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  Have You Prepared For The "Flu" And Do You Get A Flu Shot?

  by minimus in

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  i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..

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  Barrold Bonds

  Getting the flu and having 'flu like symptoms' are not the same thing.

  For example, during Christmas I came down with Influenza-like illness (ILI for short). It has the same symptoms but it is not the flu.
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  Have You Prepared For The "Flu" And Do You Get A Flu Shot?

  by minimus in

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  i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..

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  Barrold Bonds

  Oh geez. Did someone bring up thimerosal. What's next: Vaccines cause autism?

  edit: Ahahah. That link posted did say it. What a bunch of maroons.

  Aguest: Please tell me how a vaccine containing no live virii can give you the flu? Hint: It can't. Please read my post to see how someone 'can get the flu' despite the flu shot.
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  Have You Prepared For The "Flu" And Do You Get A Flu Shot?

  by minimus in

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  i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..

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  Barrold Bonds

  Wow. A lot people in here buying into snake oil like colloidal silver.

  Fact: You cannot get the flu from the shot. Once you get the shot it can take a couple weeks for it to do it's thing. If you get the flu after the shot, then that means you were exposed to a different strain, you were exposed before the shot took effect, or you already had the flu in your system before the shot.

  Now it's entirely possible that you could have an allergy that would prevent you from getting the flu. In that case, god speed. A lot of people have mentioned things to 'prevent' the flu. That stuff is literally all bunk. The flu is a virus and the stuff mentioned has absolutely zero anti-viral properties.

  This stuff is all fact. End of story
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  Law School/Medical School Reading Book on Genetics and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Justitia Themis in

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  the book is recommended reading in my bioethics law class.

  this is a law/medicine class that combines students from the school of medicine, the school of public health, and the school of law, so a broad cross-section of people will base their opinions of jws on this book.

  my fellow students include a working neonatologist, a japanese health department employee, a chinese gentleman who works for some chinese gov't agency, a north african lawyer, an australian international health care worker, an undergrad ethics professor from a different, but local, university, and a social worker who is a fellow at a local pediatric bioethics foundation.

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  Barrold Bonds

  I ignored your socio-economic bullshit because there is no correlation. There are smart,dumb,poor, and rich people who buy into alternative medicine garbage.

  it also doesn't matter if doctors and hospitals use holistic medicine. That stuff has a placebo effect at best and is dangerous at worst. People who buy into it are dumb. That's a straight up fact.
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  Law School/Medical School Reading Book on Genetics and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Justitia Themis in

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  the book is recommended reading in my bioethics law class.

  this is a law/medicine class that combines students from the school of medicine, the school of public health, and the school of law, so a broad cross-section of people will base their opinions of jws on this book.

  my fellow students include a working neonatologist, a japanese health department employee, a chinese gentleman who works for some chinese gov't agency, a north african lawyer, an australian international health care worker, an undergrad ethics professor from a different, but local, university, and a social worker who is a fellow at a local pediatric bioethics foundation.

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  Barrold Bonds

  And only a small minority of all the witnesses i've encountered used alternative medicine. i guess my anecdotal data trumps yours.

  also i'm sorry to tell you but alternative medicine is all snake oil.

  the wt writing cautionary statements about alternative medicine doesn't mean jack shit. they write warnings for literally everything. see the thread here http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/244690/1/Crazy-Weird-Quotes-in-1-15-WT-Article-WT-Society-Opinions-Nothing-More
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  Law School/Medical School Reading Book on Genetics and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Justitia Themis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the book is recommended reading in my bioethics law class.

  this is a law/medicine class that combines students from the school of medicine, the school of public health, and the school of law, so a broad cross-section of people will base their opinions of jws on this book.

  my fellow students include a working neonatologist, a japanese health department employee, a chinese gentleman who works for some chinese gov't agency, a north african lawyer, an australian international health care worker, an undergrad ethics professor from a different, but local, university, and a social worker who is a fellow at a local pediatric bioethics foundation.

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  Barrold Bonds

  I see. When you stated what I quoted that implies that JW's have a thing for alternative, which is probably not the case. I'm going to guess that the percentage of JW's who use alternative medicine is the same as non-JW's.

  Also, I'm sure you know this, but for anyone reading this, using alternative medicine for treating cancer is dumb.
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  Law School/Medical School Reading Book on Genetics and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Justitia Themis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the book is recommended reading in my bioethics law class.

  this is a law/medicine class that combines students from the school of medicine, the school of public health, and the school of law, so a broad cross-section of people will base their opinions of jws on this book.

  my fellow students include a working neonatologist, a japanese health department employee, a chinese gentleman who works for some chinese gov't agency, a north african lawyer, an australian international health care worker, an undergrad ethics professor from a different, but local, university, and a social worker who is a fellow at a local pediatric bioethics foundation.

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  Barrold Bonds

  " He also addresses the penchant for JWs to seek alternative treatments."

  I get what the writer is trying to say but presenting anecdotal evidence is dumb.
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  Weird "new world" artwork from the 2013 calendar

  by cedars in

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  my mother-in-law has a strange obsession with calendars, and orders the society's calendar each year.

  this year's calendar is especially weird.

  it features images depicting future events - in particular, the society's vision of the new world order.. i've taken the opportunity to scan some of the images for you all to check out.. please note - there are captions for each of the images, but i don't have the english language version of the calendar so i'd rather just quote the scripture used so as not to reveal which country i'm in.. .

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  Barrold Bonds

  Even before I faded I stopped ordering the calendar years before that. I just DON'T use physical calendars anymore.
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  Clapping at the meetings and assembly

  by NewYork44M in

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  i had a random thought this morning about clapping.

  growing up in the wt culture i learned the proper protocol for clapping.

  before the assembly speaker gave his talk, but not after.

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  Barrold Bonds

  There was a Question Box from 3 or 4 years ago that even specified not to clap during certain things at meetings such as demonstrations and other things. I'd have to dig it up but that would require installing the WT Library
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  Crazy Weird Quotes in 1/15 WT Article - WT Society Opinions-Nothing More

  by flipper in

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  i won't follow a theme on this thread .

  i'm just going to supply weird quotes from the current 1/15 wt article " keep drawing close to jehovah " and then you can draw your own takes and conclusions on these insane " opinions " from the wt society.. paragraph 3 : " marketers cleverly convince people that they must have the latest products.

  one young man so passionately desired a particular tablet computer that he secretly sold one of his kidneys to buy it.

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  Barrold Bonds

  I actually remember that story when it happened though. It gained a certain amount of press just because of how bizarre it is.