Posts by ILoveTTATT2

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Medical Tourism and Medi-Coin - investing in bloodless medicine

by OrphanCrow in

meet mr. michael columbus - a jehovah's witness who has a personal financial interest in keeping the watchtower's noblood doctrine alive and kicking.. .

michael j. columbus - jehovah's witness extraordinaire.. linkedin profile.. summary of columbus' accomplishments:.

for more than 30 years i have been involved in blood management.

ILoveTTATT2

OrphanCrow, what is your take on Aryeh Shander?

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Hello after a long while from the user who used to go by "comatose"

by comatose_no_more in

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it's great to see all the familiar posters as i've been reading for the last few hours.

still offering great advice and help.

awesome job.

ILoveTTATT2

Glad to hear about success stories! =)

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THOUGHTS ON UPGRADING TO (Free) WINDOWS 10

by Terry in

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i've been using windows 7 for several years and have had no complaints.. i've tried many browsers and settled on google chrome.

it has absolutely everything i want or need.. i kept hearing about the free upgrade to windows 10, so i went to youtube and watched endless "reviews" pro and con.. what pushed me over the (microsoft edge) was the fact i could test drive the new operating system.

for 30 days and go back to windows 7 if i didn't like it!

ILoveTTATT2

For me it was a big freaking pain in the....

It took them months to fix one simple bug which was the START BUTTON!!

The start button didn't work, it was such an incredible nightmare to navigate...

They finally fixed it... but that was a major problem...

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I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

by scared and lonely in

i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

ILoveTTATT2

The vitriol coming out of some people...

I would have been EXACTLY in the same position as him, the only difference is, that I had

1) an engineering degree - my parents were very liberal regarding that, they would NOT let their son NOT have a degree.

2) relatives that just happened to live in the same city where I was.

When I was DF'd, I had a job and a place to stay. But imagine I hadn't... or had a job with witnesses, or didn't have a career, didn't have relatives in my city that I could stay with.

I never became an elder, but if I had become one... I would have been like this person. A man-child who was 25 and never had left home.

Yet now I am living on my own, have an amazing job, I have new friends... I live 5 blocks from the beach in sunny Mexico...

My life has gotten infinitely better after leaving the witnesses.

But at the moment when I was about to be DF'd, I was scared sh!tless.

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I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

by scared and lonely in

i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

ILoveTTATT2

I still say there's something not right with this story !
A kid playing a prank to see if he can suck in some evil bad apostates and take their money as well. ???

Ok fine... the rest of us get it! DON'T GIVE ANY MONEY TO THIS PERSON!

It's been said a couple of times already that the money part sounds fishy. The person apologized.

Now, can those who say it's a scam just move on and tell this person some advice?

If this person is legitimately in trouble, then advice costs nothing.

It's very easy to say simply, "I am not giving you any money, but here's what you have to do:"

Is cruelty really necessary? (Some other comments, not the one I quoted).

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I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

by scared and lonely in

i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

ILoveTTATT2

I don't know the financial situation in the UK, but... in Canada at least, getting a McJob is ridiculously easy. I highly doubt that going from janitorial services to a McJob will be much of a hit financially.

Be very careful with what you spend, if worse comes to worse you can very easily get a job as a cashier, as whatever... plenty of extremely easy to get jobs.

Look for places to rent. There might be some really cheap apartments that provide decent living. If you are just one person, finding someone that rents a room (as a part of a house) won't be that hard.

DON'T TELL ANYONE INSIDE THE CONGREGATION THAT YOU HAVE DOUBTS!

Be completely quiet about your doubts.

YOU WILL BE FINE.

Eventually you'll be able to get back on your feet.

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It has always been a business: Miracle Wheat Investigation highlights WT Finances in 1911

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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i am still not done with the miracle wheat article... there's just so much information to process!

i already did the summary, and the new information that i have doesn't change my conclusion: the entire scandal happened because russell was very gullible and didn't check with government agencies to see if the wheat was legitimate or not.

he went into a business venture on which he knew nothing about.here's some interesting stats about the finances of the watchtower back in 1911:it received, from the sale of books and donations, $150,000.

