Posts by TJ Curioso

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Hemoglobin and red blood cells

by TJ Curioso in

in a debate i'm having in a forum, i am discussing the subject of fractions of blood and the watchtower's position with respect to acceptance of some fractions while refusing others.. .

in that debate i mentioned that hemoglobin accepted by the watchtower as a matter of conscience is in fact most of the red blood cell (think about 97%) and the other 3% is the membrane lining the red cell.. .

am i correct in this view?

TJ Curioso

Pirata the discussion is in portuguese.

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Hemoglobin and red blood cells

by TJ Curioso in

in a debate i'm having in a forum, i am discussing the subject of fractions of blood and the watchtower's position with respect to acceptance of some fractions while refusing others.. .

in that debate i mentioned that hemoglobin accepted by the watchtower as a matter of conscience is in fact most of the red blood cell (think about 97%) and the other 3% is the membrane lining the red cell.. .

am i correct in this view?

TJ Curioso

In a debate I'm having in a forum , I am discussing the subject of fractions of blood and the Watchtower's position with respect to acceptance of some fractions while refusing others .

In that debate I mentioned that hemoglobin accepted by the Watchtower as a matter of conscience is in fact most of the red blood cell ( think about 97 %) and the other 3 % is the membrane lining the red cell .

Am I correct in this view ? It is not true that hemoglobin is the highest percentage of red blood cell ?

If not , discuss how the relationship between the acceptance of this fraction and the red blood cell ?

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The Watchtower Society Hedge Fund

by TJ Curioso in

the watchtower society hedge fundseveral weeks ago it came to my attention via the e-jehovahs-witnesses discussion board that the watchtower society had devised a new money raising scheme.

the scheme is to beg and borrow money from each individual congregation account, which they deem to be in excess of the congregation's actual expenses.

i half jokingly responded to the topic then that the watchtower has become a hedge fund.

TJ Curioso

The Watchtower Society Hedge Fund

e-jehovahs-witnesses discussion board that the Watchtower Society had devised a new money raising scheme. The scheme is to beg and borrow money from each individual congregation account, which they deem to be in excess of the congregation's actual expenses. I half jokingly responded to the topic then that the Watchtower has become a hedge fund. Well, as it turns out, that is pretty much what they have become.

An organization called Hedge Fund Intelligence - Global Review hosts an annual pow-wow in London for all the big banks and hedge fund managers, and listed on the roster from the September, 2010, meeting is none other than the Watch Tower Society. Of course, their merely attending a hedge fund meeting does not of itself prove that the Watchtower has become a hedge fund. But, coupled with their scheme to get more money from the congregations and selling off valuable property in Brooklyn, it certainly appears as if they are trying to a acquire a massive pool of money to play the global markets.

Apparently the Watchtower is no longer content to park their money in a bank or in boring money market accounts or certificates of deposit. Forget 3% interest rates. Yawn. The Bethel money managers are apparently going after the Big Money. They are now rubbing shoulders with the titans of the London/Wall Street global financial system.

valuable Brooklyn real estate portfolio as collateral to borrow millions or even billions. I have no proof of that, but I have never heard of a hedge fund that does not borrow to leverage their positions. It is not at all uncommon for market bets to be leveraged 10 - 1. Meaning, if a market player bets a hundred million they may have borrowed ten times that to a billion. Some positions are leveraged nearly 1 to 100!

The hedge funds operate on the herd mentality. Hedge funds pile into tech stocks. Boom! They blow up a bubble and get rich, while the late comers and holders-on get burned. Hedge funds pile into mortgage backed securities. Boom! they blow up a big bubble, make 20% on their bets, pay off their loans and pull out, leaving the suckers holding worthless notes. They may even turn around and short a market they had previously helped stampede the herd into, thus making money on the collapse phase of a bubble. Hedge funds bet billions on commodities, the latest big thing; thus driving up the cost of all the necessities of life, from oil to precious foodstuffs, basically forcing millions on the lower end of the economy into near starvation.

While it is doubtful the Watchtower is actually registered as an independent hedge fund and they may not even directly place bets. It is more probable that they are putting money into real hedge funds and trying to learn the system. In either case, the Watchtower is knowingly playing a part in a greedy, rapacious system, which it also hypocritically condemns, that is callously driving hundreds of millions of people, even Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third World, into poverty and misery. And as we have seen recently, when the big banks make bad bets, then they have the political clout to con the politicians to make the taxpayers cover their losses. The leadership of the Watchtower Inc is now overtly throwing in their lot with the most notorious pirate gangs of the British imperial, monetary system, evidently hoping to share the plunder. No wonder Jehovah indicts the leaders for stripping the flesh off the bones of his people and grinding their faces into the very dust. (See chapter: Amos and Obadiah)

One note on hedge funds: Thousands of hedge funds are registered to British offshore islands, like the Cayaman Islands, British Virgin Islands and The Isle of Mann. The reason being to set themselves out of reach from national governments. Hedge funds and banks are widely known as money laundering facilities for all kinds of dirty money operations, primarily dope and illegal arms sales. About one trillion dollars anually is laundered by the banks and hedge funds in behalf of Dope incorporated. It may well be that if the Watchtower is putting millions into a big offshore hedge funds they are sharing a common pool with drug kingpins and arms dealers. (EIR on Dope Inc)

Click for larger graph at source Interestingly, the New York TimesMagazine just published an article about the relative average incomes of various religious groups. Jehovah's Witnesses were second to last, just a notch above the poorer Pentecostals. This, due in no small measure to the fact that the Watchtower has strongly discouraged Jehovah's Witnesses from acquiring a higher education.

