his head unlike anything he had ever felt in his life, a pain that ripped and pulled at his soul, tearing it out of him and cutting it into little screaming pieces as he saw in his mind, halfway across the castle, a wall collapsing in the background as his twin brother fell.
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Voldemort has set his snake, Nagini, upon Severus Snape, killing him. What will become of him?
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The ever helpful, and woefully tactless Sirius Black helps his friend Remus Lupin carry out the dubious step-by-step advice in a self-help book. The mission? Tell Tonks that Remus is a werewolf as indirectly as possible. But watch out, Step Six is a doozie!
Genres: Fluff, Humor, Romance Era: Hogwarts Characters: Lupin, Sirius, Tonks Pairings: Remus/Tonks
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This February 7, Catholic Online will launch its first ever Day of Prayer and Action (Google+ Hangouts On Air), in solidarity with Pope Francis campaign to end world hunger by 2025. Participants from around the world will be invited to join these special activities on the first Friday of every month via Google Hangouts.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Last December, Pope Francis called all the worlds Catholics to prayer and action to end world hunger. Two problems were noted around that time. First, some Catholics are good at prayer, but sometimes do not know how to put legs on their faith, to follow through with action. Second, those who take action - often take action that is so slight it does little to improve their own lives or the lives of those in need.
We noted the words of Vatican Almoner, Archbishop Konrad Krawjeski that charity has to cost you something so it can change you.
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For the past two months, Catholic Online has responded to the call of Pope Francis by asking people to pray and act. Specifically, we have asked you to pray to end world hunger and to donate to feed the world's hungry. Four shipments of food have now been sent to the Philippines where it is still being used to feed people displaced by Typhoon Hiyan/Yolanda. We are very proud to say that the community of Catholic Online has come through. We have participated in the call of Pope Francis.
Sadly, the work of providing for the poor is not something that will be accomplished in the course of the day, or even several years. It will take many years. In fact, it will take a new way of living; the way of fraternity and solidarity. Pope Francis has indicated that with the right prayer, and the right actions flowing from living faith, we can eradicate world hunger by 2025. He is absolutely correct. It is not a matter of a lack of food resources but rather a lack of human resources, committed to fraternity and solidarity. It will take more prayer, more work and more sacrifice.
It does not help that the some of the world's elites have abandoned the worlds hungry and failed to see them as their neighbor. It is the parable of the Good Samaritan being written in our own age. We tragically live in a world where the bottom 80% of the world's population enjoys only 6% of the world's wealth and, worse yet, does not even see them or hear their cry. It is reminiscent of the story of the rich man named Abraham and the poor man named Lazarus in the Gospel of St. Luke (Lk 16: 19-31).
Notice, the Lord said nothing about the rich man's possessions in his rebuke of his failure to act. It was his wrongful use of possessions which he addressed. The Rich Man failed to recognize the need of others. He did not see Lazarus at the doorstep. He did not hear his cry.
St Augustine proclaimed in a homily on this Gospel passage: "Lazarus was received into heaven because of his humility and not because of his poverty. Wealth itself was not what kept the rich man from eternal bliss. His punishment was for selfishness and disloyalty."
Having goods is not sin. It is whether they have us. In this parable, goods had the man. Do the goods of this earth have us? Do we recognize Lazarus at our own doors? If we do, are we acting?
Despite our obligation in solidarity, an obligation revealed in the Natural Law, called for by conscience, and taught without question by the Christian scripture and tradition - for the strong to aid the weak - some of the worlds elites continue to strip approximately $2 trillion of wealth away from the Third World, while returning only about $130 billion in international aid.
What's worse, is that aid is often financed by the taxpayers themselves, and the super wealthy who evade their taxes through clever sue of the loopholes in the tax system, do not even participate. Because some of the wealthy shirk their obligation, like those who filed past the waylaid man on the road, the role of the Good Samaritan now falls primarily to us. We truly are our brother and sisters keepers. We are joined, one to another, by bonds of solidarity and fraternity. Those bonds call us to act - and to live - differently.
Fortunately, we really do have the power to end world hunger, just as the Lord multiplied the loaves and fishes, by answering the question he asked the disciples "What do you have?" and then giving. We believe that the Lord still multiplies loaves and fish and uses His people to feed the multitudes. If we choose to actually live like God's people and do what He says.
