by Marvin Shilmer 6 Replies latest jw friends
Blood — Watchtower's Misrepresentative
Today I added a new article to my blog addressing remarks made by one of Watchtower’s misrepresentatives. Like so many others, he presents information that is at odds with verifiable data. I wonder how many sets of pants he’s lost to fire?
My article is titled Blood — Watchtower's Misrepresentative and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/11/watchtower-rep-on-blood.html
Marvin Shilmer
Gene Smalley is the WTBTS' knucklehead spokeshole on the 'blood policy' and obviously he doesn't know what he's talking about. This is one of many features of 'true worship' where the witnesses truly lack unity of thought.
Thanks again Marvin.
A question for those in the know. How old is Gene Smalley? I've read speculation in the past that when Gene goes, the WT blood policy goes as well. Any truth to that?
Well, the thing is, speaking as someone who let his Advance Medical Directive go for a couple of years or more without being updated, I didn't do it because I wanted to take blood, I just didn't think it mattered all that much if it was signed this year or 2 years ago, as long as it was in my wallet. Most people just aren't thinking about it, is more likely. I may be wrong, and given the high percentage in that WT letter/memo, maybe you're right, Marvin.
But if we assume a rate of 50% outdated Directives across the board, which may be reasonably accurate, yeah, Mr. Smalley is presenting only a theoretical, textbook situation rather than the actual reality.
--sd-7
Gene Smalley and Fred Rusk shoulder all the responsibility for making and breaking current blood doctrine. Nice to know you have to live or die because of what two secluded old men think.
Gene Smalley and the Blood Doctrine
Argue blood til yer blue in the face and it all comes down to this.
sd-7,
I was assigned to several of the district conventions the summer of 1993. The cards were displayed in order to get a copy of the then newly released publication titled Jehovah’s Witnesses—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom. To get a copy a Witness had to be baptized at least 10 years, which could be demonstrated by showing the baptism year on the noblood card.
Many Witnesses did not have those cards and were scrambling around trying to borrow cards from other Witnesses in order to secure a copy of the release for themselves. These rationalized the deception by telling themselves they were, after all, entitled to the publication based on the number of years they had been in the Witness community.
Many other Witnesses went shopping for blank documents that they could, at that time, execute in order to get a copy of the newly released publication.
It was the same at each convention.
Marvin Shilmer
ridiculous! Thanks Marvin for the brief glimpse into wunderland. Or is it Underland?
