it is going to be announced that with all the anticipation for the coming of armageddon, we didnt notice the actual event.
thats right, it was an invisible armageddon.
if we take the 70 years of captivity, plus 1914, we get 1984. then we use the people equal hours rule and apply it to the 144,000, using division, and we get 6,000. then we use the hours equal years rule to divide 6,000 by 360 to get 16.66 additional years, add that to 1984, and we get the year 2000 for armageddon!
I've thought for a long time that converting armagedon from a literal to a spiritual event is the only way for them to get this monkey off their back. Every year that goes by makes the prediction look stupider.
Yes, I have thought of that as well at times.. *runs to basement*
well done, medium, rare?
and how do you cook it?
on the grill, in a frying pan, or grill in the oven?
Well, I cook at a large restaurant, and cook about 200 steaks each night I work (except for Fridays when more people order fish).
Since the mad cow scare, I have noticed that more people order their steaks well done or medium well. When I first started cooking 14 years ago, rare was "in", but not anymore. Like every cook, I hate to cook the steaks well done because they lose a lot of their tenderness and there is no merit in cooking a well done steak. When I have time, I usually finish off the well dones in the oven, as they come out juicier.
Someone mentioned that when a medium well is ordered, it usually comes out well done. This is true. A medium well should still have a small amount of pink in the middle, but the problem is that when we leave a bit of pink in the middle, 50% of the medium wells will be sent back to the kitchen, it happens over and over again. Personally, I do leave a bit of pink in the middle and always tell the waitres that if they want it a bit more done, I will be more than happy to do it. That way the waitress feels comfortable offering the customer to have it a bit more done, because they often feel reluctant to bring steaks back.
We cook all our steaks on a huge charbroiler, it can hold about 60 steaks at once. Except for steaks which are requested Pittsburgh style, those are cooked in a cast iron pan on the stove top. I hate doing the Pittsburg style because it smokes up the whole kitchen and I don't think it's healthy for the cooks.
I am from the old school and cook all my steaks by touch. (Touch them to feel how they are done). Most younger cooks do it by timing, which I'd never trust, because the temperature of the charbroiler can vary.
As for eating it.. I am mostly vegetarian and almost never eat meat, but when I do eat a steak, it has to be very, very, very rare.
i was thinking about this today and i found a interesting thought in my mind that i thought would be worth considering here.
i should start off by saying that i do not think prayers to god are answered, as it is like making a call to a wrong number.
however, i do think you can fool yourself into thinking they are, in the following way.. let's say you pray over and over asking for this and that and that.
When I was very young, maybe 10 years old, I asked both a nun and a priest the same question.. What if I want to go swimming tomorrow and I pray for good weather, and my neighbor who is a farmer really needs the rain for his crops to grow and he prays just as hard as I do.. who will God listen to?
One of them answered.. He will not listen to either one of you. Prayer is just meant to make your own faith stronger.
Boy, have I prayed in my lifetime, oh have I prayed.. over and over and over again. I do not feel as if my prayers were answered, ever.. The JWs told me perhaps I was praying for the wrong things.. later they told me my prayers didn't get through because I was a smoker.
If I pray for my neighbor who currently has throat cancer and he gets better, does that mean that my prayer was answered, or would he have gotten better anyways?
I truly and deeply admire people who can pray with their whole hear, convinced that someone up there is listening. I am not one of them, not anymore. I think it is a gift.
*bows to tetragod*
today at 3 pm i will take donna to the hospital for her examination.she is putting up a good front but i can tell that she is really scared about the possible outcome.. being a nurse for years, one gathers up a lot of knowledge and she does know a lot about the body and its failures.. she is scared and i am terrified.
her three sons and family will be there also.
so i won't be alone.. my few children in this area are still jw's and do not give a crap about me or donna being ill.. so they won't be there.
for those who recognize quackery in the medicinal form: .
do you find a disproportionate amount of witnesses - primarly older women - promoting and peddling miracle cures?
or do you think the occurence is the same as outside the organization?
