Posts by OrphanCrow

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JWs win 2015 Bronze Telly Award in the “Online Video News Feature”

by OrphanCrow in

jworg is carrying a "news" article concerning their recent win of a telly award.. i don't need to add to the jworg website hits, so here is the award listed on the telly award website:.

https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=jehovah%27s&event=16&category=3&award=b.

2015 online video bronze winners.

OrphanCrow

konceptual: Getting an award you have paid for is a bit like saying the Bible is true because it says so itself.

It appears like the Telly Awards are set up to promote and publicize the producers of the work. This award that JWorg "won" as a result of entering the competition, is actually an advertising scheme.

https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/publicity_tools/

This section is to help Telly Award Winners publicize their award winning work.
You have been selected as a Telly Award Winner out of nearly 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents and now's your chance to share this outstanding accomplishment with the rest of the world. This also gives you a chance to salute your team and recognize the time and effort they put in to create award winning work.
To help out, you'll find links below to several tools to help you promote and publicize your win.
Being selected as a Telly Award Winner presents a great opportunity to create buzz in the media and throughout your industry, bringing you front and center among potential clients and partners.
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This is humorous. The statuettes that JWorg is displaying on their website along with the amazing win article, would have been purchased by the Watchtower. Lol!

https://www.tellyawards.com/awards/awards/

Designed by the same firm that makes the Oscar® and Emmy®, the Telly statuette is nearly 12 inches tall and weighs more than 4 1/2 pounds. Winners that wish to commemorate their achievement will have the opportunity to purchase a winner's package, which includes one statuette and one commemorative certificate. If you wish to honor other members of your team, your client, or anyone else involved in your award-winning entry, additional statuettes and certificates are available.

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Had a operation today and was asked about blood transfusions.

by atomant in

operation was successful only minor but some interesting information was revealed to me from the surgeon.l requested that they treat me as if l was a jehovahs witness with regards to blood transfusions.the doctor said well that varies from jw to jw and l asked what do you mean?his response was that in his dealings with jw's was that approx half of witnesses will accept a blood transfusion in life threatening circumstances and sign a form saying so.l was blown away when he told me this.l was curious if others in here have heard similar storys.lt seems to me that many witnesses have weakened their stance on this controversial subject.

OrphanCrow

DesirousofChange, I understand what it is that you are saying.

However, the starting position of the attitude that "doctors are more careful" when there isn't blood, is what I am challenging.

Saying such a statement doesn't take into account the reality of the situation.

Consider it from this use of an "illustration". (haha!)

Think of the surgical experience as an act where the surgeon and his medical team are being asked to walk on a tightrope across a deep ravine, holding the patient. In the surgery, the blood is the safety net under that tightrope. By refusing blood, the patient is not forcing the doctors "to be more careful", they are putting extreme pressure on the team to do their job...without a safety net.

That "extra carefulness" is just a weasel phrase for "create extreme anxiety in the medical team".

What sticks in my craw about that statement - "doctors are more careful" - is that doctors (good ones...there are 'bad' doctors...) are always careful. With or without blood. Without blood, they are being asked to perform a procedure without a vital tool in their toolkit.

And the JWs lap it up - they are led to believe that they are "special", that they are "elite" and that their refusal of blood (a safety net across that ravine that the doctors have to walk) is what will force the doctors to perform better...just because they are JWs who refuse to let the doctors do their job with the tools they have available. It is this misguided notion that the patient can force the doctor to perform better by simply taking his safety net away.

Yup...here ya go, doc...take that patient across that ravine...but don't look down, there isn't anything between you and that dark chasm that yawns below your feet.

Sure....that will make the doctor be "more careful."

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JWs win 2015 Bronze Telly Award in the “Online Video News Feature”

by OrphanCrow in

jworg is carrying a "news" article concerning their recent win of a telly award.. i don't need to add to the jworg website hits, so here is the award listed on the telly award website:.

https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=jehovah%27s&event=16&category=3&award=b.

2015 online video bronze winners.

OrphanCrow

JWorg is carrying a "news" article concerning their recent win of a Telly Award.

I don't need to add to the JWorg website hits, so here is the award listed on the Telly Award website:

https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=jehovah%27s&event=16&category=3&award=B

2015 Online Video Bronze Winners

Jehovah's Witnesses Office of Public Information

JW.ORG NewsroomNews Update: Jehovah's Witnesses Moving ForwardOnline Video - News/News FeatureBrooklyn, NY Jehovah's Witnesses Office of Public Information

JW.ORG NewsroomStanley Theater RenovationOnline Video - News/News FeatureBrooklyn, NY

Winners for the Telly Awards are selected from entries that are submitted by the producers themselves - for a fee, of course.

https://www.tellyawards.com/how_to_enter/fees/

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Had a operation today and was asked about blood transfusions.

by atomant in

operation was successful only minor but some interesting information was revealed to me from the surgeon.l requested that they treat me as if l was a jehovahs witness with regards to blood transfusions.the doctor said well that varies from jw to jw and l asked what do you mean?his response was that in his dealings with jw's was that approx half of witnesses will accept a blood transfusion in life threatening circumstances and sign a form saying so.l was blown away when he told me this.l was curious if others in here have heard similar storys.lt seems to me that many witnesses have weakened their stance on this controversial subject.

