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  I Made Ground Turkey Meatballs On Yistiddy

  by snowbird in

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  ground turkey breast.. lots of garlic, sage, oregano, and onions.

  delicious!.

  oh, in deference to coco, yistiddy is gullah for yesterday.. syl.

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  Onnah makin more tuckrey? Uh gwine gone dey tomorruh and nyam some wid rice.
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  I Made Ground Turkey Meatballs On Yistiddy

  by snowbird in

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  ground turkey breast.. lots of garlic, sage, oregano, and onions.

  delicious!.

  oh, in deference to coco, yistiddy is gullah for yesterday.. syl.

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  BurnTheShips

  Ground beef is tastier though, but turkey isn't bad at all.

  The turkey works well in this recipe:

  http://icuban.com/food/picadillo.html

  What you made is pretty close to that.

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  I Made Ground Turkey Meatballs On Yistiddy

  by snowbird in

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  2. family

  ground turkey breast.. lots of garlic, sage, oregano, and onions.

  delicious!.

  oh, in deference to coco, yistiddy is gullah for yesterday.. syl.

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  BurnTheShips

  We have replaced most of the ground beef with ground turkey. My health conscious wife insists on it.

  Last night I made (no not terribly healthy but delicious)

  Coconut rice (Instead of water substitute coconut milk and add grated coconut)

  Tostones (fried green plantains).

  Fried whole snappers

  Mmmmmmmm.

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  MLK would be 82.

  by Gregor in

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  of the three assassinations, including the two kennedys, i feel mlk was the greatest loss.

  i am sure the plight of black people would be much more hopeful today if he had continued his positive influence.

  no one picked up his torch.

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  I'll let you know in a few years when my race is a minority!

  Until then, we haven't needed a Civil Rights Act, a Civil Rights March or an NAAWP, either.

  Fascinating. As a "minority," I don't need a "race leader." That idea is stupid. No one speaks for me. I speak for me. I am an individual. If someone said that "so and so" spoke for me just because he was a prominent member of my own particular ethnicity, I would take offense.

  To say that particular individuals speak for black people in general is stupid. There are millions of African-Americans, and they all have different ideas.

  Also, what Snowbird said.

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  What is the Trinity?

  by pirata in

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  from this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/204837/2/if-you-could-ask-one-question-to-an-active-jw-to-get-them-to-open-their-mind-about-their-beliefs-what-would-it-be.

  dontplaceliterature re: if you could ask one question to an active jw to get them to open their mind about their beliefs, what would it be?posted ~ 14 hours ago (1/18/2011) .

  post 63 of 65. since 12/28/2010.

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  All analogies to God break down at some point because God is unique, but the best comparison I have heard is the triple point of a substance.

  That is a good one. I also like C.S. Lewis' explanation in his book Mere Christianity:

  The last chapter was about the difference between begetting and making. A man begets a child, but he only makes a statue. God begets Christ but He only makes men. But by saying that, I have illustrated only one point about God, namely, that what God the Father begets is God, something of the same kind as Himself. In that way it is like a human father begetting a human son. But not quite like it. So I must try to explain a little more.

  A good many people nowadays say, "I believe in a God, but not in a personal God." They feel that the mysterious something which is behind all other things must be more than a person. Now the Christians quite agree. But the Christians are the only people who offer any idea of what a being that is beyond personality could be like. All the other people, though they say that God is beyond personality, really think of Him as something impersonal: that is, as something less than personal. If you are looking for something super-personal, something more than a person, then it is not a question of choosing between the Christian idea and the other ideas. The Christian idea is the only one on the market.

  Again, some people think that after this life, or perhaps after several lives, human souls will be "absorbed" into God. But when they try to explain what they mean, they seem to be thinking of our being absorbed into God as one material thing is absorbed into another. They say it is like a drop of water slipping into the sea. But of course that is the end of the drop. If that is what happens to us, then being absorbed is the same as ceasing to exist. It is only the Christians who have any idea of how human souls can be taken into the life of God and yet remain themselves-in fact, be very much more themselves than they were before.

  I warned you that Theology is practical. The whole purpose for which we exist is to be thus taken into the life of God. Wrong ideas about what that life is, will make it harder. And now, for a few minutes, I must ask you to follow rather carefully.

  You know that in space you can move in three ways-to left or right, backwards or forwards, up or down. Every direction is either one of these three or a compromise between them. They are called the three Dimensions. Now notice this. If you are using only one dimension, you could draw only a straight line. If you are using two, you could draw a figure: say, a square. And a square is made up of four straight lines. Now a step further. If you have three dimensions, you can then build what we call a solid body, say, a cube-a thing like a dice or a lump of sugar. And a cube is made up of six squares.

  Do you see the point? A world of one dimension would be a straight line. In a two-dimensional world, you still get straight lines, but many lines make one figure. In a three-dimensional world, you still get figures but many figures make one solid body. In other words, as you advance to more real and more complicated levels, you do not leave behind you the things you found on the simpler levels: you still have them, but combined in new ways-in ways you could not imagine if you knew only the simpler levels.

  Now the Christian account of God involves just the same principle. The human level is a simple and rather empty level. On the human level one person is one being, and any two persons are two separate beings-just as, in two dimensions (say on a flat sheet of paper) one square is one figure, and any two squares are two separate figures. On the Divine level you still find personalities; but up there you find them combined in new ways which we, who do not live on that level, cannot imagine. In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube. Of course we cannot fully conceive a Being like that: just as, if we were so made that we perceived only two dimensions in space we could never properly imagine a cube. But we can get a sort of faint notion of it. And when we do, we are then, for the first time in our lives, getting some positive idea, however faint, of something super-personal-something more than a person. It is something we could never have guessed, and yet, once we have been told, one almost feels one ought to have been able to guess it because it fits in so well with all the things we know already.

