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  Opening a Restaurant

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend and i were talking today about a child-friendly restaurant she wants to open.

  the accommodations will suit the small stature of children, their food likes, a decor that pleases little guys and gals.

  she said to me, "you're children only once.

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  Coco: It is not about the money, she reassured me.

  I know she is only eleven years old, Coco, but you need to nip this one in the bud.

  Change this narrative if you truly want her to be happy and successful. "Not about the money" is a noble enough position but it doesn't translate well into making dreams come true.

  Little girls (small women) need to be taught that it IS about the money. Money is how you measure business success.

  Chase the dream...with money in hand and money as the goal. That dream will come true then. Make money an integral part of the equation and Lacey will be running that restaurant with flying colors.

  Good luck little woman :)

  *to add - if she doesn't make it about the money, someone else will and there she will be...just standing in line to join the ranks of the brightest and most creative who make other people rich
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  Its Knorr day the 8th of Russell today

  by Lostandfound in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the panda paradise, promisd repeatedly for decades, old bc and ad dating must go, as will months named for roman gods and such like as well of course as the days also are named from pagan origins, have th gb on earth or their now heavenly prdcessors, sorted this out so that roght after the big a we start counting years as fom am, after armaggedon, we could have a franz day, a knorr day or maybe even a lett day, and as for months, always th big guns of russell, rutherford and others such as xsplane ready to replace january, february etc.

  sunday howerver as now known would have to be th most important day of the week and with a name of great significanc, step forard donate day !

  maybe franz name wont be usd as, when he viewed himself as gods only channel of communication, he either misheard what j told him, or made bad notes on their conversations, hence the 1975 debacle when j whispered the date to him but franz got confused and just made up the date from a few fragments of drivel found in an old desk drawer from russells days.

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  Here ya go.

  This is the "Calendar of Jehovah".

  

  I am not sure which year we would be in now (this one is for 1903 - Jehovah's year of Ransom) but it is clear that we are currently in the eleventh month - the month of Jehovah. The days of the week line up correctly with conventional calendars, so today is Heavenday, the 21st of Jehovah in the year 2017 (Jehovah's year of the ?)
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  Its Knorr day the 8th of Russell today

  by Lostandfound in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the panda paradise, promisd repeatedly for decades, old bc and ad dating must go, as will months named for roman gods and such like as well of course as the days also are named from pagan origins, have th gb on earth or their now heavenly prdcessors, sorted this out so that roght after the big a we start counting years as fom am, after armaggedon, we could have a franz day, a knorr day or maybe even a lett day, and as for months, always th big guns of russell, rutherford and others such as xsplane ready to replace january, february etc.

  sunday howerver as now known would have to be th most important day of the week and with a name of great significanc, step forard donate day !

  maybe franz name wont be usd as, when he viewed himself as gods only channel of communication, he either misheard what j told him, or made bad notes on their conversations, hence the 1975 debacle when j whispered the date to him but franz got confused and just made up the date from a few fragments of drivel found in an old desk drawer from russells days.

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  OrphanCrow

  Oh my goodness, Lost and Found.

  That is your 666th post!!!!

  Lol!
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  Crises of Conscience latest, plus : a solution for reading it legally, courtesy of u/ziddina

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  recently, someone who knows deborah drexler, the current copyright holder of cofc, asked her if she will consider having it published again.

  her response was:.

  " i will have to ask jesus"!!!!!.

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  elkatire: "I'll have to ask Christ" wasn't Geoffrey Jackson's ARC answer to a question they asked him?

  Jesus. Ask Jesus, he said.

  Huh. That must be the go-to Christian response to a question you don't want to answer. Jackson fumbled his way to this exchange when trying to defend the GB's ridiculous two-witness rule in cases of rape:

  STEWART: “Now, is it not the case that had Jesus been asked about a case of sexual abuse he may have referred back to this part of Deuteronomy, and said that it is not required to have two witnesses?”

  JACKSON: “Um, I certainly would like to ask Jesus that, and I can’t at the moment. I hope to in the future. Ah, but that’s a hypothetical question which, if we had an answer, then we could support what you said.”
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  1975... the year that keeps on giving.

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.

  it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.

  when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.

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  OrphanCrow

  Haha! SilentBuddha, you are one of the WT's Baby Boomers.

