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Is Burger King seriously advertising its chicken fries as "offensively spicy"? Because that comes off as either they're horribly spiced fries or--there is no 'or', because the only other thing I've got is offensiveness being a good thing and that can't possibly be right.

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Why am I in the room with the TV, again? Because I don't like Bar Rescue for reasons and am consequently being subjected to said, complete with poking a guy bartender to do better at bartending by the bartender-trainer saying he's seen girls do better than this guy.

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Magic schooling that makes sense, part 1: introductory-level students are required to learn to cook. Because magical strength comes from personal energy, and an ill-fed witch is therefore not much of a witch. Also because cooking trains people in the properties of common herbs and such and in the skills for combining same in useful manners.

...no, I have no plans of writing an answer to Hogwarts. Honest. I do however have cinnamon buns in the oven.

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Has anyone else read Roger Walsh's Essential Spirituality? I am only a quarter through but it is most intriguing.

Premise seems basically to be kaberett's theory of religion as "here is what we have learned over the past several millennia, this shit is important". Walsh draws from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism to discern what these major world religions have in common—and, surprise surprise, a lot of it looks familiar from the reading I've been doing on ancient Greek philosophy and modern Western polytheism. Walsh identifies what he calls the "seven perennial practices" as:

Transform your motivation: reduce craving and find your soul’s desire.
Cultivate emotional wisdom: heal your heart and learn to love.
Live ethically: feel good by doing good.
Concentrate and calm your mind.
Awaken your spiritual vision: see clearly and recognize the sacred in all things.
Cultivate spiritual intelligence: develop wisdom and understand life.
Express spirit in action: embrace generosity and the joy of service.

And the thoughts I wish to express are not coagulating properly. :(