Wednesday, January 11, 2006
experiment
Pardeep and I went to Dairy Queen for Blizzards. Mine was Cookie Dough, and it was so gross. There were so many pieces of Cookie Dough. After 3 spoonfuls I ate only the ice cream, leaving the Cookie Dough pieces in the cup, or spitting them back into the cup (yeah, I know, gross!). Then I wondered if it would be possible to actually make miniature cookies with the pieces of dough. Probably not, I thought. But there would be no harm in trying...
First we washed the pieces of Cookie Dough. They were washed mainly because they still had ice cream on them. I had no intention of eating any possible cookies that might be the result of this project. I didn't really like the idea of putting them into the toaster oven after they had been in my mouth, but I figured it was okay since they would be on tin foil, and they had been rinsed.
Here I'm dropping them onto the "cookie sheet".
In they go...
At this point they actually seem cookie-like!
About now, the kitchen started smelling like freshly baked cookies. My cousin asked what kind of cookies we were making. "Chocolate chip?" she asked. We told her that these cookies were not for eating. She didn't seem satisfied with my answer. "They're jhootay" I said. Then I remembered that she doesn't really care about jhoot. "They've been in my mouth, and it's an experiment." I think at this point she was a little confused, but realized she wouldn't be getting any cookies.
I looked back at the cookies and see this...
This was the end of the experiment, the cookie dough rose and then fell flat and became a runny mess.
I'm so glad I didn't eat this in it's raw form.
First we washed the pieces of Cookie Dough. They were washed mainly because they still had ice cream on them. I had no intention of eating any possible cookies that might be the result of this project. I didn't really like the idea of putting them into the toaster oven after they had been in my mouth, but I figured it was okay since they would be on tin foil, and they had been rinsed.
Here I'm dropping them onto the "cookie sheet".
In they go...
At this point they actually seem cookie-like!
About now, the kitchen started smelling like freshly baked cookies. My cousin asked what kind of cookies we were making. "Chocolate chip?" she asked. We told her that these cookies were not for eating. She didn't seem satisfied with my answer. "They're jhootay" I said. Then I remembered that she doesn't really care about jhoot. "They've been in my mouth, and it's an experiment." I think at this point she was a little confused, but realized she wouldn't be getting any cookies.
I looked back at the cookies and see this...
This was the end of the experiment, the cookie dough rose and then fell flat and became a runny mess.
I'm so glad I didn't eat this in it's raw form.
Comments:
By DAVINDER SINGH, at
1/11/2006 10:51 PM
"ਸੰਤਨਕਾਦਾਨਾਰੂਖਾਸੋਸਰਬਨਿਧਾਨ॥
ਗ੍ਰਿਹਿਸਾਕਤਛਤੀਹਪ੍ਰਕਾਰਤੇਬਿਖੂਸਮਾਨ॥੨॥"
The dry bread of the Saints(home-made, maybe at some gurdwaras) is equal to all treasures.
The thirty-six tasty dishes of the faithless cynic(Dairy Queen, Burger king) are equal to poison.
ਸਲੋਕਮ:੧॥
ਚੋਰਾਜਾਰਾਰੰਡੀਆਕੁਟਣੀਆਦੀਬਾਣੁ॥
ਵੇਦੀਨਾਕੀਦੋਸਤੀਵੇਦੀਨਾਕਾਖਾਣੁ॥
ਸਿਫਤੀਸਾਰਨਜਾਣਨੀਸਦਾਵਸੈਸੈਤਾਨੁ॥
Shalok(Guru Nanak Dev Jee)
Thieves, adulterers, prostitutes and pimps, make friendships with the unrighteous, and eat with the unrighteous.
They do not know the value of the Lord's Praises, and Satan is always with them.
ਗ੍ਰਿਹਿਸਾਕਤਛਤੀਹਪ੍ਰਕਾਰਤੇਬਿਖੂਸਮਾਨ॥੨॥"
The dry bread of the Saints(home-made, maybe at some gurdwaras) is equal to all treasures.
The thirty-six tasty dishes of the faithless cynic(Dairy Queen, Burger king) are equal to poison.
ਸਲੋਕਮ:੧॥
ਚੋਰਾਜਾਰਾਰੰਡੀਆਕੁਟਣੀਆਦੀਬਾਣੁ॥
ਵੇਦੀਨਾਕੀਦੋਸਤੀਵੇਦੀਨਾਕਾਖਾਣੁ॥
ਸਿਫਤੀਸਾਰਨਜਾਣਨੀਸਦਾਵਸੈਸੈਤਾਨੁ॥
Shalok(Guru Nanak Dev Jee)
Thieves, adulterers, prostitutes and pimps, make friendships with the unrighteous, and eat with the unrighteous.
