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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.7%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

114 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 251

[Descan]

I personally prefer biltong.

Dried meat! Dried meat! Dried meat!

[Adragis]

I personally prefer biltong.

Dried meat! Dried meat! Dried meat!

With you there.

[Orange Wizard]

Cured/dried meats are pretty great, yeah.

Although this isn't the food thread, so let's try and rerail ourselves a little.

[Frumple]

... there is religious themed food, after all. M'currently forgetting the name of some kind of... think it was either hindu or buddhist? Drink-type... thing. That was apparently fairly prominent early in the religion's history, but the recipe was lost/forgotten at some point. Wish I could remember what the hell that stuff was called, or if there's been any progress made figuring out what the zog it was...

[Helgoland]

Soma, I believe. More of a drug than a foodstuff though.

[Frumple]

Ah ha, yeah, that's it! Thought there was an s in there somewhere. And yeah, do recall that being one of the theories as to what the stuff was, but it's been a good few years since I looked at it any.

Anyone know if folks have figured out anything new in the interim?

[Bohandas]

Soma, I believe. More of a drug than a foodstuff though.

You're confusing the Hindu drink with the similarly named drug from Brave New World. IIRC the soma talked about i  Hinduism is roughly equivalent to the nectat and ambrosia of greco-roman paganism

[Helgoland]

Nope. The latter was a direct inspiration for the former, and nectar and ambrosia were different things altogether: They were the food of the gods, not something derived from a real-life plant.

[Bohandas]

I'm thinking of amrita, aren't I?

[Loud Whispers]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34226003
Crane crash in Mecca kills about 80 people

[MonkeyHead]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34226003
Crane crash in Mecca kills about 80 people

Heh, on September the 11th, of all days.

Disturbing irony bonus - the crane was an asset belonging to a construction company owned by the Bin Laden family, and was hit by lightning.

The tin foil hat brigade are going to fucking love this one.

[Rolan7]

Gaia works in mysterious ways

[Orange Wizard]

That is quite the coincidence.

[Loud Whispers]

At least it wasn't during the Hajj. You'd see ten times that number.

That's not the best consolation

[Orange Wizard]

"At least they weren't Christians"?