Don't you feel lonely at times with your eldership, as you see attendance thinning out ?
aligot ripounsous
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Ask an elder a question
by JH inwhat would you ask them, if you had just "one question", and they would have to say the truth !!
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My essay on blood transfusions (Eng 101)
by inkling inthe following is an essay i wrote for my eng 101 class a few years ago.. this is an example of pre-doubt me.. although my theological motivations for writing this piece were clearly.
suspect, i stand by the medical information i found.. (sources) available upon request.. comments and criticism welcome.. .
"bloodshot".
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aligot ripounsous
Thank you Inkling, for this well documented, non dogmatic thread. Your view about transfusions seems to have evolved from religious refusal to scientific caution. My wife and I, de facto fading JWs as we are, while adhering to such scientific arguments, keep present this conviction that Jehovah gave us a good commandment here and a protection. You are obviously well informed on the subject, so I ask, do we have an idea of how many people, say in the US or in Europe, die owing to transfusion refusal, as compared to how many die because of transfusion ? I wouldn't be surprised that the ratio is in the order of 1 to 1000.
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CHECK RECEIVED FROM TREVOR!!!!!
by mouthy inwell it arrived today... 50.poundi sent him$ 50----he only got 23.80 i think if i remember rightly.. i received back in the exchange $56.37 so i was better off.. he did write a letter with it.
but he just mentioned how your all out to "get" him..... just thought i would let you all know he did come across!!!!!!.
mouthy.
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aligot ripounsous
Mouthy, Grace,
Trevor is a real mischievous bastard but, because he's honest, I forgive him wholeheartedly. Happy be the merciful ones.
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Thanks for the support, but MY HUSBAND and THE BROTHERS WANT ME BACK
by AWAKE&WATCHING inthe hell with that.
my husband came to my store today telling me that we are so close to the end now, he can tell by all the changes in meetings.
you know the kool-aid edition and time frames etc.
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aligot ripounsous
A&W,
I haven't gone through all your story but my first idea while reading your post is that, if you and your husband love each other, you must choose your husband first, don't let the WTS, or your own resentment toward your former JW life, separate you, all this religious quibbling is not worth a marriage. Splitting a couple on religious ground is playing into the hands of fanatism. There are many religiously divided homes, mates just manage with that, with a bit of good will on each side.
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Friendship, Trevor, and Oscar!
by purplesofa ini had no reason to ever question the validity of who trevor and linda were.
i believed.
isn't that what friends do, trust?
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aligot ripounsous
We were mourning, let's sheer up now, Linda is well and happy in everlasting net world life!
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Welcome Marie_purps!
by changeling inthis is our very own purplesofa's daughter!
let's tell her how happy we are she's joined us!.
does this make her a purplechair, or purpleloveseat?.
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Wife abuse
by purplesofa insome days its so far in my past, i can hardly recall it.
this morning it was very close.
i can go along for months, sometimes years and not think about it.
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aligot ripounsous
That's utterly despicable, coming from a man toward a woman and I feel a lot of compassion for you, Purps, let alone the fact that I find you write very well, but I believe that some people have violence in themselves. I've kept telling my son that a boy must NEVER beat a girl,and it turns out that my daughter is the violent element in the family. So, what's to be done ?
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Serious question about WT policy on anointed immortality.
by marmot insomeone correct me if i'm not entirely clear on any possible "new light" on this issue, but i got to wondering about something that the watchtower teaches that seems downright frightening.
okay, so the "anointed" are supposed to be whisked right up to heaven after death, "in the twinkling of an eye" as the scripture goes, to an immortal life serving as princes with jesus and co-ruling with him for the millennial reign.
am i correct so far?
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aligot ripounsous
It seems pretty risky to grant immortality to a bunch of humans considering the blatant imperfection shown by many of these "anointed" ones
Not only that but they are granted this immortality (let's keep in mind that some will survive until after A) even before they have really overcome the trials that will go with the GT, "a tribulation such as has not been from the beginning, nor ever shall be", plus the 1000 years (a long time indeed) and finally the final test with Satan, whereas the poor old bastards of the great crowd will have to fight their way to eternal life like in hurdles race. So much for equal shares of Holy Spirit.Who is the master mind on the East River who has devised such a brilliant scheme, a real praise to God's justice.
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Did you ever hear of an ERECTION that indicated leukemia? Seriously....
by AK - Jeff inplaying golf today with my sister she tells her bosses son - he is 28 yrs old.
he awoke one morning last week with an erection.
not uncommon among those in that age bracket.
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I wonder if king Henri IV of France would have died from leukemia, had he not been assassinated. He confided ones that until age 40 he thought it was a bone. But why on earth was he known as Le vert Galant ?
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Which countries do the anointed come from ?
by aligot ripounsous ina couple of jw friends came yo visit us today and we had dinner together.. at some stage in the conversation, i said that i do understand that an increasing number of jws from developing countries take emblems at memorials because, if we consider that europe and the us compose, together, about 700 million people, there is no good reason why nearly the whole lot of the little flock should be chosen from one tenth of humankind.
it is therefore all too normal that jws from third world counties think that they should have their fair share since jehovah id not partial.
the husband listened attentively and agreed but his wife probably found that we were engaging on a slippery ground and she shortened the visit.
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aligot ripounsous
Now look at what you have done.That poor woman is probably going through mental hell right now with her cognitive dissonance.
I promiss, Honesty, I'LL DO IT AGAIN !
Well, if I can and I may not have another opportunity with those two, as I will sure be labeled as an earthen vase meant for an unhonourable use and unworthy of enjoying wholesome upbuilding association
Or.....maybe the wife thought she got enough of the needed brainwashing for the week and didn't want to talk about spirtual stuff.
There might be part of that, Lisa. Also the wife, as her husband has been recently baptized, wants to protect him, and her own quietness, from suspicious destabilizing questioning.