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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Finally...

  There's still the end-of-month drop to enjoy - that's usually good for 20-30.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  I think two of Lloyd's biggest critics are really interested in helping Lloyd overcome his demons

  One mistake good people make is being too nice to those who won't appreciate it and will even weaponize it.

  I'm more of a "finish him!" type.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  I anticipate the day when there will be more pages on this thread than the amount of patrons Lloyd has!

  It will be known as the crossover, when the prophecy becomes fulfilled. It will then be celebrated every year thereafter:

  And in that time one will arise who wobbles as he talks, and he speaketh a great deal, and there was much chin wobbling. His followers will herald unto him: where shall we send our money? And he spoke unto them: send it to me, let it be done that I may travel the lands far and wide and seek out girls who definitely are over 14 or 20, or whatevers, and that I may lie with them. Also, do not be mentioning my deeds to my wife, for I love her so much that I cheat regularly on her.

  Then the people decided he wasn't any kind of messiah after all, even though he towel-dried his hair to try and look "Jesusey", and decided that they had other things to spend their dough on.

  He swore to smite his enemies, and that the seven heralds of his misdeeds be punished. Great would be the litigation, and in time every soul on earth would see it, and eventually be added to it.

  Great were his lamentations, and his wailing reached all the way up to the Croation high court, up both steps, for it be just a small country, but the laughing was loud.
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  The infinite loop of resurrection

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  scene: the new world, any minute now.... billy bastard, an aborted fetus is resurrected and immediately dies because he is outside the womb of a birthing person.. repeat ad infinitum.

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  Reminds me a bit of "The Egg"

  http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
  
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  UK Contaminated Blood Scandal

  by Simon in

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  up to 30,000 people contracted hiv and hepatitis c in the 1970s and 80s after being given blood treatments or transfusions on the nhs.. thousands have since died.. it just goes to show there is no such thing as a sure thing.. the wts may be wrong about their blood doctrine, and their bible interpretation to justify it, and how they enforced the rules about it, but ultimately may be correct in claiming that "bloodless surgery" was a safer option medically.. canada also had a contaminated blood scandal, where 30,000 were infected with hepatitis c and hiv.. in other news, paying for blood from high-risk donors is a bad idea.

  who knew?

  well apparently the people behind the schemes did, and that's why they covered it up.. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61929986.

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  Up to 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 80s after being given blood treatments or transfusions on the NHS.

  Thousands have since died.

  It just goes to show there is no such thing as a sure thing.

  The WTS may be wrong about their blood doctrine, and their bible interpretation to justify it, and how they enforced the rules about it, but ultimately may be correct in claiming that "bloodless surgery" was a safer option medically.

  Canada also had a contaminated blood scandal, where 30,000 were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV.

  In other news, paying for blood from high-risk donors is a bad idea. Who knew? Well apparently the people behind the schemes did, and that's why they covered it up.

  https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61929986
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  Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

  by Simon in

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  i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

  it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

  plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

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  If you don’t accept abortions, you either don’t care about any circumstance that could warrant an abortion or most circumstances.

  Can you point to anyone saying anything remotely like this?

  It's possible to be against abortion in general, the frivolous use of abortion and promotion of abortion as some "wonderful achievement" for political purposes, and simultaneously have sympathy for individual cases where people are in difficult situations.

  One particularly sad group are trafficked women, forced into prostitution, that Planned Parenthood could do more to help and rescue but instead perpetuate their suffering by erasing the "problem" so they can be put back to work.

  Laws should be viewed holistically. Human traffickers should face the death penalty.
  
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  Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

  by Simon in

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  i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

  it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

  plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

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  If prostitution is the oldest profession, then performing abortions for those women is probably the second oldest.

  At one time, birth control was difficult and had a high failure rate. And pregnancy & childbirth was dangerous and had a higher death rate.

  But we're in 2022 now, not the 1800's. Things have changed.

  Birth control is surely easier and safer than abortion.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  And, in my opinion, if it does some large percentage of Witnesses will just go find somebody else to run their lives for them

  Exactly, the WTS fills a niche. If they were removed something else just like them would fill that same niche.

  So don't waste your life and energy on a pointless crusade.
  
  
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  Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

  by Simon in

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  i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

  it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

  plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

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  with stigma and shame attached.

  Really? I don't think there is any shame for anything nowadays.

  It'd be a tough situation, but make better choices and choose better partners.

  There are lots of stories of people who go through the same thing and stick together and have a wonderful family and child as a result.
  
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  Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

  it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

  plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

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  But every government statistic i've found states that less than 1% of abortions take place after 21 weeks and usually for medical reasons. ... Has it ever been done unnecessarily? Probably. But I suspect "late term abortion" is mostly a bogeyman used to appeal to people's emotions.

  Likewise with claims about rape and incest.

  It makes it all the more bizarre that they want to push for this to be allowed, given that it's so rarely necessary. it certainly shouldn't qualify as "elective".

  Viability before 22 weeks is zero. There is no dependability. The body cannot depend on anything and still survive at that stage

  Viability is the wrong thing to talk about. Science changes, and lots of people are not viable without medical care. Can we just kill all them too?

  I think 18 weeks is a safe limit. Plenty of time to make the choice.