OrphanCrow

TheListener: did you just want the doctor to be extra careful during the surgery?
atomat: And yes your right doctors do take extra care to be careful when they know.

Please, if you don't mind, explain these statements.

I hear these type of statements over and over again - from WT people and JWs.

Please back your statements up with more than just the propaganda you have been fed.

These statements are very misleading and are incredibly insulting to doctors everywhere who do not belong to the WT's bloodless cult.

Where did you get these ideas from?? Are they justified with evidence, or do your attitudes and beliefs stem from the WT propaganda that promotes their brand of medicine (alternative...osteopathic and chiro, etc...) and challenges the AMA (allopathic) doctors whenever they can?

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Proof of any Dragons

by pleaseresearch in

does anybody have any proof of the existence of dragons?.

we read in revelation about satan being the dragon, but aren't dragons mythological creatures?.

OrphanCrow

NoLongerAJWBrother: I love Orphancrow's photo but does anybody have the verse that speaks about a unicorn? I can't find it. Peace.

Peace to you as well.

The King James version has a lot of unicorns in it.

Numbers 23:22 - God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Numbers 24:8 - God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

Deuteronomy 33:17 - His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Job 39:9 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Job 39:10 - Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Psalm 22:21 - Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 29:6 - He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalm 92:10 - But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Isaiah 34:7 - And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

I don't know if any other versions of the bible have unicorns. Once I found the unicorns in the King James version, it is the only version of the bible I use. I like unicorns. They're cool.

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Canada zone visit March 2016

by Richard_I in

jw
friends

canada's getting a zone visit in march 2016, but no mention of who's doing the visit.

praying it's anthony morris and we get our own tight pants talk.

OrphanCrow

talesin: Nunavut is the new destination for 'need is greater's ? What are they thinking, those poor, brainwashed suckers. At 17, I thought Moncton was cold and dreary, and after one winter there, became a mentally diseased apostate. Going to the land of the midnight sun to preach? It boggles the mind.

I think the Nunavut escapade is related to all the money and political influence that is available for language revitalization and literacy programs. It would not surprise me one little bit if the WT gets government grant money to produce and distribute literature in aboriginal languages.

And about the GB visiting Canada...was it not Fred Franz who gave the key note talk at the "Peace on Earth" assembly in Vancouver in 1969? The "stay alive til 75" talk? Or something like that?

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Just threw away...

by stephanie61092 in

so even though i don't drive much because public transit is so good where i live (and parking is a living nightmare), i always had a paper taped onto my glove box that said "no blood transfusions - jehovahs witness.

see legal documentation in wallet.

going through this "wake up" process as been a very crazy, emotional experience.

OrphanCrow

steph: So as of 5 minutes ago, I pulled that paper out of my car and threw it in the garbage. I no longer carry the blood card either. It's a very strange feeling right now.

I imagine you do feel strange - you no longer have a "blood identity".

The noblood card is like an identity card - it identifies you as rejecting blood ties to a larger community. The noblood card identifies you as belonging to a rare blood group - a blood group that has DIE written all over it.

Well....welcome to the real world, Steph. The world where lives DO matter and where blood can be used to save and improve lives.

*to add - this is a huge step, Steph, and one that is critical for deprogramming from cult thinking. So many people are able to reject the WT doctrine on pretty much everything except the blood issue. And why??? If the WTS will lie about the Bible, why would they tell the truth about no blood??

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Proof of any Dragons

by pleaseresearch in

does anybody have any proof of the existence of dragons?.

we read in revelation about satan being the dragon, but aren't dragons mythological creatures?.

OrphanCrow

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The inner workings at Bethel in the 70's

by Sour Grapes in

while doing some research, i stumbled upon a blog written by a former bethelite.

his name is john bechtel.

the blog is several years old.

OrphanCrow

SourGrapes: Just a thought from the blog. If the Governing Body voted to make a collective decision, why would God inspire them to have differences in opinion?

Geez, man...didnja learn the WT lessons? When "god" does something unexplained or downright plain wrong...he isn't "god" anymore...he is Satan.

Satan is da bad one...he is the one who f**ks things up, not "God".

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New York Community Trust and Watchtower grants

by OrphanCrow in

the new york community trust.

about the trustthrough the generosity of new yorkers who have set up charitable funds with us, we are able to make grants for a huge range of charitable activity so important to the well-being and vitality of our city.

we are new york city's community foundation, and one of the largest funders of city nonprofits.since 1924, the trust has helped make donors' charitable dreams come true by funding the nonprofits that make our city a vital and secure place.. watchtower bible & tract society of new york - grant recipient for the following years:.

OrphanCrow

Londo: Wow...money down the toilet.

I dunno where the money went. The WTS would have to qualify for the funds somehow - grant funding is usually for a specific project.

But...the film "Knocking" was released in 2006, and one of the major sources of funding for that "independent" (*snicker*) film was the New York Community Trust.

Major funding provided by
Walter Zaremba
Gunther Reibling
New York Community Trust

Heh...NYCT is listed right after two JW names - Zaremba And Reibling.