dahlia
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Virgin Dacquiris, Shirley Temples, Sparkling Ciders, Perrier or San Perrigrino, Hawaiian Island Surfers, Limeaid slushies, Kiddie Cocktails...
Man, there's tons and tons of stuff.
Dang! Do I get a syringe full of insulin with some of those drinks? I do love a San Perrigrino, though.
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I Drink pepsi, the essance of life, no pepsi no life.
Truer words were never spoken!
Family history has it that my mother used to put Pepsi in my bottle. Though I am reduced to drinking diet Pepsi, still, there is nothing like a Pepsi, diet or not. I've been known to start the day with a diet Pepsi on one hand and a tea (now herbal, of course) on the other. God is good. 
I like ginger beer, but remember, as a diabetic, I don't drink sweet drinks. Unless I can get a diet version (and I've yet to find a diet ginger beer, just like I haven't found a diet cream soda), I can't drink it. I guess I could offer it to my guests, but I think it is an acquired taste. It seems my formerly-from-Utah/Idaho new Mormon friends are not adventurous in the food department. Plus, ginger beer and dessert? Dunno. Ginger beer by itself, fer shure.
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No, I wouldn't. Thinking back to when I was a young woman or in my current situation as a long time widow looking to get married before I drop dead, no. Physical intimacy is important to me.
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This is kind of along the lines of 'what do Mormons do when they're sad.' (I don't know why drinking would be the answer to that, but anyway...)
I'm used to serving coffee, tea or a sherry cordial (old lady, but nice). Now that I'm entertaining more, I'd like to continue to serve something after dinner, but don't know what LDS do after a formal meal. This would be for grown ups - the missionaries who are a constant fixture at my place are nice, but could care less what I served with their cake.
I guess the same question goes for having people over for dessert - what do you serve with it? As a diabetic, I'm kind of restricted on what I drink and I don't think of juices, besides, juice and a really nice dessert just seems a little déclassé. I don't do dairy and would have to specially purchase milk - and then you get into the skim, 2%, whole issue with folks.
So, any suggestions for adult drinks?
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Getting involved is a good idea. No reason to stand in the shadows. Shortly after baptism, I was attending RS and church events, cooking for a big missionary meeting, going out to talk to investigators with the missionaries, got a calling, and doing visiting teaching. Some of it, I felt unprepared for, but you don't learn if you don't do. : )
I also love the Gospel Principles class. We have a great time and I learn the Mormon perspective on a lot of things. Apparently they assign long-term members to the class, so it's not just newbies who don't know anything talking to each other. Also, people come from a variety of religious perspectives, and hearing them is interesting as well. Do go.
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All I'm going to say is, you are not the only one stocking up. I think this law will be repealed, but the question is, how long will it take? I think a good 3-7 years worth of light bulbs is a good hedge against a do-nothing legislature.
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Listen to the folks here. I am far from perfect (well, maybe not that far...), but I, too, worried about not being perfect enough for baptism. Thanks to people on this board, I was able to work through my concerns and go ahead with the baptism. Best thing I ever did.
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OK, I've finally decided to stop reading bits and pieces and to read the BOM everyday until I'm done. I've come across several mentions of a "great and abmoniable church," frequently referred to as a whore.
Is there a generally accepted view of what this church is? Is it the Catholic Church? There was, and still is, a certain amount of anti-Catholic feeling amongst many Protestants, so I wonder if these phrases reflect an anti-Catholic bias?
And yes, I know JS translated the BOM, but I hope it's not wrong to realize that he may also have been affected by the mores of his time. I'm just asking a question here.
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All these pictures are kinda gross. I'm not against meat, I'm not against a good burger or bacon, but we always go too far - and this from a girl who used to order pre-cooked bacon from Omaha Steaks and eat it out of the bag. Looking at those photos makes me glad to be vegan. I can't imagine (or rather, I can imagine) the long term health effects from eating food like this all the time.
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Hot beef sundae. Why people, really, just why?
