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  Reducing the Risk of Blood Transfusions - re: risks of substitutes

  by Dogpatch in

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  reducing the risk of blood transfusions .

  blood is a precious resource.

  according to the american red cross, nearly five million people receive blood transfusions every year.

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  Fe2O3Girl

  I was looking at the Hemopure website today, and their own clinical data does not indicate to me that this is going to be a miracle cure. In the following table, the figures for "% of patients treated with Hemopure that avoided red blood cell transfusion" interested me. Does this mean that between 41% and 73% of patients who received transfusions of Hemopure needed further transfusions of red blood cells?

  % of Patients

  No. of Total

  Treated with

  Patients/No. of

  Hemopure that

  Dosing: Grams Hemoglobin

  Patients Treated

  Avoided Red Blood

  Type of Surgery

  Development Status

  (Units Hemopure)

  with Hemopure

  Cell Transfusion

  Elective orthopedic surgery

  Phase III trial completed in U.S., Canada, Europe and South Africa

  Up to 300 grams (10 units) over 6 days before, during or after surgery

  688/350

  59%

  Non-cardiac elective surgery

  Phase III trial completed in Europe and South Africa, the basis for filing in South Africa in July 1999

  Up to 210 grams (7 units) over 6 days before, during or after surgery

  160/83

  43%

  Post cardiopulmonary bypass surgery

  Phase II trial completed in the U.S.; supportive trial for the South African July 1999 filing

  Up to 120 grams (4 units) over 3 days post-surgery

  98/50

  34%

  Aortic aneurysm reconstruction surgery

  Phase II trial completed in the U.S. and Europe; supportive trial for the South African July 1999 filing

  Up to 150 grams (5 units) over 4 days; first dose administered during or after surgery

  72/48

  27%
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  how can we answer them?

  by Cordelia in

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  i've tried and i've tried now i need help, how do you answer:.

  jws who think it's fantastic that jeh is providing this new light all the time, i say about the rev book amongst other things and they just think it's a sign they are in the right religon coz '''what other religon would admit it's faults?

  '' doesnt matter they been studing wrong light last time!!.

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  Fe2O3Girl

  Well, if you want to get reinstated, you agree and exclaim "How happifying! Should we not be grateful to the FDS for this new light!"

  It is all circular reasoning, and they don't apply the same rules to themselves as they do to other religions. When members of other religions do wrong things, it is proof that they are false. When JWs do wrong things, they are only imperfect humans, and it doesn't mean that they don't have the truth. When other religions revise their doctrines, it proves they were wrong, when JWs change their doctrines, it proves they are right.

  Actually the Worldwide Church of God did have a massive change of direction, and they issued a public apology. Try to find an apology from the WTBTS for their changes of teaching. No, they blame the followers: "Some have reasoned that.......", which they did of course, because that is what the WT taught them.
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  Modern Miracle: No heartbeat or blood pressure

  by metatron in

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  if the link doesn't work, try a web search.. .

  a man with congestive heart failure has been given an artificial heart that pumps continuously.

  smiling in photographs, he has no pulse or blood pressure.

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  Fe2O3Girl

  Interesting story. He has had a heart transplant now.

  http://www.citynews.ca/news/features_5325.aspx?&categoryurl=http://www.citynews.ca/news/features_3736.aspx

  "Harry lived long enough to get that new heart thanks to the special device implanted in his chest that kept him alive for four months and healthy enough to survive the risky operation."
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  what is "anarchy"? Is it self disciplined, self relient subordinates?

  by The Dragon in

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  would a person wanting others to be dependant upon them see a society of self-disiplined, self relieant, people capable of solving their own problems as "anarchy" defined?.

  why does everyone want other to depend on them so bad?

  is their independance a threat to their plans and intentions?.

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  Fe2O3Girl

  I remembered this thread when the BBC Radio 4 programme "In Our Time" discussed Anarchy last week. I subscribe to the presenter, Melvyn Bragg's newsletter. Here are his comments:

  There?s always discussion after a programme about what was not said. This was the
  fiercest and most intense discussion that there has ever been! Perhaps it?s something
  in the subject itself. All sorts of things came up. John Keane drew my attention to
  a quotation from George Woodcock, the Canadian writer, that ?anarchism is aristocracy
  universalised?. Peter Marshall said that that referred not so much to aristocracy
  itself, but to a view of the innate nobility and the goodness inside human beings.
  
