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  Hello... this is me and my story...

  by jamir in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raised as a jw, baptized in a 1998 district convention, somewhere in portugal.. studying with jws had some positive things (not many... just a few).

  i learned to read before going to school and developed this excelent skill of reading, interpreting and resuming texts.

  i was an excellent student.. as a teenager my life sucked (and i considered it a "privilege" at that time) because i simply couldn't enjoy these best years of my life, because had to avoid all contact with people of my age (there were no young people in my congregation) so i lived the best years of my life as a "forever alone".

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  Shawn10538

  Welcome. I hope you are able to transition out eventually. Living as double life can be so soul eating and exhausting.
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  What Are Some Musical Groups And/Or Songs That Everybody Liked But You?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i never loved the beatles.

  i especially didn't care all that much for john lennon.. bob dylan, i never got his appeal!.

  any songs that just didn't do anything for you?.

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  KISS, U2, Lady Gag Gag, any boy band, any band of dancers that sing and do acrobatic dancing at the same time like Britney Spears, almost all rap, Nikki Minaj, all male singers that sound like Dave Mathews or Coldplay, all female singers that sing like Cat Power or Sarah McLaughlin, Katy Perry cuz she ripped off "I Kissed a Girl" blatantly from an early 90s song, Michael Jackson, all the Jacksons, Prince, all Banda music (the most popular music in so cal hands down) plus a ton more, but those are the main ones
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  anybody have the convention schedule for Long Beach, CA?

  by Shawn10538 in

  1. social
  2. family

  i am trying to plan a blood donation event to be held at the convention center at the time of a convention..

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  Will you send a thank you card to Dr. Joy Fridey on behalf of AJWRB and the ex-JW community?

  by Shawn10538 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  dr. joy fridey and martketing ceo nick samaniego both have comtributed much time in educating us.

  i know that the videos aren't up yet, so no one has seen them.

  but i think it would be awesome for them to receive thank you cards from not just myself but many jws and ex-jws who appreciate what they do.

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  Will you send a thank you card to Dr. Joy Fridey on behalf of AJWRB and the ex-JW community?

  by Shawn10538 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  dr. joy fridey and martketing ceo nick samaniego both have comtributed much time in educating us.

  i know that the videos aren't up yet, so no one has seen them.

  but i think it would be awesome for them to receive thank you cards from not just myself but many jws and ex-jws who appreciate what they do.

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  Dr. Joy Fridey and Martketing CEO Nick Samaniego both have comtributed much time in educating us. I know that the videos aren't up yet, so no one has seen them. But I think it would be awesome for them to receive thank you cards from not just myself but many JWs and ex-JWs who appreciate what they do. Dr. Fridey is the Medical Director for the Red Cross of So Cal. her job is to oversee Blood Services for the entire region. If a large earthquake were to happen in LA, and we all know we are overdue, that would be her nightmare because she is the "buck stops here" person to supply blood for every single person ion So Cal. That is over 20 million people. In a large disaster she will have to come up with blood for possibly hundreds of thousands of peopl. Who knows. So she is not a person who can just spend time on trifles. if she didn't believe in what AJWRB is doing she would not, I am sure, have allowed us to interview her. Even just the time it took to do the interview was extremely precious time. so we all owe her a big thanks. She is saving all our lives, JWs and nonJWs alike.

  Nick Samaniego as the Marketing CEO and media Liaison for the Red Cross has to be very careful who he associates with. so if he didn't think our message was positive, he would not have allowed the whole thing to go down so to speak. he is in charge of all media exposure the Red Cross gets. He can't afford to allow the reputation of the Red Cross to be sullied, let's say, because that would undermine the public trust of the blood supply, and that could cost lives. So even though he is not on the medical side of the issue, his job is also crucial to the saving of lives with blood transfusions.

  A warm letter to them both would be great. You can put down that you are a supporter of AJWRB if you want.

  The address for both of them is:

  100 Red Cross Cir.

  Pamona, CA 91768
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  AJWRB changing its title and mission statement

  by Shawn10538 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  since my interview with dr. joy fridey of the red cross, it was revealed to me that there is no medical definition for the term "bloodless," "bloodless medicine," or "bloodless surgery.

  " basically, every doctor and every patient has their own idea of what constitutes "bloodless.

  " but according to dr. fridey, there is no definition of bloodless medically speaking.. one thng for sure, for those doctors who actually use this term or for the watchtower society who has probably introduced this expression into the consciousness of society and the medical profession, bloodless does not ever mean... bloodless.. (see ajwrb.org article in the official ajwrb blog.).