  The generation of children born after the great disappointment of '75.

  Add about 8-10 years and all you young'uns would account for a spike somewhere in the publisher count. You are the "growth" of the 80s and early 90s.
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  When the “blood fractions” was available for any pacient as an alternative treatment?

  by RodrigoGuerreiro in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  sorry if my topic question was difficult to understand (english is not my native language).

  i will like to know the year when the so called “blood fractions” was available as an alternative to a whole blood transfusion.

  my question is triggered by the curiosity about how long jw died or put their life at risk, refusing that type of treatment before the year 2000 (when the “new light” allowed that type of treatment).. thank you.

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  TD: Not allowing it singled out Rh-negative women and their unborn children, which is pretty messed up.......

  Yes. Pretty messed up.

  Women and their babies. Two very vulnerable groups of people within the JW population.

  Rhogam should have been allowed. But I suspect that the WTS was far more interested in promoting ultra violet light therapy. That is the treatment that was promoted in the 1973 "Alternatives to Blood Transfusions" which targeted the pediatric population.

  And then, fast forward to the 2000s and JW women and babies were targeted for Stanate (TM) [stannsoporfin, tin-mesoporphyrin].

  Compassionate Use of Stanate (TM) [Stannsoporfin]
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  Panpsychism - a philosophy with a future

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  at one time scientists believed that living things and non-living things were made of different material, accounting for the unique properties of living things.

  this idea is called vitalism and is no longer popular.

  what does remain popular (in fact is still the dominant view) is a similar idea that things that experience the world (humans, frogs, mice) are different from things that don't experience the world (potatoes, rocks, snowflakes).

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  Can there be a consciousness without a brain?

  
  
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  When the “blood fractions” was available for any pacient as an alternative treatment?

  by RodrigoGuerreiro in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  sorry if my topic question was difficult to understand (english is not my native language).

  i will like to know the year when the so called “blood fractions” was available as an alternative to a whole blood transfusion.

  my question is triggered by the curiosity about how long jw died or put their life at risk, refusing that type of treatment before the year 2000 (when the “new light” allowed that type of treatment).. thank you.

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  Rodrigo: I have no idea of JWs are some of the ”guinea pigs” on some medical trials, I thought that was a big gap between the availability of the treatment and the JWs acceptance

  Then you likely didn't know that the trials for a lot of "alternative" procedures, and especially artificial blood, are funded and organized by the US Department of Defense.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/287365/blood-us-army-us-navy-watchtower-society

  Jehovah's Witnesses cannot don a uniform but they sure do come in handy for medical testing that benefits the military. The two groups that are most interested in artificial blood? The military and the JWs. Bedfellows in the search for the Holy Grail - artificial blood. That magic elixir that just maybe, maybe someday...will extend the life of people for...oh, maybe indefinitely? Synthetic blood. Never dies and never fails. The promise of eternal life - the promise of biotechnology
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  Crises of Conscience latest, plus : a solution for reading it legally, courtesy of u/ziddina

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  recently, someone who knows deborah drexler, the current copyright holder of cofc, asked her if she will consider having it published again.

  her response was:.

  " i will have to ask jesus"!!!!!.

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  OrphanCrow

  It is really encouraging to hear that Jesus has found a way to release Ray's life giving book to the Russians.

  Way to go Jesus!

  Crisis of Conscience

  I have read a few stories out of Russia where Ray's book has been credited as the tool that pried them loose from the WT grip.

  Thank Jesus that Ray's book has made its way across the Big Pond
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  Crises of Conscience latest, plus : a solution for reading it legally, courtesy of u/ziddina

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  recently, someone who knows deborah drexler, the current copyright holder of cofc, asked her if she will consider having it published again.

  her response was:.

  " i will have to ask jesus"!!!!!.

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  " I will have to ask Jesus"!!!!!

  I am more than a little annoyed at this response.

  "I will have to ask Jesus"????

  WTF is that??

  So that means that it is Jesus' fault for the book being held up. She is blaming Jesus for the book being made as inaccessible as possible. Jesus has held the book up, according to her logic
  

  Sheesh. And she calls herself a Christian.

  Deborah, do the "Christian" thing and turn the book over to the public domain. It is already there. Make it official and legal