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Devlin Kerry ,,, my personal hero

by talesin in

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i shared this story with a fellow poster via email,,, and he thought you would all may be inspired by my best friend, too!!.

dev is a musician, a master guitarist who has written over 140 songs, and (i kid you not!

he's a frickin' genius.

Rabbit

Back-to-the-top !

Thanks for that video, Tal, you have told me so much about him...it's good to put a face to him ! I can understand and admire at least some of his troubles. And, I wish him the best !

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Merry Christmas!

by botchtowersociety in

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just stopped by my desk for a sec to hope you all are having a good one.

my house is packed and a zoo.

maybe i am finally having a good christmas after leaving the tower.

Rabbit

Merry Christmas to everybody ...and Please have a Safe New Year, too.

We, are surely gonna have that!

~ The Rabbits !

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Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein

by Rabbit in

interesting !.

rice seed yields blood proteinhuman serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood.. monday, october 31, 2011 .

by lauren gravitz of nature magazine.

What is the actual PRODUCT being sold by Jehovah's Witnesses??

by Terry in

madison avenue became famous for selling the sizzle rather than the steak.. the point of advertising was to create an appetite for a product.. sometimes, in order to create desire for the product, advertising consisted of imposing an embedded fear that could only.

be resolved by purchasing the solution: the product.. .

four hundred and twelve billion dollars annually is spent on advertsing in the u.s. ($412 billion).

Rabbit

Faith, and Cover Your Ass !

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Do you hate God

by Star tiger in

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i beginning to think that this would be a good way of thinking, a totally righteous being would not let all the shit that is happenning to people prevail, this being cannot have the best interests of man as his first priority, it's all about ego and no matter how the human familty suffers, he hates pretty much everyone, as the tv show says, your fired, let's get a better god, one who at least gives everyone a chance!!.

i welcome comments from god apologists, to at least have an argument as to why they put they're faith in someone that does'nt give a shit about them!.

star tiger.

Rabbit

Well...I used to love God (Jehovah). The Greek Gods were much more fun.

Then, after my faithful JW mom died, because He did not want her to have a blood transfusion (later, He changed His big all-knowing mind)...He looked down...and smiled! I hated and cursed Him to his face!

Now, several healing years have passed by...and ya' know what? I don't hate Him anymore, hell, I cannot even find Him. Anywhere. But, that's the way it's always been. Many, many mothers have died since then. He...is nowhere to be found.

I'm much happier now !

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Multiple Abuse ...

by talesin in

i wonder how many posters here are not only in recovery from spiritual abuse (jws) , but other traumas,, such as sexual and physical abuse,,, or rape as a young person (ie, child or teen).. .

how many of us are recovering from double - or triple - trauma ... ?.

anyone want to share?.

Rabbit

So many very sad stories, even tho' abuse happens in all religions. But, only one faith proudly proclaims theirselves as, "The Happiest People on Earth -- Jehovah's Witnesses."

I read these to Mrs. Rabbit, she is also a victim of sexual abuse from a young age -- at the hands of her father. Most people who meet her would never guess at all the horrible things this delicate, kind, thoughtful, loving, empathetic woman has been thru. If half of what's happened to her, Tal, OhioCowboy and many others here on this single board -- had happened to me -- I would be in a rubber room in a straight jacket!

Before we got married, I learned about most of these things -- it scared me -- because I worried just how 'damaged' she was...and could *I* handle what happened. I wanted to help her heal, but, was totally out of my element. I had a great JW mom (who died over the blood issue), a non-JW dad who was very strict and did not like witnesses. But, no physical/sexual abuse ! I had a pretty good childhood. My wife and others here had the terror...and somehow...she did not let them rob her of her goodness!

When I feel like I am gonna 'go crazy', like I am right now over an extremely serious medical situation, I try and listen to her. She makes me feel a little better.

That's Love.

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Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein

by Rabbit in

interesting !.

rice seed yields blood proteinhuman serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood.. monday, october 31, 2011 .

by lauren gravitz of nature magazine.

Rabbit

LMAO

I guess the Gnu Lite will be JW's can't eat anymore rice...?

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Hello--new to the witnesses...and you

by LKM in

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just wanted to introduce myself.

i went to the kh for the first time 2 weeks ago...and will go again tomorrow.

i don't believe anything witnessy...(i was raised in the assembly of god church and now the closest thing i "do" with religion is yoga or sometimes the buddhist temple).... but the man i'm in love with is a df'd jw (we've been together for 6 years).... and he wants to get reinstated just to talk to his family again (i can assure you he does not believe it).... and he wants his family to accept me because we are about to get married... so, i'm going to meetings...its very interesting, but only because it shows me more about how he was raised.

