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Pfizer (+0.75%) is putting its consumer healthcare business on the trading block, either as a sale or spin-off. The drugmaker’s $3.4 billion unit features a medicine cabinet of popular productsyou’ll probably use at least once today, such as ChapStick, Centrum, and Advil. So what’s got Pfizer thinking about drug deals? Well, the $10 billion+ from a sale would give it ammo for a blockbuster acquisition(rumor on the street…it’s eyeing BMS). Plus, Pfizer is looking to zero in on its lucrative prescription drug business that has helped boost shares 7.5% YoY. This might be déjà vu all over again for Pfizer. It sold its consumer healthcare business to J&J back in 2006 for $16.6 billion only to buy another portfolio (which included Advil and ChapStick) when it acquired Wyeth in 2009. So why not write a script for one more? https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/doctors-orders/

Something I thought might be relevant since we are studying the God's Kingdom book. Not long ago, in a WT article, it was mentioned in reference to the "Kingdom being preached in all the inhabited earth" that this will not mean that literally everyone on Earth would have heard about the Kingdom before Armageddon starts. When one does a bit of mathematics (not my forte) and calculates the percentage of current Jehovah's Witnesses in comparison to the World's population we arrive at 0.1%. This is a very small percentage indeed. (8 million JW to 8 billion population) If we were to assume some averages, and use the United States as a fair example, then we can assume the ratio of 1 publisher to roughly around 400. This seems a fair number since "only a few are the ones finding the road to life". However, as we know, there is practically a non existent ratio when it comes to India and China, two of the world's countries with a population of over 1billion each (the majority of whom have never heard of the Bible, never mind Jehovah's Witnesses). If we would assume the same ratio of 1:400, then this would immediately create over 3 million Witnesses in each of the two countries, i.e. over 6 million in India and China alone, bringing the total of JWs to over 14 million. If we were to also add 650 thousand in Indonesia, 485 thousand from Pakistan, and 402 thousand from Bangladesh that adds another 1.5 million bringing the total to over 15 million, almost doubling the Witnesses today. If we go by the fact that all people are equal in Jehovah's eyes, and that no nation is above another when it comes to salvation, and that all people are basically the same, then we have to assume that there are people in those countries who, if given the chance, would embrace the truth and put themselves on Jehovah's side and create that ratio of 1:400. With that in mind, it is evident that either there is going to have to be a lot of preaching done, verging on the miraculous, in order to bring in over 7 million new Witnesses within the allotted time of the "Generation", or, Jehovah will judge their hearts and allow nearly HALF of the people, (agnostics or believers in false Gods) entry into the new world without them even needing to know him. Or, is "this Generation" a lot longer than we think..... Any scriptural thoughts?

So if Adam and Eve had never fallen from grace and been immortal and procreated, that means everyone ever born wouldn't have died....the earth would have been overpopulated long ago to the point where no one would we all go? A recent estimate says that by 2050 113 BILLION people will have ever lived on earth.....

Source I wonder what happened about 500 years B.C. that stopped growth in it's tracks? And notice the almost exponential rise toward the last 200 years!