Posts by GentlyFeral

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What is your favorite summertime outdoor grill food?

by Quirky1 in

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anybody have any favorites?

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i like a big sirloin cooked medium rare with a baked potato butter & sour cream.. .

GentlyFeral

Well, I love marinated mushrooms with lots of garlic in them. Most recipes call for them to be cooked.

And, dontcha know, they're just amazing if you grill them after they've marinated for an hour or two. That faint smokiness added to their garlicky goodness makes them just irresistible.

Start with big ones, though; you don't want them to fall through the grill.

And I almost forgot: Grilled bananas for dessert. DON'T peel them first, just throw them on the grill until the peels turn black - about 20 minutes, I think? They kind of turn to pudding when you do that. Mmmmm...

GentlyFeral

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What is the problem with new age stuff?

by loosie in

when i speak to some christians they seem to have a fear of things new age related.. i was speaking to three christians today who i thought are very rational.

i tolf them how my jw friend says the only good thing about getting older was that we are closer to the end of the world.

their response was well the bible says the world is gonna end.. then they started in about oprah endorsing these new age books ( a new earth by eckhart tolle) and how it is so wrong for her to do that.. i was giggling and i said yeah well some people think that obama is the antichrist lol.

GentlyFeral

S3RAPH1M:

A man carrying water in Israel during "Jesus" day? A man as a water bearer?? Something doesn't sound right there.

According to Bruce Chilton's Rabbi Jesus: an Intimate Biography, that was the whole point: Jesus, who was then "wanted by the police," so to speak, told his disciples to look for precisely this unusual sight, a man carrying water like a woman, who would lead them to the secret loction for what turned out to be the Last Supper.

Now, as to the Jordan Maxwell site: It's the same illiterate snatch-n-grab, faux-anthropology fakelore "method" that Alexander Hislop used to foist his prejudices on generations of naive churchfolk. And it's partly dependent on Hislop, too, I think.

I was only able to scroll through a couple of pages before my bullsh!t detector flared up. I'm sure he's wrong about the Iron Cross . The Nazis never had a lock on it; it was widely used by more innocent organizations before Hitler and after him. It's a variant of the Maltese cross.

gently feral

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Pimping the Divine Name

by Farkel in

obviously, a unique aspect of the wt religion is the name it has chosen, "jehovah's witnesses.

jehovah this.

jehovah that.

GentlyFeral

farkel,

TetraGrammaPhone

Isn't that a German record company?

gently feral

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Wondering why Witnesses don't ask if meat is bled anymore!!!!

by Witness 007 in

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years ago we were encouraged to ask your butcher if meat was bled....today no one cares!

if it's such a serious sin {like fornication} why doesn't anyone ask has this duck been properly bled?

only, one anionted sister i know washes mince under the tap to get the blood out!

GentlyFeral

GermanXJW quotes the Watchtower:

If there is valid basis to believe that animal blood (or a component of it) is definitely being used locally in food products, Christians should exercise due caution. Still, it would be unwise to be upset by mere suspicion or live with unfounded worry.

In the late 1970's, the congregations in my area were swept by the rumor that chickens in local supermarkets were not properly bled, except for a single brand. I finally called the state about this (can't remember the name of the bureau; or it might have been the local FDA office). The agent I talked to told me that it's illegal to sell unbled chickens at all in my state.

So I passed the word along and quit worrying about it. But I continued to prefer the "safe brand," because it actually tasted better

gently feral

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Medical Marijuana

by wha happened? in

has anyone tried it?

if so for what ailment and how effective was it?

GentlyFeral

digderidoo:

The side effects of regular use is well documented, paranoia, depression, etc. Years of regular use makes a person very moody, producing a couldn't care less attitude, giving problems within their personal life.

Hasn't been that way for me. Joining the jaydubs after years of psychological abuse by one parent made me moody, depressed and paranoid. Being depressed by the jaydub life for over ten years gave me a "couldn't care less attitude".

Even after I escaped from the jaydubs, the effects lingered – emotional "flashbacks," if you like.

