I will add the 2014 Ebola outbreak to this list...
ILoveTTATT
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New "The List" of... Times when JW's thought it was the end and it wasn't...
by ILoveTTATT ini think that there should be a list of the times when a certain world event got jw's thinking "this has got to be it!
the start of armageddon!".
it would be nice to have screenshots of twitter/facebook comments from actual jw's.... then come back to it 5, 10, 15 years from now and just say... nope... just another crisis in the world.... just this year there have been two:.
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Ebola, Blood Transfusions, and JW's
by ILoveTTATT ingiven that the outbreak of ebola has reached historic proportions, and that it threatens to wreak havoc on the entire world, scientists are scrambling to find a treatment or a cure.
most of the experimental treatments involve drugs.
other experimental treatments involve monoclonal antibodies (zmapp).
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ILoveTTATT
Given that the outbreak of Ebola has reached historic proportions, and that it threatens to wreak havoc on the entire world, scientists are scrambling to find a treatment or a cure. Most of the experimental treatments involve drugs. Other experimental treatments involve monoclonal antibodies (ZMapp). But the most widely available cure is going to be blood serum from patients who survived.
Jehovah's Witnesses will probably have no trouble in accepting this, contrary to other threads on JWN. The reason I say this is that blood serums are part of what is now acceptable as a "blood fraction". As long as the serum is made into a "fraction", i.e. concentrating the antibodies somehow, then it will be left up to the conscience of the individual JW's.
The blood serum has shown promise of being the most widely available treatment, but it is not without its dangers.
For example, the U.S. has an adult HIV prevalence rate of 0.6%, Canada's is 0.3%. The three most affected countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, have an adult prevalence rate of 1.0%, 1.6%, and 1.4%, which means that you are from two to five times more likely to find someone with HIV in those countries than in North America. The screening for viruses and other factors is critical, to ensure that the serum is safe and doesn't introduce more risks.
Another problem with blood serum is an effect that goes against our common knowledge of antibodies and how they help the patient. In the case of Dengue, HIV, and, apparently, Ebola, giving a blood serum that has antibodies will protect from one strain, but if you are infected with any other strain, the virus is actually HELPED to infect, and therefore you have an even higher chance of dying from the disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement
" Several reports in the scientific literature describe a phenomenon called antibody-dependent enhancement of viral infection. In studies of Ebola virus infection of laboratory cells, serum from Ebola patients caused up to a five-fold increase in the number of infected cells , rather than inhibiting infection as expected."
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The 1995 Ebola Zaire outbreak was started by a JW
by ILoveTTATT inthe dead man is gaspard menga, a jehovah's witness who was the first person to contract ebola in 1995. the people around him, are his family.
within a month, most of the ones on this picture were dead from ebola.
it was because of gaspard that we now know that african burial rites are a mayor cause in spreading ebola.
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ILoveTTATT
Laurie Garret has written extensively on the case. I think she has written 20-30 pages of how he got it, who he and his family were, and what the world learnt from him.
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The 1995 Ebola Zaire outbreak was started by a JW
by ILoveTTATT inthe dead man is gaspard menga, a jehovah's witness who was the first person to contract ebola in 1995. the people around him, are his family.
within a month, most of the ones on this picture were dead from ebola.
it was because of gaspard that we now know that african burial rites are a mayor cause in spreading ebola.
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ILoveTTATT
The dead man is Gaspard Menga, a Jehovah's Witness who was the first person to contract Ebola in 1995. The people around him, are his family. Within a month, most of the ones on this picture were dead from Ebola. It was because of Gaspard that we now know that African burial rites are a mayor cause in spreading Ebola.
Here's one of the many articlles written by Laurie Garrett on this case:
http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/5862
"The Menga family photos are more than just reminders of one family's loss. They may show the moment when a single sorrow turned into an outbreak that would grab the attention of public health officials worldwide and kill more than 120 people before apparently coming under control last week."
Laurie Garret said in her book, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health:
"Because the first person to contract Ebola in January 1995 was Gaspard Menga, a Jehovah's Witness, it was widely suggested among the majority Catholic population that the epidemic constituted God's revenge for deviant beliefs and behaviors."
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Jehovahs Witnesses in Sierra Leone stamp out, "false rumors about the source of Ebola".
by Sol Reform injehovahs witnesses in sierra leone stamp out, "false rumors about the source of ebola".. .
in july, traveling representatives of jehovahs witnesses began making special two-day visits to each congregation in sierra leone and guinea.
the visits feature a talk entitled obedience saves lives, .
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ILoveTTATT
1976, 1995, 2014 have been mayor outbreak years. one Witness started the 1995 outbreak
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Jehovah's INEFFECTIVE Witness...(Why no TV ministry???)
by Terry inwhat if i asserted the following as true?
the watchtower bible and tract society has no interest in an effective evangelical program of conversion.. would that sound silly?
disfellowshipping would lead to having a big target placed on the ex jw's back at armageddon.. .
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Now there we have a true prohet Terrymiah!!
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Jehovahs Witnesses in Sierra Leone stamp out, "false rumors about the source of Ebola".
by Sol Reform injehovahs witnesses in sierra leone stamp out, "false rumors about the source of ebola".. .
in july, traveling representatives of jehovahs witnesses began making special two-day visits to each congregation in sierra leone and guinea.
the visits feature a talk entitled obedience saves lives, .
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ILoveTTATT
The JW's STARTED the last outbreak!!
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Things WT has condemned other religions for doing...only to eventually do themselves!
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Credit cards on assembly halls
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can anyone verify the new "basic pioneer" rumor?
by Chris Tann inso it's rumored started by one member that there is a new pioneer rank called basic pioneer, announced at annual meeting.
can anyone verify this is true?
everything else presented at the meeting has been verified except this.
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ILoveTTATT
Hildebrando's source was apoarently a guy who calls himself "Testigo Humano" (TH) or "Human Witness". Hildebrando even stated on his website that the 10 hour pioneer thing was a rumour. This guy definitely comes to this site and steals info. He got the picture jwfacts posted and spinned it in a pro-jw website. He also got the flag in Chile pictures posted soon after I posted them to this site. He has various pro-jw sites and groups and pages on FB, and is disliked by both the JW and the exJW community. He's technically a JW but acts as neither.
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ILoveTTATT
Maybe I meant sociopath?
ok maybe the good cop/bad cop analogy is not good... Help me improve the theory, but I guess the gist is there's a good GB and a bad GB and theu alternate. Maybe some are completely delusional and are true believers, and maybe some know what they are doing...
