Posts by leavingwt

at the last district assembly, each time they gave the announcments they said, "if anyone would like to sign up for bethel service, go to the attenance desk".. they have just released over 1100 workers and they are asking for more volunteers?

anyone else had that question?

are there any here who were dismissed from bethel just recently and know the answer?

leavingwt

so I wouldn't say it's young unskilled workers that they want.

Agreed. They need both types of workers.

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Bedroom Laws

by gumby in

i found an interesting site on you tube i thought some of the newer ones here might enjoy.

i myself had forgotten about a very serious matter that the wtbts had allowed for about 10 years that tore apart families regarding sexual practices amoung married couples, then changed their policy with no apologies to all those whose lives were tore apart.. here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlj9fmjgvri&nr=1.

leavingwt

Can you say, "Cult"?

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Update: I got a new job!

by Nosferatu in

jw
friends

in my last post, i mentioned how i basically had a foot in the door for an hvac job with pretty good benefits although it was for $2 less per hour.

today, i got a call back from a job i interviewed for about two months ago.

the job is for $2 more per hour than what i'm making, company vehicle, 3 weeks vacation on start, a blackberry, and it's somewhat related to the electronics field... i'll be fixing electric wheelchairs :) .

leavingwt

Woo-hoo!

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Organ transplants...cannibalism?

by hubert in

jw
friends

i had heard that in the 1960's, the watchtower society forbade organ transplants, based on the bible stating it was cannibalism.. is there anything in writing in any of their books or cd library that verifies that stance?.

can you give me a list of where i can find this material?.

thanks so much.. hubert.

leavingwt

Watchtower, November 15, 1967, page 702, Question from Readers

Humans were allowed by God to eat animal flesh and to sustain their human lives by taking the lives of animals, though they were not permitted to eat blood. Did this include eating human flesh, sustaining one’s life by means of the body or part of the body of another human, alive or dead? No! That would be cannibalism, a practice abhorrent to all civilized people. Jehovah clearly made a distinction between the lives of animals and the lives of humans, mankind being created in God’s image, with his qualities. (Gen. 1:27) This distinction is evident in His next words. God proceeded to show that man’s life is sacred and is not to be taken at will, as may be done with the animals to be used for food. To show disrespect for the sanctity of human life would make one liable to have his own life taken.—Gen. 9:5, 6.

When there is a diseased or defective organ, the usual way health is restored is by taking in nutrients. The body uses the food eaten to repair or heal the organ, gradually replacing the cells. When men of science conclude that this normal process will no longer work and they suggest removing the organ and replacing it directly with an organ from another human, this is simply a shortcut. Those who submit to such operations are thus living off the flesh of another human. That is cannibalistic. However, in allowing man to eat animal flesh Jehovah God did not grant permission for humans to try to perpetuate their lives by cannibalistically taking into their bodies human flesh, whether chewed or in the form of whole organs or body parts taken from others.

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