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I take exception to #9. You go visit when your schedule and your companion's teachees' schedules work best. If that means you have to bring your kids because maybe you can't afford a babysitter, then you do it. It's better than not going at all. But I agree with the comments about mayhem.
I hear you, but I have to say that I certainly don't want my VT's kids all over my place. I don't have little children, the living areas are not child-proof, nor do I want to have to keep watching little fingers, dote on someone's kid, or whatever, when I'm supposed to be having a lesson. If I want to go someplace where there are kids that I have no control over, I can go to church.
And yes, I am officially the worst female on the planet. Shoot me.
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I saw a TV ad for a spinner bike. I gather the big difference between spinners and the bikes in gyms is that you can stand up on the spinner. This allows you to work the whole body, rather than just the lower body as with a bike.
Does anyone here do spinning? I belong to a gym but would find the money for a spinner if I thought that would do the trick. The infomercial was certainly convincing; but I've learned to put a hold on my itchy phone finger when I see these infomercials.
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This is why we're advised to store food, folks. Get in your chocolate supplies now, before it's too late.
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I was wondering if you converts or members who fell away for a time know any tips or tricks to clean up a dirty mouth.
You must be kidding. I wasn't nominated to sainthood because I got baptized (yeah, some real mixed language, there, but you get it). It's strange, in front of students I (usually) don't have a problem, and certainly don't drop the F bomb (grad students would probably love it if I did).
But in personal life, you'd think I had served in the Navy. I am around the missionaries a lot and I have to remind myself not to curse just 'cause they're young guys and have probably heard it all before. And as I get to know more women outside of RS, I have to take extra care not to talk the way I usually do. Most of them are mothers of young kids and have learned to speak nicely because there are kids in the room, but I don't have those constraints.
So, no hints here. I've got a big enough struggle on my own.
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For me though, I'm glad to know that we don't have to worry about infants and whether they would be saved or not if they did not receive baptism (since Catholic teaching has no doctrine as to what happens to unbaptized infants, leaving it at hope in the mercy of God, as per the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the International Theological Commission of the CC)When I was growing up, unbaptized babies went to Limbo. When my son was born with some disconcerting (but fortunately temporary) issues 33 yrs ago, I wanted him baptized right away. It took the hospital chaplain to give me enough medical information to let me feel comfortable waiting for him to be baptized.
Now apparently there's doctrine and accepted custom, but I was taught there was a Limbo and there's no way I was going to let that happen to him.
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Dahlia, as others have said, the baby could receive a blessing, however as far as baptism, we know through the scriptures that it is unnecessary to baptize that infant, since, through the atonement of Jesus Christ, they are saved.
Yeah, but you should know, those Catholic roots die hard!
Would I 'feel' better if the baby were baptized, yeah, probably. Do I understand intellectually, and actually thank God for, the doctrine that unbaptized babies are welcomed into the Celestial Kingdom? You betcha! -
What do you guys think of Glenn Beck leaving foxnews? Here is the New York Times article.
I wonder what is going on behind the scenes. Is he having disputes with the network?
I don't know if he's having disputes with FOX; sometimes the iron is hot and you just have to strike. He's got a considerable audience and, at least for now, enough clout to bring a ton o'people with him to wherever he wants to go.
When I first read the title, my thought was, 'What's he gonna do? Create his own channel?' I see I wasn't far from right. There's no where else for him to go right now. The only thing for him to do is create his own channel.
Every time I think Beck is nuts, if I keep listening, I realize he's right, or at least has a clue. That's more than can be said for a lot of people. As for conspiracy theories, gee, who doesn't like a nice conspiracy theory?
Doesn't mean I have to believe it to enjoy hearing him spin one out. Plus, he's got death threats and all manner of garbage from the left. I give him big props for not turning tail and hiding out at home. I doubt many of us could put up with what he has to put up with everyday - just for speaking the truth as he sees it - 'cause you know, only libs get to speak in this environment.
