Calgary Girl Brainwashed

by deddaisy 14 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  deddaisy

  Path, how right you are. They most likely have to be coached because, I for one, truly believe that most Witnesses are really not that knowledgeable about the blood issue...I doubt seriously that even 5% of baptized Witnesses really researched the blood doctrine before enslaving themselves to it.....I can't answer for all, and I was never baptized, but I do know that none of my relatives researched it before getting baptized. People get so caught up in the "living forever on a paradise earth" thing that they're willing to believe anything the WTS teaches...I was looking thru the "KNOWLEDGE" book and I was shocked that by page 175 of this pamphlet-type book they were actually talking about getting BAPTIZED.....how many people, by studying up to page 175 of this book, are really knowledgeable enough about WTS doctrine to be dedicating their LIVES to it? AND....they're going door to door teaching others......things may be different now, but when I was growing up, I know that people really didn't question or even care to question issues before getting baptized....they just thought if the WTS taught it, it had to be the "truth"

  How many here that were baptized really researched the blood issue BEFORE you were baptized?
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  Matty

  most JWs are convinced that refusing blood transfusions is a wise medical decision

  deddaisy, I don't pretend I know anything about the issue. All I know is that I trusted the FDS and the Hospital Liason Committee elders. I trusted them to know what they were talking about. Well, you can imagine what I think now, can't you?
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  deddaisy

  MATTY, I hear you, my family has been JW's since I was young and I, to this day, cannot really explain why they don't take blood. But when I was growing up I believed that it was wrong to take it, just because that's what I was taught....the Bible forbid it, end of story...just like Path was saying, JW's usually point out that it safeguards you from hep and aids, they really don't go into alot of Biblical explanation.... people raised in the "truth," and sincere people that study and get baptized, really just trust the WTS to know what it's talking about. Most likely they believe that the person that studys with them is some kind of "Bible Scholar." By the time a lot of people begin to question things, they're forbidden to question....
  thanks for your input, I am curious about this.....
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  Will Power

  They obviously have never researched the original, ancient, or jewish reason for "abstaining" from blood.

  Then they shoot themselves in the foot by putting what they call the sacred symbol of life above life itself!

  Then, if god called blood the sacred symbol of life, why did he create DNA which can be found in saliva and other human fluids which freely mix between humans? and animals for that matter.

  Many people have the same blood type as if it were meant to help save the life of another but no one (except clones??) can share DNA.

  Laughable if it weren't so damn serious to use such reasonings and watch your own child or loved one die.

  This is something else that immediate "ones who teach, police & encourage" elder, lawyer, whoever should have to personally answer for before a court of law. Euthenasia, scientology, wreckless endangerment, thou shalt not kill.

  Would society uphold my religious beliefs to buy, sell and use slaves because it was in the bible? Collect the foreskins of my enemies?

  All madmen must be stopped, even if some want to remain anonymous.
  And it is men because women aren't allowed to make policy because that is in the bible too. LOL
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  deddaisy

  yes, it is ironic that a JW will sacrifice his LIFE in order to abstain from a mere SYMBOL OF LIFE....

  and you're right, why are some things taken literally, and some are not? Why not take Deuteronomy 23:1 literally and question every male as to the condition of his privates before he can be baptized ?

  "He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the Lord." RSV

  Also in Deuteronomy:
  "When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, to be happy with his wife whom he has taken."
  Deuteronomy 24:5
  Doesn't this suggest that he is free to go out with the army if he isn't newly married?

  I'm no Bible Scholar, but these are sincere questions that I would ask if I, as Witnesses supposedly do, took the Bible literally....