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Subject: Re: [nosdiet] Keeping the Sabbath
From: Reinhard Engels
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
    
Rich,

You're absolutely right. Most of us could stand to do
with a little less "peak time."

Reinhard

--- Rich Lafferty <rich+yahoo@...> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:21:36AM -0700, Reinhard
> Engels <beautiful_idiot@...> wrote:
> > Hi Allan,
> > 
> > The only thing I'd watch out for is that the 6 PM
> > boundary (or whatever you decide) doesn't start
> > creeping in either direction.
> 
> I thought about this for a second and realized that
> there's another
> aspect involved: no-one will ask "Can I move my S
> day" because they have
> another day on which they want to eat *less* S-food;
> it'll always be a
> move to be able to eat more. In this case, I assume
> the original poster
> will use S-day privileges fuller on Friday evening
> than Sunday evening.
> 
> There's nothing inherently wrong with that, except
> that I think it
> might be worthwhile to sit back and ask whether or
> not that is
> compatible with the reasons one is doing no-S in the
> first place. 
> Me, I would love to be able to go and have a date
> square midweek, (there
> are few better date squares than at one local coffee
> shop here), and I
> would happily trade Sunday evening for that because
> I rarely have
> sweets Sunday evenings -- but that tradeoff is *why*
> no-S works for
> me, so I don't.
> 
> -Rich
> 
> -- 
> Rich Lafferty
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