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  Do you make any kinds of breads? Which ones do you like?

  by Iamallcool in

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  I'm sorry I didn't answer your question about no-knead bread.

  On the first day mix 3 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of yeast and 1 1/2 cups of water. It makes a sticky dough. I just stir it with a fork until all the flour is mixed in. Cover it and let it sit for 18 hours -- actually anywhere from 12 hours to 18 hours. It fits into your schedule.

  On the second day, preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Put a dutch oven with a lid in the oven to preheat also. I don't have a dutch oven, so I use a stainless steel pan with a heavy bottom and a tight-fitting lid.

  Spread out a clean dish towel. Sprinkle it with about 1/4 cup of cornmeal. Stir down your dough with a fork again, and scrape it onto the cornmeal/towel. Bring the corners of the towel up to cover the dough. Let it sit for 1/2 hour while the oven and pot preheat.

  Using oven mitts, pull the pot out of the oven and take off the lid. Carefully uncover the bread dough and tip it into the pot. No need to grease the pot, btw. Put the lid back on, put the pot back in the oven and let it cook with the lid on for 30 minutes. Take the lid off and let it cook for 20 more minutes.

  You'll have a very flavorful bread with a crisp crust produced by steam from the dough trapped by the dutch oven and its lid. Like French bread from the bakery.

  Hardly any work, but please remember to use the oven mitts.
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  Chinese Anthems from the Qing Empire to today's PRC

  by fulltimestudent in

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  it may be of interest to see/hear the changes in national anthems from around the first decade of the 20th c to today.. this is claimed as the qing national anthem around the time the qing finally collapsed and the emperor abdicated:.

  note the grandiose claims.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwuuqghwleq .

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  How about Mao's favorite? The East is Red

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXMCu_2Uhl8

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FSj7RuqGU
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  Does your Theology Align with Reality?

  by cofty in

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  thesits are fond of reminding us that science cannot prove there is no god, and in this they are correct.

  however, science should not be dismissed so lightly by anybody who values a faith that is more than a mere fantasy.. theologians like john shelby spong have shown the intellectual honesty to embrace the truths that science has discovered and adapted their religious beliefs to take account of reality.

  sadly many theists lack the courage to do likewise.

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  sorry, clicked the wrong button
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  Does your Theology Align with Reality?

  by cofty in

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  thesits are fond of reminding us that science cannot prove there is no god, and in this they are correct.

  however, science should not be dismissed so lightly by anybody who values a faith that is more than a mere fantasy.. theologians like john shelby spong have shown the intellectual honesty to embrace the truths that science has discovered and adapted their religious beliefs to take account of reality.

  sadly many theists lack the courage to do likewise.

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  New method to burglarize your car...

  by Glander in

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  the crooks have come up with a scanner that reads your keychain remote locking code.

  when you walk away from your car and lock the doors theives sitting nearby capture the code and can then unlock your car while you are shopping.. lock your car the old fashioned way, with the lock button before closing the door..

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  If it's not true then I apologize to all the people whose lives I have destroyed.

  Good one!
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  my first post and some questions

  by wallievase in

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  this is my first post after deciding to finally open an account here after months of 'lurking'.. a couple of issues i want to address-.

  i have issues with people who go from being a witness to losing all faith in god or the bible which seems to be the case with some members of this site.

  i just don't think you can let any religion change how you view god or the bible.. second-i don't feel the gb are bad people, i think most witnesses including them are misguided by something that has been drilled into their heads since they were little and are actually sincere people.

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  I have issues with people who go from being a witness to losing all faith in god or the bible which seems to be the case with some members of this site. I just don't think you can let any religion change how you view god or the bible.

  On the other hand, I don't have any issues with you if you go on believing there is a god. It's up to you.

  What should you do next? Take it slowly, read a lot, ask lots of questions, learn a lot. There's no hurry, and the more you know the better decisions you can make.
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  Sense of Mortality, Existential Angst and Leaving the Borg

  by Frazzled UBM in

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  firstly apologies if i am stating the bleeding obvious or covering something that has already been covered or just showing my ignorance as someone who wasnever a jw - i am new here and relatively new in my exposure to the wbts organisation and its dogma.

  the thing that has occurred to me is that born-in jws and middle-age jws must avoid the teenage existential angst of really getting a sense of their own mortaility and the middle age crisis of realizing that their best years are behind and they on the long downhill slide, because they expect to live forever.

  i always wondered why teenage jws are goody two-shoes while they are believers and often go off the rails, even as 20 or 30 something adults, when they wake up and i figure that, apart from the fact that they are no longer being told what is right and wrong and all of a sudden have to work it out for themselves, this may related to the expectation that you will not physically die.

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  I went from horrible nightmares of being destroyed at armageddon to something of a sense of relief when I realized everyone dies, and that we come from nothing and return to nothing. I don't want to die, but I know I will. It was hard to accept that I will cease to exist, but once I realized that when it happens I won't be aware of not existing, well, somehow it all became easier to handle.
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  Becoming "unevenly yoked" ?

  by Blttex in

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  i haven't been to a meeting in about a year, made up my mind about six months ago that jw's are just another religion and that its not for me.

  started dating a "worldly" girl 10 months ago and got engaged this past weekend.

  i'm having a hard time deciding who to invite to the wedding.

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  jesus -- can't JWs mind their own business? I got married in a church by a minister (husband was religious), invited a few old friends even though it had been years since I darkened the door of a KH. My mother and stepfather came, watched the wedding through a window. Wouldn't even enter the building. The few other JWs declined, writing some JW crap in their refusals. I said, "do what you have to do."

  Nothing came of it. No elders pursuing me, no one really gave a damn. OK with me.
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  Fading ... Do You Owe Witness Friends An Explanation?

  by What Now? in

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  i'm curious about what you all think on this subject.

  when my husband and i became irregular about a year ago, and then inactive around 5 months ago, i felt that it would be hypocritical to take advantage of the social side of the witness community if we weren`t going to meetings or in service.

  we stopped entertaining (which we did quite regularly - theme parties, card parties, movie nights, big turkey dinners, breakfasts on holidays etc), and i slowly stopped accepting invitations for get togethers, playdates etc.

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  It ain't nobody's business but your own!

  You've already seen the quality of their friendship -- only one person asked you flat out what was going on, and then she spread gossip. You don't owe anyone an explanation. Phones and email work two ways, they could have called you and asked if they cared.
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  trying to keep my brain alive

  by Hortensia in

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  i'm retired now and worried about losing my mind!

  you have to keep exercising your brain to prevent dementia and similar stuff.

  use it or lose it!.

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  Knowing a little Spanish is hampering my French -- I keep trying to pronounce things as if the words were Spanish. There are loads of youtube videos on learning French, so I try to listen to at least one a day in addition to the Pimsleur, just for the pronunciation.