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  Do Beta Blocker side effects ever go away

  by Quarterback in

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  everybody cringes when i tell them that my dr wants to put me on beta blockers.

  is there an alternative to not going on them if your dr recommends it?

  maybe armegeddon is around the corner and i may not have to worry about it..

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  As well intentioned as everyone is, perhaps an internet forum is not the best place for medical advice on cardiac pathology and treatment.

  I use this website myself and recommend it to patients.

  Take a peek..

  http://www.patient.co.uk/health/beta-blockers
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  Pets aren't people, says speaker at Regional Convention. Fido and Mimi better watch out! And instead of drinking wine or beer go do some gardening or play golf.

  by oppostate in

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  a big discussion driving back from the regional convention about what exactly was meant about pets.. the warning was obvious to me.

  don't get pets, they cost time and money and you would do better to spend your time and money supporting the organization and going in field service.. as to the wine and beer, because the bro during his soliloquy admitted that the first thing he would like to do is relax after a hectic day at work with a glass of wine or beer, his conscience was traumatized.

  however he came up with a perfect idea, he'd go tend the garden (obviously a solution for a married bro) or hit some golfballs at the driving range (maybe he's not married).. maybe jesus should have told the wine guzzlers at cana to sober up and go till the fields.. .

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  sure it wasn't an ignorant slight at evolution? That was my assumption based on the thread title.
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  If you had the audience of the GB, what is your #1 question you would ask them?

  by Darth Fader The Sequel in

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  there are a million of them and mine is by no means the most important question to ask them if i only had one shot at it.

  but, i have always wondered what kind of bs excuse they would give as an answer to this question: "brother goober bum, given that there are both male and female partakers here on earth who claim to be of the 'anointed' and plan on being of the 144,000 ruling with christ in heaven for eternity........ why are the female 'anointed' treated as submissive, second class citizens and why is their opinion on doctrinal matters, matters of teaching and reproving, anything at all.... why are they not recognized while here on earth even though you claim that jesus has selected them to become angels to rule with him?

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  I was force fed your books as a child. Now, please define the evolutionary process to me.....
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  The Complete Scammer's Guide - by "Pastor" Russell (New Light!)

  by Focus in

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  most of us are reasonably familiar with reports of scandalous goings-on of that old jellyfish lecher, the founder of the watchtower cult, the one and only charles taze russell.. but, are these stories true?.

  this thread is going to be devoted to his allegedly scurrilous activities.

  so, bookmark it, please, bro' focus is in possession of noo light, and we're going to explore russell like you've never seen him explored before.. we're approaching his 100th death anniversary, and for all i know this virtual exhumation may lead to a real one.

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  Good work x

  Most JW's doubt anything from the internet, can we see this anywhere else?
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  Most absurd thing I heard at the convention yesterday!

  by Batman89 in

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  2. physical

  brother lett was giving the last talk of the day about what they supposedly accomplished in 100 years.

  i was just waking up so im paraphrasing alittle(i was dosing off all day) anyways in his introduction he said.

  "there is more evidence to prove gods kingdom on the earth is a reality than wind,electricity and gravity is a reality on the earth".

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  wow......
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  Have scientists found "a new earth"???

  by Nathan Natas in

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  http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1293976,00.html

  earth-like planet could harbour life .

  tim radford, science editor.

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  Who wants to know when they are wrong..... SCIENTISTS..... because they want to be right!

  Let me put it this way, these people want to know the truth, want to know how the world works.....so being wrong is useless..... now do you get it?

  Lastly, who sees science as a god? Tthat is the most ridiculous thing I have read here. Science is a 5 stage process that anyone can use to test an idea, the last stage being peer review (which in YOUR example worked perfectly well and we learned something). Calling a 5 stage processs of testing a god is just weird and indicates you have no idea what 'science' even means. Science is just a process that works for testing ideas, that is all. We have had the process approx 150 years and we have used it to go from riding horses to space shuttles in just two generations of people!

  THIS is what you are calling a god.....anyone ignorantly not knowing what science is may nod along, I used to... but look at what science is...

  
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  Have scientists found "a new earth"???

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. jw
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1293976,00.html

  earth-like planet could harbour life .

  tim radford, science editor.

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  A perfect example of how science works.

  New evidence denounces a hypothesis? Cool that makes the null hypothesis correct, mankind learned something about a body in our galaxy thanks to science. Peer review questioned the method, new research improved the mechanism of collecting data and we learned something new whilst removing something now unlikely to be true....Welcome to the scientific method.

  I prefer this constructive comment.....

  "Since their discovery, numerous investigations have disputed the existence of controversial planets. Their discoverers – Steve Vogt of the University of California Santa Cruz and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC – even had to publish another paper in 2012 to reaffirm the existence of Gliese 581g. They measured the colors on the violet end of the colour spectrum emitted by calcium in a star to do their corrections.

  But in the new research Robertson instead measured hydrogen-emitted red color while analyzing data in Vogt and Butler's 2012 paper. He says for a cooler, low mass stars like Gliese 581 it works better, as they do not emit much blue light. In case of Gliese 581 the new measurement has shown that the system has 3 planets – a, b, and c, all of which appeared sharper – while d and g disappeared.

  “I hope this research points the way toward finding exciting new planets hidden beneath stellar signals,” Robertson said."

  These people are introducing data and information for mankind that will last forever, what was your last contribution to mankind and how long will it last for?
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  Elders answer questions about the changes of the blood ban

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  some days ago two elders visited my sister because she has not been attending the meetings more than one year.

  this time she prepared notes containing watchtower past teachings about the blood ban so as to ask them for those changes, and it seems that the elders were also prepared for her past questions.

  for instance she showed them that "albumin" was considered "under scriptural ban" in 1956 (read the page 20 of awake, september 8).

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  Oub

  By who's definition? As I said, Jw's hav made their own rules up.....

  You now know the facts, decide for yourseld. Of course anyone with a hint of knowledge about blood find the WT stance illogical and inconsistant.
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  How Accurate Is JWN In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  would you say this board gives accurate information, overall?

  if someone started reading the comments here, do you think they would find this discussion board as accurate?.

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  I agree jgnat, that is my point x
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  Elders answer questions about the changes of the blood ban

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  some days ago two elders visited my sister because she has not been attending the meetings more than one year.

  this time she prepared notes containing watchtower past teachings about the blood ban so as to ask them for those changes, and it seems that the elders were also prepared for her past questions.

  for instance she showed them that "albumin" was considered "under scriptural ban" in 1956 (read the page 20 of awake, september 8).

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  Oubliette,

  The shelf life of all the components in blood vary by years, so they are seperated and stored appropriatly at different temperatures. Then we give what is needed, blood loss or low Haemaglobin. give red blood cells.

  Jw's have really confused what 'blood' and 'fractions' are to its members. Blood is the combination of all these factors whereas most JW's think of blood as a 1L bag of red stuff. It isn't, it's red blood cells, a small fraction of blood.