Posts by JWoods

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Sometimes Race does matter...

by mrsjones5 in

jw
friends

or to be more specific genetics matter.

i just heard a story on npr about blood marrow donations among the black community, why it's so low and why it's desperately needed.

here's a few points that i thought were interesting about this issue:.

JWoods

However, I do believe that there is very little time, effort or cash being spent in recruting these to become donors.

The reflection of statistics is obvious to me that more resources have been put toward collecting donors for the white community. Not an unwillingness to help by people of color.

That is almost certainly a big factor. Most donor collection activity is concentrated in the workplace, particularly in higher-end companies. Probably many low income workers are isolated from these efforts - probably we have as many black donors as other races where I work.

On a related subject, what research and progress has recently been done on sickle-cell anemia? I thought I read once that this is unusually common in both black and european jewish bloodlines and that it was enhanced by close blood relationships and inheritence.

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The C.T. Russell pyramid

by Nathan Natas in

i wrote this thinking that maybe some of our new folks would enjoy it, but i think i may have given the posting a bad or misleading subject line, because it has been little read and not commented on at all.

tell me how much the story sucks, and why it sucks as much as it does.

si vous plait.

JWoods

Nathan, you had to have been there. There were veiled warnings that the thing might actually cause demonic attack if you stayed around it too long, or thought about it too much.

I kid you not.

Edit to say I never believed Russell was a Mason, either - just for the record. Of course, he did have quite a thing for pyramids...

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New Study: "Fundamentalist" More Likely to Engage In/Approve Of Domestic Violence

by Justitia Themis in

actual study pdf:.

http://courses.ttu.edu/jkoch/research/koch%20ramirez%20religion%20and%20partner%20violence%20final%20feb%2009.pdf.

news report:.

JWoods

Actually, I have no religion Justicia Themis. I also have no preference for fundamentalism over catholicism. No preference for christianity over Islam.

I do denounce people who do immoral things in the name of religion - and right now that is notoriously very common in radical Islam.

I have noticed that every time Islamic wrongdoing gets mentioned in a thread, you are one of the first to try to turn criticism back to christianity.

That is why I have come to view you as a sort of apologist for radical Islam.

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New Study: "Fundamentalist" More Likely to Engage In/Approve Of Domestic Violence

by Justitia Themis in

actual study pdf:.

http://courses.ttu.edu/jkoch/research/koch%20ramirez%20religion%20and%20partner%20violence%20final%20feb%2009.pdf.

news report:.

JWoods

Muslim fundamentalism too?

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need some help

by mada in

hello everybody,i am mada,18 years old,i need talk with a jehovah's witnesses..i have some problems..and some questions..i began study bbile about 10 months ago,i am convinced this is the true.but,i hav some problems...

JWoods

Without putting too fine an edge on things, Mada posted this on a thread that had been inactive for a year:

Oh yes people are so mean and selfish nowadays,there's no one you can thrust

At least everybody on this thread seemed to have been nice, and as far as I can see they told the truth.

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For Terry - So That it Will "Make Sense"

by Perry in

terry, since you have long proclaimed your inability to comprehend the greatest expression of love in the universe, substitutionary atonement; perhaps this scene from the last of the mohicans will help you to understand.. the chief has just handed down a death sentence to the brunette daughter of the captured english general.

the english officer in this scene can speak both english and french.

since daniel day lewis can only speak mohican and english, and the cheif can only speak huron and french, the captured english officer must translate to the chief in french.

JWoods

I tried to answer it this way, Terry -

While we are waiting, I will answer for myself: If it would really save her, and there were no other way, then yes - of course.

However, if I were GOD - then I would not have to.

I got told to go away. Guess I over-simplified my answer.

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The Greek Word Parousia! How should it be trasnslated?

by wannabe in

the greek word parousia!

how should it be translated?.

i say, that because it can be applied to presence; which the governing body who does have an ax to grind, would jump on; and apply it, as they have to the thirteen occurrences, where it appears in their new world translation bible.. as i said, it can be applied to their teaching that the christ was invisibly present in the year 1914, but according to the information i found, that application is incorrect.

JWoods

But yes - the translation looks like another little Freddy Franz fixup to the NWT to fit watchtower doctrine.

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The Greek Word Parousia! How should it be trasnslated?

by wannabe in

the greek word parousia!

how should it be translated?.

i say, that because it can be applied to presence; which the governing body who does have an ax to grind, would jump on; and apply it, as they have to the thirteen occurrences, where it appears in their new world translation bible.. as i said, it can be applied to their teaching that the christ was invisibly present in the year 1914, but according to the information i found, that application is incorrect.

JWoods

How is it pronounced?

Most witnesses I knew said "Pair - Uh - SEE - Ya"

The only clergyman I talked to about this subject (who had actually gone to college) said it was supposed to be "Pay ROOS ia"

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Are the Watchtower numbers right for membership?

by yalbmert99 in

according to what appeared in written newspapers and that we can add up, the real number of people who assisted the summer district assemblies in the province of quebec, canada is : 13 500.. .

assembly at quebec city: 7000.

1st assembly at sherbrooke : 3500.

JWoods

As far as logistics for the conventions/assemblies, what you ask for is too much. Could you see them stopping everyone at the gate and verifying their status and age? (Okay, it's one of the highest high-control groups, they could do it, but it would seem like invasion of privacy to any who are not JW's.)

Besides, just fudging the numbers to make everybody look like a solid JW is better for propaganda.

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Do you think this USDA Director's comments were racist?

by UnConfused in

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_usda_racism_resignation.

washington a black employee who resigned from the agriculture department over comments at a georgia naacp meeting said tuesday the white house forced her out of her job over a manufactured racial controversy.. shirley sherrod, who until tuesday was usda's director of rural development in georgia, said she was on the road monday when usda deputy undersecretary cheryl cook called her and told her the white house wanted her to resign.

"they called me twice," sherrod told the associated press in an interview.

JWoods

I'm also guilty.

Old fool that I am, you would think I'd know better.

*hangs head*

Ah hah! remember, I told you yesterday that she should not have been fired and would (or should) be offered her job back.