Nathan, many faiths perform pilgrimages. Jews go to wailing wall in Jerusalem. Catholics go all over the world. Hindus go to the Ganges (or some river). Mormons go to the salt lake temple. Jews-observant traditionally pray in the direction of Jerusalem. Christian churches used to have a particular orientation to the east-related to resurrection. With exception of the Ganges-im unfamiliar with details of Hinduism, I dont believe the place or direction is the object of worship. Muslims pray to god. They do not believe god is living in a rock or building in mecca. Having been to makkah, mecca. . .I can assure you muslims are not under the impression that god is that place. Its just a ritual with symbolism, but faith is in a god without a body of flesh or stone. A Muslims righteousness is not judged by the direction in which they pray.
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Worshiping a piece of stone
by FedUpJW intoday one of the members of the local congregation who is somewhat limited intellectually was showing off a small bit of cut granite stone.
as he did so he made sure to let everyone know that it was given to him by the congregation service overseer who just completed his second or third round of bragging rights slave labor at warwick.
he mentioned that, "brother _______ gave this to me as a piece of reality from warwick.
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Lessons learned from the outcome of bloodless emergency laparotomies on Jehovah’s Witness women
by OrphanCrow inthe wt has promoted bloodless surgery as a viable (and better) alternative to surgery with blood transfusions.. i have found a medical study that has been used to back up these "evidence based" claims.
the title of the article is lessons learned from the outcome of bloodless emergency.
these mostly indigent patients died of peritonitis becauseof delays in payment for antibiotics.
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JWdaughter
A recent course of antibiotics at Wal-Mart cost $30 &change. Checking later at Costco pharmacy, it was about $12 for non members at Costco and $6 for members.
I think many of us might sleep better at night if we disseminated this information. I had no idea. Standard Z-Pac. A fraction of the price at Costco.
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Did Crisis of Conscience find a market or did it lumber along until the copies ran out?
by TerryWalstrom incuriosity.i would think c of c was the grand-daddy of all the ex-jw books.is there any way to know for sure how many copies sold?
over what span of time before the 1st edition ended?
why did it peter out of print if it was a perennial seller?today, every tom, dick, and jasper has self-published the bleeding wound, 1st person singular, true confessional version of their own fall from grace.
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JWdaughter
I looked for it all over western WA. I didn't find CoC until I moved to NYC snd went to an enormous bookstore there. Probably 1985 or so.
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Worshiping a piece of stone
by FedUpJW intoday one of the members of the local congregation who is somewhat limited intellectually was showing off a small bit of cut granite stone.
as he did so he made sure to let everyone know that it was given to him by the congregation service overseer who just completed his second or third round of bragging rights slave labor at warwick.
he mentioned that, "brother _______ gave this to me as a piece of reality from warwick.
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JWdaughter
No one is worshipping the kabbah but like the idiot JWs there are idiot muslims who overvalue a location like the jws did that stolen rock.
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JWs accused of pressuring Syrian refugees in Northern Greece to convert - so far, 40 have converted
by AndersonsInfo ini just received the following link to a video where some claim that jws are pressuring syrian refugees in northern greece to convert.
fyi, i tried to locate the date of the video, but couldn't, so don't know if it is recent or not.
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/vb.407570359384477/791011651040344/?type=2&theater.
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JWdaughter
Most refugees are fleeing from extremism. The WT is just a different kind, but will appeal to war weary mamas being love bombed and likely fed.
JWs are not the only mission groups. I met a family who was headed to Greece and Turkey to minister as missionaries to refugees. Some kind of evangelical church.
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Anyone hit your panic button on your house alarm system by mistake.
by James Mixon ini feel like a idiot but what was the respond time?
within 5-7 minutes my street was blocked off, i received.
a call from the police dept.
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JWdaughter
I dont think so because the machine showed that I turned it off in time. The 3 hour delay didnt get him out if contract though. The alarm company may have had a fine since they wrongly dispatched them. Crazy thing is that police station was 3 miles away, easy quick trip and it was a weekday morn, not a high crime timing. I thought it was the mormons who showed up regularly and just peeked out because my two years old granddaughter is an escape artist. Quite a morning!
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One of those defining moments
by Chook in2 years ago i'm at po house for bbq, his wife tells me about her hectic drive to work for one hour.
i suggest car pooling from other women who work in same area, she goes on to explain that having to spend 1 hour each way with worldy women would affect her spirituality.
there it is in its finest definition of christian loyalty .
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JWdaughter
Well, let's just figure she didn't trap a bunch of unwilling, unwitting non JWs into an uncomfortable situation that is sometimes difficult to extract oneself from. Their lives would have been a misery, two hours a day!
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Anyone hit your panic button on your house alarm system by mistake.
by James Mixon ini feel like a idiot but what was the respond time?
within 5-7 minutes my street was blocked off, i received.
a call from the police dept.
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JWdaughter
I accidentally set off alarm at my son's house. I shut it off before it was supposed to go to police. The company never called my son, but 3-4 hours later a swat team(ok, 8-10 cop cars, cops in full safety bulletproof gear ) showed up.
Son hates the security service, but the contract won't let them out. Having the police show up 3 hours after a REAL emergency is useless. Obviously where they are, it's just a fortune down the drain. They could have dismembered us and cleaned up the mess by then!
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Is this the last chance for inactive and df'd ones?
by innerpeace inhi all, just wondering if there's anything going around about the elders receiving instruction from the society to give inactive ones and disfellowshipped ones one last chance to come back?
i ask because i have a still in family member that i received a message from, and urging me to go back.
the elders are apparently saying there is no time left.
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JWdaughter
I'm a lost cause, no one would even send me a bulk rate postcard to give me a last chance, so from where I'm sitting, this all looks like the same sky is falling, different year.
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How many JWs actually died in Nazi camps
by dogon inthe jws have tried to pad the number of jws in camps.
how many actually went and how many died?
can you site the source also?
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JWdaughter
Federer is filled with so much hate and anti-Semitic diatribes that it was difficult to get past it to any alleged facts about Anne Frank. He went off on subjects to prove his point without that particular point having any intrinsic value-for example, one diary book or a bunch of them that compromised her diary? Kind of immaterial. If he could have left off his remarks about the characters of Jewish people or his speculations about their intentions, then he might possibly have made a point. Maybe. It makes me wonder at his character and writing ability altogether, and further calls into question the veracity of any WT researches done. This man was so hate filled towards the Frank's and Jews that I was sitting there in open mouthed astonishment that he is considered an expert in anything.