He used to use this hair remedy and swore it was growning new hair. Why a 35 yr old man with a full haed of hair and no male pattern baldness in the family thinks he is losing hair and then regrowing it is beyond me
That's precious, lol.
Reminds me of this guy who peed around his garden every day to keep the elephants out. His neighbor said.. but there are no elephants in this part of the world. The man replied.. see?? I told you it worked!
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ooooh i think some poor microsoft admin's butt is about to be in a sling.. .
I kill threads. Thats what I do
Not this time, IP SEC, not this time..
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Yeah. To be honest, I walked away very shortly after discovering JWD. Without this site, I might still be going to the meetings.
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Thanks you so much for posting this. I read through it with great interest, as "this generation" is the brick which made me stumble and wander away.
This caught my eye..
(9) In the Old Testament a generation was reckoned as forty years. This is the natural way to take verse 34.... He plainly stated in verse 34 that those events would take place in that generation.... One may, of course, accuse Jesus of hopeless confusion.... It is impossible to escape the conclusion that Jesus, as Man, expected the end within the lifetime of his contemporaries.
Why is a generation considered to be 40 years in the old testament, I wonder? People of old, according to the old testament, lived to be 800, 900 years..
if you haven't signed up yet there are only a couple of weeks left secret santa 2005. .
for all of you who are on the secret santa gift exchange.
give people an idea of what you like.
My wish list..
I don't usually get presents for Christmas, so I am quite excited about this.
*Collection of Shakespeare's sonnets. They can be found anywhere and the book is pretty cheap.
*Sleepytime Extra tea from Celestial seasonings.
*Any assortment of tea which has the paper tags. (celestial seasonings does not have paper tags. I have been collecting tea tags for almost 30 years.)
*any book..especially poetry
*Or... just surprise me.
oh my god it was so horrible....was the worst pain i have ever been in.
it was a 3 hour labor contraction....i couldn't even walk.
i was crawling into the emergency room.
Yes, I had kidney stones in February of 2004. Wow, hopefully never again..
I was supposed to watch a friend's store that day, because she had things to do.. She picked me up in the morning for the 20 minute drive to the store. Just as I was getting in the car, I felt a slight twinge of pain in my back. By the time we arrived at the store 20 minutes later, I was in the worst possible pain. I mean, the absolute worst. I too was crawling on the floor, because I couldn't sit or stand or walk or do anything. As I don't have health insurance, I didn't want to go to the hospital. My friend called the doctor and they gave me an appointment for 3 in the afternoon, that was still 6 hours away. 15 minutes later I was in an ambulance on my way to the hospital.
The guy in the ambulance called ahead to let them know we were coming, but they said that their ER was very busy at the moment, so the ambulance had to go to a different hospital which was much further away. I had already been in the ER for at least 20 minutes, they had taken my blood pressure, an EKG, taken some blood, checked my temperature, but nobody had thought about giving me a pain killer. Then, when a different nurse came in to check my blood pressure once more, I became completely furious, and I don't get mad too often. I screamed that someone was going to give me a pain killer right NOW or I would break the damn place down. Another nurse came in, with the intention of putting a pain killer in my IV, and somehow the IV broke and he had to put a different one in before he could get me the pain killer. It was horrible. Luckily, the pain killer worked right away and it made all the difference in the world.
Then I had to take this little sifter thing home and pee through it in order to catch the stone. After doing this for like a week I got tired of it and just threw the thing out. They gave me strong pain killers and something for the nausea. I still carry the painkillers wherever I go. All this cost me a good $4,000 which took me a year to pay off.
A few facts I learned..
90 % of people who have kidney stones are male.
After you have developed kidney stones, you have a 50% chance of getting them again.
The develpoment of kidney stones can have several causes. Usually they can only determine the cause when they actually see the stone and can figure out what kind of a stone it is.
