Posts by TD
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8Mormon abuse allegations
by RolRod inmormons in the news covering up abuse allegations.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/us/wirestory/mormons-meet-salt-lake-city-biannual-conference-90816632.
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I'm Not Saying Americans are Stupid
by Simon inbut maybe they over-value their own abilities.
c'mon, imagining you could fight a gorilla, lion, elephant, or bear with your bare hands?!?.
this could be an amazing new reality tv show though ... "ok, bubba, you've just beaten a dog ... now for $16,000 do you want to fight a chimpanzee?
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Interesting
Chimpanzee and Kangaroo might be slightly explainable via media images of juveniles. (i.e. A lot of people, apparently many of them Americans, don't understand how big and strong an adult male of either species is)
But grizzly and lion? You would think most people understand the concept of suicide. - LOL
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A humorous look at the efficacy of the vaccines
by Vidqun inhttps://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/friday-dark-humor-vaccine-efficacy-science-explained.
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Here’s just one with less than half a Google search
I'm sorry Anony Mous. Where did it say that synthetic mRNA persists indefinitely once injected?
(i.e. That it is not just as fragile as any other polymeric nucleotide)
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A humorous look at the efficacy of the vaccines
by Vidqun inhttps://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/friday-dark-humor-vaccine-efficacy-science-explained.
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Citation?
There have have an awful lot of papers on mRNA decay and its pathways in mammals since the late 90's
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A humorous look at the efficacy of the vaccines
by Vidqun inhttps://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/friday-dark-humor-vaccine-efficacy-science-explained.
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For the life of me I do not know how injecting a tiny little snippet of the viral RNA is somehow worse than injecting the entire genome.
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Honest Hearted Ones
by Sea Breeze inthere are certain wt terms that sound biblical but really just puff up the pride.
hundreds of times the wt has used the term honest-hearted in their literature.
it sounds biblical, if for no other reason because we hear it so often in jw circles.
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The JW use of the term, "Honest hearted" is a very old technique.
"So?" said the gentleman in the fine coat: "are ye of the honest party?" (meaning, Was he a Jacobite? for each side, in these sort of civil broils, takes the name of honesty for its own).
(Robert Lewis Stevenson)
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Our J.W friends still have issues with beards 2022??Why?
by Witness 007 inour witness friend who during covid grew his beard has been hassled by elders who asked him "why" he chose to have facial growth.
he for real, had to give an answer why.
this is pharasees total rubbish.
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The JW assertion that beards are unusual in the U.S. is bullshit
Thirty-three percent of American males have beards. This is down from slightly over fifty percent 10 years ago.
Among Architects and Engineers, the figure is close to 90 percent
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Did the Watchtower Society ban Vaccinations and Organ Transplants?
by Vanderhoven7 inan avid wts supporter writes:.
re: vaccinations: vaccinations have never been banned.
if they were, then no representative of the wts would have been allowed to travel overseas when vaccines were compulsory around 1920 when vaccines was regularly in the news, there was both positive and negative information printed in the golden age (forerunner of the awake) but not from the staff writers, but from out side sources of article by medical doctors at the time and others that responded to those articles.. re: organ transplants: organ transplants were never forbidden by the society.
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Is he right or wrong?
He is not completely correct, but not blatantly wrong either.
Serum immunizations (i.e. Post-exposure vaccines) were formally allowed in 1958 and the Watchtower article openly admitted that blood-based vaccines had been placed in the same category as blood transfusions in the past.
"Ban" is too strong a word, as transfusion was not yet a "disfellowshipping" offense, but it would be dishonest to pretend that the JW parent organization did not explicitly teach against such "misuse of blood."
Our starry-eyed apologist could be shown multiple statements in the mid 50's stating that anything derived from blood is forbidden regardless of whether it was administered as an injection or transfusion.
The situation with organ transplantation is similar. To my knowledge, there were not formal sanctions for non-compliance, but again, it is dishonest to pretend that the JW's did not teach against them.
That transfusion was "essentially an organ transplant" and therefore a form of cannibalism was actually one of the JW arguments against transfusion at one point. Bartolomeo above has provided a quote, but there are others.
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The Cross & Crown on Watch Tower
by BoogerMan incan anyone state what year russell & co. first introduced the cross & crown on the cover of the watch tower?.
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Every major religious denomination and church group has used the cross and crown emblem.
From Catholic to Lutheran to Southern Baptist, there is nothing even mildly unusual about it
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My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang
by Sea Breeze ina new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
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John Mather, a senior project scientist for the JWST maintains a blog where he sometimes addresses questions about the telescope and big bang theory.
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27054
Mather has pointed out more than once that WMAP, COBE and Planck have all "looked" back farther than the JWST is capable of.
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The definitive work on Einstein and God/Religion was written in 1999 by Max Jammer, who was one of his closest acquaintances. Jammer exhaustively compiles Einstein's written statements on the subject, both public and private.
https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Religion-Theology-Max-Jammer/dp/069110297X