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  What's for dinner tonight peeps?

  by beksbks in

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  i'm having spaghetti and meatballs, salad with blue cheese, and cabernet.

  it's the antidote to turkey dinner/leftovers..

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  betterdaze

  Thanks, Josie. You're a sweetheart.
  
  We planted him under a new plum tree directly out the kitchen window, so he's always with me when I'm cookin' and lookin'.

  ~Sue
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  What's for dinner tonight peeps?

  by beksbks in

  1. jw
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  i'm having spaghetti and meatballs, salad with blue cheese, and cabernet.

  it's the antidote to turkey dinner/leftovers..

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  betterdaze

  A quickie meal: Near East Sesame Ginger rice with two fistfuls of fresh shrimp chucked in at the end. Yeah, I know, lame!
  
  Didn't actually eat any because we just buried our cat yesterday and I'm still crying my eyes out so hard they look like this: + +
  
  Took the ham bone Mr. B's SIL graciously gave us from Thanksgiving and made a humongous pot of split-pea stew fortified with carrots, celery, onions, garlic, thyme, rosemary and of course smoked ham... was just joking that he'll have to have it morning-noon-and-nite 'til it's all gone. (Actuallly, it freezes well so we'll have it on hand for other quickie meals at least thru Xmas.)
  
  Slicing, dicing and cleaning-up took my mind off and made me feel a tad bit better. I tend to throw myself into cooking whenever I'm sad, it's so therapeutic and uplifting to be creative and feed others when you, yourself, are down.
  
  If our Tuxedo-garbed Brooklyn Boy was still here, he would've been doing figure eights around my feet for the shrimp, then later on for the smoked ham. He loved to just sit by and watch me cook, because he always got some of whatever we were having.

  And it would have been PURE JOY to share with him again.

  ~Sue
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  Pepsi Cola.

  by John Doe in

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  because sometimes, you want to get a little crazy.

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  betterdaze

  Pepsi schmepsy!
  
  From "a hilltop in Italy" here's the real thing:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfU17niXOG8&feature=related
  ~Sue
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  E-watchman website closing down.

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  robert king recently announced that his website, www.e-watchman.com, is going to close down because he no longer has the services of his administrator, and because the website has fallen to a lower google rating because of recent inactivity.

  says he is moving everything to a blog..

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  betterdaze

  Hello everyone
  
  As I mentioned on this forum a few days ago, I have lost the services of my webmaster. Which means that I must either find someone else who can do the html stuff or stop publishing on the site. I have decided to use a blog platform instead.
  
  It has also come to my attention that because the e-w site has been dormant for so long that Google has dropped it from it's search results. So, in order to revive the domain I am going to point it to a new blog, which means everything on the present site will go offline and a new blog will come online with the e-watchman.com url.
  
  I am porting over certain essays and commentaries and hosting them on the new blog as PDFs. But all of the mailbag archives will be gone, as well as many of the commentaries. Fortunately a lot of the material is the basis for the book anyway. I am also pulling the plug on the e-w.co.uk blog and JW news blog as well. Starting sometime next week everything I publish, including podcasts, videos and whatever else, will be on the e-w dot com blog.
  
  As they say in the cheesy late night going-out-of-business commercials: "EVERYTHING MUST GO!"
  
  So, if you want anything on the e-w sites, from essays to mailbag questions, graphics, you might want to grab them now. I think I might take a screen shot of e-w for sentimental reasons. Next week the site will be gone.
  
  watchman
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  Thanks, Sylvia, just downloaded the paper for my reading list. You saved me some Googling around!
  
  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

  1. jw
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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  Bake sales, book clubs, warm oil massages, group orgies, semi-nude female pillow fights, man...that's the good stuff.

  LOL! Sounds like you know a lot more about it than I do. Mr. Betterdaze will be thrilled.

  Almost makes a man wanna give up his faith !!

  No need to give it up. Faith in humanity to use reason, science and creativity to solve problems and improve lives. Works for myself and others who've thrown off the shackles of religious belief, or happily managed to avoid it altogether.

  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  PSacramento, I don't think that's what we meant about volunteering.

  But you're welcome to join us and "put it out there" for discussion.
  
  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

  1. jw
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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  Hi Sylvia, there are some pretty forsaken places in NJ your friend could have ended up instead. Morristown isn't really even a "city" by comparison, at least the way I see it. Large parts of Morris are still semi-rural, with protected parklands and water. Very rich in early American history, too.
  
  At the meetup we had people from Washington state, Texas and Tennessee who talked about adjusting to life here. It's not all Newark and the Turnpike! I love living in this region, yet Manhattan is still less than an hour away. So I feel I have the best of both worlds.
  
  BTW, one of the people just happened to attend school in Alabama. He was telling us AL is a "positive law" state, meaning the laws cover what you can do, as opposed to what you cannot do. Interesting!

  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  *bumping*
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  Satan is not that smart, is he?

  by dgp in

  1. watchtower
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  i was just reading brenda lee's "out of the cocoon" and found an idea that i share just to let some steam off.. according to the fable, satan (this guy .

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  betterdaze

  The reason he rebelled is mentioned in genesis: He wanted to be worshipped.

  
  
  bohm, where is it mentioned in the book of Genesis? Can you point me to the scripture(s)?
  
  ~Sue