did anyone have a trip on sugar? sounds weird i know but i recently was extremely greedy and a pound of fudge. apart from feeling very sick for the next 12 hours, i couldnt sit still. i had a very very long walk of about 6 miles to try and burn myself out. when i eventually got to bed i felt really dizzy and had the most awful nightmares. i will eat sensible amounts in future - half a pound should be about right!!
Posts by holly
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25Are you allergic to something?
by JH insome people have to almost live in a bubble, because they are allergic to so many products.. probably there is a difference between being allergic, and just plain sensitive to certain products.
in any case, are there things you just have to stay away from?
i can't stand cinnamon it totally burns me up.
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Fifty Per Cent Of Personal Bankruptcy Claims in US Due To Medical Costs
by hillary_step ini was stunned by this dismal piece that i read in forbes magazine recently.
coming from the uk it is astonishing to me that an affluent nation as is the us, cannot provide better protection for the health and welfare of its citizens.
i was especially astonished by the fact that insurance companies withdraw their coverage while a person is sick and in need of help.
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holly
Sad reading. sometimes im glad im british. our NHS has many faults, but theres no real worries and we certainly wont go bankrupt if we need medical care
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just wanted to say hello
by rune ini know i have been quiet for a while... i am sorry my friends, hopefully i will think of something meaningful to say again someday, something we can all discuss and enjoy.
things will never be the same again, and i hope that from this passing shadow to the next you find a piece of what you are looking for.. the tiniest things can make the most enormous differences.... i wish you all well.
--daniel
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holly
Well Im new so as you dont know me BIG HELLO
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holly
excuse me for noticing, did friend do something wrong. do you all know her or something? sorry not been here long, missed something i think
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holly
i didnt realise there were people on here not happy with this site. seem to have missed them
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Anyone like me where you still believe in MOST of their doctrines?
by inquirer inlike i don't like that un involvment, record keeping.
i don't know what to think about the paedophile stuff, because you could accuse the catholic church of that too.
but apart from those things i still believe that god's name is jehovah, his son is jesus, no trinity, and he died on a torture stake... i love reading the new world translation, i believe it's the best one, but i love reading other translations too!
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holly
minimus ... if all Christians go to heaven ... who are the 144,000? I mean, how would they be different
in the church i was taught these are the tribes of israel, that everyone was going to heaven
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Anyone like me where you still believe in MOST of their doctrines?
by inquirer inlike i don't like that un involvment, record keeping.
i don't know what to think about the paedophile stuff, because you could accuse the catholic church of that too.
but apart from those things i still believe that god's name is jehovah, his son is jesus, no trinity, and he died on a torture stake... i love reading the new world translation, i believe it's the best one, but i love reading other translations too!
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holly
Hiya
that is a strange question for me. because i was studying with the jws but never actually became one. id believed what i was taught in church for years and could not cope with the idea of hell being an everlasting place of torture (other things as well, so i left).
I still believe in God as sovereign and as creator of all that exists. I believe in adam and eve and their fall, jesus redemption of mankind, that there will be and end and things will be put right. i dont profess to know alot about the jws, having only studied, although ive learned a great deal from this board.
but what does sit more comfortably is the idea of hell, being death, rather than everlasting torture. i could never go back to church when they teach this. even if they are right and its true, i could not worship god, if i truly thought this was the case. he would change from being a loving God in my mind, to a wicked God. when you get a problem with one teaching, especially a big one, it casts doubt on the rest of the doctrine. If anyone was scared growing up with jws, it was equally as bad growing up with people telling you that you were going to go to hell if you didnt believe in jesus as your saviour. there were times it was hard to believe in jesus as my saviour, with the knowledge of hell if i slipped from grace.
im not knocking what anyone else believes. i just couldnt cope with it myself, and prefer to believe the jws theory on that one.
holly
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Is Wearing a Cross wrong?
by AshtonCA inever since leaving the org 10+ years ago, i have often wondered about wearing a cross and if it is wrong to do.
i think the jw's see it as an idol, and i do know that the baptists actually pray to the cross because after i left the org, i became baptist for 2 years and they did pray to the big cross on the wall.
i'm not sure i believe that praying to the cross is such a good thing to do, but is wearing one as a symbol of my belief wrong?
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holly
I have heard baptists say they pay tithes of 10% of income to the church and do know they have a television mininstry on sundays and willing to bet they get paid for that as well .
Thats what the church taught me. you had to give 10 percent of your income. i know lots didnt, but i remember the minister of the last church i attended, specifically saying that the montly income was low, and even if the whole congregation were pensioners, it should be 4 times what it was, if everyone was giving ten percent.
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Is Wearing a Cross wrong?
by AshtonCA inever since leaving the org 10+ years ago, i have often wondered about wearing a cross and if it is wrong to do.
i think the jw's see it as an idol, and i do know that the baptists actually pray to the cross because after i left the org, i became baptist for 2 years and they did pray to the big cross on the wall.
i'm not sure i believe that praying to the cross is such a good thing to do, but is wearing one as a symbol of my belief wrong?
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holly
Nope, they specifically bowed down on one knee and prayed up to the cross even going so far as to say Oh heavenly cross, we pray to you for guidance, sor something to that effect. I had never seen it done and I was taken aback.
Ash
definitely NOT the way of the baptists. Kneeling down maybe, even praying towards the cross as a reminder, but saying 'heavenly cross'? hmm, bad bad minister or could you have misheard ?
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Bad Nitrous Trip . . .
by carefully faded ini just had the strangest experience at the dentist.
i went to have a cavity filled and the dentist gave me nitrous - as usual.
i have taken nitrous at the dentist many times with really good results.
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holly
Wow, after reading this I made an appt for the dentist right away. I told him to give me nitrous even though I'm just getting a cleaning
Was just thinking the same!