Posts by Sirona

i can look up anything on the net and find out how to do anything, including how to make a devastating nail bomb to making ricine (sp) to kill people but i can't seem to find out the nutritional values a person needs.. what i worry about most is the protein that we need on a daily basis.

right now i am eating everything that has the highest content of protein i can find in the cupboard.. i am not trying to go vegetarian because of peta, although i have watched the video's (eeeeewwwww).

Sirona

Derek

Thanks

I like eggs on toast for breakfast. Or a bagel. Something like that.

I suppose I just kept feeling like I wasn't getting enough protein each and every day.

I will check the link,

Sirona

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True friends

by R.Crusoe in

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friends

do you feel any?.

does your whole world have any?.

Sirona

Some people have touched on this...

I'd like to say that I think that there are lots and lots of issues surrounding friendship and making friends, including

* how extroverted someone is

* their social circle and their ability to socialise generally (this might be restricted by circumstances which don't allow them to get out and about much)

* their standards for friends (some people will call almost anyone a "friend" and some will reserve that title for only very few)

* how hurt that person has been in the past (and / or abused)

* how confident someone is overall (someone can be a positive thinker but inside not feel too confident around new people)

* health issues

etc. etc. etc.

It is not only those who are depressed who find themselves feeling lonely! Some people are positive and not depressed, but other factors have influenced things over the years.

For me, when I left the JWs I was extremely proactive in meeting people and attempting to make new friends. I joined groups and got out a lot. I met many people. I made a few friends. Some of those friends have since moved on.

Other friends have acted like a friend and then flushed our friendship down the toilet. I've been let down by certain people in a big way,the scenario being that I would confide in the friend and the friend would confide in me (about the relationships we were in, about our personal deep feelings) and then whilst I felt that the person meant a lot to me and we had a deep friendship, the person suddenly does something which is exceedingly hurtful and undermines the friendship entirely. They walk away seemingly without a care and I'm left very sore.

Other people are "friends" but if I'm honest they're more like acquaintances.

My best friends are Gary (my partner) and Joanne (my sister). I do have other good friends but they are VERY few.

Sirona

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Anyone here into vegetarianism?

by DazedAndConfused in

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this trying to become somewhat of a vegetarian is hard.

i can look up anything on the net and find out how to do anything, including how to make a devastating nail bomb to making ricine (sp) to kill people but i can't seem to find out the nutritional values a person needs.. what i worry about most is the protein that we need on a daily basis.

right now i am eating everything that has the highest content of protein i can find in the cupboard.. i am not trying to go vegetarian because of peta, although i have watched the video's (eeeeewwwww).

Sirona

Thanks for asking this question! and WELL DONE on becoming veggie!

I have to admit something though.....I was totally veggie until I got pregnant.... then I started craving meat and I was also concerned about protein content because it had always been a problem for me on a veggie diet. So I now eat meat in small portions whilst I'm pregnant.

As soon as I can I'm going back to veggie though. I really don't like eating meat but I'm attempting to be healthy for the baby in terms of enough B12 and protein.

I read that we need 45g protein a day and honestly when I was totally veggie I couldn't get that level of protein. You'd have to eat VAST amounts of beans etc. Quorn is good and SOYA, but even then a portion might give you 20g and that would be eating a LOT.

Those who said that you can get enough protein by eating veggies, could you please break that down and explain how I'm going to get 45g or more (whilst pregnant I was told 70g per day) on just vegetables!

Sirona

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Thank god for cheese

by greendawn in

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one amazing thing is that out of just three kinds of milk the milk of cow, ewe and goat hundreds if not over a thousand different kinds of cheese are made around the world.

yellow or white, hard or soft, mouldy or not mouldy, strong tasting or bland.

cheddar, gruyere, gouda, maasdamer, parmesan, feta, roquefort, stilton, brie and scores more.

Sirona

Wensleydale with cranberries

YUM

Sirona

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A STUNNINGLY simple question about JOHN 3:16 "For God so Loved the world."

by Terry in

on what basis did god so love the world?.

the world of mankind had been condemned to death by god's curse in eden!.

god viewed mankind as "dust on the scales".

Sirona

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What do we have to do to get Gods' Attention

by LouBelle in

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this is *if* you believe in god / a god / gods.

there are moments when i sit down and have a conversation, almost with myself, because even though i am looking up at the heavens/searching my soul, there is no answer, no supernatural feeling, it is quiet and still, but i speak the words just in case there is something listening.. if there is a god and he is all that he claims to be through all the religions on this earth, why doesn't he rule us as a god should?

why doesn't he come on down and sort out this world?

Sirona

Evolution as I know it is where one species forms into another such as a dog turning into a cat.

LOL

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Education Bias And Favortism Within Witness Ranks

by The Rapster in

let me just say from the beginning i am not a bitter ex jehovah's witness.

i am simply a kid from back in the 70's - 80's who was completely enmeshed in it, leaving in 1984 after a sham marriage rushed by social and peer pressure within a congregation.

it took two years of a horrible personal relationship to accept that for 20 years i was misled.

Sirona

This is my pet hate.

Just take me and my partner.

Me: Indoctrinated at 12, baptised at 15. Not one scrap of help or encouragement with schooling, but I achieved all A grades. Then I was told that University was a bad idea so I should do a "practical" course. I took the advice and did a business course for just ONE YEAR before I was thrust into the workplace and told to give my parents money for my keep. Then forced to marry young. I have later gotten myself more education and attended University, but only once I broke free of the cult.

My partner Gary: Born into JWs and achieved good results at school (again without any input from parents). He was also made to marry at a silly young age and encouraged to be a carpenter. Fortunately he broke free at around age 20 and pursued an education in law and is now a lawyer. All his education he funded himself and only did it when he left the WTS.

This cult religion has a lot to answer for in ruining peoples lives and potential!

Sirona

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Have I become like those I despise?

by Hortensia in

well, yes, as a matter of fact.

i have become a desperate, needy, clingy burden on my friends, so depressed i don't know what to do.

every day i say, pull up your socks, put one foot in front of the other.

Sirona

Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.