Posts by DevonMcBride

Do you know that even if the Do Not Call law gets passed the JW's are still allowed to telephone witness? ~~Non-Profit~~ Non-Prophet, charitable organizations are exempt. However, the average person hates these calls and will slam the phone down harder on the JW's then they would the door.

Devon

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Internet use and the dubs

by William Penwell in

just wondering if anyone is aware of a clamp down coming down on internet use with the dubs?

just talking to my parents tonight and there was some mention that "big brother" wt organization will be shutting down any dub web sites.

i guess i wasn't to popular as i said, "god created us with a brain to think amd it would be the most divine thing if we used that brain to think for ourself".

DevonMcBride

As it stands now, when typing in the words "Jehovah's Witness" in an internet search, the majority of the sites that come up are anti-JW sites. If a non-JW (such as myself) or a JW with questions wants to find out more about them, the information will be biased to our benefit. This is why I never got involved with them.

In my opinion, this will backfire on them. I am subscribed to 2 JW sites and these dubs are very lonely people. They love the chat rooms and message boards to talk to JW's in other areas because they have no true, nonjudgemental friends within their own congregations. If the Society were to ~~encourage~~ force them to close down this could lead to more departures. The curiousity alone would have some JW's looking on the apostate sites. As brain-washed as someone may be, they can only take so much before reaching a breaking point.

Just my thoughts,
Devon

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LIFE AFTER FEAR

by Dansk in

when i was a jw i prayed regularly and often and i thanked jehovah in prayer again when events turned out favourably.

however, sometimes things worked out unfavourably for me or a member of my family but we never blamed jehovah.

having now been out of watchtower clutches for over seven months i began to realise that jehovah couldnt lose!

DevonMcBride

Welcome back Dansk!

I missed your threads and hope you decide to stay.

Devon McBride

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Another Fictional Conversation at the Door

by Farkel in

"good mornning.

we're bible students(tm) interested in world affairs and we see the mess california is in now.

we also see the mess that president bush is in with iraq.

DevonMcBride

Farkel,

You brought up a very good point. Some see the glass as being half full, the JW's see it as being half empty.

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HOW "TRUE" ARE JW HOURS ?

by josephus in

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as a jw i admit to "massaging" my hours nearly every month to keep up with the expected amount.. my brother never put in hir report for nearly 2 years.

i was amazed when i asked the secretary he told me "i allways put a few hours in if people forget" !!!

so my brother was a regular publisher despite not going out on service.. he was one man.

DevonMcBride

Most of the ex-JW's I know have manipulated their hours.

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Your Opinion(s) of Others

by StinkyPantz in

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friends

scenario: you meet a person and like this person.

all of your friends tell you to beware of the person.

do you ignore their warnings and give your all to the friendship or are you more cautious than you would have been otherwise?.

DevonMcBride

Listen to your friends opinions and take extra caution.

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Court Turns down JW appeal

by DevonMcBride in

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i don't know if this was already posted.

http://www.canada.com/edmonton/news/story.asp?id=7e37dce4-ae45-4155-a3a9-17328030a425.

high court refuses appeal by jehovah's witness ethicist says girl had right to refuse blood transfusions.

DevonMcBride

I don't know if this was already posted. http://www.canada.com/edmonton/news/story.asp?id=7E37DCE4-AE45-4155-A3A9-17328030A425

High court refuses appeal by Jehovah's Witness Ethicist says girl had right to refuse blood transfusions


Rick Pedersen
The Edmonton Journal

Sunday, September 21, 2003

EDMONTON - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from a young Jehovah's Witness who at age 16 had a court-ordered blood transfusion against her wishes.

Candice Unland of Morinville, who turns 21 next week, said the decision is very disappointing, but she predicted the issue will not die.

"Eventually the court is going to have to face it," she said Saturday.

Unland's lawyer, Shane Brady, said the Supreme Court hears fewer than 15 per cent of all appeals and never explains why it does not hear cases.

The Charter of Rights clearly gives an 18-year-old patient the right to refuse a transfusion. Unland's appeal would have argued that a mature 16-year-old has the same Charter protection, Brady said. The problem was that the Alberta Court of Appeal refused to hear this argument, and the Alberta government opposed the Unland appeal, saying an issue not before the provincial appeal court should not be raised at the Supreme Court.

Brady said another case may one day raise this Charter issue at the Supreme Court.

Two prominent medical experts filed affidavits with the Supreme Court arguing Unland should not have been compelled to have a blood transfusion when she was 16.

The court-ordered transfusion contradicted a key principle of the medical ethics, which gives mature minors the right to decide what medical treatments they will receive unless their competence is compromised, University of Alberta bioethicist Dr. Paul Byrne said.

This principle applies to capable minors as well as adults, agreed Dr. Austin Richard Cooper, chairman of pediatrics at Memorial University and chief of the child health program at Newfoundland's Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre.

Lower Alberta courts acknowledged Unland was a mature minor, but decided the child welfare law permitted a judge to order a transfusion.

Unland said she didn't want a transfusion during her operation to stop excessive menstrual bleeding because she believes the Bible does not allow one person to take blood from another. She also feared catching a blood-borne disease such hepatitis or AIDS.

Unland has also continued her fight in support of Bethany Hughes, a Calgary Jehovah's Witness who died of leukemia last year at 17 after an unsuccessful court battle to refuse the 38 transfusions she received during cancer treatment. Hughes had also argued she was a mature minor when she tried to stop the transfusions.

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Jehovah Sightings!

by Nosferatu in

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here's a thread to post a picture of what (you think) jehovah looks like.

i'll go first:.