Posts by TD

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Is English a hybrid language?

by LoveUniHateExams in

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the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

i play - ich spiele.

TD

I agree.

I've also wondered at times if some of the quirks of American English are due to the German influence. (Substantial amount of German settlers in North America.)

For example, "Dumb" as a synonym for stupid. It's a lot like the German word, dumm, which does mean stupid.

Or the American usage of the word "already" as an intensifier. It functions exactly the same way the German word, "schon" does. --Do it already! / Mach es schon!

Or cardinal numbers as another example. American English omits the word, "and" for numbers higher than 100, just like German. --One hundred five / einhundertfünf

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If you have a question maybe I can help doctor of theology and one of Jehovah's witnesses

by Jehovahisgod in

my name is ari matthew davies.

i am a life experience consultant counselor i have a doctor's degree theology psychology clinical addictions and computer sciences.

i am also baptized as well as jehovah's witnesses.. if you have a question i've got a lot of experience and a lot of real life training.

TD

I have a doctor's degree theology psychology clinical addictions and computer sciences.

By my count (And if I'm understanding the sentence) that is four separate doctorates in four disparate fields (?)

I wonder how many years that took....

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Submission and stupid rules

by Lady Lee in

what a load of crap this stupid belief was.

i'll give you a couple of examples.

i was the sign language interpreter for our congregation and there was about 15-20 deaf who regularly showed up.

TD

It's not unheard of for a lady to experience something very similar at or near the cusp of menopause. My wife did.

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PRP (platelets) injections, are they effective? Do they REALLY work?

by Fisherman in

since health insurance doesn’t pay for prp injections, i am skeptical about it’s efficacy.

obviously if this treatment was necessary, it would be paid by health insurance.

don’t know much about prp except that the physician extracts blood from the patient and concentrates the platelets from the blood then injects the medicine into the affected site in the body to speed up healing of a torn ligament for example.. i saw an interesting statement in wt online site saying or implying that sub major components might be a personal decision and also using one’s own blood may be a personal decision, if i understood the information correctly..

TD

The problem here is whole platelets removed from the body

In JW terminology, platelets are a primary component, not a fraction.

For JW patients, the acceptability of all forms of autologous transfusion is decided using recirculation as the litmus test.

A blood patch is acceptable only if the syringe remains connected to the vein throughout the procedure. Blood salvage and isovolemic hemodilution became acceptable to the JW community only after these procedures were modified to recirculate a small amount of the patient's blood.

I'd guess that PRP therapy acceptable to JWs, would probably require the collection apparatus to remain connected to the patient throughout the procedure (?)

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PRP (platelets) injections, are they effective? Do they REALLY work?

by Fisherman in

since health insurance doesn’t pay for prp injections, i am skeptical about it’s efficacy.

obviously if this treatment was necessary, it would be paid by health insurance.

don’t know much about prp except that the physician extracts blood from the patient and concentrates the platelets from the blood then injects the medicine into the affected site in the body to speed up healing of a torn ligament for example.. i saw an interesting statement in wt online site saying or implying that sub major components might be a personal decision and also using one’s own blood may be a personal decision, if i understood the information correctly..

TD

Multiple studies have shown its efficacy for osteoarthritis in the knee

Here's a good example

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33523756/

--Not a "conscience matter" AFAIK, but I would be most interested to learn otherwise.

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Scriptures That Bothered You as a JW Kid.

by Sea Breeze in

my big one was: .

rev.

20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.

TD

I'm not sure if bothered is the right word for me, (Parents started studying when I was an adolescent) but references to external sources which the bible writer clearly viewed as authoritative did seem to fit into picture presented by JW's

These would include The Annals of King David, The Book of Jasher, The Book of Enoch, etc.

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Index of Evidence for Evolution Threads

by cofty in

re-posting this for reference.. #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

TD

20+ Caudal vertebrae is a wee bit more than birds have

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JWs and Prepping

by TD in

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the jws i know (which admittedly are more liberal than most) are suddenly into prepping to one degree or another.

some have simply assembled "go bags" with basic common sense supplies in case they need to bug out in the event of a natural disaster and others seem to be seriously into it, almost to the degree to which mormons are.

backup generators and a year's supply of food and water).

TD

What prompted this thread was a JW acquaintance wanting help with a generator transfer switch, which (IMO) is pretty far beyond a basic bug out bag. This gentleman served in the air force before his JW days, so maybe that makes him an exception.

On the whole though, I think it's a far more responsible thing to encourage church members to take care of basic needs themselves (Like Joseph during the 7 years of famine) as opposed to the idea that they don't need to lift a finger because God will take care of them personally. Certainly God could do that if he chose to, but no human can know that before the fact and it's irresponsible to tell people otherwise,

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What novels would you recommend?

by LoveUniHateExams in

i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).

three by john ajvide lindqvist:.

let the old dreams die.

TD

I've always found it amusing that Randall Flag from The Stand carried Watchtowers, but that's just me

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What novels would you recommend?

by LoveUniHateExams in

i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).

three by john ajvide lindqvist:.

let the old dreams die.

TD

I just realized I had used a double negative, which probably muddled what I was trying to say. The books I recommended aren't on par with Dickens or Austen and won't be remembered that way, but (IMO) are more enjoyable nonetheless.

I'm a fan of King, but haven't read Salem's Lot yet. --Will definitely give it a go.