The Society also routinely rebukes and condemns Jehovah's Witnesses for getting involved in get-rich-quick schemes. However, Bethel is not shy about cajoling Jehovah's Witnesses into giving their hard-earned income to the Watchtower Society to finance their risky money-making scheme, all for the kingdom, of course.

Meanwhile, word is the Watchtower is intent on building a sprawling new headquarters complex in New York State. They really are riding the gravy train. They use Jehovah's Witnesses for free labor and use their non-profit, tax exempt status to avoid taxes, all the while playing high stakes poker with the cash they acquire, just like the Wall Street boys. The banksters ought to really envy the Watchtower. After all, the banks have to pay enormous salaries and commissions to their derivatives whiz kids. The Watchtower just sends some volunteers to London to learn how to play the game and they work commission free! They really have fattened their hearts for the day of slaughter.

As I have written about extensively, the Watchtower is going to collapse in a big way, as a judgment from Jehovah. It may well be that Bethel's wise guys may end up on the wrong end of a big bet and bankrupt the Watchtower. After all, numerous hedge funds, pension funds and municipalities that thought they were sophisticated enough to play with derivatives have lost billions. Look what happened to the investment bank, Bear Stearns. Swim with the sharks and you are likely to be eaten.

At the very latest the Watchtower hedge fund is going to go bust when the day of Jehovah erupts in all its ferocity. That is when the letter of James will come into force. "Come, now, you rich men, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted, and your outer garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are rusted away, and their rust will be as a witness against you and will eat your fleshy parts. Something like fire is what you have stored up in the last days. Look! The wages due the workers who harvested your fields but which are held up by you, keep crying out, and the calls for help on the part of the reapers have entered into the ears of Jehovah of armies. You have lived in luxury upon the earth and have gone in for sensual pleasure. You have fattened your hearts on the day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. Is he not opposing you?"

http://e-watchman.com/home/2011/5/18/the-watchtower-society-hedge-fund.html

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In a bad situation - blood

by Joey Jo-Jo in

my jw mom had a bad car accident, she has neck problems and she might need a transfusion, so this is what ray means when illusion meets with reality, anyway i need to voice my opinion on the matter without pushing her away..

TJ Curioso

Tell your mom, that today, what is called "blood transfusions" are in reality, only "fractions" of blood, not all blood.

So, if we can accept some fractions, there are not bases for not accept all the fractions. For example, we can accept hemoglobin, so why not accept all the red blood cells from wich derivates the hemoglobin?

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5 million views and counting...

by Chalam in

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how he loves us - kim walker / jesus culture .

awesome!.

TJ Curioso

GREAT SONG!!!!

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Resigned

by Franklin Massey in

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i finally resigned as an elder.

my conscience wouldn't allow me to continue.

i've battled for years trying to reconcile the fallacies of the wt society with my own personal beliefs.

TJ Curioso

Franklin, yours words express exactly my fellings about my process in stepdown about the elder thing.

Me too resignate sometime ago, and I'm feeling so much relief and happy. My conscienc bother me too much to continue to be a elder.

You do the right stuff.

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Seriously Considering A Billboard Ad?

by laverite in

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a full billboard ad in my area along a busy heavily travelled highway would cost about $500.

would probably get lots of attention and maybe even a news article, who knows.

$500 is cheap and easily affordable.

TJ Curioso

See the news billboards in Brazil about disfellowshipping:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TCoBRKx5yOeTXl6T0tzD8Q?feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6rY29X0L_7ZqQxID-LEOpg?feat=directlink

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Hypocrisy in latest Awake

by dozy in

the april 2011 awake (downloadable on jw.org) contains a watching the world article on the catholic paedophile abuse situation in ireland.. quite apart from the sheer hypocrisy in criticising other religions when the society has enough child abuse problems of their own , they make this statement "the abuse was ignored because of misguided loyalty to the absolute authority of the catholic church.

" this from an organisation that demands complete submission to their absolute authority.. i can't help think of barbara & joe anderson who were disfellowshipped because they refused to submit to the absolute authority of the governing body and spoke out against child abuse..

TJ Curioso

I think that they want to maintain the average witness in disbelief of what the news report about child abuse within the organization. So, if they continue to tell about child abuse in others denominations, its a way of distract them from the real problem inside.

The average witness believes that all people that pratice such crime in the organization is disfellowshipped and the Governing Body wants that myth continues.

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