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  Surgeons urged to avoid transfusions

  by bats in the belfry in

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  jw.org | news.

  witness patients often do betterthe sydney morning heraldsurgeons urged to avoid transfusions.

  australia: hospital patients who are jehovahs witnesseswho refuse blood transfusions on religious groundsactually do better than other patients, reports the october 2, 2012, issue of the sydney morning herald.. .

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  bats in the belfry

  JW.ORG | News Witness Patients Often Do Better

  The Sydney Morning Herald Surgeons urged to avoid transfusions

  AUSTRALIA: “Hospital patients who are Jehovah’s Witnesses—who refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds—actually do better than other patients,” reports the October 2, 2012, issue of The Sydney Morning Herald. The report cites Clinical Professor James Isbister from the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. “Professor Isbister said Jehovah’s Witnesses were given better treatment by doctors trying to preserve their [the Witness patients’] blood. As a result they had better survival rates, and shorter hospital and intensive care stays than people who received blood transfusions during surgery,” reports the paper. Doctor Isbister’s views are by no means unique. Regarding Witness patients who have cardiac surgery, the July 2, 2012, issue of a journal produced by the American Medical Association says: “Witnesses had fewer acute complications and shorter length of stay than matched patients who received transfusions.”

  SURGEONS are being urged to cut their use of blood transfusions, with experts saying the life-saving but risky procedure is being used unnecessarily. Rates of blood transfusion use differ noticeably between surgeons, and research indicates some are not careful enough to ensure patients don't bleed unnecessarily during surgery. James Isbister, a professor from the University of Sydney's medical school, said some doctors were using blood transfusions too freely because they believed them to be benign. "If [blood transfusion] is not used appropriately it's got more possible complications than other therapies because you are basically doing a transplant," he said. "We have talked about alternatives to transplants for years but … a lot of alternatives shouldn't be alternatives - stopping a patient bleeding is not an 'alternative'." Hospital patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses - who refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds - actually do better than other patients. Professor Isbister said Jehovah's Witnesses were given better treatment by doctors trying to preserve their blood. As a result they had better survival rates, and shorter hospital and intensive care stays than people who received blood transfusions during surgery. Studies comparing surgeons have found some used transfusions in only 10 per cent of patients, while others used them in 80 per cent of cases. Blood transfusions put stress on the lungs and can cause lung injury and organ failure, as well as potentially having long-term consequences, although the reason is unknown. On Sunday, Professor Isbister addressed the scientific congress of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists about the issue. He said it was also important for patients to consult their GPs before surgery to ensure they had a healthy blood count. In 2012-13 governments will spend more than $1 billion on blood and blood-related products, according to the National Blood Authority. Its general manager, Leigh McJames, said while transfusions can be life-saving, evidence showed up to 20 per cent of them could be unnecessary in some patient groups. Correction: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article incorrectly said Christians were given better treatment by doctors.
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  New Pattern regarding Science in the Awake

  by konceptual99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reading the first couple of awakes for 2013 i think there is a pattern developing.. they have the regular "could it have happened by chance" article on something amazing in nature but they are also interviewing a scientist who is also a witness.

  this is a pretty interesting tack on a number of levels.. firstly it is sending out the implicit message that "look, this educated person accepts creation, the flood and every other account that is at odds with generally accepted science, so that should give you confidence that you are right as well".

  secondly, as a magazine designed for public comsumption is suggests to non-witnesses that there are many well educated people who accept the bible.

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  X-linking here.
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  Dec.21st and the countdown to the Mayan Apocalypse

  by designs in

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  2. current

  december 21 marks the winter solstice and the end of a cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun.. 1.will we see a few who want to join the celestial parade ala those who wanted to hop on a comet a few years ago.. 2.should koolaid and vodka be banned dec. 20th.. 3.will the wt.

  come out with an article making fun of those who 'falsely predict the end of the world' .

  i'll take bets on #3.

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  bats in the belfry

  Would that be Dec 21st EST or GMT ? Neither. It's UTC.
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  Who is supposed to do the "Separating Work" for the new magazines?

  by nochoice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, there is a bit of a fight going on in our hall between our pioneer sisters and our magazine servant.

  since the new magazines are boxed with two issues together, there is a bit of work to be done separating them.

  our magazine servant stacked them on the counter as usual, right out of the box.

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  bats in the belfry

  wha happened? >>

  They make jobs out of useless duties and label them priviledges

  This is so true.

  Their doctrinal mouthpieces The Watchtower and Our Kingdom Ministry just thrives
  on the word combinations of privilege / privileges / privileged.

  The Watchtower: 5.848 counts
  Our Kingdom Ministry: 780 counts

  compared to their Bible

  The NW Translation: 10 counts (incl. appendix)

  The WTBTS gives the people what they want: Privileges
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  Well we can shoot down one rumor - the 2013 district conventions are officially 3 days long...

  by sir82 in

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  ...according to a letter to all boes dated 11/11/2012.. there is nothing new or different (or interesting!

  ) in the letter.

  same stuff as has been covered over the past 20+ years.. .

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  The WTBTS used to announce the location of their DCs in the mags. Now you only will find them online.

  In 2012 most conventions in Germany were booked in large soccer stadiums. In 2013 all venues will be smaller, 9 being in assembly halls, 12 will be in skating rink type places. - Three days though.
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  Past the point of no return...

  by metaspy in

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  2. friends

  past the point of no return, the final threshold.

  the bridge is crossed, so stand and watch it burn.

  i've passed the point of no return.

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  bats in the belfry

  Did you send it to the HQ in Brooklyn? The letter then will have to trickle down to the local elders, getting more involvement.
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  I do not understand... How does the theory about when Jerusalem was destroyed relate to the JW?

  by FingersCrossed in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can someone please tell me in the simplest ways?

  thanks.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  bats in the belfry

  "to the point, no unnecessary articles" (...) Sorry to disappoint but nothing negative.

  The public mags prior to 2013 then must have contained "unnecessary articles". How unthankful of them for all that excess spiritual food from Jehovah's table.

  It just goes to show you what JWs really think about how redundant the mags were.

  In reality the JWs considered it to be 50% fluff.
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  IN HINDSIGHT.................

  by Black Man in

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  2. friends

  now that i've been away from the cult going on 4 years, one huge absurdity that sticks out in my mind is that we were doing things out of service to an invisible king.

  let me repeat an invisible king, whose only proof that he existed was through a global public relations magazine distribution campaign.

  no visible show of this king's sovreignty, no activity by this king to act on his campaign platform.

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  And to think this KING has been ruling for nearly 100 years??!! And still NOTHING done by this KING to positively impact the world for the better...or worse (for that matter).

  Rumors have it Alcyone has been brighter in the skies for some decades now!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  bats in the belfry

  And they have HUGE margins.... Tons of white blank areas.

  That space is meant for personal note-taking, same as in the Shepherd the Flock book.

  Remember the time they had inserts . . . because they ran out of space with the drivel?

  Nowadays they increase fonts and expand spacings in the KM/mags to make it fill the space.

  Evidently, the spirit has nothing more to tell them.