Posts by berrygerry

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I need some input: I have come to the conclusion my wife blames me for her lack of spirituality

by goingthruthemotions in

so lately my wife and i have been arguing alot.

not big arguments...but more of a bickering.. you see, over the last year i have stepped down as an ms and we moved halls.

last november was around the time i woke.. during this time we still have family studies....but only from the bible.

berrygerry

JW land is fantasyland.

Your wife is desiring the fulfillment that WTS teaches is achieved by being "spiritual."

It is impossible to achieve - hence frustation setting in is inevitable.

It is spiritual masturbation.

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Anthony Morris III delivers judgement on Branch at Annual Meeting

by Listener in

this is part of the speech that anthony morris iii gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 annual meeting.. at 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting.

"what role do those with an earthly hope play?

oh oh ho veeeery important role, very important.

berrygerry

"Jehovah's running this organization. He's the rider of the chariot and we're pleased to follow the best we can and keep up with it."

WOW.

Someone badly needs to be stopped for DUI.

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The more people who leave the Witnesses, the more people will leave. True?

by ThomasCovenant in

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friends

if more faders stopped fading and just stopped,.

would more of the many closet unbelieving attendees just stop too, creating a momentum?.

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berrygerry

There is a link on reddit to this page, which is a transcript of 50k paid out for elder misconduct.

There is also a Dec. 18, 2010 BOE letter that says that the secretary should count the active publisher cards: "Active publishers are all those who have reported some field service time within the past six months."

Was it always that way?

Therefore 2 hours a year (or .5 hour per year for the disadvantaged) constitutes a peak publisher.

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Orwellian Attitude to Old beliefs - Letter re old Lit

by BluesBrother in

the b o e letter about returning old field min.

supplies and , in particular , the future of their revisionist publishing put me in mind of my literary hero george orwell.

they said this : (dated sept 10.

berrygerry

Have never read the book.

Went to order it at the library.

11 copies - 31 holds.

Obviously still pretty popular.

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Walking Dead, evidently a hit show

by nonjwspouse in

not my cup o tea for sure, but i found out my nephew is a regular zombie on the show.. anyone here like the show?

i'm kinda afraid to even watch it ...my imagination is a bit to active.. .

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berrygerry

Oct 11 (Reuters) - A teenager playing a zombie at a Halloween-themed corn maze was killed after falling under the event's "Zombie Slayer Paintball Bus," authorities said on Saturday, as the northwestern Idaho attraction's patrons thought it was just part of the act.

Jeremy T. McSpadden Jr., 18, appeared to die instantly after falling under the rear passenger wheels of the bus on Friday night, stumbling as he emerged wearing a mask and hockey gloves to run toward the bus from his hiding place in the maze.

Inside the rocking vehicle, which was creeping forward on uneven terrain, nobody immediately realized what had happened, authorities said. The attraction's riders had paid to shoot at the attacking zombies, pretending to slay them with paintball guns mounted outside the windows of a modified school bus.

"Everyone just thought it was part of the act," said Sgt. Ward Crawford, a traffic team supervisor with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office in Idaho.

He said the other zombie players realized what happened after the bus moved on and the teenager from Spokane Valley, Washington, remained motionless.

This was the first year for the zombie attraction at the Incredible Corn Maze in Hauser, Idaho, located about 30 minutes from Spokane.

Authorities said in an media release that they did not believe alcohol was a factor.

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The EBOLA conspiracy...

by gopher123 in

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friends

hey guys.

there has been a ton of illuminati hollywood mind control pre-programming about this virus outbreak before it actually happened.

conspiracy people of the world... unite.. .

berrygerry

Clinical trials are now starting for an experimental made-in-Canada Ebola vaccine amid growing global concern over the disease that’s left more than 4,000 people dead.

Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose called the trials “promising news” in the fight against the largest-ever Ebola outbreak. As part of a process Ambrose said is moving at “unprecedented speeds,” results of the first phase are expected in December, and the hope is the vaccine can be deployed shortly thereafter.

At this time, however, it’s unclear if the vaccine will ever reach people on the ground in West Africa — and critics say the trials didn’t happen nearly fast enough.

“This is a shameful delay,” said Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa professor and Canada Research Chair in law, population health, and global development policy.

“The competing vaccine is way ahead of where we are, and that worries me,” he added.

That second experimental vaccine is being produced by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline alongside the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and human trials have already started in Africa.

The Canadian vaccine — which many scientists consider the more promising of the two — was developed by researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory. Ambrose said it has been “100-per-cent effective” in preventing the spread of the Ebola virus when tested on animals.

The Canadian government owns the intellectual property associated with the vaccine and has licensed the rights to a small American company, NewLink Genetics, through its subsidiary BioProtection Systems.

The first phase of human clinical trials will be conducted in a lab in Silver Spring, Md., and will test the vaccine on a small group of healthy people to assess its safety, help determine proper dosage levels and identify any side-effects.