  I think it was John Keane again who noticed the conjunction of aristocrats, craft
  workers and intellectuals who favoured anarchism, all of whom, he said, needed to
  stand against being ?bossed around?. Peter Marshall observed that a great number of
  British intellectuals had been drawn to Marxism in the last century or so. Not only
  Oscar Wilde, one of whose observations was that Marxism accommodated eccentricity, but
  Aldous Huxley, Herbert Reed, Bertrand Russell and many others.
  
  The notion of anarchism in the community today was not given the amount of time we
  would have liked. Afterwards it was pointed out that the idea of running things in a
  pyramid fashion was rapidly going out of fashion and the horizontal/anarchist method
  was being employed not only by Japanese corporations, but by movements such as the
  Global Justice Movement which were essentially aiming towards a condition of
  leaderlessness. When it was brought up that Al Qaeda might be called an anarchist
  movement in that sense, this was immediately slapped down because of the strong and
  charismatic leader in the Al Qaeda movement, around whom the ideas and the people
  themselves gathered.
  
  As always, a great deal was left out. Perhaps two or three quotations will do. First
  of all from John Keane to reiterate where the word anarchism came from and how it grew
  initially:
  
  ?Anarchism is a term that entered the English language in the 17th century. It was
  used in a derogatory and abusive fashion by royalists in favour of the restoration
  against their opponents. An anarchist was thought to be someone who endorsed
  disorder, violence and chaos. It also implied the person was ?godless? (the word atheist?
  had not yet been invented), a characteristic that was deemed both
  threatening and dissident. The actual term ?anarchism? derives from the Greek word,
  ?anarchos?, meaning ?without government? or ?without rulers?. The meaning of course
  in translation is exactly the same.
  
  The connotations of anarchism were almost entirely negative until the 18th century
  when a semantic rupture occurred and the word began to be associated with a legitimate
  political movement during the time of the French Revolution. There are clues to this
  change in meaning if we consider, for example, the presence of Anacharsis Clootz
  (1755?94) at the meetings of the Convention, the revolutionary French assembly, where
  he was an ardent supporter of the liberation of Europe in the name of the ideals of
  the Revolution. Clootz was only one of two people invited to take part in the
  Convention (Thomas Paine, the radical propagandist and voice of the common man, was
  the other) who were not French. Their political clout, ideals and popularity meant
  they were treated as honorary citizens. Clootz had changed his name to reflect his
  ideals (he was originally christened John Baptiste). He was fanatically devoted to
  humanitarian ideals and despised royalty and absolutism. Reportedly a wild figure,
  wild in dress and wild in speech, he could hold an audience in the palm of his hand.
  Clootz was also strongly in favour of the de-christianisation of France and it was
  this ?godlessness? which later brought about his execution at the hands of the
  Jacobins during the Terror.?
  
  Secondly, we did not mention Malatesta and Emma Goldman. In his notes, Peter Marshall
  had this to say about both of them:
  
  ?The Italian anarcho-communist, Errico Malatesta (1853 ? 1932), shared Kropotkin?s
  belief that the Anarchist revolution would occur soon. He also believed that violence
  would form a necessary part of the emancipation of the working classes.?
  
  Peter Marshall describes Malatesta as calling for ?Anarchism without adjectives?, and
  by this he means a kind of pure Anarchism ? Malatesta supported propaganda by the deed
  as opposed to propaganda by the word. He believed in insurrection and encouraged
  peasants to rebel and occupy the factories.
  
  Malatesta?s voice is echoed in the philosophies of Emma Goldman (1869-1940), who also
  believed in direct and violent action in order to effect revolutionary change.
  Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of Anarchist political philosophy in
  the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. She
  emigrated to the United States at seventeen and was later deported to Russia, where
  she witnessed the results of the Russian Revolution firsthand. For some time she was
  considered the most dangerous woman in America for saying that most men seemed to want
  women to simply shut their mouths and open their wombs. Goldman was also a joyful
  Anarchist. She declared that: ?If I can?t dance then it?s not my revolution!? Her
  lively embrace of Anarchist principles is an important one and represents a reaction
  against the grim worker spirit of some of the hard-line sectarian groups.
  
  Marshall reflects that the majority of the towering figures in the Anarchist movement
  come from the 19th century, although Anarchism still had its voice in the 20th and
  21st centuries. An anarcho-syndicalist sympathiser, Noam Chomsky, in his For Reasons
  of State (1973), wrote how the problem of "freeing man from the curse of economic
  exploitation and political and social enslavement" remains the problem of our time. As
  long as this is so, the doctrines and the revolutionary practice of libertarian
  socialism will serve as an inspiration and guide.
  
