MeanMrMustard
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Hospital is laying off and furloughing
by Anony Mous ini've been having a tough time today, i just got notice that our hospital is laying off a large group of people and furloughing others.
nurses, doctors, we just don't have enough business during this covid crisis, we've only ran at 60% capacity, while cuomo is telling us about shortages, they weren't ever realized, and nys simply won't open up fast enough for us to recover.
nys has given notice that hospitals are likely going to be out for 4-5 more months before all restrictions will be lifted, only necessary surgeries are allowed right now, with a few hundred of millions per month revenue shortfall, this is going to destroy and contract our business and our remote (rural) hospitals are the hardest hit, probably going to close permanently.
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Do You Think It’s Time For Businesses To Reopen Even Though Coronavirus Is Not Obliterated?
by minimus ini think it’s time for business to reopen and let’s get the economy going again!
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what say you??
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MeanMrMustard
MEAN MR MUSTARD:
I feel badly for these small businesses. It’s true that people should have savings but for some that’s easier said than done with everything so expensive.
Well, to be fair, I see how these hairdressers live. If they were more modest in their spending, they could have a savings.
Why do you think everything is so expensive?
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Do You Think It’s Time For Businesses To Reopen Even Though Coronavirus Is Not Obliterated?
by minimus ini think it’s time for business to reopen and let’s get the economy going again!
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what say you??
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MeanMrMustard
As an example : In our area there was a food bank drive thru staged at the local community college. The idea was that if you need food, you can go and get groceries/food without getting out of the car. It was for people that are hurting for not being “essential”. They expected 40,000. There were several hundred thousand. They ran out of food.
Hairdressers in the area are taking appointments. Of course, this is currently illegal. They don’t care - they’ve rigged their salons to separate customers and change over to a store front if anyone rats them out. They are allowed to sell products, but not perform services. Their salons are like speakeasies during prohibition. They have to work. Unemployment is overwhelmed. They aren’t getting any money.
Now, I think they are learning a valuable lesson not to live without some savings. And they are also learning they can’t rely on government, unless they want to starve.
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Do You Think It’s Time For Businesses To Reopen Even Though Coronavirus Is Not Obliterated?
by minimus ini think it’s time for business to reopen and let’s get the economy going again!
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what say you??
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MeanMrMustard
There is going to be possibility of having an upsurge of new cases after the restrictions are lifted in certain areas.
I would say there definitely *is* going to be “an upsurge in new cases”. That is, the possibility is 100%. As more testing is rolled out, don’t be surprised if you find more “new cases”. And that is what worries me. The leftists in government have had a power boner for the last two months. It’s like a drug to them. They will do more tests and lo! They will find more cases, an upsurge. It will be spun that more cases means a larger emergency. And the power grabs will continue.
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Do You Think It’s Time For Businesses To Reopen Even Though Coronavirus Is Not Obliterated?
by minimus ini think it’s time for business to reopen and let’s get the economy going again!
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what say you??
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MeanMrMustard
As we get more facts, we should to be able to ask sensible questions about this entire situation. There are net effects here. The economy is not some nebulous thing out there, as if it is separate from us. The economy is us. It represents our interactions. It is our way of allocating resources and calculating which projects to undertake.
There have been three separate studies now that show this virus is much, much more contagious than originally thought. This is good news because most people don’t even know they have it. The death rate is lower than originally thought.
For those who would be in serious danger, the goal was to not prevent them from ever getting the virus. That is like stopping the wind. Rather, the goal was to slow the rate of hospitalizations, prevent overwhelming the system. All things considered, I think that was successful. We will never really know if we could have done the same without the severe economic hit. Sweden and Japan present an interesting counterfactual. We ought to be able to talk about it. But it doesn’t matter. Open stuff back up.
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My sister just sent me this text.
by Brainfloss inmy sister sent me this text a few minutes ago.
what does she know about my relationship with jehovah?
it was followed up by a bunch of links to jw org problem is dialog is not possible her side is the only one to be heard.
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MeanMrMustard
"Awesome, I have a brochure for you too. To get your free copy, all you have to do is go to www.jwfacts.com".
