I read about this in Harpers, where they had the court transcript. The reasoning this guy used was eerily similar to reasoning all hard-core believers use.
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One year in jail for JW man who circumcised son at home
by behemot inone year in jail for metro vancouver man who circumcised son at homeby andrea woo, vancouver sunmarch 25, 2010comments (46)metro vancouver -- a metro vancouver man who circumcised his four-year-old son at home with a razor blade and blood coagulant meant for horses has been sentenced to one year in jail followed by two years probation.
in april 2007, the man, identified only as djw due to a publication ban, gave his son, dj, honey wine before placing him on garbage bags on the kitchen floor.
djw then cut away the boy's foreskin with a razor blade.. .
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My Daughter asked me this question................................
by Terry in"dad, what do people talk about on that jehovah's witness board?".
i replied:.
"we complain alot.
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"We waste time while bored at work."
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Why Women Are Crabby
by Lady Lee inwhy women are crabby.
we started to 'bud' in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to find that anything that came in contact with those tender, blooming buds hurt so bad it brought us to tears.
so came the ridiculously uncomfortable training bra contraption that the boys in school would snap until we had calluses on our backs.. .
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Egad... could not read the whole thing... the horror... the horror...
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Healthcare reform has passed and is signed into law... this is a Big F*cking Deal!
by Elsewhere injust ask our vice president joe biden.
once again, he has put his foot in his mouth by dropping the f-bomb when he shakes obama's hand.. granted... i'll take biden's "this is a big f*cking deal" over dick cheney's "go f*ck yourself" any day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqenikp1rj8.
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daniel-p
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I have a touchy situation...could use some advice
by tenyearsafter ini just got an e-mail from my 80 year old mother asking my wife and i to join her for the memorial this year.
i really don't want to go, but i am also trying to maintain some degree of a relationship with her.
she is breaking the "rules" by not shunning me, but i don't know how she will react if i reject her invitation.
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daniel-p
If you're not going to partake of the emblems, what's the point of going?
Out of love? Is that really the last thing people think about?
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I have a touchy situation...could use some advice
by tenyearsafter ini just got an e-mail from my 80 year old mother asking my wife and i to join her for the memorial this year.
i really don't want to go, but i am also trying to maintain some degree of a relationship with her.
she is breaking the "rules" by not shunning me, but i don't know how she will react if i reject her invitation.
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daniel-p
Don't base your decision on selfishness.
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Healthcare reform has passed and is signed into law... this is a Big F*cking Deal!
by Elsewhere injust ask our vice president joe biden.
once again, he has put his foot in his mouth by dropping the f-bomb when he shakes obama's hand.. granted... i'll take biden's "this is a big f*cking deal" over dick cheney's "go f*ck yourself" any day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqenikp1rj8.
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To all opposers of this bill, I have one line for you: "If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?"
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Pls help w/info on CO car leasing....PLEASE!
by LDH ini am pasting an email i received here, i do not have the concrete answers.
i know this person is reading the forum, please if you have the answers, post them here!.
hello lisa,.
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daniel-p
Gawd I hate those Circuit Leasing people. Every year I get an envelope full of marketing trash, and I never ever signed up for it, leading me to believe that elders in the congregation provide this information to this company. Do they get paid for doing so? Might be interesting to find out.
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WT Enemy #1: Man saves the lives of over 2 million babies
by daniel-p in'man with the golden arm' saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood .
by mail foreign service.
last updated at 1:43 am on 23rd march 2010. comments (54)add to my storieslife-saver: james harrison has donated his rare blood nearly 1,000 times.
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'Man with the golden arm' saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:43 AM on 23rd March 2010Life-saver: James Harrison has donated his rare blood nearly 1,000 times
An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.
James Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia.
He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father's blood.
Mr Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations.
When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special his life was insured for one million Australian dollars.
He was also nicknamed the 'man with the golden arm' or the 'man in two million'.
His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D.
He said: 'I've never thought about stopping. Never.' He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood.
'I was in hospital for three months,' he said. 'The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.'
Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood.
At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition.
The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative.
After his blood type was discovered, Mr Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine.
'They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,' he said.
'I wasn't scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.'
Mr Harrison, dubbed 'the man with the golden arm', is still donating every few weeks at the age of 74. He is thought to have saved 2.2million babies
Mr Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood.
It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women.
It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.
It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far.
One of the mothers he has helped is Joy Barnes, who works at the Red Cross Blood Bank in Sydney.
Grateful: Mr Harrison's friend Joy Barnes is one of many mothers who have been able to give birth to healthy babies thanks to his donations
She has known Mr Harrison for 23 years but has only just told him she is one of the countless mothers he has helped.
Ms Barnes, who miscarried at four and five months before having treatment, said: 'Without him I would never have been able to have a healthy baby.'
Speaking to Mr Harrison on an Australian TV show, she said: 'I don't know how to thank you enough.'
His own daughter, Tracey, also had to have the Anti-D injection after the birth of her first son.
She said she was 'proud' of her dad for continuing to give blood, even after the death of her mother after 56 years of marriage.
Mr Harrison said: 'I was back in hospital giving blood a week after Barbara passed away.
'It was sad but life marches on and we have to continue doing what we do. She's up there looking down, so I carry on.'
Mr Harrison is expected to reach the 1,000 donation milestone in September this year.
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If there is a multiverse. Could JW teachings be right somewhere else?
by The Finger in"the trouble is that in an infinite multiverse, everything that can happen will happen - an infinite number of times" (newscientist mar 2010).
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I am totally not touching this thread.