They do not know the value of the Lord's Praises, and Satan is always with them.
By , at
1/14/2006 4:24 PM
By Radmila, at
1/18/2006 8:25 PM
Mr Singh,
Sin comes out of the mouth, it does not go in.
What you eat, and with whom you eat, does not make you faithless, it's how you live.
Sin comes out of the mouth, it does not go in.
What you eat, and with whom you eat, does not make you faithless, it's how you live.
By DAVINDER SINGH, at
1/19/2006 4:23 PM
***'Sin comes out of the mouth, it does not go in.’***
Yes, some forms of ‘sin’ do actually come out of the mouth, but how does sin instill itself inside you?
About 83% of all inward stimulus is through the eyes. This has the most effect on what a person becomes through learning. This is probably the most successful way to bring in ‘sin’ but how many times do you see the sin actually flow into the eyes? Because of that, its possible to filter stuff out.
What goes in through the ears in another way that makes people who they are. Language and communication is learnt through sound. Sound is another way ‘sin’ gets into you. But you cant see the sin go into the ears till you hear something, but you can cover your ears, or forget about what you heard.
Smell is at times another way to take in sin, you can’t see ‘smell’, and its possible to avoid the smell.
The reason why food is so dangerous is because once you eat it, there is no way you can reverse the harmful effects. The other thing is, this form of taking in ‘sin’ is the easiest to avoid!!!!! Usually no one forces you to eat anything (in the 'free' world at least)
If ‘sin’ travels invisibly through light/sound waves and through the air as pressure (sense of touch) and smell and makes us who we are; isn’t it possible for sin to also creep in through the most obvious form: food?
Because food is the only sure thing that’s visibly obvious when someone's about to eat. So food must be the the biggest source of sin intake right? YESS! you're right! FOOD IS the best way to become sinful!
****‘What you eat, and with whom you eat, does not make you faithless, it's how you live.’*****
Don’t the kind of people you hang out with make you who you are?
The way people live determine what kind of things they eat. People who have good intentions carry them into the food they make and eventually affect those who eat that food. Sometimes people get a good ‘vibe’ from someone who walks past them. In the same way the ‘good vibe’ of the righteous is multiplied manifold while they make food and gets into not only food but anyone who eats it.
All the gothicish kids used to have their own group at school, chess playing nerds and the ‘cool’ kids each had their own. If you spend one entire school year with the gothic kids one of two things will happen: 1)you’ll either begin to dress like them talk like them and do everything they do, if you don’t you won’t ‘fit in’ they they're crazy and 2)eventually cease to be a part of their group.
That’s why kids who grow up in a bad part of town are more likely to turn into criminals, what they see around them becomes a part of them. If this weren’t true ghettos wouldn’t be there to begin with.
Yes, some forms of ‘sin’ do actually come out of the mouth, but how does sin instill itself inside you?
About 83% of all inward stimulus is through the eyes. This has the most effect on what a person becomes through learning. This is probably the most successful way to bring in ‘sin’ but how many times do you see the sin actually flow into the eyes? Because of that, its possible to filter stuff out.
What goes in through the ears in another way that makes people who they are. Language and communication is learnt through sound. Sound is another way ‘sin’ gets into you. But you cant see the sin go into the ears till you hear something, but you can cover your ears, or forget about what you heard.
Smell is at times another way to take in sin, you can’t see ‘smell’, and its possible to avoid the smell.
The reason why food is so dangerous is because once you eat it, there is no way you can reverse the harmful effects. The other thing is, this form of taking in ‘sin’ is the easiest to avoid!!!!! Usually no one forces you to eat anything (in the 'free' world at least)
If ‘sin’ travels invisibly through light/sound waves and through the air as pressure (sense of touch) and smell and makes us who we are; isn’t it possible for sin to also creep in through the most obvious form: food?
Because food is the only sure thing that’s visibly obvious when someone's about to eat. So food must be the the biggest source of sin intake right? YESS! you're right! FOOD IS the best way to become sinful!
****‘What you eat, and with whom you eat, does not make you faithless, it's how you live.’*****
Don’t the kind of people you hang out with make you who you are?
