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  Do you use Goat Milk Soap or Olive Oil Soap?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i was told they are very good for the skin, but i do not know which brand and which soap to get.

  do you have any recommendations for me?

  thanks!.

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  littlerockguy, I LOVE Zum products!! The one you posted smells so good...also love the patchouli orange!
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  Do you use Goat Milk Soap or Olive Oil Soap?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i was told they are very good for the skin, but i do not know which brand and which soap to get.

  do you have any recommendations for me?

  thanks!.

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  Personally, I find the best soaps for your skin are either made from organic ingrediants for the most part or homemade... Olive oil soaps are great, as are shea butter, goat's milk, and others. Your best bet would be to go to a natural foods store and check out their selection of soaps. They come in some great scents (for a guy, I love the smell of bay rum...they make it in a shaving soap to use instead of shaving cream as well...smells so good and spicy/earthy...and great for your skin!).
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  Americans! What is up with your Iced Tea?

  by palmtree67 in

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  this is the second time i've ordered an iced tea and gotten cold......well, tea.. am i supposed to add my own sugar?.

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  Yeah it was total culture shock moving where I'm at. Here are some of the changes:

  ~ A grocery bag is a "sack"

  ~ A shopping cart is a "buggy"

  ~ You don't "Put it away", you "Put it up"

  ~ I thought I knew what barbecue was... I was SO wrong...

  ~ I never ordered iced tea back home because...well...it was gross. Until I was introduced to Sweet Tea...OMG!! I order that more often than not. And if they only serve unsweetened, I use Splenda or Sweet N' Low to sweeten it up.

  ~ All soda (or "pop") is a Coke... You order a Coke, you get this response: "What kind? Dr. Pepper, Sprite..."...WTF?? I said COKE!! lol

  ~ I never knew french fries topped with fried onions and jalapenos and dipped in ranch dressing were SO DAMN GOOD!! I thought Ketchup was as good as it got lol.

  ~ Fried cheese curds...Just...OMG...

  ~ Telling someone the time has become an exercise in overcoming language barriers...we're both speaking English, but if I say it's "quarter of one"...they have no idea what I'm talking about.

  Taco Bell is a guilty pleasure... I gotta be in the mood to eat total crap that doesn't even slightly resemble the cultural cuisine it's supposed to represent. Now that I've had REAL Mexican food, I hardly ever eat Taco Bell (or Taco Casa...or Taco Bueno...lol)

  Long John Silver's is an affront to REAL seafood lol
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  Tim Horton's

  by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

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  i have a question for my canadian friends here.

  i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.

  i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.

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  I've had it... They brought it to the Northeast USA for awhile, but they slowly closed up shop...too many people LOVE their Dunkin Donuts up there lmao.

  However, I enjoyed their sandwiches and soups (the cream of broccoli was DELICIOUS), but prefer a different donut when I'm in the mood for one. They did have a couple of good ones (loved the coconut cream), though.

  The coffee is good, but when I drink coffee, I'm kind of a snob. I've had REALLY GOOD top of the line coffee, so I'm kind of critical when it comes to flavor and aroma... But that's just me. I also didn't like the crushed ice in the cold beverages.
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  How can I be "COOL" on JWN?

  by Silent_Scream in

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  what are the unwritten rules and standards that make some people here cool, others not.. saying "just be yourself" is a lie!

  i see many people being themselves who start an interesting thread and have 6 comments (5 being their own), while others post "cheeseburgers" and the thread last for days.

  lol.. .

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  @bio, I don't see that as so much the case. I've been here 3 years and have over 1000 posts... Kinda far from being in the "in" crowd around here, though. I think it's more that a lot of people here know each other "for real" outside the board. I mean, FlyingHighNow and TimeBandit are actually related for real... I'm related to another poster here who hasn't been here in forever. A lot of others have given verbal support via telephone and in-person meetings. It's kinda hard when a lot of people still wish to remain anonymous. If you don't "know" someone outside of JWN, you're pretty much just more words on a screen. They're still willing to be supportive, but there isn't that close comeraderie like when you ACTUALLY know someone...ya know?
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  DISCUSSION WITH A JW; YOUR INPUT PLEASE...

  by Mary in

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  i'm 'talking' with a jw on another site who of course, does not believe that they are 'false prophets' and says that:.

