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just curious if anybody in the jw.com community have hobbies in, or are interested in renewable energy technologies, steam engines, or otherwise.... thats where my interest lies, would love to chat with an 'apostolic' like mind about the subject..
I don't have any particular interest in wind turbines, but I can see hundreds of them from the view in my window. I live in a high wind area. They started putting them in about 20 years ago. Our local electric company buys the power from the farms that operate them.
There was quite a stir when the first few were "installed". They do spoil the landscape, IMO, but they are also a tourist attraction.
They were also featured in the film Rain Man with Tom Cruise.
Andee
well it looks like i find myself in the middle of the jw battlefield once again fighting the borg for nothing less then the soul of my younger son.
many months ago i had forbidden my full-blown dub wife from bringing my young boy to cult programming, i mean meetings anymore.
at issue was the shunning and blood issue.
As a kid, I went to many meetings, and book studies, with my zealot JW Grandmother. My parents were also JW's but only went to meetings on and off. I was allowed to play with "worldly" kids and even take trips with them. Many things were off limits of course (like b-day parties, xmas, etc), but I realize now how much that exposure influenced my thinking. I saw that Non-JWs were nice people and they weren't followers of Satan.
Yes, there will be a big conflict for your kids. There was for me. I couldn't understand why Jehovah would want to destroy all these nice people. I just didn't buy into it. Even very young.
Your situation is a difficult one. I say, give them as much "other" influence and exposure as you can.
Andee
quack science and the risks of blood transfusions.
the watchtower society has not been content with giving "biblical" reasons for prohibiting blood transfusions.
articles and publications dealing with this question are just as concerned with emphasizing the dangers of blood transfusions and the advantages of some alternatives to blood transfusions.
"Criminals in jail are given the opportunity to donate their blood. For example, the New York Times of April 6, 1961, reported: "Inmates of Sing Sing Prison at Ossining will give blood to the Red Cross today." A commendable act? Perhaps not as beneficial to their fellow men as the community is led to believe. . . . in his book WhoIsYourDoctorandWhy? Doctor Alonzo Jay Shadman says: "The blood in any person is in reality the person himself. It contains all the peculiarities of the individual from whence it comes. This includes hereditary taints, disease susceptibilities, poisons due to personal living, eating and drinking habits. . . . The poisons that produce the impulse to commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood." And Dr. Amrico Valrio, Brazilian doctor and surgeon for over forty years, agrees. "Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes -- these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion," he says. Yet it is acknowledged in the public press that organizations whose blood supply is considered reliable obtain blood for transfusion from criminals who are known to have such characteristics." (The Watchtower, Sept. 15, 1961, p. 564)
(bold mine)
So according to the WTS a blood transfusion can give you a criminal's personality!
So, would the OPPOSITE also be true?
For instance, if the blood of a "good law-abiding" individual was transfused into a criminal, would that person also have a change in personality and suddenly become a model citizen?
Keep them coming, Jan.
Andee
hi...i was wondering why jw's think smurfs are evil?
also what is a dub?
The one story I had heard was where a little girl took her giant Smurf into the meeting and apparently it got up and walked out!!!!!!!!!!
(bold and italics mine)
Perhaps this JW urban legend is merely a fantasy projected onto some kids toy by of some poor RF stuck in another boring meeting.
Andee
i was just watching popeye the sailor man while getting dressed for work (for some reason the television was tuned to the cartoon .
network) and it just amazes me they way popeye and bluto fight over olive oyl.
i mean i suppose she's a nice person, but she is .
I remember some years back going to a comedy club and hearing the comedian joke about why Popeye and Bluto (later Brutus, I wonder why they changed that) were always fighting over "The ugliest woman in the world".
Andee
organ transplants: cannibalism!.
as with blood, the wts originally had no objections to organ transplants.
in a questions from readers section in the watchtower, aug. 1, 1961, page 480, the question about organ transplants is answered pointedly:.
Jan,
Your series is absolutely fascinating!
I wish my Dad could read it. Alas, we are not in contact at this time.
I remember about 12 years ago, my Father informed me that he had given "health" (Not sure what the legal terminology is)power of attorney to his secretary ( Also a JW). His concern was that if he were to become unable to make his own decisions, healthwise, and if the question of blood transfusions was posed, my sister and I would not be able to force his contamination, and thus, jeopardize his salvation.
Some days later, I shared this information with my younger sister. We shot each other sly, knowing looks. It was decided if the occasion arose, we would intimidate Sister Secretary(an older woman) into "resigning" her power. At least, to be afraid to enforce it. The Tour De Force my Sis and I would present would overwhelming her. Thus, freeing us to be able to make what we thought to be an appropriate health decision made with unbiased, reliable, well researched medical information. Not the propaganda the WTS dishes out to it's spellbound members.
I suppose it can be argued that we should respect his wishes. But, because we know what information he bases his decision on, we can neither respect, or sit quietly by, while his life is needlessly in jeopardy. We are willing to risk the conquences (Not like it's the first time we have pissed him off!) of him surviving "tainted".
Andee
Edited by - BeautifulGarbage on 31 July 2002 18:2:57
fourskin started a battle of the sexes with his "where are the feminine women" thread.
i am wondering about men.
he has a muscle car, however, he has no muscle definition.
LOL @ six of nine!
fourskin started a battle of the sexes with his "where are the feminine women" thread.
i am wondering about men.
he has a muscle car, however, he has no muscle definition.
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Over there people are lucky to make $100 month even after 4 years at the university and yet they dress to the nines all the time. They keep trim and not from lack of food but from a desire to look.. shall I say it? sexy and beautiful for their "beloved man" or woman.
What is the name of "over there"?
"Lucky" to make 100 bucks, but can still dress to the nines? dang!
After spending all that money on clothes and assessories they have money for food??? Hmmm I'll have to remember that dieting "tip".
All the countries I know where people are "lucky" to make 100 bucks a month WITH an university education sure ain't too worried about looking "sexy".
"beloved woman"? LMAO!
Andee
What cute pics!
And you know what? YOUR lawn is bigger than mine!
Andee
fourskin started a battle of the sexes with his "where are the feminine women" thread.
i am wondering about men.
he has a muscle car, however, he has no muscle definition.
Wondered if I was the only one who thought this might be KJV......
Xena,
In my first post to 4skin's "feminine" thread, I addressed it "4skins aka KJV
Andee
