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Intense conversation is really a meal in itself
A one-time stop on my small career path toward "Toronto Elitist" was movie extra. In the first X-Men movie I played a concentration camp prisoner. Dressed in striped burlap, rain machines turning the Gooderham and Worts Distillery ground into mud, we moved sandbags from one side from the courtyard to the other. At the time, I figured the assistant director must be an idiot, as this action served no purpose. Why would anyone do it?
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Tragedy, he admits that, is just a condition of existence. Evil, for example torture without motive, is differentiated from tragedy by its lack of necessity and conscious choice.
"The useless work is a good example," he expands, during dinner at my place. "That's unbelievably sophisticated evil, I think. It's artistic almost."
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"So which was squash soup, was it?" asks Peterson, offering a footnote of courtesy, as I whisk away the bowls [FN1]. It is a gesture of acknowledgement for my effort, without slowing down conversation between him and the egghead friends I've invited. Talk of torture moves to couples therapy, that they does reluctantly.
"People torture each other to death," he continues, "often in families and in close relationships by inflicting unnecessary suffering on one another."
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"It really should not be conflict free. Let's say you've kids and you've got a dispute about discipline strategies. That's worth a fight."
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A rule that I might have thought could be self-evident, isn't to go home hungry.
"Lots of individuals fight if they are hungry. They're hyperglycemic and they are irritable as hell. I noticed that in my family. Friday night, we always fought."
It's unfortunate that Peterson's wife wasn't capable of making it, as I'd based a lamb course round her wheat allergy [FN2]. As a host, the wheat thing is really a blessing, rather than a liability. It provides me with a framework to create a menu.
That's one of the topics he examine; the request of limitations. Borrowing a proverb,[url=http://giuseppezanottisneakerssale.webmium.com/][b]giuseppe zanotti men's sneakers for Sale[/b][/url], he proposes that the god who's omnipotent and omnipresent, lacks only limitation. This is exactly why he creates.
"Most of the things that people do for entertainment involve the placing of arbitrary limitations on themselves."
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"Right," he rewards my sophomoric perspective. "They have to invent kryptonite."
Again, as I cook and my friends keep him engaged, his asking about the white grits and black beans dish is perfunctory [FN3], a barely checked obstacle. Conversation picks up the theological hook,[url=http://kevindurantnerfshoesreleasedate.blogspot.com/][b]http://kevindurantnerfshoesreleasedate.blogspot.com/[/b][/url], skipping to Cain and Abel's story and just how it defines personal responsibility.
Much as I'm familiar with mythology from comics, The truth is that that I haven't read the story of Cain and Abel, assuming it to be a whole chapter of the Bible.
"It's about a paragraph long, that story," laughs Peterson [FN4].
[FN1] An impulse purchased hubbard squash, using its deep-orange blush,[url=http://rogerviviershoes.webmium.com/][b]sell 2013 discount Roger Vivier shoes outlet Roger Vivier on sale Roger Vivier shop[/b][/url], leads to a soup. The sweet squash, roasted, is puréed with shrimp stock, garnished with Thai basil and lemongrass oil.
[FN2] Barley was a choice of starch to support said wheat allergy. Feeling Biblical, I choose lamb. On a suggestion from the newly purchased book, the flavors Thesaurus, I blend it with almonds, apricots and lots of butter.
[FN3] My first menu idea is to play off the good and evil thing with white corn grits and black beans or squid-ink pasta with mushroom sauce. After getting the grits and understanding how to cook them,[url=http://giuseppezanottisneakerssale.webmium.com/][b]giuseppe zanotti men's sneakers Giuseppe Zanotti Official Outlet Shoes for Sale[/b][/url], they remain on recption menus, despite choosing to abandon the theme because it's stupid. Tomatoes get hidden underneath the black beans because food, like morality, needs more complexity than absolutism.
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