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  How much do you spend on groceries each month?

  by aSphereisnotaCircle in

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  we spend about $500 per month.

  that's with a family of three, two adults and one small child.

  included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

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  much bigger garden, with high-strength reinforced concrete and underground heating systems and automatic sprinklers,

  Ooooh, I may swoon, it's hard to imagine such bliss.
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  Does the GB believe the doctrine themselves?

  by GBSJG in

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  2. bible

  after reading crisis of conscience i got the impression that most on the gb actually believe all the doctrine themselves or at least that they believe that they are doing there best and god is helping/blessing them.. this sometimes seems unbelievable to me considering that they know about all the bad things in the org and see so many problems that the rank file normally does not notice or know about.

  i'm currently reading combatting cult mind control by steve hassan.

  when reading that book i can see that there are some cults that are far worse then the jws.

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  My thought is that this is a natural developement
  of trying to take total control over a people. You have to control the same elements that any other
  cult would control, so your methods of arriving at them may differ, but you get to the same place.

  I agree.

  When members talk to ex-members, they tend to leave.

  So therefore talking to ex-members becomes forbidden and demonized.

  And so forth with all the other rules.
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  How much do you spend on groceries each month?

  by aSphereisnotaCircle in

  1. social
  2. family

  we spend about $500 per month.

  that's with a family of three, two adults and one small child.

  included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

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  I've started a thread just for you Crumpet

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/18/130572/1.ashx

  I'm curious about that now too.
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  The fastest scripture looker upper

  by SacrificialLoon in

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  2. friends

  a comment by rubadub in the thread about learning new things at the meetings made me remember something, and gave me a chuckle.. i would always see how fast i could look up the scriptures during the talks, and race to beat most everyone else.

  of course everyone else didn't realize i was racing them, but i'd always feel a smug (and perhaps a bit self-righteous) satisfaction at having the scripture looked up and ready to follow along while from the sights and sounds around me most everyone else was still looking it up.

  being able to look up jehovah's word with such speed would surely earn me spiritual brownie points.

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  Oh, and woe to the person still looking up the scripture when the reader started, for they would get a withering barrage of mental tsks from me! Unless they were sitting beside me then I'd have to show them the page number... while still getting a barrage of mental tsks.

  hahaha, yeah I think I sat next to you once,

  The whole bible speed search thing drove me crazy, I usually just didn't bother. I would keep notes though, so nobody called me on it, writing the scripture down was equivalent to looking it up, or maybe even a little more spiritual?

  I remember one CO that had the bad habit of anouncing the scripture backwards. he would open his bible and while searching for the scripture he would say,

  "in the second verse,(pause) of the third chapter,(pause) of John"

  by the time he said "John" he had found the scripture in his bible and immediatly began reading. I kind of got the impression that he enjoyed his silly little game. Maybe it was his way of always being first??
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  68-year-old JW woman misses Saturday FS to go to school

  by blondie in

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  http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/05/pursuit_of_diploma_requires_final_challenge/pursuit of diploma requires final challengemcas hurdle tests 68-year-old studentlula mae johnson of mattapan took a math class saturday as she prepared for the mcas exam.

  (wendy maeda/globe staff) by tracy jan, globe staff | march 5, 2007. after being out of school for 45 years, lula mae johnson enrolled in an adult education program five years ago in hopes of earning her high school diploma.. now 68, johnson is the oldest student in the boston public schools taking the mcas this week -- her final hurdle before walking across the graduation stage at faneuil hall in may.starting this school year, adults working toward a high school diploma must pass the math and english exams of the massachusetts comprehensive assessment system test.

  traditional high school students have been required since 2003 to pass the state exams to graduate.. some older students who have gone back to school for a shot at better careers balk at the idea of sitting for the five-day exam, which includes multiple-choice questions, open response, and an essay.

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  "Look at me now. My thoughts are completely different."

  How much you want to bet that her thoughts on "the troof" are also completely different now?
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  68-year-old JW woman misses Saturday FS to go to school

  by blondie in

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  http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/05/pursuit_of_diploma_requires_final_challenge/pursuit of diploma requires final challengemcas hurdle tests 68-year-old studentlula mae johnson of mattapan took a math class saturday as she prepared for the mcas exam.

  (wendy maeda/globe staff) by tracy jan, globe staff | march 5, 2007. after being out of school for 45 years, lula mae johnson enrolled in an adult education program five years ago in hopes of earning her high school diploma.. now 68, johnson is the oldest student in the boston public schools taking the mcas this week -- her final hurdle before walking across the graduation stage at faneuil hall in may.starting this school year, adults working toward a high school diploma must pass the math and english exams of the massachusetts comprehensive assessment system test.

  traditional high school students have been required since 2003 to pass the state exams to graduate.. some older students who have gone back to school for a shot at better careers balk at the idea of sitting for the five-day exam, which includes multiple-choice questions, open response, and an essay.

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  How much do you spend on groceries each month?

  by aSphereisnotaCircle in

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  we spend about $500 per month.

  that's with a family of three, two adults and one small child.

  included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

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  Thank you all for all your posts. It's nice to compare sometimes, and see if you can learn a new trick or two.
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  How much do you spend on groceries each month?

  by aSphereisnotaCircle in

  1. social
  2. family

  we spend about $500 per month.

  that's with a family of three, two adults and one small child.

  included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  severely cut back on carbs of any kind. I don't buy any pre-fab foods, and make everything from scratch now. I'm eating more meat now, and a lot more veggies, and I've lost 40 pounds. I'm also spending about $100 more every month.

  No one here has diabetes, but that is the diet changes I am making.

  Boy it sure bumps up your bill, doesn't it!
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  How much do you spend on groceries each month?

  by aSphereisnotaCircle in

  1. social
  2. family

  we spend about $500 per month.

  that's with a family of three, two adults and one small child.

  included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

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  We have an 1800 sqft vegetable garden to help bring the cost down in the fall and some of the winter.

  Ooops, I forgot to mention that, I have a large garden for fresh produce in summer and I freeze some vegies. I also have a couple of chickens that keep us in eggs during most of the year.
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  How much do you spend on groceries each month?

  by aSphereisnotaCircle in

  1. social
  2. family

  we spend about $500 per month.

  that's with a family of three, two adults and one small child.

  included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

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  aSphereisnotaCircle

  We spend about $500 per month. That's with a family of three, two adults and one small child. Included in that is dog and cat food, and other household items many people buy at the grocery store, such as shampoo, detergent, paper products etc.

  Coupons make me crazy and I avoid them completely.

  I am careful about my family's diet and try to buy healthy ingrediants and cook from scratch. Right now I would like to make a few changes that would incude 100-200 dollars more added to our grocery bill.

  So how much do you spend?