i notice such an anti-religion sentiment here for a variety of good reasons.
so many bad things have happened in the name of religion.
however, if you could see to it that your group was different, positive, would you like to be involved in such an endeavor?
Religion has nothing to do with a positive force for good. Positive forces for good come about because of the inherent goodness in people. Religion simply attempts to turn that moral awareness into a means of exerting control over people.
I continually strive to encourage and strengthen the good and positve things in life. One way I do this is by staying uninvolved with religion.
(edited because common sense kicked in...lol).
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/46969/2.ashx.
members of this forum need not pay this attention.. the proper people understand.
I've done a 180 degree turnaround, and now I take what people say at face value, and hope for the best.
Neither position is optimal. I suggest a balanced view based on willingness to accept tempered by a keen awareness of the potential for deceit, and healthy skepticism.
i saw this news article on line: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/16/nbuns16.xml&ssheet=/news/2003/03/16/ixhome.html.
i remember an elder giving a talk at the kh about worldly holiday traditions.
when he came to hot cross buns, he made the comment to just scrape the cross off before you eat it.
I'm familiar with hot crossed legs. I guess I'd have to see the hot crossed buns before I could understand.
or just because it's yummy!
i am on a middle-eastern food tear.
i love it!
There's a Greek deli near where I work that serves some of the items you list, and others. My lunch gang goes there about once a month. Some of it's great, especially the way they do olives! (but you can have my share of the hummus).
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there was a great loss recently in the entertainment world.. larry laprise, the man who wrote the "hokey cokey", died last week at 83.. the most traumatic part for the family was getting him in the coffin.
they put his left leg in and then things just started to go downhill from there.. well, it tickled me ...
What if the Hokey Cokey really is what it's all about?
as many know, witchywoman came to visit me this past week and returned home today.
all in all, it was the most wonderful 4 days we have both spent in a very long time.
having her with me was very comfortable and felt so natural.. i cooked meals everyday, to impress her of some of my other talents, of course .
Damn, you two look good together! Way cool, man.
dede and i are going out drinking and dancing for my birthday.
ill make a fool of myself and dance my booty off!!!!!.
so what are you doing tonight???
First date with a lovely lady. Mexican food and an activity to be determined later... maybe dancing, maybe a movie, maybe just sitting on my porch swing talking in the moonlight.
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http://www.e-watchman.com/essays/peace_security/index.htm
the watchman
i lived through the ice storm of january 97 in quebec.
i spent 1 complete day without electricity.
it was about 25f (-5c) outside, and i had no heating.
Depends on the quantities of my neighbors' canned food, how recently the stock trucks ran at the local grocery stores, how many of them come to my place at once, and whether I've already headed south or not.
Refrigerators don't work without electricity, and food doesn't keep well in a fridge that isn't working. And the creation of this suburban sprawl drove out 90% of the wildlife and flattened the rest on the roads. Don't find many edible plants growing in mall parking lots.
So I figure, once the neighbors start to run out of canned food they'll raid the grocery stores, and there'll be fullscale panic with everybody trying to get all the goods before everybody else. The killing will start there, inside the stores. But it'll quickly spread to the houses, too.
The water in your hot water heaters and toilet tanks is going to be to-die-for precious, too.
late last summer i got the piano music for saint-saens delicious danse macabre.
i downloaded it for free on the net.
what an awesome free gift and what a monstrous monkey it became on my back!
Hey... Farkel was gonna stay at my house if he came to DallasFest. (glory by association )
