Posts by Unstuck

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GcMAF - cure or major treatment for autoimmune disease, cancer, autism, etc, and being suppressed or hype?

by Bad_Wolf in

since most people in this group have been taught how to research and fact check with our jw history and getting out, this is a topic that can be constructive to check out.

i stumbled upon this and spent some time researching it, and it's quite interesting.

it's part of your immune system, gcmaf.

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Diogenesister - you're not far off the mark! I had a very interesting conversation with one of our professors who feels that melanoma will be treated like an immune disease. There appears to be a link between melanoma and our immune systems, or I should say that how melanoma behaves is similar to other immune diseases. Take for example chickenpox. We have that as children (usually) and our immune systems work out how to suppress the disease but later in life it can return as shingles - our immune suppression no longer works. So this professor theorized that melanoma could in the future be treated the same way, using immunotherapy, suppressing the melanoma disease. It could be argued that that is not a cure as the disease is not eradicated but it then becomes a condition to be treated long-term.

There is of course much more to it - I can only explain in layman terms as I'm not clinically trained (you know, spent my life in a cult and didn't pursue higher education) but I'm gobbling up what information I can now and I'm fascinated to learn what "man" and the "world" are achieving despite the fact that things are supposed to be getting worse......

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GcMAF - cure or major treatment for autoimmune disease, cancer, autism, etc, and being suppressed or hype?

by Bad_Wolf in

since most people in this group have been taught how to research and fact check with our jw history and getting out, this is a topic that can be constructive to check out.

i stumbled upon this and spent some time researching it, and it's quite interesting.

it's part of your immune system, gcmaf.

Unstuck

I work in a cancer practice (melanoma) and I can speak rather adamantly as to the efforts being made to FIND A CURE! I have seen too many patients die from this horrible disease and I am very happy to say that as far as melanoma is concerned, great advances have been made in treatment. When I first started here in 2003, the prognosis was very bleak for Stage IV disease - you only had a 33% chance of being alive in 12 months. It was grim and horrible.

Now, in 2018, if you have Stage IV disease - you have an 87% chance of being alive in 12 months. In fact, some of our patients who commenced on new therapies (either targeted therapy or immunotherapy) are now completely disease free 4-5 years later! Without more concrete data the word "cure" can't be bandied about and there is much research to be done in the group of patients that don't respond to either targeted therapy or immunotherapy - we don't why they don't respond, yet.

I can't speak for other cancer groups but I defy anyone to tell me that there is no intention to cure melanoma - that's poppycock. (Yes, I'm rather passionate about this topic.)

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Watchtower refuses to "Say Sorry" to Australian Royal Commission

by Darth FayDehr in

https://youtu.be/qic5cfkjswu.

interview on melbourne (australia) abc radio - regarding watchtower's refusal to "say sorry" (global campaign).

radio host jon faine interviews lara kaputt.

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Good point Zeb!

In Aus we have found it necessary to start calling the ARC the CARC (Child Abuse Royal Commission). This is because there is another ARC running right now in Australia but it is directed at financial institutions (Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry).

So to avoid confusion about which ARC we are referring to, we have started referring to the CARC for the Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse to be specific.

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Watchtower refuses to "Say Sorry" to Australian Royal Commission

by Darth FayDehr in

https://youtu.be/qic5cfkjswu.

interview on melbourne (australia) abc radio - regarding watchtower's refusal to "say sorry" (global campaign).

radio host jon faine interviews lara kaputt.

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Hi All,

I was privileged to attend the National Apology yesterday. I was part of a small group of ex-jws attending the event. It was thrilling to be there, to hear the Apology in the Gallery of the House of Representatives but more importantly for the ex-jw community, to hear the Australian Prime Minister speak about the Government's commitment to follow-up on the recommendations from the CARC (Child Abuse Royal Commission to distinguish from the current ARC which is investigating financial institutions) and to hold to account any organisations that do not embrace the recommendations or participate in the redress scheme. The Australian Government will be reviewing yearly the progress of institutions in adopting the recommendations.

After the apology, one of our community, spoke directly to Mr Scott Morrison (our current PM if you don't know until there is another leadership spill!) about the Jehovah's Witnesses failing to say sorry and their non-participation in the redress scheme and the Prime Minister said: "We are aware of that and we will be addressing it".

Unlucky for Watchtower, the CARC is not going to go away. They are going to have to do something or they will be forced to.

Lara was incredible! Her energy in chasing any politician / journalist / mover-or-shaker of any sort was phenomenal and something to observe. She managed, with Steven Unthank, to speak with Mr Bill Shorten (the opposition Leader), Ms Julia Gillard (former PM) and many many others.

We also hounded several reporters and journalists during the course of the afternoon, some were very interested in what we had to tell them about Watchtower. The highlight for me was getting to speak with Justice Peter McClellan who told us that of all the videos from the CARC, the Jehovah's Witnesses had the highest views! I was able to tell him that for so many of us the CARC was the breaking point that helped us leave the religion. He said he was very happy to hear that.

It was an incredible day that I will be processing for some time.

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Belief in God

by jdash in

when did you guys start to doubt your faith in god?'.

what made you doubt your faith in god?.

thanks !.

