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  Can a JW join the Scouts? Anything in print to say no?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  i have assumed not but can't find anything saying you can't.

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  anyone help?.

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  ThomasCovenant

  I have assumed not but can't find anything saying you can't.

  Anyone help?

  Thanks
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  How many excommunicated Catholics do you personally know?

  by poppers in

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  i grew up catholic and i never knew any; still don't.

  and i can't think of any catholic i know who personally knows any.

  compare this to how many disfellowshipped jws you personally know..

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  ThomasCovenant

  I don't know any excommunicated Catholics. But then again I don't know any practising Catholics.

  I don't want to either. How any decent, principled person with a sense of right and wrong could be part of that religion I don't know.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases

  It is the same problem with JW's. The religion, nearly every religion probably, supercedes what a person knows to be right.

  Off topic I know, sorry.
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  Have They Ever Given a Figure of How Many Are to Die at Armageddon?

  by cameo-d in

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  has wt ever published a number of how many they expect to die at armageddon?.

  will it bring the population down to the georgia guidestones advice for a manageable level?.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Take a look at this answer on wikianswers.

  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_do_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_think_will_die_at_Armageddon
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  Are mentally ill people possessed by demons? Watchtower view.

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. medical

  watchtower 15th march 1953 page 191.. ''there is no reason to think that they [demons] cannot possess persons today.. this is not to say that all those mentally sick are so possessed, for they are not.. mentally sick persons, however, in their weakened state, may present more vulnerable targets for their assaults and invasions.. some show evidence of demon possession, whereas others show evidences of merely mental sickness or nervous breakdown.

  '' (emphasis mine).

  i for one would not want to work with people with mental illness or depression just in case they were possessed by some of those pesky spirits.. .

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  ThomasCovenant

  Watchtower 15th March 1953 page 191.

  ''There is no reason to think that they [demons] cannot possess persons today.

  This is not to say that ALL those mentally sick are so possessed, for they are not.

  Mentally sick persons, however, in their weakened state, may present more vulnerable targets for their assaults and invasions.

  SOME show evidence of demon possession, whereas others show evidences of merely mental sickness or nervous breakdown.'' (Emphasis mine)

  I for one would not want to work with people with mental illness or depression just in case they were possessed by some of those pesky spirits.
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  ''Ask yourself now, Did Christ Jesus, who set our example and told us to follow his example to gain life,

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  join any church organization in his day?

  no, god does not require us to do that; but he requires us to worship him''.

  watchtower 1st march 1953 page 143 paragraph 12..

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  ThomasCovenant

  join any church organization in his day? No, God does not require us to do that; but he requires us to worship him''

  Watchtower 1st March 1953 page 143 paragraph 12.
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  Can a JW take a transfusion of hemoglobin if the count is low?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  probably been answered before but does anyone know if transfusions of hemoglobin are allowed by the boys in charge?

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  thanks.

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  ThomasCovenant

  That's what I thought. I believe the 97% is dry content and it is 35% of total content including water (Wikipedia).

  Do hospitals actually transfuse just hemoglobin or do they hook you up to a bag of red cells for ease?

  What does a pint bag of hemoglobin look like compared to a pint bag of red cells or a pint bag of whole blood?
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  Can a JW take a transfusion of hemoglobin if the count is low?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  probably been answered before but does anyone know if transfusions of hemoglobin are allowed by the boys in charge?

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  thanks.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Probably been answered before but does anyone know if transfusions of hemoglobin are allowed by the boys in charge?

  Thanks
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  The perfect door presentation of "The Truth"

  by WingCommander in

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  i don't know if i, or smoeone else, shared this before but i thought it funny and odd enough to share again.

  imagine if you will, if we actually presented what we all know to be true about the beliefs of the jw's at the door when we were witnesses.

  after all, jesus message was to be simple; simple enough that even the poorest and most uneducated would be able to accept him and convert to christianity, no matter the flavor of kool-aid we were pushing.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Read it aloud, quickly and with an enthusiastic smile.

  I couldn't stop laughing all the way through.

  Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
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  Branch Letter May 1974

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  branch.

  letter.

  dear kingdom publishers:.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Reading the Branch letters of that era compared to now? The zeal has gone.
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  Is Richard Dawkins an ostentatious acrimonious supercilious pusillanimous calumnious censorious vituperative querulous embittered obsessive and bombastic bully?

  by slimboyfat in

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  richard dawkins closes down his free-thinking/free-thought site (www.richarddawkins.net) for 30 days to reconfigure it 'because too many morons were contributing drivel' (he doesn't put it quite like that!

  ) he is then surprised because those self-same contributors call him everything under the sun (i won't repeat the names flung at him on our ultra -refined boards).

  he now wants the site more or less 'peer-reviewed' (by analogy with papers to learned/scientific journals having to be vetted by vips).

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  ThomasCovenant

  I don't know. But he doesn't believe in any gods and wishes no one else did either. I agree with him.