  "...prophetic inspiration and being filled with the spirit ( to use a common expression) do not mean the same thing.".

  "...again the wts is using the term "prophet" in the basic sense of a spokesman.

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  OMG, just glancing over egghead's post and realizing...He fuckin' sounds JUST like my ex... "I'm not going to tell you, you're going to figure out what I'm trying to convey to you even though I'm speaking in friggin' riddles and pretty much have no clue what I am even talking about...the things I'm going to hint at are all clues and YOU are going to figure it out and tell ME". Instead of just coming out and saying it. Nothing worse than a pompous prick who speaks in puzzles and expects YOU to take your time and energy to figure out what the hell he's talking about when he really doesn't even know, himself.

  I agree with trying out JWfacts... Did someone have a scan of the mags that had the 1975 crap all over them??? Or the Rutherford book with the timetable with 1975 pointed to in the paragraphs??
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  She's back and I could really use some advice!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  i dont know where to begin.

  i do know it might get lengthy so i'm sorry for that.

  and also many thanks to all who read the whole thing.

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  This is a tough one. My ex was not open and honest about his feelings about the WTS before we got married...He was honest about "having doubts" and "doing research", but I didn't know to what extent it went. A part of me knew that marrying him would make things easier on me because then when I didn't want to do service or wanted to skip meetings, I could just blame it on my husband (I know, horrible...). He was an easy scapegoat, I suppose. I cared about him, but I didn't know him long enough or well enough to say I truly loved him. We got married very quickly, which I personally feel was the biggest mistake. You may feel that burning desire to be with her all the time right now, but you don't really KNOW her...especially since you spent so much time apart and she started falling back into cult mentality. So, my first bit of advice is to take it as slowly as possible. The person you think you know now is the "cult" personality, not the "genuine" personality. There is a HUGE difference.

  My ex tried showing me some things he had found in his research, and while it seemed to make some sense, I was still heavily invested in the JW's (still questioned the existence of god and whatnot, but felt that if there was a "truth", this was probably the closest I would get to it, so I'd just deal). Eventually, he got back into the cult completely and became the WORST controlling and emotionally abusive husband. I was always quite lazy with keeping up the requirements of the cult, and I never could do enough to please him. He used the "headship" card quite often to force me out in service, force me to "pioneer" without putting my name on the list, insist we use the house for service, blame ME for his not getting appointed as a MS...the list goes on.

  The thing is, with or without the cult, we really were not right for each other. We used to take long walks like you and your girl do before we were married. We'd talk about a lot of things, but our hormones and emotions blocked out the fact that we had so little in common. My own emotional blindness didn't allow me to see that whenever we "talked" it was always him monologuing and me listening... He pretty much didn't give a shit about what I had to say...and if I did start talking about something that interested me, he would take the ball and run with it, making it his own and not giving me a chance to get back in on the conversation. Basically, "love" (aka infatuation when it's this early) blinds you to important things. Only TIME will bring out someone's flaws and help you to take the blinders off so you can see them for who they are... And if you're still willing to love them, even with their flaws, then there's hope.

  I tell you all of this to illustrate one simple fact. You can show her all the evidence you want to... It doesn't mean it's going to change her mind. Nothing my ex showed me stuck with me. I didn't give a crap about Bible prophecy or how the Watchtower got it wrong..."The light gets brighter, don'tcha know...". What changed my mind was not what he showed me. And, if I were still a JW, it wouldn't change my mind now, either.

  You could both leave the cult, you could get married, and then down the road she decides she wants to go back. Then what? You're baptized, so of course, she's going to try to get the elders to talk to you...revealing your apostasy, and basically getting you DF'ed...and then there's that "spiritual endangerment" factor in your marriage...a reason for her to separate with the elder's blessing (and possible coercion). What if by then you have children? I lost all of my children because my ex LIED and threatened MORE lies in order to make me leave. JW's will stop at nothing when it comes to removing what they consider a "cancer" from their midst. Trust me. He even had other JW's lined up to lie under oath for him. They will want to get you out by the root...your heart...your family.

