Posts by Hortensia

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Coffee Appreciation

by FL_Panthers in

as i'm making my seventh cup for the day, i thought it would be a good idea to have an appreciation thread.

what's the best ground coffee?

beans?.

Caribbean Coffee -- not the coffee from the Caribbean but a company that sells all kinds of coffee. They have a kind called "Hair Raiser" coffee, very strong, good flavor. The company is in Santa Barbara, California, but they also have a website. They mostly sell to coffee bars, specialty grocery stores, that sort of thing.

Also, "Smooth and Mellow" from Trader Joe's -- of course TJs is just in the US as far as I know. It's a medium roast, very delicious.

Best place to get coffee? At home, if I make it for you.

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women should go back to the kitchen

by never a jw in

i found on another thread a quote from awake 1967 aug 22,page 27-28. it's from an article where the wt proves that women should acquiesce to their husbands.

within the article i found something that suggests more intellectual dishonesty from the wt writers.. that it is in the best interests of both.

sexes for man to take the lead is also supported.

Hortensia

That makes me laugh! I once showed my husband an article from the LA Times that said men are happier if they just do what their wives tell them to do.

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Interesting read about "Visions" and the brain

by dynamiterose77 in

years and years ago, i had read something in a book that clinically examined joan of arc and gave a hypothesis regarding her visions, using her own descriptions of the episodes and using what she experienced as symptoms.

i can't remember if they had said it was epilepsy or a brain tumor.. i saw this article today and it got me thinking again.

i also started thinking about how in the past, gb has talked about visions/divine inspiration/whatever... russell even endorsed a woman's book where she supposedly spoke to a "fallen angel".. kinda made me wonder....

Hortensia

Thanks for sharing -- very interesting article.

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Who is the biggest Loser JW you have known

by Clambake in

it seems every cong seems to have some guy who is 35 and never had a job or moved out of mom and dads basement.. i knew a guy who just hand out magazines at work so he would get eventually fired and could sleep in till noon everyday.

of course his elder father though he was a real matyr cause he kept losing jobs for jehovah.

i have an electrican friend who apprenticed some jw kid till he got his ticket and he quit him to pioneering.

Hortensia

well, me, I suppose. At least until I got out of the org., when I wised up and started creating a real life. Poor sad pioneer, I was the one standing like a zombie on the corner downtown at the crack of dawn.

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JW Literature... Lots of it... what to burn and what to keep?

by ILoveTTATT in

jw
friends

i have lots and lots of watchtower literature... and i don't know what could be useful in the future to have as a reference or as a keeper.

i am definitely keeping the 1993 and 1994 bound volumes of the awake!

(no, we are not false prophets... down in the same page, the generation of 1914 will not pass... also the youths who put god the watchtower first).

Hortensia

yeah, check out what things have sold for on ebay -- I got $35 once for a 2-page leaflet.

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What I really hate....

by Perversion of a truth in

jw
friends

is that i was born into this cult, taught and believed that i was going to live forever, , that i was never going to have to die.

now i am in my mid 30's realizing that this life is all there is and that after that i am dead forever and i am terrified.

i don't want this to be all there is, , i don't want to just live a few years on this beautiful planet and then become non existent forever!

Hortensia

You'll relax in a while. You might need some anxiety meds for a bit. It's a hard pill to swallow -- ceasing to exist. It does make life more precious and makes me determined to live it in a worthwhile way. One thing to realize is that you won't know you're dead, at least that made me relax about the whole thing.

Lots of people, including me, seem to have anxiety on leaving the wtbts, for lots of reasons. I know counseling helped me a lot, and so did the anxiety meds. That's way behind me now and I don't worry about it any more. I think you'll get there, too, but you might need some help at first.

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My early exposure to jw's

by marriedtoajw in

i havn't posted in months but have still lerked and read other posts, just never have time enough to do much of anything really.

in reading posts for the last few months i began to realize how much i empathize with thoughts expressed here.

i feel the need to clarify my situation because my previous posts don't really convey a complete picture regarding my experience with the jw world.

Hortensia

tough background -- esp. with no father and schizophrenic mother. Then add JWs to the mix.

I'm glad you can hang out here now and then, see that others feel the way you do and you're not alone.

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I be a walkin......

by out4good3 in

jw
friends

across that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .

.

Hortensia

Wonderful!

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sasquatch

by Hortensia in

had a long conversation with one of our local mount shasta denizens about sasquatch.

he says he has heard sasquatch, but hasn't seen one.

says there is a law in oregon against shooting sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail.

Hortensia

Who knows. No real evidence so far, but that doesn't necessarily mean there is no such animal. I still think it's unlikely. I saw a UFO once, a strange flying object. My husband saw it too. We didn't know what it was, but I didn't immediately assume that meant it was from some other planet. I assumed the military were up to something. It was near a huge air force base.

I saw something strange many years ago way the hell out in Utah at the back of beyond. I found out, much later, it was a stealth bomber being tested out in Utah.

UFO just means unknown -- doesn't mean ET is scanning us.

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A Mansion for the Resurrected, in Kensington

by dynamiterose77 in

i was roving around the internet looking for articles about a completely different topic, when i came across this one.. i found it very interesting.. here's a quote.. "in a 1920 book called "millions now living will never die" he'd predicted that biblical leaders like abraham, isaac and jacob would be resurrected in 1925 and become "the visible, legal representatives of the new order of things on earth.".

while this didn't occur, rutherford still chose to be prepared for the return of the patriarchs.

he moved into the newly built house in kensington around 1930, calling it beth sarim (house of the princes).

Hortensia

The neighborhood is called Kensington. It's part of San Diego. I used to live a few blocks from Beth Sarim. It's a nice neighborhood, wouldn't mind visiting there again. Loads of used book stores, antique stores, good Mexican restaurants, good Korean restaurant, good Italian restaurant when I lived there.