What's nice about convincing JWs about blood products is that you can always find an article that supports the product they need. The flip flopping and inconsistencies are so great, they've both allowed and disallowed pretty much every product and unless you have a medical and theological degree you wouldn't know how correct or how wrong the logic is.
Anony Mous
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Treating JW's with Convalescent Blood Products
by Lee Elder inthis is potentially life saving information.
please spread the word.. http://ajwrb.org/treating-jehovahs-witness-covid-19-patients-with-convalescent-blood-products.
treating jehovah’s witness covid-19 patients with convalescent blood products.
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Riots one reason to own an AR15 and several 30 round or 100 round mags.
by phoenixrising ini hear this from the leftist idiots all the time.
if someone breaks into your home 6 bullets are enough.
well if its a one of i would argue that i still my need more round for even just one person.
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Anony Mous
If it comes to home defense, and you have other people living in your home, a shotgun or up to a 9mm (which now come in rifle form too) should do well, they're easier to shoot and wield around corners than a large AR. Anything large like an AR, but especially the heavier grain bullets will over-penetrate in CQB and may hurt others.
A .22 may be too small though to stop anyone, they can kill but most likely hurt a lot and don't necessarily do damage if you hit someone in the human armor plate that is the chest. Depends on the types of criminals you have coming in, most will run away in case of any danger, including a 22LR but it doesn't have stopping power if you have a quarterback-sized druggie charging at you.
You also don't need a large .50 Magnum Desert Eagle or so for the same reasons, besides it being hard to aim and carry being so heavy. You'll blow someone's head clear off, leave a huge hole in every wall, including your neighbors' and probably shatter all the windows.
I've settled myself on a 9mm Ruger PC Carbine for home defense. It's easy to take down, small and relatively light. My wife is getting her permit for a 9mm or smaller caliber concealed carry so magazines are interchangeable. I live in a state where the cops are likely being defunded and the city is getting worse as the BLM mayor refuses to let police clean the neighborhoods. We used to have a Republican mayor up until about a decade ago, home values have since stagnated and the black neighborhoods that were being repaired are now becoming no-go zones again. 2h for a police response is now normal.
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dump google
by phoenixrising ini have noticed as of late that google searches are heavily filtering searches and shopping.
i know they keep track and monitor your activity but when i can not find things or articles because they don't fit googles bs naritive its time to leave.
duck duck go is my replacement.
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Anony Mous
DuckDuckGo is pretty good. Also, ditch Android altogether, Apple at least doesn't want to track you and is fighting the tracking, Google is tracking everything.
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Australia - Selling Off Assets
by Pants of Righteousness inthis article seems to confirm what we already knew:.
https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-selling-off-assets-and-moving-cash-to-avoid-sex-abuse-compensation-ng-08ffe6d55e293182580d9e34b4400088?transactionid=72145.
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Anony Mous
@Stephane: The tax was on money that was being off-shored to the US. In France, charities have to demonstrate that they are using the money for charity in France.
Instead they were sending it to the US and claiming that it was being redistributed worldwide for charity, but the French government cannot get visibility in US charities.
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CO'S "encouraging" letter to circuit
by nowwhat? inthe point of the letter was how many are feeling disappointed these days.. no circuit assembly, convention, how we can't fellowship at the k.h.
disappointed we might have had a love one die, etc etc.
he then goes on to write about how disappointed jehovah must have felt when his first human creation rebelled.
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@Kosonen: It is becoming more and more of an issue, the upkeep of the halls is a major cost and could even land them in court.
I used to volunteer where this happened and yes, to save money and avoid local building code regulations, the high voltage cabinet was installed and maintained by JW's: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20170913_03070732
All halls, especially quick-builds are a poorly built death trap and the liabilities, as the org is now taking on ownership of the halls themselves, is a major problem.
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Anony Mous
@millie: I agree, but I think that's largely due to me getting tired of the same thing. When I got out a few years ago, I was excited about all the new things I was learning and all the minutiae the Borg was bringing out.
Going back, being older myself now and knowing much more of the history, there really hasn't been anything new in WT-land since the 80s. They started playing it safer after 75 and currently they feel a lot like 'just another Christian televangelist group'.
