Two things:
1.) This thread smacks down poster, possible-san, and possible-san's thread of "Don't escape from problem, Simon." With a thread like this (cure treat cancer), there is no possible way Simon is a tyrant who is deleting threads/people arbitrarily. The fact that this very thread was not only not deleted but allowed to stay around all these years...well, I'm pretty positve this is proof Simon is a pretty relaxed kind of guy. This is the sort of thread that is just beyond ridiculous, although the comments have been quite entertaining. As a side note: Thanks, Simon, for this forum. It has been a life-saver to me, and from what I read, to many others as well. I don't post here often, but I do read it every day on my iPhone. I do wish it was somewhat easier to post via my iPhone...by I digress, again...
2.) The wacky claims in this thread is the reason why I woke up to TTATT. So I guess I have to thank JWs for believing every conman that tries to sell them snake oil because a huge number of JWs endorse claims like these. This is exactly what made me finally research "the truth." I came across nonsense like this spread around by JWs so often, and I had a friend with cancer who was all too ready to believe this exact claim and claims like it. I speak of her in past tense because she is shunning me...so I suppose, sadly, we're not friends anymore. I often felt like my husband and I were the only skeptics among our JW friends and family, and we even got ridiculed by them for standing behind science-based medicine/treatments. We were both labeled as "negative" and "skeptical." It seemed to me that no matter what geographical location, JWs were believers in this sort of quackery. I really felt suffocated by this kind of stupidity...it made me want to scream because people are greatly harmed (even die) because of claims like these. As much as no one seems to appreciate it, I have always been outspoken about this kind of stuff...
Anyway, I happened to be the one my friend w/cancer would come to to ask my opinions about these bogus claims because she knew I would research it and get back to her with a logical argument on why she shouldn't forego "traditional western medicine" and spend her money and risk her life for such claims. Anyhow, one day it hit me that I had never researched the thing I had pledged my life to: "the truth." I realized I was skeptical and critical about everything else in my life, but not "the truth." I had blindly believed it hook, line, and sinker, without so much as questioning or researching it. (I was a kid when "the truth" entered by life by a controlling parent...plus I don't think the internet was around then...at least I didn't have access to it until years later...) So, after this realization, I immediately started digging into the history and doctrines and applying my skepticism to "the truth" as I would do to everything else...and well, here I am: a raging apostate after a week's worth of digging.
Okay. Those are my two points. In summary, I feel I really have to thank crazy claims that JWs believed to wake me up to TTATT and Simon, as well as all those contributing, in providing a wonderful site to go to on awakening and feeling lost and alone.
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