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  Find the Beatles Songs in the Picture

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  some light entertainment ... there are apparently 39 beatles songs hidden in the picture, but depending on how to interpret some of them you may come up with more.. please post one each, to give everyone a go, and describe where the song is in the picture (so it's not just coming up with a list of beatles songs).

  also, check for existing answers - i'll post summaries to show the ones already identified.. .

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  Fool on the Hill (Far upper right corner)
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  Projected Covid 19 deaths in USA - about the same as 'flu stats.

  by The Fall Guy in

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  according to white house task-force expert: .

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52241221.

  "dr anthony fauci, a key member of the white house's coronavirus task force, told nbc news' today show on thursday the final number of americans who will die from covid-19 in the outbreak "looks more like 60,000".

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  Yes. And the flu killed more people last year than Ebola, Bubonic plague and Diphtheria combined. Clearly the dangers of these diseases are overblown....
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  Covid 19 CENSORSHIP

  by The Fall Guy in

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  if anyone voices an opinion with which i disagree or even detest, i can either debate it or walk away.. the last thing i want is for someone to be silenced by threats.

  however, it appears that some opinions on social media etc.

  which contradict the official narrative are being muted.

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  Doctors, lawyers, engineers and other professions that involve public health, safety and trust all have disciplinary boards which can suspend or even strip you of your professional certification entirely.

  Conversely, practicing medicine, law, and engineering without a license is illegal, which is why technical writers have to be careful not to cross that line.

  It's really not that hard to understand.
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  Covid 19 CENSORSHIP

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  if anyone voices an opinion with which i disagree or even detest, i can either debate it or walk away.. the last thing i want is for someone to be silenced by threats.

  however, it appears that some opinions on social media etc.

  which contradict the official narrative are being muted.

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  Perhaps the pendulum has swung too far, but surely we don't want to go back to the days when anybody could claim to be a physician and charlatans hawked Radium Belts, Electronic Radio Biolas?

  It's easy on a forum full of intelligent people to think that we are so much more sophisticated today and maybe it's easy to forget that JW views on evolution are accepted as solid science in some circles.
  

  A good case in point was an article written about the Covid-19 outbreak by a right wing political activist here in the U.S. The gentleman, by the name of Aaron Ginn, dressed up the claim that this was really no worse than the seasonal flu with impressive looking charts, outdated and cherry-picked statistics and the public lapped it up.

  --Even when the claims did not follow from the charts like this little gem below:

  
  

  His article was taken down and he (Predictably) cried censorship.
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  I am one of the few old people who never got vaccinated. Parents were Members of a sect that didnt get them

  Wow....

  Not even the OPV (Sabine) Polio vaccine?

  --A sugar cube with a pink dot handed to you in a Dixie cup?
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  Covid 19 CENSORSHIP

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  if anyone voices an opinion with which i disagree or even detest, i can either debate it or walk away.. the last thing i want is for someone to be silenced by threats.

  however, it appears that some opinions on social media etc.

  which contradict the official narrative are being muted.

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  Well yeah, but the person in your article above claimed to be a "Registered Nurse" when she in fact was not. She then when on to promote her crackpot theories under the guise of a medical professional.

  It's actually a pretty good example of the line where free speech ends.
  
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  Covid 19 CENSORSHIP

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  if anyone voices an opinion with which i disagree or even detest, i can either debate it or walk away.. the last thing i want is for someone to be silenced by threats.

  however, it appears that some opinions on social media etc.

  which contradict the official narrative are being muted.

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  I don't really know how it works in the UK, but here in the US, information in medical and legal fields does not necessarily fall under the umbrella of free speech.

  It's why writers offer disclaimers such as, "Always check with your physician before starting any exercise program" or "This is not legal advice and should not be construed as such" when the subject matter strays into these areas of expertise.

  There's a very real risk of liability and it is therefore not censorship if a third party does not want any part of it.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  Latest reports are that 50 percent of people with carona have no symptoms. They say if true this would lower the death rate to .6 percents

  I'd like to read about this if you remember where you saw it. In the studies I've read so far, (Diamond Princess, South Korea and recently Iceland) the asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic cases were already included in the overall number.
  
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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

  i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

  who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.

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  As official doctrine, the wild allegorical interpretations of Revelation have all had very short shelf lives.

  As humor, they pretty much last forever..
  
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  Evidence of WT bad intent - How they handled changing the meaning of "porneia"

  by AlainAlam in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  sorry, long post :) i'm considering evidence that at least at some point, the gb/watchtower had bad intentions.

  i would like to share the following: *** w74 11/15 p. 703 questions from readers ***do lewd practices on the part of a married person toward that one’s own mate constitute a scriptural basis for the offended mate to get a divorce?there are times when lewd practices within the marriage arrangement would provide a basis for a scriptural divorce.. based on this, some jw chose to divorce.

  but then:*** w83 3/15 p. 30 honor godly marriage!

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  I find this really troubling. They played a direct role in families breaking up and honest-hearted individuals committing fornication. They can't just dismiss it in a footnote.

  I agree, AA,

  However this is far from the only example of that behavior.

  Gamma globulin, which is the basis for virtually all post-exposure vaccines was once forbidden.

  To put this in real life terms, let's say you step on a nail or some other metallic object. If it's been more than five years since your last tetanus shot, your physician will inject tetanus immune globulin instead of the standard booster. He won't think twice about it and neither will you.

  Not only has the JW parent organization never apologized for forbidding this type of treatment, they promote the fiction today that blood based preparations were gradually allowed as they became available, which is not true.

  People suffered real, physical harm remaining faithful to JW medical quackery and nobody has ever even acknowledged it, let alone apologized for it.