the following is from the comments section of the independent article about the 22 year old jw with sickle cell anaemia who died in england last week while refusing blood.
maria makes aguest sound laconic so i don't blame you if you can't be bothered reading it all but the jw cliches and lies are all too familiar.
i'm guessing she is at the thursday meeting about now so maybe she will respond again later.. .
Jehovah's organisation have always permitted blood fractions and have always considered this as a conscience matter.
What???? I became a witness in 1956 and blood fractions were not allowed until about 1978. It was not a conscience matter up until then.
JW's aren't the only bad ones. We had a visit from two young Mormon guys. Clyde and I were sitting on the front porch. Then one of the guys asked to use the bathroom. I started to show him into the house and the way to the bathroom, but he said my husband would have to show him the way. I was three times this kid's age. Maybe he thought I was the bad one.
we are always urged to "make sure of all things", namely, that anything we preach or teach is verifiable and true.
especially when we are referring to the bible.. at our convention, two things which came from the platform made me cringe, especially as one of the statements came from a regular and experienced convention speaker.
first; "over a quarter of a million new brothers and sisters were baptized last year - doesn't this show love on jehovah's part that he is allowing time for such ones to get to know him".
I remember several years ago when that quote first came out. My Clyde saw through it right away. I heard him saying many times, where does it say "new scrolls?" The elders just shook their heads.
Bonnie
i was just surprised by that term being used by jim mccabe when he said "jonathan kendrick was not a leader or a pastor, he was just a rank-and-file member.".
i thought that was only an apostate term and also what a put down to us lowly members.
we are just a rank-and-file person.
After McCabe's comment, the WT can no longer state that there is no clergy/laity distinction among Jehovah's witnesses.
for years the wt has bragged that there is no clery/laity distinction among jehovah's witnesses.
now this attorney refers to kendrick as just a "rank and file"--he's not a pastor or elder--like that should make a difference?.
For years the WT has bragged that there is no clery/laity distinction among Jehovah's Witnesses. Now this attorney refers to Kendrick as just a "rank and file"--he's not a pastor or elder--like that should make a difference?
i think the organization will harp on the idea that the news media is a product of satan the devil and should never be trusted especially if the news is in any way negative of jehovah's witnesses.. with all the negative (truthful) press that will come out over this latest mult-million dollar judgment against the watchtower society, i think they will "demonize" the press more than they ever have.. what do you think?
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I remember a sister saying a few years ago when Dateline came out on the JW pedophile problem, "They just did it to take attention away from the Catholic Church."
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20120611abc02/.
final witness*.
air date: wednesday, july 11, 2012. time slot: 10:00 pm-11:00 pm est on abc.
I will be watching for this. I knew Mary Jane Longo and her family even when she was a little girl. I didn't know Christian Longo but my son did. This guy was a very charming, accomplished liar and thief. What really galled me is that after the murders, he continued his facade--flew to a resort and hitched up with an unsuspecting female for the night--pretending to be somebody he was not. Boy, was she shocked when the authorities came pouncing in on him! Longo was raised as a JW and was even a ministerial servant up to about a year before the murders.
a controversial coney island principal has pulled the plug on patriotism.. her refusal to let students sing god bless the usa at their graduation has sparked fireworks at a school filled with proud immigrants.. greta hawkins, principal of ps 90, the edna cohen school, wont allow kindergartners to belt out the beloved lee greenwood ballad, also known as proud to be an american, at their moving-up ceremony.. context: middle correlation photo five classes spent months learning the patriotic song, which skyrocketed in popularity after the 9/11 attacks and the 2003 invasion of iraq.it was to be the rousing finale of their musical show at the june 20 commencement.
the kids, dressed up for their big day, would wave tiny american flags which, as the lyrics proclaim, still stand for freedom.. but hawkins marched in on a recent rehearsal and ordered a cd playing the anthem to be shut off, staffers said.. she told the teachers to drop the song from the program.. we dont want to offend other cultures, they quoted her as explaining.. the curt edict stunned both staff and parents.. a lot of people fought to move to america to live freely, so that song should be sung with a whole lot of pride, said mom luz lozada, whose son, daniel, is in kindergarten.. the song has been sung at previous school events.
last years fifth-graders, including another lozada child, performed it at graduation.. everybody applauded and whistled, the mom said.
I was listening to a local radio station in my car coming home today, and they said they would be talking about this situation in a few minutes, but I was almost home and didn't hear it. Didn't guess that the principal was a JW or I would have kept on listening.
) why was jesus able.
jesus do so?
father as well as to jesus.
JWGB - thank you very much for your numbers as to how many time the "Lord Jesus Christ" occurs in the Greek Scriptures. Last night I did more Bible reading than I have for a long time as was astounded that it hadn't occurred to me how seldom the WTS refers to him as "Lord" and yet the Bible, even the NWT, uses "Lord Jesus Christ" hundreds of times. The WT claims that they honor Jesus, but I know for a fact that if we were to refer to Jesus as "Lord Jesus" or "Lord Jesus Christ" in everyday conversation or while commenting at meetings, we would soon be under suspicion.
just fired up my comp and went to youtube and entered "sparlock".
wow!
people have re-uploaded the originals, they have parodied it, got kids to comment on it and woody from toy story has given his opinion on it too.. you guys are awesome!
Now I get it...It was Sparlock who magically entered the word "overlapping" into Matthew 24:34.
Seems like they would want to keep this guy around.