It has already been observed by Pope Francis, that the world produces plenty of food, but distributes it scandalously. We can change this. Catholic Online working through Catholic Team Global and sponsored by Your Catholic Voice Foundation, has a part of the plan to help to eradicate hunger at its source.
While we have hinted at these plans before, the time has now come for us to share them with the world. You will want to know what exciting plans we have to be a force for good in the world. There are 1.2 billion Catholics in the world. The Catholic Church is present in every nation on earth, and in many places provides the only social services available to that in need. We have the people. We also have the living faith and are guided by the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church. It is this Social Doctrine that gives us the understanding of both the source of economic poverty and the solutions to its painful ravages.
Finally, Catholic Online is a master of the technological realm. We now have at our disposal the technology needed to make us serve as the nexus between technology, people, and faith and become part of the force for good that Pope Francis needs to accomplish his mission of eradicating world hunger by 2025.
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We will be unveiling these plans over the next few months. Our first phase, which has been to collect food donations for the hungry and distribute them, has proved successful. We now know that we can accomplish anything, with living faith and action. We are ready to take the next step, and we'd like you to come with us.
On February 7, we invite you to join us for the first ever Catholic Online day of prayer and action. There will be a live Google Hangout. We will also be posting to twitter and Facebook throughout the day. We will post the precise time and the link you will need shortly. With your participation, there is no end to what we can accomplish.
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Things I liked:The look, feel and weight are right. The power is quite strong for a blowback pistol. It accurate enough, sounds a little loud but that is a plus.
Things I would have changed:Finish is a bit to bright. I think the grips should a black bakite type as opposed to walnut style.
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May 10, 2014 by HRC staff
Today openly gay college football star Michael Sam was drafted into the NFL by the St. Louis Rams.
In February Michael Sam made history as the first Division I college football player in history to come out as gay. Sam was named the 2013 SEC Defensive Player of the Year and a first-team all-SEC selection during his senior year at the University of Missouri.
HRC President Chad Griffin released the following statement in response to the news:
"We congratulate Michael Sam and the St. Louis Rams on their terrific decision to draft him. Today, LGBT young people can look to Sam as proof that being open and proud of who you are doesn't keep you from achieving your dreams. Gay people are our neighbors and friends. They're our United States Senators and, starting today, they're our professional football stars."
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The Iška Gorge
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The Iška (pronounced [ˈiːʃka]) is a river of central Slovenia. Part of the river valley—the Iška Gorge[2] or Iška Canyon[3] (Slovene: Iški vintgar)—separates Lower Carniola from Inner Carniola.[2]:82[4] The river is 31 km (19 mi) long.[1] After flowing past Strahomer, the river follows an almost straight line and joins the Ljubljanica River, and therefore belongs to the Black Sea basin.
The part of the river between Iška Vas and Strahomer disappeared underground during the 2010 Slovenia floods, on the night of 20 September 2010.[5]
- ^ a b c d "Reke, dolge nad 25 km, in njihova padavinska območja" [Rivers longer than 25 km and their catchment areas] (in Slovene, English). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. 2002.
- ^ a b Strgar, Vinko. 1966. "Prispevek k poznavanju rastlinstva v soteski Iške / A Contribution to Our Knowledge of the Vegetation of the Iška Gorge." Varstvo narave 5: 81–95.
- ^ Kušar, Domen. 2008. "The Impact of Natural Disasters on Buildings' Architectural Styles." Acta geographica Slovenica 48(1): 93-120, p. 101.
- ^ Ljubljansko barje krajinski park. Iški vintgar. (Slovene)
- ^ "Izginila je reka Iška" [Iška River Disappears] (in Slovenian). Siol Slovenija. 23 September 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Iška at Wikimedia Commons
- Condition of the Iška - graphs of water level and flow data for the past 30 days (taken in Iška Vas by ARSO)
Coordinates: 46°00′N 14°28′E / 46.000°N 14.467°E
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The Vegetarian Resource Group has released the results of its latest national phone survey.
In response to a growing demand for information surrounding the veg lifestyle, the Vegetarian Resource Group has released the results of a new national survey detailing what vegans and vegetarians prefer to eat. The poll, conducted by the market-research firm Harris Interactive, used a sample of 2,030 participants, each of whom was surveyed by phone. Survey questions included scenarios about eating a veggie burger that had been cooked on the same grill as a meat patty, as well as about purchasing dishes containing leafy greens or whole foods. While vegans and vegetarians frequently agreed throughout the survey, their responses differed significantly on one point: 26 percent of vegetarians said they would purchase their favorite dessert even if it contained bone-char-filtered sugar, as opposed to only three percent of vegans.
