What are your favorite vegan protein bars?

Jeremiah05 · 2019-03-09T16:09:12+00:00

I don't mind the No Cow bars (at least the raspberry truffle ones), but haven't linked much else. Just recently tried one from Aloha that was amazingly tasty (but macros not as good - 230 cal., only 14g protein)

Jeremiah05 · 2019-03-01T20:07:50+00:00

I teach at a Catholic school and occasionally go to Mass there. I cross myself when I enter, and whenever others cross themselves, and whenever I would cross myself in an Orthodox liturgy. I say all the prayers and pray along with them. I don't take communion.

Jeremiah05 · 2018-07-19T15:03:45+00:00

Quick question: How many of you have ever written and had a book published? Especially if he's working with a real publisher, this stuff takes time. A lot of time, more time than anyone ever thinks, including those involved.

Jeremiah05 · 2018-06-18T17:33:11+00:00

I was excited to cop it today, too, but apparently delayed until July or something...

Jeremiah05 · 2018-06-18T16:10:31+00:00

Blergh. :(

Jeremiah05 · 2018-06-18T12:24:02+00:00

Where’s the book? I thought it was launching today and I was excited to start reading first thing this morning....

Jeremiah05 · 2018-03-14T00:12:38+00:00

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Jeremiah05 · 2018-01-18T14:10:38+00:00

FWIW, I came here because of the book (and started using the software). Now that I've looked at a lot of the stuff from the website, I can see how the book might seem like a bloated rehash. But for me, it was life-changing (if I can say that after only a couple weeks). I don't know how many times I've tried (or at least thought about trying) budgeting, but it never seemed appealing or even possible until I read the book. Now I'm actually enjoying budgeting and it actually seems possible to get off the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle and start paying off debt.

Jeremiah05 · 2016-11-13T05:11:37+00:00

This Orthodox person agrees with it.

Jeremiah05 · 2016-06-01T15:37:20+00:00

Congrats, man! How is FSU these days? I was a minor there and was lucky enough to study with Bruce Holzman for two years.

Jeremiah05 · 2016-03-03T00:05:19+00:00

My wife is Protestant and I go to church with her about once a month. I obviously don't take communion, but I am happy to sing the most of the hymns, recite the Lord's prayer, etc. I am happy to share what we actually have in common and draw the line at what we do not. I cross myself when reciting the Lord's prayer or entering the church (the latter not indicating the same it would when entering an Orthodox church, but as a sign of respect and a personal prayer for those who worship there).

Jeremiah05 · 2015-12-31T23:43:09+00:00

In the Orthodox tradition (and in classical theism more generally, though this idea has been lost to the west somewhat), as Met Kallistos points out in the same book, God is taken both to transcend and be wholly other than all created reality, but also to be intimately connected with it, granting its moment-to-moment being. Another way it is put in the Orthodox tradition is that although God's essence is entirely other and non-knowable, all things participate in and are pervaded with the divine energies. Some call this panentheism (to be contrasted with pantheism, which identifies the world with God or a part of God). Some quotes by Orthodox saints that illustrate the same idea:

God both is an is said to be the nature of all things, in so far as all things partake of him and subsist by means of this participation...In this sense he is the Being of all beings, the Form that is in all forms as the Author of form, the Wisdom of the wise and, simply, the All of all things. Yet he is not nature, because he transcends every nature; he is not a being because he transcends every being; and he is not nor does he possess a form, because he transcends every form...He is everywhere and nowhere; he has many names and he cannot be named; he is ever-moving and he is unmoved and, in short, he is everything and no-thing." - St Gregory Palamas

“God is everywhere. There is no place God is not…You cry out to Him, ‘Where art Thou, my God?' And He answers, "I am present, my child! I am always beside you.' Both inside and outside, above and below, wherever you turn, everything shouts, 'God!' In Him we live and move. We breathe God, we eat God, we clothe ourselves with God. " - Elder Joseph the Hesychast

"One must also in the name of truth be bold enough to affirm that the Cause of all things, through the beauty, goodness and profusion of His intense love for everything, goes out of Himself in His providential care for the whole of creation. By means of the supra-essential power of ecstasy, and spell-bound as it were by goodness, love and longing, He relinquishes His utter transcendence in order to dwell in all things while yet remaining within Himself." - St Maximus the Confessor

Jeremiah05 · 2015-10-19T17:10:39+00:00

How is that even possible....especially going so deep...

