Hil, I don't know if this is an actual answer, but I vaguely remember a sermon in my youth in which a young man comes to Jesus and asks how he should live, and Jesus asks him if he is following the commandments, and he says yes, and then there's some stuff about giving up all his belongings, but my point is, according to my priest at the time, that passage signifies that commandments needed to be followed. And there were specific things saying you don't have to, for example, ritually wash your hands before eating. So maybe it's that sort of reasoning gradually accumulating over time into "Do this, don't do that".

I have less info on the proper amount of wet food to give a cat. Which is kind of impressivein a way, because that is hardly any info to be less than.

Sean, I'm here. How about I email you? Profile addy good?

Sean, I think a rough estimate is about an ounce of wet food per pound of cat.

That seems like a rather lot, especially if one is trying to cut back on cat weight.

Harvey and Sammie are doing quite well on high quality wet food of about 4-5 ounces per day. Sammie is about 10 1/2 lbs, and Harvey is about 11 1/2 lbs.

Backflung momentarily, Andi.

I have found all manner of nutty nutrition advice on the web. Breatharianism surprises me not.

Why do Christians believe in following the ten commandments, and why only those as opposed to all the rest?

I know, I know! (At least, I know historically what happened, if that helps).

Once upon a time, there was a dude named Paul. Dude decided, for pretty much practical reasons, at the time (second century, IIRC. Could be earlier), that in Christianity (nobody called it New-Judaism then), all commands (as in mitzvahs) aren't that useful, circumcision most of all (because most non-Jews then connected that to human sacrificing, and that's not such a great sales promotion).

I can be more coherent if and when I'll wake up, and if you'd like to know more about it. I had two classes about the dawn of Christianity.

I'm feeling a potential to be useful, and it's way before 9am. Cool.

Oh, Franken, man - ~ma to your sister, and {{}} for the both of you.

Yeah, I knew the part about Paul saying that Christians didn't have to follow the commandments; what I was wondering was why some Christians still believe they have to follow those first ten, anyway.

Why am I still awake? And why am I earwormed with "Love Boy" by Dana International, when I don't think I've even listened to that song in about a year? At least it's better than last night, when I was earwormed with the "There is a boarding house, not far away. Where they serve ham and eggs, three times a day" hymn filk that so horrified Ma Ingalls in one of the Little House books. I do not understand where my brain is pulling these songs from.

(Just the share the earworm: [link] Because if I've got to be humming "Yesh li love boy!" other people should, too.)

My last earworm was a mashup of my own brain.

I imagined Johnny Cash singing "The Sounds of Silence."

It has been drifting around in my brain ever since.

why some Christians still believe they have to follow those first ten, anyway.

You need a structure, y'know. Basic Christianity isn't that different from Judaism.