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  Remember the Revelation book?

  by wozza in

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  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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  Maybe if you overlook the fact that Babylon was a city-state and the difference between Babylonians and Persians is debatable..
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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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  This current lot not only lack imagination, they lack the necessary intellect.

  Yes.

  The current crop of leaders and policy makers don't even understand the precepts and methodology behind previous doctrines.

  A religion built from the ground up on typology can't abandon it as an interpretational method, for example.
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  I think Limbaugh is out and out wrong on this

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i listen to rush most days for entertainment.

  i agree with him on some issues and disagree on others.

  but today he said something i believe is an out and out lie.

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  LV101
  

  The function of the audience is to make the talk show host look good. This isn't just true of Limbaugh, it's true of all talk shows.

  Rush Limbaugh is more honest about this than most, as he's said as much many times.
  

  Guests are rare, calls are carefully screened and knowledgeable critics calling in about an embarrassing mistake the host has made are practically nonexistent.

  When it comes to vaccines, some provide long term immunity and some don't. It really depends on the disease. Tetanus vaccinations are very temporary and if you work with your hands at all, you need to keep current.

  Influenza is especially nasty in this regard as there's more than 100 potential variations of just the Type A variety alone.
  
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  I think Limbaugh is out and out wrong on this

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i listen to rush most days for entertainment.

  i agree with him on some issues and disagree on others.

  but today he said something i believe is an out and out lie.

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  I don't agree with personal attacks and hearsay.

  Whether we 'like' Limbaugh or not was not the questioned posed by this thread

  Limbaugh claimed that the annual flu shot was not a vaccine and he was completely, totally wrong.

  Specific strains of the influenza virus, like A/Singapore/GP1908/2015 or B/Maryland/15/2016 NYMC BX-69A are grown in the allantoic cavity of embryonated chicken eggs. They are then harvested and inactivated via a combination of ultraviolet light and formaldehyde. The result is then centrifuged, purified and suspended in a buffered saline solution.

  That is a vaccine. If a talk show host doesn't understand this, then he probably shouldn't be talking about it at all.
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  Find the Beatles Songs in the Picture

  by Simon in

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  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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  Baby You're a Rich Man (Man-baby in the stroller directly under the glass onion)
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  I think Limbaugh is out and out wrong on this

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i listen to rush most days for entertainment.

  i agree with him on some issues and disagree on others.

  but today he said something i believe is an out and out lie.

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  Flulaval by GlaxoSmithKline, another four strain formulation

  
  

  As you can see from the packaging, these vaccines are specific to the flu season, because as I said, the exact strains to inoculate against are an educated guess made months in advance.
  
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  I think Limbaugh is out and out wrong on this

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i listen to rush most days for entertainment.

  i agree with him on some issues and disagree on others.

  but today he said something i believe is an out and out lie.

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  Fluzone by Sanofi Pasteur:

  
  
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  What Happened To This Year’s JW Memorial Celebration

  by minimus in

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  i really don’t know.

  did they have it?

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  Via Zoom.
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  I think Limbaugh is out and out wrong on this

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i listen to rush most days for entertainment.

  i agree with him on some issues and disagree on others.

  but today he said something i believe is an out and out lie.

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  After listening to it, I wonder if he's under the impression that vaccines are permanent, as in lasting the rest of your life (?)

  Although this is true (Or nearly so) for some diseases, it's not for others. Tetanus, for example, requires regular boosters because immunity fades after just a few years.

  At any rate, it's much better to take your political information from political sources and your medical information from medical sources.

  This is the same guy that said back in February, "...I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks," which is true for some strains, but not for the one responsible for Covid-19 which is a novel strain.

  Two months later, the U.S. has 23,644 dead out of only 587,173 confirmed cases, which is an alarming ratio.
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  I think Limbaugh is out and out wrong on this

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i listen to rush most days for entertainment.

  i agree with him on some issues and disagree on others.

  but today he said something i believe is an out and out lie.

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  I think what he was probably trying to say is that flu shots are prepared for the strain(s) that are anticipated to be active during flu season.

  Since this is simply an educated case, it's sometimes wrong and the strain you're inoculated against is not the strain that people become infected with.

  After all the goofy and just plain wrong things he's said about the Covid-19 outbreak and SARS-CoV-2 in the last month, you would think he would be embarrassed and perhaps stick to topics he understands.