I cringe sometimes when I think of how smart I thought I was, and how certain I was right. It's a bit embarrassing to think about it now.
Hortensia
JoinedPosts by Hortensia
-
24
Do you miss the sense of superiority?
by Diest inthis is and odd topic but there is a part of me that really misses feeling that i knew more about the world than 99.9% of the people.
i spent so many years in school being the odd person because of religion.
i embraced it to some extent.
-
-
-
58
"Jesus is My Boyfriend" Christianity
by cofty inthere is a trend in modern evangelical, charismatic and "non-religious spirituality" that gets dangerously close to erotic love of jesus.. it's something that i first observed during my christian years especially in the lyrics of christian songs and sometimes during open-prayer times.
if you haven't experienced open prayer you are the lucky ones.
everybody adopts the shampoo position - elbows on knees, head in hands - and whoever is "moved by the spirit" speaks up for a while, followed by an awkward silence, followed by two people speaking up at the same time, followed by silence, and so on.. anyway back to the topic, here are a few random examples .... "lord i give you my heart.
-
-
Hortensia
Poor Tammy Faye. We used to see her in the shopping mall in Palm Desert. The makeup was shocking -- it made her look mentally ill.
I consider modern religious music to be very banal -- no talent in the composition, lyrics or voices. Maybe they're using sex to make otherwise bland music sound more appealing?
Whatever, they don't have their heads screwed on straight.
-
30
Tea
by Hortensia ini was raised on lipton tea.
my mother saw tea as the solution for everything.
no matter what the problem, she'd suggest a cup of tea.
-
-
Hortensia
I stick with ginger cookies for dunking. Anna's ginger thins, windmill cookies, homemade ginger cookies - they're all good. This recipe makes lots of cookies. I like to make the dough into two rolls, and keep them wrapped up in the frig. Then I can slice and bake just one tray of cookies when I feel like it. Sorry I don't have it converted to metric measurements!
1 cup butter
1 ½ cups brown sugar
1 egg
½ cup molasses
1 tbsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
4 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup minced candied ginger
1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
2 tsps ground ginger
Mix dry ingredients together. Cream butter with sugar, add egg, candied ginger, fresh ginger and molasses. Stir in dry ingredients. Form into a log, wrap, chill for four hours. Slice in ¼-inch slices, bake at 350 for 7 or 8 minutes
-
30
Tea
by Hortensia ini was raised on lipton tea.
my mother saw tea as the solution for everything.
no matter what the problem, she'd suggest a cup of tea.
-
-
Hortensia
Shirley, I looked up teavana -- what a big assortment of tea! They have the tea pearls like the ones I liked in China.
jgnat -- I bought some tea in china a long time ago that was called blooming tea. It was some kind of a nut-shaped thing, when it steeped in hot water it would open and an odd flower would be revealed. The doctors at the hospital where we trained told me it was for soothing a singer's throat before a performance. It didn't really have much of a taste but it was good for a sore throat.
Suraj Khan -- I had to look up bubble milk tea. We had some canned drinks somewhere that had those bubbles -- large balls of tapioca. A bit weird for me.
-
30
Tea
by Hortensia ini was raised on lipton tea.
my mother saw tea as the solution for everything.
no matter what the problem, she'd suggest a cup of tea.
-
-
Hortensia
Oh my goodness, such a lot of good tea suggestions to try.
Satanus, LOL!
-
51
this site sucks
by Hortensia inyou all spend all your time bickering about religion and doctrine and god and evolution and atheists, not to mention all the discussion about athiests too.
you are totally ignoring an important subject.
we haven't had one fucking decent discussion of dr. who in at least a year!!!.
-
-
Hortensia
Well, yeah, I was making fun of the evil atheists on soapboxes thread and other threads of the "you people don't agree with me therefore you are evil" ilk.
And making fun of mythical skydaddies.
-
30
Tea
by Hortensia ini was raised on lipton tea.
my mother saw tea as the solution for everything.
no matter what the problem, she'd suggest a cup of tea.
-
-
Hortensia
I was raised on Lipton tea. My mother saw tea as the solution for everything. No matter what the problem, she'd suggest a cup of tea. I liked tea, especially since I was an asthmatic kid and tea helped me breathe better.
When I was a teenager, my friends and I would shop at an import store and buy Darjeeling tea. Delicious! Later I was exposed to herbal teas. Didn't like them so much, I like tea-flavored tea, black tea. Green tea, well to me it tastes pretty much the same as black tea, maybe a little milder. Of course, it's the same plant, just processed differently than black tea.
