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  The Difference Between Doctors & Nurses and Police?

  by Simon in

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  what is the difference between doctors & nurses, and police?.

  studies have estimated that medical errors cause 250,000 deaths per year in the us.. police only kill around a thousand people each year in total, with only a small number being unjustified or accidental.. so the difference?.

  police are expected to be perfect and for all the hype, you're are far greater risk of being killed by someone in the health industry than by a cop.

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  If you don't like or trust your doctor, you can get a different one.
  
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  JW Online University

  by Tim207 in

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  2. beliefs

  i have a family member who is a remote bethelite and they are working on creating content for online "university" for bethelites to teach them skills that are needed at bethel.

  from what i've seen it is a lot of recorded content saved on their sharepoint sites.

  i haven't seen any information on this from this site or reddit which i'm more active on.

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  I'm a retired accountant. Accountancy would (in my opinion) be relatively easy to teach online. However, it would require instructors who learned their trade in the real world, something the GB frowns on. I think they'd run a risk of finding themselves running on a school on how to leave the JW's.
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  Would it be right to post Memorial Zoom codes?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

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  i have come into possession of memorial zoom meeting codes for tonight that cannot be traced back to me.

  i will not be attending.

  what are your thoughts on posting these codes so activists can join tonight and maybe say something?

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  What Vienne said. Possibly also illegal - malicious mischief, trespassing, I can picture an elder yapping about terrorism and hate crimes. Certainly it will play into their persecution complex. I think the negatives of this kind of stuff outweigh the benefits.
  
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  Watchtower fined in Belgium

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  jehovah's witnesses in belgium have to pay €12k fine for shunning policy.

  news.

  you have probably heard of the trial going on in belgium about the shunning policy of jws.

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  Anony Mous: You're making me glad I'm an American. What worries me about these decisions is setting precedent. Maybe EU courts don't work like American courts. In the most US courts a case like this establishes precedent which can be used in the future to make a "narrow" decision less narrow. That and we can all ignore the GB if we want to. We can't ignore the government.
  
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  Watchtower fined in Belgium

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
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  jehovah's witnesses in belgium have to pay €12k fine for shunning policy.

  news.

  you have probably heard of the trial going on in belgium about the shunning policy of jws.

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  I've said this before on this subject:

  Keep in mind, a court decision like this cuts both ways. They can't keep you from associating with them, and you can't stop them from associating with you. You tell Grandma uberzealous JW she can't come over and preach at your children, she pulls this court case out and says the courts says you can't stop her. Now what do you do?
  
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  Harry, Meghan the Royal Apostates

  by Slidin Fast in

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  i just watched the oprah interview.

  i know that many view them with little interest as just entitled wastes of space and i get that.. however, the description of how they were "trapped" and silenced and forced into perpetuating the system with little or no personal freedom rang bells for me.

  they are effectively shunned, estranged and disparaged by their family and cut off from support.

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  245 years ago we (Americans) fought a war to get rid of these people. I wish we could get them to stay gone.
  
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  What JW Subjects Interest You The Most On This Site? What Doesn’t??

  by minimus in

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  i like subjects that delve into the history of the religion and proofs that the witnesses are not the true religion.

  i’m not so much into apologists saying we need to go to meetings, especially if the poster looks like a scammer trying to get ex jws going.

  what subjects interest you ?

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  When I first came in here twenty years or so ago, I was interested in history of the org and prophetic statements. Now I'm more interested in the culture of JW's, how they think and act. I'm working on a pair of novels about a cult (of my own invention, which shows how easy it is to do). This site helps me remember what i was like.
  
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  When was your last Kingdom Hall meeting?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  i stopped going to kingdom hall meetings about nine years ago.

  i was fading for the longest time, refused to go out in field service, dropped out of the ministry school talks, no longer answered at the watchtower study, arrived at the meetings the last second, and left as soon as possible.

  i couldn't take attending the meetings any longer.

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  Sometime in the Spring of 1988.
  
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  A Month In and Bombs Are Already Falling

  by Simon in

  1. social
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  so about a month in to biden's presidency and they are already bombing a country.. remind me how trump was going to bring about wwiii with north korea, iran, china and god knows who else?

  did he?

  no.. but straight back to business as usual for the military industrial complex and crickets from their media buddies..

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  Was the President aware this was going to happen? I read the Vice-President was livid as she was not informed. I wonder who is actually running the show?

  Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
  
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  Hip Hip Hooray yyy

  by smiddy3 in

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  hi friends i`ve finally got an appointment to go to hospital tomorrow ,pre-admission for my hip replacement surgery.. so if you don`t hear from me ever again ,it means i`ve carked it .lol, should i even joke about that ?.

  so its goodnight from me till who knows when ?.

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  Take care.