I travel a lot! What happens if today I'm in Germany and post here? Does it show the German flag? What if Tuesday of next week I'm in Italy? Does it show the flag of Italy? If in each case it shows the country we're posting from at the time we post then I'd say we have a problem with an automatic country flag showing up beside posts, at least for those of us who travel. It's one more thing I'd have to think about before posting here.
Marvin Shilmer
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Poster country flags and privacy
by Simon inthe new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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Marvin Shilmer
Cofty you did a lot of work on this subject. Thanks for sharing.
Couple of thoughts:
Noah was not required to waste blood by pouring it out onto the ground. Noah was only to refrain from eating blood of animals he killed to eat. Also, and not that you've said otherwise, Noah would not have been able to extract blood from a living animal and eat it because he was not to eat an animal with its life (i.e., living).
The thought you shared about blood offered at a Jewish alter taken from an animal without killing the animal is intriguing. I'm not sure I've ever considered the ramifications of that, though I agree with you that such a sacrifice would have had no value under the Jewish system.
Watchtower leverages an idea that the substance of blood was something God held as a sacred substance. We can look at the Genesis account of Noah all day long and not find this. Noah was free to use blood from slaughtered animals to paint his barn or die his clothes and in neither case would he have broken the requirement laid up him.
Another fallacy of Watchtower reasoning is the idea that only after the flood were humans allowed to eat animal flesh, including blood by the way. Watchtower has gone out of its way to keep its followers from reading the very well researched information on this subject.
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JW Doctor mis-Illustrates a Blood Doctrine
by Marvin Shilmer intoday i added a new article to my blog addressing an article written by a jw medical doctor in a regional medical journal.
it's part of an initiative giving attention to how licensed medical professionals among jws have dealt with the blood transfusion subject.
what they say, how they say it, and what they don't say are all very telling.
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Marvin Shilmer
This same argument would naturally hold true for blood as well, and it seems that the Society has decided to acknowledge that.
I agree it holds true from a logical perspective, but as recently as this year Watchtower again trotted out this piece of admittedly bad information for consumption by the masses. It's disgraceful. Carl Sagan had it right when it comes to Watchtower!
One thing Watchtower NEVER lets get in the way is facts.
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JW Doctor mis-Illustrates a Blood Doctrine
by Marvin Shilmer intoday i added a new article to my blog addressing an article written by a jw medical doctor in a regional medical journal.
it's part of an initiative giving attention to how licensed medical professionals among jws have dealt with the blood transfusion subject.
what they say, how they say it, and what they don't say are all very telling.
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Marvin Shilmer
Island Man,
In the earlier days of Watchtower's blood transfusion taboo the religion's leadership leveraged nutritional gain as the reason why JWs should be concerned with the therapy. Then it admitted it was pointless to argue that transfusion was a means of providing nutrition. The latter was said point-blank by Watchtower in a letter to one of its appointed elders.
I just added an article to my blog highlighting this at: Nutrition or not? Not! So what?
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JW Doctor mis-Illustrates a Blood Doctrine
by Marvin Shilmer intoday i added a new article to my blog addressing an article written by a jw medical doctor in a regional medical journal.
it's part of an initiative giving attention to how licensed medical professionals among jws have dealt with the blood transfusion subject.
what they say, how they say it, and what they don't say are all very telling.
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Marvin Shilmer
Today I added a new article to my blog addressing an article written by a JW medical doctor in a regional medical journal. It's part of an initiative giving attention to how licensed medical professionals among JWs have dealt with the blood transfusion subject. What they say, how they say it, and what they don't say are all very telling. These men and women have licenses and professional careers at stake! As you can imagine, each has to tread carefully on the subject. But my reading suggests each one hedges where they feel comfortable doing so.
For the latest in this series see the article JW Doctor mis-Illustrates a Blood Doctrine
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Avatar upload fixes
by Simon ini've applied some fixes to the avatar uploading to make it cope better with larger images.
if you've been trying to update yours and it hasn't been working, maybe give it another try..
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Marvin Shilmer
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Why the -2 shown for my In Box?
by Marvin Shilmer inon this new version of jwn my inbox notification icon has the little mailbox emblem and next to it a -2. what is that all about?
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Marvin Shilmer
On this new version of JWN my inbox notification icon has the little mailbox emblem and next to it a -2. What is that all about?
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Sign-in fix for IE users
by Simon ini think i finally tracked down the bug that was affecting ie users - you should now be able to sign in and use the site.
i've only had chance to test with ie 11 but it should work with ie 10 as well, i'm not sure about ie 9 and ie 8 or older is doubtful.. fingers crossed we get some replies from ie'ers.
note: there may still be other issues but the first and biggest hurdle is getting signed on..
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Marvin Shilmer
Just tried to log on with a different computer using IE 11. Every time I went to the JWN page and hit the signin button my IE stopped working and wanted to close down. After several attempts I opened up the Chrome browser (which I've never used on this particular device) and logged on to make this post.
I don't know all the technical stuff. Not a computer nerd by a long, long shot. What I know is that yesterday I was able to log on with IE 11 using my older laptop device. Today I'm on a desktop unit that is much newer (and which supposedly has bells and whistles galore) and faster and was unable to use IE 11 to do anything here. I tried clicking on a discussion topic and, well, nothing. After a couple minutes (or so) IE said the page was not responding and IE shut down.
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Sign-in fix for IE users
by Simon ini think i finally tracked down the bug that was affecting ie users - you should now be able to sign in and use the site.
i've only had chance to test with ie 11 but it should work with ie 10 as well, i'm not sure about ie 9 and ie 8 or older is doubtful.. fingers crossed we get some replies from ie'ers.
note: there may still be other issues but the first and biggest hurdle is getting signed on..
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Marvin Shilmer
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Please post new forum feedback or questions here
by Simon inwell, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.
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Marvin Shilmer
Had one hell of a time getting logged on here. After struggling with IE 11 I finally opened up a version of Chrome I haven't used in years, if ever. IE 11 just won't work. Finally got logged in with it, but couldn't see any text box. Using my Chrome browser to post this. Wish I had more patience with all this technology, but I don't. Thanks Simon for all your hard work. Hope all goes well for everyone.