December 27, 2005
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Let’s play an audio track from Phil’s stomach 17 hours ago:
“grhrhrhrhr…bluburnapubuhubbah…whourlawhoosh…grrrraggggggg…”
That’ what egg nog does to Phil’s stomach!
Controversy Conversation: This one ranges back a few years to a dispute I had with my older sister Hope. After waking up at a late hour I ventured to have a meal. Somehow, and in someway we ended up arguing what meal I was having: breakfast or lunch? She claimed it was lunch, for it was 12:30 P.M. and that’s right about the median hour for holding lunch. My position was that since it was my first meal of the day it had to be breakfast, which was supported by the dictionary definition of breakfast: “The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.”
The definition presents another strong case for it being breakfast since it says usually eaten in the morning; indicating the possibility of a non-morning breakfast, which is what category I say my situation falls under.
But, if I ate at 12:30 P.M. and then again at 7:00 P.M., where does lunch fall? It is excluded. Besides, lunch very nearly did not make the cut as being an actual meal, minding that much of the world in history and present does not have a sufficient supply of food to apportion three meals a day, and lunch is the one that is omitted.
Although, one could argue for lunch on grounds of indicative food choice. Supposing I woke up at 12:00 P.M. and fixed myself a sandwhich or soup rather than cereal or a bagel, is it then lunch? I should say it is still breakfast, for if I woke up at 6:00 A.M. and made a steak I would still consider that breakfast on account of it being the day’s initial repast.
However, another problem arises. There exists an absurd crowd of crazed and deprived souls who opt out of morning’s marvelous menu to starve until lunch. If you didn’t catch that, these people skip breakfast. This lends serious problems to my argument. If these emaciated kids wait until noon to eat lunch, does that mean that the first meal of the day isn’t always breakfast? For in this case, their first meal would be lunch.
Alas, I think only a clarification be made. Of course, breakfast is the first meal of the day, but I think it also has a time barrier from the moment you wake up to when you first eat. This is where the debate turns into a muddled heap of puzzle pieces. If someone wakes up and eats immediately, then no matter what time it is that person is eating breakfast, given they just arose from sleep for the night, or that was their night’s sleep. However, if they delay in eating, then I believe their motives are what count towards labeling the meal. If they had been meaning to eat breakfast, or if they intend to eat breakfast, then it is their breakfast. However, if a person awakes and simply skips breakfast, then the next meal they eat is most likely lunch, however I do believe it is within the realm of possibilities to skip both breakfast and lunch.
What makes all this open to individual concern is this: The expended timeframe laying after the night’s slumber until which the person is not able to eat the meal defined as “breakfast” anymore is not recorded in any objective setting. Also, a person’s intent on specific meals can only be weighed by one’s own conscience.
Thus, I conclude that not all meal scenarios may be defined in written law but that one must be true to oneself when eating meals. Think of the hobbits: They have two breakfasts. Just goes to show that meal defining is subjective to the dining party.
Changing tunes, where is all the wretched snow?!? I am home alone all day when I could be building snowlific monuments! Sigh…
I wish you all very merry days, and not just on Christmas, but that on each day we may have joy in life and Jesus. Farewell my confreres! Peace and Grace.
Comments (8)
lol hey Phil.
Let’s see.. to import a video on the internet you can do a number of things. What I personally would do is.. if you don’t mind having an angelfire link to the video, upload the video onto a free angelfire (http://www.angelfire.com) webpage and then simply make a link that people can click on when they go to your angelfire page. If you need the video on another type of webpage.. example, xanga… then the only service I know of that doesn’t always block the linkage is geocities (http://www.geocities.com). If you do use geocities then upload your video on there and then make a link on your xanga that will go to the URL of the video, which would be on your Geocities “webshell” … (directory). If you want to display the video on xanga (like Nate did) then you have to enter in the html code for it.. which isn’t really that hard and you can find out how to do that on (http://www.lisaexplains.com). I think that’s about it.. have Nate or me help you if you need anything else.
.. I’ll trust that you’ll make your video work and go ahead and give both eprops to you now. If you have trouble and can’t get it to work.. I’ll make sure to make a comment that gives you zero. So make it work.
With love,
— Joe
haha hey phil. what’s uppppp? i hope you had a good christmas. break is almost over. =(
eating is so difficult!!!
nice kitty
um phil i was in youngstown like a week ago lol
Yo dawg, had a great time catchin up on things gone by today.
Nice post? Ya sure, it was entertaining.
Phil, Phil, Phil….
Happy 2006.
Hello. (I’m a complete stranger who also happens to be in the “Christian Thinkers and Writers” blogring.)
Controversy response:
I think you could be eating both breakfast and lunch. Like you said, breakfast is defined as the first meal of the day, but all the definition for lunch says is that it is a meal eaten at midday. Since lunch doesn’t necessarily have to be the second meal, it is possible for lunch to be one’s breakfast. The real question is: Where does breakfast fall if someone stays up all night, eating occasionally?