Now, I will not claim that weed helped me see the light; I didn't try it until I'd been out a couple of years.

But it has been a very present help in time of trouble. I have to deal with chronic pain, and the doctors will not prescribe enough pain killers to really do the job. On those days when the pills are simply not enough, a few tokes will take me the rest of the way back to sanity. I started smoking about ten years ago, and have had a medical cannabis card for at least five years.

Sometimes I smoke it every day; more often about three times a week. More in the winter than in the summer, I think. My own personal side effects:

Need less sleep.
Sometimes suppresses appetite (and I could use it).
Mood elevation, anything from jeweled euphoria down to easeful sanity, depending on the dose.
A heightened appreciation for the vast intricacies of the world around you, which is why I love to take my medicine with really smart people.

My short-term memory has also improved over the last few years. I DO NOT attribute this to toking, but to a dozen years of disciplined fear-killing.

gentlyferal

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Hot Food at the DCs past...What was it like?

by bronzefist in

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i came in to the "loving" organization when they had the nasty cold food so i dont know how good the hot cooked food was.

my ex says it was pretty good, but should i have belived her?

i would think hot food made for a happier time at least for the eaters.. brzfst.

GentlyFeral

Blondie said:

Then there were complete meals with a meat, potato, vegetable, dessert, all made from scratch.

Here in the San Francisco Bay area, those meals were pretty average -- think high school cafeteria, circa 1955. Middle Western, gloppy comfort food, admittedly not too far below par.

GentlyFeral

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What is the most hours you ever turned in on your F.S. report?

by gaiagirl in

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i once turned in 39 hours helping another to reach their pioneer goal.

fairly accurate reporting of the hours as well.

GentlyFeral

72, back in the days when 75 was the auxiliary pioneer time. I never made my time, not quite, when I was auxiliary pioneering.

GentlyFeral

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Why Do Atheists Return to Theism?

by B_Deserter in

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from my new blog at pundidiot.baywords.com.

GentlyFeral

As a youngster, I lived on science fiction, so I soaked up the atheist milieu pretty readily.

I was an atheist until the jaydubs got me, but I was always looking for paradise on some level; so I was vulnerable.

When I woke up from the cult, I challenged every belief I had and kept only those that survived the test: nothing was left but intellectual honesty and the Golden Rule, so of course I had to go and be a Unitarian ("the church for atheists with children" :)) because I needed some company on my explorations.

The thing about modern Unitarian Universalism is that it pays respects to all creeds as well as no-creed, so atheists and Pagans are sitting side by side every Sunday. After about a year of this, I finally convinced myself there was no god. I wasn't terribly happy about it.

And then, I swear I heard God laughing; She thought my newfound atheism was cute. I dunno, I think it means I am what SCICOP calls a "fantasy-prone personality."

But I still believe god created atheists to keep the rest of us honest.

GentlyFeral

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Panhandlers

by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

jose and carlos are panhandlers.

they panhandle in different areas of a southern california town.

carlos panhandles just as long as jose but only collects 2 to 3 dollars every day.

GentlyFeral

I'm with TJ on this one - hermano was making money off white people's racism.

GentlyFeral

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Anybody ever read any really thick books?

by JimmyPage in

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anybody ever read any really thick books?

(i mean besides the one with the talking snake and the dragon that got hurled down to the sea).

books like "anna karenina" or "the brothers karamazov"?

GentlyFeral

Well, let's see.

The entire Lymond Chronicles series by Dorothy Dunnett. Six volumes, each at least 400 pages.
The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, two or three times
Nearly all of Dickens, starting with Oliver Twist in childhood.
I read the first two Harry Potter books, but had gotten tired of the style by the time the third volume came out.
I used to read The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror each year - easily 600 pages each.
Ditto The Year's Best Science Fiction .
I've read Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure seriesat least twice, another 500+ pages.
And now I'm working on Hoodoo - Conjuration - Witchcraft - Rootwork by Harry Middleton Hyatt. Three volumes, each one over 900 pages of text. No illustrations. Since it's a reference book, I expect it to take years, but I am determined to read it all the way through.

gently feral