This Brother just won't take the hint....he leaves me his phone number and I don't call...he "encourages" me to the meeting and I never go...he tells my wife I "look depressed".....HE WON'T GIVE UP? So he calls on me Saturday and says: "So your not interested in coming to meetings at the moment?" I say {suprisingly} "No not really....there are some doctrinal matters I don't agree with...I don't want to really discuss it...it's just Blood and 607 B.C.E" He says: "Okay have you talked to the Elders?" {That makes me MAD} "I was a Servant and Pioneer for 10 years I've read everything ever published by the society on these topics, I doubt they can help me." He gets defensive: "So, would you give your wife a blood Transfusion?' I raise my hands in the air and say: "I don't know!" Now I turn the tables on him by saying Witnesses DO use Blood which I think is not following Acts 15....."Why should we as Witnesses use blood from the Red Cross for our medicines, when it's a sin to donate blood, and the bible says to pour it on the ground?" He got very defensive as though I WAS ACCUSING THEM of not following the bible. I told him the new blood card was 3 pages and very complex for the average Witness to understand....he agreed but in a smug way, and said we have the H.L.C. I told them it was very Pharisaic to have Elders in charge of our so-called "conscience decision." I mentioned how the Blood video shows a Sister getting a machine with two bags to remove her blood before surgery dilute her blood with water and then Transfused later. How is this in line with Acts 15...in the 60's ALL blood products were banned...and there it ended he excused himself and having to get the last word he says:{Smugly} Well we will all have to have an accounting before Jehovah...{shakes my hand} I say: "Yes for sure...and be sure to read EVERYTHING the society ever wrote on blood from 1950 till today, it interesting."
And there we ended...I felt good but emotional. I think that was it, he won't come back since he's last smug comment means I'M DOOMED!