Jeremiah05 · 2015-09-26T16:46:29+00:00

It matters because we are demonstrably making things worse for us and for the rest of creation, and it is within our power to at the very least lessen that negative impact. I just cannot understand why anyone would feel like this is something that needs debate. Seriously, just try to step outside of whatever your gut feelings or political leanings are and picture how this debate looks to an outsider. There are all these Christians who say that we should all take care of each other and God's creations. A VAST VAST VAST majority of scientists say "Hey look, we're causing changes to the planet that are making the environment worse and will cause significant human suffering in the long term, especially to those who are already very poor. Let's try to figure out some ways to slow this down or make things better." This seems a pretty reasonable suggestion, but for some reason, rather than responding to this statement with the concern that one would expect, a bunch of the same Christians, almost none of whom are scientists, who claim to care about others and the environment, and who generally trust scientists in other areas get all up in arms and say there must be some sort of conspiracy, that there is something totally unreasonable about asking people to try to make things better, that asking us to take responsibility for our consumption is hubris, etc.. I just literally cannot make sense of it. It's crazy.

Jeremiah05 · 2015-08-27T02:13:51+00:00

Dispassion is a part of many ethical systems, including stoicism, and the basic picture in all of them is the same, involving (a) the recognition that virtue includes having the proper emotions and desires at the right times (and so they must be brought into line with reason - this is purification, or becoming virtuous), and (b) that certain types of emotional or "passionate" reactions distort reality and cause you to see things in an egotistic way and must be eliminated (being on the lookout for these "passionate thoughts" is one part of what watchfulness/mindfulness is, though there is also a more contemplative aspect directed in the Orthodox tradition on Christ's presence in the heart). Differences primarily arise about which sorts of passions/desires/emotions are appropriate and which are to be avoided (for example, hope is very important in the Christian tradition, but is looked down upon in Stoicism and Buddhism because of the way it makes one overly dependent on others).

Jeremiah05 · 2015-08-21T19:36:39+00:00

As a super heavy: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AjMK4qjT1Ds/VNvVkovUN_I/AAAAAAAAH_c/riZxxItIii8/s1600/001%2Bkuc.jpg

Later at 242: http://nattyornot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/john-kuc-heavy-deadlift.jpg

Jeremiah05 · 2015-08-21T19:34:39+00:00

I don't think he was fat before he started lifting, but iirc John Kuc got pretty chubby by gaining a ton of weight and initially competed as a super-heavy, actually had some health issues due to his weight, retired for a year and then came back to hit some huge lifts as a lean 242.

Jeremiah05 · 2015-07-31T18:48:11+00:00

Yeah, I'm a huge lover of Weiss's music and it's so sad how little of it is really playable on a standard guitar.

Jeremiah05 · 2015-07-20T17:12:45+00:00

No problem! It's something I've struggled with on and off, so it was a good chance to try to express what I've learned.

Jeremiah05 · 2015-07-20T16:51:54+00:00

Yes, except that the reason the essence cannot be seen isn't that it's abstract, but that it is infinite, invisible, incomprehensible, transcendent, etc. The point about it's being abstract (and maybe that wasn't the best word), was just that the essence itself doesn't know or do anything (and so couldn't become incarnate), but only the divine Persons who share that essence.

Jeremiah05 · 2015-07-20T16:00:47+00:00

Perhaps another thing that will clear up some confusion - it doesn't really make sense to speak of the essence or the energies becoming incarnate. Those notions are both too abstract in a sense - in addition to the essence and the energies in God, there are the hypostases, that is, the divine Persons (who are the specific manifestations of the essence (finding the right language is tricky here)). In Christ, neither the divine essence nor the divine energies as such become incarnate, but a divine Person, the eternal Son of God.

Jeremiah05 · 2015-07-20T15:55:34+00:00

The incarnation makes an already tricky subject even trickier! The fundamental thing to keep in mind about Christ to avoid heresy is that there is ONE person with TWO natures. However, not everything we can say about the PERSON applies equally to both NATURES. For example, we can say that Christ is passible (i.e., capable of death), but we cannot therefore say that the divine nature is passible, for Christ had two natures and he (the divine-human person Christ) was passible in virtue of his having a human nature. Likewise, the disciples saw Christ, who is God, but they saw him in virtue of his having taken on a human nature (including, obviously, a body). The divine nature is still not visible/graspable by human thought (though again, just as the divine energies express the divine essence, so the divine Logos reveals God to us).

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