Funniest thing I've heard for a long time. My daughter works at the local hospital. Today a woman came in and started coughing. One of the workers pulled a mask out of a box on her desk and handed it to her. "What's this for?" she asked. "You have to wear it, it's hospital regulations, because of the swine flu epidemic." "Absolutely not," the woman cried as she eyed the box. "It says right there on that box that those masks came from Mexico!"
Bonnie_Clyde
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Confirm - SWINE FLU only killed eight so far - No need for panic! Spanish flu's Example
by Witness 007 indon't panic!!!!!!!!!
7 died in mexico and 1 in america.....but hang on, one mexican infant died visiting america from mexico so technically 8 mexicans have died so far.
who is doing a great job being careful.
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Climate Change - Why are only the negative points presented?
by donny ini was reading some articles from the 1960's through the late 1970's where scientists were concerned about global cooling.
the articles talked about how the oceans would become more salty as the ice caps grew larger which would wipe out many types of marine life.
they also mentioned how this would lead to more cool/cold "high deserts" as there would be less water in the atmosphere for rain to develop from.
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Bonnie_Clyde
I wouldn't mind a little more global warming. We had a real cold winter and April wasn't all that warm either. Thank God it warmed up since the last ice age.
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Comparisons between todays Witnesses and those 40 years ago
by truthseeker inloyalty, devotion, hardcore, willing to lose jobs to attend friday of the district convention.
these were the witnesses who came into the truth or were born into it some 30-60 years ago.
they could reason from the scriptures and hold their own at the doors.. today, i see a large mass of witnesses who have been in some 10-15 years who really don't know much about their own faith, could not explain 1914, are unwilling to lose jobs and sleep over attending meetings and assemblies and live double lives.
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Bonnie_Clyde
I remember being one of 16 people who stayed in a "worldly" house in Milwaukee in either 1961 or 1963--a 6-day assembly (I think). We paid about $4 each per night, and I guess the couple that let us stay must have really needed the money to have put up with us. We had one bathroom to share, and that got real interesting.
Also remember the magazines in the windows of the vehicles especially when traveling to New York in 1958. It was so great to see fellow witnesses waving back to us along the road. There was a sense of commeraderie that is missing today, but it was all an illusion.
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Swine Flu world epedemic Lies! Remember Sars and Birdflu nothing happened!
by Witness 007 inwhat's with the damn media panic?
swine flu is gonna wipe out the world!.....like the witnesses i'm tired of these lies, sars and bird flu were not that huge....a year ago a scientist said birdflu would be the next "spanish influenza" killing millions......hello, i'm still here wearing a gas mask!.
lets all panic the friggin world so they forget the economy!!!!!!
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Bonnie_Clyde
"We have far greater resources to deal with a flu epidemic than we had in 1918. The advance of Science and all that good stuff."
There may be far greater resources, but and outbreak the size of the Spanish flu would severely tax our medical system no matter how well prepared we are.
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Swine Flu world epedemic Lies! Remember Sars and Birdflu nothing happened!
by Witness 007 inwhat's with the damn media panic?
swine flu is gonna wipe out the world!.....like the witnesses i'm tired of these lies, sars and bird flu were not that huge....a year ago a scientist said birdflu would be the next "spanish influenza" killing millions......hello, i'm still here wearing a gas mask!.
lets all panic the friggin world so they forget the economy!!!!!!
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Bonnie_Clyde
Let's see. About 525 million people were infected by the Spanish Flu in 1918, with about 21 million people dying. Of course, this was worldwide. That was more than twice the number who had been killed during World War I. The epidemic spread quickly back then, but with modern transportation, it could spread much more quickly today. It's estimated the numbers could at least double if we had a repeat.
A lot of the victims were young, healthy males. It must have been a frightening time.
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JW grandma, unbelieving grandpa and DF'd daughter - babysitting rules
by Bonnie_Clyde inthe grandma just got some instructions from one of the elders on how to handle babysitting her infant grandchild.
when the daughter brings the baby to the house, she should hand it to the grandpa.
(that's ok because grandpa has never been baptized).
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Bonnie_Clyde
"Daughter needs to suck it up and be a mother. Let Grandpa come and visit the baby. She can find another caretaker for the baby. Oh, and where are the inlaws?"
Since daughter's husband is also DF'd, the in-laws will have nothing to do with him. They were both disfellowshipped for living together, but now they are legally married (at least 5 years). Seems like 1 Corinthians 5:11 says not to eat with someone who IS a fornicator, not someone who used to be a fornicator. Anyway, what right does the WT have to judge fornicators when they fornicated themselves with the UN for 10 years?
