Me or my brother never got vaccinated for anything either. We never got sick but that's because a large percentage of the rest of the school kids did get their jabs so they provided barriers to the diseases like TB, polio etc spreading If everyone in the population had thought along JW lines then we'd still all be dying of typhoid, diptheria, mumps and lots of other nasty stuff. My families argument was also that some people have bad reactions to vaccinations and they weren't willing to take the chance. I'd say the risks of saving a million lives for the risk of 1 or 2 bad reactions is worth it.
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JWs and Vaccinations
by sammielee24 intaking the lead from another thread on this - i know a number of witnesses who were not vaccinated because of the jw scare - all kids of course, whose parents made the decision for them.
they are adults now, but none of them ever did get vacinnated - luckily they never got sick either.
i wonder - do you know of any witnesss that were not vaccinated and got sick?
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NEW Interview with Bill Bowen of Silentlambs on recent events
by Dogpatch inthe last interview i did with bill bowen was in april of 2003, and new things have happened regarding the pedophile issues in the watchtower's corrupt system led by ted jaracz and his corporate cronies.
some things are the same (mainly wt policies), and others have changed.
it took 10 years to develop some legal precendents to be laid down in order for lawsuits against the catholic priest pedophiles to move ahead, and some important legal precedents have now been established in court so as to pave the road for effective lawsuits against the watchtower leaders for their complicity in allowing pedophiles to remain in the congregations in good standing, some even as elders.
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Thanks for the post Randy that was very interesting. It seems like the overturning of ecclesiastical law in California could be a big step forward. Lets hope all other states follow suit.
You know what I worry about though; when the WTS is forced to hand over documentation about abuse that they have covered up that they will somehow destroy it or 'lose' it. After all the underhand tactics to forge the illusion of a whiter than white image I wouldn't put it past them. I just hope it doesn't happen that way.
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Candid Interview with Kevin Smith on Prince
by daniel-p inthis is a 4-part series of video of kevin smith (director of dogma, chasing amy, jay and silent bob, etc) talking about his experience filming a documentary for prince.
this is a must-see, even if you don't care for celebrity gossip.
it's absolutely hilarious.
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Thanks for the link, that was really funny. Prince has always been a bit loco with or without the witnesses so being in dubland will probably suit him just fine.
I haven't ever seen any of Kevin Smith's films. I'll have to check Dogma out, sounds interesting
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Check Out These Amazing Sculptures
by Arthur intonight, i found a story on reuters about an australian artist named ron mueck.
the story was about an exhibit he is doing at the royal scottish acedemy in edinburgh, scotland.
you can find pictures of most of his work on the following website: http://jamescohan.com/artists/ronmueck.
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I was just reading about Ron Mueck in the newspaper today. I think those sculptures are absolutely awesome.
Cheers for the link Arthur. I had only seen the large baby but there's more!
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I've got a nice yellowing copy on my bookshelf that was bought at the KH. Like as has already been mentioned in the 50's and 60's it was viewed almost as a society book.
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Fluff a dub: Brushes with Fame?
by Crumpet inso who have you met who is famous or slightly famous and under what circumstances?
(for the benefit of cross atlantic variations in celebrity - attach a pic and/or explanation of who that celeb is) .
or have you never met anyone even slightly famous but have aspirations to do so!
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I've met Avid Merrrion aka Leigh Francis. I used to work with his sister in law and he dropped in on a night out we'd arranged. Nice guy and not as mental as you might expect.
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Special Issue - September, 2006 Awake! - All 32 Pages Scanned
by daniel-p ini've wanted to scan this issue as soon as i could get my hands on it, so here it is.
some of the pictures are little screwed up because of the scan resolution, but it's all readable.
hope you enjoy.. .
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Thanks for the scans Just read through it all, not one iota of science in it. But then we all expected that anyway
The only interesting thing was the watching the world that mentioned that a live giant squid had been photographed.
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Evolution - and the Long Overdue Synthesis
by metatron inwhen you look at the evolution vs creation controversy, the impression you get is similar to hezbollah and the.
israelis encountering their differences!
on the one hand, we have the view that a bearded fellow on a throne specifically.
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(it's interesting that the evolutionary process of species, as currently understood; doesn't even contradict the book of Genesis - something that many fundamentalists ignore)
That's not strictly true as the order of creation in the bible is directly at odds with the order of biological evolution. For instance plants do not occur first in the fossil record like they do in the genesis account and the first flying creatures are not contemporaries of the first sea life, also there isn't a seperation of livestock and wild animal in the natural animal kingdom; that occurred over thousands of years as man slowly bred those animals for domestication. There are many other points but it's very clear that evolutionary biology doesn't agree with the bible account at any point.
I suppose the answer as to why god couldn't use evolution as a means of creation is why would he? As a glorified petri dish experiment? The overwhelming evidence is that there is no pre-destination to life and it's pretty egotistical to think that the culmination of creation is us. Evolution offers a much more humble approach; we aren't the zenith of life, everything that has happened wasn't leading up to us. A slug in the garden is as evolved as we are.
The reason the debate will go on is that scientists try to rejoin questions with answers. Saying a god did it isn't an answer.
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Which cities are worth a visit?
by DannyBloem inwhat cities are worth a visit of at least 3 days?.
the cities i can think of:.
(not ordered in any way.
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Some of my fave cities are up in viking territory - Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo. Only been to the capitals but the rest of the countryside is excellent too I've been told.
St Petersburg is nicer than Moscow IMO and the people are friendlier too. Budapest is nice also especially the old town. Haven't been but my brother just came back from there and it looks beautiful and unspoilt and he said it had some of the fittest women he ever saw (His wife was with him so he could only peek as they passed by)
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There really is NOTHING new under the sun!!!
by Gill inwe stayed in a wonderful house on holiday the last couple of weeks.
it had a brilliant library and one of the books was on interesting yorkshire characters.. i copied down a section, though i forgot the books name and writer but here goes.
tell me if you've ever heard anything like this before?.
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That 'Kirkstall Prognosticator' rings a bell. My old tutor Steven Birt was also an author and historian on Leeds, kirkstall especially and I'm sure he told us about that dude.
I suppose with the Napoleonic wars going on at the time crackpots like George got something of hearing as everyone was in trepidation of what would happen in the world.Kirkstall is about 5 miles from where I live and I remember cycling down there as a kid and playing in the ruins of the medievel abbey. Bit rough down there now though, probably get your bike nicked.
