i 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.
The best bet for finding low sodium foods is to make your own from the most basic ingredients you can find. For example, make spaghetti sauce from tomato puree and spices instead iof buying the jar. The same goes for reducing fat, trans-fat and sugar. You'll have a hard time finding packaged foods without it.
By the way, keep an eye out for the MSG as well as salt--it's a major source of sodium in packaged food.
GLT
http://www.watchtowercomments.com/.
no word from v, but i'll keep his site alive, no worries.. with all the many changes with the freeminds.org site, somehow the dns got lost on an older host that expired, and i didn't notice.
bad dogpatch!.
I still have a problem with the link, it gives a "403"error. The same thing happens w. the link on Freeminds.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
GLT
imagine the best case scenario.
the watchtower society implodes from within even making final printed admissions that it is voluntarily dismantling it's mission and legally dissolving the corporations.
oh happy day!
I would be loving and kind and welcome them to MY world. Let them see by my reaction that they were lied to all along.
@carpediem: I'm with you on that! I do fear a collapse of the central power structure would lead to new groups with similar tactics. I recall reading about splinter groups (Millenial Dawn, etc.) forming when JF Rutherford siezed control of the organization. Give the survivors something sane to cling to, an alternative to the next smooth-talker looking for new followers.
GLT
i received this crap from my jw mom today.
i hope it doesn't "encourage" you to go back .
you see, when i left, i immediately felt the relief of not being burned all the time by all of the gossip that occurs within the congregations, circuits, etc.
My alternate ending:
The householder then set kindling and fresh firewood around the lone ember, and soon it grew into a fire in its own right: warm, bright and cheery. Meanwhile the old fire had burned down to a deep pile of smoking ashes, and soon grew cold. If the householder not added fresh fuel to his ember, the room would have been dark and cold.
GLT
blood transfusions 101 for jw's-.
a blood transfusion will not save the life of a starving man = a blood transfusion is not food = a blood transfusion does not violate the ot law given by god to the jews to, "not eat blood" and that was later reiterated by the jewish christians to the gentile christians = the watchtower no-blood transfusion doctrine is a manmade abomination that kills innocent people = the watchtower society is guilty of promoting manslaughter.. .
There's also a scripture - I can't remember where now - that talks about how honorable it is for a man to lay down his soul for a brother. If the blood is the soul, that to be would show support very literally for blood donation.
Thanks for the lead-in, Greenie! I agree with your reference to John 15:13: "No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends." If blood is life, what better deed could you do than donating blood? According to our local blood center's newsletter:
Valentine's day (Feb. 14) is the official National Donor Day encouraging Americans to discuss, donate or pledge to donate blood, marrow, organ and tissue with their family and friends.
If you're eligible, donate!
GLT
new york (cbs) pat robertson, the american christian televangelist and host of "the 700 club," said that haitians need to have a "great turning to god" while he was reporting on the devastating 7.0 earthquake that shook the island nation the most powerful to hit the country in a century.
as haitian prime minister jean-max bellerive said "well over" 100,000 people may have died in the national disaster, robertson took to the airwaves wednesday on his show and said that the country has been "cursed by one thing after another" since they "swore a pact to the devil.
"something happened a long time ago in haiti and people might not want to talk about," robertson said tuesday.
Ignore jackasses like that, and also the on-the-spot news teams that do nothing particularly useful. Give your attention and donations to those who really help: the Red Cross, Salvation Army and Doctors Without Borders, among many others.
what can visitors expect who just pop in?.
do they offer communion?
pass the plate?
The study session following the public talk is a Q&A, with the approved answers appearing in the Watchtower article above the list of questions. Proper preparation for the meeting includes underlining or highlighting all the answers for the questions of the week. Independent thinking and creative, thoughful answers are out of place, just repeat what the article says. It's a lot like playing "Where's Waldo?" with words instead of pictures.
the thing that sucks is that they are very much alive & we are literally less than five miles apart from each other everyday.
i had a long talk with one of my siblings today.
i've been getting a really weird vibe lately...today it was confirmed that i will be shunned from here on out from them.
When I first saw the title, I thought somebody had died. Reading the comment showed that it wasn't a physical death, rather a witness relative becoming emotionally dead to you per WT orders.
One of the more memorable eye-openers for me was seeing my Ex and her family tear into their own sister/daughter because she was marrying a worldly man, a military man (and a fine gentleman, I might add). But witnesses have trouble seeing outside the organization's boundaries. After a few years, the fences were mended to a large degree (my ex-in-laws have a soft spot for grandchildren).
I hope that someday your brother/sister also will realize that family is forever, no matter what the organization says.
GLT
my mom told me this the other day (she was born catholic, and converted to jwism in the late 30's):.
when she was a late teen she asked this question to her catholic priest uncle: "why doesn't the catholic church encourage us to read the bible"..... the man told my mom "if the general public read the bible they would be terrorized by scandalous stuff that only the clergy can sift through".. instead of taking this answer and leaving it alone, it started her quest to find the truth, and what religion would teach the bible.. as we know, i, through her came in this wreatched religion that hides behind the bible to scam us.
So not very different to the Catholics
It's true that Catholics, on the average, do read the Bible less than Protestants. That is something that could stand improvement. According to our own apologists, Catholics Need to read Their Bibles.
The Bible-reading habits of Catholics lag far behind those of Evangelical Protestants...Catholics ought to do more Bible reading, and Evangelicals ought to read more Church history. We can learn from each other.
The official position is that Catholics are expected to read the Bible. In my twelve years experience surviving Catholic schools, we weren't just expected to read the Bible, often we were graded on it! That experience is consistent with this article: Are Catholics Allowed to Read the Bible?.
The laity are more than encouraged, they are urged to read the Bible. By Pius VI (1778), bv Pius VII (1820), they were earnestly exhorted to read it, by Leo XIII a special blessing was given to all who would read the Gospels for at least a quarter of an hour daily...
GLT
at work, the lights and tree are still up.
they almost certainly will come down this week.. some people get their stuff up early to avoid harsher weather or because they had time right after thanksgiving.
but getting the stuff down is more difficult when the horrible january weather is upon us and the holiday time to get extra stuff done is passed.. my neighbors had elaborate xmas lights displays and most are gone, some are not.
I took mine (outdoors) down last weekend before the cold snap hit, and I'm on my to help my elderly aunt with hers (indoors) this afternoon.
