march of last year covid was declared a pandemic that would take hundreds of millions of lives world wide.. here are the facts after a year.. the world population is 7,800,000,000 (billions).
114,770,269 millions of people have caught the virus as of today.
aprox 91 million recovered from the virus,.
To me there is a HUGE difference between dying BECAUSE of COVID vs. dying WITH it. Sure, COVID may finish you off, but if you are lying in a hospital bed with stage 3 cancer and COVID finishes you off, how is that COVID death?
Exactly! Here it is... from the horse's mouth, on ''What is considered a COVID death''? Notice the Dr.'s answer! It does not matter what the underlying conditions were, if the COVID test came back positive, you would be considered a COVID death.
march of last year covid was declared a pandemic that would take hundreds of millions of lives world wide.. here are the facts after a year.. the world population is 7,800,000,000 (billions).
114,770,269 millions of people have caught the virus as of today.
aprox 91 million recovered from the virus,.
Brock Talon
That was an excellent post! People that only listen to CNN and their local news network will not reason with your facts and logic you posted.
Others listed are heart failure and cardiac arrest. OK, again, how many have died of some form of heart disease every year, year after year of these conditions? This has always been one of the biggest killers of U.S. citizens, mainly because we are as a group obese and out of shape. But don't put that all on COVID.
Others are: renal failure, respiratory disease, diabetes and the like. Again, these are all killers by themselves.
Yet with COVID, we do it backwards. If a patient has a heart attack and dies, sure, maybe COVID finished them off. But they died because of the heart attack, with a complication of COVID. Just like we would say about AIDS. But that is NOT how it is reported and counted by the media and the medical community.
I use this analogy that frustrates people. Most of them do not even try to understand my analogy. I use this analogy to make the your point you posted above:
Let's say you and I are in a boxing match that has nine rounds. We are both physically fit for this fight . Every round of the match you are hurting me. My stamina is weakened. I continue to fight without going down on the mat. This fight is really taking a toll on my body, but I somehow make it to the 9th round.
Now, instead of you coming out for the 9th round, they send in a 12 year old kid that is just learning to box. He comes out and throws one punch and knocks me out. My question is : Did this 12 year old, who just threw only one punch, actually knock me out? They always answer, ''yes he did''! You cannot make them understand that I had so many ''underlying conditions'' from the fight, his one punch did not knock me down.
the youngest reference i have come across is in the 1992 watchtower (march 1st page 27) - “in the summer of 1946, i was baptized at the international convention in cleveland, ohio.
although i was only six years of age…”.
i would like to find more examples of this, particularly of examples in more recent times.
2011 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses ..page 58
the youngest reference i have come across is in the 1992 watchtower (march 1st page 27) - “in the summer of 1946, i was baptized at the international convention in cleveland, ohio.
although i was only six years of age…”.
i would like to find more examples of this, particularly of examples in more recent times.
The Watchtower—Study Edition | June 2011
Should Youths Get Baptized?
A Witness in Greece said: “I was baptized when I was 12 years old. I have never regretted my decision. Since then, 24 years have passed, 23 of which I have spent in the full-time service. My love for Jehovah always helped me to face the difficulties of youth. At the age of 12, I did not have the Scriptural knowledge that I have now. But I knew that I loved Jehovah and wanted to serve him forever. I am glad that he has helped me to continue in his service.”
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I dressed very nicely, very well groomed, and the elders had a problem with me.
It is easy to be a male Jehovah's Witness. Suit, tie, white shirt, no wild colors, hair above the ear, small mustache ( no beard, no goatee, no long sideburns ) and you had to wear a suit jacket if you were up on the podium.
Woman : They had so many rules I don't know why any female would show up at the meetings. No heavy perfume, no large earrings, no pant suits, skirts below the knee, not too much makeup, no blue jean skirts, no tight fitting dresses, no styles that highlight sexuality and ???????????
I made this one up!
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The reason is because the Watchtower is a business. It started as a publishing company that had it's members as door-to-door salespeople. The Watchtower used sales standards and strategies when coming up with what was "proper" dress.
march of last year covid was declared a pandemic that would take hundreds of millions of lives world wide.. here are the facts after a year.. the world population is 7,800,000,000 (billions).
114,770,269 millions of people have caught the virus as of today.
aprox 91 million recovered from the virus,.
library.
books & brochures.
who are doing jehovah’s will today?.
Whitewashed tombs comes to my mind.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.
Exactly! The beautiful suits, ties, dresses and grooming appear beautiful. But once you step inside of the organization and Kingdom Halls, you will see the real ugliness:
drama, backstabbing, rumors, divorces, cheating, physical fights inside the Kingdom Hall, spankings of small children (where no one says a word), members who change congregations due to conflicts with Elders, heated words on the podium from one Elder to another Elder, spousal abuse, disfellowshipping, brothers who are shady contractors , Elders who favor family when it comes down to appointments for Ministerial Servants and new Elders, loans that are never paid to fellow members (where Elders have to step in), Elder wives knowing everything that is happening in the congregation, members who take and sell drugs, and alcoholics.
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Conformity in dress code is just another example of this.
The article states : ''These principles still leave room for a great variety of personal choices.''
What a Joke! There are no personal choices when it comes to a dress code.
1 “All the men, even young boys, wear ties. All the women and girls, both adolescents and little ones, wear either a dress or a skirt. There is not a pair of jeans or an opened collar to be seen. Everyone here is radiant.” So said a news report. What sort of crowd was it describing? A political rally? A sporting event? A rock concert? Far from it! It was describing a group of brothers and sisters at a large district convention last summer.
5 At times, one who is new, inexperienced, or spiritually weak might accept whatever the world promotes in dress and grooming without first considering how it reflects on Jehovah and his organization. All of us might undertake some self-scrutiny to see if we have been influenced by the world’s thinking. We could approach a respected, spiritually mature brother or sister and ask for an honest observation about our style of clothing and grooming and then seriously weigh the suggestions given.
