Comments on: The family that eats together… https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:39:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Neo-Neocon on the family that eats together https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44750 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:39:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44750 […] Neo-neocon concludes her post on family dinners: My family had its share of problems, and our meals sometimes ended in yelling and/or tears. But mealtime was the time when we most felt like a family, and just as often there was a lot of laughter. Come to think of it, sometimes political discussions would happen at the dinner table as well, perhaps fostering the development of the future blogger in me–one had to learn to defend one’s position with a certain amount of logic and grace […]

]]> By: Kevin https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44650 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:11:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44650 He would, however, eat eggs from the store.
Maybe he thought those came from someplace else.

Obviously it’s different when you know the chicken!

]]> By: Tatterdemalian https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44621 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:14:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44621 Dr. Mengele’s work was not destroyed because it didn’t work, but because it worked all too well. How could some of the greatest intellectuals and humanitarians of the 20th century commit genocide as casually as you or I might get dressed to go to work in the morning? The exact answer was all contained in Mengele’s notes.

But science is a funny thing. It does not create phenomena, only the understanding of existing phenomena. If everyone were to forget Newton’saw Law of Gravity, people would not start floating around; they would simply be rendered unable to build things like elevators and skyscrapers, except by random chance or careful imitation of existing structures. Even that would be fraught with peril, as without an understanding of the forces involved, the most likely result would be that they would make something that works for a time, but eventually falls apart in the end due to inability to compensate for the slight differences that inevitably crop up.

I wonder if destroying his work was really such a good idea. Clearly there has been independent rediscoveries made, by a variety of organizations ranging from the Soviet KGB to Jim Jones. Just like destroying the work of the Manhattan Project wouldn’t have prevented the creation of the A-bomb, only given the Soviets the opportunity to complete it first, I think the destruction of Mengele’s notes have simply turned the knowledge they contained over to those least likely to use their research responsibly.

]]> By: colagirl https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44618 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:49:14 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44618 Besides, per latest research, fat is good for you.

Really? Oooh, link?

]]> By: Thomas https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44615 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:34:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44615 sergey Says:

“It was labeled as scientific racism; this is really an oxymoron. If it is really scientific, it is not racism; if it is really racism, it has nothing to do with science.”

Some of his comments, like about melatonin and sex drive, are probably not science (I doubt he has a study available that can demonstrate it)… He seems a little loose cannonish… I wouldn’t hold him up without triple checking what he is saying…

]]> By: Thomas https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44612 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:30:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44612 I suppose some form of ‘peer’ pressure is involved. You don’t want to eat a bunch of junk (or too much) when everyone is watching. 🙂

]]> By: Tom https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44605 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:48:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44605 Tongue “attached to part of the jawbone”, Neo? Come on, get anatomic. No butcher or meat processor would do that, because doing so would require a great deal of effort to no useful purpose.

The oral tongue of the cow is quite lean, entirely muscular. It is the base of the cow tongue that is fatty. Just as in man. The fat-infiltrated, enlarged base of tongue is the primary cause, in man, of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a common malady of obesity. OSA is treated with a CPAP device, since vigorous weight loss is unachievable for most of the snoring afflicted.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44604 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:15:10 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44604 My wife–a Spanish teacher–and I took some of her students to Spain. We thought we’d covered everything; kings, economy, geography, literature, art.
We hadn’t thought of table manners in restaurants.
We were humiliated.

]]> By: polprof https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44602 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:37:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44602 Already sliced tongue from the deli was big in my family growing up and into adulthood, until one day my then young nephew, who enjoyed the stuff, looked up at some comment about it an adult had made, and said “Do you mean tongue like in cow’s tongue????” He was crushed–and I don’t recall that my Mom ever served it again. . .

]]> By: njcommuter https://thenewneo.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44593 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:59:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/10/17/the-family-that-eats-together/#comment-44593 What Neo’s article seems to say is that in this most primordial of social rituals are born not just the bonding of a family but the necessary habits of respect and reason that allow us to rise from barbarism to civilization.

And yet it wasn’t enough to prevent the children of the Greatest Generation from being hijacked by the Left. Did the members of “G” Generation forget something?

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