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| 31 | No I don't. No "I don't know" here. I believe there is no Devil, nor any demons or anything like that. | Do you believe in the Devil? |
| 32 | > But in the end, I'd rather take happiness over truth when it comes
> to something like this. The way I see it, if it's going to give my > life more meaning, then I can cope with it. When it comes to it, I think I am happier not knowing than believing. I don't really know why this should be so, but I am happier now than I was in High School hanging out with the Jesus Freaks (that was what everyone called us back then) or in Long Beach when I was attending synagogue and keeping kosher. | Do you believe in God? II |
| 33 | I don't know. | Do you believe in God? II |
| 34 | > Not at all. Or at least, I'm agnostic about God in the same way that
> I'm agnostic about the elves that live under my bed and sing Russian > folk songs every time I leave the room. Wish I could be agnostic about the pods under the bed times I sleep alone... | Do you believe in God? II |
| 35 | Let's see, I make pumpkin pie (1), pumpkin as a side dish (2)( this is baked like squash with butter, a little cinnamon and brown sugar), pumpkin soup(3)( this is sort of a potato-leek soup with pumpkin mixed in with the potatoes, with shallots and some orange peel added) and an Indian dish (vegetarian) called koftas(4). Koftas can be made with any vegetable or fruit that can be grated, such as green papaya, carrots or pumpkin. You use a half cup grated vegetable to one cup of besan (chick pea flour). If the vegetable is watery, you should squeeze out as much water as possible before adding the besan. Add some spice, about 1/4 tsp. of garam masala (the basic mixture is equal weights each of cinnamon sticks, cloves and cardamom ground together. There are regional variations of this mix in India, some may contain fenugreek) with pumpkin, perhaps some cayenne, and a pinch of baking soda knead this into a stiff dough, form it into little balls and deep fry them until golden brown. Then you make a sauce with about a cup of chopped fresh tomatoes, a half an onion, a clove of garlic, some cumin, coriander and turmeric. cook this in a skillet until the tomatoes form a pulpy sauce, mix in a cup of water well, then add the fried koftas and simmer for a few more minutes. Serve with basmati rice and dal.
I'm not interested enough in soda breads like pumpkin bread or banana bread to make them myself, but I'll eat 'em if someone else makes 'em. I did make a yeast pumpkin bread loaf once though. | How many different dishes containing pumpkin do you know how to cook? |
| 36 | There are some brownies I like to eat more than others.  | Do you like to eat brownies? |
| 37 | I am going to go with "other". I have this fantasy about how my life would change if I won the lottery. It goes something like this:
I would buy a huge parcel of land somewhere in the Northwest. Preferably something with large wooded areas and a body of water on it or a stream running through it. Build a house, using one those "green" contractors I've seen on the Discovery channel, a house designed to use as little electricity/gas as possible. I would farm part of it, grow as much as my own food as possible, keep some animals like cows, goats a few pigs, etc and grow as much of their feed as possible on the land. Possibly build a small greenhouse for growing exotic plants such as Banistereopsis Caapi (the Vine of the Soul), Psychotria Viridis and a couple other "herbs" I might not want in plain view of black helicopters. I would also be more generous in supporting NPR, Arts Museums and MAPS. Possibly start a trust fund for making grants to private companies looking to explore space, stuff like that. | In what manner would you live more extravagantly if you could? |
| 38 | > I would have called that home, hobby, toys (exotic plants), and charity,
> not other. If all that depends on the lottery, you don't seem set > on making it happen. I'm not. I said it was a fantasy. By and large, I'm content with my life as it is. | In what manner would you live more extravagantly if you could? |
| 39 | > As long as you're doing something you enjoy as much.
Pretty much so. I love my job, I love coming home in the evening to Sharon and Grant. Some things I could do without, but that would be pretty much true in any situation. | In what manner would you live more extravagantly if you could? |
| 40 | > Yeah. Strip away the contextual conceptions and time spent with a
> daisy could be as fascinating as with some exotic corpse plant. In other words some may have the ability "To see a world in a grain of sand And Heaven in wildflower To hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour"? | In what manner would you live more extravagantly if you could? |
