Posts by blondie

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Terrence Howard quitting acting to bring "the truth"

by neat blue dog in

https://thegrio.com/2019/09/13/terrence-howard-announces-hes-done-with-acting-after-empire-ends/amp/.

after leaving the limelight his plans include “bringing the truth to the world.”.

blondie

From the horse's mouth

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10320391

Howard later embarked on his own exploration of the faith. As a young adult, he began to embrace the principles of the religion.

Now, 17 years later and with a Hollywood career that continues to ascend, he's very open about one ongoing personal conflict: his faith.

"I'm like most people in the world. I'm a little selfish in what I want. I like doing my thing, my way," the actor says. "In my heart, I wanted to be a Witness. If it wasn't for the smoking of cigarettes and all ... I would be a Witness."

The actor has yet to trade his spiritual aspirations for his professional ones. But he plans to pursue his desire to become an active Jehovah's Witness.

"Sometimes it takes awhile to be able to qualify. You have to qualify to run in the race. I'm exercising," he says.

Other views on the matter:

https://uomugsk.ga/tech/terrence-howard-wife-jehovah-witness.php

https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/topic/46997-terrence-howard-talk-about-jehovahs-witnesses/

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leonard cohen

by peacefulpete in

jw
friends

i admit i have a soft spot for leonard cohen's music.

i had a customer come in who sings for funerals, he just told me his most requested is cohen's "hallelujah".

a good friend used to sing it at christmas in her church!

blondie

I'll listen to Jeff Buckley. Thanks for the tip. I wouldn't have known about this except for the PBS show. My musical knowledge has many gaps.

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Montana Supreme Court will hear the $35M case tomorrow

by Corney in

the montana case enters the home stretch.

the state supreme court will hear oral arguments tomorrow, 13 september, at the northern hotel in billings during the state bar of montana’s annual meeting (announcement 1, announcement 2).

an introduction to the argument will begin at 9:30 a.m., with the argument starting at 10 a.m. (4 p.m. utc, 9 a.m. sf time, 12 a.m. ny time, 5 p.m. london time, 2 a.m. saturday sydney time).

blondie

The key point is that the secular governments are seeing regarding the inner workings and thinking of the WTS, that it does not function like the Catholic Church. More than one individual priest (elder in the case of the WTS) hears the confession and forgives the person, case closed. The WTS shares that info with 2 other elders, the CO, and various flunkeys along the WTS admin route. Then the WTS keeps written records hidden away.

There is nothing confidential in the WTS. There is always someone who wants to seem more important than some other jw because that other jw knows something privileged and thinks that person won't share the info with someone else, their one best friend (who shares it with their one best friend, not that first person). I had elders tell me they can tell a detailed story of an abuse case to other elders on the BOE not on the JC, or elders outside the congregation, as long as they don't name names. Like no one can put 2 and 2 together.

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Terrence Howard quitting acting to bring "the truth"

by neat blue dog in

https://thegrio.com/2019/09/13/terrence-howard-announces-hes-done-with-acting-after-empire-ends/amp/.

after leaving the limelight his plans include “bringing the truth to the world.”.

blondie

Whose truth? Howard was married to a jw, but was never one himself. He divorced that wife. So what truth does he mean?

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A bombshell about Judge Rutherford 1938 Royal Albert Hall London “Face the Facts”

by Maryo in

http://youtu.be/f7tepvrx4vi.

judge rutherford is introduced by the speaker saying, “his preeminence in scriptural knowledge is beyond question.

he speaks as a messenger of jehovah.”.

blondie

I remember in my research I stumbled over these things, found by accident that is. What surprised me was not that he said it, but so many members of the WTS did not have a lightbulb moment. If that isn't cult speech, I don't know what is, and it makes him more like the single leader of a cult characteristic that the WTS says a group has to have in order to be a cult, thus the WTS was a cult back then by their definition.

After Fred Franz died, the cult around a single person knowing all or being the conduit finally died. Since the institution of the "elder" arrangement cut Fred's legs under. Now the GB members probably have many battles with each other as to who are the ones at Christ's left and right hand.

