Blood was only sacred insofar as it represented a life that had been taken.
That is a conclusion.
Your other remarks are also your conclusions. You can believe them if you like.
Under the law, blood could not be used or stored. It had to poured out.
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Blood Transfusions are Biblically Supported
by allpoweredup into jehovah's witnesses elders: blood transfusions are biblically supported: acts 15:20 says abstain from blood but 1 samuel 14:32-5 says saul's army ate unbled meat to not starve and no verses show god not forgiving them.
christ says god also forgave david's eating temple holy bread to survive and that god wants mercy not sacrifice.
(mt 12) the may 22, 1994 awake tells of 26 jehovah's witness kids who died without transfusions, and by common sense in massive bleeding as in car wrecks blood expanders won't save lives http://www.ajwrb.org.
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Blood Transfusions are Biblically Supported
by allpoweredup into jehovah's witnesses elders: blood transfusions are biblically supported: acts 15:20 says abstain from blood but 1 samuel 14:32-5 says saul's army ate unbled meat to not starve and no verses show god not forgiving them.
christ says god also forgave david's eating temple holy bread to survive and that god wants mercy not sacrifice.
(mt 12) the may 22, 1994 awake tells of 26 jehovah's witness kids who died without transfusions, and by common sense in massive bleeding as in car wrecks blood expanders won't save lives http://www.ajwrb.org.
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Given the Bible as God's Word, how can Acts 15:28,29 be invalidated when it burdens Christians to keep abstaining from blood? If a Christian puts a pint of blood into his body, how is such person abstaining?
In a question from readers article, the wt says this about using autologous blood:
"Rather than deciding solely on the basis of personal preference or some medical recommendation, each Christian ought to consider seriously what the Bible says. It is a matter between him and Jehovah." WT 2000 Oct 15. Copyrighted WBTS
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JWs MUST Accept The Watchtower Teachings EVEN When They Are Wrong!
by minimus inisn't it unbelievable that a jehovah's witness must accept whatever the organization says or they can be disfellowshipped??
unless they tell you that their understanding has changed, you cannot believe anything unless they say it's ok. .
many years ago i questioned them about their ridiculous view that whenever the word "heart" was mentioned, it was a literal blood filled organ.
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Who has the authority to determine whether or not any WT teaching is wrong?
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Chapter 23 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 23.
in 1970 i saw a move that changed my life forever.
which looking back, would have been a total blessing from god.
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Sounds like a lot of misfits end up in Bethel
Actually, a lot of applications are rejected and most of the guys that are accepted are good people with a pure motive like Sparky, Morpheus, Cappy, NewBoy, CoCo and others here. But one has to deal with a lot of people with different personalities and mostly celibate young men with high tetesterone levels and some people get on your nerves after a while. That is one aspect. Then there is the work. That's another's aspect And then there is the indomitable Bethel system. Hence, people are human beings and they have a sense of fairness. And in a competitive environment there are shortcuts but there are no shortcuts in Bethel; only seniority and hard work, unless you happen to have a higher education, then you get a management position or they use your skills versus taking arms against a sea of Smythes and by opposing end them.
I never saw corruption or insidiousness or an immoral environment.
It was hard for housekeeper sisters too but I sincerely respect the bros that worked there. But also just as Sparky says, some of these guys were misfits and maybe that's how they managed to stay long, and got positions of power -and some people were just obnoxious; any sane person would put in their 30days. But it's the same in any environment, work, etc. except that in the WT environment you can't prevail if you get on the negative side of someone holding a powerful position. -And when they hold you back, it affects your life and happiness in the org. and it is human to get angry.
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Chapter 23 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 23.
in 1970 i saw a move that changed my life forever.
which looking back, would have been a total blessing from god.
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What I remember about Heller's book is that the only way to get out the army was if you were crazy and to be crazy you had to believe and to say that you were sane -that was the catch 22 because if you said you were not crazy, the army was willing to believe you. If you said you were crazy you were bluffing because crazy people don't admit it. -
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Chapter 22 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 22. the machines conquer all.
after doweling’s committee meeting many of us got job changes out of the laundry.
i guess they wanted to bust the trouble makers up.
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Another thing about the bindery is that it was about production, producing books and you were taught to get into a production mode. That production mode stays with you for life; and you find yourself getting into that mode when you are working or doing different things.
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Chapter 22 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 22. the machines conquer all.
after doweling’s committee meeting many of us got job changes out of the laundry.
i guess they wanted to bust the trouble makers up.
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know you could be a Jew and JW at the same time!
You shouldn't practice Judaism if you are a JW but chinese, black, Mexican, Jew, arabic are descriptions that can be used used to identify ethnicity. So, asking this brother what was his ethnicity, he did not tell me that he was black or Irish or Spanish. He said that he was Jewish but it was axiomatic that he was of JW religion.
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Let's talk about Blood again....
by stuckinarut2 ini know we have all talked about this topic before, but for some new ones on the forum, or to refresh ourselves, i wanted to start this thread.. the society likes to go on about the sacredness of blood, and how it should not be transfused etc.. they liken it to a symbol of life itself.
something that should be respected and therefore not transfused.. but, what is more important: real life, or a symbol of life?.
an illustration came to mind.. if we give a bunch of flowers to a loved one as a symbol of our love for them, are those flowers more important than the love itself?
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It ain't up to individual JWs to decide for themselves whether or not to accept a blood transfusion as described by WT. WT defines that JW do not accept BT. And that's that. If a JW accepts blood contrary to wt teachings he is commiting a sin and is going against wt doctrine.
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Chapter 22 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 22. the machines conquer all.
after doweling’s committee meeting many of us got job changes out of the laundry.
i guess they wanted to bust the trouble makers up.
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On 3/5 they put the slower sewing machines that did free sheet. It was the first place they put generic new boys coming into the factory first time to work. The loud gatherers with the brothers wearing ear protection was just outside the sewing area and walking towards the elevators. Those sewing machines were indomitable. I knew one young Jewish brother that conquered the Smythe. He got a job change to work in dispatch. Weren't you missing breakfast all the time and getting your name called to get your allowance? - Just kidding.
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Chapter 22 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave
by new boy inchapter 22. the machines conquer all.
after doweling’s committee meeting many of us got job changes out of the laundry.
i guess they wanted to bust the trouble makers up.
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