Originally posted by Johnv:
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Turkish delight, is infact, another name for hashish laden candy. Is that what Lewis had in mind? Dunno, but we are back to "have no appearence of evil".
This is based on ignorance. From a person in the US who has no knowlege of what Turkish delight is, selling that notion may be possible. But the fact is that the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an English novel, and in England, Turkish delight at Christmastime is as commonplace as hot dogs as a baseball game.
Only a selfrighteous America-centric attitude presumes that Turkish delight somehow qualifies as an appearance of evil. Not to mention, the claim is an appearance of ignorance and stupidity. </font>[/QUOTE]Name calling is not a sound basis for a debate strategy John. Facts are.
Denial is not a river in Egypt, but it is alive and well in the new age church of experiential faith. The dopers know what turkish delight is:
Rabelais tells us the hero of his tale, Pantagruel , a giant named after the said herb, loaded for a voyage and, “amongst other things, it was observed how he caused to be fraught and loaded with an herb of his called Pantagruel ion, not only of the green and raw sort of it, but of the confected also.” The confection Rabelais refers to is the edible
Turkish delight — a hashish confection.
http://www.alchemylab.com/cannabis_stone3.htm
Other writers seem to know:
The story began with a French doctor named J.J. Moro de Tur. In 1845 AD he used the hashish as part of his treatment for melancholy, manias and other psychotic diseases. Meanwhile in Paris there were some rumors that some author promised a reward for the person who presents a new type of amusement. Dr. Moro decided to face this challenge and offered the author the first dose of hashish saying that this was the author’s part of the Heavens. The writer was astounded by the experience and later became the first member of “The Club of Hashishers”. The members of the club gathered once per month and some of them were from the highest rank of the then artistic class. Another writers and composers also wrote about hashish. The Cambridge students valued very much the so-called
Turkish delight – bonbons with hashish, covered with sugar and gelatin. All kinds of cakes were made from hashish, all with different exotic names.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115926/drugs/cannabis.htm
I know, you are still in denial. How about a paper published on a United Nations website?
The products known in various regions as Mosmok, Mosjuk, Teriaki, Banghia, Malak, Assyuni and Teridka belong to the same category.
1.Garawish type. This is a paste, which cracks between the teeth. Chira (hashish) powder is mixed with well-cooked syrup, opium and Datura Stramonium being sometimes added. It is scented with various essences and spices (vanilla, cloves, cardamoms cinnamon etc.). It is thickened over a gentle fire and then emptied onto an oiled marble slab. The mixture solidifies on cooling and is then cut up.
Formerly, kinds of barley sugar prepared in a similar way could be obtained in Tunis.
Other sweetmeats which are commonly sold in the Levant and North Africa serve on occasion as vehicles for the drug, e.g.:
1.Stuffed dates. The confectioner splits the date, takes out the stone, and replaces it by a paste which is coloured green and made of almonds, pistachios and sugar. In the illicit traffic, dates have been found in which the paste used for filling contained chira powder.
2.Rahat Lokum
(Turkish Delight): a very common sweetmeat made of starch, sugar and water and flavoured with essences (orange, lemon, rose, banana etc.). Pistachios and almonds are added. The product is semi-soft, and is sold in the form of parallelepipedal pieces rolled in a mixture of sugar and starch.
J. Bouquet has had the opportunity of analysing three samples of Turkish Delight, one of which contained chira powder, and the other two very finely-powdered Cannabis tops.
1.Kiste Kibarfi, Misari, Kulfi (India and occasionally Egypt), Briji, Capsh, Ikinji and Zahra (Syria, Palestine) are forms of sweets containing Cannabis.
The above are the best known preparations. They are however, only typical recipes. No short list would be comprehensive. The makers and sellers of the drugs spend their time in thinking out recipes that will attract and keep their customers.
A. CHARNOT[29] ( La Toxicologie au Maroc, 1945) gives the formula of a Majoun-Dawamesk type electuary well known in morocco:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/bulletin/bulletin_1950-01-01_4_page003.html
Hey...go see the movie. It is between you and God. Might want to review how He feels about homosexuals and drugs, and those who revel in it though.Also review His opinion on magic, false worship, etc.
Be careful not to compromise too much, because it becomes easier as you go:
Luke 13
24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
