Malawi and MCP Cards?

[Srecko Sostar]

18 hours ago, Thinking said:

It’s not actually …they have to accommodate the many many who have had very little and often no education…..if we need and want more depth well that’s up to us..they can not spoon feed us everything.

we got corrected as apparently a number were complaining about the lack of meat or depth to the studies…and they said..get used to it….but they needed to preach and teach to all sorts of men…..that’s fair enough I reckon.

Writing with professional terminology requires special knowledge on the part of the reader, i agree. In the case of WTJWorg, the reading should be simplified by a vocabulary that does not use phrases and sentence forms that are unclear to a normal, averagely educated person. Of course, WTJWorg is susceptible, prone to the low education level of its members because they "hate" so-called higher education. But the society is not averse to seeking and hiring (free labor) lawyers to defend them in court. WTJWorg even pay their school fees to attend university so that they can later use it for some  morally questionable and dishonest actions.

All in all, simplicity is the key to a happier life, you're right. But is "simplicity" in theology as offered by WTJWorg the way to truth? 

Was the medical explanation offered by the organization in several versions simple enough for the "normal" JW? So the Society discourages "higher education" and then dares to interpret what blood is and what blood is not. And then it sets up hospital committees elders to explain to JW patients what is acceptable and what is not, not realizing that they often do not even know what they are explaining or why they are explaining it that way.

[Many Miles]

8 minutes ago, Srecko Sostar said:

And then it sets up hospital committees elders to explain to JW patients what is acceptable and what is not, not realizing that they often do not even know what they are explaining or why they are explaining it that way.

Many years ago I performed a little experiment involving hospital liaison committees and their training. It was fairly easy. At that time various members in diverse parts of the world had published email accounts in recommended practices documents published for use in hospital systems. I asked a simple question. Could JWs accept transfusion of cryosupernatant plasma as a matter of personal conscience?

With one exception, each responded that they didn't know, but they'd check and get back with me. The one exception responded initially that he didn't think so, but he too said he'd check to make sure. Eventually every one of them responded with an answer. Yes. They could. When the one HLC elder who initially had guessed "No" responded, he said "You should realize this component from blood is on the very limit of what we can accept as a matter of conscience."

My experiment was not to test knowledge of HLC members. What I wondered was just how tightly held the information was. It turned out it was so tightly held that not one of the HLCs I contacted knew the answer. That's how close to the vest that information was being kept.

It was professionals in the medical field who first made it known to public view about this product being acceptable if a JW wanted to take it. Even today, you can't find any reference at all to this at the society's web page, unless you first go to the special Medical Information for Clinicians section. Even then, all you find there is a link to an article on the use of it for TTP patients.

[Pudgy]

Not surprising …. in any organization where there is plenty of Free money and the only competency test is “good intentions”, liberal scum will rise to the top. 

I betcha Job’s three companions originally came over for a free meal.

[Pudgy]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/vaccinated-people-more-likely-to-suffer-blood-disorders-ear-disease-studies-5535789?utm_source=brightnoe&src_src=brightnoe&utm_campaign=bright-2023-12-04&src_cmp=bright-2023-12-04&utm_medium=email&est=BsdRb9gjAdO%2BBeMMXjqlceQtelgPeLGQ%2Fg20e1SK3I6j9lIOEWaXidFLDDo%3D

A bit extra on Covid shots and blood diseases ….

[TrueTomHarley]

6 hours ago, George88 said:

What if a patient contracted another person's illness

This is true of Isaac Asimov, who died of AIDS from a blood transfusion. I discovered this in writing up a post about him. It wasn’t widely known—his family hushed it up. And it was not acquired until his later years. All the same, it’s not a nice way to go, it probably shaved a dozen or more years from his life, and who knows what he might have written in that time:

https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2007/07/isaac-asimov-an.html

[Many Miles]

40 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

This is true of Isaac Asimov, who died of AIDS from a blood transfusion.

A sobering reminder that a benefit-to-risk analysis is critical for any biological tissue transplantation, and transfusion of any product rendered from blood is precisely that. This is why, for example, transfusion of products like cryosupernatant are not recommended for basic need of a volume expander. In that case, there are much safer products. But, if a patient presents with TTP and they need plasma exchange therapy to survive, then cryosupernatant rises in terms of a benefit-to-risk analysis. 

[Pudgy]

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

This is true of Isaac Asimov, who died of AIDS from a blood transfusion. I discovered this in writing up a post about him. It wasn’t widely known—his family hushed it up. And it was not acquired until his later years. All the same, it’s not a nice way to go, it probably shaved a dozen or more years from his life, and who knows what he might have written in that time:

https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2007/07/isaac-asimov-an.html

Isaac Asimov wrote more than 400 books in his lifetime … he would write 8 hours a day, five days a week, sometimes six. 

When my three children were younger, they each knew the Three Laws of Robotics by heart.

 

[TrueTomHarley]

Without again copying @Pudgy’s cartoon, which reveals a certain — ahem—cynicism of social media that leans left, which is practically all of it . . .

the founder of the BITE model that is used to recognize ‘cults’ is very political, active on Twitter (sigh…X) and invariably comes down on the left side of most (if not all) issues. He has a book out called, ‘The Cult of Trump.’ It could be argued that when you think half the country has fallen victim to a cult, it is evidence that you have drunk too much of the KoolAid yourself.

BITE stands for all methods of ‘control,’ behavioral, informational, thought, and emotional. Ironically, nobody seeks to control information like many of these social media companies, going so far as to ban large swaths of communication, and those who engage in them, on the grounds of being ‘misinformation.’

I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk.  He described the latter as very enamored with Asimov’s three laws of robotics—but also very concerned that most of his competitors are not. He has developed a feud with one of the Google heads (Page or Brin, I forget which), who has accused him of being a ‘specist.’ (one who favors his species) They used to be tight.

‘Um yeah, I kind of like humanity,’ says Musk, accounting for why he is fond of Asimov’s laws. He is in the minority. Most of these other guys want to let AI rip, go where it goes, go as fast as it can be developed, and if it one day outsmarts and outmaneuvers humans, swatting them as one might swat a bug that gets in your way, well—that’s evolution for you, survival of the fittest.

[Anna]

5 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

He has developed a feud with one of the Google heads (Page or Brin, I forget which), who has accused him of being a ‘specist.’

Is that for real?

[TrueTomHarley]

4 minutes ago, Anna said:

Is that for real?

Yes.

[TrueTomHarley]

11 hours ago, George88 said:

I remember when, Rubella, polio, measles, and chicken pox were a thing, and children needed to be vaccinated to attend school. Times have changed, or have they?

Yes. Whereas there were once about 7 shots required for pre-school age children, now there are around 70 (some of them boosters of the same thing).

[Pudgy]

I am not a “specist”.

Although I do not object to being, most of the time, at the top of the food chain.

Although I am prejudiced that human dams are just as important as beaver dams.