what if... the entire gb died all of the sudden... say in an air crash?.
how do you think it would affect jw's beliefs?.
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If they were to fly commercially, I doubt that one airplane could accommodate that many infirm passengers. Most of them can probably barely survive the trip to the Wednesday meeting, much less going through an airport.
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next year, jws want to hold two 3-day conventions at roberts stadium in evansville, indiana, but they don't want to pay the full price.
scroll down to see article "bigger break sought on stadium.
jehovah's witnesses want it for $4,000 a night instead of $5,000.
They should not get a break for being a religious group. They have every right to negotiate for better prices regardless of anything else, and in most cases should be able to get lower-then-maximum pricing for renting multiple times and successive dates.
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the back cover of the august 15 watchtower offers another example of mind control, reinforcing the concept that there are no honest people except for jehovah's witnesses, and that there is no crime within the organization ("if all people were jehovah's witnesses, who would commit crimes?"):.
don't it make you wanna hurl?
Ironic how an article that purports to be about honesty can be so blatantly dishonest.
Three hundred Georgian Lari is about 137 U.S. dollars, 140 euros, or 90 U.K. pounds. Any "worldly" publication would have translated the sum into at least one of those familiar currencies. But the Watchtower does not waste precious ink on that - no, but rather they run on for sentences about how very much money that is. Hint: If "local merchants would not earn [$137] after working for several years," then don't become a local merchant in Georgia.
It is very freeing to realize that you are a good person, period. As a witness you are conditioned to think that you would be a drug-addicted, sex-crazed, alcoholic Satan-worshipper were it not for Mother. On the other hand, perhaps if you are a slutty single parent three times over who dreams of just finding money, you need that sort of controlling influence in your life. It worked for the police chief, at least.
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i guess the family needs the money so that they can quit their jobs and pioneer.
http://www.canada.com/halifax/news/story.asp?id={49cb73c1-27a2-48f8-a3fb-6127fcc41a9e}.
family of jehovah's witness gives up lawsuit against doctors over her death.
The doctors did have a responsibility if they had the information that this woman had a history of unusual bleeding. It is, like the intelligence failures of September 11, a matter of analysis. But if the doctors, who may have known this, and who just might have put it together with her refusal of blood, have some responsibility, the unfortunate patient and her family hold much more. If the emergency was not foreseen, the hospital was nonetheless prepared - with donated blood and blood products.
some excerpts from the october 2002 our kingdom ministry insert regarding the new schedule for the tms:.
introductory remarks.
5min study point several paragraphs of one of the 53 studies in the new benefit from tms education (to be handled by the school overseer, his helper or perhaps another qualified elder).
Many churches have readings from holy scriptures or from some respected source. Congregations of conservative churches may go through the entire Bible one chapter at a time, just as Jews may go through the Torah, or Muslims through the Koran, usually with a 'putting of meaning into' the reading - expounding on it. Catholic services include a reading from the gospels without commentary. UU's may read a passage from Emerson, or an ancient pagan blessing, or something from a traditional religious source, letting the passage speak for itself.
In all of these cases, the source is cited and there may be many commentaries that address it. Contrast this with reading from the Watchtower - full of present truth that will presently be passed truth - and ask, are there commentaries available on these words printed only months ago, and is it permissable to seek such commentaries?
It is bad enough that, when readers were first restricted in their comments to an introduction and a conclusion, a clarification had to be made the following year that for non-contiguous readings he may say that he is moving on to another verse. But with all comments verboten - no introductory setting of the stage, no concluding summary of key points, no notes on persons, times, or places - one is left to take in the Bible reading for later consideration and research, but must take the Watchtower as higher than gospel.
Dear friends, is this not the time to cut your ties with false religion that exalts the thoughts of men? The Levites who served before Jehovah made the words of the Law understandable to the people, and thus glorified the word of God, but now those who claim to be mere temple helpers elevate their own words.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59103,00.html .
tuesday, july 30, 2002. by bill o'reilly.
to watch "the memo" click here.. .
