Posts by Hecklerboy

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Allowed blood products by %, from KM 06, how can a JW not see thru this

by jwfacts in

i have just put together a table with percentages that highlights quite simply what a jw can and can not have.

the wts does not present it in this simple format, as graphically it is quite obvious how senseless their stand is.

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Hecklerboy

Did you catch the little phrase they use to blame the R&F when the lawsuits start?

"When making such decisions, consider the following questions. Am I aware that refusing all blood fractions means that I will not accept some medications, such as certain ones that fight viruses and disease or that help blood to clot in order to stop bleeding. Could I explain to a physician why I reject or accept the use of certian blood fractions?"

They are throwing it all back on the publisher like they have always done. Bastards!!!!!!!

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Martial Arts

by Mysterious in

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has anyone gotten involved in martial arts since they left the organization?

if so which ones and how advanced are you?

when i finish my third year of college this spring i'm going to start taking some classes, right now i just don't have the time with work and everything.

Hecklerboy

Do something a lil different,just dread going threw all the belts again.

Shera, remember it's not about the belt. It's about the training and learning the way of Karate.

You might like to read this book about the founder of Shotokan Karate. It's an awesome autobiography about his life and how Karate helped him.

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I can see the love

by Honesty in

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i pulled a few muscles in my back last week and couldn't make it to church on sunday.

a deacon friend called and offered to usher and pass the (gasp) offering plate for me.

another friend called and prayed with me.

Hecklerboy

That's awesome. That's what friends are all about.

One of the reasons I left is when I was sick and needed help, none of the witnesses even called to check on me. Let alone come to visit. My "worldly" friends and workmates on the otherhand came to vist and brought me meals. Even my landlady let me slide on the rent since I was off work for two weeks. That really got me thinking about Jehovah's so called "loving" organization.

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Martial Arts

by Mysterious in

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has anyone gotten involved in martial arts since they left the organization?

if so which ones and how advanced are you?

when i finish my third year of college this spring i'm going to start taking some classes, right now i just don't have the time with work and everything.

Hecklerboy

I've been doing Karate for almost two years now. It's one of the best things I've ever done. I really love learning and performing the different katas. Our's is an Okinawin style karate with low stances and powerful kicks and strikes. No board breaking either. I just attended a karate tournament this past weekend and got 1st place in weapons kata and open hand kata. I only got 4th place in kumite (fighting).

Good luck in your study of the martial arts. I know you will love it. Oh and by the way, I'm a green belt, should have my purple belt next month.

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JWs at work

by fullofdoubtnow in

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i work at a local hospital, in the admin section, and i took some paperwork out to the front desk on one of the wards this afternoon, and the receptionist, who i know well and count as a friend, started asking me about how life is treating me post - jw.

i'm sure we've had this discussion before, but i answered her, saying "better than it ever was in the jws".

she then asked how trev, who she has met a couple of times is, and when we are getting married.

Hecklerboy

OK, that's about the coolest things I've heard in a long time. I know most of us would love to do what you just did. Great job.

My wife is a nurse at our local hospital and has watched a couple of her patients die because of refusing blood. It really upsets her. It can be a very painful death.

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I'll take that LIVER, but hold the BLOOD and the SOUL

by Amazing in

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you know, the watchtower blood doctrine is really goofy.

in the 1970s, one of the reasons the society gave for refusal of blood, was that the soul is in the blood.

see leviticus.

Hecklerboy

I remember asking an elder once why it's OK to eat lobster when it being cooked alive means it still has blood in it.

He said that there wasn't enough blood in a lobster to matter.

Needless to say he was a big seafood fan.

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"That I may make a reply to him that is taunting me"

by under_believer in

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so for our "congregation book study", we are still deeply mired in the bible teach book.

this week's lesson talks about the whole idea that the book of job relates the central issue of the entire cosmos, a vital issue raised by satan, where satan questions whether humans follow god because of what they are given, or because he deserves it.

i'm surprised that the book of job, obviously archetypal and figurative (for example, i doubt people back then literally spoke for hours in hebrew verse, and i doubt that four messengers showed up all in a row with stories telling that they, only they, got away to tell of a disaster) even has a place in the canon; aside from its lack of any specific historical position or accuracy, the argument it advances (especially as the society interprets it) is facile: the idea that privileged, wealthy, powerful job somehow stands as a representative for all humanity and serves as a litmus test for man's interaction with god is downright silly.

Hecklerboy

A funny thing about the Job story is that the winesses today are proving Satan right.

Satan made the statement that man would only worship God if they had something to gain from it. We'll that's how the Society get people to worship God. By dangling a the carrot of Paradise in front of them. I always heard "You better go to the meeting and get baptised so you can be in paradise".

How many people today serve God out of the goodness of their heart. Most do it to get to heaven.

So we are all just proving Satan right.

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In which ways do you still think or act like one of Jehovah's Witnesses?

by The wanderer in

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untitled document  in what ways do you still think or act like one of jehovah's witnesses?

last night, some co-workers invited me to watch monday night football at a .

local area bar.

Hecklerboy

When watching TV shows on the End Times and The End of the World or just see bad things on the news, I'll get a quick flash of "Will I die at Armageddon?"

Then I realize it's just my old JW habits coming out. Heck I don't even think there will be an Armageddon.

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What's the most unexpected comments your JW companion said in the FS?

by JH in

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i remember once, we were in the field service, and my companion was talking to the householder.

the householder said, "we don't go to church anymore", thinking this would deceive us....lol.

so, my jw friend told him, hey that's great !!!

Hecklerboy

A funny thing happened to me when I was a little guy, around 5 years old. My mom had us kids and a friend out in FS and was at a door talking to a lady when all the while my brother and his friend were picking on this ladies pet monkey she had in the year. I was stand there like and idiot just watching when this monkey starts getting pretty mad and starts chasing my brother and friend. Well they pass me buy and the monkey grabs me and bites me on the butt. It didn't hurt but man did it scare me to death. My brother still gives me a hard time about that.

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A JW Elder Calls!!

by Gill in

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well there we were settling down to watch tv last evening.

we'd all had a hectic day and i'd started a stinker of a head cold!.

there was a loud knock at the door.

Hecklerboy

I can see both sides of the story. I would be mad as hell if someone that shunned me for year suddenly stopped by for help. On the other hand what your husband did is exactly what got me out of the borg. When I was sick and needed help and some kindness my "worldly" work associates were there to help me. Not my so called "brothers". That act really had a lasting impact on me. It opened my eye to let me see that my "brothers" could have cared less for me.

Your husband may have planted the seeds of doubt. We can only hope.