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  Medicine, religion clash at Bronx hospital: Patient's family members are JWs

  by behemot in

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  a bronx woman with internal bleeding was on the verge of death, and doctors wanted to save her with a transfusion.. the only problem was the incapacitated patient's family wouldn't allow it because they are jehovah's witnesses who believe her fate is in god's hands.. the clash of modern medicine and religion led doctors at st. barnabas hospital to rush into court for an emergency order - granted tuesday by judge faviola soto.. "the attending physician felt it was urgent that if she didn't get a transfusion, she would die," said st. barnabas spokesman steven clark.

  "hopefully, the patient will be okay now.".

  the patient, jean leslie, 55, is a stroke victim who had been living in the st. barnabas nursing home since 2008.. she was admitted to the hospital on may 21 when doctors noticed a problem with some blood tests, according to court papers.

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  Why would "devout Witnesses" have their daughter/sister at a place called "St Barnabas?"
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  MOST DRAMATIC MOMENT in Science Fiction History?

  by Terry in

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  something old, nothing new: count zarth arn, watch out!

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  Mad Sweeney - I loved the lensman series; still have copies. But, I really can't say any of it falls in the "Most Dramatic Moment" category.

  - Bystander
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  Are you a cool frood who knows where their towel is?

  by SacrificialLoon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in honor of douglas adams today is international towel day.

  all hitchhikers be sure to take your towel with you!.

  a towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

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  There's only one possible answer to your question - 42!
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  Have a piece of cake with me?

  by zadok777 in

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  in 5th grade my teacher asked me.

  do you like cake?

  i of course replied.

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  Happy Birthday! (Baba - please excuse my taking over your pix)
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  Is it OK to fill out the census?

  by kzjw in

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  2. friends

  or is it forbidden too?

  & what's the wtbs reasoning?.

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  I filled it out, but had an issue. The directions say to fill and mail back immediately. The media were all saying to fill out and return ASAP. On the other hand, it asks who is living at that location on April 1. Since I got my form weeks before the 1st, how do I answer? What if I'm in an accident and die on the 30th? I'm not a fortune teller!!
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  Question? Mayan/Baktun/144000 cycle/2012??

  by mind blown in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recently ran accross this info.

  from what i gather the 21st century will be indeed be an interesting time...... if anyone knows anything more.....it would be truly appriciated...... .

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/baktun.

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  Did anyone notice that that was mindblown's Post 12 of 12 - Maybe s/he want to have a topic relevant to her/his post count.
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  Proof That Conventions Were Lots of Fun

  by Magwitch in

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  No, pix, but the Advantage car rental theme park ad looked like fun!
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  Proverbs 26:4-5 ... I'm confused.

  by darkl1ght3r in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  (proverbs 26:4-5)4 do not answer anyone stupid according to his foolishness, that you yourself also may not become equal to him.

  5 answer someone stupid according to his foolishness, that he may not become someone wise in his own eyes.. so which is it?

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  DarkLighter -

  I found this take on the versus from here

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  In his article, "Is Proverbs in Contradiction on Answering Fools?" James Patrick Holding feels that the alleged contradiction between Proverbs 26:4-5

  wins a major award for silliness. What we have here is not contradiction, but dilemma—an indication that when it comes to answering fools, you cannot win—because they are fools, and there is no practical cure for foolery (as this citation demonstrates). So: It is unwise to argue with a fool at his own level and recognize his own foolish suppositions, but it is good sometimes to refute him soundly, lest his foolishness seem to be confirmed by your silence.

  In his Alleged Contradictions in the Bible, B.J. Clarke points out that the close proximity of these verses (back to back) would rule out the idea of discrepancy even for the most sophomoric of scholars. James Jackson, in his article, "Answering the Fool,"suggests that "such close proximity reflects design, not disorder."
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  Could you have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/w.willis/eighthgrade.html.

  boy, have we dumbed down america or what in the past 115 years?.

  jeff.

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  Sorry to brag, but when I finished 8th grade, I'm sure I would have passed this test. It wouldn't have been with flying colors (we were not taught how many bushels per cubic foot, for example, or Kansas-specific questions), but I would have passed, maybe as high as a B, B-. That being said, today I would fail. I have not consciously thought of the parts of speech, etc., I just use them!

  Edited to correct grammar
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  Oops... looks like Youtube just went down again

  by Elsewhere in

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  2. friends

  i wonder what's been going on to cause this.. this is the second time it's gone down in the last week or so..

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  It might have something to do with their new design rollout. This is blurb from Gizmodo:

  The new design elements YouTube introduced back in January to 10% of their users are about to be the standard across the site. While they've added a few things, it's mostly all about removing clutte