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MANDATORY Reporting of Child Abuse
by silentlambs in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
23 years ago
it appears there are a few misconceptions when it comes to the reporting of child abuse.

the federal law child abuse prevention and treatment act (capta)(jan. 1996 version), 42 u.s.c.

failure to report can result in civil liability.
23 years ago
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WTBTS OFFICIAL BLOOD SITE UK-GONE?
by anglise in
1. jw
2. friends
23 years ago
on the back of a glossy leaflet put out by the liason committee in the uk is a web address his@wtbts.org.uk.. this leaflet is designed to help medical staff care for jw's and one assumes that the site was also a back-up to that.. so if the loving organization cares sooo much where has this site gone and why no links to a new one if it has been replaced?.

does anyone know anything about this?
23 years ago
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The Watchtower *trinity*
by ChristianObserver in
1. jw
2. friends
23 years ago
as a relative newcomer, i don't know whether anyone has ever made this observation before - so apologies if they have.. one of the main areas of disagreement between jehovah's witnesses and orthodox christians is the 'trinity'.. to an outsider (i.e.

christian - not a jehovah's witness), the organisation has their own *trinity* which has replaced the orthodox 'trinity' of father, son and holy spirit.. the command at .

matthew 28 v 19 - 20: 'go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever i have commanded you: and, lo, i am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world.
17 years ago
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Blood Issue: Misleading Insertion - Awake 22 Feb
by ChristianObserver in
1. watchtower
2. medical
23 years ago
for anyone interested, dr ross mcl wilson, chairman, nsw council on quality in health care (australia) has been contacted regarding the *misleading insertion* in the february 22nd, 2002, of awake where a sydney morning herald article about a blood audit in 10 new south wales hospitals was *selectively edited* by the organisation, thereby allowing misinterpretation by readers in order to 'bolster' the blood ban.. .

dr wilson responded (in part) as follows:.

"the quotation is clearly unhelpful and wrong - the combination of the media and then a special interest group puts the truth at risk.
23 years ago
116
WHAT ABOUT THE STUMBLING BLOCKS?
by You Know in
1. watchtower
2. bible
23 years ago
the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that if the watchtower falls short to a significant degree then it cannot be jehovahs organization.

thats why apostates are hopeful that if enough fault can be found with the organization and brought to the attention of the faithful, then they too will accept the conclusion that jehovahs witnesses are not who we say we are.

unquestionably, many have been stumbled over a multitude of stumbling blocks.
23 years ago
37
Jesus - Michael or God?
by Dawn in
1. watchtower
2. bible
23 years ago
i've been researching this issue for myself - it's a doctrine i was still having problems understanding - is he or isn't he.... i came across a couple of interesting scriptures that i had not noticed before so thought i'd share them with ya'll:.

1) genesis 1:26 - then god said, "let us make man in our image..." i was taught as a jw that god was speaking to jesus (michael) here.

if that's true, and jesus/michael is an angel - that would mean that god created angels in his image also (since i refers to "image" as singular - it doesn't say images).
23 years ago
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Need Help! About Blood Transfusion
by Marvin Shilmer in
1. jw
2. friends
23 years ago
not too long ago i read a news story on this forum about deaths due to medical errors in australian hospitals.

i think it had something to do with statistics generated by some minister in a department of health in australia.

part of the article cited numbers of deaths (or errors) due to blood transfusions and a conclusion that transfusions were given more often then medically necessary.
23 years ago
30
Jesus died on a stake or a cross?
by 2SYN in
1. watchtower
2. bible
23 years ago
this is something i've been puzzling over recently.

just for argument's sake, let's say that jesus did exist - was he murdered on a stake or on a cross?

this is puzzling me, because the only real research i've ever read on the subject was in wtbts publications, and since this is obviously a highly questionable source of documentation, i'd love it if someone here could point me to a scientific resource for finding out the truth about this...thx.... the earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing.
23 years ago
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Awake! does not recommend....medical....
by Sam Beli in
1. jw
2. friends
23 years ago
in this thread rado shows us how to search the wt site using google: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=22641&site=3.

i did a search using his link and found this statement as a footnote at the bottom of the article: .

daily aspirin.
23 years ago
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Misleading insertion in 2-22-02 Awake.
by Belligerent Paladin in
1. jw
2. friends
23 years ago
misleading insertion.. in the 2-22-02 awake magazine with the cover title how safe are you at work?

has an interesting article under watching the world.. blood transfusion dangers.

one in three transfusions were being administered when, under [new south wales] health guidelines, they should not have been, reports australias sydney morning herald.
23 years ago