Posts by iCeltic

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Heart bypass surgery & blood

by Twitch in

my father had an angioplasty this morning and was admitted immediately for coronary artery bypass surgery due to major blockages found.. how likely or necessary is a blood transfusion for this?.

what's the latest policy on blood?.

i realize there's likely a thread or two dedicated to the subject but i'm looking for the short answer from those in the know, at least on the latter.. i only found out this morning and am heading to the hospital now.

iCeltic

Are you sure they can have 'all' fractions?

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What constitutes 'proof' on JWN?

by besty in

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recently there have been a few threads where claims have been made alledging personal negative effects in 'real life' following internet activity on jwn and other ex-jw related sites.

discussion then ensues, aspects of which may include 3rd parties either disputing the truth or affirming the likelihood of the claim.

questions are asked.

iCeltic

I agree with slimboyfat.

And I agree with Simon, most times just using common sense is the answer. And sometimes we'll never know who is lying and who is telling the truth. You can generally tell a lot by someone's response, of just how argumentative they are or extremely pedantic.

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Prayers that God answers. Any examples?

by punkofnice in

when i believed in god i tried not to pray for anything selfish.. after a while i began to think that a lot of things i was asking my imaginary friend in the sky for were selfish for some reason.. i do not ever remember a single thing i prayed for ever being answered.

if there was the appearance of an answer it was because i did mental gymnastics to make it fit the delusion that god had actually answered me.

there was never an obvious message/answer from god.

iCeltic

Punk, I've come to the same conclusion, I don't see the problem if there is a god to just answer in an obvious way.

i had a few hours to myself one day last week and I was sitting on this beautiful beach, it was empty except for me. I felt it was a perfect time for god to let me know if he exists but alas I heard nothing. Like you I can imagine folk saying I didn't have faith, what I do have is common sense and would like to think that if my mind was created by god then why would he want me to believe something that goes against the way that mind works?

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Prayers that God answers. Any examples?

by punkofnice in

when i believed in god i tried not to pray for anything selfish.. after a while i began to think that a lot of things i was asking my imaginary friend in the sky for were selfish for some reason.. i do not ever remember a single thing i prayed for ever being answered.

if there was the appearance of an answer it was because i did mental gymnastics to make it fit the delusion that god had actually answered me.

there was never an obvious message/answer from god.

iCeltic

Any joy with that cash yet?

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Rudds new asylum seeker policy

by barry in

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lived there for 10 years till 2005 nothing....now every night a drive by shooting up a house.

what happened sydney!

we feel like te us now..

iCeltic

I've not seen anything on the news about shootings here in Sydney, maybe I don't watch the news enough.