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  COVID-19 - Would It Work to Allow People to Sign Away Rights for Treatment Like JW's Do for Blood?

  by RubaDub in

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  people want to get back to work, back to "normal" in many cases (whatever normal now means).

  even trump is encouraging protesters in 3 states.. but with the covid-19 thing, this is not just a matter of a person taking a risk, as a person may do who smokes, takes illegal drugs or in other ways lives an unhealthy lifestyle.

  in general, most (not all, since cost of insurance and public hospitals may be involved), but generally you are not putting the lives of others at risk.

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  Still not following - if I choose not to go to the hospital, why do I need to sign a waiver first saying "I will not go to the hospital"? I just won't go.

  As noted, it simply is not a matter of "putting myself in danger". I could be one of the 10%? 20%? 50% of people who can be asymptomatic carriers of the virus. If I go to a "nightclub, restaurant, gym, whatever", I could very easily infect dozens or hundreds of other people if I'm infected and don't know it.

  I think I kind of see where you're coming from, and if it really were an issue of "I'm willing to put myself in danger" I might agree, but that is not the case. My going out endangers the lives of many other people, waiver or no waiver.
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  COVID-19 - Would It Work to Allow People to Sign Away Rights for Treatment Like JW's Do for Blood?

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  people want to get back to work, back to "normal" in many cases (whatever normal now means).

  even trump is encouraging protesters in 3 states.. but with the covid-19 thing, this is not just a matter of a person taking a risk, as a person may do who smokes, takes illegal drugs or in other ways lives an unhealthy lifestyle.

  in general, most (not all, since cost of insurance and public hospitals may be involved), but generally you are not putting the lives of others at risk.

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  I don't follow. Your post outlines the danger that people put others in when they ignore the social distancing guidelines.

  How does my signing a waiver refusing medical treatment, then going out to work, protect the dozens or hundreds of other people I might infect?
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  EVERY Religion has Hypocrites- even the TRUE One!

  by MuchCloserLook in

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  so, if you expect to find 'saints' with halos, you will never find real christians.. after over 30 years of being a jw, there are many things about the org that disturb me- yet no one else even acknowledges the only true god, as jesus referred to him.. not a 'they' or 'them' ('trinity')- but him!and he has always had the name jehovah (yehovah in hebrew)- even though the koine greek had no version of it when the nt was written.. so among the many things real christians have to endure- is often each other!

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  And what part of humanity are you implying are not guilty of this? Governments, Religions, Business, even Science?

  So...if I understand correctly, your argument is:

  Sure, God is a murderous and sadistic tyrant, but everyone else is too, so it's OK.

  Do I understand that correctly?

  The One who GAVE life has the Absolute Right to TAKE it.

  So, again, correct me if I misunderstand....

  It's OK for parents to murder their own children?
  
  
  
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  I watched/listened to the Sandman's vid (Sanderson)

  by days of future passed in

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  yes, i listened to it.

  my sister has received the invite to watch this from a hopeful relative.

  it's been talked about here and on reddit.

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  Under those conditions, even skeptics would likely feel compelled to admit that Bible prophecy was undergoing fulfillment.

  Think about this for more than the 2-3 seconds that they want you to think about it.

  What is it really saying?

  That God has given "signs", a warning, about the "great tribulation", but he doesn't want very many people to understand the sign. Based on what they've written, Jehovah would be displeased if "too many" people took note of the sign and changed their ways.

  Jehovah, baaed on what they write, prefers to present a muddled, vague, unclear sign that most people will completely miss. So when he ends up slaughtering billions of men, women, and children at Armageddon, it will be because he purposely obscured his "hints" at what was to come, so that "not even skeptics" could be saved.

  The Watchtower paints Jehovah as far more cruel, sadistic, and vindictive than even the OT Bible writers managed to do.

  
  
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  JW patient with covid-19 received blood transfusion

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  i had a patient admitted from a skilled nursing facility/rehab that is an active jw.

  the patient had covid-19 as did most of the patients at that facility.

  typically the local elders are all involved in these admissions but there is a strict no visitor policy which includes clergy.

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  There have been many reports on this site over the years about JWs who accept blood transfusions, or transfusions of the "components" that JWs also prohibit for their adherents, after confirming with the medical staff that their decision will remain private from prying elders. I can't independently confirm those reports, but they certainly sound plausible.

  I suspect it is quite common, and was so even before the current pandemic.

  Heard that some jws died due to covid

  There was a meeting on Friday between Bethel and COs, then COs passed the info to COBEs, and COBEs to elders, and then elders to publishers....the count of JWs who have died of COVID-19 in the US, as of Friday 4/17, is 250. I don't know the count for the entire world.
  
  
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  The irony of 2 Tim 3:16-17

  by pseudoxristos in

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  all scripture is inspired of god and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of god may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.. most scholars don't think paul wrote 2 timothy.. every time i here a witness quote this verse, i will be reminded of the irony.. -undisputed-.

  1 thessalonians.

  galatians.

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  Isn't there an alternate way of translating that verse, something like "the scriptures which are inspired by God are beneficial..."

  ...implying that some of the scriptures were not inspired by God, so their value may be lesser.

  Or am I misremembering?
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  The VIDEO OF "THE END"

  by Wagurl in

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  this is "return to jehovah video" from this weeks meeting.

  the use fear to gain more people back in the truth?

  what are your thoughts?

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  New Revised Elder's Manual is out!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  https://wetransfer.com/downloads/1b5fd97a37524735de3c44841bec9c8120200414110244/6a723a.

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  Has anyone been able to determine the changes / updates / additions / deletions?

  It seems they just provided the new book without any indication of what has been changed.
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  Earth Boxes - Has Anyone Here Tried to Use Them to Grow Vegetables

  by RubaDub in

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  with some extra time on my hands (putting it mildly), i decided to try planting some vegetables using these things called earth boxes.

  they are basically rectangular tubs with the soil suspended a few inches from the bottom using a screen and you put water into the bottom and you just add water through a tube to the bottom and the plants get their water from beneath instead of adding water from the top.

  then you put a plastic covering around the plants so that weeds don't grow.

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  I've used them - tomatoes work really well, but zucchini not so much. They need lots of space and the box just isn't big enough.

  But they are perfect for tomatoes.
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  The VIDEO OF "THE END"

  by Wagurl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is "return to jehovah video" from this weeks meeting.

  the use fear to gain more people back in the truth?

  what are your thoughts?

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  I thought it was pretty funny, after all the "It's urgent! Urgent I say! Now is the time to return! No time to waste! NOW! NOW! NOW!!!!!!!" comments....

  ...at the very end, you see "Copyright 2015"....

  Huh. I guess it wasn't quite so "urgent" after all.

  I dunno, maybe it's me, but after 141 years of Watchtower messages of "Soon! Urgent! Soon! Urgent!", the sense of urgency seems rather....un-urgent.