Posts by smiddy

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Children and Blood Transfusions

by Listener in

a hospital in qld.

australia sought orders to allow a blood transfusion on a minor if necessary.

this occurred on the 12th june 2015.the child was 7 years old and required a liver transplant within the next two or three years otherwise death was seen as inevitable.

smiddy

The sad thing is too many Jehovahs Witness parents , due to their subservience to the Governing Body end up with "no natural affection " for their own offspring and are quite prepared to sacrifice them on the Alter to Jehovah , by refusing lifesaving blood transfusions , and also casting them out of their homes and shunning them simply because they dont want to be a part of a cult religion.

The children in this case demonstrate a maturity above that of their parents and are punished for it , and in many cases end up with tragic consequences.

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2017 JWN Christmas Card Exchange

by blondie in

jw
friends

in years gone by i have organized and coordinated this.

pm me if you want to be added to the list giving me your snail mail address and/or your e-mail for those with tech skills and a safe e-mail.. do this by december 14, and i will pm the list to each person on it.

latecomers will be added but you may not get it by christmas.

smiddy

I have participated before and will do so again , { not religiously of course } , ( electronically ) to your e-mail , there was/is a site that does this for free.

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Sanctimonious, "WE'RE Thankful EVERY day."

by stillin in

thanksgiving is really just a nice, traditional, family-oriented day set aside on a national level.

no babylon the great.

give me a break with the holier than thou, "we don't celebrate thanksgiving.

smiddy

Good point blondie ,they are so very inconsistent about their beliefs practices.

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My plans for Christmas this year

by UnshackleTheChains in

1. attend a charity christmas party which my wife (active jw) helps to organise each year 😀.

2. buy a very small christmas tree with lights for the living room (which can easily be hidden away if jw friends are coming up).

3. buy some nice presents for my family.

smiddy

I gather you are well and truly "out" and I presume your wife is in a fade ? maybe not "out" because of family still in ?

Do you both have children that you have succesfully kept from the clutches of the Borg ?

You both sound like a succesful family breakaway from the cult , do you want to divulge more ?

just curious.

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November Broadcast - truly evil

by iwasblind in

hi there i don't watch much of the propaganda on jw.org anymore but i did catch the november broadcast.. i think these guys are either evil or controlled by someone who is incredibly skilled at mind control.. firstly, they establish their authority by saying "everything" else is a lie - you can't trust media or anyone.

"there is no inspiration today.." but they somehow have the direct connection with god - yuck.. then, they proceed with that disgusting "shunning" drama - but now it is not called shunning, (around 24 mins) the mother said... "if we were to stand between levi and the discipline he needs we would in affect be blocking an expression of jehovah's love from reaching him...".

i am so angry at this, what a load.

smiddy

Good point Data -Dog ,probably something the A.R.C. should be be made aware of as that is still ongoing ,till the middle of next year

The november broadcast on JW.Org. about a youth Levi .being shunned by his family to discipline him as a demonstration of love for him and their love for Jehovah .

Hoping that their act of shunning/disciplne him will encourage him to return him to worshipping Jehovah .

Isnt that emotional blackmail ? an unloving act of parents against their own children ?

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Why I DON'T Fear The Future - A Conversation With My JW Mum

by Divergent in

jw
friends

3 questions i hit my jw mum with:.

first question: do you believe that god is love?

third question: do you think a god of love would choose to destroy me for not doing something i cannot do (be a jw) because i am not convinced rather than convince me beyond doubt?

smiddy

A typical JW response ?

You dont have enough faith ,you cant expect God to answer your prayers if you lack faith.

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Matthew 24 - "This Generation": If you are a Jehovahs Witness that dares to study the Bible itself...

by defender of truth in

rather than just rely on the watchtower's latest opinions... are you ready?.

1) please read this article:.

2) if you are offended by the article's title, read this page for an explanation of what the phrase means, then go back and read it:.

smiddy

And as you say Trev ,when that was written their were still people still living who were alive in 1914 etc,etc.as depicted on the front of the Watchtower magazine .

And now we know they have all died many years ago and still the end is nowhere to be found.

Of course after the event Jehovahs Witnesses came up with new light "overlapping generation" , its funny how new light always follows failed prophecys ,failed expectations

.Searcher & Simons observations are spot on.

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Jesus and the fig tree, what are jws taught?

by Crazyguy in

in the story in the gospel of mark, mark writes that jesus is hungry and comes across a fig tree.

mark explains that it not in season yet jesus upon finding the fig tree has produced no fruit kills the tree.. this story makes no sense if literal so do the gun teach that it literally happened?.

smiddy

Jesus could have fed a few thousand more hungry people with fish and loaves of bread and had a snack himself.

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Official Increase in the Number of Jehovah's Witnesses You Shouldn't Trust

by David_Jay in

reports are coming from witnesses that, once again, the number of memorial partakers has risen considerably this past year, 2016. while confirmation is still to come on the exact numbers, the current explanations given for this increase surely causes a dilemma.. imagine the roman catholic church publishing each year the number of members who it felt were mistaken about what they believed in, that this same number of members was likely suffering from problems such as pride or even mental disorders or something along this line.

this number, by the way, was in the thousands too and growing annually.

what would you conclude, therefore about the catholic church and its admission?.

smiddy

The organization of Jehovahs witnesses are obsessed with numbers as their yearbooks show to demonstrate that Jehovah is blessing his organization with increases in publishers ,Mag.distributions,bible studies ,hours ,baptisms etc,etc,

If the Catholic Church did the same thing today the results the Jehovahs witnesses publish would pale into insignificance .

On the other hand when the JW`s are forced to acknolwedge their decline in their growth ,they will change tac , and claim it is a sign that the end is very close now ,citing the scripture "in the last days the love of the greater number will cool off "

Jehovahs witnesses have always had an each way bet on their survival.

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The uptake...

by Thisismein1972 in

with recent events pointing at watchtower growth, i felt compelled to say a few words.. if the figures turn out to be true, then we should not be discouraged.

after 9/11 there was a surge in, not only the watchtower, but other demonisation of organised religion.

whenever there is a a paradigm shifting event that puts fear into others, this tends to have a life changing affect on an individual.. now let us zoom to the present.

smiddy

For a jehovah`s witness increased numbers of publishers , bible studies ,baptisms etc, are all an evidence of Jehovah`s blessing on his modern day organization in these last days.

That is why these statistics have been a major point of every yearbook since they started them.

Look how jehovah has blessed his organization with the growths in catholic dominated countries like Spain. Italy ,Brazil , Portugal , etc look how he has opened up the work in African nations , Japan to name a few.

The figures , numbers do play a big part in JW belief that Jehovah is blessing them.

That is how it has been up to recent times , however if the numbers do go into decline as has been indicated more recently , this is how the governing body will spin it.

{ It just shows how close we are to the Great Tribulation and Armageddon , because the Scriptures say " that the love of the greater number will cool off " before the end comes .}

Jehovahs Witnesses speak out of both sides of their mouth