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Does prophesy negate free will?
by Tim207 innot sure if this is in the right subject but here it goes.
i’ve asked this question to a few elders and bethelites but they don’t seem to understand or like the question.
to start off we have to agree that jehovah is all powerful.
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But that is not what christians & JWs believe.
All Christians? The references that I passed to you were written by Christians, well at least the second reference. The first seemed like flat out logic paper, critical of determinism.
They teach that god knows every tiny detail of your life - every single thought word and action - BEFORE your birth.
Exactly. But they are also saying this pre-knowledge doesn't imply what you think it implies, without creating a modal logic error. God's pre-knowledge comes first chronologically, but not logically.
Let me see if I can say this another way. If God can create a world with free will, all that omniscience implies is that He knows the outcomes of the free will, not that free will doesn't exist. They assert FIRST that free will exists. THEN assert God knows the outcomes because of the omniscience. Choice causes the pre-knowledge, not pre-knowledge causing the choice.
In short, God knows what you will choose. But you still choose.
Indeed that is what the bible teaches if read literally. JWs believe the same except they insist god doesn't choose to read The Great Big Book of You; He COULD know but prefers not to. Perhaps Jehovah likes surprises.
Right, and that has its own contradiction - as I stated earlier.
Anybody theist who insists on god's omniscience cannot square this circle. There is/was a school of thought called Open Theism led by men like Clark Pinnock that tried to unpick this puzzle by teaching that God does not know the future perfectly as he cannot know our free choices in advance.
Again, I don't see the explicit contradiction. Where is the square circle? They are looking at free will and omniscience a differently than you are... but why is that a contradiction? Look, I am not making an argument for that world view. I am just saying that I don't see the explicit contradiction (square circle).
I had a falling out with our Baptist pastor over this issue and became an apostate for a second time.
I had a falling out with my cat today, as I almost transformed him into General Tso's ... I miss General Tso's.
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Does prophesy negate free will?
by Tim207 innot sure if this is in the right subject but here it goes.
i’ve asked this question to a few elders and bethelites but they don’t seem to understand or like the question.
to start off we have to agree that jehovah is all powerful.
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MeanMrMustard
The choice comes first logically. The choice causes the pre-knowledge, not the other way around. If you choose differently, God would know that choice. But you still had the free will to make the choice.
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Why do Jehovah`s Witnesses Shun fellow believers When God and Jesus never shunned even Satan ?
by smiddy3 inscholars generally agree that it was written between the 7th and 4th centuries bce, with the 6th century bce as the most likely period for various reasons.
the book of job .. so according to jw`s about 6,000 years ago satan rebelled against jehovah god ,did jehovah disown him there and then shunning him ?.
apparently not as we can read from the book of job centuries later that satan could still come and go freely before the throne of jehovah in heaven .job 1: 6. and apparently he could still do this for centuries later ,that is coming to and fro before jehovah because according to the jw religion he wasn`t cast out of heaven for another 2,000 years until the 20th century .. now in the case of jesus much of what is said about jehovah and satan also applies to jesus before he came to earth.. but even when he was on earth he didn`t shun satan either in fact he allowed satan to lead him around according to the bible account.luke 4:13 so the devil having concluded all the temptations retired from him until another convenient time .so it wasn`t jesus calling the shots here it was satan .. mark 1: 13 he ,jesus, also shared 40 days in the wilderness with satan letting him tempt him .. so their was no way either jehovah or jesus ever shunned satan the devil according to the bible writings.. and when jesus ascended to heaven after his sacrifice he along with his father jehovah still had association with satan the devil until he was cast out of heaven 2,000 years later ,according to the jw`s..
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It is because 1914 was the Judicial Committee meeting. It was only after this that the appropriate announcement was made in heaven, followed by a special needs talk.
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Should You Be Required To Wear A Coronavirus Mask?
by minimus insome towns require everyone going outside to wear one.
one massachusetts city requires anyone from 5 up to wear a mask.
some cities require masks and have shut down parks and sports playing while others in a nearby town have no such restrictions.
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