Nottawayfer

I am trying to eat healthier. I'm trying to cut out most sugar (this is hard for me), white flour, white rice, and white anything except califlower.

I was craving pancakes one night when I was trying to figure out what I wanted for dinner. Then I remembered a recipe I had in my South Beach Cook Book. I don't follow that program, but it has some great ideas. Here's the recipe for the healthy pancakes.

1/2 C Old Fashioned Oats (not instant)

1/4 C Cottage Cheese (preferrably low fat)

4 Egg Whites

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

Process all of the ingredients in a blender and cook in a non-stick skillet with cooking spray.

I put 1 T peanut butter and 2 T low sugar preserves on my pancakes, and they are delicious!! You could use low sugar syrup if you are cutting out sugar, but I still have yet to find one I like.

I know that no current wayfers will go to Sedona because one limb coordinator from a few years ago declared it "evil" because of the amount of spiritualism which surrounds the place. I went there for long weekends a few times, and I enjoy the beauty God made there. I don't believe for one minute it is an evil place. If someone lives close to a beautiful place,a nd they don't go to enjoy it, they are losing out IMHO.

TWI were the masters of unverifiable "true" stories. What about LCM's claim at the Rock one year that "we have the only documented case of a person being completely healed of AIDS"?

I remembered hearing him say that they guy with AIDS had to constantly believe or he would get sick again. Is that how the ONE TRUE GOD OF TWI heals? I wonder if the man born blind who was healed by Jesus had to believe every day to keep his sight once he was healed. TWI always taught that healing was a gift. I think if God gives a gift, he doesn't take it back. Like anything taught in TWI, their doctrine is full of holes.

My inlaws went to the Phillipines for psychic surgery. I think psychic surgery is slight of hand and a bunch of BS.

I pray nobody is feeding their dog Ole Roy. That is TERRIBLE food! Your dog's poop will be the same color as the food. That tells me there isn't much digestion happening and not much nutrition in the food.

I didn't read all the posts on this thread, but it reminded me of a time in my life where I thought all promise was lost. I was 31 and divorced from a 6-year marriage. I was headed in to my 30s without kids and a husband, which I NEVER dreamed would be my life.

I spent the next 9 years single. Again, something I NEVER dreamed would be my life. Was life full of disappointments during those years? Hell yes. Did I cry? Hell yes. Was I lonely? Hell yes. Especially when I was on Staff at HQ for 5 years. Those were some of my most lonely years. They were lonely while I was watching women getting hitched and hooked up.

After leaving TWI, I had time to think about me and what my beliefs were. I had time to find my ownself and figure out what I wanted in my life, and what kind of person I wanted be post-cult.

It did a world of great, not just good. I made a decision that I would enjoy my life whether I had a partner or not. I would not get bitter because I didn't have kids. I would not get bitter because I wasn't having regular sex. I would not get bitter because bitter would make bitchy and untolerable. Gawd knows we have enough people like that. I just didn't want it to be me.

The Google ads at the top of page show Anthony Bourdain No Reservations. I wonder if the word "haggis" made that come up. Anthony Bourdain eats some really strange stuff. I would consider haggis in that category.

Oh my gawd the parallels of the crap done to people is freaky and weird.

Ex Scientologist Story

I will say this (from a scriptural point of view, whatever that means), when it gets to the point that you need the court system to right a wrong in your religious group, there are some serious things wrong with the group, from so many angles, to the point its not worth saving.

Dump it and move on.

SOOO TRUE!!!

Trust and Obey,

Did you have any contact with Paul Allen to hear his side of the story? He confronted the BOT. He got nowhere. He did the next best thing. If TWI had been the godly organization it claims to be, then thing would have been a lot different.

I was on Staff for 5 years. I don't see an option to choose unless "workED for" the way is my option.

That would probably be LEXIS/NEXIS, which deals with all published newspapers.

I know they sell data too. I queried an Access database to provide Lexis Nexis with all of the property information from our County.

