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What did you eat when you moved out if you didn't know how to cook?
by Aware! in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm male, in my early twenties, and i don't know how to cook.

if one day i blow my cover i will have to move out and fend for myself.

my question is what frozen meals or quick fix meals do you recommend for a single guy?
Open mind

Lots of great ideas already here so I'll just give one suggestion of what NOT to try:
Baby Food in jars.
As a single bachelor I thought it was a stroke of genius when I bought half a dozen varieties and took them home to try.
Blecchh!!
OK, here's what I did eat a ton of as I also pretty much couldn't/wouldn't cook.
Pasta with Prego sauce. Lots of it. Almost every night. The sauce keeps well in the fridge and dry pasta on the shelf lasts indefinitely.
For salad it was either raw broccoli dipped in Italian dressing or raw zucchini slices dipped in same.
Easy peasy.
Most other fresh produce would go bad long before I got around to eating it.
Very glad I found a girlfriend (the future Ms. OM) who is a world-class cook.
om
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Lost my best friend (man's best friend)
by Coffee House Girl in
1. jw
2. friends
just wanted to write a tribute to my best friend whom i lost last week, it was one of the most painful experiences i have ever been through.

i have no children, my puppy was my child.

i got him from a golden retriever rescue organization when he was 2. he was recovering from a car accident, still a bit skiddish, but he chose me to take him home (the foster mom said that he never responded to anyone like he did me).. he was always happy to see me, greet me with a toy in his mouth, he never judged me, never cared whether i was "bad association", he was always there when i needed to smile and remembe that i was not alone in the world.
Open mind

So very sorry to hear of your loss, CHG.
Wishing you peace in the days ahead and may you find some comfort in the great memories you made.
om & ms. om
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DO YOU WANT A FUNERAL?
by clarity in
1. jw
2. friends
i do not want a funeral.

i especially do not want anyone standing before my family.

telling them who i supposedly ... am!.
Open mind

If you live in California and wish to donate your body, this registry is the most likely way for it to actually happen from everything I've read.
https://www.donatelifecalifornia.org/
What's the one document that EMT's go looking for the most? (And no smart asses saying the JW Advance Medical Directive please. )
Driver's license. When you register with donatelifecalifornia.org, it actually gets entered into the California DMV's data base so that as soon as Emergency Personnel run your driver's license, they will see you are a bonified organ donor. Minutes count in these situations and having an airtight, legal, authorization to throw your valuable parts on ice is key.
I know someone whose job is counseling bereaving families who may be on the fence about it, to consider organ donation. It sounds like a horrific job, but she is an amazing woman. If I've ever met an "Empath", she's it.
om
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Disturbing new YouTube video showing Anthony Morris's approach to teenage baptism
by cedars in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if anyone was under the illusion that all baptized jw children become dedicated solely of their own volition, then hopefully this new video should be a wake-up call.. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgbjdgoj-u.

(unfortunately, due to the soundtrack i've chosen, this video is apparently banned in germany.
Open mind

My brother got baptized at the ripe old age of 12.
6 months later he figured out he was 100% gay.
Fought it until his mid-twenties, then got himself DFed, fully believing God would soon destroy him.
Took about a year for him to see the WT for what it really is.
Such a healthy, family-friendly religion.
BTW, excellent video Cedars. Thanks for sharing it.
om
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If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?
by Open mind in
1. social
2. physical
they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

thoughts?.

om.
Open mind

@ Finkelstein: Oh Wow!
Thank you for posting that. I wonder if they got "counseled" later?
Probably not.
om
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If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?
by Open mind in
1. social
2. physical
they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

thoughts?.

om.
Open mind

@ Quendi, wish I could see it live. (I'm too cheap.) Let us know how it turns out?
@ gl tirebiter, yeah, she really dodged the question, IMO.
om
edited: FOX sports is keeping live scores posted here,
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/basketball/gametrax/Lithuania-vs-United%20States-20120804-1221213
om
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If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?
by Open mind in
1. social
2. physical
they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

thoughts?.

om.
Open mind

I'm sure you're calling it spot on, Quendi.
As long as she doesn't buy the equivalent of a $.50 Malawian Social Security card, she should be safe from the men in suits.
All WT snarking aside, she played amazingly strong today. Good for you Serena!
om
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If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?
by Open mind in
1. social
2. physical
they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

thoughts?.

om.
Open mind

Anyone paying for full coverage including medals presentation?
I've just got plain old NBC.
om
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If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?
by Open mind in
1. social
2. physical
they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

thoughts?.

om.
Open mind

They're playing right now and Serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.

Thoughts?

om
p.s. She just won!
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The Art of Writing
by Quendi in
1. social
2. entertainment
gore vidal's death tuesday in los angeles got me to thinking about writers.

i am a writer myself and i know there are many other writers on this forum.

i wanted to open a discussion on writing in the twenty-first century and get other thoughts, opinions and experiences on this.
Open mind

Christopher Hitchens summed up my chances of ever creating the Great American Novel with these words:

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”

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“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”