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  ~Mmm. Tell us your healthy snack ideas/recipes~

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  i took a ruby red grapefruit just now and cut it in half and then fourthed the half.

  this started me thinking.

  i bet all of you have healthy snack ideas and recipes you could share with all of us.

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  nelly136, your mixed-vegetable roast sounds fantastic. I'll have to try it.

  Let's see, I was making snack bentos for a long time. I came up with some good stuff:

  	Blueberries, Dr. Kracker's crackers, sliced sugar snap peas. Puppy shapes cut out of cheddar and red bell pepper.		Blueberries-n-grapefruit; flatbread; fake-crab salad.
  	Lower tray contains homemade bean fritters and sliced bell pepper; upper tier is soup-ingredients – spinach, chikuwa, and instant dashi (in the foil tubey thing with the Japanese writing on it). And a manju with green tea filling.		Tiny bits of bread and butter, pearl tomatoes, and (in the round container) Better Than Bouillon paste mixed with onions and chard bits; hot water turns it into soup.

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  How many JWs do you know that have "Failure to Launch" Syndrome

  by BBOARD in

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  tired of the hypocrisy's post got me thinking ... how many jw "kids" over the age when they should have left home still live with their parents.

  i say this because i have many of those in my congregation.

  fyi it looks real bad to be a older man (ie 25 and up) scrub laying up at home unless you have a outstanding circumstance i.e.

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  Hmm.

  I raised both my kids to be good jaydubs – discouraged working and college and actually homeschooled both of them.

  Neither of them were ever baptized and both began thinking for themselves at an early age.

  My daughter – the younger kid – is still living at home at 24 and has yet to hold her first paid job. She says it's partly because of being so traumatized by neighborhood gang activity that she was, until recently, afraid to leave the house. Seriously: some thugs who were trying to recruit a friend of hers threatened to beat her if she didn't cooperate with them.

  But she tells me now that the biggest cause of this apparent slackerdom is that it only dawned on her a few months ago that she has a future. Because, you know, Armageddon ain't coming. As soon as she had that epiphany, she drew up a five-year plan for independence, which she is working on now.

  OTOH, my son got his first paid job at 15 (without asking us first), left home at 18 (without asking us first), got married a couple years ago, and bought a house.

  Same environment, same weird religious upbringing, similar genes, different results.

  I dunno.

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  What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?

  by Crumpet in

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  i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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  what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.

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  Oh, hey, I thought of some more.

  • AlyMC said:

    On my list of "biggest turn ons" is someone using a word that I don't know. I love that. LOL

    That hasn't happened to me in years – but a moderately attractive man (or woman) riffing on things I don't know is likewise incredibly hot, especially if I understand at least 25% of what s/he's saying.
  
  
  • AuroraB:

    Right now I am addicted to "Heroes". #@%^ writer's strike!

    Yeah, doing without The Big Bang Theory is my big tv-gripe.
  
  
  • SacrificialLoon:

    I think Monty Python is hilarious,

    Yeah, and hella topical in its day, too; check out "The 'lost' sketches" in the Wikipedia article on them. Even geekier than watching it for the umpteenth time is looking up the unfamiliar punchlines ("Who's got a boil on his Semprini, then?") in Wikipedia!
  
  
  • KenseiShimonzu

    used to love reading encyclopedias in my spare time

    Me too. Dictionaries, too, which is why it took me at least 15 minutes to look up one word, at least until I started studying Spanish and had to look up like a dozen words to get my homework done every night.
  
  
  • GoddessRachel

    carrying my current read (usually fiction) with me EVERYWHERE

    Yeah, me too. In fact it's gotten so bad I had to buy a beach tote to carry my lunch, breakfast and a book to work, or I'd leave the damn LIBRARY book on the BUS and have to pay to replace it. I've spent at least a hundred dollars on books I don't own, that way.

  
  Now, using HTML to incorporate quotes into a bulleted list ... is that geeky?

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  What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?

  by Crumpet in

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  i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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  what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.

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  I'm not a tech-nerd, though I enjoy such electronic toys as I can afford and understand (PDA, emusic.com, etc.)

  I'm more of an art-and-history nerd. So:

  • Pedro Almodovar
  
  
  • Antoni Gaudí
  
  
  • Popular history books - but deep, with plenty of science-for-poets mixed in, and archaeological drawing. This week's brain candy is 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
  
  
  • I still watch certain cartoons: Hayao Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon
  
  
  • I used to be a major science fiction geek. Titles I remember fondly include Steel Beach, most of Sherri Tepper's books, and just about all of Robert Heinlein. (The encounter with the Heinleiners is one of my favorite parts of Steel Beach.)
  
  
  • In the U.S., Tintin is somewhat geeky, despite its worldwide popularity. Reading about Hergé is definitely geeky. Isn't it?
  
  
  • Packing a bento box is only moderately geeky. Taking pictures of your bento lunches and posting them at flickr.com is way geeky.