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This is excellent news! I just found out Duke Nukem 3D is not only on the list of liberated games, but that it also runs natively on Linux now! Grab a copy from http://icculus.org/duke3d/index.html [icculus.org] and meet me for a game. I'll be the one with the pipe bomb.
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Soylent. Is. ???.
Since my crockpot, low-ing away on the counter, fairly whispers "lazy lazy cook", I decided to read up on a way to avoid cooking altogether. In fact, to dispense with eating food in the usual sense.
There is this liquid food replacement called "Soylent", a name irreverently inspired by a macabre alternative food called "Soylent Green" in the 1973 movie of the same name.
It is best explained by reading the blog where its creator first described his project:
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298 How I Stopped Eating Food
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424 What's In Soylent
His goal, as I understand it, is to eventually get the cost to $5/day for a liquid food replacement that will require no cooking and be suitable for long term, err, ingestion.
Now, some of me thinks this is pretty horrifying, and some of me thinks it is pretty pointless. After all, I want to cook! And if I simply wanted to stay fed, I could do it on $5/day, and some of you could do it on a lot less. But some of me thinks this is sort of interesting, even though I predict a commercial calamity.
Soylent is supposedly going into limited commercial production now, through Kickstarter and other investors. I have thought about ordering a week's worth ($65), but haven't pulled the trigger.
Is this of any interest to anyone? If you had a week's supply of Soylent, what would you do with it?
By the way, there is an active group of "DIY Soylent" hobbyists exchanging formulas for versions of Soylent that can be made with materials that individuals can buy in manageable quantities. A thread on that topic:
DIY'ing Soylent seems kind of like, gasp, cooking. I could see trying it.
Well, I'm always interested in things I know nothing about, so of course I had to check out the links.
Of course, I'd never actually ingest the stuff, I don't even like smoothies, no way would I be able to gag down those concoctions. Well, maybe if I could use it to bake cookies or something else unhealthy, LOL.
I like to cook and eat far too well to actually use the stuff, but I know people who probably would.
Gosh, believe it or not, I've seen the movie that this term is from. It was a most ridiculous movie. They spent the entire 2 hours trying to figure out what was in the 'Soylent' substitute food that everyone ate, and in the end it turned out that they were eating other people. Pretty disgusting.
I can't imagine someone actually using that name for a product.
No, I wouldn't have any interest in taking a food 'substitute'. To me it's the age old conflict, between the natural world and all that is 'man made'. I stick to the natural world as much as I possibly can. I also don't think it is a good idea to fool around with your health. If you are healthy keep it that way.
I enjoy gardening and cooking and eating. And if I didn't want to cook or I was on a stringent budget, or my life was too busy, I could find foods to eat that would still be healthy and organic to eat. And I want to eat food that I bought and prepared and know what I am eating. We have a small food processor on the counter and it's a very quick and simple thing to make a green smoothie, with Kale, Celery, a half an avocado and a cup of blueberries, my current favorite. You don't even have to chop anything. A quick soapy rinse of the processor and you're done.
We make home made yogurt in a yogurt maker and there's always a container of that in the refrigerator and plenty of fruit in the freezer to make blending up a yogurt shake a breeze. Warm oat bran in the morning can barely be called cooking, when it takes less than ten minutes on the stovetop with just water added. Real oat bran in the bins at Whole Foods that has nothing else added. Chop up a half an apple into it, add some cinnamon. Delicious, healthy, fast and easy. Add some ground up flax seed to the top and you get a good dose of omega 3s. A simple coffee grinder and 30 seconds to grind them. Or a Kind bar from Whole Foods if you are really in a rush.
And for more substantial meals, we have some favorite soup recipes, and a chili recipe that we will make a pot of on a weekend and put individual servings into the freezer and that is also very quick and easy to take it out in the morning and heat it up for lunch or dinner.
I could live off those few items for months without much else added. Maybe some salmon and salad for dinner a few times, or broiled chicken with a sweet potato and a vegetable. Pretty simple basic stuff.
I guess I don't understand the attraction to making or using a food 'substitute'. But especially one with the name 'soy lent'! lol
Severe food shortage is very real.
There is a possibility that the current deep chill blanketing a good part of the country will happen every year.