Thanks for all your responses. I'm just kind of bummed out about, not only this incident, but the one I posted this morning about the friends who won't let their DF'd daughter give them a 50th anniversary party. It also bothers me that at one time I would have gone along with all this BS.
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50 wedding anniversary - daughter banned
by Bonnie_Clyde inclyde and i recently got an invitation to a golden anniversary given by the daughter of a couple that i helped bring into the "truth.
" i was a little surprised because the daughter is df'd and so is her brother, but i thought, "good, i'll go to this!
well just this week i got a call from one of my best friends who is the sister-in-law of this couple.
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In this case it is the father who is the over-zealous dub, but apparently his wife is going along with it. I'm a little disappointed in the sister-in-law too. If it had been me, I would have said, "Too bad you can't have an anniversary party." Now there's going to be party with neither of the children attending.
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50 wedding anniversary - daughter banned
by Bonnie_Clyde inclyde and i recently got an invitation to a golden anniversary given by the daughter of a couple that i helped bring into the "truth.
" i was a little surprised because the daughter is df'd and so is her brother, but i thought, "good, i'll go to this!
well just this week i got a call from one of my best friends who is the sister-in-law of this couple.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Clyde and I recently got an invitation to a golden anniversary given by the daughter of a couple that I helped bring into the "truth." I was a little surprised because the daughter is DF'd and so is her brother, but I thought, "Good, I'll go to this!"
Well just this week I got a call from one of my best friends who is the sister-in-law of this couple. She and her husband seldom go to meetings, but they are friendly with everybody. She said that the party was cancelled because her brother-in-law said he would have to walk out of the house if the daughter showed up. My friend decided to have the golden anniversary party at her house instead. I was floored! I didn't know what to say, so I said I would change it on my calendar, but didn't say we'd be there. Clyde has already stated he will not attend, but I know there will be hard feelings as both couples have a special place in their hearts for us and we for them.
This is the second incident just this week that I know about involving the (mis)treatment of disfellowshipped relatives. I know that book about "Keeping Yourselves in God's Love" has a lot to do with it--although it was only a reminder from previous directives. I think of how the Bible says to "honor your father and your mother." The daughter was trying to honor them by giving them a party. What a real slap in the face!
BTW, the reason the daughter was DF'd was because her husband was living with another woman. She divorced him and remarried, but failed to give the elders proof. That's a whole different subject.
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JW grandma, unbelieving grandpa and DF'd daughter - babysitting rules
by Bonnie_Clyde inthe grandma just got some instructions from one of the elders on how to handle babysitting her infant grandchild.
when the daughter brings the baby to the house, she should hand it to the grandpa.
(that's ok because grandpa has never been baptized).
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Bonnie_Clyde
"The DF'd daughter needs to suck it up and find a real babysitter to protect her baby from the Borg."
D'd daughter gets along very well with her dad and she wants him to be part of her baby's life. Sometimes grandpa just stays with the baby while grandma goes off in service. But I can see how this could more difficult as baby gets older--daughter might have to insist that only grandpa stay with the child and get another sitter for the rest of the time.
And the WT states that we "build strong families"?
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JW grandma, unbelieving grandpa and DF'd daughter - babysitting rules
by Bonnie_Clyde inthe grandma just got some instructions from one of the elders on how to handle babysitting her infant grandchild.
when the daughter brings the baby to the house, she should hand it to the grandpa.
(that's ok because grandpa has never been baptized).
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Bonnie_Clyde
"I agree that if possible the grandma should not be seeing the grandbaby... but we don't know the situation. If this is a single mother who has to work and can't afford a babysitter and has no one else who will sit for her... we just don't know the situation enough to make that call."
The DF'd daughter has been married at least five years, but she "hasn't taken steps to get reinstated" (and doesn't want to). Grandma's heart strings are being broken on this one. But it's her own fault. She even asked the circuit overseer a few weeks ago about how to handle things when her husband brought the DF'd children to the house. He said just be discreet. Wow! But Grandma has a habit of talking too much, and she let it out to one of her friends, who informed the elder's wife, who went to her husband. The elders also found out that the daughter and her df'd husband met grandma and grandpa for dinner while they were on vacation. I was hoping that these events might wake grandma up. But yesterday she pulled out the "Keep Yourselves in God's Love" book and asked grandpa to read the part about how to Treat (mistreat) disfellowshipped relatives not living at home.
Oh my...I wonder where this marriage is heading.