I was also DF'd after I moved out of town via 1 phone call. That was 5 years after not attending their meetings. Back in I think 2000. I forget exactly, but it can be done and still is.
JustTickledPink
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What can they do if you are of the annointed?
by Unfettered inscenario: i've had an elder call me a couple times now over the last seven years.
our conversations have gone similar to the one below, but the one below is what i'm going to say this next time and see what happens:.
elder calls: brother xxx where have you been.
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Seattle area assistance / advice request
by M.J. ini have learned that a family member has been studying with the jws for many months now.
this is so incredibly alarming for me.
i won't get into how this could cause a tremendous "ripple effect" in my life.
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JustTickledPink
I love how they befriend the person right away and show how "nice" they are. It's like joining this really nice people club... then once you're in, you figure out how everything is terribly wrong.
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jw takes blood over plasma in b.c.
by orbison11 inthis is an interesting read.
recently, in my same small city, chiliwack, b.c.
a court case was thrown out re a woman who died from complications during birth.
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JustTickledPink
Also, I am not advocating the use of blood in all cases, yes it has it's risks. BUT you should be informed about the WHOLE SUBJECT and get information on the WHOLE ISSUE before you make statements like "more people die from blood transfusions" than from not getting them.
The WHO - World Health Organization is also talking about places like India and Africa where the death rate is extremly high due to unsanitary conditions, lots of disease, and other factors. They don't have clean drinking water in some areas.
Try looking at the statistics for your OWN country and then get back with us please.
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jw takes blood over plasma in b.c.
by orbison11 inthis is an interesting read.
recently, in my same small city, chiliwack, b.c.
a court case was thrown out re a woman who died from complications during birth.
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JustTickledPink
I have a few things to say to you. I was a blood issue baby. I was born to an Rh mother and I had hyperbilirubemia which basically means severe jaundice at birth, I am a fair skinned blonde who was born almost pitch black from all the dead red blood cells in my body. Dead red blood cells are toxic and can kill you.
My mother with the help of her elders stole me out of the hospital when I was only 10 hours old. The Canadian courts had a court order to take me from her and she stole me moments before the authorities arrived and cared for me in a JW's attic for 3 months while she hid from the cops. I am lucky to be here and lucky that I survived my severe sickness away from the hospital. She tells me the story about how she carried me out in a garbage bag filled with laundry. (Humph, sounds like I could have suffocated in there.)
I was ALWAYS TOLD that Jehovah saved my life, if she hadn't taken drastic measures that I would have died. I was always told over and over that for every baby given a blood transfusion back in 1974 that 5 out of every 10 babies died. That is a 50% mortality rate. I always swallowed that statistic. I never questioned it. She never showed me any proof, just told me that I would have died.
THEN I decided to do some research and read the old New England Journal of Medicine case studies from the 60's and 70's. I also studied the National LIbrary of Medicine's journal from that time... what I found out was THE TRUTH... the actual statistics of babies who were born with my condition had a death rate of 1% - 2% from either complications from the condition OR treatment which is blood transfusion. That means that for every 100 babies, 1 or 2 die. I was terribly sick, I was deathly sick... I could have died, and should have been in a hospital, but the JWs and the elders aided my mother in keeping a newborn baby in an attic!!!! Yes, that sounds like great care to me. What if I had died up there? Then what?
The stats I was told were lies, and I would have been cared for better in a hospital. So, you might believe your story, just as I believed my story for almost 30 years... then I went back and read case studies. You might want to do the same yourself... Find out for all the patients that had your condition, how many died, and how many died from the disease compared to the treatment. FIND OUT THE FACTS. Then come back here.
I am thankful I am alive, although I do know if someone took a sick baby and hid out in an attic today they would haul their ass to jail for child endangerment.
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Feeling Vindictive & Like Causing Trouble
by Why Georgia inmy husband is a slowly and quietly fading away jehovahs witness.
i am not nor will i ever be a jw.
his mother is an absolute witch and i want to out her to her congregation.
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JustTickledPink
Believe it or not, it won't matter. YOU are the outsider, you are the non-believer, therefore anything you say is tainted in their minds.
I tried to tell the elders who abusive my mother was to me, to this day she remains such a "faithful sister" and I am of course the rebellious one that left the Org. They didn't want to hear it at all. Now if you had proof that she was having fornication or smoking, they would be all over that... but being mean and abusive - trust me they don't care. That's not on their official list. Besides you're going to be destroyed at Armeggedon, so your feelings don't matter.
I think you need to stand up to her, stick up for yourself and tell her to either be nice and respectful to you or else she's not welcome in your home or life. But I do feel sympathy for you, being married to her son and all. Sending you the very best.
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My daughter has a brain tumor :(
by outnfree ini am so terrified!.
#2 daughter came home from college on 12/18 with a violent headache, nausea, neck pain and great fatigue.
we took her to the dr. on the 20 and again on the 21st as she had kept nothing down for 3 days.
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JustTickledPink
I am so so sorry and sending you all the positive energy and prayers that I can muster.
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You think too much...!
by Gill indiscussing jw doctrine with my parents this week, ..sigh!...i was told by my mother that i think too much and that i should just have faith in the governing body, because it 'is a progressive organization'....sigh!...what can you say?
i told her that the wtbts was just a business and unfortunately she was in a cult and 'brainwashed'.
at this she screeched, 'me!
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JustTickledPink
Even though I know my 61 yoa mother is being deceived, she wants to be. Her life revolves around being a JW. She can't give it up. I think if she ever realized it was all lies, she would go into a permanent catatonic state.
The way I look at it is this, it's almost like the really old southern guy in his 80's that is still prejudice. At this point what is the purpose of trying to knock sense into him? I would just rather roll my eyes and walk away.
The best thing you can do, is just live your life filled with the knowledge that what you're doing is right.
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Why do witnesses HAVE to use only hotels on the list for the conventions?
by truthseeker in.
does anyone know the answer to this?.
a while back i read that the society gets free rooms for its convention speakers if they agree to fill so many rooms in a hotel with dubs, but is there anything more involved?.
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JustTickledPink
Yes, if your group fills up a hotel than you can get cheaper rates... But it really is YOUR money, you should be able to do anything you darn well please!
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Just when you think Americans can't get any worse...
by catchthis in...along comes this guy from cleveland ---> .
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050105/tv_nm/television_rat_dc_3.
los angeles (reuters) - watching contestants eat dead rats on nbc's gross-out stunt show "fear factor" so disgusted a cleveland man that he has sued nbc for $2.5 million, saying he could not stomach what he saw.
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JustTickledPink
that is plain ridiculous. His suit will be thrown out, there is no way. The ratings are HIGH on fear factor and there is no way he can win his silly law suit.
FYI - all the crap they eat is sterilized before they serve it. It is either boiled or somehow sterile. But I agree, it's horrible and disgusting. That's why I don't watch it!
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Name all the popular self employed Witness business's:
by PinTail in.
trim line, rug doctor, janitoral bussines, lock smiths, roofers, car sales, book binding, catering, candle making: ....
shane
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JustTickledPink
How about unemployed? There have been many JWs that I have known that have been unemployable and just bounce from one odd trade to another.
Of course you can't have a job that conflicts with Tues, Thurs nights and Sat & Sun mornings!