Posts by konceptual99

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RE: What did God accomplish with the flood?

by bioflex in

was just going through a few topics and this caught my attention, and since that thread looks pretty much dead i thought i would create a new one to add my thoughts .. so i would start by replying to as much criticisms as i can okay.

@jam: .

the purpose of the flood, because man grieved him to.

konceptual99

Don't feed the troll.

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No wonder it's iron and clay mixed...

by konceptual99 in

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249.

i really didn't realise that words like "row" and "frock" are not common in the us.. glad to see "autumn", "queue", "numpty", "muppet" making a splash over there.. even "chav" and "innit" are being used apparently.. hey all you irish/scottish/welsh/english posters, what other words should our friends over the water be using?.

wassock, fathead, plonker are three off the top of my head..

konceptual99

Amen to that.

We can even WT speak that one.

Sparbollocks.

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No wonder it's iron and clay mixed...

by konceptual99 in

jw
friends

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249.

i really didn't realise that words like "row" and "frock" are not common in the us.. glad to see "autumn", "queue", "numpty", "muppet" making a splash over there.. even "chav" and "innit" are being used apparently.. hey all you irish/scottish/welsh/english posters, what other words should our friends over the water be using?.

wassock, fathead, plonker are three off the top of my head..

konceptual99

The left side of the road might not be the right side but it's not the wrong side.

We drive on the right side of the road to use our swords and lances correctly.

Plus, it was the French under their pompous fathead Napoleon who went and did it his way, cutting off his nose to spite his face just cos he was left handed. So I wouldn't boast too much about driving on the other side of the road - you only do it thanks to the cheese eating surrender monkeys.

(Only joking! I love France really!)

Reminds me of a joke though...

If two wrongs don't make a right, what do two rights make....

The first aeroplane....

hohoho

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No wonder it's iron and clay mixed...

by konceptual99 in

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friends

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249.

i really didn't realise that words like "row" and "frock" are not common in the us.. glad to see "autumn", "queue", "numpty", "muppet" making a splash over there.. even "chav" and "innit" are being used apparently.. hey all you irish/scottish/welsh/english posters, what other words should our friends over the water be using?.

wassock, fathead, plonker are three off the top of my head..

konceptual99

Do you have a splash of milk in your tea?

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High Court allows transfusion for Jehovah's Witness despite husband's objection

by TJ Curioso in

the high court has ordered that a member of the jehovah's witnesses in need of urgent surgical treatment can receive certain blood transfusion products despite objections from her husband on religious grounds.. .

the 27-year-old woman was admitted to a dublin hospital yesterday suffering from acute abdominal pain and later collapsed, the court was told.. she had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and had lost a significant amount of blood, which was replaced with recycled blood from the woman using a system known as "cell salvage".. the court was told she is now sedated and unable to express her wishes and will continue in that state until a certain procedure is carried out to prevent serious infection, but which could involve further bleeding and the need for a transfusion.. that must be done tomorrow morning, the court heard.. a dispute had arisen between her husband and the hospital over her wishes, the court was told.. eileen barrington sc, for the hospital, said the woman had told doctors, when first admitted to hospital, that she was refusing a transfusion of whole blood or red blood cells but would accept platelets or plasma.. her emotional husband told the court yesterday his wife had signed a document used by jehovah's witnesses, known as the advanced care directive, declaring she would never accept platelets or plasma even if her life was in danger.. he believed, because his wife was in such terrible pain, it was really hard for her to reason but it was one of their core beliefs not to accept primary blood components of red or white blood cells or plasma and platelets, although she would accept "minor fractions" of blood.. he knew his wife of eight years well and she had filled in three advanced care directives over a number of years stating this, the most recent being august 2012, he said.. "at a time when she cannot make up her mind, that is what it [the directive] is there for.".

ms barrington said the hospital was contending that the wishes expressed by the woman to doctors yesterday evening over-rode the wishes expressed in the directive.. the hospital wanted an order permitting it make the appropriate transfusion for the procedure referred to because, without that option, doctors had said there was a risk of death or serious lifelong disability.. as part of her treatment when first admitted to hospital, abdominal "packs" were inserted which put pressure on the blood vessels to prevent bleeding, counsel said.. those packs must be removed within 36 hours and there was a risk of further bleeding in this procedure.. granting an order allowing the hospital administer non-red blood transfusions, mr justice roderick murphy said it seemed to him, from evidence given to the court by treating doctors, the woman had the capacity the amend the advanced care directive when she told doctors yesterday that she would accept plasma or platelets.. he granted the hospital the order sought.. .

konceptual99

Hope she pulls through and that the husband can concentrate on giving her the love and support she will need as she recovers.

I only hope that I don't hear of any incidents of people using this to illustrate how important it is for Witnesses to be sure of what they will/won't accept, making sure the AMD is up to date etc. etc.

At the end of the day the lines are drawn by the WTBTS and we Witnesses just follow with no thought - "you can think anything you like about blood just so long as it agrees with our definition".

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Witness Speak: the worst of collection

by grumblecakes in

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so we all know the jw vocabulary is a weird one.

what words or phrases bugged you the most?.

a few of mine:.

konceptual99

Brazen conduct

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No wonder it's iron and clay mixed...

by konceptual99 in

jw
friends

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249.

i really didn't realise that words like "row" and "frock" are not common in the us.. glad to see "autumn", "queue", "numpty", "muppet" making a splash over there.. even "chav" and "innit" are being used apparently.. hey all you irish/scottish/welsh/english posters, what other words should our friends over the water be using?.

wassock, fathead, plonker are three off the top of my head..

konceptual99

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249

I really didn't realise that words like "row" and "frock" are not common in the US.

Glad to see "autumn", "queue", "numpty", "muppet" making a splash over there.

Even "chav" and "innit" are being used apparently.

Hey all you Irish/Scottish/Welsh/English posters, what other words should our friends over the water be using?

Wassock, fathead, plonker are three off the top of my head.

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How many non-believers on the inside

by biblecheck in

it's taken me about 7 years after leaving the watchtower, to become actively involved within the exjw communities.

as part of this i created a couple of videos to, hopefully, help some others.

but what amazed me was the number of people who have pm'd me via youtube who are still active members of the watchtower - who know it's not the truth - but haven't left.

konceptual99

No cabal. No fifth column. Just people like me, as described above, stuck in and looking for a clean way out that does not result in emotional shipwreck for my family. I'm not even sure if it's really possible.

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