......... The appearance of the new variant of CJD (nv-CJD or v-CJD) in several younger than average people in Great Britain and France has led to concern that BSE may be transmitted to humans through consumption of contaminated beef. Although laboratory tests have shown a strong similarity between the prions causing BSE and v-CJD, there is no direct proof to support this theory. Furthermore, BSE has never been found in the United States, and importation of cattle and beef from countries with BSE has been banned in the United States since 1989 to reduce the risk that it will occur in this country. Many people are concerned that it may be possible to transmit CJD through blood and related blood products such as plasma. Some animal studies suggest that contaminated blood and related products may transmit the disease, although this has never been shown in humans. If there are infectious agents in these fluids, they are probably in very low concentrations. Scientists do not know how many abnormal prions a person must receive before he or she develops CJD, so they do not know whether these fluids are potentially infectious or not. They do know that, even though millions of people receive blood transfusions each year, there are no reported cases of someone contracting CJD from a transfusion. Even among people with hemophilia, who sometimes receive blood plasma concentrated from thousands of donors, there are no reported cases of CJD. While there is no evidence that blood from people with sporadic CJD is infectious, studies have found that infectious prions from BSE and vCJD may accumulate in the lymph nodes (which produce white blood cells), the spleen, and the tonsils. These findings suggest that blood transfusions from people with vCJD might transmit the disease. The possibility that blood from people with vCJD may be infectious has led to a policy preventing people in the United States from donating blood if they have resided for more than 3 months in a country or countries where BSE is common. ..............This was taken from the National Institute of Health. Also an orthropedic surgeon told me that there has been a few cases of people getting CJD from the ground up bones used in surgery to graft or glue into damaged bones; this is done freq'ly for hip surgeries and large bone breaks like the femur. In the late 70's I worked in a lab(before I became a nurse) and a pathologist in our group got CJD from doing an autopsy on someone who died and was undiagnosed before autopsy. The tissue samples(brain) he handled were "fixed" in formailn for sampling but apparently formalin and formaldehyde DO NOT KILL the prion. This is a very deadly organism. Good thing that it is not easily transmitted as far as can be determined.
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Transfusion once again
by krzysiek inwhat i cannot understand is why jw are so determined not to allow to transfuse blood.
it's anachronism!
the governing body has changed so many their doctrines, why cannot they change that?
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Witness World discussion about Demonic Influences
by DevonMcBride ini just saw this on witness world web site and had a few laughs.
how many of you were this pathetic when you were a witness?
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elamona
I do not believe in demon possession. I'm sorry if I led you to believe that. I am talking about people who have something that makes us human, "missing". I don't know any other way to put it.
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Transfusion once again
by krzysiek inwhat i cannot understand is why jw are so determined not to allow to transfuse blood.
it's anachronism!
the governing body has changed so many their doctrines, why cannot they change that?
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That's true. Now you can get cow's blood transfused (Hemopure) and have a chance of getting CJD from mad cow blood. Seriously tho, it is true. Many advances in surgical techniques and rethinking old transfusion policies have taken place because of the JW's position on blood and now many people who are not JW's refusing blood for health reasons.
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Witness World discussion about Demonic Influences
by DevonMcBride ini just saw this on witness world web site and had a few laughs.
how many of you were this pathetic when you were a witness?
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I have never been a person who especially feels influenced or targeted by "demons". However, I have met some people in my life who absolutely make my skin crawl. As a nurse, I had to spend a month training in a mental hospital as part of my course. There was a man there who made me want to pick up and run screaming from the room every time I saw him. He had the "deadest" eyes I have ever seen on a human being. You know- when you look at them they are blank, vacant, dead. It was like there was nothing human in there. Since then I have met 2 or 3 people in the world who have the same kind of eyes. Absolutely devoid of anything human. What is even creepier is when these people smile. The smile is like a pasted on simile of what they think a smile should look like but the dead eyes combined with the pasted smile is horrific. Have any of you ever come across this type of person in your lives? I am NOT a superstitious person by any stretch of the imagination. Don't believe in ghosts, possession,etc. But I do think that there are some people in this world who are not like the rest of us- it's like something is missing and they have learned how to play the part of a whole human being. I don't know any other way to put it.
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what you can learn from taping phone conversations!!!!:)
by orbison11 inwell, as i have posted here before, i am in a rotten relationship.
so, i have decided to get a phone tape recorder thingy.
sheesh, i can't believe the other lives this person i am living with is living.
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elamona
Do you realize that you have broken a federal law and are subject to a very tough and lenghty jail sentence if you let anyone know what you have done? Not only that but he cloud wind up OWNING everything you could earn for the forseeable future and take all of your possessions in a civil suit for invasion of privacy and illegal wire tapping?
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did Jesus exist and does it matter?
by zen nudist inhttp://www.impactpress.com/articles/decjan01/jesus120101.html
check this out and let me know what you think..... my personal opinion so far, with all that i have learned to date and being out of jw'dom for 13+ years.
is that jesus likely never existed.
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elamona
If I am not mistaken didn't almost all of the original 12 apostles suffer violent deaths due to their belief in and preaching about Jesus? Didn't Paul? I don't know about you, but I can't imagine anyone WILLINGLY dying for something they KNEW to be a hoax or fable. Would you be willing to die for a fable or a hoax? I don't think I'd have the courage to die for something that I KNEW to be true since I'm pretty much a gutless person who would do just about anything to avoid being tortured or killed. I REALLY don't like pain.
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"Why I believe in the Bible? A Nuclear Scientist reports" Awake Article
by VM44 inthis has been brought up in a previous post.
in the january 22, 2004 awake!
is an article told by (notice, not "written by") alton williams entitled "why i believe in the bible?
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elamona
He is not the only bible believing physicist. Lambert Dolphin, a retired physicist, who worked on some of the most important projects related to space , has a website with loads of scientific and observational material. His website is: www.ldolphin.org He has many links to other creationists oriented scientists. There are many bible believing creationist scientists out there but since ours is a humanist/secular oriented society they usually do not get the recognition that the agnostic/athesist scientists do.
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What Is God Doing?
by Satanus inwhat can you point to right now, that god is doing?
if he is maintaining the universe, can this be scientifically shown?
if he gives life to the newly firtilised egg cell, can that be scientifically shown?
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elamona
The FACT that more than 95% of matter cannot be "found" by scientists should be a clue. Scientists refer to it as CDM, cold dark matter; invisible, but they know that "it" is there because they say that "it" holds the universe together.
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What Is God Doing?
by Satanus inwhat can you point to right now, that god is doing?
if he is maintaining the universe, can this be scientifically shown?
if he gives life to the newly firtilised egg cell, can that be scientifically shown?
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elamona
The FACT is that the things you listed ARE is proof that HE IS. Matter (energy) cannot be made or destroyed, it can only be transformed. All that you see and do not see, galaxies and universes and other things not visible to human eyes, exist because it had to be transformed into existence from a being who exists OUTSIDE of His creation. He used a tiny part of His own limitless supply of energy/matter to create everything. It didn't "just happen" as that defies the nature of matter/energy.
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I was working in New Orleans, La. at the time. My home town, altho I don't live in La. anymore.