i think this is the first clear, official statement regarding hemoglobin-based products.
awake!
august 2006, front page title "blood: why so valuable?".
"Blood - Why so valuable?"
Yes, valuable indeed. More than life it seems.
Wait a minute. Blood is the symbol of life, right? Which should be more valuable?
I'm so confused here. And where in the Bible do they read about the "sacredness" of blood?
Now, those pharisaic reasonings are most incredible. They filter the hemoglobin, and swallow the poor dubs alive.
i am a 34 your old man who has been raised a jw.
i am baptised and have been inactive for some time now.
i live with my mother (a devout jw) and my youngest sister who is df'd.
Hi Alienagent!
Welcome! I'm myself a very recent member. (My own story is on http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/115231/1.ashx) I Hope you'll enjoy the support here.
You already know what you should do: Take back your life! There's no need to hate the WTS, or reject God and family, just don't let legalism govern your life and depress you anymore.
You have a choice in front of you:
I just wish you to keep a good relationship with your mother and sisters.
Lots, lots, lots of happiness to you!
Philip
how has your thinking changed from growing up worldly, to joining jw's, and back to normalcy again?
i began studying at 21 and stopped at 25, without getting baptized.
i no longer seek out anything to satisfy my inner self.
I joined the JWs at the age of 18, and twenty years later I left them when I realized the extend of the hypocrisy at the top. First of all, I find my new freedom delightful. It's not a freedom to misbehave, as the WTS insinuates apostates seek out, but freedom from cynical, lofty, sectarian, legalist and criminal intermediaries between God and me.
One of my colleagues attends an evangelical church. She's a sincere christian, always striving to do her best. She recently got some bad news from relatives. As she felt depressed, she went to her pastor for encouragement. That fine shepherd found nothing better to say than "You're an obstacle to the pouring out of holy spirit upon yourself."
Great! Nearly as good as our dear men in Brooklyn.
I'm so glad to have learned how we should see all those fine directors and their churches. That's a precious lesson.
ok, how do i put music into the page?
it's been years since i've made a web page.
which should i use midi or wav?.
Not to mention the copyright problem
this has probably been brought up before,
why isn't there a record of annointed ones through history?
why weren't they preaching and teaching jehovah's kingdom and all that.
2000 years of faithful transmission of the sacred knowledge, generation after generation, and then Joe Rutherford
Men have so much imagination when it comes to justifying their authority
The last time I was in a class was at school
Funny also to see the similarities between the WT org and their catholic competitors
by now, many here have read khufu's posts on his study of how blood is understood in the bible, and how he came to understand how that contrasts with the jw teachings on blood.
he would eventually bring this research to the attention of fred rusk.. the truth of this story resonates with me.
i first met fred rusk in the mid-1980s when we traveled together to an international assembly in peru.
Thanks Seeker4!
No wonder Fred Rusk was so nervous during our meeting. Ray Richardson remained calm, but I sensed he was troubled at the moment he got my point.
At some point Fred Rusk said something that was in line with my arguments, I can't remember exactly what it was. I jumped on it, but he immediately backed off.
btw, I read your post on witnesses calling at your house. Very funny.
Philippe
hi everyone, below is a copy of my letter to the governing body that i had published on the internet in october 2004. i was threatened with disfellowshipping for that publication.
you may read the full story on my previous thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/115231/1.ashx
philip (khufu)
What if I had claimed to be one of the anointed?
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can anyone direct me to information or article showing that god does not need an organisation like the watchtower.
There's nothing wrong about being organized in itself. Problem is, men step in as leaders.
Of course, they're just Christ's vicars on earths, ministers to their brothers, shepherds to the sheep. It doesn't take long though, before those well-intentioned men start going against Christ's words: "But you , do not you be called Rabbi, for one is your teacher, whereas all you are brothers. Moreover, do not call anyone your father on earth, for one is your Father, the heavenly One. Neither be called ‘leaders,’ for your Leader is one, the Christ."
Just the expression "governing body" is enough to summarize the problem with the WT organization. They don't just govern an organization, they govern minds and hearts as well, forbidding freedom of though and expression, and directing individual consciences.
The long list of WTS scandals, failures and cover-ups is the best testimony to the dangers of such-like organization. Fred Franz himself made some interesting remarks on first-century christianity, which you may find in Ray Franz' book "Crisis of Conscience".
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"it is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country [religion] so distrustful of the independent mind.
james baldwin .
Thanks for this inspiring compilation! What a relief to be free. It obviously does not occur to the WTS that one could love God and fellow humans out of one's own, independant, will.
Oops
Please forgive my independant thinking
hi everyone, below is a copy of my letter to the governing body that i had published on the internet in october 2004. i was threatened with disfellowshipping for that publication.
you may read the full story on my previous thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/115231/1.ashx
philip (khufu)
Yaddayadda, I had not told anyone in my congregation about this issue, except my ex-wife and the elders. Had I not kept it strictly confidential, I would have been disfellowshipped right away. The letter you quote from the WTS was in reply to a very much respectful letter. As to the warm love -well you may judge. I felt rather cold while there at Brooklyn.
