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  Canadians - please sign petition to stop paid blood donor clinics

  by OrphanCrow in

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  blood saves lives.

  a safe blood supply is vital for the health of everybody.. in canada, the province with the highest rates of hiv and hep c is saskatchewan.

  and it is in this province, run by a right wing government, where for-profit blood donation will be rolled out.. http://regina.ctvnews.ca/company-that-pays-for-blood-donations-opening-first-sask-clinic-1.2741056.

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  tgnd - that is misleading. The Red Cross bought blood from the USA and Russia, not from donors. Paying blood donors is new to Canada. That's why the business was taken away from The Red Cross and Canadian Blood Services was instituted.

  ref: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/03/05/blood_for_sale_a_new_low_for_the_canadian_blood_system.html

  Two decades ago, 30,000 Canadians, recipients of blood and plasma products, were infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Some of the tainted blood was purchased from “blood brokers” whose supplies came from Arkansas prisons, L.A.’s “skid row” and Russian funeral homes. Confronted with a blood shortage and weighing the odds, Health Canada and the Canadian Red Cross, then stewards of Canada’s blood system, accepted it anyway.
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  The Pope Tells Trump He's Not A Christian

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  this should be fun.

  building a wall is unchristian.

  i can't understand why the pope is getting involved in american politics.. poor donald..

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  @ MarkofCane - hahaha, good one!
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  So Proud of Pops

  by brandnew in

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  2. friends

  ok so a car pulls up to the house and 3 eldurrs from my dads congo come up.

  they come in and have thee nerve to ask me to step out so they can speak to pops!!!!

  this is the good part.....pops says...and i quote " whatever needs to be said..can be said in front of my son".

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  As you should be (proud of him). Well done, Pops! I wish my father would 'wake up'. And good on you, for being a son who is standing beside him, taking care. Getting old is not for sissies, and no matter how strong we are, family makes a big difference .... yeah. : ))
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  This is Just getting Ridiculous and out of hand with the Borg

  by MrsR-Awaken in

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  2. friends

  saw this on reddit it was posted by user morgan_sparlock .

  to me honestly this would of been prohibited 10 years ago, but now every dub is obsessed with this website, it's everywhere even a damn iphone cover... ooh they don't approve of idolatry ooh no they don't accept cross veneration thats bullshit to me!!!

  its getting to a point that they are venerating this website (company logo) it's their version of the cross.

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  talesin

  On her facebook page (Dee Dee's Creations), there'a a pic of the package (as in the OP) with her comment as follows:

  Order done for one sister!

  
  

  Sounds like a JW to me.

  
  
  
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  Jw org Automatic Downloads

  by truthlover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as many are aware, the society automatically downloads a years worth of programs on a 32 gb tablet --or whatever you have -- using up space.... without permissions i may add... yet i cant get rid of the old copies on there, does anyone know how to delete them - i have downloaded them then clicked on the delete button, away it goes from the download page but when i go back to the original page that the download comes from, it is still there to download again... so i repeat the process and same thing happens....... .

  help!!!

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  I can help if Chrome is your browser. If it isn't, check your browser for this feature:

  In your Chrome, click "Settings", then click "Show Advanced Settings" at the bottom of the page.

  Scroll down until you see "Downloads". There will be a box to tick that says "Ask where to save each file before downloading". Tick that box. Done.
  
  They cannot automatically download. The process will stop and ask you where to direct the download. At that point, you can cancel it. xx
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  Was Adam "born" Circumsized ?

  by RubaDub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i guess we have to assume that jesus was circumcised on the 8th day but what about adam?

  he was "perfect", so did he have the weenie cut or not?.

  i would like to bring this question up at a "get-together".. rub a dub .

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  I've already researched it. Why not google 'islam circumcision ethiopia'

  Anyhow, whatever.
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  Did you get " Counseled " about the Music you Listened to While you were a JW ?

  by flipper in

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  from the time i was a small boy - i loved rock n' roll music.

  beatles, rolling stones, led zeppelin, hendrix.

  i started getting slighted for the music i listened to as i lay in my bedroom listening on headphones to led zeppelin's song " black dog " at age 14 with my elder dad looking suspiciously at me as i'm rocking out .

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  TALESIN- Don't get me wrong- I think KISS was very entertaining - but personally not too talented musically I believe. But everybody is entitled to their opinions. LOL.

  LOL back, because I never said they were uber-talented. Basic 3-chord band, with a brilliant business model Popularized glam rock.
  
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  The JW dot org logo and major 'branding' (videos, movies, pins, tv channel, GB celebrities, you name it). Literature carts in parks, malls, etc.
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  Was Adam "born" Circumsized ?

  by RubaDub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i guess we have to assume that jesus was circumcised on the 8th day but what about adam?

  he was "perfect", so did he have the weenie cut or not?.

  i would like to bring this question up at a "get-together".. rub a dub .

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  Skedaddle - thanks. Can you source that? While reading up on this, I found some differing views. I'm using Wiki for this explanation (not where I originally read it), but there's references in the Wiki article. Thoughts?

  Most Shia traditions regard the practice as obligatory. They rely on sayings that come from classical Shia authors.[26] In one narration Muhammad was asked if an uncircumcised man could go to pilgrimage. He answered "not as long as he is not circumcised". They quote Ali as saying: "If a man becomes Muslim, he must submit to circumcision even if he is 80 years old".[27] Another narration from Al-Sadiq says: "Circumcise your sons when they are seven days old as it is cleaner (athar) and the flesh grows faster and because the earth hates the urine of the uncircumcised".[28]

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khitan_(circumcision)

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  There is a tradition in arab Orthodoxy (and I think it is also Ethiopia), to circumcize. The Orthodox Church does NOT require the practice, and views it as part of the Old Covenant. It was interesting reading the Orthodox forums, and happy to see that they have officially taken a stand against it as a religious practice (though they do not forbid it).
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  X-Men Apocalypse & Yahweh

  by smiddy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i have watched the trailer for this movie , and the bad guy in this makes the statement something like this, when asked who are you ?

  his reply , i have been called many names over time , and yahweh was one of them .. will jw.org ban the jdubs from seeing it ?

  being not suitable for a christian ?

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  Looks good, and directed by the Beastmaster. I've enjoyed the X-Men franchise.

  I didn't get to read a lot of comics, smiddy. Spiderman, Batman, and the Silver Surfer (love is the Power Cosmic) and of course, Wonder Woman!

  I'll have to check out Captain Marvel at the library.