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[escardos]

so imagine you're making ratatouille and you don't like tomatoes. you don't like the taste, the texture, the putting them in water and the peeling them-- ugh! so you say to yourself "lookit, this whole dish is nothing but vegetables, so what does it matter if i leave the tomatoes out?" a seemingly innocuous decision on the surface, but 2 hours or whatever later when you're done cooking, you open the oven to find a complete mess! just a pot full of baked vegetables, none of them congealed or somehow unified. what happened to your beloved ratatouille?! so you take to google and find that the tomatoes are an essential ingredient of ratatouille, as they forma a "sauce" of a certain kind that makes the whole thing work. and so a seemingly innocent decision has destroyed the very foundation of the established order with disturbing ramifications towards the whole. in this essay i will examine how martin luther's 95 theses lead to protestants being more boring than catholics.

Comments

UN: GioGio

[giornata_gloriosa]

I am interested to know how this analogy works further down the road.

Will you be posting this thesis somewhere?

[escardos]

absolutely not!

[giornata_gloriosa]

Oh? That's a pity, it sounded like such a good subject to expound upon.

I was very curious as to how you would manage to portray such a variety and blend of vegetables to facets of religious following.

[escardos]

right right?!

although if you think about it, the way that parents force children to eat their vegetables to the point of hiding and/or disguising them as other foods is similar to how all facets of mainstream media and politics have religious undertones that even bleed into areas where christianity isn't a main religious. how many anime have you seen that use christian imagery as their inspiration? too many!

[giornata_gloriosa]

[Sorry Flat but you have thrown Giorno off his game for a moment, the next response takes time.]

Parents do that? Is that really a normal thing? Being from Italia I can say first hand that you are hard pressed not to be inundated by the tomato from the moment you can first understand it. It's there at the corner market, every menu has sections that specify dishes without it, because it's so pervasive. There is no way to just avoid it. If you don't like tomato, you soon feel like you have to, in order to fit in, while even if you do like it, you sometimes feel the need for an Alfredo sauce or a light soup, where you can avoid it.

[escardos]

ah youre from italia? amazing, we're practically neighbors!

but thats a very good argument! so you're saying that even though it is readily available, people have the choice to take the tomato or not, the same way that people have the chance to choose catholicism or not, even in a country as catholic as italy! is that what you mean?

[giornata_gloriosa]

Si, from Napoli in particular.

People have a choice, yes, but those choices are limited. And at the same time, they are always marked as 'different' from their counterparts. For example you cannot have pizza margherita without it being made with a tomato sauce, and anyone you ask to do so will tell you "then it's no longer pizza margherita". So while there are options they are not always equal and not always given the same value, because they don't include what everyone has been raised to consume, and have as a part of their day to day life for so long.

In this same way, can you call you're allegorical ratatouille a ratatouille, considering the outcome?