Saintbertholdt

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  Prayers answered

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
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  recently a lady i knew in china who contracted a rare virus, a sickness from which few chinamen ever survive.. .

  in china the woman was shifted from hospital to hospital with no one being able to treat the disease.

  eventually she was taken in by a hospital in shanghi.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Not that i care what hawking says but he didnt actually say that....

  Well yeah, its also a picture of Richard Dawkins, that's why its called bait :)

  
  
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  Prayers answered

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently a lady i knew in china who contracted a rare virus, a sickness from which few chinamen ever survive.. .

  in china the woman was shifted from hospital to hospital with no one being able to treat the disease.

  eventually she was taken in by a hospital in shanghi.

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  Saintbertholdt

  And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perhaps because of the expectations the prayers created, the researchers suggested.

  So prayer could kill you? Thats not what Stephen Hawking says:

  
  
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  Prayers answered

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently a lady i knew in china who contracted a rare virus, a sickness from which few chinamen ever survive.. .

  in china the woman was shifted from hospital to hospital with no one being able to treat the disease.

  eventually she was taken in by a hospital in shanghi.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Possible but very different MO's. This one has been posting feel good unprovable testimonials for 4years. The other troll just dropped in today for a rather pointless racist rant. Two different animals i recon

  Ok...Ok I'll post some tasteless bait :)

  
  
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  Prayers answered

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently a lady i knew in china who contracted a rare virus, a sickness from which few chinamen ever survive.. .

  in china the woman was shifted from hospital to hospital with no one being able to treat the disease.

  eventually she was taken in by a hospital in shanghi.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Whats the chances that this is actually just StopTheTears trolling with some delicious bait?

  
  

  Here's some bait of my own.
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  Prayers answered

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently a lady i knew in china who contracted a rare virus, a sickness from which few chinamen ever survive.. .

  in china the woman was shifted from hospital to hospital with no one being able to treat the disease.

  eventually she was taken in by a hospital in shanghi.

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  Saintbertholdt

  His own post proves he is lying. Should we play "Spot the Poop"?

  Do you mean that the lady spoke to StopTheTears after she was in a coma?

  Perhaps it was her spirit using telepathy :)

  Or referring to Chinese people as Chinamen?

  Perhaps its an acceptable colloquialism in China :)
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  Prayers answered

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently a lady i knew in china who contracted a rare virus, a sickness from which few chinamen ever survive.. .

  in china the woman was shifted from hospital to hospital with no one being able to treat the disease.

  eventually she was taken in by a hospital in shanghi.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Hello there StopTheTears,

  Forgive my incredulity when I ask:

  1. How do I know that this really happened and that you didn't make this whole story up?

  2. Why were your prayers answered but not the prayers of thousands of Christian people who were also praying for a miracle at the same time, but who God ignored?

  If what you say happened you should be glad that so many people became Christians and that the lady has recovered. However posting things like this on a forum without evidence will just reap a harvest of skepticism.
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  Org's National Flag Contradict

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the org sanctions elders in chile to hang the national flag from kingdom halls annually, but has a problem with rwanda's law for newly-weds to hold a flag as they get married.

  "jehovahs witnesses in rwanda, and as a worldwide organization, express concern for human rights violations as outlined above.

  they respectfully request the government of rwanda to take the necessary steps to: permit jehovahs witnesses to take the marriage vows in civil ceremonies or oaths without being forced to hold the national flag;".

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  Saintbertholdt

  Hi Searcher,

  The Org sanctions elders in Chile to hang the national flag from Kingdom Halls annually
  

  Got any more information on that?
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  New picture...about time...sorry for bat gravatar

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  if only it was so easy to change our looks in real life........

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  Saintbertholdt

  Hey Blondie,

  Change... they say... is as good as a holiday.

  I like the pink hair. Atomic!
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  Do you think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime or a terrible act of war ?

  by truthseeker100 in

  1. social
  2. current

  i believe that the bombings shortened the war in the pacific and probably saved countless lives.

  i am not an expert on this subject but given the times it was probably the correct and moral thing to do.. what say you all?.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Originally there was some talk by the Allies of first demonstrating the A-bomb.

  But then the argument was: What if it doesn't work or doesn't work well?

  So then there was talk of Warning the Japanese.

  Well again what if it doesn't work or doesn't work well?

  So the final idea was drop it without warning. However the Allies did send a cable a couple of days before the first detonation demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan without any new reasons being given except the apparent fact that Japan would eventually lose the war.

  Dropping the A-bomb a second time without warning also did two things:

  1. It maximized shock value

  2. It left the question open whether the US still had more A-bombs in their arsenal just waiting to be dropped

  Well it certainly shocked Japan but that was not the reason they actually surrendered. They were still adamant to keep on fighting unless they could retain the Emperor as a true monarch. Turns out the primary reason for Japan's surrender was that Communist Russia attacked Japan in China and so doing declared war on Japan. So with that Japan was truly finished.

  So to answer the question with my 2 cents: No it was not a war crime. Japan would have fought to the last man, women and child if Russia had not entered the war against Japan. The Allies had to minimize their casualties while still gaining victory. If Japan had continued the War as they were aiming to do, the US would have systemically nuclear carpet bombed them until the Japanese realized the truth of their situation.
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  Photodrama of creation: Solar system has 12 planets?

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the photodrama of creation there's a picture of the solar system.. there are 12 solar orbiting objects.

  (also a 13th orbit which seems to be a comet, probably halley).

  does anyone know where russell got this from?.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Hi Suraj,

  Pluto had not yet been discovered, and would not be until after Russell's death.

  The 12th object is after Neptune.

  As far as I understand it, a 9th planet was already guessed at in the late 19th century.