Shelby got me thinking one time when she said to get out of JWs because they are part of Babylon the Great. So I asked which religions she considers part of Bablyon the Great. The reply: All of them! This helped get me out of the mindset that there is only one true religion that one has to seek out.
Posts by pirata
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53All about Shelby
by watersprout ini wanted to post this thread about shelby.. she get's a lot of grief by what she posts on this site, so i thought i would start a post on how shelby has helped ones that have left the borg.. i can't begin to explain how shelby has helped me, i felt like i was in a hole and she gave me answers to the many questions i had.
no matter how many emails i bombarded her with, she always took the time to answer.
yes there has been times when i haven't liked what she posted, but i asked christ to help me understand and he did...... shelby helped me to open my mind and come to the realisation that the borg can no longer stop me from becoming the beautiful person i was destined to become.. i think i speak for many when i say thank you shelby!!!!.
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Genetics Teaser
by TD inwe discuss biology from time to time here (usually as it relates to evolution) so i thought this might be fun.. below are two mice; male and female:.
below are the offspring they consistently (90% of the time) produce:.
can anyone guess why?.
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pirata
1) Same as cantleave
2) Mother rat cheated on Father
3) They are demonized
4) Jehovah made them that way
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New Release on Blood at AJWRB
by Lee Elder innew release on blood at ajwrb.
associated jehovahs witnesses for reform on blood has published a new press release informing the public and medical care providers of a product that could mean the difference between life and death for witness patients suffering from various conditions with either a primary or secondary bleeding disorder.
this press release is available on the front page of our associations web site.
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pirata
Please correct me if I am wrong. According to what I read, both cyrsupernatant and cryoprecipitate are a conscience matter. So they are only condemning the outer membrane?
There is no membrane in Plasma (you may be thinking of Hemoglobin, which is the inner part of the red blood cell removed from the Membrane, and then sythesized to make it safe to put in the bloodstream). It's like peeling an orange, throwing away the peel, and then caramelizing it for a nice snack (and then saying that you abstain from oranges)).
Plasma is mostly water with lots of "stuff" in it. Cryoprecipitate is the a collection of fractions (Factor VII, fibrinogen, vWF, and factor XIII) removed from the plasma. The remaining "stuff" is called the Cryosupernatant.
Recombine these, and you have plasma again.
All the "major blood fractions" float around in the water that makes up the majority of "plasma". It just so happens that if you take blood, add an anticoagulant, and then spin it really hard, the white and red blood cells will "naturally" seperate. This is used as justification for the "major" fractions (although the disallowed major fraction, platelets, still remain suspended in the plasma).
Interestingly, some of the allowed "minor fractions" of plasma, make up a greater percentage of the blood than the disallowed blood cells.
One reason fractions are allowed is because of scientific evidence that certain plasma "fractions" are passed from fetus to mother during pregnancy. Strangely, although white blood cells are passed from mother to baby in breast milk, they are not allowed.
It's a bloody mess.
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We are all dirt
by StopTheTears indid you ever stop to realize that we humans are nothing more than dirt?
we are composed of all the foods we eat and the beverages we drink.
everything that we consume comes from the ground, from crops grown in dirt.
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pirata
That would explain why I feel so dirty.
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New Release on Blood at AJWRB
by Lee Elder innew release on blood at ajwrb.
associated jehovahs witnesses for reform on blood has published a new press release informing the public and medical care providers of a product that could mean the difference between life and death for witness patients suffering from various conditions with either a primary or secondary bleeding disorder.
this press release is available on the front page of our associations web site.
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pirata
Nice. So you take plasma, remove a few "minor fractions", and voila you are left with a minor fraction. Now just transfuse the two seperately, and you are set.
If I didn't know any better I'd say the Watchtower is trying to slowly dismantle the Blood Doctrine out of existence while showing that the Biblical refusal of blood has not changed.
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Blood Doctrinally Well Informed?
by Marvin Shilmer inblood doctrinally well informed?
today i loaded a new article to my blog addressing a particular view watchtower wants doctors to have of the community of jehovahs witnesses compared to what watchtower is actually doing.
this article includes an excerpt from an article written by a watchtower representative of its department of hospital information services.
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pirata
Speaking from experience:
Nowhere in the literature or videos could I find information that EPO takes days before it starts having a meaningful affect.
Not knowing this, a close friend of mine was treated with EPO and iron injections after a massive blood loss. They died.
Reading all the blood articles is a confusing mess, especially when you get into the fractions. Some Christians feel this way... (quote a previous stand), Some Christians feel this way (present a more logical, or less logical, viewpoint). Provide some arguments (of various logical coherence to back up each viewpoint). Sometimes, ake a negative bias towards one of the sides (such as is the case with the somewhat frowned upon but "conscience matter" hemoglobin fractions). Then say that it is up to each Christian to decide for himself, and they are responsible for their own decision. The irony is that more than a few witnesses spend their time trying to "read between the lines" and see if the so-called "conscience" matter is being cast in a negative or positive light to make their decision.
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Do you know if these publications are available?
by dgp indoes anyone know if these publications are available?
i don't mean "my local kingdom hall", sorry.. - the nations shall know that i am jehovah .
- jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose .
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There is a pretty current list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Watch_Tower_Society_publications
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I gotta take an extended break
by sabastious inok, i gotta get out of here.
i have too much at stake right now in my life to spend as much time here as i do.
i love you all!
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pirata
Best Wishes!
See you in a week!
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pirata
Indeed. That's why the UN was established in the first place.
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David Splane information anyone?
by VM44 inwe need more information as to what sort of person gb member david splane is.
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there is very little about him that is known..
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pirata
David Splane at a 2010 District Convention. I was a bit dissapointed at a few misleading statements:
1) Referred to "Rutherford, A prominent member of the Governing Body". This was misleading because there was no concept of a Governing Body in Rutherford's time, and the Board of directors did not make any doctrinal decisions. Rutherford wasn't into committees, he sacked the Watchtower editorial committee (starting 1925), sacked the democratically elected bodies of elders, and setup a hierarchy which he called a "theocracy" (1938).
2) Stated that the new creation brochures use their quotes honestly. Some of the quotes are still contextually innacurate, but there is a little footnote by the quotes that the person being quoted believes in evolution. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that maybe they really don't know how to use a reference accurately.