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  Need Help with Blood Transfusion Illustration

  by Dissonant15 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  please, who can provide an intelligent rebuttal to the following illustration?

  i always thought it was bullet-proof:.

  "if your doctor directs you to 'abstain from alcohol' would you be ok to have it injected into your veins rather than drink it?

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  besty

  linking to cofty's post as the link given earlier is broken somehow

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/204070001/watchtower-right-about-blood?size=10&page=1
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  Are the J.W's reaching a "Tipping point"?

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't been to a meeting in 15 years but my mother and sister are hard as j.w's.

  the brothers they are appointing elders are at best suspect like one guy from my old hall made elder,big time drug used before becoming a j.w his talks are all over the place and would have struggled to make m,s years ago but with at least 60 to 70 % of young ones leaving the pool to pick from is at best reduced.. 2 other recent elders both young and zero life experience both on benefits one not well at all falls asleep all the time.. the decent,kind elders mostly older and are decent people with alot of life experience are burning out fast as there are so few of them left like 3 per congro of 100 publishers.. then you have the rich elders who wouldn't ever think of inviting some poor older or mis-fit person out to the expensive placers they go to as they couldn't afford to go so they are above the r&f and the r&f get pissed off with them.

  then we have the ones who have "put the kingdom 1st" who are now old worn out and barely getting by from welfare cheque to welfare cheque that are saying "the system should have been over many years ago" it's still here and they are struggling everyday.. then there are the pioneers who have a low payed reduced hour job that seem to think anyone who has anything is totally materialistic and looks down on anyone getting a new car buying a house ect.. along with the child abuse issues,the generation change,access to information the the g.b don't want anyone to know ,not to mention the issues around blood.. is there a tipping point coming????

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  besty

  new light - sisters to be made elders:

  1. fill the gaps caused by lack of qualified brothers
  2. kill the child abuse reporting problem flagged by the RC
  3. pep up the faithful with a new look progressive mainstreamy feel

  3 birds with 1 stone - too good to miss?
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  Arctic Ice Increasing

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.

  red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.

  green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.

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  besty

  Weather will change, that's for sure
  

  Unclear on the basics?

  Of course "weather" will change.

  It's climate change that you are attempting to disprove.
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  Arctic Ice Increasing

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.

  red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.

  green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.

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  besty

  The one source I remember the best
  

  No - thats not what you remember best.

  What you remember best was the fraudulent Time magazine cover you pasted.

  Liar.
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  Arctic Ice Increasing

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.

  red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.

  green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.

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  besty

  @perry

  Time Magazine sums it up for me:

  Does it? Does it really sum it up for you?

  How about if the image you posted purporting to show a Time magazine cover from 1977 was actually from 2007?

  How about if the Time magazine cover supposedly from 1977 was actually entitled "The Global Warming Survival Guide - 51 things you can do to make a difference"

  So Perry - which of the 51 things are you going to do to make a difference? How about "I promise to stop pasting shit I found on the Internet on other parts of the Internet."

  Further reading:

  http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/06/04/the-1970s-ice-age-myth-and-time-magazine-covers-by-david-kirtley/
  
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  Arctic Ice Increasing

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.

  red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.

  green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.

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  besty

  but there really is no evidence that is caused by humans.
  

  Completely incorrect, and here's why.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=5LvaGAEwxYs
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  TV.JW.ORG (September 2015) - Generation explained again

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  guess the overlapping generation concept is difficult for most to comprehend.

  david spane does his best to explain it again.

  the cutoff date for this generation has now moved to 1992 (was once 1935), the year that fred franz died.

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  besty

  So Mark Sanderson is FDS but not "this generation"? unless they have published the date he started partaking the emblems and that date is before FWF died in 1992...?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Royal Commission - Elders Can't Remember (Video Compilation)

  by defender of truth in

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  2. child-abuse

  not my work, by the way... newton's prisca theologia is the maker of this great video.. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=okpajgptvyk.

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  besty

  they had clearly been coached and their legal team must have been gambling that the "i don't recall' strategy was less worse than the 'I do recall' strategy

  fortunately the RC will eviscerate the WTS in their written conclusion.

  then the WTS spin will begin, and so it goes....
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  Largest amount of refugees since WW2 in Europe

  by Powermetal4ever in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i had a discussion with my mother about this, and she claims that because of this that: "we are surely living in the last days right now" while i must admit myself that the situation seem chaotic, i don't want to believe that it is the last days.

  so question is, how do i face an opinion like that?

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  besty

  maybe ask them to watch this and tell them you need their feedback

  http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2012/jun/11/violence-steven-pinker-better-angels-nature
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  Let’s Speculate!!!

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you know the organization is slowly going down.

  not as fast as we would wish, but nevertheless it is crumbling.

  five (5) year old child baptisms, smaller magazines, child sexual abuse exposed, smaller annual growth, no one wants to reach out, young ones leaving.

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  besty

  I think biotech will remove blood as an issue for the JW's within 20 years.

  That just leaves child abuse, charitable status and shunning.

  If a major Western country eg Australia, US, Spain, UK, Germany, France links charitable status with public benefit then the JWs will have a problem. (How can you claim to be a charity whilst you engage in shunning former victims of child abuse, for example?)

  Other than that , its rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as Oubliette pointed out here