I was a housekeeper on the 2nd floor of the towers in 1975. WT was renovating the Towers and there were "worldly" people still living in it. And now they are selling it. Poor organization, they don't know who they are or what they are selling anymore about the future.
Joyzabel
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the beautiful Towers hotel now for sale
by neat blue dog inits a gorgeous building, and you should see the commercial they made for it.. http://21clarkstreet.com.
the commercial video, as well as the cool 360° vr views are available on the home page of.
https://www.watchtowerbrooklynrealestate.com.
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Joyzabel
What? Listen to an hour interview? It better be good😱
Thank you Lady C for all your videos very good work
Joy
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Courtesy Towards Senior Bicyclists, or First Time Riding in 45 Years!
by compound complex ingreetings, fellow posters:.
i bought a nearly new 7-speed bicycle at a yard sale for $30 last weekend and took it out this morning on our paved local bicycle/walking trail.
the last time i rode was in my early- to mid- twenties when i used a bicycle to get to and from the kh for my pioneer service.
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Joyzabel
10 years ago I was going through a very rough time in my life, hadn't been on a bike in 20+ years ( ok I can't really remember how long it was) and started riding a beach cruiser (fat tire, one gear bike) everyday for therapy. Ended up riding more and more. Changed to a hybrid (too scared of the skinny tire road bikes) and accepted a challenge from a poster on here to ride with her the STP in July 2006. That's the Seattle to Portland 200 mile ( 100 each day) bike ride. It was FANTASTIC. The scenery was spectacular, bikes were decorated in all kinds of things. It was like a rolling block party. Ended up getting a beautiful carbon fiber road bike I would ride several times a week on long distance rides. Now that I'm retired and living near a walk/bike path I've slowed down to trying to ride 6 - 10 miles a day on an e bike. It has an electric motor "hidden" in the frame and is so easy to ride up hills. 😉
Keep up the riding. You never know where it is going to take you. You meet some nice people riding their bikes 🚴
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WT's expert on blood!
by Joyzabel inthe january 8, 2000 awake magazine published an article "the growing demand for bloodless medicine and surgery".
this article has been quoted extensively by jws as support for their "scientific" justification for refusing blood products.. a quote from that article that is familiar to most jws and exjws is this one:.
“all those dealing with blood and caring for surgical patients have to consider bloodless surgery.”—dr.
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Joyzabel
The January 8, 2000 Awake magazine published an article "The Growing Demand for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery". This article has been quoted extensively by JWs as support for their "scientific" justification for refusing blood products.
A quote from that article that is familiar to most JWs and exJWs is this one:
“All those dealing with blood and caring for surgical patients have to consider bloodless surgery.”—Dr. Joachim Boldt, professor of anesthesiology, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Dr. Boldt has been exposed as a fraud.
From the British Medical Journal:
The withdrawal of almost 90 fraudulent studies by a German anaesthetist is one of the biggest medical research scandals of recent time. Jacqui Wise examines what happened and what lessons have been learnt
Joachim Boldt was a prominent German anaesthetist with an international research reputation. He was regarded as a leading specialist in intravenous fluid management and was an advocate for the use of colloids, particularly hydroxyethyl starch solutions, to boost blood volume during surgery.
However, a lengthy investigation has led to 88 out of the 102 studies that Boldt has published since 1999 being withdrawn from the medical literature. He has been found guilty of research misconduct, including failure to acquire ethical approval and fabrication of study data, and sacked from his position as professor at Klinikum Ludwigshafen, a large teaching hospital in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where he carried out his research. The retraction of such a large body of work has had far reaching effects on clinical practice, research oversight, and editorial policies.And from The Daily Telegraph:
Millions of surgery patients at risk in drug research fraud scandal
Millions of NHS patients have been treated with controversial drugs on the basis of "fraudulent research" by one of the world's leading anaesthetists, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Joachim Boldt is at the centre of a criminal investigation amid allegations that he may have forged up to 90 crucial studies on the treatment. He has been stripped of his professorship and sacked from a German hospital following allegations about his research into drugs known as colloids.
Experts described Mr Boldt's alleged forgeries as possibly the biggest medical research scandal since Andrew Wakefield was struck off last year for falsely claiming to have proved a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
Guidelines for British anaesthetists regarding colloids – used to boost blood volume in patients undergoing surgery – are being revised after it emerged that four of the key studies on which they were based are to be formally retracted.
Mr Boldt, 57, was regarded as a leading specialist in intravenous fluid management, and his work was published widely in British medical journals.
He claimed to have proved that colloids were as safe as other, similar treatments despite earlier studies showing them to be more dangerous. Mr Boldt's alleged forgeries date back up to a decade.Retraction Watch, a website that tracks the retraction of scientific papers, places Dr. Boldt as "second on the leader board" for number of scientific studies retracted:
Boldt’s retraction count upped to 94, co-author takes legal action to prevent 95th
...the ombudsperson has indicated the following in his letter to the journal: “In view of the inconsistencies and Dr. Boldt’s misconduct in this and many other aspects of scientific integrity, JLU recommends that journal editors retract all papers where Dr. Boldt is the responsible author even if there is no obvious indication of falsification. All articles by Dr. Boldt should be read with great caution because they may contain falsified data.”
