Bloodless clinics staffed with JW nurses and doctors?
What on earth do you mean by that? What clinics, where?
the jehovah's witnesses are facing a lot of negative exposure in quebec over the blood ban.
two maternal deaths recently due to the blood ban and now this.
jw patients willing to sacrifice their child.
Bloodless clinics staffed with JW nurses and doctors?
What on earth do you mean by that? What clinics, where?
do i have to believe in jesus to be saved?.
i was raised as a jehovah's witness.
i was born in.
Keep questioning and testing why you still believe the Bible could possibly be 'the word of God'. Read up on Biblical scepticism and explore why so many reject the Bible and religion as untrustworthy. I recommend www.infidels.org as a great resource.
Keep testing every assumption you've held and peeling back the layers of belief you've accumulated or had imposed on you since childhood.
You're on the right path to intellectual enlightenment and freedom.
the october 2017 wt study article (simplified).
let us consider some examples of fake love.
when satan talked to eve in the garden of eden, what he said made it seem that he wanted the best for her.
By their own admission, Jehovah has stopped blessing them then in pretty much the entire western world since the growth is zero in those countries, and they have admitted that expenditure is exceeding income.
Jehovah is now only blessing them in poor countries with low education and low internet access. Funny coincidence that.
i just viewed this.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5703039295946752/clapping-singing-conventions-like-evangelicals.
ok the point has been made.
People are overreacting a bit to this. Just because the borg are jazzing up their music a bit and being a bit more expressive about it, it hardly means they are becoming Pentecostal. The GB have probably been advised that statistically, young people and families are turning to the more modern, contemporary style churches because they provide a satisfying emotional experience. The org has never really provided that, relying on a traditional catechism style service or treating meetings like a franchise meeting of a global religious sales company (which is ultimately all the religion is).
It's all part of a strategy to give the turd a more modern, 21st century polish to try and stop the haemorrhaging, nothing more. And to make it more palatable to the African and Latino contingents, where the only growth is now occurring.
What I find disturbing is how they are increasingly using video technologically at their large gatherings in an Orwellian way, portraying horrible doomsday and obedience themes on a big screen. Its screaming out for an expose on 60 minutes or something.
had the misfortune of stopping by the "regional" convention yesterday.
i promised my daughter i would come to sunday afternoon so she wouldnt have to ride home with her mother.... holy crap it was weird!
im sure all of this has been covered on the forum but to actually see it.... just wow.
After 120 years of officially having the most boring, dull, prosaic religious services in Christendom, they are resorting, at long last, to emotionalism to try and stop the young ones leaving in droves.
Next it will be Sunday school and youth clubs.
You can sprinkle glitter and fairy dust on a steaming pile of pooh but it's still just a pile of pooh.
my 3yo daughter lives with me 4 days and with her mum 3 days.
i have her tues, wed, fri evening and saturday all day.
which means my ex takes her to sunday and thursday meetings but she doesn't go door knocking on saturday because she's with me.. i dont mind - at the moment - because in a way i want her to know the jw jargon so we can talk about it without having to explain what it is, and i want her to compare the bullshit to the real world.
Pretty unorthodox arrangement that you have your 3 year old daughter the majority of the time. Children that young need their mum's mostly.
watchtower october 2017, par 11, page 28 - "very soon the political powers of satan’s world will form a coalition that is bent on the destruction of god’s people.
's] have anything to fear?
not at all!........at that critical moment during the great tribulation, the angelic soldiers of jehovah of armies will come together to protect god’s people..."[j.w.
Classic cult mind control 101 stuff.
Maintain a permanent sense of doomsday urgency.
i had the shocking thought that wt may never die due to its free labor realestate building empire.
an the lawyers drain the swamp quicker than the new building program..
The only thing that would end the organization is if they went mainstream on their main doctrines re Trinity, immortal soul, etc. That would break up the organization like what happened to Herbert Armstrong's former religion after he died.
Otherwise their influence will just gradually wane and weaken over generations, much like religion in general.
i still believe in freedom of religion even if i disagree with the beliefsof the religion.
what about you?.
Pretty much what Island man said. Just outlaw the harmful practices and policies particularly the blood transfusion policy, two witnesses rule child abuse policy, shunning policy, etc. Ban any religion that refuses to stop clearly harmful practices and arrest the leaders.