Yeah, there are still major issues within the organization but the business entity really has taken a back seat and are just letting the locals figure out how hardcore they want to pursue this whole thing. My local congregation has gotten a LOT more relaxed, the hardcore pioneers and elders got disfellowshipped and/or got disillusioned themselves and the Zoom "meetings" have turned into family nights where they play board games.
And there is nothing unique that JW's are doing today, they've ended their ministry which is the only thing that stood out, every church is on Zoom and it's just another social group for most.
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The Cry of Peace And Security
by jwfacts ina bit late in coming, but i have a new article on the cry of peace and security at https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/peace-and-security.php.
this was prompted by trump using the term peace and security a few times in 2017 and 2018, and the excitement this generated amongst jehovah's witnesses.
i would love to see other quotes you like on this topic, or texts and experiences..
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Anony Mous
That's the thing about prophecies, they are always true. So when the bad thing eventually happens, the prophets can say "I told you so".
There was an article a few days ago about the scientists warning about coronavirus. The article mentioned they've warned about this since the 70s and SARS a few years ago, and how bad and evil it is to not be completely prepared for this eventuality. They will eventually be right but we can't have firefighters stationed in every house or ambulances follow every car just in case.
The hospital I work at had protocols for massive outbreaks for decades. They didn't apply because they were for things we know about like Ebola, not for a virus that spreads through the air because every airborne virus we knew about prior including SARS wasn't nearly as deadly and transmissible (which makes some people believe it was engineered after all).
The Bible prophecies in the NT are likewise intentionally vague and have been fulfilled in Nero burning down Rome, the fall of Jerusalem and every large conflict since. Pestilence and food shortage and calls for peace following war has been true since time memorial, only in the last 100-200 years has the world been made rich enough for certain aspects of that to no longer be true the way it was before. This makes the JW prophecies less and less relevant. Iraq didn't have food shortages and pestilence like they would've had in the past after a war because as the US was fighting, they also brought with them the tools of rebuilding a free and democratic civilization which are the precursors to wealth and wellness. As war gets more and more "humane", the effects will diminish as well.
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Anony Mous
Many have moved on because JW stuff stops being interesting after being out for a while.
Then there are those that have left after being "offended" at being unable to defend their ideas. It's always interesting across the many forums I am present, one side calls for censorship of ideas and if the moderators agree, you get an echo chamber and if the moderators aren't censoring, they leave in protest instead of engaging in discussion leaving behind an echo chamber.
There are still interesting conversations around here, but the world has been changing as have conversations in the world, I can't believe people that left the JW mindset are now simply re-accepting similar ideas of collective guilt, group division, religious creeds and groupthink in politics.
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CO'S "encouraging" letter to circuit
by nowwhat? inthe point of the letter was how many are feeling disappointed these days.. no circuit assembly, convention, how we can't fellowship at the k.h.
disappointed we might have had a love one die, etc etc.
he then goes on to write about how disappointed jehovah must have felt when his first human creation rebelled.
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Anony Mous
100 bucks the letter says something about contributions towards the end. That's the only goal of these letters, gimme gimme gimme. CO's aren't being reimbursed when they can't go and have their donations in the box at the KH, and I'm sure plenty of old people aren't comfortable donating online.
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Having trouble with parents staying home?
by Steel inmy parents are in there late 60s, they have a net worth of 2 to 3 million dollars and a 2500 sq ft home.
my dad works a hobby job at a service station for boredom reasons.
it’s a kiosk type between glass but it does require some contact with the public.
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Anony Mous
Given what you indicated, I'm assuming they're healthy. The risk for catching COVID-19 and dying is extremely low, even amongst the elderly if they're relatively healthy.
The largest deaths (50% or so in NYS) were in nursing homes where people are already frail and sick and after a hospital visit NYS forced them back into the nursing homes to re-infect the rest (less people reduces the state expense on these facilities) as well as to reduce reimbursement costs for Medicaid through the hospitals.
Given your parents did so well for themselves is an indicator that they worked hard, they didn't excess, they probably didn't smoke or drink (at least not much). That is a great predictor to live to 100 even with COVID-19.