Then I went to China. What an eye-opener that was! The only drinks we were offered were tea, beer and warm orange soda. So I mostly drank tea as I tend to get loopy on a diet of beer with every meal including breakfast. We did have one woman who drank the quart of beer given to us at each meal. She was hammered through the whole trip. I wonder how much she remembers?
The Chinese people at the hospital where we trained drank tea all day long. They all brought jars to work, like a mayonnaise jar for instance, with a pinch of tea in the bottom. Boiling water was available everywhere, so they just kept filling their jars and drinking tea all day. It got weaker as the day went on of course, because they never put in any more tea leaves.
We went to the tea market in some town, Suzhou I think. Wow! I bought loads of tea to bring home. It was very inexpensive and it was all very fragrant and tasted marvelous. I remember some dragon well tea, and some tea pearls. You put one pearl in a cup and add boiling water, then the compressed tea leaves loosen and float. That tea lasted a long time, and since I went back to China three more times, I had plenty of fabulous tea to drink for years.
I ran out of my Chinese tea eventually, of course. Then I found an Indian grocery store in Riverside county somewhere -- maybe Rubidoux. It sold Indian herbs and spices, and of course lots of different kinds of tea. I regularly bought their Lipton tea in a green box. It's the kind of Lipton sold in India, NOT the kind sold to unsuspecting Americans. The flavor difference is amazing. The Indian Lipton tasted rich, had a good ruddy color, wonderful fragrance. I felt cheated by all the American Lipton tea I have drunk over the years.
I no longer live near that grocery store. I'm in the mountains in Northern California. Someone on JWS mentioned Punjana tea, so I ordered it. Lovely tea, with a good color, robust taste and wonderful fragrance. And it is reasonably priced. I can order more expensive teas, but why bother when the Punjana is so reasonable in cost?
So, I'm going to go make a cup of tea and have a couple of ginger biscuits with it. I would call them cookies, but the label says biscuits.
What do you like to drink?
(Don't get me started on coffee.)
(Narcissist, whatever your name is, be sure to say something negative about tea drinking.)
-
47
Why do so-called believers need my approval or that of any atheist?
by Band on the Run inrecent posts from those who may mistakenly consider themselves "believers" demand a safe haven in this forum.
they don't like associating with atheists or someone like me.
of course, there are hundreds of thousands of sites for christian discussion already set up on the internet.
-
-
Hortensia
Well, religions have carved cozy spaces for themselves in many countries, where they get special treatment. No taxes, for instance, and no argumentation.
They're used to special treatment, and when they come across people who don't respect their beliefs and say so loudly, well, they just can't take it. So, they keep demanding special treatment. -
18
Anyone else work from home?
by confusedandalone inif so, how are you enjoying it compared to maybe sitting in an office or going outside the home for work.
i use to work in the office environment but after starting up my own thing with the with we eventually got office space.
then as we grew we have decided to leave the office space for the employees and work from home.. i am sure it is not as exciting working from home but the wife disagrees.
-
-
Hortensia
I worked at home for a few years before I retired. It does take a lot of discipline, and it can feel lonely sometimes. But I loved sitting at the computer in my pajamas, watching snow fall outside the window while I worked. And I could putter into the kitchen for another cup of coffee whenever I wanted. I didn't have a schedule, just deadlines, and I was pretty disciplined about getting things written before the deadlines.
-
11
We Played Along With Our Own Oppression
by cofty inin communist east germany (gdr) writers were provided with a 'helper' - often a stasi agent - who would 'assist' the work through to publication.. poet and novelist gunter kunert described how this led to a sort of self-censorship.
it reminded me very much of the way jws can be trained to accept outrageous restrictions while imagining they are making free choices.. -----------------------------------------------------------------.
"as authors we were always trying to be ahead of the censor, to second-guess his instinct as to what was 'in' and what was 'off'.
-
-
Hortensia
"we got so used to this second opinion lurking in our own heads that we considered it our own."
True!
I gew up a JW, I was used to being watched by god, the angels, jesus, the devil, the demons, the world AND the congregation. I had to have an explanation for everything, justify every move to all these watchers. That conversation in my head, justifying everything I did, went on for a long time after I left the wtbts. I was so used to being watched and judged, I just carried on doing it to myself when I left.