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  Imagine an ebola pandemic where the only effective treatment is blood

  by Mickey mouse in

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  give it a few months, perhaps all jws will have to make hard decisions about blood based treatments.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29084254.

  the blood of patients who recover from ebola should be used to treat others, the world health organization has announced.. west africa is facing the largest ebola outbreak in history and more than 2,000 people have died.. a global group of experts have been meeting to assess the experimental therapies that could contain ebola.. the who also announced that ebola vaccines could be used on the frontline by november.. blood medicine.

  people produce antibodies in the blood in an attempt to fight off an ebola infection.. in theory, those antibodies can be transferred from a survivor into a sick patient to give their immune system a boost.. however, large scale data on the effectiveness of the therapy is lacking.. studies on the 1995 outbreak of ebola in democratic republic of congo showed seven out of eight people survived after being given the therapy.. dr marie paule kieny, an assistant director general at who said: "we agreed that whole blood therapies may be used to treat ebola virus and all efforts must be invested to help infected countries to use them.. "there is a real opportunity that a blood-derived product can be used now and this can be very effective in terms of treating patients.".

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  On-topic from yesterday's news:

  http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/09/11/347763937/american-fighting-ebola-receives-blood-transfusion-from-survivor
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  News from Bethel Heavy

  by cinnamon1642 in

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  2. friends

  pioneer hour change is legit.

  letters are being mailed out soon to all congregations for announcement in early october right before the tract campaign starts.. .

  elimination of circuit overseers.

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  Londo111---wow, I can see why you bumped this! How true the words of cinnamon1642 have proved to be. The now inactive slimboyfat's words also in this thread have likewise been shown to be spot on.
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  New novel about the blood issue

  by lrkr in

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  2. beliefs

  heard this book review yesterday on npr.

  sounds like a good read.. .

  http://www.npr.org/2014/09/05/346060805/in-the-children-act-the-electrifying-human-dimension-of-a-legal-drama.

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  Thanks.
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  For 46 years Jehovah's Witnesses compromised their worship in Mexico to retain ownership of material property

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qohven3gjlk.

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  Thanks WT-free for updating what Ray Franz says in his book about the double standard there. I have long wondered what the current situation was in Mexico, whether they were still unable to sing songs, pray, etc. Would you mind providing, if you can, evidence for the legal change in Mexican law that the post speaks of?
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  Jehovah deceives us

  by opusdei1972 in

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  2. bible

  paul said that god does not lie:.

  in the hope of eternal life, which god, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time (titus 1:2).

  however, jehovah god deceived his people:.

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  Doesn't Jeremiah just state outright, "You deceived me, O Jehovah, and I've been deceived"? (20:7)
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  Interesting query and reply about THE CROSS on Bart Ehrman's blog

  by Terry in

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  2. bible

  kleenmaint july 5, 2014. dear bart:.

  i couldnt find a topic on josephus so i hope you see my question.

  in your book did jesus exist on page 59 you quote (antiquities 18.3.3).. both this quotation and the more conservative version that seemed more plausible as his original writing have one very fundamental flaw that you didnt mention.

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  Not that I believe the stake thing, but just to be fair, the Swedish scholar Gunnar Samulson published a book 4 years ago that has caused some controversy on the matter. Perhaps Ehrman is unaware of it, or just doesn't give it much credence. But maybe he should have at least mentioned the book.

  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jesus-christ-died-cross-scholar/story?id=11066130

  http://earliestchristianity.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/gunnar-samuelsson-swedish-crucifixion-scholar-has-a-website/

  There are dozens of other links to this if you do a google search. No offense to Ehrman, but the now "inactive" (yikes, a JW term applied to a forum member here!) Leolaia did the best research on this right here on JW.net years ago.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/92381/1/The-facts-on-crucifixion-stauros-and-the-torture-stake#.VA8hB1b-vwI
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  What Happened to Elihu Books? Greg Stafford's Website is Gone!

  by BucketShopBill in

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  2. bible

  i loved this guy, he was cool and now i found out his website domain is up for sale.

  what happened to greg, is he still alive and doing well?

  did he return to the organization, any information would be appreciated!.

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  But the latest post is back in early June. Most of the posts are much older. So what's up with thim? Is he still actively doing anything on his board(s)/forum(s)?
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  A locally produced video for JW's - come to Tennessee!

  by gingerbread in

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  2. friends

  we received this link through an email chain.

  not too sure what the purpose is....it's mostly about food.. .

  vimeopro.com/user4747451/tnvideo.

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  gingerbread,

  Thanks for the link. I wonder too what the purpose is... Isn't this sort of INDEPENDENTly produced thing supposed to be against the direction of God's organization? I thought the official view is WE will provide all publications, videos, public talks, etc. Anything INDEPENDENT is inherently evil. Or this is this some sort of exception? Has the ORG's view on this INDEPENDENT activity changed?

  Others' thoughts on this blatant example of INDEPENDENT thinking? Maybe it's not so blatant?
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  UK novelist Ian McEwan: the law versus religious belief

  by wizzstick in

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  2. friends

  interesting (and well written article) on the uk children act and religious belief.. contains some thoughtful comments by mcewan:.

  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/05/ian-mcewan-law-versus-religious-belief?cmp=twt_gu.

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  Thanks for the post.
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  one reason for the dumbing down of the org

  by Magnum in

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  2. bible

  a lot of us have said that theres been a dumbing down in jw land.

  its just not like it used to be especially a few decades ago.

  it seems to me that if jw are right and the end of the world is near, the spiritual food should get tastier and more nourishing as time goes on, but it's getting more and more bland and less nourishing.

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  Magnum, a BIG THANK YOU for starting this thread. There are so many excellent, spot-on comments that there remains little to say!

  Many have added insightul, truthful observations. Yes, whatever intelligent ones are left—very few—indeed must compartmentalize and be scared of exercising their thinking abilities theologically (that's too sacred—hands off!). It IS such brainless drivel. Whatever Freddie did, however strange and off-base it sometimes was, the caliber was infinitely better than the pablulum served up since the 90s and esp. now. The one exception seems to be the revised NWT. There are numerous changes for the better in it (and I'm sure some that are for the worse), the one thing they've done that bucks the overall trend. And, yes, the doing away with the small, in-home book study fits into this overall duhhhh trend perfectly.

  Thanks for the great input!