EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW

by Terry 78 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  Two people will often choose each other because they both sense the same emotional unavailability in the other that they feel comfortable with. Often intelligent but not emotionally demanding. Usually one partner will refuse to share their emotions and be evasive if their partner tries to share theirs. They will set limits and withdraw if an attempt is made to test those limits. Each partner will feel it is the others fault. They will both feel unwanted

  I'm running out of lifespan in which to learn such things. However, there are mysterious reasons for selecting someone as a mate. There is a program running in our mental CPU we can't seem to access. It has a way of choosing that is often inimical.

  I think often we are problem-solving in an inside out fashion. We hack away at something we need; as though the brute force method is the only method available.

  Certainly enlightenment trumps that.

  Do we choose our parents in disguise? Ugh! I'd hate to think that.

  Are we clueless? Eyeless in Gaza, as it were?

  I'm beginning to think so.

  T.
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  Nathan Natas

  Splenda is synthesized from table sugar (sucrose). In the process, three chlorine atoms take the place of three OH groups in the sucrose molecule.

  The manufactures of Splenda say that because it is not a molecule found naturally, our bodies don't know how to metabolize it, and so it passes through the body unchanged, meaning it contributes zero calories.

  It seems there is some evidence that even though the splenda is not burned for fuel, some of it - about 15% - remains in your body after it is consumed. In one study, one individual retained 100% of consumed splenda after 3 days.

  So what's it do while its hanging out in the body? We can hope that the answer is "nothing," but no one seems to know.

  http://www.janethull.com/newsletter/0205/truth-about-splenda.php

  Have you tried STEVIA sweeteners? They are 100% natural and plant-derived non-sugar sweeteners.
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  Rod P

  Terry,

  Sometimes the problem is "Too MUCH intelligence."

  For some women, that's a turn-on. For others, it's a turn-off.

  Maybe it started out OK, but then later found she couldn't handle it, understand it, or keep up with it. IF SO, did she become battle fatigued, indifferent or maybe brain-dead in that department or subject?

  Rod P.
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  EvilForce

  Thanks for that info Nathan.
  
  I try to not use any artificial substances at all. This Splenda drink I had was a new version of a beverage I already drank. I drink the Juice / Soda water mixed beverage. They have like 30 calories for a 12 oz serving which is 80% less than a traditional soda...and soda is too sweet for my tastes. But they came out with these Splenda beverages w/ 0 calories. So I grabbed a 4 pack of these off the shelf by accident. As I was drinking my 4th one I realized I had been having really bad headaches over the past few days....sure enough I did a little experiment and it was the Splenda beverages causing it.
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  tetrapod.sapien

  interesting thread.

  i was camping on the weekend, and admiring the glaciers, even though they are all pretty much receding. so, are we (homo sapiens and our technologies) really the only cause of the earth becoming warmer? or is the earth in one of it's natural cycles, and we are only slightly moving it along faster with pollution?
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  minimus

  WHY DO "INTELLIGENT" PEOPLE JOIN THE WITNESSES???
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  Nathan Natas

  Q.: WHY DO "INTELLIGENT" PEOPLE JOIN THE WITNESSES???

  A.: Intelligent people have the same emotions - fear, greed and hope - as unintelligent people.
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  JW83

  Thanks Gill, I'll give it a try!

  Do we choose our parents in disguise?

  I have a sneaking suspicion this is so ...
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  Terry

  WHY DO "INTELLIGENT" PEOPLE JOIN THE WITNESSES???

  This is a trick question.

  Intelligence is not defined by potential but by what is actual. Intelligence IS as intelligence DOES.

  One cannot demonstrate intelligence when forking over control of cognitive mental property to strangers.

  Letting a hitch-hiker drive your car using a fairytale roadmap to the land of Oz does not demonstrate intelligence.

  So, the answer to your question is:

  Intelligence ceases when when becomes a Jehovah's Witness. The two cannot co-exist.
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  Soledad

  Terry: why do you use underscores in some of your replies?

  example: "text_______ text text ______"