Posts by OrphanCrow

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jehovah witness elder molest his daughter ... Lynn Gardner

by jaydee in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boizyklif4q.

OrphanCrow

fisherman, you are being a weasel.

I never said anything about these having to be criminal cases and neither did you.

The WT has settled numerous civil cases. Stay on track, buddy

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jehovah witness elder molest his daughter ... Lynn Gardner

by jaydee in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boizyklif4q.

OrphanCrow

Fisherman: Can you cite one case filed against the WT in the US where wt was found guilty of violating a mandatory child abuse reporting........

Hahaha!

Of course those are difficult to find. The Watchtower settles all of them before the court can make a judgement on the case!

How many did they settle a few years back? 17 cases or something like that, wasn't it? And all with gag orders attached.

Let's make a list of all the cases that the WT has settled before judgement. Now that would be informative and pertinent to this discussion.

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No more official visits to disfellowshipped & disassociated ones

by AverageJoe1 in

new letter today (please visit avoidjw.org for a copy of the official letter and yes, i also noticed they got the date wrong!).

february 28, 2017. to all bodies of elders.

re: visiting disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals.

OrphanCrow

Sign up for introductory class now:

Control 101 - Micromanagement in action

Space is unlimited. Only prerequisite is to leave your brain at the door.

Tuition: your life and your family's lives. Please make check payable to Jehovah. Master Card and Visa accepted. Cash acceptable (or land or jewelry or anything of monetary value)

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jehovah witness elder molest his daughter ... Lynn Gardner

by jaydee in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boizyklif4q.

OrphanCrow

fisherman: I do not have any authority to determine one way or the other

Why not? By whose authority?

Why can you not make a determination using your own brain?

Who said anything at all about outside authority?

Do you not have your own authority to make a decision?

Do you not own your own brain? Who owns your brain?

Who is your authority? Yourself? Or someone/something else?

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Poll - Will you accept blood?

by OrphanCrow in

i have made a poll to try to determine the impact of the wt's no blood policy on ex members.. if you are an exjw, please participate.. vote here:.

*oops...hang on here...i have to make a new poll...this one lets you vote more than once.

i will post the new one .

OrphanCrow

RO: I am not sure if he meant that Bloodless surgery is when the person has no blood which is what he said or is it that it leads to the person having no blood. I am not sure. that is why I asked him to clarify that statement.

It was pretty simple.

Go back and read it again.

*hint...it isn't what Simon says

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Poll - Will you accept blood?

by OrphanCrow in

i have made a poll to try to determine the impact of the wt's no blood policy on ex members.. if you are an exjw, please participate.. vote here:.

*oops...hang on here...i have to make a new poll...this one lets you vote more than once.

i will post the new one .

OrphanCrow

No.

I didn't say that. You did.

Of course, though, when a patient has had their blood drained (ANH) and replaced with a volume expander, they would naturally be considered "anemic"

Once their body was "bloodless", I suppose anemic would be a correct term to use

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JWs and legalized Marijuana

by jws in

jw
friends

i know this was probably covered before in some post, but i was curious.

what is the jw stance on recreational marijuana use in the states where it has been legalized?.

i would suspect smoking it, like cigarettes, would probably still be against the rules, but there are ways to use it that aren't damaging to your lungs.

OrphanCrow

aintenoughwiskey: Imagine the mass exodus if they banned alcohol?

With a username like that..I can see why you would say that! Lol!

The JWs' use of alcohol is such a paradox.

On one hand, the WT makes a huge deal out of the ways that their brand of medicine can "reduce the need for blood transfusion" yet on the other hand, alcohol use increases the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.

http://patient.info/doctor/oesophageal-varices

Bleeding from oesophageal varices is responsible for 5-11% of all cases of upper gastrointestinal bleeding
In Western countries, alcoholic and viral cirrhosis are the leading causes of portal hypertension and oesophageal varices

It is no surprise that many JWs experience gastrointestinal bleeding.

Why hasn't the WT banned alcohol use? A step like that would definitely have reduced the number of JWs who would have required a blood transfusion.

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JWs and legalized Marijuana

by jws in

jw
friends

i know this was probably covered before in some post, but i was curious.

what is the jw stance on recreational marijuana use in the states where it has been legalized?.

i would suspect smoking it, like cigarettes, would probably still be against the rules, but there are ways to use it that aren't damaging to your lungs.

OrphanCrow

An article that reveals the JWs' stance on medical cannabis:

What is cannabis topical oil? And why is this Rancho Cordova couple so good at making it?

Taking the top prize in the Emerald Cup is considered the cannabis equivalent of winning an Oscar, and a key way to establish clout in California’s medical marijuana economy, which is valued as high as $2.7 billion.

Dudgeon has grown cannabis for the past three years, while Taylor has worked for the past 17 years in pest control for the cannabis industry. The couple made their first batch of cannabis-infused topical oil about a year ago for Dudgeon’s grandmother, who suffers from arthritis in the knee. Using cannabis in other ways, such as smoking, wasn’t going to work for her. In addition, Dudgeon comes from a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Read full story at link.

And a bit of information about that " medical marijuana economy, which is valued as high as $2.7 billion."

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/315890005/_post/5446960882384896

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Poll - Will you accept blood?

by OrphanCrow in

i have made a poll to try to determine the impact of the wt's no blood policy on ex members.. if you are an exjw, please participate.. vote here:.

*oops...hang on here...i have to make a new poll...this one lets you vote more than once.

i will post the new one .

OrphanCrow

dubstepped: ... I even read the wrong one, lol.

The "wrong" one wasn't really wrong - I wanted to post that one but I had posted it twice instead of the one about Shander and Seeber.

I'll check out the new one you posted.

Enjoy! :)

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Poll - Will you accept blood?

by OrphanCrow in

i have made a poll to try to determine the impact of the wt's no blood policy on ex members.. if you are an exjw, please participate.. vote here:.

*oops...hang on here...i have to make a new poll...this one lets you vote more than once.

i will post the new one .

OrphanCrow

Doubting Bro: One of the more emotional symbolic things I did while waking up was rip up my executed Advance Medical Directive....It was quite therapeutic to destroy that symbol of control over my individual decisions.

That act is probably the most freeing thing a person can do when they leave the JWs faith.

It is more than a symbolic gesture - it is a real, effective way to take action on taking your life back and making it your own. That card is more than a symbol - it is an actuality of the WT's control, not only over your mind, but over your body and your life itself.

What's next? Well...how about blood donor time? Save somebody else's life in a real, tangible way. Not by offering them promises of a life forever in some imaginary, perceived paradise, but in this world here and now. Save a life, please. Save your own life, and save somebody else's too.