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The biggest mistake.

by Half banana in

a long time ago, before television radio and films, before printing, before the invention of writing, people listened only to the spoken word—and the cry of birds, the wind whistling through the trees and the sea crashing on the sea shore.

before written text they knew about the gods because high up there in the night sky was where they lived; gods, goddesses and immortal heroes.

the constellations told of their exploits.

blondie

Even if a "scrap" was found, if it was even written 100 years later by someone who had never met Jesus or knew someone who had, not many would believe it without other corroborating information.

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Compensation claims against Jehovah’s Witnesses could be jeopardised: lawyer

by Tahoe in

jw
friends

https://www.crikey.com.au/2019/09/12/compensation-claims-jehovahs-witnesses/.

dr judy courtin explains to inq why the destruction of documents could have huge ramifications for victims inside the jehovah’s witnesses.. an order by the jehovah’s witnesses in australia to destroy confidential records could undermine a child abuse compensation claim currently being prepared for the supreme court of victoria.

a lawyer representing the victim says she was shocked to learn that the christian body had ordered confidential documents, including notes taken by elders investigating child sexual abuse, to be destroyed.

blondie

Yes, destroying records is a crime, but first those in the legal system have to prove that it was done, by whom, independently or by direction from the WTS. With the WTS climate of lying and concealment, that could be difficult.

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Annual Meeting

by Lynnie in

my uber cousin and wife are going back to wallkill this weekend for the annual meeting since they have a daughter and son in law in the inner sanctum so they are always invited.

cousin said it was going to be broadcast from patterson to wallkill.

anyone hear anything else about subject matter etc?.

blondie

Lynnie, are your cousins Jewish by birth. Usually jws cannot come in unless that prove their heritage to the Israeli government. I don't think people can come in who have conversion of Jews in mind. I'm sure they will conceal their intentions.

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Can Jws get a stem cell transplant?

by greenhornet in

i have a friend of mine who is a jw is getting one.

its sad.

its going to be sad if he is going to be destroyed by jehovah for doing this..

blondie

There is no mention about stem cell transplants in WTS publications. But I found these comments.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29795417

Tandem autologous transplants are generally the preferred therapy for newly diagnosed intermediate- and high-risk myeloma patients. More Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) are receiving single autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplants (PBSCTs). However, tandem autologous transplants have not been reported in JW patients.

http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/124/21/3976?sso-checked=true

Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation without Hematopoietic Support for the Treatment of Hematological Malignancies in 125 Jehovah’s Witnesses

High dose chemotherapy (HDC) followed by Autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) has been shown to provide curative benefit in patients with relapsed lymphoma and multiple myeloma, often times requiring hematopoietic support until marrow engraftment. Due to Jehovah's Witnesses (JW), refusal of blood products treatment challenges arise.....(the rest of the article is an explanation how to treat jws)

https://www.ascopost.com/issues/november-25-2017/a-pioneer-in-bloodless-transplant-discusses-advances-in-blood-management/

There are many more articles with a good search "Can jehovah's witnesses have a stem cell transplant"

----italicized part is probably why jws can take it as cell as from a single lot from the patient being treated.

The primary difference between allogeneic and autologous are the source of the cells for the therapy. Allogeneic therapies are manufactured in large batches from unrelated donor tissues (such as bone marrow) whereas autologous therapies are manufactured as a single lot from the patient being treated.

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leonard cohen

by peacefulpete in

jw
friends

i admit i have a soft spot for leonard cohen's music.

i had a customer come in who sings for funerals, he just told me his most requested is cohen's "hallelujah".

a good friend used to sing it at christmas in her church!

blondie

I heard that song sung by several other people before I made the connection to Leonard Cohen. Then I purchased a CD of his with that song on it.

I watched a show on PBS where various famous singers each sang one of his signature songs. k.d. lang sang Hallelujah.

A better way of looking at life with its ups and downs, a crack in everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE