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  Hyperthyroid/Graves Disease

  by lrkr in

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  anyone with experience with this condition??

  my wife was recently diagnosed.

  just trying to find some info.

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  Hyperthyroid will severly affect her mood and fatigue levels. We went through a year of this with a newborn in the picture. Patience. Patience.

  I think you have the picture. The screwed up liver part scares the hell out of my wife.
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  Only 37% raised in JW stay in

  by White Dove in

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  2. current

  in the cbs/ap it's reported that "only 37% of those born into the sect remain members.

  " it also said that jw is the fastest growing religion with the worst retention rate.

  i guess it's that they appear attractive long enough to baptize the people, then they lose them.

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  Big mention of this during tonights "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO.
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  Memorial Talk

  by Poztate in

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  2. friends

  can anyone get hold of the memorial talk for this year ??

  i have to assume it would be a new talk since they have reopened the heavenly calling once again.. it would be refreshing .

  i don't think it will happen that way.

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  I have the outline that has been used for the last ??? 7 ?? years. We'll see if its different this year. Previous outline- written by someone with severe ADD.
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  Hyperthyroid/Graves Disease

  by lrkr in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  anyone with experience with this condition??

  my wife was recently diagnosed.

  just trying to find some info.

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  Easy Ninja. Thank you everyone else. Specifically wondering if anyone has had success with herbal treatments or if the usual course of Tapazole is effective.
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  Hyperthyroid/Graves Disease

  by lrkr in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  anyone with experience with this condition??

  my wife was recently diagnosed.

  just trying to find some info.

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  lrkr

  Anyone with experience with this condition?? My wife was recently diagnosed. Just trying to find some info.
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  Why Is Relgion So Focused on Eschatology - to the Point of Obsession?

  by Rapunzel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one of the major concepts that seems to be found in virtually all of the world's major religions is that of eschatology - the study of the end things, specifically the end of the world.

  this is one idea that unites the disparate religions of the world.

  furthermore, eschatological concerns constitute a link or a bridge between the religions currently practised in the world, and other ancient, forgotten religions.

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  Here's a couple of thouroughly unresearched ideas:

  1- Ego. Everyone wants to feel that they are special, select, elect, priviledged. Religion gives you that idea by saying that only those who adhere to this belief system will survive the coming end of everything.

  2- Control. Religion really got its roots as a tool of the monarchs to control the population. "Keep growing the food you little people!!!" Religion served as the "good cop" who told the people that this (utter slavery to the monarch) isn't all there is. There is more. The end of all this is close at hand. Keep working hard. Keep growing the food.

  3- Sensationalism. Who wants to hear a prophesy about something of little significance. If the "prophets" were to talk about trees loosing their leaves, snow coming, stars moving, (probably how they started off as prophets- predicting natural phenomenon that are observable) forever, people would get bored. As a prophet just starting off, you have to have some sort of big production- talk about the destruction of the nation- and to really get people going- say "world" so they are really impressed with your prophecy.
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  Losch reveals newer new light at Australia Zone Visit

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  okay everybody, grab your barf bag because i just got a steaming shovel full of craptastic notes from gerrit's zone visit to the land down under !!.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ read at your own risk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~puke.

  zone overseer was losch and his side kick was a big black guy, quite a scolar, cant remember his name though.

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  Wow!!??!!! Can I hear a great big

  WTF!!!!!

  Losch must be way off his meds. That sounds like crack pipe dreams!!
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  Just got this email

  by Cindi_67 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i received an email from my sister in law.

  she was relating an experience given in a talk at an assembly.

  a young couple wanted to have children, but they couldn't conceive, so they decided to adopt a child.

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  I've never heard this before.

  But... Does anyone else have a problem with the heartless nature of the story. A couple decides to make the world a better place by adopting....Then talks themselves out of it because obedience to the organization's demands take precedence over making the life of one child better. Then feel "oh so good" about the whole thing because the child was a JW.

  So, what if the child was an indoctrinated Bhuddist. No miracle??? They don't feel as good about it???

  "Besides, the kid will be in school all day long so we can continue to pioneer." Yikes!!! Sounds like something only a childless CO could come up with.

  If the story were true, I would think that most people would be embarrassed by it- not want to include it in a speech to 2000 people.
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  Zone Overseers Visit

  by whereami in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got this from another forum.

  these guys at the tower are really getting desperate.

  i have just come from our zone o visit, over 14,000 here in sydney and thousands more around oz listening in.

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  You can always count on Losch to come up with some classic, off the wall, stuff.

  Bodies from one end of the earth to the other. Thats classic Losch. Shocking, disgusting, off the wall and outside the box.

  He had some doozies at bethel morning worship too.
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  Did anyone watch 60 Minutes tonight? Carl Rove should be imprisioned.

  by dawg in

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  2. friends

  ok, so we know for a fact the bush administration lied us into a war in which we never should have engaged.

  we know they fix scientific data to meet the needs of the special interest groups who make up their constituency.

  but did you know the bush team, lead by carl rove, fixed it so a governor would go to jail?...

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  Sorry, posted, then read the other posts.

  This has nothing to do with religion. It is politicians using the United States Department of Justice as a weapon. It disgusted me when Congress was bayying for blood a few months ago. Now I think they didn't go far enough. I want to see subpoenas. I want to see Contempt of Congress charges flying. I want Rove's lawyer to get a lot of business. I want the Democratic Congress to quit being such a bunch of pussies and do their job already. Call these as**oles to account already.