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  Blood taking...is it a disfellowshipping offence or up to conscience.

  by Gill in

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  can you tell me whether the taking of blood is a conscience matter or a disfellowshipping matter?.

  i ask this because i have just come away from a heated discussion with my parents and they insist that taking blood or blood products has always been a matter of conscience and no one has ever been disfellowshipped for taking blood.

  they say that a question was raised at the service meeting over the new blood card/documents whether taking blood fractions was breaking gods law and the presiding overseer j.h said that taking blood has always been a conscience matter and never was anyone disfellowshipped for it.. is this true?

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  jeanniebeanz

  I think that even the elders get a little turned around on this subject individually.

  When I was in the hospital bleeding to death and refusing a blood transfusion, I remember two 'brothers' getting into a heated debate over which one was and was not allowed. Finally, my doctor asked to see the paper that had the 'allowed' products listed on it. I remember him sewing furiously (I was conscious at the time), and reading the bags of stuff that the nurses would bring him. He'd say yes or no depending on what they were able to put in front of him.

  Came oh-so-close to biting it that night. I remember nervously reading my hospital bill, which I had to show the elders, to prove that my doctor had not slipped in something not allowed so that I would be unclean (the elders words, not mine).

  My doctor was a hero that night, the elders acted like they were at a prize fight or something. Morons.

  Jean
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  Ex JW T-Shirts & Merchandise

  by rebel8 in

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  i created some t-shirts and other stuff for myself to celebrate being an ex-jw, and thought i would share them.

  they can be found here: https://www.cafepress.com/escapewts.

  it's a color logo depicting rapunzel (from the fairy tale) escaping from her tower, with the caption "escaped from the 'tower".

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  jeanniebeanz

  The thong is funny...

  Jean
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  Silly Quiz Question...

  by Englishman in

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  ok, try this one.. michaelangelo's statue of david.

  you know the one, somewhere in italy?

  if you look closely, actually very closely, you'll notice something unusual about this statue.. david has got a very, very, tiny willy!.

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  jeanniebeanz

  This is the funniest thread I've seen since my arrival here. Of course, the entire subject of willies is pretty funny to begin with.

  Jean
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  Practical reasoning 101 vs Theocratic Ministry School

  by unclebruce in

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  example: jehovah?s witnesses say that we can have a free home bible study.

  when the arguers conclusion rests on an alleged analogy (or similarity) that is not strong enough to support it.

  watchtower bible and tract society of jehovah?s witnesses.

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  jeanniebeanz

  Very Interesting, indeed UB. I have only one question for you:

  Few bend the old book?s words to better brain washing effect than the watchtower ?bible scholars'.

  What are the little ( ' ) thingies around the words bible scholars?

  Jean
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  On Fear: I agree with the democracy...

  by SixofNine in

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  ... if not the theocracy, of the following poem (used to great effect in the movie coach carter, and by nelson mandela at his inaugeration): .

  "our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

  our deepest fear is .

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  jeanniebeanz

  We don't know shit about life and the universe.

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  Devil & Angel

  by Valis in

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  http://gwennafran.tegnebordet.dk/stda/pages/page_000.html

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  Yeah, I remember that line of reasoning: The Woman made me do it!

  Funny

  Jean
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  When did you notice the yearly pattern of JW life?

  by truthseeker in

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  how long was it before you became aware that your activities as a jw were the same this year as last year?.

  discounting the regular "5 meetings a week" and "saturday field service", let's look at the average year in a jw's life, beginning with the september service year... september.

  if you haven't been to your district convention you will this month.

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  Very interesting, Truthseeker.

  I was about 23 when this began to bother me. It didn't seem to matter what was going on in the world, or family life, the WTBTS seemed to march on in an unexplained rut, and us dubbies just followed like a bunch of lemmings. Whenever one of us caught a glimps of the cliff up ahead, one of our fellow lemmings would point us back into the routine, and then sight of the cliff was lost for a while.

  Routine is a classic brainwashing technique, get someone to do something over and over until, even if they didn't agree with it at first, it becomes familiar and reassuring; then they'll keep doing it thinking it is their own free will.

  Jean
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  Message from a jew

  by Satanus in

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  http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-op-stein9jan09,1,7655526.column?coll=la-headlines-suncomment&ctrack=1&cset=true

  january 9, 2005. why hot, waspy chicks love jews.

  by joel stein.

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  jeanniebeanz

  I'm not exactly a pruddish person, but Mr. Lapin makes some sensible points. An interesting argument.

  Jean
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  Vigil for my daughter, please.

  by outnfree in

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  as mentioned in my other thread, my daughter lena is having brainsurgery on monday, jan 24. the surgery will last 6-7 hours, so i'm hoping the board members will be willing to make a special effort tomorrow to send positive thoughts, healing energy, good wishes and prayers her way.

  we are asking that the surgeon's hands be delicate and skillful and that lena does not bleed overmuch and that brain damage be minimal (if not non-existant).

  surgery begins at 8 am eastern standard time (us), but we have to have her to the hospital by 6 am, so this is "good night!

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  Was that really necessary?

  by The JellyBaby in

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  i was just relating an experience to my kids about times i felt embarrassed as a youngster.. i gave them a story about the time i was going to the meetings.

  we had a congregational outing to a zoo.

  a time for team building and all that!!

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  jeanniebeanz

  and my brother starts cracking up, then i start and soon we're both snickering, and we got chewed out for that one later.

  Oh does this bring back memories. My little brother and I used to crack up just looking at each other during a meeting, family study, assembly etc., etc.

  Actually having something funny to laugh about made it unbearable not to crack up. Especially at one district convention. A very elderly (and I am not making fun of the elderly here) brother from brooklyn gave one of the prayers, and about 4 minutes into it, stopped in his tracks. Suddenly we heard snoring sounds in the microphone, and a couple ushers came up and guided him off the platform.

  Everyone clapped and pretended that he had finished and about 10,000 people had just not heard him say 'amen'.

  Little brother and I laughed all the way home, a three hour drive. Whenever the parents growled at us to menacingly we'd quit. Wasn't long though before either he or I would make a snoring sound and both start laughing again. Even Dad had to laugh at that one.

  Jean