If a person does a search for Dr. Boldt, they will find that some of Dr. Boldt's falsified research involved Jehovah's Witness patients and, his work has been used to bolster the position of "bloodless" surgery.
The Watchtower has yet to retract the damaging statement by Dr. Boldt and the quote is still used by many JWs to justify their no blood stance. Dr. Boldt's quote has no validity in the scientific world whatsoever - he is a fraud.
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Trey Bundy: One Year of Reporting JW Child Abuse - Your comments please!
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://watchtowerdocuments.org/trey-bundy-one-year-of-reporting-jw-child-abuse/.
trey bundy: one year of reporting jw child abuse.
it’s been one year since trey bundy first reported the watchtower’s child abuse problems.. twelve months ago the center for investigative reporting (cir) began publishing information about jehovah’s witnesses and their cover-up of child sexual abuse on their website, reveal.
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Joyzabel
A lot of hard work, even spanning years goes into investigations. Thank you Trey for publishing what you have discovered and thank you Barb & Joe for all the behind the scene investigation you provide also.
Joy
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"Even if it isn't the truth, it's still the best way to live"
by Simon inhave you heard that old chestnut?
i have.. typically it's the last resort when you have dismantled a jws beliefs and they have no way of defending them.
they know they are beat so they come out with that one.. its effectively an admission that you are right and they have no argument but they are still going to attend meetings because they like the social club.. what a lame way to defend your faith..
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Joyzabel
talesin,
(in a crackly voice, lifting a crooked finger) ... "Brroootthhhers...."
*covering my ears and running from the auditorium*
😱
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"Even if it isn't the truth, it's still the best way to live"
by Simon inhave you heard that old chestnut?
i have.. typically it's the last resort when you have dismantled a jws beliefs and they have no way of defending them.
they know they are beat so they come out with that one.. its effectively an admission that you are right and they have no argument but they are still going to attend meetings because they like the social club.. what a lame way to defend your faith..
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Joyzabel
"Even if it isn't the truth, it's still the best way to live"
I heard Freddie Franz say this at a Gilled graduation back in the spring of 1976. (of course followed by loud clapping from all the drones sitting in the auditorium) I think that's when the foundation began to crack. ;-)
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44 years old and having I.V.F help to have a baby thanks too bastard "this Generation" lies!! Wife wants kids in 2016! My story.
by Witness 007 inas a young witness married couple in the 1990's we knew "this generation" of 1914 did not have long to go!
oh how cute a young pioneer couple we were.
we wont have kids till "afew more years pass" and we are in the new system.
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Joyzabel
Try, if that is what you two want. Fertility drops off after age 40 but a good fertility doc may help.
Yes it is expensive but if you can afford it, then go for it. The oldest first time mother I delivered was 49 years old. She had used donated eggs (harvested from 20+ year old).
In 1976 when I was at bethel and met many branch overseer's wives who were going through menopause and lamenting that they would have had children first before going into full time work if they knew "this system" was going to last as long as it had. That influenced me to change my mind from "waiting until after Armageddon" to leave bethel and have a family. I am so glad I did. Now I have grandchildren, which none are JWs :-)
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Your Jehovah’s Witness Is Showing
by David_Jay insince i just signed up and posted a few times without doing this yet, here is my story..
i think that i became a jehovahs witness because of my immaturity.
i had some quirky personality traits, and i joined finding that i fit in because, as i said to myself: these people get me.
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Joyzabel
Hi David,
“Who cares what I mentally acknowledge to be real or true? It's what I am and how I live that defines me, not a creed or philosophy or ideology that I claim allegiance to that spells out who I am.”
“I think it is best to do good than merely believe in good. All the belief in God won't feed another who is hungry, and that everybody deserves to be treated honorably, with respect, and cared for not on the basis of their creed but on because of the fact that they are fellow humans.”
Great statements!!!!!
Want to start a religion??? (j/king :-), but could make millions ;-) )
But I really want to make this next statement of yours into a bumper sticker!
“My beliefs don't define me. My actions do.”
I love this statement. As JW’s we were always admonished “to do more” but of course the “actions” were silly JW stuff (door to door, talks, bible studies, etc) whereas now we are free to provide real acts of kindness and goodness to our fellow humans.
You are very encouraging in your writing style and with sharing your thoughts. Keep them coming.
Joy
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How do you feel about the expression "The Truth"?
by stuckinarut2 init's amazing how the expression "the truth" has become such an ingrained term used by witnesses.. "we have 'the truth'".
"is he 'in the truth'?".
most here have found out so many facts about the organisation, and felt the effects of being "gut-punched" as we realised these facts.. so how do you feel about the expression "the truth" now?.
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Joyzabel
Cults have their own secret language. That's how you can distiguish who is up to date in a cult.
All those catch phrases make me cringe.