Memorial ultimatum

by Ranchette 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  Ranchette

  I recieved this email and thought I'd share:
  XXXXXXXX
  I heard a piece of gossip the other day from a friend in California that I thought was outrageous and right on par for the Borg...
  It seems a 20-something sister in a southern Calafornia congregation has dedided she is one of the annointed much to the chagrin of her elder body.They have tried everything to disuade her from this path.In a last ditch effort to come up with arguments against her, the elders'wives were sic'd on her and they came up with a piece of information that they felt would be useful...it seems this sister is also pregnant with her first child and is very much looking forward to breast-feeding.So the brothers told her that if she wants to partake at the next Memorial she can't breastfeed---because the wine would transfer to the milk and the baby is not annointed!This sister is heart-broken,she feels she must choose between her motherly obligation and her spiritual one!.The advice I passed on to her via my grape-vine was to think long and hard what decision she might make if for some reason her baby needed a life-saving blood transfusion...If the Borg won't let her take a sip of wine it will surely not let her save her childs life with a transfusion!
  What a sick joke! Those Bastards!The longer I'm out the more ridiculous it all seems.
  Sincerely,
  XXXXXXXXXXX

  This was to funny I had to pass it along!
  Ranchette
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  ChuckD

  This all sounds familiar - it is almost the same as one of the plotlines in the book DUNE, in which the mother drank the Water of Life while pregnant, and passed that along to her unborn child. I think the people at that Kingdom Hall are mixing their fictions.
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  philo

  Wow! Truth really is stranger than fiction, but lies usually lack imagination. If only I could make up stuff like this, I would write for a living!

  I don't suppose the baby is allowed to 'take the emblems', after all, they don't KNOW it isn't anointed, do they?

  philo
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  Oldhippie

  LOL!!! You've gotta be kiddin' me!
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  Englishman

  Philo,

  Next thing, they will be offering Farleys Rusks..

  Englishman.

  ..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
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  Moxy

  this does sound a bit unbelievable at first. how reliable is the source?

  another dissuading tactic that i have honestly heard a _few_ times is this:

  according to revelation, satan and his demons are waging a ware with all lovers of righteousness but particularly with the remaining ones of christs brothers. so satan is concentrating his attacks on the anointed, and the anointed only manage to weather this vicious assault because they come under the direct protection of christ and jehovah. but if someone were to claim wrongly to be of the anointed, they wouldnt come under protection from christ but they WOULD come under attack from the demons, cuz remember they cant read hearts, and they aint too bright. so they figure, what the hell, we better attack'em anyways.
  mox
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  jayhawk1

  I am surprised they don't offer the wine to the anointed on a "suggested donation" basis. You know, say the wine is worth at least fifty dollars. Ha ha, what they won't think of next.

  "Hand me that whiskey, I need to consult the spirit."-J.F. Rutherford
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  Francois

  Not so.

  Wine is not passed through the placental barrier. The alcohol passes through, but the wine does not.

  Neither is matzo cracker passed through the placenta.

  And finally, the whole argument is moot. The baby is not making any choice in this transaction.

  However, if this young woman is so dense she can't see the obvious flaws surrounding this cult, and along with it this ridiculous fiction dreamed up by the "sisters" in the congregation, then perhaps she deserves what she gets.

  In my congregation just outside Atlanta, GA, one of the "glorious ones" took it upon himself to monitor who partook of the emblems, and if he didn't agree that someone should have done so, confronts the person - spouting all sorts of dire warnings about those who wrongly partake. CB was like that; a self-appointed, self-righteous, self-important bastard. And that was on the good days.

  I dated a woman for six years who was a member of the Episcopal Church, and I regularly participated in the eucharist, which means a kind of joyful gratitude - with yearning, and I'm here to tell you those Episcopalians know how to put on a show. I never did discover what kinda wine they were using, but WOW!. I can tell you it wasn't any dollar ninety-eight Mogen David from Kroger. This was the good stuff. Holy Moly. Where do I sign up?

  Francois
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  noidea

  Can the elders prove that at Pentecost that there were no women among those annointed that were pregnant.
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  noidea

  LOL!!! what if they had someone underage say they were of the anointed.