Sweet potatoes are a superior tuber to the typical baking potato in this important aspect - they do not cause an isulin spike. People concerned with blood sugar control do well to eat them. Fitness experts praise them as a better choice for consumption, especially prior to a workout.
rocketman
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Just "discovered" sweet potatoes and yams
by compound complex insweet potato was already an important crop on pacific islands when europeans landed on the islands: easter island (roggeveen, 1722), new zealand (cook, 1769), and the hawaiian islands (cook, 1778).
sweet potato, known as kumara, was a staple in the diet of the maoris of new zealand; interestingly, the name kumar is used for this plant in peru!
rongo ma-tane, a maori god, protects this plant; a buried tuber is powerful enough to cause enemy to go mad and run away.. http://mrbrownthumb.blogspot.com/2007/11/storing-sweet-potato-vine-tubers.html .
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My take on the new Be Jehovah's Friend DVD
by blond-moment inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrx7ej2b8m.
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rocketman
Interesting presentation Captain Janeway, I mean, Blonde Moment.
Yes, showing an illustration of the two people whose actions, according to the Bible, led to the sentencing of the entire human race to futility and death is supposed to somehow parallel a young boy playing with a toy wizard. Mind bloggling.
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Prayers at mealtime!!?
by Frog inwho still find it strange years on to dive straight into your mail meal without 'giving thanks'?
i say main meal, because dad's prayers were always considerably lengthy before a main meal, and are an institution in every jw household.
even now after a few years i'm just about ready to tuck in when i find myself saying a simple thanks under my breath.
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rocketman
Funny, I was Googling Bart Simpson's prayer before-meal, and this thread, is at the top, from 7 years ago, and the same topic is now a current thread on JWN. So I posted this to move this thread back into circulation.
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A message from youtube regarding negative votes on Sparlock videos
by Amelia Ashton ini don't seem to be making myself clear these days.
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there has been so many "dislikes" on sparlock clips i received a message from youtube.. i asked for people to "like" the videos instead of "dislike" because this will also push the videos to the top of searches and hopefully get more views especially for jws searching from it .. i am now getting abuse.. please can people "like" the clips so the balance between like and dislike gets reversed.. ty x.
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rocketman
Another reason I felt compelled to Dislike it (besides the fact that it's yet another manipulative product of JW origin) is that I was concerned that JWs who see a lot of Likes would interpret it as a favorable reaction to the Organization's teachings.*
Incidentally, there were several separate postings of the video and I paid no attention to who loaded it.
* While reading the Comments would reveal that most viewers have a negative reaction, the Comments were disabled on two of the three uploads that I watched.
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A message from youtube regarding negative votes on Sparlock videos
by Amelia Ashton ini don't seem to be making myself clear these days.
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there has been so many "dislikes" on sparlock clips i received a message from youtube.. i asked for people to "like" the videos instead of "dislike" because this will also push the videos to the top of searches and hopefully get more views especially for jws searching from it .. i am now getting abuse.. please can people "like" the clips so the balance between like and dislike gets reversed.. ty x.
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rocketman
Sorry, but I had to Dislike. If I Liked, it would be like pleading guilty to a crime I didn't commit.
Seriously, I know it's important to keep the video hot, but I just can't bring myself to Like it.
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Forget everything we said/printed in the past????This is the latest witchtower mind control tactic?Well done dubs!
by witchtowerwitch inwelcome to the 21st century cult experts people!of course they want all dubs to forget everything that they were taught in the past,because it was all lies okay!you have got to be kidding me right?so should i forget my baptism,the bible,all publications,and everything that was taught for the last 130 years?done folks,,,,i'm in ,and have been forgotten that wacky cult shxt for over 25 years now,,,amen!
i wish that the gb would have said that 45 years ago,,,hehehe ,,,,lol,,,i would have left back then!i'm trying to forget all of this nonsense,but it is very hard to,seeing them down in nyc scrambling to save all of the dead prophecies that never came true!i'm laughing so hard that i'm crying now!.
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rocketman
Nothing like starting a thread out of the blue with no references to what you're referring to.
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New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"
by treadnh2o inhey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
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rocketman
Oh in regard to Sing With Us:
They kept showing Caleb, and then Sophie, at the door offering tracts. This 'theme' kept repeating through the song, while at other times the family was shown at play. I thought it telling that the 'theocratic activities' were repeated throughout. To my mind this is a clear message, perhaps meant to be form of conditioning at the very least.
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Honda make Jehovah sad.
by edmond dantes inbreaking news:.
the honda motor corporation make jehovah sad.. honda's online brochure describes the latest civic has having "magic seats" and are innovative.. jehovah's earthly representatives are expected to call for an early boycott of all new civics because satan loves magic and jehovah does not, no way.. sparlock the new spokesperson for the devil has described the latest unfolding events and seats as significant..
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Wha Happened: "Basketball games? Orlando Magic. You would think they would have used some of that magic."
Classic!
Funny thread too.
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New DVD "Become Jehovah's Friend"
by treadnh2o inhey peeps,.
it's been a long while since i've posted (i am completely out - wife and kids still in) but thought you might this interesting.. they came home from the district convention yesterday with the new dvd intended for kids.
they popped it in right away and this is what happens:.
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rocketman
So far on YouTube the Dislikes are outgunning the Likes by a huge margin, no surprise there. After watching all four parts (Intro, Pts 1 & 2, and Song)...
The one (small) redeeming thing about Part One is that at least the Dad didn't call Mom back in to clean up the floor. He got down and cleaned it. As far as ways to clean a floor are concerned, I find that sometimes scrubbing it is the best way to get it really clean, though I'm no expert. In any case, the woman scrubbing is clearly a stereotype, and stereotypes abound on this DVD.
Changing clothes for Family Worship is ridiculous and one more example of the Governing Body's mind-numbing mindset. So God is not going to accept your worship if you fail to dress up in your own house? It reminded me of an article a few years back in which a school-aged sister took a dress with her to school because she conducted a home bible study afterward and would change. Just ludicrous and something that the vast majority of jws aren't going to do anyway.
Part Two is the more unsettling. Isn't Disney's Theme Park called the Magic Kingdom? How many JWs avoid going there for vacations? I never have heard of any JW family avoiding a vacation there for that reason. Elders no doubt take their families there all the time. And yet, a little kid can't have one toy wizard?
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The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
by dontplaceliterature ini'm currently reading the demon-haunted world, by carl sagan.
chapter 12, "the fine art of baloney detection", has a great list of logical fallacies which are part of what sagan calls the "baloney detection kit.
" although i've learned a great deal about what exactly logical fallacies were since i started leaving the organization, this is by far the most comprehensive list, and i thought it would be nice to share it with all of you.
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Very interesting and helpful - and these techniques are not limited to the Society.
For example:
Ad hominem - Latin for 'to the man', attacking the arguer and not the argument (e.g., the Reverend Dr Smith is a known Biblical fundamentalist, so her objections to evolution need not be taken seriously).
I once posted some information about protein consumption at a bodybuilding website. The info quoted a nutritionist. Another poster Googled the nutritionist and posted a photo of her. Because she wasn't lean and muscular, the information was deemed useless by that poster, with no competing evidence presented to refute the information.