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  Counting time

  by Emma in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i may not have put this in the correct spot, but i do think it's scandalous the way time gets counted now.

  i've seen a cart at the edge of our farmer's market, never anyone close enough to talk.

  yesterday was a drizzly day and there were two carts set up, covered in plastic, "witnessing" on their own.

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  slimboyfat

  True for pioneers. Regular publishers don't get that perk. (Counting time, travelling and using a skilled trade at KH)

  It is truly amazing what counts as a "perk" in this organisation.
  
  
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  How Dangerous are Blood Transfusions really?

  by TheWonderofYou in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this is a report about the successful implementation of the patientbloodmanagent in germany and prof. zacharowski as well as the business trip of his life with shocking facts about transfusions in his bag.. http://screenart.tv/portfolio/gefaehrliche-bluttransfusionen.

  this year 2016 president obama and vice biden awarded german physicians prof. kai zacharowski with humanitarian award for patient safety.

  the patient safety movement foundation set the goal to massively reduce the number of preventable deaths of hospital patients worldwide by 2020.

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  Even though blood transfusions can sometimes be dangerous, they can also be extremely vital. In this country there was a scandal about haemophiliacs getting HIV from contaminated donated blood. I heard a discussion of the problem on the radio and one of the clinicians said that unfortunately for some time the choice was to give blood products that were probably contaminated or no blood at all to these patients. No clearly safe supply of blood was available at the time. Yet despite the terrible consequences for many haemophiliacs who caught HIV and died, they still reckon that overall more lived longer than if they took no blood products at all. In general doctors don't give blood or blood products unless necessary. So even when risks are very high, treatment with blood and blood products can still be better than no treatment. That's an extreme example where the risk was high. In general the risks associated with blood transfusion have been reduced.
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  Will China's Giant New Radio Telescope be able to hear YHWH and JESUS conversing?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  china has just switched on its 500 metre diameter radio telescope, nearly twice as large as the previous largest.

  among other things it is tasked to do, it will eventually be programmed to look for and analyse radio waves that may have a non-natural origin.. so will the scientists manning this facility eventually hear yhwh and jesus having a chat?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnj-vnsv4o.

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  slimboyfat

  Will the telescope hear Jehovah talking, and is homosexuality normal, are questions that belong in a similar sort of category.
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  ls homosexuality really normal?

  by atomant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  l know animals do it but their animals.they dont live by a moral code.the thought of 2 men going for it is not normal.what are your thoughts?.

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  slimboyfat

  I guess the accusation of not being normal is a slight improvement over "sinful" or "unnatural" which were once the insults of choice.

  Maybe in time the description will give way to quirky, or individual, or even glorious.

  Instead of normal, is homosexuality glorious? Maybe the same people will ask.
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  "Explaining Your Beliefs About Homosexuality"

  by wizzstick in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's doing the rounds but i've not seen it before.. explaining your beliefs about homosexuality.

  there are three pages.

  here are my thoughts on each question on the pages:.

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  slimboyfat

  Archived so they can never claim they didn't say these things.

  Good idea, they are bound to abandon this position at some point. To quote from them: "people can change".
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  What were Jesus's 'Miracles' supposed to prove?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the healings, feeding the five thousand, walking on water, resurrecting the dead.

  none of it happened of course but let's take the bible literally and say that it did.. so?.

  didn't magic practicing priests perform 'miracles' in a contest with aaron?

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  Many of the miracles have antecedents in the Old Testament and other literature. A large part of the function of miracles in the narrative is to show that Jesus is a prophet like Moses, Elijah, Isaiah and so on.
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  Will they change the Yearbook format?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pure speculation here but i'm wondering if - with the numbers flat-lining - that the gb will stop giving country by country stats, or perhaps at least some of the statistics.. we used to get a monthly stat in the km - then that was "simplified" to "highlights".

  only the "good" stuff.

  then with the new clam workbook, no stats at all.. i wonder if the yearbook will soon only contain "positive" spun stats.

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  slimboyfat

  He ebook still has the full report sir, I am pretty sure!
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  Will they change the Yearbook format?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pure speculation here but i'm wondering if - with the numbers flat-lining - that the gb will stop giving country by country stats, or perhaps at least some of the statistics.. we used to get a monthly stat in the km - then that was "simplified" to "highlights".

  only the "good" stuff.

  then with the new clam workbook, no stats at all.. i wonder if the yearbook will soon only contain "positive" spun stats.

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  Yes we've got reason to believe the figures. Census results in various countries, including Canada, Australia, Brazil and Mexico, consistently show higher numbers of self-identified JWs than publishers reported in yearbooks, sometimes significantly higher.
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  Will they change the Yearbook format?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pure speculation here but i'm wondering if - with the numbers flat-lining - that the gb will stop giving country by country stats, or perhaps at least some of the statistics.. we used to get a monthly stat in the km - then that was "simplified" to "highlights".

  only the "good" stuff.

  then with the new clam workbook, no stats at all.. i wonder if the yearbook will soon only contain "positive" spun stats.

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  slimboyfat

  As soon as there are two or more years of decline I think it's pretty inevitable they'll stop publishing most or all statistics. They may stop even if growth is simply near zero.
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  Okay so now you're saying it is possible to be a Christian without being either ignorant or dishonest.

  But you are saying that the Christian God has been disproved?

  Is that correct? And is there no contradiction there?