e-document: "Blood on Their Hands: The Story of a Hemophiliac Child in the Jehovah's Witness Cult" (page 2)

AndersonsInfo

Sorry some of you are having trouble downloading the material. The instructions are on the Lulu website and if carefully followed, downloading is a breeze. In the past I found that customer service is extremely helpful with any and all problems encountered.

belbab: My sentiments are identical to yours and that's why I do what I do. All of us have to speak out for the innocents and to try to stop the Watch Tower madness before it causes more deaths and grief to the next and the next, and on and on, generations of sincere, yet gullible people.

Barb

Nickolas

I realise this cover gets posted on this board a lot, but people coming in and out of threads is hit and miss and not everyone has seen it. The kids on this cover were not so lucky.

The incongruity of it all is that what the WTBTS is calling the sacred symbol of life has taken a higher position of importance than the thing it symbolises. It is incongruous because Jehovah's Witnesses are blind to the realisation that they have made a symbol into something for which they will sacrifice their lives and the lives of their children. It is the Witness' Golden Calf.

Lozhasleft

I would need it to be Kindle compatible too, but thanks Barbara, I hope I can get to read it soon.

Loz x

etna

Thanks for posting this Barbara, and I'm so sorry Mary. 20 odd years ago when my son was 4 years old and he had his tonsils out, he couldn't stop bleeding and we had to take him back to the hospital. I was disfellowshiped at the time and not with my son's mother(who is a really nice lady). Anyway all the liason bros came out of the woodwork, giving support(making sure no blood was given) to my ex. So much pressure for her, so we held off for as long as we could, until the doctors said they couldn't stop the bleeding and he was definately going to die. Well I had nothing to lose, and they still weren't talking to me, even though they could see how distraught I was(constantly crying), so I said to give him the blood, and he was fine and he is as healthy as ever. Unfortunately he is a jw, but I'm trying to help him see how much of a cult it is, very slowly.

Etna

garyneal

Ouch, to have to come to this. I don't understand why Jehovah's Witnesses can't get it through their thick heads that something is amiss concerning the blood doctrine.

Gayle

I think their photo-pictures on that Awake front ('94?) is their most chilling of all their pictures, more than their Armageddon pictures, because it is their real actual TRUTH and most sickening!

dgp

Adobe Digital Editions did download well and now I have it running. It seems it's just a matter of patience. The file can only be obtained from Lulu in the "PDF for Adobe Digital Editions" format, which is not the same as the usual PDF. Adobe Digital editions itself is free.

Pallbearer

Can you really bleed to death from having your tonsils taken out? Wow! I didn't know that.

A question: Hasn't there been a change in the Watchtower's stance on accepting blood transfusions? Isn't blood "fractions" considered permissable now, just not whole blood? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the blood "fractions" that are deemed permissable add up to being WHOLE BLOOD? If that is true, then the Watchtower has in effect reversed its stance on blood transfusions - BEFORE: Blood transfusions are wrong. NOW: Blood transfusions are okay.

Nickolas

Check out the official Watchtower site for your answer, Pallbearer. You might be surprised by what has changed (including the permissable use of bovine hemoglobin.) The rules changed in 2000, though many witnesses remain confused by what they are no longer prevented from doing, and many still refuse to accept even blood fractions since the Society has hedged on its blood policy changes by saying they are now a conscience matter betten the individual and God - in other words, "we can take you to water, but we can't force you to drink it" which, of course, is absolute garbage, since loyal witnesses, to continue the analogy, are forced to drink all the other water they're taken to.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/200608/article_03.htm

TD

Hasn't there been a change in the Watchtower's stance on accepting blood transfusions? Isn't blood "fractions" considered permissable now, just not whole blood?

JW policy differentiates between "Fractions" and "Components" Blood fractions have been allowed since 1958. Incrementally over the years more and more fractions have been allowed. The last such change took place in the year 2000 when fractions of "Primary components" became acceptable. This did made the doctrine even more convoluted and contradictory than it already was.

Whole blood, Whole Plasma, Red Cells, White Cells and Platelets are still forbidden.

On an entirely different note, the execs at Adobe can do something anatomically impossible with their DRM

e-document: "Blood on Their Hands: The Story of a Hemophiliac Child in the Jehovah's Witness Cult"

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