Only at Hellenic College!

I was sitting at the breakfast table today with Voldemort, the first Christian Emperor, I.M., and some others, and we got involved in several random conversations. One was about how we eat cupcakes...some eat the icing first, some eat the bottom first, some take the icing off and eat the top first, some eat it all together, some eat some of the icing and then eat the rest of the icing with the cupcake itself.

We also discussed Lenten eating strategies...good fake meat, fake cheese, this, that, and the other, and someone said that in northern Kenya, all they eat is meat, blood and milk. If you were going to impose a strict fast, you would have to not eat anything. So the priests, with the blessing of the bishop, modify the fast, and the people there don't fast in quality but in quantity. They eat the usual meat, blood and milk (it is considered an insult to eat vegetables), but eat a lot less of it during Lent. Then Voldemort came up with an Orthodox commercial idea: a bunch of PK's [priest kids] are standing around and one of them starts eating what looks like bacon. The others are scandalized and say "is that bacon?!" and the guy is like, "no! it's fakeon" (fakeon [pronounced FAKE-uhn] is a proposed very delicious meatless bacon substitute made by Orthodox for consumption during Lent).

Another discussion - which would only be found here - was between myself and Voldemort, after someone brought up that the first Christians were accused of cannibalism in the Eucharist. We were arguing over whether the Eucharist COULD be considered cannibalism, by any stretch of the imagination. Voldemort's argument was that, because Jesus is God, it is not. I said that it's not because it's Eucharist that Christ commanded, but if we were to be technical, you could say it is, because Christ is also fully human. We went back and forth on these points for awhile, and then Voldemort decided that it is simultaneously cannibalism and not cannibalism, because Christ is God and human. I maintained that, aside from the fact that it's the Eucharist (which means it's not cannnibalism), it would be, because you can't have cannibalism and not, in the same analogy. We looked like we were at a dead end, and the conversation kind of fizzled out.

The last two...only at seminary. I love going here, there is so much unique stuff!

Reading today...a lot of it!
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