Rabbit

LKM, Welcome

Jewel's experiences and words are spot on. His xwife will never, ever leave y'all alone. She will use her their son as as JW weapon...I know. I tried to appease my ex in many of the same ways, I gave up so many things for so many years after we separated. All this did was give my x the time she needed to turn our kids against me.

Honesty...is something their son, and your future stepson will notice. And, it's a hell of a lot easier to do. Be yourselves. Don't let the WT corp. make you pretend or be dishonest -- even for such a noble cause.

Besides...like many have said...from years of experience -- it just won't work.

Irregardless, good luck in whatever you decide.

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Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein

by Rabbit in

interesting !.

rice seed yields blood proteinhuman serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood.. monday, october 31, 2011 .

by lauren gravitz of nature magazine.

Rabbit

Interesting !

Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein

Human serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood.

Monday, October 31, 2011

By Lauren Gravitz of Nature magazine

One can't squeeze blood from a turnip, but new research suggests that a bit of transgenic tweaking may make it possible to squeeze blood--or at least blood protein--from a grain of rice. In a study published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe rice seeds that can produce substantial quantities of a blood protein called human serum albumin, or HSA.

HSA is in high demand around the world, both for its role in drug and vaccine production and for use in treating patients with severe burns and other serious conditions such as haemorrhagic shock and liver cirrhosis. The primary source of therapeutic HSA is donated human blood. To overcome limitations caused by blood shortages and contamination of donated blood by viruses, researchers worldwide have been working to create functional HSA either synthetically, with the help of yeast and bacteria, or in transgenic organisms such as cows and tobacco.

In China, which has suffered from HSA shortages and contaminated blood supplies, the idea of using an abundant crop like rice to supplement or even supplant the current albumin supply is an attractive one. "We could ease demand for HSA and reduce the potential risk of spreading viruses in blood plasma. That's what prompted me to do something like this," says Daichang Yang, a plant biotechnologist at Wuhan University, China, who led the research.

Tiny bioreactors

Part of the difficulty in producing synthetic or laboratory versions of HSA, however, has been developing a system with a high yield, low cost and low risk of immune reaction. Yang thinks that his seed-based method has the potential to satisfy all of those requirements. "Scientists have been using plants to produce HSA for two decades, but the yield is too low," he says. But seeds have evolved to be specialized for protein storage, providing the optimal bioreactor for HSA production. "The higher yield could allow for lower costs," he says.

Yang and his colleagues inserted the gene encoding HSA into their rice plants in such a way that the gene was activated during seed production, and the resulting protein was stored in the rice grain along with nutrients normally used to help nurture a germinating embryo. The final product was a crop of rice seeds in which HSA made up more than 10% of the seeds' total soluble protein--one of the best yields of recombinant protein from plants to date.

It was relatively simple for Yang to extract HSA from the grains. Because the rice genome was completed in 2005, he was able to use this information to separate the human protein from those of rice.

The rice-derived protein was shown to be functionally equivalent to the version found in human blood plasma. Not only were the two chemically and physically identical, but they were also similar when tested for medical efficacy and immune reactivity. In rats with liver disease, both types of HSA proved equally effective in relieving symptoms associated with cirrhosis. And rats that were given rice-derived HSA showed no stronger immune reaction than animals that had been given the plasma-derived version.

"This recombinant method has a good shot at making HSA more abundantly and more safely than human plasma, and it will at least have a shot at being as cost-effective," says William Velander, an expert in genetically engineered therapeutics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Don Brooks, who develops synthetic biocompatible materials at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and who has created his own synthetic version of the HSA protein, agrees. "I'm convinced that what they've produced is a good reproduction of the human material," he says. "The lab work they've done is pretty impressive. They still have to do it in people to be sure it's as safe as native material, but it's looking pretty good."

Yang aims to move into human testing next. He has submitted his first clinical-trial application to the US Food and Drug Administration, and hopes to begin testing the rice-derived HSA in humans within the next two years.

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on October 31, 2011.

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An Old Argument.... does it hold water?

by AK - Jeff in

estimates range from 4 million to 15 million children die from starvation each year on this planet.

that's between 500 and 1700 children a day, depending on what numbers you accept.

still, no matter which numbers you use, doesn't this make you arrive at one of the following conclusions?.

Rabbit

"God is Jeff" ~ Nancy Drew

Nahhh...he seems like a good guy tho'.

Nancy Drew...is Goddess ! Certainly related to the Bible God's Authorized Biography.

Just look at N.Drew 1:1 - So, believe it or not, tsunami is a small problem. Starving children, small problem. Let us not keep kicking the big problem "down the road".