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Jehovah's Witnesses who are scared of blood transfusions should read this:
http://www.reexamine.info/images/bloodessay.pdf
It is the online issue of attorney Kerry Louderback-Wood's article on blood transfusions and misrepresentation by Jehovah's Witnesses.
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http://www.reexamine.info/images/bloodessay.pdf.
please spread the word about it!.
When did Kerry Louderback-Wood's article on the Tort Of Misrepresentation on the blood issue become available online? I am so excited! Here it is. It's well worth the trouble of reading every last word of it. I think it is the most damning article against the witnesses ever:
http://www.reexamine.info/images/bloodessay.pdf
Please spread the word about it!
i like things the way they are right now.
the watchtower are never sure which direction the next 'assualt' will come from and we often get the jump on them.
but i was wondering if, in addition to all the solo efforts, it might be time to set up something a little more permanent.. i know that my disfellowshipping is only a matter of time - perhaps months - and when it happens i'll have the freedom to act in a way that i cannot risk at present.
Yes, it is time to organize such a charity - worldwide. Perhaps it would be easier to fund it as "Cult Recovery" or "Recovery From High-Control Groups," to minimize the trouble of lawsuits and such.
People seeking such charity would presumably be self-reporting (or would be atttempting to do interventions on loved ones), and might have the problem of proving/disproving membership (or proving the cult-status), in order to receive public funding, though, I'm afraid. I think it could be complicated to do such a thing, but very helpful to many - xjws or not.
Perhaps easier to fund such an endeavor privately?
You could apply for government grants or something and contact some counselors who specialize in exit and recovery counselling. I would try to connect with as many available resources as possible, including the local mental health depts.
I would donate generously to such a cause if I could somehow verify that the money was indeed being put to such use; and had a demonstrated success rate for the recipients, (meaning low recidvism). Good luck and best wishes.
raised in the organization
"for those not born into the organization .
not having been born into the organization i believe.
School: Torture and when not being tortured, just sad and lonely. Kingdom Hall: Hours and hours of boredom and being pinched. Sports: Only for boys; and in school, more torture and loneliness; was always last or second-to-last to be picked for team sports. extra curricular activities: more kingdom hall and field service because the other things involved worldly associations and might require flag-saluting or nationalism or might involve holidays or political issues (or it just might take money away from my parents who needed it for more kh literature for field service).
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i think that when you are in a cult like the dubs, things stick with you whether you want them to or not.
i still pray before meals and bedtime...anybody else?
I'm still a compulsive people-pleaser; I clean houses for a living. I still think (unconsciously) of Tuesday and Thursday as meeting days and have this vague and unconscious dread of Tues and Thurs night boredom. Does anyone else have weird responses to the word "Tuesday"? It will always, always, always be bookstudy night and Thursday, theocratic ministry school (some school!), and Sunday Meeting. Oh gawd, do I love sleeping in on Sundays.
this is my first post so i guess that means i am not a lurker anymore.. i have been inactive for nearly 2 years now, but recently my teenage neice was df'd.
she has moved out of home with another df'd girlfriend of the same age.
i know she is getting a lot of pressure from my family to come back, and of course she would be feeling very alienated and probably confused.
She is a teen-ager and is moving out on her own, with another teen-ager? What kind of shit is that? Is it not illegal to abandon your children in your country? WTF? Give her some rent money if you can. I wonder what she's got in the fridge? Is she in school? Working? This is absolutely ridiculous. Someone should just report her family to social services or something.
sedsjpatyahoodotcom just sent me an pm which forwarded l_velma's pm that i previously got.
who are these people and why are they essentially allowed to spam on this site?
my response to them was that i feel their message is as offensive as jws bringing their crap to my door (which they cannot do because i live in a gated community), completely unacceptable, offensive and annoying!.
I got a long, long PM from I_velma just now and happened to notice this thread and thought,"aha,one of those people!" It really did not occur to me to think of it as spam, but I guess it is; I found the 'ragging' on the atheists a bit tedious. I wonder if they chose to mail that stuff to the professed atheists, based on a thread from a week or so ago? How many people from that thread got the mails, I wonder?
the pathologist recommended that another bone marrow biopsy be done because the doctor didn't send her enough blood to run all of the tests that she needed to run.
i found out about this in june when filing the insurance claim.
so, i requested that the other bone marrow biopsy with blood work be performed.
So sorry to hear you're going through this, Ms. McDucket. I'm sure you're doing your homework on this issue; I think there are probably support groups you can visit online and in your hometown to help you cope; although we are here for you as best an online community can be; wish I could bring you some soup and flowers and help you out...sounds awful for you. I am so sorry that you are having to deal with such a stressful thing. best wishes and nurturing to you.
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the west wing...may have finished in the u.s. before this but it has just finished in the u.k.... in the history of television there has never been a better programme
Befgore I got rid of my t.v. and cable, I was a huge fan of The West Wing. I think it is one of the most intelligent network series ever made; and its interpersonal storylines are truly absorbing. It was a brilliant show. I'm sorry to hear it's gone. I want the dvds, too. (My daughter still has a t.v.)
it is here: http://www.watchtower.cc/view_category.php?id=10