ILoveTTATT2

Hi Listener,

how much more there is to this story other than what was printed in their magazines is probably a mystery.

There are USDA reports, there are newspaper reports, other sources besides the Watchtower and its publications.

I don't think they were being very honest about a brother called John Bonnet and his farm.

No, they were not. One has to remember that besides Russell, there were other people involved in this whole fiasco: Rutherford, Bonnet, Van Amburgh, K.B. Stoner, the USDA, the Brooklyn Eagle, the judges, etc.

There's so much more to the story than just the wheat, there is legal stupidity (Rutherford not knowing the definition of "libel" in the US), there is greed and a get-rich-quick scheme (again, Rutherford probably saw the money in it, used Russell's gullibility)...

There's so much info, that is why it has taken me so long to write it up.

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It has always been a business: Miracle Wheat Investigation highlights WT Finances in 1911

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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i am still not done with the miracle wheat article... there's just so much information to process!

i already did the summary, and the new information that i have doesn't change my conclusion: the entire scandal happened because russell was very gullible and didn't check with government agencies to see if the wheat was legitimate or not.

he went into a business venture on which he knew nothing about.here's some interesting stats about the finances of the watchtower back in 1911:it received, from the sale of books and donations, $150,000.

ILoveTTATT2

That includes inflation... I compared 3.7M in 2016 dollars vs 1B in 2016 dollars.

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It has always been a business: Miracle Wheat Investigation highlights WT Finances in 1911

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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i am still not done with the miracle wheat article... there's just so much information to process!

i already did the summary, and the new information that i have doesn't change my conclusion: the entire scandal happened because russell was very gullible and didn't check with government agencies to see if the wheat was legitimate or not.

he went into a business venture on which he knew nothing about.here's some interesting stats about the finances of the watchtower back in 1911:it received, from the sale of books and donations, $150,000.

ILoveTTATT2

I am still not done with the Miracle Wheat article... there's just so much information to process! I already did the summary, and the new information that I have doesn't change my conclusion: The entire scandal happened because Russell was very gullible and didn't check with Government agencies to see if the wheat was legitimate or not. He went into a business venture on which he knew nothing about.

Here's some interesting stats about the finances of the Watchtower back in 1911:

It received, from the sale of books and donations, $150,000. This is equivalent to $3.7M in 2016 dollars. Recent data showed that the Society received around $1B in revenue in the US per year. So their growth per year has been around 5.4% FOR 105 YEARS!

The sale of "miracle wheat" lasted only about 3 months, because the Eagle's reporting effectively put an end to it. In three months they sold $1800. If they had lasted a year, they would have sold $7200 of it. So the "miracle wheat" would have added around 5% growth in the WT business... In a sense, it doubled the growth of all of the pioneers, publishers, etc... combined!

I have growing suspicions that a lot in the case actually had to do with Rutherford, not Russell.

It was Rutherford's "baby", and I think that he made Russell file the suit against the Eagle.

The evidence for this hypothesis of mine will come soon.

The

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Bloodless Medicine....not all its cracked up to be.

by Lee Elder in

this is a pretty good example of the limitations of "bloodless medicine", and why the informed choice should always be "blood conservation" medicine, which retains the safety net of blood transfusion when medically required.

sadly, the watchtower fails to inform jws regarding these important limitations, and their potentially disastrous consequences.. http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202750028414/jury-awards-100k-to-family-of-jehovahs-witness-who-died-after-refusing-blood-transfusion?mcode=0&curindex=0&curpage=3&slreturn=20160118223352.

ILoveTTATT2

Steve, I had the same reaction.

I investigate on Witnesses a lot... it's hard to shock me anymore... but wow! This one shook me up! They're making tons of money murdering people! It's become a business!!