Tripod!! I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that. Poor doggy!

My husband and I rescued a HUGE black lab we called Shaq because he is big and black. We ended up giving him to a friend who LOVES labs and lost his right before we got Shaq. He renamed him Angus.

I was in the SF Bay Area last week. We came home Saturday unscathed by the weather other than the fact that the rain put a damper on our plans. We got to visit with some of my family though. It was a nice trip.

I love my fur doggies. Both of mine were rescue dogs too. I want more, but I know that would not be the best right now. If I win the lottery, I'm going to give HUGE charitable donations to no kill rescues. I may even start my own. I have a huge space in my heart for dogs, and I HATE to see them living in less than desirable conditions.

We have neighbors down the street who keep their dogs outside 24/7 365 days a year. It saddens me when we have over 100 degree weather (common in Arizona) and some freezing days in the winter (we're in a higher elevation so we do get them). These dogs sleep in a hole they dug in the front yard. These idiots have their big boat and jet skies out front amongst the rest of their junk in front of their junky house, so you know what their priority is. I don't understand why they have dogs.

I have to add one more thing. I was not fond of animals until about 4 years ago. I had brought that mind-set with me from being in TWI (no pets, they smell, etc.) I didn't want a smelly dog in my house. When I got married, my husband had a chocolate lab. While I was job searching and at home, that big boy became my baby. I'm the one who let him in the house and babied him.

One dog I have now is a border collie mix, with long black hair. It gets EVERYWHERE!! But I still love her. I just vacuum more.

A lot of employers now do background checks. Wouldn't a drug conviction come up in a background check?

Bride:

Do you grate the potatoes raw or do you boil them before you grate them? If you don't boil them first, how do you cut down on the amoutn of starch from them?

I would bet they are still in the Bay Area. I can't see them leaving. They liked living in California. But I haven't seen them in well over 15 years. I can't remember their last name to check them on whitepages.com.

Skyline chili is an acquired taste. I don't care for it myself.

Thanks for the link. I would have never remembered that name. I didn't even remember it was German. Cincinnati has some unique food items. They put cinnamon in their chili too.

I stayed at a bed and breakfast several years ago in Covington, Kentucky, right across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. They offered a traditional Kentucky breakfast sausage-type thing, but i can't remember what it was to this day. Does anyone know?

That game gave me polydipsia. Who's turn is it to muddle the Mojitos??

Michael Rood always struck me as a nut job. I can't imagine that he had a ministry that even got as big as it was. That information is a swirling of garbage which I am sure goes on many places, so I guess I am not surprised.

I am surprised this guy had so many working for him while he travled the globe.

I'm a little late in joining this thread. I saw Joyce Meyer in 2003 when she was in San Diego. One night was enough for me. It reminded me so much of TWI that I wanted to gag. I was still getting over waybrain at the time, so I thought maybe I was jaded.

But then she shared that a lady wrote in about how Joyce's minisry wasn't affecting her positively as it was previously. Joyce accredited it to the fact that the lady didn't share financially with her ministry. I heard from Joyce's mouth: "If you don't share financially in this ministry, you won't get the benefit of it."

I left knowing I wasn't so jaded anymore. I heard that song a dance way too many times in TWI.

Rest in Peace dear Maggie.

(((((PMosh and Family)))))

It was interesting to see the parallels between all of the ancient religions and Christianity. I still wouldn't make the information in that video my truth though.

Just bumping to the top to see if anyone has new info, thoughts, etc.

I am now on iinjectable methotrexate, enbrel, and just got approve for remicade to replace the enbrel. Went to a nutritionist for additional diet change recommendations in hopes of avoiding the remicade as that is an infusion treatment that I have to sit hooked up to an IV for a couple of hours per week.

Will you still have to take the methotrexate as well? I thought Remecade was a once monthly or even bimonthly drug. I have a co-worker who has a daughter on it. She has Crohn's disease. She goes in monthly for the infusion.