i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
Barrold
I've read your posts, barrold. I was just restating the facts, highlighting that there is nothing perfect about the medical and phamaceutical industries..
So judgemental.... You have only 38 posts. You don't know the members of this thread...let alone this forum. There are some wonderful people here. Agreeing with you doesn't make anyone intelligent...nor does disagreeing with you make them stupid.
Coffee
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
Lol EP!!
But did you have a flu shot??
Coffee
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
Lol Tec,
It would be anecdotal anyway because it would not be part of a larger blind study. I think it would be interesting though.... providing everyone is honest about it.
Coffee
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
who said there is anything wrong with questioning your dr.or medicine? I must have missed that.
Coffee
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
Barrold,
Not sure which is worse; ignorance or arrogance.
The flu shots are not 100% effective. Modern medicine is not 100% effective. It is not guaranteed that if you get a flu shot you won't get the flu. We are told, even by the media that one must be their own health advocate. There are some wonderful doctors, yet there are also some quacks out there.
Each individual has the right to make up their own mind regarding treatment. For me, that means taking into consideration my own 60 years of experience with my own body, as well as the information available to me. Having weighed all that, I will not be having a flu shot. I would not presume to pressure anyone else to do as I do.
There are those for whom having a flu shot is the right decision.
It is not as clear cut as you present it.
Suggestion.... let's check back on this thread after the flu season is over...and see who on this thread got the flu.
Coffee
i am certain that the watchtower society is of the devil , they tell so many lies to cover up their false doctrines and satan is the father of all lies .
so logically somewhere in those false doctrines there is something that prevents the rank and file from receiving salvation as satan works so hard to keep them in "the truth " does anyone else agree with that statement ?
if so, what is it in their teaching that keeps them from the free gift of salvation that comes by the grace of god alone ?
jhine, I've been out officially since 1993. I DAed. I met with the elders early that year after about a 2 year fade. The meeting was about 2 hoursl long.
Coffee
i am certain that the watchtower society is of the devil , they tell so many lies to cover up their false doctrines and satan is the father of all lies .
so logically somewhere in those false doctrines there is something that prevents the rank and file from receiving salvation as satan works so hard to keep them in "the truth " does anyone else agree with that statement ?
if so, what is it in their teaching that keeps them from the free gift of salvation that comes by the grace of god alone ?
I told the elders, when I met with them that they nor the organization could give me salvation nor could they take it away. They did not have that kind of power.
You should have seen the looks on their faces!
Coffee
letter from the governing body.. .
dear brothers due to our failed attempts of interrupting scripture and completely false, multiple prophecies, we as the governing body are going to implement a few new changes to god's earthly organization.. .
we are not god's earthly organization.
jgnat.... I agree... or a post on facebook. I have a few current jw fb "friends"
Coffee
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
I have never had a flu shot in my life. I had the flu once, when I was 8 years old. I'm now 60. I have a pretty good immune system. I hardly ever get even a mild cold. I've only taken 1 sick day since I started working for my employer 11 1/2 years ago....and that was for dental work. So far it has worked for me. My company offers free flu shots...I just don't feel the need.
If I had a weakened immune system, I'd consider it. My daughter gets one every year....but she has as heart condition, and really can't afford to get sick.
Coffee
once i was little boy in fort worth, texas living with my maw maw and paw paw and mommy.. then, i was an 18 year old 6'4'' skinny 165lb religious nut being dipped in a baptismal during a local assembly.. suddenly, i was 20 and listening to a jail cell door clang behind me as a conscientious objector.. wow!
23 years old and put on parole until my 6 years sentence was ended!
i got married to a nice jw girl and had 3 kids!.
Happy Birthday!!!
Coffee