The way people live determine what kind of things they eat. People who have good intentions carry them into the food they make and eventually affect those who eat that food. Sometimes people get a good ‘vibe’ from someone who walks past them. In the same way the ‘good vibe’ of the righteous is multiplied manifold while they make food and gets into not only food but anyone who eats it.
All the gothicish kids used to have their own group at school, chess playing nerds and the ‘cool’ kids each had their own. If you spend one entire school year with the gothic kids one of two things will happen: 1)you’ll either begin to dress like them talk like them and do everything they do, if you don’t you won’t ‘fit in’ they they're crazy and 2)eventually cease to be a part of their group.
That’s why kids who grow up in a bad part of town are more likely to turn into criminals, what they see around them becomes a part of them. If this weren’t true ghettos wouldn’t be there to begin with.
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1/20/2006 6:32 AM
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By , at
1/20/2006 6:43 AM
As a mom I'm always on the go so with this new technique I can have Ice cream AND make dessert for my family. I just eat a quart or two and I have cookies for the whole family. What a great way to multi-task and it's tasty too.
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By , at
1/20/2006 6:52 AM
Ummm doesn't sin usually go in AND out of the mouth?.......and what is this 83% thing - that has to be made up. You don't HAVE to become what you see and hear and feel...if you don't want to. Just because you see something does not mean YOU sinned. That is rediculous.
By , at
1/20/2006 6:52 AM
Ah, then my path to hell is paved with chocolate - ahh, good to know! One doesn't 'catch' sin by eating, not anymore than one 'catches' homosexuality. I'll raise a beer while I pray for ya - lmao!!! ha ha ha
By Radmila, at
1/23/2006 10:02 AM
To think that a persons character or faith is in anyway connected with what they eat is hocus pocus in it's highest form.
We are no longer in the middle ages Mr Singh.
Come meet me in the 21st century, and maybe we can all get on a road to peace.
It's this kind of man made quackery that separates us all.
We are no longer in the middle ages Mr Singh.
Come meet me in the 21st century, and maybe we can all get on a road to peace.
It's this kind of man made quackery that separates us all.
By DAVINDER SINGH, at
1/24/2006 1:03 PM
Welcome back! I hope the sponsors were entertaining and actually succeeded in selling something useful.
WARNING: The following comment may cause you to seriously think about what was previously written and force you to reconsider your food gathering practices thereby resulting in greater feeling of peace and content. Reader discretion is advised for the close-minded.
You could argue the Earth is the center of the universe, the Neil Armstrong moonwalk was just a fancy setup and never actually happened, or life was created and evolved through unscientific means. You could give counterarguments for anything. If you don’t want to believe in something to begin with you won’t be convinced even if all the proof in the world is put right in front of you and 2+2 will still equal 5. Sometimes you just have to try to open yourself up to thinking other than your own.
There was a post on Gurmastaks Singhs Blog (http://www.mrsikhnet.com/2005/07/Miraculous-Messages-from-Water.html) a while back on Masaru Emoto and his work on this subject. Hes a Japanese researcher who published a book with compelling scientific evidence that your thoughts affect everything in, and around you with vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and music which affect the molecular structure of water. “The body is very much like a sponge and is composed of trillions of cells that hold liquid. The quality of our life is directly connected to the quality of our water.” And the different states of a persons mind show up visually in water crystals.
Every kind of food does have some water content, so food prepared by people with positive states of thinking and mood must affect the food they are around and ultimately the ones who eat that food.
Besides science different religions also have great significance tied to food and how it affects those eating it, its not just all symbolic. I know for a fact Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs(others too maybe) give out ‘holy food’ obviously for spiritual upliftment: and spirituality is just cleaner thinking without the sin. If this food considered holy by billions from different faiths can have a positive effect on you the same should be true of food made by people with negative thinking corrupting the thought process of those who eat it.
When Guru Nanak Dev Jee(Sikh Guru) was asked why he didn’t eat at a wealthy merchant’s house, he took the food he was eating made by an honest laborer in one hand and the merchant [who was dishonest and mistreated his employees] in the other and milk dripped out of the honest man’s food and blood out of the Merchant’s.
There’s no way eating unhealthy food made by stressed out underpaid unsatisfied fast food joint employees will have any sort of positive effect on you, whether you realize it or not.
WARNING: The following comment may cause you to seriously think about what was previously written and force you to reconsider your food gathering practices thereby resulting in greater feeling of peace and content. Reader discretion is advised for the close-minded.
