i am now about to buy a new electric oven and ceramic electric hobs so if anyone has advice and tips on these devices let us know.
the oven will be bosch or siemens with triple glass on the door and of course fun assisted, that way food cooks faster and better as a crust is created quickly on the surface of food and seals in the juices, eg meats come out very succulent and tender.
also there is no need to turn food round.
I assume you've got no gas coz electric hobs suck majorly. No good for real cooking, only for heating stuff up.
With induction hobs it is the simplicity of cleaning that is far more interesting than the saving in power; any pan that you can stick a magnet to will work on them.
a rumor alert indeed, but it could be related to the distribution of kingdom news no.37, "false religions end is near.".
the following is posted from e-watchman's forum.. make of it what you will, but in light of all the rhetoric about "deliverance at hand" and "independent thinking", nothing would surprise me anymore.. http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1502&st=0 we posted about an announcement it was only local to our cong.
however we have found out that there is going to be an announcement sometime in september and it is supposed to be shocking.
The answer to your question Joe is the power of the super-crypto-decoder-Christian ring.
With this powerful device they can tell what (in the Bible) is meant to be taken literally and how literal.
When it says lambs laying down with lions, some people's super-crypto-decoder-Christian ring translates this as 'metaphor'. Others get the result 'literal', and have to believe that lions will go veggy in the Paradise (like Dubbies do).
When it says 'Armagedon' and talks about 'all the nations', some get the result 'literal', as in ALL the nations at Harmagedon in Israel. Others get the result 'contextually literal' as in all nations THEN KNOWN at the literal place. Others get 'metaphorical' and see it as an ultimate battle involving all nations globaly, spoken of in metaphorical terms.
To 'understand', simply order the super-crypto-decoder-Christian ring from the church of you choice...
... enough jws and non ex-jws to have a two sided debate that can give more depth than the current one sided debates that are typical of almost every thread apart from creation/evolution threads.
these manage to polarise us in informative albeit heated debates.
an argument should have a counter argument so that as much ground is covered as possible on both sides of the debate.
As has been pointed out, the fact that some opinions aren't worth shit and therefore cannot be presented convincingly as a counter argument is NOT the problem of those with an opinion that is arguably worth a damn.
Why should I be sorry that a JW can't make a decent counter argument against Organsiational behaviour with regard to Malawi and Mexico, or the NGO stuff, or doctrinal revisions?
It would be nice if there WERE such things as convincing defenders of the possibility of rocking horse crap. And some think they are. But that doesn't mean a balanced debate is possible with people whose belief structure is faith-based as distinct from acceptence-of-evidence-based.
I know I am right because my talking Coca-Cola can says so, you're just unlucky you can't hear it...
well for starters i do have a prescription for cannabis (insomnia / depression).... why would i want to take pharmacuticals for insomnia/depression?
i mean, what if i get prescribed/addicted to a pill, that one day i might not be able to afford?
(if you/i grow cannabis it's more/less free)... now the moral issue... who is more likely to beat the shit out of their kids?
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I got rolling tobacco in the 'States... although it's not common; I've been looked incredulously at in bars when I rolled-one up and people have laughed when they realised I wasn't actually building a joint, as that's what they thought I was doing; cigarettes are so cheap few people smoke rollies (but rollies ARE nicer than cigarettes)
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And animals love plants that give them a buzz; like fermented fruit - I've seen drunk elephants on wildlife programmes!
well for starters i do have a prescription for cannabis (insomnia / depression).... why would i want to take pharmacuticals for insomnia/depression?
i mean, what if i get prescribed/addicted to a pill, that one day i might not be able to afford?
(if you/i grow cannabis it's more/less free)... now the moral issue... who is more likely to beat the shit out of their kids?
As good as I am feeling, I still want to get high. It's taking a lot of effort. I am beginning to think that pot may be addictive after all. So far so good. I just have to keep my "eyes on the prize".
As pointed out, feeling good is habit forming. I find if I am in my normal routine and don't have pot when i normally have it I want pot want pot want pot.
