So if your idea is to get info from a "Practicing Jehovahs Witness" I suggest you go to a Watchtower Magazine, look up any current information, and that Information that you get will be the same as what will come out of a Jehovah's Witnesses mouth. Its all very simple, whatever the Watchtower Magazine says, a JW has to believe. If we don't believe everything then we have to keep it to ourselves or risk being disfellowshipped for not holding to Christian Unity.
wifekeepsmeinit
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Need some info
by ang inhello, i am currently writing a paper regarding the jehovah witness faith in regards to health care practices.
i've found plenty of information online, but i would like the opinion of a practicing jehovah's witness.
i am very interested in the viewpoints of your faith and would appreciate any insight you may have.
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Need some info
by ang inhello, i am currently writing a paper regarding the jehovah witness faith in regards to health care practices.
i've found plenty of information online, but i would like the opinion of a practicing jehovah's witness.
i am very interested in the viewpoints of your faith and would appreciate any insight you may have.
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wifekeepsmeinit
Last year there was an entire article on "Blood", if you are able to get a Watchtower CD 2007 you can get the entire articel there, I think its a few pages long. Also you may be able to get a copy of their "Transfusion Alternatives" video, which may also help your thesis paper, if you go to your local Kingdom Hall and ask nicely. There's also a big chapter on it in the Book "in search of Christian Freedom" by Raymond Franz. But really though all you have to do is google it, and you will get a plethora of sites regarding the use of blood according to Jehovahs Witnesses.
Hope this helps. Im pretty sure no one here will email you anything, as "onthewayout" put it, we are paranoid.
Go to this thread you can get the Watchtower CD http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/151383/1.ashx, but there are plenty of places you can get the WT CD on the net, most of them are on "torrent" sites.
Most of us who are still in the organization don't really know much about blood, other than we are allowed some fractions of blood and others were not allowed. But the General rule is we are not allowed to have blood. All Baptized Witnesses carry in their wallet a "No Blood" card in case we are incapacitated and need medical treatment and is that card is there to protect us. Trust me its all very confusing, thats why there is a "Witness Liason" for hospitals to advise us as to whether or not we are allowed types or fractions of blood.
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Any interesting wildlife where you live?
by Nosferatu ini never used to see much for interesting wildlife until i moved into my house 3 years ago.
i've seen some neat stuff.
there's lots of woodpeckers around here.
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wifekeepsmeinit
My Mother-in-law.
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OPINION POLL: Dressing Up. Yay? Neutral? Yuck?
by Open mind insomething was wrapped around my neck at birth and it wasn't the umbilical cord.
it was a neck tie!.
because dressing up in a nice suit, good quality dress shirt (i own one), $50-$75 neck tie (my wife has purchased a couple for me that were in this price range.
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wifekeepsmeinit
There is absolutely no excuse for getting into a suit to sit on a plastic chair at a brothers apartment for the Book Study.
Absolutely no excuse, in fact I have brought that up numerous times with my wife. Last year I showed up in jeans and a t-shirt to test the theory: Will I learn better in something comfortable or uncomfortable.? The results were stupendous. If fact I felt even more spiritual for having done so.
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Dating a JW and how to get her off the cult or becoming a member myself
by svennibenni ini'm sorry if i'm totally wrong here but i have a serious problem.. i met a woman in the company i work in via intranet.
it is a very big company with offices all over the world.
she moved to the united kingdom just a few month before we met.
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wifekeepsmeinit
You've got 2 options go to a few meetings see if you can be sold on salvation or respectfully decline any type of relationship with her. Although, what is strange here is that she is associating with you to begin with?, she may actually be reaching out, trying to get a reason to leave. Either way she will have all kinds of emotional baggage. You will just have to think about it if you really care for her. Mabey you should have a heart to heart talk wit her to see how she really feels about the Organization, if she's sold on Paradise, you should probably be only friends.
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apostates outside assemblys ,i was told not to even look, did any of you
by looloo inever want to speak to them , i was only a study but i thought it very odd and judgemental to not even look at them and i used to think what are they so scared of if they have the truth , i did not buy the satan stuff about them at all , cult , was what sprung to mind and started my doubts
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wifekeepsmeinit
Out of all the assembly's Ive been to I have never seen an Apostate, or group of apostates outside.
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Anyone ever disfellowshipped for gluttony?
by gaiagirl ini never knew or heard of anyone, and remember many, many members of congregations who clearly ate much more than they needed to for health.
since the bible lumps gluttons with other "sinners" such as fornicatiors, why does wtbts not prosecute gluttons?
perhaps elders meetings aren't as much fun when you only get to ask questions like "what did you eat next?
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wifekeepsmeinit
The Bible rule against gluttony would be hard to enforce -- you need two eyewitnesses, and maybe most JW gluttons do their evil gluttony in secret, or with just one other person.
I seriously cannot stop laughing.
In my old congo there was a brother about 19 or 20 years old who was morbidly obese, he was about 5 foot 5, mabey 300 pounds. He would always sit at the back, but you could always hear him breathing or (weazing).
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Let JWD find the true number of partakers!
by cultswatter ini've heard stories that most congregations have no partakers at all.
if there are approx 9000 partakers in 90,000 congregations then 81,000 congregations don't have partakers.
i just don't believe that - how bout you??
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wifekeepsmeinit
4 Kingdom Halls - 1 partaker
Took my cousin once who is an Anglican and she was a partaker. You should of heard the gossip afterwords, it was hilarious.
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roaring lion or squawking chicken which are you ? please respond anyone !
by caliber inhere are my personal definitions for each (feel free to destroy these definition if you feel so inclined ).
a. a roaring brave, loud, no retreat, frontal attach , "going down in a blaze of glory " shot by the hunters who found you because of your loud roar all throughout the jungle !
you hope bravery will inspire your brothers.. b. a squawking chicken cautious, timid about danger but those ungodly squawks alert all the other chickens & the farmer who then shoots the would be danger, a fox.
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wifekeepsmeinit
Neither - I'm Kermit the Frog, the one that annoys you, and keeps you awake at night.
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have you ever been to a psychic?
by still_in74 injust curious...... have you as a jw / ex jw ever been to a psychic or spirit medium, or even played with a ouiji board?.
what was your experience ?
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wifekeepsmeinit
Well......there always seems to be at least one wierdo in the family... you know the one Im talking about, (your Mother In law) - whoops, I mean 2nd cousin twice removed...yeah that one!
Well, this person claimed to Know someones "totem animal" when she touched your chest. Turned out my totem animal is a Jaquar...... - Yeah Yeah...who knows, something to do with Shaminism? I think.