I just finished watching it. The jw bit was just part of the storyline.It was about a witness couple and the wife was pregnant. She was admitted to the emergency dept and at first said no blood when they told her she would probably die without it. She apparantly changed her mind at the end, although we did not see that happen. Her husband was busy praying the Lords prayer which seemed to fall on deaf ears, as she died before she had the transfusion. But the good news is the baby survived and the husband allowed the staff to make the decision to give it a transfusion he needed to survive.
Posts by alanv
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9CASUALTY - BBC TV
by St George of England indid not see this as i cannot stand the programme personally, but tonight's episode was about a jw mother who died after refusing a blood transfusion.
they apparently dealt with all the disfellowshipping, shunning etc.
sounds like good advertising!.
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Is the Internet killing our sense of EMPATHY?
by brotherdan inthis is a pretty interesting article on cnn.
i can see how we are being desensitized to others feelings.
there are things that i've said to others online that i never would say to someone face to face.
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alanv
I find it good to post online as I have more time to think what I want to say. Sometimes on the phone or face to face it is easy to blurt out something that I later MAY regret.
For instance I just emailed a friend to say how sorry I was that her brother had just died. I was able to say exactly what I wanted to her rather than saying something inapproriate in a face to face or on the phone.
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Time magazine-JW's high turnover
by Lunatic Faith ini know this is a couple years old but i found it referenced on another site and had to share it--assuming it hasn't already been shared.. www.time.com.
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alanv
This survey clearly shows that if witnesses new all the negative things about being a witness, instead of only being told about the positive things, many would not join up and so less would leave. However that aint gonna happen.
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For those that are and have been married,did the JW lifestyle aggravate "typical" marital and family problems?
by miseryloveselders ini ask this in consideration of last week's and this week's congregation bible study which focuses on the responsibilities of christian parents, and husbands.
i also ask this in harmony with itscrap&theyknowit's thread which is a heluva opening post by the way.
i linked it below for those that aren't familiar with it.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/206133/1/why-i-eventually-left.
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alanv
I think that anyone who has bible principles in their life, are probably going to have happier family life.
Having said that, the head of the family thing I'm sure must annoy a lot of women who are more than capeable of being the chief organiser in their family.
I did find it frustrating in the bedroom department that my wife stuck rigidly to what was allowed and what wasn't!
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Is Job 1:4 regarding a birthday party
by jwfacts ini have heard it stated before that job 1:4 is referring to job celebrating his children's birthdays.
others have claimed this is not the case.
does anyone have a good explanation of what this scripture is referring to?.
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alanv
When I was a witness I could never understand why we could celebrate wedding anniversaries but not birthdays. The Job scripture is just another proof that Birthday celebrations are fine. The governing body use every trick in the book to keep JWs seperate from the rest of humanity.
Looks like NLT is one of the few translations that actually use the word birthday, so it probably would not help to use that arguement with a witness
Incidently I enjoy usung your website very much and seeing the updated figures every year.
Look forward to seeing the Australian figures on the site when you get time to update it.
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Jehovah's Witnesses - Once Again the Fastest Growing Faith in the U.S.
by davidl7 inaccording to the latest statistics published by the ncc in its yearbook of american and canadian churches, the jehovah's witnesess had the highest growth rate, in 2010 growing 4.37%.
this is, i believe, is the 4th year in a row, that the witnesses had the highest growth rate.
roman catholics grew by less than 1%, as did most of the other churches listed.
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alanv
The 4.37% figure is based on this books figure from last year. Unfortunately both figures are wrong. So the true figures are as the society have said which is 2%. This has been rounded up. The true figure is actually around 1.7%
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Jehovah's Witnesses - Once Again the Fastest Growing Faith in the U.S.
by davidl7 inaccording to the latest statistics published by the ncc in its yearbook of american and canadian churches, the jehovah's witnesess had the highest growth rate, in 2010 growing 4.37%.
this is, i believe, is the 4th year in a row, that the witnesses had the highest growth rate.
roman catholics grew by less than 1%, as did most of the other churches listed.
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alanv
I am a little confused here. The Watchtower has recently published it's worldwide report, and the figure they gave for USA was 2%
In fact the actual figure was 1.7% but they rounded the figure up.
David could you explain how they get to the 4.37% figure.
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JWs Celebrating Brithdays
by Franklin Massey ini keep hearing of more and more jws that are celebrating their birthdays or, doing "special days" for their children on the day of their birth.
i'm sure this has always been done but what interests me is that many people aren't ashamed to admit it since they have used their own fully functioning minds to figure out that the society's birthday ban doesn't hold up.
one young couple with two kids (he's an ms, she's an ex-pioneer who dropped off the list to tend to the kids) explained it to me this way.... "the happiest days of our lives include the births of our children.
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alanv
One witness I know had a special day for her grand daughter in the summer. Not her birthday you understand just a special day for her.
When I asked her if it was her birthday she proudly said Oh no we do not celebrate birthdays.
She could not see it was the same thing.
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What sort of person is GB member Guy Pierce?
by VM44 indoes anyone know anything about the gb member guy pierce?.
what is his background?.
what sort of personality does he have?.
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alanv
I think all of them believe in what they are doing. It's just that they put the organisation first all the time.
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How were Rutherford's Cadillacs purchased?
by InterestedOne ini mentioned rutherford's cadillacs to my study conductor, and he said maybe rutherford was able to purchase them because he was independently wealthy.
were they purchased from his own personal wealth or with the wt funds?.
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alanv
There seems to be proof that the houses were donated to him from a rich friend. Maybe the same was true about the cars.