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What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.
OrphanCrow

Oh! Oh!
Demon stories
My brother is full of them. I grew up with his demon experiences.
When he moved out of home and rented his own place, his furnished apartment had *gasp!* a crucifix hanging on the wall. Oh my oh my. My bro started getting thrown out of bed at night, the demons started whispering and *gasp!* bro couldn't pull the cross off the wall! It was stuck there!
So, bro called the local JW exorcist - the boss elder - and he went over and prayed to Jehovah with bro. Which unstuck the cross from the wall. But *gasp!*, when they took it outside and put it in the burning barrel, *gasp!*, IT WOULDN'T BURN!!!! More prayers followed and the crucifix was reduced to ash...dust to dust, apparently.
Oh, I could go on for ages...about the chicken NAILED! to the road in front of bro's driveway. And the time that I was visiting and he claimed later that I made the furniture fly around the room with the help of the demons.
Gasp! Demons!
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Biotech company Amgen helping JW with Anemia
by TheWonderofYou in
1. watchtower
2. medical
oiwhen a jw is in a life threatening anemia situation or needs a coronary artery bypass in case of dialysis-dependent chronic renal failure there is bloodless solution: .

epo ....this stands for "erythropoietin" also par in "epoetin" "epogen" and replaces the lost blood seemingly.

it counts to the allowed bloodless therapies.. what was jehovahs part in it?
OrphanCrow

Wonder: Amgen is supporting innovative technique like patient blood management research and information initiatives therefore it sponsors also presumably unknowingly associations that engage sometimes a JW speaker who promotes bloodless medicine.
Good post, Wonder.
I wouldn't call it "unkowingly" associations, though. Not at all.
Check out the authors of this study that was funded by Amgen:
Critical Role of Iron in Epoetin Alfa Treatment of Chemotherapy-Associated Anemia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5477928/
Authors:
Shannon Farmer - a Jehovah's Witness
Axel Hofmann - a Jehovah's Witness
Sherri Ozawa - a Jehovah's Witness
And of course - Aryeh Shander, the WT's bloodless hero, a "cooperative doctor" and WT "expert" on all things bloodless.
The other two I don't know much about - the names and faces shift rapidly around a core group of JWs and their associates who sit on the top of the bloodless pile.
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Your Favorite Plays on Words
by compound complex in
1. social
2. entertainment
greetings, fellow word lovers:.

please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..
OrphanCrow

Coco, did you hear about the two guys who walked into a bar?
Yeah...it was pretty funny. You would have thought that the second guy would have seen it.
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What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.
OrphanCrow

My mother: "Everybody in the New World is going to be a mulatto"
Me: "Huh?
Mother: "Oh yes! Eve was a mulatto you know. She would have had to be. That is how we ended up with black people and white people. She would have had to carry the genes for both. Mulatto people are so pretty aren't they? They are such a beautiful color."
Me: silence...
Another one:
Me visiting a friend and a JW man comes to the door.
My friend: "No thank you. I have my own religion that I follow"
JW guy" "We are not a religion. We are a lifestyle"
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Secret Societies involved at the very top of the Org
by Formerbrother in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
are all the gb members past and present, part of skulls and bones and other masonic secret societies?

we know the first few top brass were, like br rutherford and br russel.. they all have several expensive watches.

like literally more than one for everyday of the week, rolex and omega, where did they come from?
OrphanCrow

You don't have to be a member of a secret society to be an asshole.
One is not evidence of the other
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New JWism in April broadcast?
by AuntBee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does anyone know what it means to be "securely wrapped up in the bag of life"?

is this a new special wt terminology?

they said it or a slight variant of it, several times in the broadcast, perhaps 3?
OrphanCrow

Was 1 Samuel 25:29 used as a scripture?
NWT:
When someone rises up to pursue you and seeks your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of life with Jehovah your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away like stones from a sling
Huh. It sounds like the GB is a little worried about something
*most other translations use "bundle of the living" instead of "bag" (except for one...that uses God's "treasure pouch"...which sounds a bit obscene)
http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/25-29.htm
**ha! Morph...you beat me to it
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Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.
by Wasanelder Once in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

in one sentence tell why you left the org.

not 2 sentences.
OrphanCrow

I hated the restrictions, the control and the hypocrisy.
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O neg universal doner
by bikerchic in
1. watchtower
2. medical
so i donate blood because i can.

i donate every 4 months when the bloodmobile comes to my place of work.

i know it helps.. what about you, do you donate blood?
OrphanCrow

Awesome
I haven't donated for several years but I have a few times in the past
I give back when I can because someone gave their blood so I could live
A blood transfusion saved my life
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Apostrophe
by compound complex in
1. social
2. entertainment
the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

learn something new every day!.

twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.
OrphanCrow

(as per our prior discussion concerning "apostrophe", Coco)
Apostrophe as an utterance:
The orator "turns away" from the audience and addresses an inaminate object - as in..."O death" or..."O God", etc
Apostrophe in this sense is a "turning away"
Apostrophe as a mark:
The symbol ' stands in for that which is not said. It signifies that part of speech which is "left out". That which is not uttered. Left out, not communicated by anything other than a "mark"
Which then leads, logically, to "apostate"
The one who has "turned away". The one who has no utterance.
"Turned away" and "left out"
We are apostrophes. We are marked.
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Apostrophe
by compound complex in
1. social
2. entertainment
the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

learn something new every day!.

twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.
OrphanCrow

The Bible's most famous/wellknown apostrophe:
Matthew 6:9-13

OrphanCrow

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Critical Role of Iron in Epoetin Alfa Treatment of Chemotherapy-Associated Anemia