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  Baumgartner - Dr. Mark Morehart: State of Washington Appeal Court - aborted use of cell saver machine

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  for information:.

  court of appeals of the state of washingtondivision iidocket number: 48070-1file date: 01/24/2017.

  keisha baumgartner appeals the summary judgment dismissal of her medical malpractice wrongful death claim against anesthesiologist dr. mark morehart and columbia anesthesia group, p.s.

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  JeffT

  What dubstepped says. Medical personnel need to keep up with advances in medicine, not changes in Watchtower theology.
  
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  Baumgartner - Dr. Mark Morehart: State of Washington Appeal Court - aborted use of cell saver machine

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  for information:.

  court of appeals of the state of washingtondivision iidocket number: 48070-1file date: 01/24/2017.

  keisha baumgartner appeals the summary judgment dismissal of her medical malpractice wrongful death claim against anesthesiologist dr. mark morehart and columbia anesthesia group, p.s.

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  JeffT

  Wonder what was the details to why the machine was deemed contaminated??

  I just read most of the full document. The suction tube hit the floor, at which point it probably sucked in contaminants or bacteria which would make the whole machine unusable. The doctors believed that they had to keep the blood moving through the machine at all times to meet the JW's requirements. (I don't know if this is still true, these machines were just coming into use about the time I left. It was true then.) So they shut the machine down. Had this occurred during surgery on a non-JW, they would have given a unit or two of blood, and there wouldn't have been a problem.

  So the no blood policy kills another JW.
  
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  Watchtower and Emoji's - your thoughts

  by Tallon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on the jw.org website, the watchtower is sending out a strong warning with regard to emoji's & flirting.. my personal view is that the org is now trying to micro-manage just about every aspect of people's lives!.

  https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/worksheets/friendly-or-flirtatious/.

  ps: 'quotes are from julia, ellen and tara.

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  My personal view is that the Org is now trying to micro-manage just about every aspect of people's lives!

  Fixed it for you.
  

  
  
  
  
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  When The Persecution Comes

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i was young everybody used to fantasise constantly about how brave we would all need to be "when the persecution comes".

  we worried about what "they" would do to us and how we would never talk or betray other jws.

  psychologically it was a damaging environment for children; but maybe that's another topic.. who would have thought that when it finally came it would take the form of being sued for protecting pedophiles.

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  I actually feel bad for the many innocent elderly long-term JWs who must be feeling betrayed and bewildered.

  When I became a JW in 1973 I thought the congregation contained a number of sincere, decent, people. More than a few were reasonably intelligent and really trying to serve God. I still thought that way when I left in 1988, but had added "deluded" to that list. They all thought the end was coming "soon." I wonder what those people think now when they turn out the lights at night.

  Deep inside, it must hurt knowing you gave your life to a lie. Issues like pedophiles are salt in the wound. I feel sorry for them.
  
  
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  John Lewis: Trump isn't a legitimate president

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-lewis-trump-isnt-a-legitimate-president/ar-aalqsqs?li=bbmkt5r&ocid=spartanntp.

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  Smiddy: Bernie Sanders. It is clear that people wanted something different, Clinton was going to be more of the same. Trump was the outsider Republican, Bernie was the outsider Democrat. I think he would have beaten Trump.
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  John Lewis: Trump isn't a legitimate president

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-lewis-trump-isnt-a-legitimate-president/ar-aalqsqs?li=bbmkt5r&ocid=spartanntp.

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  Funny, four years ago people made fun of Mitt Romney for calling Russia our No. 1 threat.
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  An interesting reasoning for the existence of God (from JW public talk)

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was on an official tour last week to another part of my country.

  on my way to the hotel, i noticed sign-board of jw kingdom hall.

  i thought i would attend sunday meeting as i knew no one would recognize me.. seeing “a new-comer” in the audience, public speaker adapted his material making it especially appealing to me.

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  He said: ‘Universe is like a diary book with countless blank sheets. Yet only on one page [earth] is written something—something like a beautiful poem [life].’ What does this show? Owner decided to write on one page so that when others see blank sheets they should know that it takes a writer to do the writing. Whether he will do so with rest of the pages or not depends on the owner.

  BS. How does this guy know what's written on all the other "pages"? How many planets as he been to? How did he get there? What proof does he have for this assertion? Just because he can't see something doesn't mean its not there.

  
  
  
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  watchtower lapel pins

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been noticing lots of these pins on lapels.

  i could almost understand the jwdotorg pin because the new mantra is to go to the website.

  but why on earth are they sporting a building?

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  Free lance writer here. I have done a lot of research on copyright issues. The quote a page or two back covers this clearly in my opinion.

  Copyright covers a specific picture or story. I can't use that picture or story, or part of a story without the permission of the copyright holder. I can use small portions of it under "fair use" which would allow me to say use a screen print or quote some text in a piece of original writing. Let's say I'm writing an article about the Caleb and Sophia videos. I can reprint a picture of them, or quote parts of the dialog to illustrate a point. Satire is allowed broad discretion to use characters or situations. If they do their own art work and write their own dialog, the Watchtower can't stop the producers of the Simpsons from having fun with Caleb and Sophia.

  In the case of the dot org pins, I believe they've trade marked the logo, which is a specific item. But they can't trademark the letters "J" and "W" or ".org" because they are in common use. So anybody can put the letters on anything they want. I've noticed there seems to be a cottage industry advertising such stuff on the internet. From the look of a lot of it, I suspect its small jewelry operations that noticed lots of JW related stuff floating around and jumped on the bandwagon. I don't think they WTBS has any connection to this, and I'm sure they don't have a legal way to stop it. I expect they may get more forceful about telling the sheep not to buy it, unless they set up their own approved source.
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  A most interesting Christmas present

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so our daughter gave my wife and i a very nice family album of photos from the course of the year.

  as we opened it, she said it had a surprise hidden in it, so we're watching for something to fall out.

  about 2/3 or the way through it we hit an ultrasound print of a tiny baby.

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  JeffT

  So our daughter gave my wife and I a very nice family album of photos from the course of the year. As we opened it, she said it had a surprise hidden in it, so we're watching for something to fall out. About 2/3 or the way through it we hit an ultrasound print of a tiny baby.

  Yeah, I'm going to be a grandfather again.
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  Is there any recent information about Watchtower owning 50% of Rand Cam Engine Corp & REGI Technologies?

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  please, recent information is needed about this subject discussed some 12-years ago here on jwn?

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  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/85323/watchtower-society-50-share-holder-military-company?page=1&size=10.

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  Google translate is turning out some really funny stuff for me, which unfortunately makes it really hard to tell what they're talking about. They seem to be saying that the WTBS is invested in some business they claim to oppose, notably tobacco and the military. Their proof for this is an old IRS From 990 for the Henrietta Riley Trust For the Benefit of the WTBS.

  Somewhere I put out an analysis of the Trust, but I can't find it just now. The WTBS is may be getting money from the trust that is generated by investments in these industries. Under IRS regs and US banking laws, the beneficiary of a trust can't tell the trust how to do its business. That was decided by whoever set up the trust. We don't know what Ms. Reilly put in the Trust document, it probably contains language ordering the Trustee to safeguard the assets, reinvest some income and distribute the rest.

  Presumably the distributions go to the WTBS, but without the Trust documents we can't know that. The money may go to Ms Reilly until she dies or something. It strikes me as odd that she set up a trust rather than simply donating the money.

  Bottom line, I think this is another "scandal" that may not be a scandal, and may not indicate anything unsavory on the part of the WTBS.