There is a possibility that the severe drought in California and other parts of the country may be a permanent weather condition.
World War III can happen any time, (The tense military confrontation between USA, China and Japan now) can trigger total disruption of all systems, with cyber warfare technology added to remote unmanned destruction capabilities.
Having a different way of food production is not a bad idea.
Thanks, Prairiemoon, although I knew the reference I never saw the movie and was wondering what soylent was. And here I thought it was a bad name because it sounds like a soy product, which it's not.
I can definitely see some practical use for such a product - emergency food storge, handing out on Atlanta freeways in a storm, force feeding hungerstriking Guantanamo detainees, etc.
"Severe food shortage is very real", and I couldn't agree more, but most people don't have enough food for 1-3 months, and those that do, may not have the "right" kind of food.
In an article I read several years ago - "The U.K. is only 3 missed meals away from total anarchy." Plato said, "society is just a few meals away from barbarism."
With just a quick look at soylent, it's missing all-important and essential enzymes, which we get from fresh food. I have 3 levels of home food storage and in my long-term emergency foods level, we use grain grasses (juiced), sprouts (your little garden-in-a-jar) and micro-greens for fresh food high In nutrition AND enzymes. I'll also include herbs grown indoors as part of our all-important fresh foods. By storing seeds that will sprout, you can also plant them to make more, which is something you can't do with soylent.
The "Seven Survival Foods" are grains, legumes, sprouting seeds, sweetener/s, salt, oil and powdered milk (which is optional). Somewhere in my files someone said you could live on wheat only - as long as you sprouted a portion of it for consumption.
There is a synergy in whole foods that can never be found in any other form. Without a source for fresh food you will probably not have enough enzymes, antioxidants and phytochemicals.
Other alarming situations which can cause global food crisis.
"Colony collapse disorder," of bees which is still being studied, will totally cause unthinkable crisis.
Monocrop cultivation, GMO pracitces, and China's going into mass cloning, have we forgotten what happened to the "Potato famine"?
That's why I said pay a little attention to Grainlady's wisdom is not a bad idea.
I did read the entire blogs and despite the author's infomercial-like style, I found them interesting and informative.
We've previously had discussions here about "live to eat" vs. "eat to live" and not surprisingly for a Cooking Forum, "live to eat"-ers were in the majority. I would think that Soylent aficionados are simply on the more extremist side of the "eat to live"-ers.
The one aspect that I found most appealing was the time factor. If we added up all the hours spent on shopping, food prep, cooking, eating and cleaning up compared to mixing a day's supply of chemicals, one result would be a bounty of extra time to expand our horizons and improve our lives.
I am convinced that in the next war against the U.S.A., one of the strongest weapons will be trade embargoes, eliminating sources of the cheap goods including food,and services to which we have become accustomed. That begs the question of whether Soylent's base components are domestic or imported. If readily available domestically, under that scenario it would rapidly become a valuable commodity.
However, I have said many times before that I believe the main premise of both Miracle Foods and Demonic Foods is economics, not health, and I doubt if Soylent is any different.
"The U.K. is only 3 missed meals away from total anarchy." Plato said, "society is just a few meals away from barbarism."
I don't doubt that for a second. Though I have yet to act much on lessons learned, Hurricane Sandy taught me it would be a good idea to be a bit better prepared for emergencies. I should be prepared to feed the family for a week or two, or even a month, without leaving the house. Beyond that though, who cares. If you have a year's worth of food you better have a year's worth of ammo to protect it. And what for? To survive another year? Each to his own, but when the apocalypse comes I don't feel the need to be the last man standing.
When we lived in SoCal I used to think about what to stock for a calamity. Food and water, cooking fuel, sleeping bags, firearms and ammunition, gasoline, we had all that.
I decided that useful additional supplies would be: insulin, baby formula, heart medication. All things that could be traded at exorbitant rates to people in dire need. SWMBO pronounced my plans despicable and forbade their execution. Well, it was just an idea.
I think Soylent would be a fun to experiment with for a few weeks or more. Clearly, it hasn't been tested over long period or in a wide range of people, But I doubt any nutritional deficiencies are likely to strike you down in such a limited time period. There's no rule that you can't eat food sometimes, I think one of the beta testers mentioned that he had been a "social drinker", now he is a "social eater" - eats food with friends.