You could argue the Earth is the center of the universe, the Neil Armstrong moonwalk was just a fancy setup and never actually happened, or life was created and evolved through unscientific means. You could give counterarguments for anything. If you don’t want to believe in something to begin with you won’t be convinced even if all the proof in the world is put right in front of you and 2+2 will still equal 5. Sometimes you just have to try to open yourself up to thinking other than your own.
There was a post on Gurmastaks Singhs Blog (http://www.mrsikhnet.com/2005/07/Miraculous-Messages-from-Water.html) a while back on Masaru Emoto and his work on this subject. Hes a Japanese researcher who published a book with compelling scientific evidence that your thoughts affect everything in, and around you with vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and music which affect the molecular structure of water. “The body is very much like a sponge and is composed of trillions of cells that hold liquid. The quality of our life is directly connected to the quality of our water.” And the different states of a persons mind show up visually in water crystals.
Every kind of food does have some water content, so food prepared by people with positive states of thinking and mood must affect the food they are around and ultimately the ones who eat that food.
Besides science different religions also have great significance tied to food and how it affects those eating it, its not just all symbolic. I know for a fact Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs(others too maybe) give out ‘holy food’ obviously for spiritual upliftment: and spirituality is just cleaner thinking without the sin. If this food considered holy by billions from different faiths can have a positive effect on you the same should be true of food made by people with negative thinking corrupting the thought process of those who eat it.
When Guru Nanak Dev Jee(Sikh Guru) was asked why he didn’t eat at a wealthy merchant’s house, he took the food he was eating made by an honest laborer in one hand and the merchant [who was dishonest and mistreated his employees] in the other and milk dripped out of the honest man’s food and blood out of the Merchant’s.
There’s no way eating unhealthy food made by stressed out underpaid unsatisfied fast food joint employees will have any sort of positive effect on you, whether you realize it or not.
By Chris, at
1/25/2006 8:14 AM
Actually Radmila, Davinder Singh is right. I know there have been many a nights where I have eaten Taco Bell only to wake up in hell.
By Radmila, at
1/25/2006 8:45 AM
I cannot debate with someone whose entire argument is based on abstract stretches between faith doctrine and symbolic stories made up by men whose sole reason for doing so was to control the masses.
I agree that fast food is not healthy and should not be eaten, and that employees of said fast food establishments are not paid well, but I would have to say that it's a stretch of the imagination to drag them into the argument about whether or not faith and food are connected.
I agree that fast food is not healthy and should not be eaten, and that employees of said fast food establishments are not paid well, but I would have to say that it's a stretch of the imagination to drag them into the argument about whether or not faith and food are connected.
By , at
2/01/2006 2:40 PM
Davinder - are you saying that you live off bread and water and don't eat for taste. Do you live life in the simplest form? I hardly doubt it. So just enjoy the ice-cream, it's hardly going to make someone a sinner.
By Prabhu Singh, at
2/08/2006 11:43 AM
I'm not sure what the comment about controlling masses is referring to, but if it is in reference to the Sikh Dharma or Sikh scriptures, it is a grievous error. The Sikh Dharma is about righteous living and serving others. If Sikhs believed in controlling masses we would have missionaries and proselytizers which we don't.
The Sikh Dharma is neither obsessed with the concept of sin. Without being enlightened and with God at every moment it is disrespectful for any human to judge the path of another. What one person considers sin is for their own development. What Davinder Singh believes is sin, should be for his personal development.
Sikhs are required to be respectful and serviceful to all people. A Sikh does not need to argue with somebody who believes differently than them.
There are sooooooo many stories in the Sikh history of the Guru sharing meals with people who were considered unclean or of lower caste. We have langar because we don't believe ourselves to be better than others. Everything is jutha (unclean). Unless you grow your own food and prepare it yourself with your own rituals, then somebody else has already started the process of food preparation. If you believe others to be unclean then it will be a problem to eat in this world.
ਪਹਿਲਾ ਸੁਚਾ ਆਪਿ ਹੋਇ ਸੁਚੈ ਬੈਠਾ ਆਇ ॥
First, purifying himself, the Brahmin comes and sits in his purified enclosure.
ਸੁਚੇ ਅਗੈ ਰਖਿਓਨੁ ਕੋਇ ਨ ਭਿਟਿਓ ਜਾਇ ॥
The pure foods, which no one else has touched, are placed before him.
ਸੁਚਾ ਹੋਇ ਕੈ ਜੇਵਿਆ ਲਗਾ ਪੜਣਿ ਸਲੋਕੁ ॥
Being purified, he takes his food, and begins to read his sacred verses.
