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  Refusing to eat Lucky Charms cereal...

  by Confucious in

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  as i sit here eat my favorite cereal for breakfast, i remember a time when it used to offend me to eat lucky charms.

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  anyone else have an experience of things you used to "offend" you??

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  Gday allymom,

  Im in Australia and Sanitarium is big here probably has about 30% of the market. I dont know about the brands you mention but weet bix, puffed wheat, granola are all Sanitarium. Actually weet bix would be a great diabetic cereal it has very low sugar content. I just looked in our pantry we only have weet bix there now all the other 6 boxes are kelloggs. Sanitarium also make products for McDonalds here in Australia.

  I have an Adventist mag called the Record which has Sanitarium products advertized nutmeat, savoury lentils, nutolene all made by sanitarium. Actually at least once a year instead of a sermon someone comes from the company to give us samples of a new breakfast cereal or some new product and a talk about the company.

  Valis yes I saw that movie ' the road to wellville ' old Kellogg had some wacky idears. Barry

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  Refusing to eat Lucky Charms cereal...

  by Confucious in

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  as i sit here eat my favorite cereal for breakfast, i remember a time when it used to offend me to eat lucky charms.

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  barry

  The Sanitarium health food company that makes many breakfast cereals is owned by the Adventist church and Nabisco is owned by the Catholic church. My Catholic wife always askes me to buy Nabiso cereals. I always buy Sanitarium or Kelloggs out of habit I guess. Kellogg started the SDA health food company but then had a falling out with the church and started his own company back in the early 1900s.

  Dont tell the loyal JW about these connections, what would they have for breakfast?. Barry.
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  U.S. trade deficit widens, hitting a record

  by Simon in

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  ouch !.

  things seem to be going really pear shaped and picking up steam:.

  pitiful job growth in july, a sagging stock market and now this ... what has gone wrong with the us economy?

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  Everything will be OK the J curve is kicking in and the deficit will look much worse for a while and then there will be an improvement. Thats what the economists would tell us anyway.
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  Disfellowshiping and Disassociation the SDA way

  by barry in

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  actually they, the sdas, dont do either what they do is to 'drop membership' as they now call it.

  it was beleived in the past disfellowshiping had negative sentiment and so they changed the name, of course they have never shunned.

  i sometimes have a look on a website called former adventist fellowship and being an adventist who is in the gospel side of the church and opposed to traditional cultic adventism i agree with a lot of their material.

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  There you are WT Society if you are reading this you are down 4-0. Surely you dont want to be upstaged by a church of babylon the great by the much more reasonable way they treat those who may dissagree with them.

  We Christians have chosen to follow one who went out of his way to encourage, comfort and assist those whom others despised. Those who did the despising in the time of Jesus often felt ethically compelled to do so. They were mistaken. Let's walk is the footsteps of Jesus.
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  The bill for food

  by Stefanie in

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  our bill is 150 dollars a week for groceries?.

  how much do you all pay?.

  it used to be 100, but since the kids are getting bigger they are eating alot more...lol

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  two adults and two kids and it costs about $150 a week Australian and we dont budget on what we spend we allways get whatever we want, but that doesnt include when we eat out about 3 times a week.barry
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  Disfellowshiping and Disassociation the SDA way

  by barry in

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  actually they, the sdas, dont do either what they do is to 'drop membership' as they now call it.

  it was beleived in the past disfellowshiping had negative sentiment and so they changed the name, of course they have never shunned.

  i sometimes have a look on a website called former adventist fellowship and being an adventist who is in the gospel side of the church and opposed to traditional cultic adventism i agree with a lot of their material.

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  Actually they, the SDAs, dont do either what they do is to 'Drop Membership' as they now call it. It was beleived in the past Disfellowshiping had negative sentiment and so they changed the name, of course they have never shunned.

  I sometimes have a look on a website called Former Adventist Fellowship and being an Adventist who is in the Gospel side of the church and opposed to traditional Cultic Adventism I agree with a lot of their material.

  This thread is titled 'Request to drop membership'

  Posted on Monday June 2004 My husband wrote a letter a few weeks ago to the SDA church he had his last membership at. He got a response letter today, so I thought I,d share it with you all.

  Dear xxxxxxxx

  At the xxxxxxx Church business meeting this past week, it was voted to drop youre name from membership at the xxxxxx Adventist Church, at youre request.

  Though we regret that you have made this decision , we want to assure you that we respect your wishes and believe that our gracious God will lead you and bless you abundantly.We rejoice in the same gospel of grace, and look forward to meeting you in heaven one day, with warm christian greetings.

  xxxxxxxxx

  Senior Pastor.

  I thought it was quite a decent letter as in my experiance with the SDAs and also the Baptists just ignore such requests to drop membership and the person doesnt know whether his or her wishes have been implemented.

  You can read the whole thread on http://64.227.85.187/discus/messages/11/2074.html?1087939034

  Barry
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  Dropping in to say HI!!! - Long Time No Talk

  by kelpie in

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  it has been an absolute long time since i have been here and so much has happened.

  i am now married (13/03/04) and gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on 9/7/04 called lachlen.

  he was 7lb 10oz and 50 cm long.

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  gday Kelpie ive been thinking about how you are Im glad everything is OK, Barry
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  Any dealings with car dealers out there

  by barry in

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  ive been in the business of buying a new car.

  most dealers have been ok to deal with but one bloke acted like a right clown.

  i asked him for a quote, i could tell he wasnt going to better the price i had much at all but offering me very little over the quote i already had, in fact in a very short time he had the price above the price of a compeditor and i was having to pay $600 more for the color i wanted, and to top it all off if i didnt make the deal then and there the deal whould have to be completly negotiated again.

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  150 over dealer invoice thats great, I negotiated them down $3500 dollars and I bet they still made a small fortune out of me.Barry
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  Any dealings with car dealers out there

  by barry in

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  ive been in the business of buying a new car.

  most dealers have been ok to deal with but one bloke acted like a right clown.

  i asked him for a quote, i could tell he wasnt going to better the price i had much at all but offering me very little over the quote i already had, in fact in a very short time he had the price above the price of a compeditor and i was having to pay $600 more for the color i wanted, and to top it all off if i didnt make the deal then and there the deal whould have to be completly negotiated again.

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  I forgot to mention when looking at cars at some lots the salesman would allways say . How much do you want to spend? I started saying to them I want the best car for the cheapest price. That shut them up.

  Anyway we just got the new Holden Equipe today. It has a 3.8 liter V6 engine and uses 11.3 liters per 100km, backing senses, competer which we havent worked out yet, it has automatic headlight which comes on automatically when it starts to get dark and heaps of other features.Of course all the Aussies out there will know all about the Holdens so Im only giveing the details to the foreigners out there. Holden is made by General Motors.Barry
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  How Tall Are You?

  by Sunspot in

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  we've learned so much about each other and i thought i'd toss this out atcha.....

  i'm five feet tall (or short---however you see it :-) and wondering how tall you are!

  annie

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  barry

  LT just as well im not Scottish i wouldnt like people lookin up me kilt