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  What is this phenomenon?

  by exWTslave in

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  though my colleague had requested for one week extension of her leave as her typhoid was becoming more stubborn, she came to work after two days.

  when asked what miracle took place, she had this to say: your wording seems to be correct.

  you would rememberi contracted typhoid same time last year.

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  JeffT

  Put simply, I don't believe it.

  For starters, an actual diagnosis of thypoid means a trip to the hospital, and probably a phone call to the health department. No responsible employer will make you request an extension on your sick leave if you have it. They won't let you back in the building until you have a note from your doctor saying you're healthy. And its not something that goes around once a year like the flu. And its cause, a bacteria, is well known and documented. "Negative energy" whatever that is, has nothing to do with it.

  The details of this story don't add up.
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  Let's All Volunteer for the Warwick Project!!!

  by pronomono in

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  ok, not really.. but the rbc is spamming my email trying to get my volunteer information.

  it all seems kind of hokey.

  it comes from some unofficial gmail account that i've never seen and telling me to go to a generic form website to enter in my personal information.

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  JeffT

  pronomono:

  I hope you didn't just out yourself. This communication could be unique to you.
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  Are YOU a person who "collects" things? Let's chat a moment . . .

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  as a kid i only collected comic books until around 1962.. my collection was very important to me and i had emotional excitement at the release of a new comic--but--i made a date with 2 girls.

  on the same day and didn't have any money!

  (not thinking it through, you see :).

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  JeffT

  Logcon, a 1/700 scale 16 inch cannon is less than an inch long. If operational, they would be about as dangerous as the Indians shooting arrows at Ben Stiller in "Night at the Museum." They're all in my bedroom, so far I haven't been wounded in action after the sun goes down.
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  Are YOU a person who "collects" things? Let's chat a moment . . .

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a kid i only collected comic books until around 1962.. my collection was very important to me and i had emotional excitement at the release of a new comic--but--i made a date with 2 girls.

  on the same day and didn't have any money!

  (not thinking it through, you see :).

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  JeffT

  I had a comic collection as a kid, it all got tossed in a move in 1963. Some of them would now be worth some money, except they weren't in very good condition. About the time we moved I went nuts building plastic model kits. Those all disappeared a few years later. I still have most of the science fiction collection that really got going in the late '60's.

  In the last five years I've started collecting models again. Unlike the earlier collection they are all ships and all the same scale: 1/700. Today's models are vastly more detailed than what I used to do. I currently have two battleships, two aircraft carriers, a submarine, a destroyer and the Titanic. I'm putting the finishing touches on one of he aircraft carriers and eyeing my next project, probably another battleship.

  Am I nuts? Probably, but I like doing it, I stay within a budget and it doesn't hurt anybody.
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  Doctors and surgeons say no to blood transfusions

  by Mr Negative in

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  my mum recently told me that even surgeons won't have blood transfusions, but the common people don't get told this.

  i have also seen or heard others say that a bunch of doctors/health officials/surgeons were asked, at some point, if they would accept a blood transfusion and they all said no.

  is this true?

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  JeffT

  My father (a hemotologist) had several blood transfusions when he was in and out of the hospital the last couple of years of his life. I know he did because I was there.
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  City of Houston Demands Pastors Turn Over Gay-Bashing Sermons

  by cultBgone in

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  has anyone else seen this, or did i just miss the posting?.

  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/14/city-houston-demands-pastors-turn-over-sermons/.

  here's the opening paragraph:.

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  JeffT

  Blatant violation of free speech rights. Put the shoe on the other foot and ask yourself how this would go over: "Republican city council issues subpeona demanding copies of gay pastor's sermons."
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  Question for those converted to JW as adults

  by DaleRivers in

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  why did you become a jw, what particular teachings attracted you to 'the truth' ?.

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  in my case (baptized at 20/21) it was the only religion i knew; my mom, her mom, and favorite sister were jw; and the teachings of no hellfire or immortal soul made sense to me.. .

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  JeffT

  I was baptized in 1973, a few months after I graduated from college. My first college roommate's mother was a JW. Later he became one and studied with me informally before I started a formal study. There were a number of factors in my conversion. I was in a bad place in my life and the JW's provided some structure and friendship. The fact that they did not believe in hell or the trinity interested me, along with the no war position. The 1975 hype tied in nicely with my world view - the world was going to hell in a handbasket, Richard Nixon proved all politicians were crooks, we were destroying the environment etc.

  Shortly before baptism I met my wife, and the sealed the deal. She was also a convert, pulled in by family. We left together in 1989.
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  TRY THIS WATCHTOWER QUIZ

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the quiz will be followed by the answers.

  don't peek!.

  the answers should be avoided while taking the quiz .

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  JeffT

  I got most of them. Food for thought: There have been at least a billion copies of "Quotations from Chairman Mao" printed.
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  What happens after a couple of thousand years of paradise?

  by Hortensia in

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  my guess is, god gets bored.. armageddon's over, the earth has been cleansed, only his sycophants have survived.

  all is perfect.

  after a millenium or three god gets bored.

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  JeffT

  Hortensia

  I've thought of trying to write a short story about how bored everybody would be after a billion years or whatever of Paradise, at which point they've seen and done everything a million times. Literally. I gave up on it because it was boring.
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  Nikola Tesla, wireless phone predicted 1909!

  by DwainBowman in

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  i lived in a boarding house near a library for a few years from age 15 to 18. i spent lots of time reading popular mechanics & popular science.

  all the way back to their first issues.

  when i heard about the gb's claim, and 1922, i knew that someone before had predicted the cell phone.

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  JeffT

  Even Tesla was extrapolating from existing technology. Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" in 1895. It wasn't that big a stretch to think of wireless telephones in the future. Lots of visionaries (many of them writing science ficition) have made some good guesses about what future techonology will look like. The real fun is in watching them miss a new trend completely, personal computers being a good example. There are numerous variations of robots clanking around the starship while the crew works out navigational problems on their slide rules.