  You could end up with a fantastic-ending fairytale. Who knows? You could also end up freaking her out, causing her to have doubts and then go to the elders about them...and then she's given no choice but to reveal the source: YOU, the evil apostate! You're really sticking your neck out for this, and personally, if it were me, I would really just be completely honest and tell her you have no plans of remaining a JW because the things you have learned about their history are just too much of a burden on your conscience to continue taking part in it and teaching others lies.

  If she doesn't run screaming to the elders, you might have a shot.
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  Anybody here vegan?

  by Dagney in

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  i've been considering it for awhile strictly for just general overall health.

  i don't take any meds, and would like to keep it that way for as long as i can.

  i am a "all things in moderation " type of person but the more i read about excluding dairy and meat, the more i think about doing it.

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  I did vegetarian for awhile and like palm, that's when I felt really good and healthy. "Clean" is more like it. I don't have the self-discipline to go completely vegan. My personal feeling is that it's actually not how we evolved to eat, so we'd be missing some key nutrients. More than likely, ancient man didn't eat a LOT of meat because it just wasn't always available like it is today. So you're talking probably a lot of grains, veggies, etc, with fish, fowl, or beef as an added bonus a couple of times a week.

  I'm hoping to make a few meatless dinners a week... I'll have to substitute something like Boca crumbles in order for BF not to flip out and ask "Where's the beef?". I make a really yummy vegan chili, as well as vegan/vegetarian stuffed peppers...and you wouldn't know they're meatless.
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  Things you did to pass the time at meetings/service/assemblies/conventions/memorials

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  i'm currently at the meeting again... i'm always in the back working the sound cause everyone else can't seem to work it and i'm mostly on my phone reading jwn or writing, or doodling or sometimes i just stare at the audience to see who's falling asleep or daydreaming.

  its really the only way i can still sit through these things.. but i remember getting the number of a girl i used to like at one district convention and we would text each other during the program and talk about how boring it was.. i also remember sneaking out of a circuit assembly and going to see a car show that was going on right next door.

  that was fun!.

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  At conventions and assemblies, I got up and walked around... A LOT. I'd walk around for an entire session lol. My last DC, I listened to my iPod...lots of heathen music...

  Or, as CBJ stated, SLEEP. What sucked was when I would snore and wake myself up...only to realize just 10 minutes had gone by *sigh*. Other times I'd sleep so soundly I'd start drooling lol.

  Most times, if I wasn't walking or sleeping, I'd daydream. Just stare off into space and let my mind wander.

  I remember a few times one sister tried playing matchmaker...apparently at one assembly, she had already spoken to the brother she had suggested to me because he then spent the entire time watching me *face palm*.
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  confession time

  by lostinthought in

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  here are the "sins" i committed this weekend:.

  - i hung out with my catholic friend and flirted with him while together.

  - brought a lotto ticket on a dare.

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  Msgrowing~ Accountable to whom?

  Here's my list:

  ~ Engaged in Porneia (gave a blow job...I try to do this a few times a week)

  ~ Engaged in pre-marital sex (see above)

  ~ Finished reading Stephen King's Bag of Bones...then started watching the TV movie (In case you don't know, it's about a haunted house and ghosteses)

  ~ Let a rotten saying proceed out of my mouth (I do this a lot... I love the F word)

  ~ Engaged in gluttony (all-you-can-eat pizza, pasta, and salad buffet!)

  ~ Called down evil on someone else (well, a few someones lol)

  ~ Flipped the bird in traffic (something else I do a lot)

  Can't drink cause I'm pregnant (again, out of wedlock), I don't smoke (never have), and I don't smoke weed anymore (don't feel the need).

  I'm sure there's more, but I'm so used to this life now that there's no guilt and so I never really think twice about it lol.