a poster on another board i frequent has started a pledge to donate blood as a statement against the jws' abhorrent doctrine that has led to the deaths of so many innocent people.
if you are willing to declare your opposition to this doctrine by donating blood please add your name to the pledge here: http://www.pledgebank.com/againstjwdogma
I can't donate blood because of health issues. However, my son is in the process of organizing a stem cell / bone marrow drive at his high school, and my daughter will do the same at her university this fall. I suggested it to them because of Dansk's need for a stem cell transplant.
Kudos to everyone who helps save a life!
GGG
nabonidus -- 17 years.
nebuchadnezzar -- 43 years.
nabonidus -- 17 years
Bumping this to the top again!
GGG
hey all,.
there are a few "what damage did the watchtower do to you?
"-type threads floating about, and it's easy to get sort of down over it all.
My daughter is almost finished with her first year of college. COLLEGE! She is far from home, at one of the top schools in the nation, doing extremely well, and not attending meetings anymore!
Her prospects for the rest of her life are not limited by the WTS. She has freedom of thought. I am so happy for her that words can't express it.
GGG
i just sent this letter to a jw who came knocking on my door talking to me about 1914. i doubt it does him much good since he will probably not read it.
first, you assume that when christ spoke of the the times of the gentiles he was referring to a period of time which began when jerusalem was destroyed by babylon and would end with his enthronement in heaven.
), the year in which the bible tells us that he destroyed jerusalem.
Excellent! Thanks so much for posting this!
GGG
my mom passed away yesterday.
she was a die-hard jw.
i tried to explain why i couldn't accept certain teachings but rather than rationally consider what i had to say she chose to believe i was just "confused".
I'm so very sorry for the loss of your Mom.
GGG
i was converted in the early 1980's.. warlock .
Raised in from age 7. Baptized at 14. Started my fade early 2005. Don't go to any meetings or assemblies anymore, but I did go to the Memorial. Got my kids out - my greatest accomplishment to date!
GGG
i apologise for taking the liberty of using my alias to attract attention but a number of people have contacted me to ask what they could do to help by way of being a stem cell donor (without a stem cell donation soon i will likely die).
i cannot express enough just how appreciative i am for such wonderful thoughtful gestures.
it is possible that your stem cells are a perfect match for me and that you could literally save my life.. however, if you are not a match you could very well save someone else's life - so do please consider being a stem cell donor.
I am disqualified as a donor for several reasons, but I am going to contact my daughter at college and see if she can get some type of "donor drive" or something going! Think of all the young, healthy, idealistic kids running around there! And fyi, not all college kids drink! So there should be plenty of students qualified to donate.
Thanks for keeping us posted on what we can do to help, Ian.
GGG
it wouldnt work for me all day.
i missed you guys.
dont neglect me so badly lol.
Thank goodness I was really busy today or I wouldn't have known what to do with myself!! I'm an addict too!
But site looks different , site is good yay
Ok, I give up.... What's different?
GGG
i've been out for about 4 years and for the first time i've been able to find a place that understands how hard it was for me to get to where i am today after being raised a jw.
i feel like all of you can relate to having to start a new life from scratch after years of living a completely different one.
so, thanks..
Welcome, BOTW!!
So glad you're here! Hope to see lots more of you!
GGG
well, as per usual, the memorial talk bored the hell out of me, but i found it, in one way to be an improvement over last years when they had the most boring speaker on the planet there http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/111544/1.ashx this guy at least knew how to speak.
unfortunately, he didn't have much of a script to work with.. there was the mention of adam sinning and mankind needing a redeemer etc., no mention of when the israelites left egypt though.
that's probably the first year i've ever seen where this hasn't been mentioned.
I went.. just got home. It was at the KH this year, which was making me nervous, because the last 2 Memorials were at a local school, and I haven't stepped foot in a KH for about 2 years.
What I noticed most was the prayers they said - 4 in all. Not a bit of heartfelt feeling in any of them, especially the one where the guy forgot who he was talking to apparantly, because he spoke about the sacrifice that Jesus made and how we needed to show our appreciation to Jehovah .... and I'm thinking, this is supposed to be a prayer??!
All in all the same old crap, but I felt different about it this year. I felt like I was on the outside looking in and really seeing how wrong it all is, instead of being intimidated and feeling like everyone was judging me. I couldn't care less what they think.
GGG
