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My Mom is in the hospital

by JeffT in

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my mother broke her hip last week.

she had an emergency partial replacement surgery friday night.

we don't know how she did it as we have caregivers with her at all times, she may have fallen while in the bathroom for a few minutes.

JeffT

Here's an article about my Mom that came out today.

https://centernet.fhcrc.org/CN/center_news/cnweekly/2014/03/dotties-bridge.html

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Germans Play Monopoly

by cofty in

if karl marx, sigmund freud, and friedrich nietzsche had a game of monopoly....

JeffT

I am a German that has a sense of humor.

As a Thai friend on another board once said "Germans take their sense of humor very seriously, for a German having a good sense of humor is no laughing matter."

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My Mom is in the hospital

by JeffT in

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my mother broke her hip last week.

she had an emergency partial replacement surgery friday night.

we don't know how she did it as we have caregivers with her at all times, she may have fallen while in the bathroom for a few minutes.

She is doing better today, they got her up out of bed for a few minutes, and she is much more lucid than she was a couple of days ago. Hospitals and drugs aggrevate her dementia, which doesn't help. I'm managing to destress a bit today.

FYI, Mom is 91. As children of the depression (and having never been sucked in by a whacky religion) she and Dad managed their money very well. We're in good shape to pay for whatever we need, which helps a lot.

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My Mom is in the hospital

by JeffT in

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my mother broke her hip last week.

she had an emergency partial replacement surgery friday night.

we don't know how she did it as we have caregivers with her at all times, she may have fallen while in the bathroom for a few minutes.

JeffT

My mother broke her hip last week. She had an emergency partial replacement surgery Friday night. We don't know how she did it as we have caregivers with her at all times, she may have fallen while in the bathroom for a few minutes. She doesn't tolerate being in the hosptial very well, and she's largely immobilized. Needless to say, I'm a bit stressed out.

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New Light - Good for goose... gander SOL

by Zoos in

when jws accept new light they must, by default, accept that what they were teaching was false.

they allow themselves the luxury of error so long as it is in the pursuit of better understanding.. .

you would think this scenario demands that allowance be made for other religions with false teachings, but alas, no.

JeffT

I went to a mainstream Christian church for a number of years after leaving the WTBS. Their primary doctrines fit on a piece of paper the size of a postcard and are things generally recognized by almost all mainstream denominations. The rest of it is regarded as open to interpretation and discussion. As said above, if it ain't broke, you don't need to fix it.

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Since the Governing Body can make up anything and people will believe it...

by kurtbethel in

...why don't they make up a rule like this intrepid pastor did?.

kenyan pastor makes women take off panties & bras during churchposted by: olumide on march 4, 2014. .

a pastor from a church in dandora phase 2, an eastern suburb nairobi, the kenyan capital, has ordered all female members to go to the church free that is without bras and panties for christ to enter their lives.. reverend njohi of the lords propeller redemption church has advised female worshippers against wearing any undergarments to the church, calling them ungodly.. in a meeting chaired by him, a law was passed banning the wearing of inner wears.

JeffT

Well it would probably yield a bumper crop of men wanting to reach out...

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Baptisms only at regional ( district ) assemblies from 2014 / 15 service year?

by dozy in

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just a rumour but i guess it makes sense - i've a friend on a circuit committee ( he knows it's not "the truth" but for family & work reasons he stays in ) & he says that the wtbts have told them not to book a swimming pool for next years one day assemblies as the plan is to have only one baptism a year at the main regional ( what they used to call "district" ) convention.. with the drop off in baptisms so that sometimes there isn't anyone baptised or just a handful , i guess this is inevitable.

i remember going to a baptism a few years ago - we had hired a municipal 25 metre swimming pool and only one person ( a rather confused and scared middle aged lady who hadn't been in a swimming pool since her youth ) was being baptised - it was all something of a farce with the "worldly" staff looking on very puzzled at such an elaborate & expensive ceremony for one person.

) also with both assemblies being one day with just short morning & afternoon sessions , i suppose it is sensible to ditch the baptism talk - it tends to be something of a snoozefest anyway at the end of the morning session.

JeffT

The early christians seemed to use any body of water for baptism at any time a person wanted to be baptised.

For a number of years my wife and I attended an independent evangelical church. I spent some time working on their outreach program. We worked an hour or so on Tuesday evenings contacting people who filled out an interest card the previous Sunday. One night one of the teams came back in with a fellow that wanted to be baptized, so we all went down to the baptismal pool and watched him get dunked. The previous Sunday was his first time in the church, he did not have to wait for anything, answer questions, meet with elders etc. He said he wanted it so we did it.

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Atheists, here is a 'balls' question ---even for all---

by prologos in

it is very difficult to knock a ball into a hole (like golf), throw it into a receiver's hands (american football) intercept it and knock it over the fence (american cricket).

or to put a sattelite at the right time at the right speed in the right direction in the right place to have it orbit another body, so :.

what ingenious natural & process is it, than can get 9+ zillions bodies to get into the right orbit simultaniously or sequentially and have them remain there for billions of years?

JeffT

do your research before engaging your tongue.

You might find it educational to take your own advice. You clearly don't understand astronomy, orbital mechanics, gravity, Newton's laws of Motion, and the scientific method generally.

In answer to your question about baseball, the trajectory of a baseball follows the same laws of physics as any other moving object and ends up hitting precisiely where the batter sent it - which may not be where he intended to send it.

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RBC accident report paperwork on jwleaks? why does it matter if elder

by ?me? in

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on one of the recent boe letters, they sent a rbc form to document any accidents on the jobsite.

there is a portion to check if the injured person was an elder, pioneer, ms, etc.... .

why does this matter?

JeffT

I wouldn't make too much of it. I've done a lot of HR work over the years and this more or less like similar forms I've used at private businesses. A lot of this is probably driven by OSHA regs and various Labor and Industries rules. An injured person's position in a company may be relevant to an accident (please explain why the accountant was was on the roof). In this case they're just collecting some information about the person's position in the org.

As far as having safety people on site, that makes sense. If the building inspector comes by you need to be able to point to the person that is making sure safety regs are being followed. That person may not have to do much more than check a box that says everybody is wearing their hard hat, or the guys on the roof are roped off.

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Atheists, here is a 'balls' question ---even for all---

by prologos in

it is very difficult to knock a ball into a hole (like golf), throw it into a receiver's hands (american football) intercept it and knock it over the fence (american cricket).

or to put a sattelite at the right time at the right speed in the right direction in the right place to have it orbit another body, so :.

what ingenious natural & process is it, than can get 9+ zillions bodies to get into the right orbit simultaniously or sequentially and have them remain there for billions of years?

JeffT

jeff: so why does it not work with the amercan criquet game too? or does the ball hit the bin, the pin only every billion years or so? the lucky shot?

even the 3 body problem takes a lot of computing power.

First, what the hell is "American Criquet?"

Secondly, the three bodies follow the laws of Gravity and Motion, they just do it in ways that are hard to resolve mathmatically.