If you are simply worried about the caffeine, then eat a flavor other than chocolate. Vanilla, strawberry or any of the other many flavors with no chocolate.
corrine
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- Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:32 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: ice cream or not ice cream
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3662
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:29 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: the great vegetarian debate
- Replies: 5693
- Views: 972429
Re: Is vegetarianism even healthy?
I, too, am a happy, healthy vegetarian for many decades. Clearly it does not affect my health as I regularly work eleven hour shifts, with much of the work of the physical variety. Supplements can be had cheaply, should you desire to take them, but a a well balanced vegetarian diet should give you e...
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:26 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Waterboarding is how America baptizes terrorists
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4586
Re: Waterboarding is how America baptizes terrorists
As a citizen of the United States of America, I consider Sarah Palin to be our national disgrace. It is she and others like her that give the world the impression that we are truly evil people. As a woman, it is even more troubling to me to hear this sort of thing from another woman. Maybe I foolish...
- Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:21 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Renouncing INTERNET thread -
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6276
Re: Renouncing INTERNET thread -
Actually, the internet has given me a lot of good things. The ability to research antique books and documents easily, for my work. The ability to learn new things at little or no cost. I have availed myself of several learning sites. The ability, through the local library's internet presence, to dow...
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:28 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Resolutions for 2014
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4219
Re: Resolutions for 2014
Accept the cigarette. Just don't light it.
corrine
corrine
- Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:00 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: The importance of Sobriety for advancing on the Path.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5079
Re: The importance of Sobriety for advancing on the Path.
I think that it is not so much a matter of abstaining from alcohol and other intoxicants as it is embracing sobriety and all the positive that comes with sobriety.
corrine
corrine
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:59 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Out of the blue...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1550
Re: Out of the blue...
Thank you for the link to 'truth or fiction'. I was horrified when I saw the video, thinking it was real. Of course, today it is very easy to fake anything.
corrine
corrine
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:04 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Jury service
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4762
Re: Jury service
I will not serve on a jury. At my age, thankfully I no longer have to. But the reason is that I cannot be responsible for incarcerating another human being who may well be innocent. Causing him/her untold pain and suffering. Even if guilty, American prisons do not rehabilitate, they are there to pun...
- Thu May 16, 2013 5:25 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: After all, what would make it be a religion?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 14119
Re: After all, what would make it be a religion?
I think I have always thought of Buddhism as a life practice. I think of religion as blindly following a set of teachings, at the heart of which is, almost always, a specific deity or deities who is/are worshiped. A deity that controls us in some way, as opposed to Buddhism which seems to teach cert...
Re: Abortion
I have always felt that the whole subject of abortion could be avoided if we human beings could be rational and accept that young women have sex and plan accordingly. Meaning preventing conception in the first place. In today's modern world contraception should be free and available to anyone who wi...
- Thu May 09, 2013 5:57 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: the great vegetarian debate
- Replies: 5693
- Views: 972429
Re: the great vegetarian debate
About that whole living in Alaska thing. A dear friend lived in Tok, Alaska for several years. She was vegetarian. She had a large greenhouse thing going and grew all sorts of veggies all year. In addition, and this was back in the sixties when it was more difficult, she ordered large amounts of whe...
- Thu May 09, 2013 5:38 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Violent sports
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11806
Re: Violent sports
Don't violent sports endanger life? Do not these athletes shorten their lives and the lives of their opponents? Rodeo for sure hurts animals. Horse racing is known for horrific treatment of animals. I am just a person trying to live a life guided by Buddhist principles and I thought that included re...
- Mon May 06, 2013 7:45 pm
- Forum: Family Life and Relationships
- Topic: Feeling out of touch with people
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4084
Re: Feeling out of touch with people
I would suggest that you seek friends through doing what you can to help others. Volunteer in a hospital, nursing home, animal shelter, library or ? and you will encounter others who wish to make a positive difference in the world. These may turn out to be positive friendships. I do not think that i...
- Mon May 06, 2013 7:29 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: the 5th precept
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25202
Re: the 5th precept
Would not decaffinated coffee and tea solve the problem? My late husband loved green tea but had a blood pressure issue that was worsened by caffeine so he drank decaf green tea, both hot and iced, and found it to be a fine substitute. Is not decaf tea and coffee available everywhere? Or is it still...
- Mon May 06, 2013 7:17 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Potential wasp nest problm
- Replies: 46
- Views: 12076
Re: Potential wasp nest problm
A couple of years ago that happened to me and I tried to remove the nest. I was stung many times and ended up at urgent care. Cost hundreds of dollars. I had a allergic reaction and er doc said that is common with multiple wasp stings. I now use a deterrent every spring so that they do not build nes...