Posts by dmouse

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To Those Who Still Go To Meetings, Do You Sense Anything Different?

by minimus in

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are people excited by anything in the organization?

are they tired?

mostly missing?

dmouse

At the last circuit convention I went to in Dudley about six years ago, after missing five years, I noticed there were less than half of the baptisms there used to be.

During the baptism, instead of the revered silence that used to prevail the brothers started chatting and walking around, so much so that they had to send a brother to the platform to request that people 'please be quiet' during the baptism.

I was shocked at the difference a few years could make in people's respect for the occasion.

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Do you have a problem with grammar ?

by oldflame in

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for those who have spelling problems you can go to google and down load their tool bar.

it has spell check in it and works pretty easy.

then you will no longer have to listen to us that bitch about spelling.

dmouse

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when I rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour
spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flair,
Their are no fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a ware.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting too pleas.

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Fluff: Question for Computer Guru's

by jeanniebeanz in

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would it be possible to create a "backup" copy of even one tenth of the internet and store it on a computer system somewhere?.

i say that is in no way possible, and i've got a bet going... lol.

dmouse

I think it has actually been done - in that the internet has been archived:

http://www.archive.org/

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How large is the Archive?

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. If you tried to place the entire contents of the archive onto floppy disks (we don't recommend this!) and laid them end to end, it would stretch from New York, past Los Angeles, and halfway to Hawaii.

What type of machinery is used in this Internet Archive?

Much of the Internet Archive is stored on hundreds of slightly modified x86 servers. The computers run on the Linux operating system. Each computer has 512Mb of memory and can hold just over 1 Terabyte of data on ATA disks. However we are developing a new way of storing our data on a smaller machine. Each machine will store 1 terabyte.

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It's interesting to look back at the Watchtower site from a few years ago but unfortunately the archive site allows individual websites to exclude themselves - so of course any info that may cause embarrassment (like how the disfellowshipped are treated) has been blocked by the WBTS :-(

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Ex JW wins lawsuit against WBTS!

by dmouse in

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don't know if anyone posted this news snippet but i found it very interesting:.

http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/380379p-323000c.html.

church may be forced to pay millions.

dmouse

Oh yeah...trust me to be slow off the mark!!!

Not too bad thanks, had a much better Christmas this year than last!

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Ex JW wins lawsuit against WBTS!

by dmouse in

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don't know if anyone posted this news snippet but i found it very interesting:.

http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/380379p-323000c.html.

church may be forced to pay millions.

dmouse

Don't know if anyone posted this news snippet but I found it very interesting:

http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/380379p-323000c.html

Church may be forced to pay millions

BY JESS WISLOSKI
and ADAM LISBERG
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

A 46-year-old woman who devoted her life to the Jehovah's Witnesses said she was forced to move from their Brooklyn compound after she was seriously injured while serving the church.

But a judge's ruling this week that she is entitled to worker's compensation payments could end up costing the church millions of dollars.

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The new blood card?????

by Es in

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im sure its prob been posted some where and i have missed it.

but someone mentioned the new blood card.......how is it different this year with the big news and all?????.

es

dmouse

Discussed here:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/16/104206/1803253/post.ashx#1803253

It seems to me that all reference to medical reasons for avoiding blood transfusions has been removed from the new version.

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Blood transfusion doesn't work for first 12 hours

by dmouse in

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forgive me, i have had a lot to drink.. however.... my daughter is 14 and still under her mother's jw guidence.

i told her that the statement ' a blood transfusion does not provide oxygenation for the first 12 hours' in (some 1970's blood brochure) was complete bollocks.. am i right?

dmouse

Thanks for that Scully.

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Blood transfusion doesn't work for first 12 hours

by dmouse in

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forgive me, i have had a lot to drink.. however.... my daughter is 14 and still under her mother's jw guidence.

i told her that the statement ' a blood transfusion does not provide oxygenation for the first 12 hours' in (some 1970's blood brochure) was complete bollocks.. am i right?

dmouse

Forgive me, I have had a lot to drink.. however...

My daughter is 14 and still under her mother's JW guidence. I told her that the statement ' a blood transfusion does not provide oxygenation for the first 12 hours' in (some 1970's blood brochure) was complete bollocks.

Am I right?

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Finally got scans of the new blood card

by PoppyR in

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ok folks, i have been nagged so have worked out how to scan and upload images and here they are for you, front and back of the card, and 3 pages of the instructions on how to fill them in.

bear in mind it's uk so possibly may be different where you are.. poppy xx

dmouse

Hmmm, the main difference seems to be that the new card contains NO mention of medical 'risk' associated with blood transfusions, almost as if they KNEW about the 'big news' quite a long time ago.

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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.

by AndersonsInfo in

if i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?

have i ever misled you?

i'll answer that--no!

dmouse

You didn't explain why there should be no more surmising

Caution, I would guess.

Hype often results in anti-climax.