My (nonJW) daughter's boyfriend (JW) and his mom tried to tell her that not accepting blood transfusions meant that you would get better care because the doctor's would be "more careful". I pointed out that the opposite could also be true...I'll have to show them this article.
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DOCTOR CLEARED IN DEATH OF JW -SUPREME COURT-
by orbison11 ini just got the local paper for chilliwack, there was a supreme court case here regarding a jw, i will do a bit of the first few paragraphs, for more go to www.chilliwacktimes.com and you should be able to find the whole article.
doctor cleared in death.
supreme court judge has determined a release form signed by a local jehovah's witnes woman who died following a hysterectomy is enough to clear the doctor in the case from paying damages............ btw.
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financial distress caused by Jehovahs Witnesses
by Gaynor ini dont know where to post this but i just want to blow off some steam, i was baptised as a jw in february 1994, in september of last year i was disfellowshipped, this was for allowing my partner from america to come to live in my house, they said we were committing fornication, we werent.
my disfellowshipping occured just 1 week prior to my marriage, and despite breaking my heart and sobbing to the elders they remained convinced of our fornication and disfellowshipped me.
i appealled and had to endure 2 hours of interrogation by 6 elders, again my heart was breaking, again they disfellowshipped.
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ConcernedMom
Wow! All this since last September...you've had a busy 10 months!
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financial distress caused by Jehovahs Witnesses
by Gaynor ini dont know where to post this but i just want to blow off some steam, i was baptised as a jw in february 1994, in september of last year i was disfellowshipped, this was for allowing my partner from america to come to live in my house, they said we were committing fornication, we werent.
my disfellowshipping occured just 1 week prior to my marriage, and despite breaking my heart and sobbing to the elders they remained convinced of our fornication and disfellowshipped me.
i appealled and had to endure 2 hours of interrogation by 6 elders, again my heart was breaking, again they disfellowshipped.
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ConcernedMom
I'm a bit confused...I was baptised and raised Catholic. I have been married twice (first husband deceased)--both times in the Catholic church and both times to NON-Catholics. You don't need to be Catholic to marry a Catholic...at least not in Canada and I'm pretty sure not in the US. You would have to have your first marriage annulled (I think but I have no personal experience with this one) because the Catholic church doesn't recognise divorce. So the way I understand you, I don't think not being able to get a JW baptisimal certificate should hold up your marriage. You may need it to continue on to become Catholic but not for your marriage which seems to be the immigration problem. Deb
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wierd JW sister experience
by AuSet ini was walking in uptown mpls on hennipen ave....last weekend, with my jw sister, her jw boyfriend, and my fiance..... there was this lady sitting on a park bench reading what looked like a new awake rather conspicuously , i was about to yell out to her "are you counting your time or what?
" when i noticed a small table she had set up on the sidewalk with some very old jw wts on it, and some other old literature..... my sister sees it and quickly sidesteps it as though she had been shocked...and she said to her jw bf while sucking in her breath loudly "ooooo....that's apostate literature.
wait a second...i said loudly....am i to understand that you just called the jws own literature apostate?
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ConcernedMom
Do I have this right?? The "publishers" PAY for the magazines that they then have to take out and "place"?? So then if someone "donates" money for one of them, who gets that money (do I really need to ask...)?
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES & Book BURNING (CDs TOO!)
by Smoldering Wick inok, i admit it...as a jehovah's witness, i burned a book.
when i was about 10 years old, a sister gave my mother a box of books.
i had been baptized for over a year and was quite the "little witness.
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ConcernedMom
Some local JWs called on the one nun left living at the RC convent here. She said she would be happy to read their books and gave them one of hers to read telling them to come back and they would discuss them. When they came back, she gave them their books that she had finished reading and asked what they thought of the one she had given them. They said they had burned it. I thought it took a lot of guts to go there in the first place but to return again and tell her they had burned her property was really rude. I guess they thought it would be a real coup if they converted her! Needless to say, she was very insulted....
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I'm waiting to have this experience.....
by Frannie Banannie ina jdub (or pair of 'em) comes to my door with the mags......i ask them..."are you from earth?".
they look bewildered, saying, "yes...".
i say, "sorry, i don't trust earthling men/women.
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ConcernedMom
Is there really a list of places not to go back to? I've wondered because, a couple of years ago, I came home to find WatchTowers shredded up all over our lawn. I thought, "OMG...the dogs attacked the JWs!" (I was worried the 2 dogs--large but generally friendly--would get in trouble.) My husband said, "No, they wanted to give me their magazines so I said, "Sure...Here you go boys," and handed them to the dogs who proceeded to fight over them and spread the pieces all over the yard. We haven't had a JW come to the house since (except our daughter's boyfriend--but that's in an "unofficial" capacity.)
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Another question from the new guy...
by SwampThing ini have another question if you all would be so kind as to enlighten me.
after reading hundreds of posts here, i understand now why some people stay in the wts even though they would like to leave.
the loss of friends, family members and such from this bizarre practice of "shunning" could be devastating in the lives of some people.
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ConcernedMom
How many other people is he harming the same way he harmed you? You questioned earlier at what point an individual is responsible for their actions even if being controlled by the group...the "mob mentality"...safety in numbers...innocent by reason of insanity???
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Another request for help in understanding...
by SwampThing ingood day all,.
i have another request:.
please help me understand how to decipher the code where references are given, such as:.
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Baptism
by ConcernedMom inwhat is the usual age for someone raised as a jw to be baptised?
is the belief that you must be a baptised jw to survive armageddon?
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ConcernedMom
So, in theory, if you were under the age of accountability and an unbaptised JW, you would be saved but if you were over that age and had not chosen to be baptised, you'd be doomed????
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Baptism
by ConcernedMom inwhat is the usual age for someone raised as a jw to be baptised?
is the belief that you must be a baptised jw to survive armageddon?
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ConcernedMom
What is the usual age for someone raised as a JW to be baptised? Is the belief that you must be a BAPTISED JW to survive Armageddon?