Also if you are adding salt to food for flavor, make sure it's SEA SALT for sure. While it has the same sodium level, it's often way better in that the trace minerals are still there (chemically removed in mined salt) and it's just plain better for you. Obviously you have less of a choice in prepackaged foods, but if you want to add salt, I recommend sea salts.
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Taking Sodium Seriously!
by AK - Jeff ini am, along with my wife, trying to find creative ways to lower our sodium intake.
the aha recommends a diet consisting of less than 1500 mg of sodium daily - yet most americans eat at least twice that.
i believe now, having spent most of a morning looking through grocer shelves to determine sodium levels, that twice the level might actually be a very low estimate.
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Ladies, MS or Elders?
by asilentone inladies, while you were in the org, did you wish to be ms or elder?
has any conversation take place between jw ladies about this issue ?.
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I can honestly say that I didn't envy them at all, but what really irked me was that I couldn't give a talk facing the audience. I just really thought it was because the women were better at conversations, and the men were just full of hot air (a tell about my upbringing and childhood, huh?)
I'd never want position in the congregation, as its just more work and more stress.
Good thing I quit...and that I'm not a man. My husband felt the same way by the way. He'd pioneered, but never reached out for "position".
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Getting my GED so I can go to college
by noni1974 ini've been trying to get my ged for a few months now.
i bought some books and have been working through them on my own.
i came to a road block working on my own, and i decided to go for free classes offered by my local school district.
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Noni, good for you! All the best wishes and encouragement here for ya lady!!
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Help!!!
by Heartbreaker ini'm buried under a foot of snow, and there's another half foot coming!!!.
my kids are never going back to school!.
wahhhh!!!!!
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John, I admit I was very cautious in clicking that link....you never know what people call it nowadays
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Help!!!
by Heartbreaker ini'm buried under a foot of snow, and there's another half foot coming!!!.
my kids are never going back to school!.
wahhhh!!!!!
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I'm buried under a foot of snow, and there's another half foot coming!!!
My kids are NEVER going back to school!
WAHHHH!!!!!
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Unfamiliar Terms
by KingDavidwasframed insome i can figure out on my own and i did download a book of apostate terms that was posted earlier (alongside a chart outlining similarities between ex jws and ex lds), but a few i do not "get".
how about we use this thread for any confused ones to ask and be rewarded with an answer?.
my first is " cobe" and another is "fwn".
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FWN - Family worship night.
What do I win??
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Conditional love dilema....need advice
by hubert inone of my daughters has been dating a guy for about two years now.
they are starting to talk about marriage, but ran into a "snag" involving his family from his previous marriage, which may disolve the whole relationship.
i won't go into details about that.
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Hubert, I actually got tears in my eyes reading how happy you are that it worked out. What a treasure you have with those 2 daughters worrying about you so, and associating with you as family first and not giving much weight to religion.
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Not sure how to handle this one
by Heartbreaker inone of my children was a twin.
i'm hoping that by stating this, i'm not giving too much of my identity away, but here i go anyway.. one child a twin, only survivor.
it was always told to this kid that the twin would maybe be met in the "new system".
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They had no friends their age at the hall. Our family was the only one with young children to speak of, and they often wanted friends from school etc, and now they have all they want. Regular playdates and sports activities to boot.
I agree about the forced changes, as they didn't decide to leave, we did....but at the same time I'm not ready to sit them down and tell them all the doctrical fallacies etc...they are young. I just cringe hearing them parroting what was so obviously said to them over and over by us, and heard at the hall, and not be faced with the reality that I allowed, even encouraged that. It stings.
But the twin thing, that was tough. Real tough. I too grieve giving up that dream, honestly, as that was a child of mine too, and a twin connection that was never denied to my surviving child...but for this child of mine, tears in the eyes etc, made it so hard to swallow. I just gave a hug and held tight for a bit and said we still didn't know all the answers, and sometimes that's ok, having thought we had all the answers before, and didn't really. I'd rather be right that we don't know it all, than be wrong and assume we did.
I hope that you are right about the time passing quickly and things looking up for them. Time will tell...Thanks Robyn :)
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STOP Talking to Your Family OR ELSE!
by UnDisfellowshipped in" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 411).
" (the watchtower july 1st 1963 issue, page 413).
" (the watchtower july 15th 1963 issue, page 446).
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A warm, warm welcome Oceanblue. You've stated a whole lot there in your first post, and it covered a lot of ground. Now you know. So, go forward, as slow as you need, but hold that TRUTH close to you, and move forward. So happy to hear at the end of your post that things are looking up for you.
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Not sure how to handle this one
by Heartbreaker inone of my children was a twin.
i'm hoping that by stating this, i'm not giving too much of my identity away, but here i go anyway.. one child a twin, only survivor.
it was always told to this kid that the twin would maybe be met in the "new system".
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One of my children was a twin. I'm hoping that by stating this, I'm not giving too much of my identity away, but here I go anyway.
One child a twin, only survivor. It was always told to this kid that the twin would maybe be met in the "new system". It was asked of me tonight now that we don't go to the meetins anymore, how would we ever see the twin. Obviously the child thinks that others will still get the reward, and since we chose holidays and birthdays and freedom on weekends, that they won't get that prize. How sad. I'm just struck over and over again how deeply this religion was engrained in our lives, even for our young children.
The other thing we hear regularly is "Not as strong/big/high/smart/(etc) as Jehovah!!" By another one of our children. We don't even TALK about Jehovah, God, or religion in our house at all, and it's been 6 months since we've set foot in a Kingdom Hall. This child is younger than school age. It truly makes my heart ache for all the indoctrination I allowed, encouraged, and personally did. Wondering how long it will take before it fades away, and they are free of it, and "normal" kids.
PS. Also, a lunchbox for our family was found as we were cleaning out a closet, and one kid insisted keeping it, because it was for assemblies of course. SIGH