Posts by JeffT

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1961047#h=16:285-23:710. we may also safely conclude that angels, god’s spirit messengers, travel at tremendous speeds.

thus once when daniel began to pray, god dispatched an angel to him in answer to his prayer.

this angel, although coming from beyond the realms of outer space, reached daniel before he had concluded his prayer.—dan.

Do angels have mass? If not, then they can travel at infinite speeds. Since the WTBS says they don't have physical bodies, I would take that to mean they have no mass and get from one place to another instantly.

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Questions About the Watchtower's View on Blood Transfusions.

by Pallbearer in

i admit to not being very well informed about the watchtower's view on blood transfusions.

i have a couple of questions that i hope someone here is able to answer.. i understand that the watchtower now considers it to be okay to receive blood fractions.. my first question is: are all fractions considered to be permissible?

and if not, specifically which fractions are not permissible?.

JeffT

The Watchtower's position on blood is also unscientific. Medicine does not recognize "major" vs "minor" components of blood. Transfusions of whole blood are relatively rare these days. Current practice is to give you the component you need.

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Who In The Hell Is This Guy?

by The Bethelite in

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i got this pm from edgar james adams.

hello my fellow brethren!.

i am trying to educate people about the positive influence that jehovah's witnesses can have on humanity and on my local community in general!

JeffT

Who in the bleep names their kid Edgar?

Jose and Christina Salgado Martinez. Their son Edgar was just inducted into the baseball hall of fame.

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If You Could Pick Just One Title Of A Song That Would Describe Your Life

by The Bethelite in

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what would it be?.

mine would be "rocket man" by elton john.

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JeffT

"We're not gonna take it" from the Rock Opera Tommy, if I had to pick one. With out that restriction I'd say the whole album. It came out before I was assimilated (I was about to graduate High School), and I always like the music. Since I left the WTBS I've thought the salvation via pinball meme was a good allegory for trying to sell enough Watchtowers.

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Disaster Preparedness Training - WTF is that?

by wannabefree in

i'm making plans for next weekend and my wife says she's not available saturday.

"is there an assembly?

" i asked.. no, disaster preparedness course (or something like that) at the kingdom hall.. is this new?

JeffT

I also remember what Spiral said. When I became a Dub in 1973 people at the KH were making fun of Mormons and the like for their disaster plans. The JW plan then consisted entirely of "Trust in Jehovah." Apparently, they are making more concrete plans now.

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The idiots Hollyweird destroys the Bond Franchise

by rockemsockem in

99% of the people who go to bond films want a straight white english bond with a bit of light sexism and some bond girls thrown in.

they do not want a tranny bond or a gay or lesbian bond.

and they do not want a black woman bond.

JeffT

The original James Bond (the one in Ian Fleming's books) is a product of the fifties: he drinks martinis 24/7, drives an exotic car, regards every woman in the world as a sex object, and fights communists for a living. He's the kind of man that teenage boys wanted to be when they grew up, its the same image of the world that Hugh Hefner conjured up in the pages of Playboy.

For all our current problems, that world is fortunatly a thing of the past, and I don't think the character can be translated into today's world. His doctor would lecture him about his drinking, he couldn't afford the car on a government salary, and every woman he spoke to would slap him and file a harrassment suit. .

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The idiots Hollyweird destroys the Bond Franchise

by rockemsockem in

99% of the people who go to bond films want a straight white english bond with a bit of light sexism and some bond girls thrown in.

they do not want a tranny bond or a gay or lesbian bond.

and they do not want a black woman bond.

JeffT

Nathan, I'll take a look. I like Daniel Craig. On of my problems was that I don't think I've ever seen Pierce Brosnan in anything I liked. The man just grates on my nerves.

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READ: Watchtower's SCOTUS petition

by Corney in

on june 25, 2019 watchtower ny filed petition for a writ of certiorari in the u.s. supreme court.

the society asks to reconsider a $4 million judgment against it in a california child abuse case.

docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-40.html .

JeffT

I think the WTBS has shot itself in the foot.

I did some research on clergy-penitent privilige. The definition of "clergy" is up in the air, Watchtower elders may not qualify. If the Court takes this case this will likely be one of the arguments.

The bigger problem is that the Watchtower has told elders to report child abuse in states where they are required to do so. This can be taken as evidence that they don't have any deep seated doctrinal problem about doing so. All, or almost all, states now have some version of mandatory reporting. I don't think the WTBS can now claim that doesn't apply to them, they've already admitted it does.