  Most importantly of all, Peter Marshall pointed out that we did not mention Gandhi who
  called for a decentralised society based on village council and he viewed anarchy as
  the most enlightened form of society. His influence may prove to be the strongest
  yet.
  
  Nor did we mention Tolstoy who described himself as a Christian anarchist ? nor did we
  mention ? the conversation went on and perhaps we ought to return to it as soon as we
  can.
  
  Best wishes
  
  Melvyn Bragg
  
  Visit the In Our Time website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/
  or download the latest edition as an mp3 file: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml
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  JW Children and the absence of Christmas

  by Clam in

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  ive just collected my 6 year old son from school.

  he sat in the back of the car and told me about a little girl from the year above him who has to leave her classroom and sit in his due to christmassy things going on.

  my youngster remarked "she doesnt believe in christmas.

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  Fe2O3Girl

  It didn't bother me, but there were mitigating factors. I did understand the reasons why we didn't celebrate Christmas. Now I think those reasons are lame, but at least I had reasons, which as Oroborus said, gave me the feeling of superiority of doing the right thing. I did get presents all year round, and they were properly and beautifully gift wrapped, so I really wasn't missing out on presents. I got to go home on the day of the Christmas party, so I wasn't just sitting out by myself.

  I don't know if things have changed, but when I was at school in Britain, there wasn't any fuss about children's birthdays (they would have private parties, but not cakes in class), we didn't do Valentines (as here it is a celebration of romance, not friendship) and we don't have any nationalistic rituals in schools, so it wasn't as if I was continuously being segregated the way young JWs in the USA are. When there was holiday related activities in class (Mother's Day or Christmas cards) I would just make a non-specific card or draw a picture.
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  Isn't this part of the problem?

  by searcher in

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  from another thread; http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/125277/1.ashx.

  quote: bob's reading the london newspaper article about his previous nights concert, and his manager tells him they have started to call bob an "anarchist", because he is not providing any answers in his songs, only questions.. .

  is it not part of the problem that many people want answers, but try to get them all from the same source instead of shopping around?.

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  Fe2O3Girl

  It is a problem, but many JWs see it as a solution.

  Is it not part of the problem that many people want answers, but try to get them ALL from the same source instead of ‘shopping around’?

  Maybe needs the question, ‘Do you do ALL your shopping at just one store?’

  People will do all their real shopping at one store if they can. They moan about small shops and British businesses going out of business, but that doesn't stop them going to Asda or Tesco for everything from New Zealand apples and Australian beef to Chinese televisions and Indian clothes.

  Part of the draw of being a JW for some people is not having to make a decision about which university to go to, or what to wear, or where to go on Sunday. They like not having to think about it.
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  "You must not boil a kid in its mother's milk" - Huh?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  "you must not boil a kid in its mother's milk" - huh?

  why on earth did god feel the need to point this out?

  was this a popular thing to do?

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  This scripture is the basis of the Kosher prohibition on eating milk (or dairy products) with meat. I googled it, and most of the references are discussions of why or why not it is reasonable to extrapolate the specific instructions to all meat and all milk.

  One theory is that it referred to an Egyptian and Canaanite fertility ritual, and that is why it was forbidden.

  http://www.seedofabraham.net/kosher.html#2
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  A question for the men on this forum.

  by restrangled in

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  i've read so many posts from the men on this forum.

  how many of you are are willing to defy the society, and defend your wives, sister, and/or daughters in the face of this religion?.

  just a question not a threat.. r. .

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  Fe2O3Girl

  I don't seem to manage to get myself into these sorts of situations, but I would only want to be defended if I was in immediate physical danger, and in that situation would be glad of any assistance, not limited to friends or family.

  If I found out that any man of my acquaintance had used threats, threatening behaviour or violence on my behalf for anything less than immediate physical danger, I would be simultaneously mortified and furious.
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  Your favourite place....

  by diamondblue1974 in

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  do you have a favourite place in the world...if so where is it, why and do you have photos?.

  mine has to be nisyros (a very small greek island near kos); i last visited there some years ago and ever since i was captivated by its beauty and tranquility.

  in short its a volcanic island but unspoiled by tourism; the people are amazing and so down to earth.. take a look.

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  Favorite Christmas Music

  by jayhawk1 in

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  what is your favorite christmas music?

  do you go for the classic stuff?

  dr demento stuff perhaps?

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