  Gosh, y'all are way geekier than I am. I'm not into engineer-toys, sports, or comic books at all.

  g ently f eral
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  Take a good look at this old ex-dub the cat drug in

  by Mindchild_rebooted in

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  as you sit here quietly reading these words your transdimensional organ of neural coordination and quantum consciousness is quietly performing miracles without your waking awareness.

  the uploading and downloading gigabits of information that make you, you, are silently and relentlessly radiating throughout the whole hyper-dimensional universe but most importantly to the 3 lb.

  lump of flesh sitting on the top of the collective bacterial colonies (some 90% of all your cells) that make your miserable existence possible.

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  Here, lemme help with the formatting:

  As you sit here quietly reading these words your transdimensional organ of neural coordination and quantum consciousness is quietly performing miracles without your waking awareness. The uploading and downloading gigabits of information that make you, you, are silently and relentlessly radiating throughout the whole hyper-dimensional universe but most importantly to the 3 lb. lump of flesh sitting on the top of the collective bacterial colonies (some 90% of all your cells) that make your miserable existence possible.

  Suddenly, there is disorder in this peaceful scene, especially among those old farts here on this board that have been here like forever (or maybe six years or so ago) when they finally figured out that old Mindchild is back in the playpen.

  Okay, so much for the baloney. I left the ex-JW online world somewhere around 5-6 years ago and finally got a life. Ha! And you thought it would never happen (sly grin)

  What brought me back to this never-never land is a question I will ask in another post. But for the moment, I just want to say Hi to all you loveable and enduring characters, (you know Simon, Farkel, and other impossibly old fogies) and tip my hat to you.

  My life has been damn fantastic (it shows all you newbie ex-dubs that life is possible after the big Borg) and I’m about to become a multimillionaire. I still have my scientific career and I’m working on consciousness and PSI (parapsychology stuff if you want to get freaked out) and making cool discoveries but not getting rich. I’m getting rich from plain old business entrepreneurship and fast track innovative ideas that make wealthy corporations dump money on me. Not that I’m bragging, I worked my ass off to get to this point…just want you to know it is possible for an ex-dub to make good without selling his soul.

  Oh wait, didn’t I sell that at a discount some years back? Ha

  Cha Cha Cha

  Mindchild

  Please note that no Witnesses were cursed or otherwise mentally defiled in making this post...I'm so over the Borg.

  Glad to help.

  gently feral
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  What charities do you give to...

  by zeroday in

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  i donate several times a year to the nashville rescue mission...

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  Heifer International is my favorite.

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  What type of person are you attracted to now?

  by Layla33 in

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  i was just thinking about this the other day, about how my ideas of a romantic partner have changed since being a jw.. growing up, i thought i would marry a very upstanding jw, we would pioneer together, do missionary work, have children, see the world.

  (never had any thoughts about bethel, though.

  ) so what it boiled down to was a stepford husband, up tight, not the least bit sexual, closed minded bore.. so now that i have grown up, seen the world, been married (and actually picked a good man the first time, although it didn't work out), i just contrast that with what i am attracted to now.. i like them open minded, earthy, i love artistic types because i am a published writer, hair doesn't matter to me (long/short, bald, etc), challenges convention, very sexual, still like a traveling man.. i am just curious if you anyone else can compare and contrast how their ideas have changed since breaking out the group-think of the jw organization..

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  Tatiana, wait a minute. That is not a vegetable!

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  Sexual Harassment

  by reneeisorym in

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  i've had something happen to me at work and i just need some opinions .... i work at a store where i am the only female employee.

  we were short handed these past two weeks because someone quit and the new guy doesn't start until monday so they got a guy from another store to come fill in.

  i hardly know this guy except for him talking to me about business related things.

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  Frankie, do you often go up to women you don't know and ask how often they're getting laid? Because that's what happened here.

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  May have just opened can of worms - posted on a spirit world forum

  by feenx in

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  as i'm sure many of us ex dubs do i have had tremendous fear, anxiety, curiosity and overall need for answers about spirits.

  we all learned the same shite.

  any spirits are demons.

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  GentlyFeral

  In addition to all the sage advice that feenx has already recieved –

  I honestly don't know what I am afraid they would do. I guess perhaps change my behavior, cause me to do things I did not want to do. That's probably the key thing right there. See my grandfather wanted me to follow in his sadistic footsteps.

  You might consider finding a therapist to help you explore the issue of ... call it "rape of conscience," if you like.

  But if you do want to explore whatever spirit world exists, it might help to be aware that every culture that believes in evil spirits has also developed a wide array of protective and defensive strategies against them. Some of them are as simple as placing an open Bible under your bed. Samples can be found here, here and here.

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  People who would never have been born...if the WTBTS was right!

  by gaiagirl in

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  i watched several movies this week, and afterwards, i was thinking about how many performers in those movies would never have been born if armageddon had come in the fall of 1975 as advertised.

  stardust featured clare danes and charlie cox, both born long since 1975. resident evil: extinction featured milla jovovitch, whose birthday is actually in december 1975, but it is likely that her parents would have already been dead by then, as they aren't witnesses.

  anyone else have favorite people (actors or not) who would not have been born if 1975 had lived up to the big buildup?

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  • Orlando Bloom
  • Jamie Oliver
  • Probably Leonardo DiCaprio
  • David Elsewhere (check him out at youtube, too)
  • Most everybody who appeared in Rize
  • Heather O'Rourke
  • Los Orishas (definitely Yotuel Romero and probably the other members, too)

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