[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Knocking:

My friend introduced me to her lasagna recipe recently; she halves her ricotta with cottage cheese, and puts thick slabs of sliced tomato in top of her sauce. It was heaven.

Do you have any photos of you and your...friend, enjoying her halves of ricotta?

[Isabella Abbey]

Re: Knocking:

Do you have any photos of you and your...friend, enjoying her halves of ricotta?

A great question! I'll tell her I need some pictures to document the project, and our enjoyment, and that'll make it so that we do it and I'm tucking into her lasagna again all that much sooner.

[John Creeser]

Re: Knocking:

And asking to be let in, at least for a little while.

I'm Isabella (very true), I'm a widow (very true), I've been living virtuously while alone (maybe a bit less true). Raised Lutheran by wonderful kin, married in our church by a wonderful Minister, and I like photography, phenomenology, and pasta.

Careful with that lest you draw out the crazies in that blasphemous group a spaghetti worshipers.



.....actually I like pasta too Just not the flying kind.....so strange.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Knocking:

Ah, Pastor. Couldn't things just as easily have gone the other way, gender-wise?

If the chain of events is followed from a "blame-free" perspective, we see that evil was introduced into the lives of humans, that they ignored a sense of consequence, and that they were soundly punished for their indiscretion for all eternity. Temptation, conscience and respect to our collective moral compass are such critical ideas to master in spirituality; doesn't this supersede the more minute details of the story?

Since the Deity expelled both of them from the Garden, doesn't that demonstrate he found them both equally culpable in what went down that day?

If He punished them both equally, how come I don't bleed from my tallywhacker?

Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Since God only made childbirth painful after the Fall, presumably He had some system planned for the Garden of Eden whereby squeezing a fully-formed human being out of one's unmentionable ladyparts would've be painless and fun otherwise.