“We currently have the two vaccines that are being tested and this has created sort of a ‘space race’ to find out which vaccine is going to be the first to the finish line,” noted Toronto-based microbiologist Jason Tetro.

“If one of the two vaccines is slow in advancing to trials, you’ve taken a two-horse race and you’ve made it a one-horse race,” added Attaran. He said researchers need to generate data on both vaccines as soon as possible to know which one works best — or works at all.

Tetro said he appreciates the need for proper protocols when it comes to clinical trials, but he would have liked to see them happen faster.

“The fact is that we really started to be concerned about this probably four months after we should have,” he said. “And it really wasn’t until somebody … appeared on North American soil with the Ebola virus that it really took off.”

By the time it became clear that a vaccine would likely be needed, it was too late to prevent the high numbers of cases and deaths, he said. There have been at least 8,400 cases of Ebola, according to the latest available numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Toronto emergency department physician Dr. Brett Belchetz said the Canadian vaccine’s clinical trials have been greatly accelerated when compared to typical clinical trials that may take months or even years. But he said people shouldn’t be overly hopeful about the vaccine’s potential.

“Right now, all we have are animal trials that were successful,” he said, adding there are hundreds of examples in medical literature of drugs and vaccines that were successful in animals but didn’t work for humans.

But Ambrose said if this Ebola vaccine is shown to be safe and effective, “it will stop this devastating outbreak.”

“This is an excellent step towards not only putting an end to the current Ebola epidemic, but also possibly preventing all future epidemics,” noted Tetro.

Dr. Gregory Taylor, Canada’s chief public health officer, stressed that no one will be at risk of contracting Ebola during this first phase of clinical trials. “The vaccine does not contain any live Ebola virus,” he said.

Around 40 volunteers will be taking the vaccine and will be monitored by public health professionals for any side-effects, he said. They will also be assessed to see how well their immune systems are producing antibodies against Ebola.

Taylor explained that when a person takes a vaccine, “it prompts their immune system to start making antibodies” to find and neutralize foreign objects such as viruses.

Monday’s announcement of the Canadian vaccine trials came as two patients at separate Ontario hospitals awaited Ebola test results while in isolation. One patient at Ottawa Hospital’s General Campus was “under investigation” Monday after displaying Ebola-like symptoms, but tests came out negative. That patient recently visited a West African country, according to a city of Ottawa press release.

Another patient at Belleville General Hospital was also being tested for the virus. Quinte Health Care spokesperson Susan Rowe stressed that it’s “highly unlikely” the patient, who recently entered Sierra Leone, is actually carrying the virus.

Health Canada said there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Canada.

But south of the border, a Texas health-care worker tested positive for the virus after caring for an Ebola patient who later died; in Spain, a nursing aide who contracted Ebola remains in hospital.

“I think most of us working in health care are quite afraid at this point,” Belchetz said.

Various countries, including Canada, have been ramping up airport screening in major cities in an attempt to detect passengers carrying Ebola.

Not all are in favour of this practice. “Airport screening is essentially useless,” said Belchetz, adding passengers could fly before knowing that they’re sick.

But Tetro applauded the screening initiative. “Does that mean they’re going to find anyone? No … but it shows that the system is there,” he said.

Tetro said that screening creates a chain of communication and a record of the person’s interaction at the airport, which could prove useful if they later show up at a health-care facility with Ebola symptoms.

Alongside domestic protection measures, Ambrose noted the Canadian government has committed more than $35 million in various forms of overseas Ebola aid, including a shipment of personal protective equipment last week. This shipment has now arrived in West Africa.

“Canada has long been a world leader in Ebola research,” Ambrose said.

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Walking Dead, evidently a hit show

by nonjwspouse in

not my cup o tea for sure, but i found out my nephew is a regular zombie on the show.. anyone here like the show?

i'm kinda afraid to even watch it ...my imagination is a bit to active.. .

.

berrygerry

"I Am Legend" with Will Smith is great! It was the first modern Zombie movie I watched while waking up from JW propaganda about demonic movies. The most exciting/frightening part of the film, the first time I watched it, was when his dog ran into the dark building filled with zombies and he went in with his flashlight . . . man, that was an adrenaline high!

Loved it, as well as Omega Man for its time period.

(My wife even let my boys watch I Am Legend - that was a pleasant shock)

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The more people who leave the Witnesses, the more people will leave. True?

by ThomasCovenant in

jw
friends

if more faders stopped fading and just stopped,.

would more of the many closet unbelieving attendees just stop too, creating a momentum?.

.

berrygerry

It is curious that the peak numbers is used, and that there has never been disclosure of how it is calculated. Is it cong. by cong.?

Circuit?

District?

Country?

Branch?

Also, EVERY CO visit used to complain about meeting attendance always being low when compared with number of publishers. When they count non-publisher children as attenders, that makes for a telling statistic.

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