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I don’t know any Christian who doesn’t want Jews to accept Christ? He is The King of the Jews their messiah and Muslims as Christ died for all.
Sure Christians do, but what about the jews themsleves?you.
As a Reform Jew for 20 years, I can tell you that the Jews just want Christians to leave them alone. Short of some individual epiphany that leads someone to Christianity (or Buddhism, for that matter), most Jews are not interested in converting - it's not like they don't know about Jesus - they just believe something else. And guess what? They're OK with that. Just as Hindus and Bahais and Sikhs are OK with what they believe. They don't think they are missing something and they don't look to Christ as the answer. Why should they? (I hope SLC won't want me to turn in my baptism certificate for saying that.)
For many secular Jews, it's an issue of not turning your back on people who died or suffered for their religion. But pretty much post WWII, they just want Christians to back off.
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This thread reminds me of this
.Oh my goodness. I have seen that movie many times (big ST geek here; I used to go to conventions) and up until now, always thought Kirk was just mis-calling 'lsd.' Never, ever considered that 'LDS' might be something else!
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I wasn't sure whether to put this here or in current events, but since I'm asking about an LDS practice, I guess this thread is as good a place as any.
Some of you may be aware of 'Baby Joseph' who was moved to a hospital in the States after his doctors in Canada would not perform a tracheotomy, which I think would have allowed him to come home to die. I don't want to talk about the medical/end of life issues here.
Anyway, I just read that he was just baptized by a Catholic priest. Fine by me. What I do want to know is, what do LDS do with terminally ill children who are too young for baptism at age 8? Do they baptize them anyway? Just give them a blessing? Arrange for them to be baptized after death? Maybe it's my old habits dying hard, but I think I would be more comforted if my dying child were baptized, but maybe that's not the LDS view. Thanks for any info.
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Sorry Dahlia, but they do come from the cardboard boxes and bags.
Keep the yeast in the fridge in an air tight glass container. I have a two quart canning jar with the glass lid. Bought a new rubber gasket seal for it. Have had the yeast for 4 years, and it always proofs up beautifully!
OK, now I'm officially squicked out about the bugs. The nutritional yeast is used by vegans to get B12 and to make things taste like cheese. You don't use it for baking. I should probably keep it in the fridge, tho.
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Some other girl brought black beans brownie. Yea! You heard that right - brownies! It tasted really good too. Never thought you could use beans for dessert.
I've made black bean brownies and they are great. Now that you mention it, I should make some again.
Yuck on the meat. Sorry, but just yuck.
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I have one of those bag sealer machines. Is it better to take pastas and rice mixes and put them in a bag? Where do the weevils, etc come from? Pls don't tell me they are in the box and we just don't notice them. : ( I keep nutritional yeast (gives a cheese flavor to tofu, etc for vegan cooking) and had to throw some old yeast out due to weevils - but I don't have bugs crawling around my cupboards! Where do they come from?
I've been looking around at some vegan/vegetarian meals for camping and those might be better than an MRE; they seem to try harder to get the taste right and I don't have to worry about what's in it.
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Every one should have honey- whether you eat it or not. It is an antimicrobial, it is a natural anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, & antiseptic.
I didn't think about that. I wondered why I saw all the honey available. Though I struggle with the concept, I generally avoid honey because it's not considered vegan, but I can see having it for medicinal reasons, and I guess if stuff hits the fan, I won't worry so much about vegan choices, though I would still try to get by on rice, potatoes, veggies and beans.
Still, I ain't using no powdered butter, and don't need tins of meat. Even my omni son won't eat those foods. We don't eat much bread, so 20# of wheat seems like a waste of money. I guess I'm better off with rice and beans, soap (who remembers that?!), and canned food that doesn't need to be heated. I'm pretty sure I have room for 3 months of food.
Does anyone know if there is powdered soy milk? I'm lactose intolerant and can't deal with the powdered dairy milk.
Finally, regarding the dried veggies - has anyone ever cooked with them? Can you eat them alone or do they need to be buried in rice/stew?
Thanks, everyone.
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