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I second the girl next door. (Thanks for sharing the Bart Ehrman quote - that was fantastic! My reading hasn't got around to him yet....)

jdash - I congratulate you on asking these questions, at the tender age of 17! You rock! It took me to the age of 41 to grapple with this question, to even recognise that it was a legitimate question! One that I had just dismissed as foolish, selfish thinking before. For me, it was intertwined with waking up from my indoctrination. Realising that WT was just so wrong (and yet I had believed that it was the one true religion for most of my life) was such a betrayal and it made me examine why a god, if there was one, would allow sincere-hearted people to be deliberately misled. Why was it so difficult to get to know him? I started asking all the same questions that so many people I had knocked on the doors of had also asked me. And I realised that the answers I thought I was providing were incredibly hollow, deeply unsatisfying and lacked any real substance. At the same time, I began to delve into why I had a belief in a god, just what was my "evidence"? I realised that my "evidence" was all based on feeling, personal experience, nothing that was tangible at all.

From there I read, and read, and read and I will keep reading. Taking into account Bart Ehrman's comments, I shy away from saying I am a definite atheist. After being so confident that I KNEW the "truth" I don't want to be so arrogant again. I would say I'm agnostic atheist (and I will think more about Bart's comments because I do like his distinguishing between faith and knowledge) but I will say I'm definitely anti-theist. If there was some higher being it is definitely NOT the god described in the bible. Reading the bible now without the apologetics (yo dubstepped!) I could not admire or respect such a despicable character as YHWH.

Hope my thoughts add a little to your research and ponderings and again, well done you for asking the questions - keep asking, there is so much to learn about and never be afraid to continue adjusting and reshaping your conclusions. The world is your oyster!

Love Sherrie

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The JWs in the crowd gasped in Australian court..

by koolaid-man in

jw
friends

shocking information near the bottom of this report from a watchtower lawyer definding the organization in australian courts.focus on the information under the heading: "the faithful and discreet slave".

quite the shocker... the society's lawyer statesthere is no true physical body of people, but only a theological arrangement.

the jws in the crowd gasped.

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Vin Toole is a liar. He gave a talk at our hall a number of years ago on theocratic warfare. Danced across the stage as he delivered his talk, those that know him know that he is a theatrical speaker.

Yet, at the ARC, he lied point blank when questioned about theocratic warfare. Saying he wasn't familiar with the term. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

I don't have many nice things to say about him.

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The Unveiling

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

ladies and gentlemen, i proudly present you with mr and mrs @stucknomore2.0:.

https://youtu.be/o9bqz9jj_qg.

sacha and sherrie, you've done an amazing job in spreading the word about this forum, and it is my sincerest hope that the plug you made brings some newcomers in.

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Thanks for your concern Sparrowdown - that is much appreciated. Time will tell if there is backlash - but if there is, Sacha and I are prepared to face it. As usual, I was the slower one in this - Sacha has been ready for some time to "come out" but he patiently waited for me to be ready. After the behaviour already shown to us by most in-JWs I figure we now have absolutely nothing to lose in revealing ourselves but our lives to gain! I finally got tired of being worried about potential consequences and tired of letting an organisation I now despise have any power over my life! The time for that is well and truly done. Sacha and I have prepared those closest to us that it could affect as best as we can and we are ready!

We want to help support those who have left or who are in the process of leaving as much as we can and we now feel that can best done by showing we have nothing to be afraid of or ashamed of.

I feel freer now that you all know our names and what we proudly stand for - truth, honesty, integrity.

No-one can take that away from us.

Love & light to all,

Sherrie (formerly Unstuck!)

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Where is Wake Me Ip Before You Jo Ho?

by Vanderhoven7 in

jw
friends

hope you are well wake me!.

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Hey guys - so Wake Me is alive and well. She started a thread about our interview with Lloyd Evans which we appreciated. This girl is amaze balls. You get a glimpse of her on this forum - but we get the real deal!

Yes - be very jealous.

This girl is something else. Cute as all else, intelligent as I don't know what (obviously not me!) and just a beautiful person that I don't have enough adjectives for to adequately describe AND a great mum to her little boy to boot!

I for one need to see her on this forum and I KNOW I'm not the only one that thinks so.

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The Unveiling

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

ladies and gentlemen, i proudly present you with mr and mrs @stucknomore2.0:.

https://youtu.be/o9bqz9jj_qg.

sacha and sherrie, you've done an amazing job in spreading the word about this forum, and it is my sincerest hope that the plug you made brings some newcomers in.

Unstuck

Wake-Me - you cheeky thing.

What can I say! Wow. The last 24 hours have been a whirlwind and I am very happy to say - there are no regrets. We are so thrilled with the interview and how Lloyd edited it. We are overwhelmed by the feedback and responses - it is way more than we expected. We just wanted to be able to help one or two with our story.

Dubstepped - HELL YEAH MAN!! I am so gunna take you up on that offer! Your mic better be warmed up cos there is much much more to the story! I cannot wait to met you and your awesome wife!

Too many exclamation points? It's been a long day, my only excuse

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Catholic church and ARC

by zeb in

the catholic church has begun its formal reply to the arc.. how long before the wt makes a reply...in english without obfuscation...

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Yeah - you're asking too much Zeb. I'm mean, the catholic church has even apologised to its child sexual abuse survivors and I don't see WT doing that at all - ever. As was captioned in a cartoon here is Aus, WT is still waiting on an apology from the survivors!