Awakened at Gilead

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  I tore up my Blood Card yesterday

  by Awakened at Gilead in

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  as you may know from my previous posts, i am fairly new to being an xjw, having taken may decision about 3 weeks ago.

  during this time i have read the information about blood on jwfacts and in isofcf, for example,.... so yesterday, much to my wife's chagrin, i tore up my blood card in front of her.. i wanted to drive home a point... she will be needing surgery soon, and has told me that she does not want blood.

  i wanted to demonstrate to her that i no longer agree with the blood policy.... and i even went so far as to check about donating blood.

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  Thanks, CBD,

  I'll have to create a new Medical Directive, I guess... to avoid my wife preventing me from receiving it if I am unconscious.

  A@G
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  Who writes it??

  by lavendar in

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  who actually writes the wt books and the wt magazines?

  is it the governing body that writes all that?.

  lavendar .

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  Its actually mostly "other sheep" who do the writing. So this means that the anointed are fed by the other sheep...

  Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?
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  Bye everyone

  by sooner7nc in

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  well, the company i work for is on the verge of intensive monitoring of all websites that it's employees are looking at, so i'm outta here for a while.

  i've very much enjoyed all your stories, your terrible experiences, and your hilarious ones, and want you all to know how much this has helped me over the past few months.. until we meet again, vaya con dios, or not, i really don't care.. bye.

  sooner7nc.

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  Awakened at Gilead

  Ummm. Can you buy a computer?
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  I tore up my Blood Card yesterday

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as you may know from my previous posts, i am fairly new to being an xjw, having taken may decision about 3 weeks ago.

  during this time i have read the information about blood on jwfacts and in isofcf, for example,.... so yesterday, much to my wife's chagrin, i tore up my blood card in front of her.. i wanted to drive home a point... she will be needing surgery soon, and has told me that she does not want blood.

  i wanted to demonstrate to her that i no longer agree with the blood policy.... and i even went so far as to check about donating blood.

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  Awakened at Gilead

  As you may know from my previous posts, I am fairly new to being an xJW, having taken may decision about 3 weeks ago. During this time I have read the information about blood on JWFacts and in ISofCF, for example,.... so yesterday, much to my wife's chagrin, I tore up my blood card in front of her.

  I wanted to drive home a point... she will be needing surgery soon, and has told me that she does NOT want blood. I wanted to demonstrate to her that I no longer agree with the blood policy...

  And I even went so far as to check about donating blood. (I can't right now, since I am taking antibiotics). So I told my wife that I wanted to donate blood, in case a JW needs a blood fraction, they can take it out of my blood...

  Needless to say, she is not too happy with this decision...
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  So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

  by nicolaou in

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  i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

  in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

  i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

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  Cindi: But in your research, try and find other scriptures that will mention mediation between us, "the other sheep" and God.

  Have you done any research into John 10:16? In Gilead we learned the whole context of the scripture, and the Society's explanation was so convoluted it made no sense. But what Christendom says actually does make sense.

  Jesus was talking to Jews, and explaining that he was inviting them into his fold. He then explained that he had other sheep that he would invite into the Jews fold, and they would become one flock, under one shepherd.

  Well, in 36 CE Cornelius was baptized, and Gentiles began to be welcomed into the Jews fold. In context, then, what makes more sense? If Jesus was telling Jews, come into my fold, and some other sheep will come into it in the year 1935, does that make sense? But it does make sense that he told them that the Jews were coming into his fold, and then the Gentiles will be added in a few years. This is scriptural: Eph Ch 4:

  11Therefore keep bearing in mind that formerly YOU were people of the nations as to flesh; "uncircumcision" YOU were called by that which is called "circumcision" made in the flesh with hands— 12 that YOU were at that particular time without Christ, alienated from the state of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise, and YOU had no hope and were without God in the world. 13 But now in union with Christ Jesus YOU who were once far off have come to be near by the blood of the Christ. 14 For he is our peace, he who made the two parties one and destroyed the wall in between that fenced them off. 15 By means of his flesh he abolished the enmity, the Law of commandments consisting in decrees, that he might create the two peoples in union with himself into one new man and make peace; 16 and that he might fully reconcile both peoples in one body to God through the torture stake, because he had killed off the enmity by means of himself. 17 And he came and declared the good news of peace to YOU, the ones far off, and peace to those near, 18 because through him we, both peoples, have the approach to the Father by one spirit.

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  Certainly, therefore, YOU are no longer strangers and alien residents, but YOU are fellow citizens of the holy ones and are members of the household of God,

  Behold, the other sheep!!!!

  A@G
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  So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

  by nicolaou in

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  i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

  in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

  i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

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  Burn:

  The Creation book.

  I could see it was full of falsehoods.

  Any falsehood in particular? I've never given the creation book much thought, as it made sense when I read it.

  A@G
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  So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

  in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

  i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

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  Cindi67: But because it was coming from God's Org., and the FDS, it was something you had to accept, because they "know" better and they have been anointed by HOLY SPIRIT.

  The FDS issue struck me because I knew from my stay at Bethel and Gilead that O.S. brothers were writing many of the publications. So how was it that the FDS was feeding the domestics, if it really was the OS feeding the anointed in the field. Made no sense...

  A@G
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  So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

  in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

  i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

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  I was raised in the truth and never questioned it. I did find some of the explanations about Daniel's prophecies such as the 2300 days somewhat arbitrary... But I accepted it all since we were in the truth....

  But the week I went to Gilead something inside of me snapped. I read the Bible in 3 months before going, and my reading gave me different impressions than what I had read in the WTS pubs all my life. Rev 1:10 really threw me for a loop since the footnote gives an alternate rendering that would throw out everything that the WTS teaches about the rest of the book of Revelation. So now I was going to base my acceptance of the society's teachings on a possibility, one of two renderings?

  Gilead worked out to be a study in ridiculous prophetic parallels of the anointed and other sheep.

  5 years past and the seeds sown in me finally sunk in.. This is not the truth...

  3 weeks ago I made this decsion to the shock of my family, but I am facing strong emotions for having wasted much of my life thus far to dedicate to a cult.

  But at least I am not wasting any more time.

  A@G
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  Parable of the Worms...

  by brunnhilde in

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  the first worm was put into a container of alcohol.

  the second worm was put into a container of cigarette smoke.

  the third worm was put into a container of chocolate syrup.. .

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  Nothing but the Blood - Chapter 6

  by daniel-p in

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  except now it wasnt just people, but life itself.

  i found comfort in the easy-going nature of my best friend who always gave me a sense that things would be alright.

  we talked about everything.

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  DP,

  You've got us on the edge of the seat each time.... At least I know you survived...

  BTW, interesting quote:

  All my life, “spiritual” activities were synonymous with self-worth. After all, faith without works was dead.

  Losing privileges in the cong therefore leads to loss of self-worth - and a faith that's dead. At least that's what happened to me...

  A@G