Consuming just liquid seems boring, but I did once do a liquid diet for 17 days and found that after the first few days, my interest in food waned. I've also gone through periods of very boring food diets. For instance, my
Would I live on the product for a week? Not if I had a choice.
As for a supply of food/meds to last a year if needed in an emergency, I am pretty close to it, along with the ammo to protect it. what I do lack it the way to cook it if NG or electricity is not there. I will have to work on this.
Why do I do it? I listened to my Oma tell me what it was like during WW1 and WW2 in Europe. The cost savings of bulk buying is secondary. I have no desire to hit a target meal cost as Grainlady does.
I haven't been in a grocery store in about 3 weeks other than the produce market. I go shopping in my basement.
Here is one of the simpler DIY recipes.
Masa harina (a kind of flour), whey powder (for protein), some sports mixture, soybean oil (for fat), and a few other things.
EDIT - as I read more, I'm realizing a DIY Soylent can be made from:
- carbohydrate (oat bran has a lot of potassium)
- protein (whey protein powder or rice protein powder)
- fat (olive oil)
- a little salt
- a fistful of multi-vitamins, mineral supplements, and vitamin D supplements, of the kind you can get at any vitamin shop
You don't need the expensive "Muscle Milk" or other sports "nutrition powder" stuff. That stuff turns out to be a very, very expensive way to get vitamins and minerals.
I'm not saying the above is a suitable non-food to live on indefinitely - I don't think there is any proof of that. I'm just concluding that:
(1) a simple mix of stuff, costing about $6/day, will get you close to Soylent's specifications (caveat that the Soylent formula has been modified from the last published version) and is similar to many of the DIY versions of Soylent.
(2) per various beta tests, Soylent is safe to live on for weeks at a time, at least, and appears at least as healthy over that short period as the testers' prior diets, which admittedly was often pretty junky stuff (takeout burritos, diet coke).
I think I will make some of this stuff.
Here is a link that might be useful: People Chow
This post was edited by johnliu on Sun, Feb 2, 14 at 18:00
There are a number of emergency "survival food tablets" available on the market. They are so full of chemical forms of vitamins and inorganic minerals (they mistakenly call "nutrition") you'd HAVE to be starving to consume them.
Personally, I can't stomach anything with a large amount of fortified chemical form of vitamins and inorganic minerals in it (like TOTAL cereal - which makes me very ill), including vitamin/mineral supplements, which also make me very ill. Somehow my body knows the difference between real and fake nutrition.....
Me, I'm guarding my stash of chia seeds (which I purchase by the 5# bag and use in so many things). Chia seeds are also my #1 emergency food. The natives in the southwest could survive their long hunting sessions just eating small amounts of chia seeds and water. A great read on the subject is "The Magic of Chia" Revival of an Ancient Wonder Food - by James F. Scheer.
It takes more than calories to keep you alive and thrive. The body is fed at the cellular level with nutrition - healthy cells, healthy body. Fake nutrition doesn't feed anyone. Take vitamin C as an example. It's actually a complex, not just ascorbic acid - the synthesized/manufactured, high-potency version of the vitamin. When we take the "pure" (free from all associated components) form, the body reacts by scavenging the blood system for the missing parts (ascorbigen bioflavanoid complexes, Tyrosinase, P, K, and J factors, C6H8O6, etc.). Science hasn't begun to discover all the factors involved in the complex we call vitamin C, which only occur in nature.
Like Peppi, I could live in my basement for months. As hunters we are armed and ammo'd, but like FOAS, I would never want to decide to stay alive while people around me were starving. Ugh.
That said, I could live "off the grid" if necessary. I even have horses to till the soil, save my own seeds for my garden, can hunt and fish and I'm a relatively efficient forager. Must be the Native American part of me.....
As for the potato famine, that's one of my soap box issues, biodiversity. If Monsanto and their ilk have their way, there will be only the foods they decide to provide us. Poultry is a good example. Most of the chicken consumed in America today is some version of the Cornish Cross. Turkey is invariably Broad Breasted White or Bronze. These are birds that are artificially bred to grow quickly and efficiently. They cannot reproduce on their own and left alone would be extinct in one generation, yet we rely on them for as a major food source. Some disease wipes them out and what is left? That's what happened during the potato famine, a single variety was grown and when that variety failed, people starved. I guess history taught us nothing.
Yes, I also saw the movie "Soylent Green". At a drive-in theater no less, back when those were still common. I remember driving away thinking "That was one stupid movie, I can't believe I wasted two hours to watch that."