If I am in a different routine then it really doesn't bother me if I don't have pot or even the tobacco I normally smoke with the grass - for example, a three weeks holiday without pot, no problem bar a bit of tobacoo craving the first few evenings.
I think you're body is saying 'hey, why don't we feel good?' as distinct from 'unless I have this chemical I won;t feel good'.
Distract yourself with liquor and degrading sexual practises - it works for me every time... once you don't have the "It's 6pm I should be getting high" Pavlovian thang going it'll be easier.
It might not be physically addictive but it is habit forming; there is a difference. You can stop picking your nose if you put your mind to it, thus it is with pot. You cannot stop craving nicotine or Heroin simply by putting your mind to it.
I do want to cut out the tobacco by using a vapouriser, and adjust the "how much, how often, when and where" as I will likely be having residential parental duties for the first time in ages...
quote from bbc website .
a top us official has described the suicides of three detainees at the us base at guantanamo bay, cuba, as a "good pr move to draw attention".
colleen graffy told the bbc the deaths were part of a strategy and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause", but taking their own lives was unnecessary.
Isn't it sad the one of the 'best' defences the pro-Gitmos can come up is justification by someone else also doing bad things at some other point.
They can't provide a rational defence of the policy, as there isn't one.
well for starters i do have a prescription for cannabis (insomnia / depression).... why would i want to take pharmacuticals for insomnia/depression?
i mean, what if i get prescribed/addicted to a pill, that one day i might not be able to afford?
(if you/i grow cannabis it's more/less free)... now the moral issue... who is more likely to beat the shit out of their kids?
Myself, I'm the, "man lets get to the top of that hill before we smoke that joint"
Yeah, me too.
My final paper was a project; "Drug use amongst adolescents", studying a local group of 15-19 year-olds.
Although limited and probably requiring a little better science in places there were several really interesting things that came up.
First of all, in a British (or I would imagine the US for that matter) school system, you can plausably test non-invasively for drug use by a simple questionaire. Drug users know WAY more about drugs than non-users as drug education doesn't equip young people with the knowledge to stay as safe as possible if they use drugs - which they to one extent or the other will. Non-users are fantastically more likey to suffer from a potentially lethal misconception about drug use than drug users. And comprehensive drug education doesn't increase use, as the fact more English teenagers smoke pot regulary than Dutch teenagers shows.
Second, almost all drug using respondents agreed strongly with statement that "After I found out more about drugs, I realised Government representation of drug use and users was misleading".
Third, drug dealers offer people drugs other than what they came for.
Only the idea about testing for drug use with a questionnaire is anything new.
Pile loads of research together and you see there is no stepping-stone or gateway effect. There is what I call a domino effect. If the manner of obtaining drug supplies means people are offered other drugs, then some will accept those drugs when they otherwise would not have.
How many smokers start smoking 'cause everyone they go out and drink with smokes? Or vice-versa? How many cannabis users offered speed by their dealer turn it down?
A controlled system of supply, like in Holland, means that if you go to a coffeeshop and buy cannabis, that's what you'll get. You can also get 'Smart Drugs', Mushrooms, drinks (some coffeshops don't serve alcohol), food... but no speed smack or coke.
It stops people being tempted to experiment with far more dangerous drugs. A domino falls, but there's nothing next to it to be hit.
If people want a recreational chemical they WILL get it. This has been proven; prohibition breeds crime by creating a massive potential for profit. The trick is setting the rules up so the inevitable causes as little problems socially as possible.
quote from bbc website .
a top us official has described the suicides of three detainees at the us base at guantanamo bay, cuba, as a "good pr move to draw attention".
colleen graffy told the bbc the deaths were part of a strategy and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause", but taking their own lives was unnecessary.
I heard another US Army spokesperson describe their suicides as 'acts of war'.
It's like Monty Python's Life of Brian where the Samaritan Suicide Squad storms in...
Act of war? Well... maybe.
Desperate people do desperate things, especially if they feel powerless. That applies to all of us.
