Posts by Jeffro

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Awake is back! India used in every illustration???
by JWTom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as someone else noted.

why is the new awake a setting in india in every illustration?.
Jeffro

And it’s not just the illustrations. Page 14 gives some examples of “Jehovah” in a few different languages, which all happen to be from the subcontinent.
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Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?
by JWTom in
1. jw
2. friends
someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.

maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.

is this true?
Jeffro

Now that Awake! has resurfaced with the first issue for 2021, has anyone noticed that it seems decidedly specific to one country?
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Vaccine Deaths
by Sea Breeze in
1. social
2. current
it is reported that in the usa, 30 people are dying per day after receiving the corona vaccine.

anyone else hear about this?

- article.
Jeffro

The claim that 'only 1% of reactions are reported' is being misused as if you can just multiply the reported number of deaths by 100 to get the 'real' number of deaths (and similar with what the poor quality source calls "disabilities"). However, the great majority of reactions are not reported because they are minor. It is not valid to just multiply the reported number of any particular type of reaction by 100.
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Vaccine Deaths
by Sea Breeze in
1. social
2. current
it is reported that in the usa, 30 people are dying per day after receiving the corona vaccine.

anyone else hear about this?

- article.
Jeffro

was a new boy:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/06/07
Mercola is in no way reliable. https://quackwatch.org/11ind/mercola/
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Vaccine Deaths
by Sea Breeze in
1. social
2. current
it is reported that in the usa, 30 people are dying per day after receiving the corona vaccine.

anyone else hear about this?

- article.
Jeffro

Freemail:
Only a moron would refuse the vaccine.
It's not as simple as that. There are various vaccines available, and people should try to get one of the vaccines with the highest efficacy and without risks associated with any conditions they know they may be predisposed to (though the percentages for the risks are very low). If an individual is at greater risk from a particular vaccine with higher efficacy, that person may need to go for a vaccine with slightly less efficacy. For a very small number of people (proportionally), this may mean not be able to accept a vaccine (on actual medical grounds).
The other interesting thing is that the types of sources that complain about deaths related to vaccines are happy to accept statistics that include deaths that may have been caused by other factors incidental to the vaccine, but reject statistics for COVID-related deaths on the same basis.
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Vaccine Deaths
by Sea Breeze in
1. social
2. current
it is reported that in the usa, 30 people are dying per day after receiving the corona vaccine.

anyone else hear about this?

- article.
Jeffro

The source is a Fox opinion piece. It vaguely cites their supposed source, variously as VAERS (correct) or VARES (wrong). It provides no direct citation for the claims made, nor any indication of which vaccines, nor the condition of the people who supposedly died. Being devoid of any useful information, it can be regarded as scaremongering.
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It looks like the WATCHTOWER—STUDY EDITION (SIMPLIFIED)'s last issue was December 2018
by Disillusioned JW in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i looks like the last issue of the "watchtower—study edition (simplified)" (at least in english) was the december 2018 issue - see https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=ws&yearfilter= .

did anyone else notice that?.
Jeffro

Yes, it was announced at the time. Officially, the ‘Study’ and ‘Simplified’ versions were ‘merged’ (dumbing down the remaining version), but in real terms the extra one was simply discontinued.
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Interesting Find with Chronology
by Kelley959 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.
Jeffro

johnamos:
In that 'Isaiah's Prophecy' quote they actually tear down their own teaching of the 70 years being for the Jews in exile.
Yes. That is why I quoted it.
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Interesting Find with Chronology
by Kelley959 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.
Jeffro

johnamos:
In is not correct to say that Tyre was not subject to Babylon a full 70 years and different nations came under that domination at different times.
It is correct in the sense that the JW source that I quoted conflates ‘subjection’ with ‘exile’ and that Tyre was not exiled for the 70 years during which Babylon was ‘world power’, which in context really meant ‘had control of territories that were previously controlled by Egypt’.
Compare the concept of nations ‘serving Babylon’ for 70 years with the ‘calamity’ (Jeremiah chapter 25) that ‘went from nation to nation’. The ‘calamity’ referred to attacks on individual nations which happened to different nations at different times, whereas they are all considered to ‘serve’ Babylon for the full 70 years.
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What did Jesus Teach the "Kingdom of Heaven/God" is?
by truth_b_known in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the books of matthew, mark, luke, john, and the beginning of acts are filled with what the authors purport are statements of jesus.

jesus is quoted as making several statements about "the kingdom of heaven" or "the kingdom of god".

those statements are often given as parables that start with a phrase something like "the kingdom of heaven is like...".
Jeffro

No, and Paul doesn’t really say much about It either apart from that it’s in heaven and certain people aren’t allowed in.