The North Penn Mosque in Lansdale, Pennsylvania - about 40 miles north of Philadelphia - immediately made a clear condemnation of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. As best I know, it was mentioned - once - on the local TV news. Given the lack of coverage, many mosques could have condemned the attacks, even, like North Penn, without weasel words about the Palestinian issue, and we would not know it. We implicitly acknowledge mosques are largely independent when we say 'they two terror suspects prayed at the same mosque,' yet we somehow expect Islam to nominate a pope or two to make a statement.
Like most Americans, I find it disturbing when condemnations of terror come with defenses of it, and I want to slap the goobers who show up on news interviews and talk about Palestine in the same breath as claiming that what UBL did went against Islam. But there have been condemnations from some quarters - now O'Reilly is asking for demonstrations. What for? Do we expect middle-class blacks to demonstrate to say, 'we've more or less overcome'? Do we expect Arkansans to haev a rally and say 'we don't marry our sisters as much anymore'? If Muslims demonstrated to say 'we don't support terror,' Bill would accuse them of having a whiney victim complex.
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rosemary soto, a premature baby, who had been ordered a blood transfusion by a judge, went home yesterday.
turns out, she didn't need it after all.
instead, doctors administered erythropoietin therapy, which helped her body produce more blood cells.
I'm very happy for this family, but saddened because I know that this will enter the witness propaganda channel and come out twisted. The use of EPO, for instance, shows a great deal of trust in medical science, so may be omitted in the telling. The time is likely to be compressed.
That is exactly what happened in the case of Norman Lucas, the C.O. in Israel who had multiple-bypass surgery. He built up his RBC count for months with EPO and a strict diet before the operation, and took months to recover. When the story was told at Bethel, it was emergency surgery, and no difficulty in recovery was mentioned.
But that shouldn't surprise us when the Society makes disingenuous statements about people who get blood transfusions having longer hospital stays. If anything, people who refuse blood often are in the hospital longer than others who undergo the same routines, because they usually must wait for their blood counts to return to acceptable levels. But if you do not compare people undergoing the same routine, it is easy to allege that no blood equals faster recovery.
Imagine if the statistics included just four cases: A JW who has bypass surgery and is in the hospital for eight days (a long stay!) after to be ready for discharge (his frequent outpatient visits during a longer actual recovery period are not counted). A non-JW has similar surgery, with blood transfusions, perhaps getting out after four days. Two others spend a single night in the hospital with food poisoning. No blood = (8+1+1)/3 = 3.33 days; with blood = 4 days. Tada! No blood means faster recovery time. If you don't think that the WTS is this sneaky, ask yourself why they never even say "for similar cases" when asserting that patients who don't have blood transfusions recover faster.
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i have read of some people's bitterness because they were denied the opportunity to go to college.
during the 60's and 70's the society really discouraged any education other than what was necessary.
since the end was so near, especially around 1975, anybody that decided to go to "higher education" was considered very weak and unbalanced.
When I graduated high school at 18 in June 1990, here is what my world looked like:
Bite me, Watchtower.
article is entitled "jehovah's witnesses won't reinstate man.
" the real "clincher" is the final paragraph.
"church leaders say they abhor child molestation, report cases to the authorities in states that require such reports and allow members to report fellow members to police.".
Damn, the witnesses will take this as theocratic warfare ("we really know that the Bible says not to take your brother to court"), but at least those not yet involved with the witnesses will see the last line and think:
"They would allow me to report a child abuser? Just let 'em try to stop me."
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i am puzzled by the expression, "present truth" as used buy the wbts.
for example: "we must keep in step with present truth.
" now to me something is either true, partially true, or untrue.
Somewhere in the New Testament, I think in I or II Peter, "present truth" is mentioned in the NWT. Other translations correspond better to what most theologians think and, frankly, what Russell understood, when they translate that portion as 'the truth that is present in you.' From a liberal theological stance, it is offensive for someone to say "I have the truth," but harmless for the believer to recognize that in holding onto his belief system, he possesses a truth.
I'm sure someone knowledgeable in Greek would be able to make us laugh at how ridiculous it is for the WTS to translate and represent the source for the word "present" as meaning present time.