  You may ask, "If we cannot imagine a three-personal Being, what is the good of talking about Him?" Well, there isn't any good talking about Him. The thing that matters is being actually drawn into that three-personal life, and that may begin any time -tonight, if you like.

  What I mean is this. An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God-that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him. You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying-the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on-the motive power. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually going on in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers. The man is being caught up into the higher kind of life-what I called Zoe or spiritual life: he is being pulled into God, by God, while still remaining himself.

  http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/apologetics/mere-christianity/Book4/cs-lewis-mere-christianity-book4.php#b
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  What is the Trinity?

  by pirata in

  1. watchtower
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  from this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/204837/2/if-you-could-ask-one-question-to-an-active-jw-to-get-them-to-open-their-mind-about-their-beliefs-what-would-it-be.

  dontplaceliterature re: if you could ask one question to an active jw to get them to open their mind about their beliefs, what would it be?posted ~ 14 hours ago (1/18/2011) .

  post 63 of 65. since 12/28/2010.

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  What is the Trinity?

  I'm Catholic. We believe in the Trinity.

  As we pray:

  Glory be to the Father and to

  the Son and to the Holy Spirit,

  as it was in the beginning, is now

  and ever shall be, world without

  end.

  Amen.

  And as we confess to believe.

  That we worship one God in trinity and the trinity in unity, neither blending their persons nor dividing their essence. For the person of the Father is a distinct person, the person of the Son is another, and that of the Holy Spirit still another. But the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their majesty coeternal.

  What quality the Father has, the Son has, and the Holy Spirit has. The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, the Holy Spirit is uncreated.

  The Father is immeasurable, the Son is immeasurable, the Holy Spirit is immeasurable.

  The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, the Holy Spirit is eternal.

  And yet there are not three eternal beings; there is but one eternal being. So too there are not three uncreated or immeasurable beings; there is but one uncreated and immeasurable being.

  Similarly, the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, the Holy Spirit is almighty. Yet there are not three almighty beings; there is but one almighty being.

  Thus the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God. Yet there are not three gods; there is but one God.

  Thus the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, the Holy Spirit is Lord. Yet there are not three lords; there is but one Lord.

  Just as Christian truth compels us to confess each person individually as both God and Lord, so catholic religion forbids us to say that there are three gods or lords.

  The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten from anyone. The Son was neither made nor created; he was begotten from the Father alone. The Holy Spirit was neither made nor created nor begotten; he proceeds from the Father and the Son.

  Accordingly there is one Father, not three fathers; there is one Son, not three sons; there is one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits.

  Nothing in this trinity is before or after, nothing is greater or smaller; in their entirety the three persons are coeternal and coequal with each other.

  So in everything, as was said earlier, we must worship their trinity in their unity and their unity in their trinity.

  http://www.aboutcatholics.com/faith_beliefs/athanasian_creed/

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  MLK would be 82.

  by Gregor in

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  of the three assassinations, including the two kennedys, i feel mlk was the greatest loss.

  i am sure the plight of black people would be much more hopeful today if he had continued his positive influence.

  no one picked up his torch.

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  BizzyBee, who is your "race leader?"

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  Shocking if True: Muslim Inbreeding

  by metatron in

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  http://goldismoney2.com/showthread.php?9030-muslim-inbreeding.

  i read a brief muslim apologia piece on this and found it to be weak.

  if these numbers are really true, it is shocking.

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  As long as they don't start producing human/goat hybrids. (Although some Muslims men do tend to favor scraggly chin whiskers. Could they be hiding horn buds ubder those turbans?)

  ‘Most Beautiful Goat’ Competition Underway in Saudi Arabia

  Isn't she lovely?

  
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  So an 8 year old is killed by a machine-gun and it's no ones fault?

  by Simon in

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  i think us gun laws are s-t-u-p-i-d ... and the legal system more so.

  saw a very good suggestion yesterday though - force people who want to own a gun to require insurance (hey, you have to have it for a vehicle for gods sake).

  single-shot hunting rifle?

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  BTS, do you really feel it's necessary to post such disgusting pictures?

  I don't see anything disgusting there. Do you eat meat?

  Well, lets see - you have to pass a test before you are allowed to drive, if you don't behave with a car you get your license revoked and 8 year olds aren't allowed to drive period.

  Not a very good analogy really.

  Also, cares serve a valuable purpose. I fail to see the purpose of a civilian owning an automatic assault weapon other than to intentionally or accidentally kill people.

  Yet again, you miss the point. You can't just go out and by an automatic weapon in the US. You need a PERMIT. I even linked to the appropriate regulatory page at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

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  When the Reptillian Anti-Christ is unmasked, what is your firearm of choice to kill our invaders?

  by WingCommander in

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  this subject thread has been on my mind for a while, especially after seeing "zombieland" and foodall's thread about our possible ufo/reptilian over lords/realion/alien invaders.

  when the great day of reckoning comes, whether it be from ufo alien invaders, realian reptilian over lords, demons in human-hybrid form, or just plain old virus-infected zombies, what will you be carrying to defend yourself from the hostile forces of e-vile?

  please, no one say a "bible" or i'm going to just laugh my ass off.

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  Get a real caliber. 7.62X39 is a wounding round. 7.62X51 will stop a man size reptile.

  Baloney. 7.62x39 is a killer at intermediate and short ranges. If you don't agree, you are free to go down range and act like a target.

  It it best with a barrel twist of 7 to 1.

  The optimum barrel twist will depend on what weight bullet you choose, even with NATO 5.56.

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