I still refuse to drink the Kool-Aid.....um.....Soylent.
This post was edited by annie1992 on Sun, Feb 2, 14 at 21:09
Based on my ongoing issues with green smoothies, Soylent is just out of the question.
During the Hurricane Rita evacuation, our little town was at the nexus of three evacuation routes. We were also the southernmost locale with gas stations that still had fuel and stores that still had food. I will not go into all my experiences of those days, but I was so impressed with how appreciative the evacuees were. Our town was very generous and gracious. Nevertheless, I do not doubt for one second that chaos and fiendishness would ensue, given the perfect storm of calamity and scarcity. So, yes, I do believe in being prepared and having good coping skills, and I do not believe people should be denigrated or disparaged for thinking similarly.
I listened to my Oma tell me what it was like during WW1 and WW2 in Europe.
Thanks, Peppi, that inspired me to have a rare conversation about the war with my mom. She remembers food becoming an issue around the last year, and then for the first two years after the war. She recalled how each day they would put their bread ration on a scale and divide it up for the family. Waiting in long lines because there was supposedly something to be had, even without knowing what that something was. Getting the occassional care package from distant friends and relatives, and loving to get coffee because it was valuable for barter on the black market.
Interestingly though, listening to her talk, it seems in her memory the food shortage was a secondary concern. "We were hungry, but we weren't starving to death." What appears to have left more of an impression was the lack of heating fuel during the winters. Only enough coal to keep one room warm during the day, heating up bricks to take to bed, enjoying making the beds in the morning because she could warm herself with the residual body heat in the blankets...
There's so much I want to get from my mom before her time is up. It's not an easy topic for her though.
I'm not a food hoarder but I do try to have the basic staples on hand for a short-term emergency. To be honest, if it came down to global permanent disaster, I'd rather not still be around. We have guns and ammo but not the amount we would need in that kind of scenario. Even the best of humanity would be a threat when faced with a starving family, and I don't want to be in the position of having to take out a desperate family man in order to eat one more day. As for living through hard times, we were very poor and many days the only thing in the house might be self rising flour and bacon grease for poor-man's gravy and biscuits, it kept us alive but I sure hope I don't have to do it again.
"----- To be honest, if it came down to global permanent disaster, I'd rather not still be around. ----"
It is not really up to you. Your family may need/want you to be around.
Let me think of another situation which will start armageddon.
As you know, science has basically completely mapped out the very complex billions of human genetic code. We know which DNA/tRNA gives you green eyes, which makes you cancer prone and it will not be difficult for scientists to figure out which sequences cause aging, and fix/modify, economically, the process of human aging.
Good news? You tell me. Imagine population doubling every few years.
This post was edited by dcarch on Mon, Feb 3, 14 at 8:50
Slightly OT: Soylent Green was Edward G Robinson's last movie. He was dying of cancer as it was being filmed, and no one on the set knew it except Charlton Heston. So in the euthanasia scene, where Robinson's character is being euthanized, Charlton Heston's chararacter tries to interrupt the sequence: Chuck's tears were real. Robinson died eleven days later.
Here is a link that might be useful: soylent green scene
This post was edited by arley on Mon, Feb 3, 14 at 10:09
Rita, like you, I grew up poor. Dinner was quite often whatever someone could shoot. There was never a choice, you ate it or went hungry.
FOAS, my Grandmother lived through the depression, as did my Mother, who was born in 1935. My Grandfather died when Mother was 12, and Grandma went to work taking in laundry, cooking for other families, whatever she could do to feed her 3 children. She finally had to move in with relatives. It was not common for women to work and she had no education, she never even learned to drive a car. She didn't talk about being cold but I remember growing up in an old "renovated" schoolhouse that my Dad refurbished. My upstairs bedroom was so cold in the winter that I could scrape the frost from the inside of the window with my fingernail and we always laid out clothes out the night before so we could dash downstairs and dress by the woodstove. We had no indoor plumbing and a middle of the night trip to the outhouse was not something we looked forward to in Michigan in January.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so I'm just going to imagine turning my little farm into a commune where the family can all work, growing vegetables and hunting deer, pumping water with the old pitcher pump and heating with wood and making poor old King and Copenhagen pull the plow, LOL.
Of course, I couldn't give up valuable space to pasture cattle, so they'd have to go, and we'd take up raising rabbits instead, which is one of the most nutritious meats anyway.


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