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  so true.
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  anybody have the convention schedule for Long Beach, CA?

  by Shawn10538 in

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  2. family

  i am trying to plan a blood donation event to be held at the convention center at the time of a convention..

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  I am trying to plan a blood donation event to be held at the convention center at the time of a convention.
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  Adopting a teen or adult after he/she has been shunned?

  by popcorn_eater in

  1. social
  2. family

  anyone have any experience with this?.

  i was brainstorming the other day about what could be in our future.

  my young teen jw stepdaughter's mom and her new husband are extremely zealous jw.

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  This happened to my ex-fiance', Joy Tr!ff. Social services actually took her away from her parents when she was about 15. She never went back home. She wasn't disfellowshipped but her mother was verbally and physically abusive to her and she called child services on her own. Her aunt, a Non JW stepped up and took her in. She became much closer to her aunt than she ever was to her mother. her mother was cruel and mean, even when we were dating. Her father was one of the annointed but one of the dumbest most clueless individuals I have even met. Shallow as a cookie sheet. Totally enabled the mother to be more cruel and abusive. Never fought for his daughter.

  Be the sweetest most loving aunt you can be and she will gravitate to you. make her a special place in your house that she can run to to escape the pressures and disfuntions of being a JW. She will make the decision on her own.
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  AJWRB changing its title and mission statement

  by Shawn10538 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  since my interview with dr. joy fridey of the red cross, it was revealed to me that there is no medical definition for the term "bloodless," "bloodless medicine," or "bloodless surgery.

  " basically, every doctor and every patient has their own idea of what constitutes "bloodless.

  " but according to dr. fridey, there is no definition of bloodless medically speaking.. one thng for sure, for those doctors who actually use this term or for the watchtower society who has probably introduced this expression into the consciousness of society and the medical profession, bloodless does not ever mean... bloodless.. (see ajwrb.org article in the official ajwrb blog.).

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  Since my interview with Dr. Joy Fridey of the Red Cross, it was revealed to me that there is no medical definition for the term "bloodless," "bloodless medicine," or "bloodless surgery." Basically, every doctor and every patient has their own idea of what constitutes "bloodless." But according to Dr. Fridey, there is no definition of bloodless medically speaking.

  One thng for sure, for those doctors who actually use this term or for the Watchtower Society who has probably introduced this expression into the consciousness of society and the medical profession, bloodless DOES NOT EVER mean... bloodless.

  (See ajwrb.org article in the official ajwrb blog.)

  Since the heart transplant by Dr. Gallantowicz that made headline news that was touted as the first bloodless heart transplant, I have said, "...Hmmmmmm... I wonder....."

  I wonder how is it that a human heart was purged of all the blood contained in it. I wondered about cell saver procedures and wondered whether cell saver technology is really just an autologous blood transfusion.

  So I asked Dr. Fridey, "Is a cell saver procedure a blood transfusion?" The answer was, "Yes." She then worried that if JWs thought of cell saver operations as transfusions, if maybe they would shy away from taking them. I reassured her that the opposite is true. JWs are willing to JUMP right into any new procedure that the Society approves of, even if it is really the same as an autologous blood transfusaion. The truth about cell saver procedures will free JWs top take other procedures that in the past have been shunned because they are called a blood transfusion.

  Another example of how this works can be found in the new article by Marlen Mercado posted on the front page of ajwrb.org under the link "SAVE a Jehovah's Witness Baby!" demonstrates how when she was working as a nurse in a hospital, she would get patients whose chart said, "No Blood Products" but they received albumin. So one time she wrote on the chart of a JW the words "Except Albumin."

  JWs need to know that they already take blood transfusions of various sorts. When they really, really know this, it will open the way for them to accept more blood transfusions, and more blood transfusions until they accepot all the life saving blood products that they can get. So it's more than just a matter of it being absolutely TRUE that JWs accept blood already. It is a matter of activism to pump out all the positive propaganda we can to ease the JW people into more life-saving blood transfusions. spread the word that JWs are taking blood and that they need your donations, BLOOD donations that is, and you will save the life of a JW.
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  Pop, things have changed and is changing.

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this past weekend my jw daughter and family came.

  to visit.

  this daughter not like my other daughter keeps in.

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  Some people are entirely resistant to change. But if he's in your house you get to have the last word and you have to be respected. I hope you put him in his place.