Posts by OrphanCrow

Well...in some people's lives, yes, it is the bane of their existence. That is why the JWs have ended up in court on many occasions for their incessant door knocking. If the JWs weren't the bane of these people's existence, I doubt that they would have bothered to take it to court.

The author probably shouldn't have inserted the word "most" into his sentence but regardless, that slip doesn't negate the rest of his article and the main thrust of it.

"Most" people expect others to respect their privacy and the JWs violate that.

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Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

OrphanCrow

talesin: OC, remember "It's a Shopsy!"?

No, I am not familiar with "It's a Shopsy!". Our approved company name to buy wieners from was "Fuhrman's". They were way more expensive than regular hot dog wieners and we didn't buy them often. You could tell if a JW family had money because they would have a case of Fuhrman wieners in their deep freeze!

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A New Watchtower trade name: Hudson Valley

by Gorbatchov in

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watchtower and trading business is a never ending combination, now under the new name of hudson valley, selling their building machines online: .

http://used-tools-equipment.com.

OrphanCrow

stuck: How do you know that is a WT site?

From the website:

Hudson Valley Used Tools and Equipment is Kingdom Support Services, Inc

Kingdom Support Services is a Watchtower corporation.

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Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

OrphanCrow

cofty: In a modern abattoir the blood is collected and used for all manner of commercial uses. Therefore is would be unlawful to eat the meat you buy in a butcher's shop or supermarket.

When I was a kid, we were not allowed to eat processed meat. Bologna and hot dogs were seen as the devil's food. The only processed meat product that anybody in the congregation would buy came from a Jewish kosher meat processing company.

I have always had a suspicion that those earlier dietary rules were rooted in the financial alliances that the Bible Students had with the Jewish community - "tell your adherents not to eat blood and buy our food instead".

Where the WT really lost the plot, though, was when they banned the use of certain pet foods and garden fertilizers that were made with blood products. That was insanity at its finest.

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Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

OrphanCrow

steve2: Doubtfully Yours provides a very helpful glimpse into the cult mentality in which obedience to misapplied scripture is praised over life itself.
Not for the faint of heart indeed! As religious extremists of every color and shade have demonstrated across human history, having one's life extinguished in the name of submission to the Divine can be the highest honor!

The WT blood policy exploits the martyr complex.

"In psychology a person who has a martyr complex, sometimes associated with the term victim complex, desires the feeling of being a martyr for his/her own sake, seeking out suffering or persecution because it either feeds a psychological need, or a desire to avoid responsibility."

Embracing martyrdom is self serving/selfish. People who have no purpose are the ones who will embrace somebody else's purpose and call it admirable. False courage and irresponsibility dressed up as virtue.

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Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

OrphanCrow

cofty: The unnecessary death of children isn't boring. It is a scandal.

It is not just children who die from the WT blood policy.

In reality, it is women who are at the greatest risk of dying from the refusal of blood.

DY: Definitely, upholding the JW blood stance is not for the faint of heart.

No, it is for those who are willfully blind and willfully ignorant.

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Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

OrphanCrow

DY: Stop the hating.

Hating???

No way will I EVER stop hating the murderous blood policy of the WT.

Methinks you are the one who needs to change and stop interpreting rational discussion of a superstition as hate directed against yourself. This isn't just about you.

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Blood Transfusion and Eating

by dugout in

i get highly irritated when this subject comes up.

this idiot gave a talk in my hall recently and said that transfusion of blood and eating blood was the same thing.

my wife accepts this reasoning.

OrphanCrow

vidiot: @ OrphanCrow...
I'm still scratching my head over the Org's historical animosity towards the American Medical Association...

That's easy to understand.

Short version is this: Quack religion and quack medicine sleep in the same bed. And from that they give birth to baby quacks like the blood ban.

Long version is on this yuku thread which might clear up some of that confusion...or it might make you scratch your head some more...

http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com/topic/25042#.VvBHjeIrLre

baker:
In the Book "30 years a Watchtower Slave", William Schneil wrote that at one time the GB was considering to drop the Blood issue based upon Matt 15:17 alone, but that book was written over 30 years ago, and as yet no evidence of this stance has ever been noticed.

They figured out how to make money from it instead.

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Article: "JWs door to door pamphlets are actually alright." Journalist's mistakes corrected in Comments by XJWs. Read his reaction.

by AndersonsInfo in

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https://www.the-newshub.com/general/jehovahs-witness-door-to-door-pamphlets-are-actually-alright#comment-section.

jehovah's witness door to door pamphlets are actually alright.

and their religion isn't that bad either.

OrphanCrow

Anderson: He promised to write another article pointing out how the JWs misrepresent their religion in their literature.

He has written that article.

Jehovah's Witness Pamphlets are extremely misleading

Amazing what a little bit of research can do.

This guy's rating of the JWs has significantly dropped.

Combined anecdotal and academic evidence therefore both points towards the conclusion that the JW's act essentially like a reclusive and secretive cult. I can't, in good conscience, really see the JW's as the "good Christians" anymore. The JW's are manipulative, coercive, and sly. They are not "good Christians".
On a scale of Christians from 1 to 10 (with the Westboro Baptist Church ranking as a "1"), I rate the Jehovah's Witnesses as a "2".