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  If YOU had to make the decision, would you respect a JW relatives wish to refuse a blood transfusion?

  by nicolaou in

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  a few years after i quit the meetings my mum needed her medical directive signed and witnessed and she asked if i'd do it.

  i was surprised to say the least!.

  i think she was just angling to include me and maybe find some lever to get me involved again.

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  I look at it this way:

  If you honestly believe the J.W.`s are wrong in there interpretation ,why would you respect a relatives decision to refuse blood.? Wouldn`t that amount to helping one commit suicide ? Needlesly ending one`s own life?

  Many Jehovah`s Witnesses have rationalized taking there own life , would you assist them in some way to achieve that aim ? Supply the gun , the bullets , the rope , drop them off at a bridge ? etc.

  The parents and Elders that assisted those many children shown on the front cover of the 1994 AWAKE magazine , Youths Who Gave Their Life , by refusing blood surgery ,should have been charged with Child Abuse causing death .

  Children do not have the right or mental capacity or life experience to make such a life or death decision.

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  For Martin Luther King's Day: Freedom Songs

  by flipper in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpubgcng6tw.

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  On another note I saw an E.T. segment while I was out , that the Afro Americans were thinking of boycotting the Oscars next year ?

  I wouldn`t blame them if they did .

  I was disgusted with the Oscars when the Colour Purple was nominated for so many Oscars and they did not score one , unbelievable ,

  I thought they should have received at least 10 Oscars.for that movie. It was and is a classic.

  I have never viewed the Oscars in the same light since , it is definetly biased .

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  For Martin Luther King's Day: Freedom Songs

  by flipper in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpubgcng6tw.

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  Thanks for posting those guys , I haven`t got time right now to play them all but I will do so

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  WT Study 1/10/16 Encouraging Child Baptism And More Nonsense

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've noticed that each wt lesson really only has one or two points they want remembered.

  normally they build up to these by about the third subheading.

  this week's lesson though was different, the main point was insidiously made through an experience in the first paragraph:.

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  Not old enough to do all those things stuckinarut , says

  However old enough , by Jehovah`s Witness standards , to make life or death decisions about blood questions imposed on Jehovah`s Witnesses that even adult J.W.`s find difficult and confusing as to what is acceptable and what is not , in there ever changing views regarding " New light" or new medical procedures available in hospitals .How is a teenager , let alone a pre-teen ever going to make an informed life or death decision as to what fractions he/she can or can`t use , what other alternative options are available according to the Governing Body of Jehovah`s Witnesses is just beyond the comprehension of a teenager , and certainly a pre-teen .

  If ever their was a case of child abuse against the Watchtower/Jehovah`s Witnesses , this should take priority .as hundreds of youths have died following the G.B. direction world wide , since this policy was introduced around the 1940-50s`s as a disfellowshipping offence for taking blood.

  And in the " AWAKE" magazine of May 1994 on the front cover , many youths , 26 ? , they held up as martyrs for sacrificing there lives refusing blood.in obedience to their religious instruction from the G.B.

  If that is not child abuse I would like to know what is.

  smiddy

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  I can't let go of this obsession...

  by juandefiero in

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  i really want to let go of the exjw obsession.

  but i can't.

  i keep coming here and other sites several times a day.i want to shout from the rooftops to my family and friends and say, "it's all a lie!

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  Kairos , I think I know where your coming from , history has shown us all to often that the recipients kill the messenger .

  Lets hope they all do find out from another source .....and exit the cult.

  smiddy
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  HARSH FINAL COURT DECISION IN VICKI BOER V. WATCHTOWER TRIAL

  by hawkaw in

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  i have some unique and troubling news.

  i just got off the telephone with scott boer, vicki boer's husband and before that vicki.

  her honour, justice anne molloy, has just ruled on the legal cost issue in the boer case.

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  I wonder where Vicki Boer is today and how she is coping ? anybody know ?

  I`m now speaking in hindsight as I am not aware of this case before , however even now especially with all the lawsuits against the WT organization she should go public in the media TV ,Newspapers and on line , every avenue you can think of to expose this CULT religion

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  Your favorite Bible version / translation

  by lumberjack in

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  which one is your favorite?

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  The Atheists Bible

  The Skeptics Annotated Bible

  My Book Of Bible Stories for children, where it should stay , and like Santa Clause can be put to rest with other fables when their old enough to reason for themselves.

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  The WT in 10 years time

  by Coded Logic in

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  a. in 2026 in what state do you think the organization will be?.

  ) 9million + members.

  ) roughly the same amount of members as today (7-9 million)..

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  I just hope to Christ they don`t exist at all in ten years time.

  OK the quiz ,

  A .5

  B. 4

  C. 4

  D . 5

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  Is there evidence for networks of abuse?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. child-abuse

  i tend to avoid the subject because it's too depressing, so i've probably missed lots of discussion about this issue.

  but i read a comment on youtube yesterday that shocked me and made me wonder.

  the person claimed that many years ago abusers in society generally identified jws as a safe haven for abusers and joined en masse order to exploit the situation.

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  blondie

  Kudos to you and your husband for those experiences , as they say behind every good man there is a good woman.

  smiddy
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  Is there evidence for networks of abuse?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i tend to avoid the subject because it's too depressing, so i've probably missed lots of discussion about this issue.

  but i read a comment on youtube yesterday that shocked me and made me wonder.

  the person claimed that many years ago abusers in society generally identified jws as a safe haven for abusers and joined en masse order to exploit the situation.

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  talesin , and other interested folk ,

  If I remember correctly , this point was brought up in the ARC as to the advisability of handling a JC in such a way , without concern for the victim , however I don`t think the practice was challenged from a legal perspective.

  Only that it would cause more trauma to the victim .

  SBF , have you looked at the videos or the transcripts of the ARC ? if not I recommend you do so , and anybody else who has not taken the time to look at them .

  smiddy

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