Posts by jt stumbler

The love of a brotherhood that comes by when you are going thru a crisis. Not just on the weekend so that they can count time. A phone call just to see how your doing. Not just to get your time for the month. Visits from "friends" while your father is dying in the hospital. Not just a couple of elders "representing the congregation" coming by to give last prayer to the dying.

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JWs and breastfeeding past infancy

by rebel8 in

my jw mother breastfed my sibs so long they remember it.

one she stopped feeding when she went to kingergarten; i kid you not.

my mother justified it by saying moses' mother breastfed him until whatever age and the bible encourages it.

jt stumbler

Breastfeeding may provide blood pressure benefits for children equal to exercise and cutting back on salt. A new study shows that the longer children are breastfed, the lower their blood pressure readings are up to age 15. Researchers say the magnitude of this blood pressure-lowering benefit of breastfeeding in this study on children is similar to the benefits of salt restriction and exercise found in other studies of adults. The results appear in the current issue of the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Breastfeeding Lowers Blood Pressure High blood pressure is rapidly becoming a concern for the nation's children. The National High Blood Pressure Education Program issued guidelines in 2004 to diagnose and deal with the problem. Children with blood pressure readings that put them in the 95th or higher percentile for their age range are considered to have hypertension. Children who have blood pressure readings that are in the 90th to 95th percentile for their age have "prehypertension," which means that these children are at risk for developing high blood pressure. For these children, lifestyle changes should be initiated, but experts says that it is unlikely that exercise and diet alone will be enough to control blood pressure in these children. Identifying risk becomes an important aspect in working to prevent the disease from occurring. In the study, researchers looked at the effects of breastfeeding on various aspects of metabolic syndrome in more than 2,000 children aged 9 to 15 from Denmark and Estonia. Metabolic syndrome refers to a combination of risk factors that have been shown to increase the risk of heart disease. This cluster of risks include high blood pressure, prediabetes, high insulin levels, high triglyceride levels, and low "good" HDL cholesterol levels. Although breastfeeding during infancy did not have an impact on other aspects of metabolic syndrome, the study showed that it had a significant effect on the children's blood pressure. Children who were exclusively breastfed for at least six months had average blood pressure levels that were 1.7 points lower than those who had never been breastfed. And the longer the children were breastfed, the lower their blood pressure readings were. Researchers say the blood pressure-lowering benefits of breastfeeding were the same for children in both Estonia and Denmark, despite the different dietary, social, and cultural influences. They say the beneficial effects of breastfeeding on blood pressure may increase as children get older. The study showed a trend in the benefits of breastfeeding, with the greatest benefit on the blood pressure in older children. By Jennifer Warner, reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD Just thought you might find this interesting.

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When do you tell them------------

by vitty in

jw
friends

ive been fading for a year, we moved, so i am starting to make new friends (still feels a bit strange) anyway, when or if do you tell them you belonged to a religious cult, in my case over 20 years.

should i bother, is it more important to me than them.

will they think im wierd if i do tell them, or if ive been friends for a long time, will they think it strange i never mentioned it.

jt stumbler

This is great. Don't tell them. Accept their bible study when they offer and boom your in. See how long it will take them to discontinue once you casually debunk their thinking.

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Has anyone else seen...

by jt stumbler in

the pictures of the "butcher from baggy pants" photos.

very humiliating for him.

i love it.

jt stumbler

lmao...

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Has anyone else seen...

by jt stumbler in

the pictures of the "butcher from baggy pants" photos.

very humiliating for him.

i love it.

jt stumbler

Thanks lil. For some reason, I can't get any links to paste properly. I saw them at this site. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41169000/jpg/_41169717_saddam203bafp.jpg

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Has anyone else seen...

by jt stumbler in

the pictures of the "butcher from baggy pants" photos.

very humiliating for him.

i love it.

jt stumbler

the pictures of the "Butcher from Baggy pants" photos. Very humiliating for him. I love it.

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If You See A JW or An Elder, Do You Try To Avoid Them?

by minimus in

jw
friends

when i was in a drugstore a couple of months ago, i saw the presiding overseer in the other aisle with his wife.

i saw them and made a conscious decision to leave.

what would you have done in a similar situation??

jt stumbler

yEP

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The Internet

by myelaine in

"but you, daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.".

"therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand), "then let those in judea flee to the mountains.....and pray that your flight may not be in the winter or on the sabbath.

for then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.. "the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

jt stumbler

I want to be cool. Its 90 degrees already.