Add in a profoundly twisted version of Islam that can even condemn fellow Muslims if they disagree over Qu'ranic interpretation or are in cohoots with the Infidel (which we're not, incidentally, which shows how twisted that form of Islam is) and its not surprising they do ghastly things.
Do you really think they would use suicide bombers if they had viable alternatives? Just as the Japanese created a cult-like atmosphere for its Kamikazi's, so too do the fermentors of this ill prime the guns of their jihad with the blood of their own followers. Belief in martyrdom or otherwise, if they had M1A Abrams, they'd not need suicide bombers. Or suicidice suiciders.
What those that ARE gulity do is wrong; this is not an argument.
But the point is not all ARE guilty, and the fact many are released without charge shows that many are not held on sound evidentary grounds. Which is why the US government is shitting over the very principles of its nation by not allowing them access to due civilian process.
If they are guilty, why are the US government so scared to prove it in court? This would ensure the search for bad guys didn't drag in innocent parties and hold them as long as they liked.
If we break our own principles, it just feeds the propoganda picture painted by the formentors of this ill.
does the theory of evolution supply the genetic answer to the self-sacrificing nature of many animal parents as well as that of many men and women in general?
when a man or woman risks their life to help someone in danger is their response simply a response to the natural processes at work due to evolution's effect on their dna?
if so, can this self-sacrificing gene be isolated?
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nontheless doesn't the theory of evolution teach that for the most part more complex organisms came after simpler ones
Remember that evolution is a theory AND a fact.
The fossil record shows that there WAS evolution. This is a fact, there is evidence for it. The evidence is that simple forms are replaced by complex forms. We can see genetic change of a nature we would expect neccesary to drive this process.
Evolution is also a theory, a set of scientific explanations of how the process works, an interpretation of the evidnece of evoltuion as a fact.
Thus evolution as a fact shows us simple forms are replaced by complex forms; it's in the stones. That doesn't neccesarily have anything to do with the theory, although of course the theory explains it.
and that the best adapted species were more successful than those who were not as well adapted?
'Most Fit' (for survival in a given environment) as compared to 'Less Fit' is a better way of putting it. An organism is adapted for an environment wherein its progenitors proved to be most fit. Doesn't neccesarily mean it is adapted for the environment it is born into, as environments may change faster than genomes.
What or who will be the top species on earth 100 or 200 million years from now?
Define 'top'. E coli will probably still be around. 'We' may not.
Will mankind look any different?
Maybe, it depends on whether those who look different have more babies than those who look the same.
Will there be new species in the oceans? Perhaps new kinds of mammals and birds? Well....my questions I suppose are endless.
You don't have to wait that long for that. Speciation is uncommon on human time-scales, but doesn't take that long under the right circumstances - of of course 'long' varies according to how many generations in a year there are.
And ask away.
many people ask why doesn't god interefere to help suffering mankind?
biblically the answer is very simple: mankind exercise their freedom of choice and in so doing chose to be slaves to sin or the demons if you like.
god respects that choice however foolish it may be.
Once we believe in a creature called Satan, we have to accept that the god of the Bible created him and is therefore capable of creating creatures with the potential to practice evil.
Mmmm... but the Bible might just be another book telling us that culture's history, and the mythologies arising from that culture's experience with and rationalisation of postive and negative non-material entities. And other culture's will have different stories telling their experience and rationalisation of postive and negative non-material entities. And they are all equally right, and equally wrong, more or less, but document there is something out there.
So 'Satan' is just our name for a concept or cultural memory, and if the basis of the concept or cultural memory is tangibly real, even if non-material, it no more means the Bible's rverese story is true than that of other cultures who would also have their concepts or cultural memories validated.
And Sinter Klas is coming on his white horse, and his Zwatre Pieten will grab the false ones, Father Christmas and Snata CLaus and Kris Kringle and the rest of them, and put them in scaks and beat them with sticks, and all their followers too, and be taken to Sinter Klas's castle in Spain and sold as slaves.
