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  What is the current JW stance on blood - for nursing assignment..

  by coldfish in

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  2. medical

  hi, i'm an ex-jw, i left about 10 years ago, and my memory is getting blurry on some jw detail these days.

  sorry i'm sure there are stacks of discussions on blood already but i don't have too much time for reading through hundreds of pages.

  i'm a nursing student and our topic for the week is blood.

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  Baptism - a question for genuine Christians

  by coldfish in

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  2. friends

  this is a follow on from the post recently about someone feeling their baptism is null and void.. i was baptised in 1983 when i was 13, so before the change of wording.. regardless of the exact wording, i've seriously been wondering about my baptism status?.

  after leaving the jw 18 months back, about 6 months ago i became a christian, by christian i mean that i have accepted the importance of jesus and he is my lord and savior.

  i feel closer to god than i ever have, and i'm actively involved with church.

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  Some old JW friends coming to visit tonight

  by coldfish in

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  2. friends

  apart from 3 weeks back when i mentioned here that i ran into an elder at a cafe and told him that i was going to church etc, i haven't seen any jws since leaving the wt about 15 months ago.. curiosity got the better of me yesterday as to what my standing is in the congregation, since admitting to going to another church to an elder i thought they may take some action.

  so i emailed my once good friend in the jws to ask if i was disfellowshipped.. she said that no announcements or anything had been made (perhaps they're all too lazy and apathetic to take action?)..

  so i emailed back that i had become a christian and that it's been so long since i've seen her and her husband that i'd love to see them one day and see their wedding photos (they got married after i left).

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  Met a JW elder for the first time since leaving JW

  by coldfish in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i left about 14 months back and stopped attending meetings cold turkey.

  so i haven't seen any jws for ages and for some reason i've never bumped into them at the mall or in town - and i guess that means they haven't seen me either or know what i'm up to.. i was at a cafe with a male friend today, we look like a typical couple that is we're the same age, shop together etc but its purely platonic.

  but you know how it is with jw .

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  The Global Flood

  by coldfish in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've just read an intersting article on the flood to do with dates and whether is was truly global or a regional flood.. http://www.commentarypress.com/essay-flood.html.

  my father used to be an elder for many years and the flood was one of the things that made him walk away not just from the jw but also belief in the bible.

  he was hung up on issues like the flood taking place about 3500 bc and how that fit in with the pyramids.. i don't know much about egyptian history or the ages of the big pyramids, but his reasoning was if the flood wiped out every human on earth except noah etc then at 3500 bc there were only 8 people on earth.

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  What are good versions/translations of the Bible?

  by coldfish in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi i'm new to this site.

  i was raised a jw, i'm now 28, and left about a year ago.

  the only bible i've ever looked at is the new world translation.. objectively.. how good do you think the nwt is?.

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