Posts by nancy drew

I was born into a catholic situation and my first thought in church was apparently about ice cream. I was told that during the ringing of the bells the most holy moment in the catholic mass I yelled out that the ice cream man was coming. I'm sure that gave everyone a chuckle.

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Do you measure ingredients when cooking?

by compound complex in

in julie & julia, ms. child's collaborator says it doesn't matter; julia says it does matter.

i can see its being important when writing a book but how about when cooking up daily fare?.

coco un rien de sel.

nancy drew

I always mess around with recipes, add extra stuff and liberally season.

I use cookbooks more for ideas than strict instructions.

food glorious food don't care what it looks like just thinking of growing fat our senses go reeling one moment of knowing that full up feeling.

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Your Favorite Summer Time Songs

by FlyingHighNow in

post your summer time songs and videos.. chuck prophet: summer time thing.

give it a listen.

see if you can't just feel the heat and see it rising off the pavement.. to start this thread off:.

nancy drew

summertime summertime sum sum summertime

the jamies

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"The Perfect Storm" To Be A Jehovah's Witness

by minimus in

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why do people become jehovah's witnesses?.

nancy drew

I started out in catholic school decided that wasn't right. went to collage late 60's became campus radical joined sds demonstrated against the vietnam war. went to california lived on the streets sold revolutionary newspapers that wasn,t right.

joined a commune sang songs about love and brotherhood ate natural foods that wasn't right. started meditation joined edgar cayce group drifted away from that. tried to live normal life still single went to work read alot of sci fi.

witnesses came to the door new idea seemed interesting studied met my husband at work got married & baptised as jw not so bad at first became increaingly disturbed and unhappy with it. we both walked out of it and we had no children or relatives in it.

now I think I've finally learned to stay away from groups and organizations I've had my fill of it and I think its a personal journey that each of us will have to take and learn from.

that's why I became a witness.

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Sympathy for the Devil

by St George of England in

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friends

please allow me to introduce myself .

i'm a man of wealth and taste .

i've been around for a long, long year .

nancy drew

I shouted out who killed the kennedys

when after all it was you and me

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If God (Jehovah) truly loved humans

by smiddy in

i`m taking this veiwpoint from a jw/christian observation, and my questions are:.

if god, jehovah, allah,or whoever else you may like to call him,truly had the worlds " human" interests at heart,why would he only deal with a small minority of humans,over centuries of time ignoring the vast majority of the worlds population.. why would he send a number of prophets over centuries of time,to specifically set matters straight as to how they should worship him,then when it comes down to jesus time ,their are numerous sects,and no real direction from god as to how they should worship him.it`s all left up to faith,which is radically different from the "old testament"veiw.. why didn`t he give instructions /guidance to the rest of mankind,(who would have been in the millions by now)to give them some hope of salvation?

obviously he didn`t give any thought to them.. 2000 years on from their, the christian gospel is mainly only preached in western civilizations,it is not widely preached in india,pakistan,the uae,mainland china,indonesia,afghanistan,or many other large populated areas.. so my question is.... does god really "love the world so much that he gave his only begotten son" .

nancy drew

many times you hear the term "the sanctity of human life" but it seems to me the creator doesn't think that way . Human life is obviously expendable we live short perilous lives and we hear about how god loves us but the main focus is always about punishment if you can't please him and everything is your fault.

no effort is made to clarify anything for us were supposed to appreciate life while our head is under the guilotine and any future after that is questionable. I have tried to be more positive and like fox mulder "i want to believe (something good that is)"

WHATEVER

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Gave My Dog CPR

by compound complex in

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last night it was raining hard, and i wondered if my little pom would make it up the long flight of stairs at whose top landing i was waiting.

we got inside, at last, and i got busy with stuff and don't recall what happened right then and there.

i think i was at the range when i turned around and saw my dachshund feet up in the mop bucket, submerged under the heavy weight of a string mop.. frantic, i pulled her out and started administering cpr.

nancy drew

strange little dream

some dreams you remember always because they're so outrageous.

last year, I dreamt that I was in some sort of operating room and some people just started doing surgery on my head and they removed something but what was so strange is when they did I felt a tug on my head. I'll never forget that one.

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Attended a funeral this morning

by man in black in

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a lady i work with recently lost her husband to brain cancer, she is a very nice person so i made it a point to attend his memorial.

mass at the local evangelical church.. as the service went on, the pastor had asked the man's son, brother, and two sisters to give a little speech about their father, and brother.. it was one of the most emotional things i ever witnessed at a funeral.. .

remember, most of these people are from a different religion, or don't have any belief at all.. the brother gave a very nice talk about growing up together, one sister just stuck to her written script, it was very hard for her to speak in public.. the other sister read a letter that she started when her brother discovered that he had cancer, so her letter covered events for two years.. she started crying several times when something she was reading struck her, yet she was able to laugh, and get the entire church to laugh along with one of her personal observations regarding her brother as he grew up.. the most emotional part was when his 23 year old son got up and read a tribute that he wrote to his dad,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.

nancy drew

It always struck me that jw funerals were very empty and cold. It seemed like there was an unwritten rule that crying was a sign of weakness you need to be nonchalant about death.

that does not give people catharsis and I think people need that. It makes me think about the hiring of people to cry sort of like the first person on the dance floor to get everyone started.