ਕੁਹਥੀ ਜਾਈ ਸਟਿਆ ਕਿਸੁ ਏਹੁ ਲਗਾ ਦੋਖੁ ॥
But it is then thrown into a filthy place - whose fault is this?
ਅੰਨੁ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਪਾਣੀ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਬੈਸੰਤਰੁ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਲੂਣੁ ਪੰਜਵਾ ਪਾਇਆ ਘਿਰਤੁ ॥
The corn is sacred, the water is sacred; the fire and salt are sacred as well; when the fifth thing, the ghee, is added,
ਤਾ ਹੋਆ ਪਾਕੁ ਪਵਿਤੁ ॥
then the food becomes pure and sanctified.
ਪਾਪੀ ਸਿਉ ਤਨੁ ਗਡਿਆ ਥੁਕਾ ਪਈਆ ਤਿਤੁ ॥
Coming into contact with the sinful human body, the food becomes so impure that is is spat upon.
ਜਿਤੁ ਮੁਖਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਨ ਊਚਰਹਿ ਬਿਨੁ ਨਾਵੈ ਰਸ ਖਾਹਿ ॥
That mouth which does not chant the Naam, and without the Name eats tasty foods -
ਨਾਨਕ ਏਵੈ ਜਾਣੀਐ ਤਿਤੁ ਮੁਖਿ ਥੁਕਾ ਪਾਹਿ ॥੧॥
O Nanak, know this: such a mouth is to be spat upon. ||1||
The Sikh Dharma is neither obsessed with the concept of sin. Without being enlightened and with God at every moment it is disrespectful for any human to judge the path of another. What one person considers sin is for their own development. What Davinder Singh believes is sin, should be for his personal development.
Sikhs are required to be respectful and serviceful to all people. A Sikh does not need to argue with somebody who believes differently than them.
There are sooooooo many stories in the Sikh history of the Guru sharing meals with people who were considered unclean or of lower caste. We have langar because we don't believe ourselves to be better than others. Everything is jutha (unclean). Unless you grow your own food and prepare it yourself with your own rituals, then somebody else has already started the process of food preparation. If you believe others to be unclean then it will be a problem to eat in this world.
ਪਹਿਲਾ ਸੁਚਾ ਆਪਿ ਹੋਇ ਸੁਚੈ ਬੈਠਾ ਆਇ ॥
First, purifying himself, the Brahmin comes and sits in his purified enclosure.
ਸੁਚੇ ਅਗੈ ਰਖਿਓਨੁ ਕੋਇ ਨ ਭਿਟਿਓ ਜਾਇ ॥
The pure foods, which no one else has touched, are placed before him.
ਸੁਚਾ ਹੋਇ ਕੈ ਜੇਵਿਆ ਲਗਾ ਪੜਣਿ ਸਲੋਕੁ ॥
Being purified, he takes his food, and begins to read his sacred verses.
ਕੁਹਥੀ ਜਾਈ ਸਟਿਆ ਕਿਸੁ ਏਹੁ ਲਗਾ ਦੋਖੁ ॥
But it is then thrown into a filthy place - whose fault is this?
ਅੰਨੁ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਪਾਣੀ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਬੈਸੰਤਰੁ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਲੂਣੁ ਪੰਜਵਾ ਪਾਇਆ ਘਿਰਤੁ ॥
The corn is sacred, the water is sacred; the fire and salt are sacred as well; when the fifth thing, the ghee, is added,
ਤਾ ਹੋਆ ਪਾਕੁ ਪਵਿਤੁ ॥
then the food becomes pure and sanctified.
ਪਾਪੀ ਸਿਉ ਤਨੁ ਗਡਿਆ ਥੁਕਾ ਪਈਆ ਤਿਤੁ ॥
Coming into contact with the sinful human body, the food becomes so impure that is is spat upon.
ਜਿਤੁ ਮੁਖਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਨ ਊਚਰਹਿ ਬਿਨੁ ਨਾਵੈ ਰਸ ਖਾਹਿ ॥
That mouth which does not chant the Naam, and without the Name eats tasty foods -
ਨਾਨਕ ਏਵੈ ਜਾਣੀਐ ਤਿਤੁ ਮੁਖਿ ਥੁਕਾ ਪਾਹਿ ॥੧॥
O Nanak, know this: such a mouth is to be spat upon. ||1||
