hi folks,.
claire, the children and i will be celebrating our 4th christmas this year after exiting the cult.
we have decided to put our tree up on 1st december.
Even though Bubble and I have been out of the troof for over 5 years, last year was our first proper Xmas, with the tree, decorations, presents the lot. It was great!
Tree will be going up soon.
Great news for me is that my daughter (who lives with her mum, my ex) wants to come round on Christmas day to join in - that is a first for me and I am overjoyed.
SAB
....for the other side!!!!!!!!!!!!.
i am a salesman and in one of my customers premises i noticed a watchtower and awake in the bin!.
i asked a few questions and found out that a young lad that works there gets a visit from a 'nice little old lady' who has a chat and leaves the mags.
....for the other side!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a salesman and in one of my customers premises I noticed a Watchtower and Awake in the bin!
I asked a few questions and found out that a young lad that works there gets a visit from a 'nice little old lady' who has a chat and leaves the mags. He said some of the articles were quite interesting.
So I told him my history with the org and how they cover up paedo's, keep changing their interpretations, shun those that leave etc etc and by the end he said that he wouldn't have any more dealings with her.
RESULT!
SAB
blood cell transfusions 'up risk' most transfusions are not given in life-threatening circumstancesred blood cell transfusions given to heart surgery patients could increase their risk of heart attack or stroke, research suggests.
the transfusions are designed to improve the delivery of oxygen to the body's tissues.
but researchers found patients who received a transfusion had a three-fold increase in complications linked to lack of oxygen.
Hi Ian
Hope you are well.
I agree with how you feel the Witnesses will react to this news, but as others have said there are risks with all medical treatments. If the risks can be lessened by not having blood then that is a good thing. However there are many instances when blood and only blood will do - and when I was a Witness I realised that to be true, I just hoped that as an adult (when I was a child I had to have an emergemcy op without blood) that I would not have to face the blood 'issue'.
Regards,
SAB
ex witness of 20 years here.
by the grace of god (or something anyway) i managed to get out.
i visited this forum about 5 years ago and noticed the u.n. issue.
Welcome NothingMan.
Glad you got out - I've still got all my relatives in so no communication.
Happy I'm free though.
Regards,
SAB
it seems we gifted croatia a laugh at our expense before the game last wednesday, let alone afterwards !.
e-mail this to a friend printable version anthem gaffe 'lifted croatia' by frank keogh .
if i have offended any croatians, they have my deepest apologies.
Absolute classic!!!!!!!!!
We need something funny to lift ourselves from the doldrums.
Being an avid Formula 1 fan and bearing in mind what has happened in that sport this year, I was wondering whether the name 'McLaren' was inherently unlucky!
Regards,
SAB
my sister and i who are disfellowshipped have a jw elder as a father.
guess why mom and dad didn't tell us that our grandfather died a week ago?
thanks watchtower for denying us our grandfather's funeral.
Sorry to hear about your loss Professor.
Exactly the same thing happened to me about two months ago. I found out 5th hand that my own Grandmother had died. To try and avoid any embarrassment with my Elder father and pioneer mother, I decided to send some money to my father for flowers, rather than try and go to the funeral.
My cheque (check -USA) was returned to me with a short note saying that the funeral had taken place a couple of weeks ago!
I plucked up courage to write to my parents and ask why their own flesh and blood - me, had not been told in advance about my own Grandmothers funeral.
I got a sort of reasonable letter back in which they apologised and said they should have handled it better, but apparently the main reason I was not told was that it was a 'Witness' funeral.
AND????
Anybody can go to a funeral, especially relatives.
SAB
please join in sending your prayers, good thoughts, reiki, healing vibes, lighting a candle or just taking a moment to think of all those named and unnamed who are fighting cancer or in any other need.
also their loved ones and caregivers.. - has been fighting mantle cell lymphoma for three years.
he received an allogeneic cell transplant and his latest blood and bone marrow results have shown no trace of cancer!!
Thoughts and love and inner peace to all that need it.
Thinking of you.
SAB
i feel quite giddy making this announcement!.
katie kitten (louise) text me last night at 11.30pm to tell me to tell you all she's had a litter of one.
a little boy, josef jack, 8lb 14oz, born 5.55am on nov 15th.. she apparently had a long and somewhat rough time of it and is gonna be in hospital a day or two.. i'll be the first to say congratulations.
Congrats KK.
Glad everything is fine - enjoy!
i was just sitting here laughing, thinking about how disapointed my father must be in me... what?
for figuring out it's all crap?
that's what tortures me the most, i really didin't want to let anyone down, but damn, how long could i lie to myself?.
Well even though my parents haven't spoken to me for five years, I know they are very upset with me.
I was the golden boy, who was a 'great Watchtower reader', gave 'lovely' talks, including some public talks and was well on the way to being an Elder (just like Daddy).
They never realised that when I was 'in' I didn't really believe it and was always jealous of those 'in the world' having fun.
Anyway I got d'fed for loose conduct - got divorced, remarried and I have a fantastic relationship with my kids. My second marriage is wonderful, I'm working extremely hard and gaining the rewards from it - five star holidays twice a year etc etc.
I love all the things I was not meant to love when I was a Witto - material things, 'the showy display of ones means of life' (!), 'worldy' music, R rated movies - basically having fun.
I also have a much higher regard for my fellow human being - I give more to charity now than ever before and of course I wear my poppy with pride in november.
My parents are now in their seventies and I do worry about them and their health. They reckon that it is my actions that have forced them to shun me. I cope with this by realising that it is not really their fault - they have been conditioned by being JW's for so long.
Peace and love to all.
SAB
i understand from news of the world that anthony gough wants to sue the hospital because he feels they were neglient in saving his wife's life.
I heard, but don't quote me on this, that the husband was upset that even though the hosptial has a cell saver machine it was not in the delivery room in case there were complications.
However, I heard someone on the radio who used to work for the company who manufactured the machines, that they were useless for the particular problem of haemorraging during childbirth due to a) it takes a minimum of 5 minutes to get the machine up and running even if it was already in the room, and that would be too long, and b) the machine cannot be used when there is a massive blood loss in childbirth, they are designed to be used when there is an operating would where the machine can be carefully directed to a particular spot.
This is only hearsay but it may help.
SAB
