When my wife leaves the mags just hanging around, I take a purple highlighter and highlight all the May have been, could have been, evidently so...
That sounds like a pretty good drinking game, thanks!
serenitynow!
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they are gettin better and better at ludicrous
by booby inso jesus regularly attended meetings for worship (they don't specify which kingdom hall) and may have been thinking about psalm 40:6-8 (in the new world translation i suppose).
7 jesus showed his keen interest in spiritual things by regularly attending meetings for.
worship.
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they are gettin better and better at ludicrous
by booby inso jesus regularly attended meetings for worship (they don't specify which kingdom hall) and may have been thinking about psalm 40:6-8 (in the new world translation i suppose).
7 jesus showed his keen interest in spiritual things by regularly attending meetings for.
worship.
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"Snowbird, if you still believe in all that jesus stuff then you're no better than the witnesses & no brighter."
That was unnecessarily mean, offensive and rude. Do you speak to people like that face-to-face?
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Does anyone else feel like an alien?
by bluecanary inyou guys remember the show third rock from the sun?
if you don't, a group of aliens take on human bodies and pose as a family on earth.
they try to fit in but get things wrong and hilarity ensues.. yesterday my family celebrated easter.
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I felt like an alien going to a church. Couldn't bring myself to sing or take communion. i just felt retarded.
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What Stupid Things Were You Counseled For?
by minimus ini've always been told that i have a very good personality, that i'm humorous, etc.. one elder called me over and said that i was "smiling too much".
the other elders talked to the elder who counseled me and he came back to say that i should be like i was .
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Skirt too tight on my butt. From some creepy brother, who told it to my father, who told me. Of course I was in my 20s, definitely out of my father's house, so he couldn't tell me what to wear. And something about a man telling a woman something like that is just unseemly to me. I felt like the brother needed to stop looking at my butt, maybe he wouldn't be so offended!
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addicted
by Adrianoblue innow, this is something i never ever confessed to anyone.
but i feel the urge to admit that i am addicted, and i am fighting and struggeling every single day for the "good fight".. i havent taken anything for a long time now, so really i am clean.
but i am felling the addiction increasing every day.
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My sister is in AA, and swears by it. You should go so that you can get a sponsor and support. Going it alone is not working for you. You should also see a therapist and a psychiatrist about the depression which is making the desire to get high worse. Get support through AA/or other appropriate group and therapist and psychiatrist NOW.
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Current Elder's Book
by chron82 indoes anyone have or know where i can get a scanned in version of the current elder's book?.
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Did it say what the rationale is for removal d/t martial arts? i have got to read that book.
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Generation & "Even when you don't understand/feel uncomfortable with it..."
by nextdoorgirl ini had been getting my hope up that this new generation teaching wouldn't make sense and cause my jw friends and family to wake up.i even asked my mom to explain the new generation teaching, but she didn't even know what i meant!
slept through that meetin'?
anyway, i had to tell her the march 15 wt, (which i studied thanks to the comments provided here on this wonderful board!
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I wish you the best nextdoorgirl with helping your mom see the light. i dear my mom is a lost cause cause of her mental illness.
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serenitynow!
Depends on many factors- does the person have a history of bleeding disorders, liver disease, kidney disease, pregnant, what other meds a person is taking, medication allergies?
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Refuting JW claims that blood hurts people
by Mad Sweeney inon a thread somewhere else a dub posted:.
finally, on the blood issue.
for us, it is a moral question.
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You're right leavingwt. This person has used fallacies. What he/she is trying to do is say "hey blood is dangerous anyway" instead of making the argument about whether or not blood transfusions are scriptural. The reason why JWs refuse blood has nothing to do with blood not being safe, or not being effective. The person needs to focus on talking about the real reason he/she refuses blood.
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Refuting JW claims that blood hurts people
by Mad Sweeney inon a thread somewhere else a dub posted:.
finally, on the blood issue.
for us, it is a moral question.
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http://www.bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/; http://www.jhoonline.org/
Here are a couple of examples of professional journal sites I found online. Search "haematology." Personally, I would not put a lot of time and effort poring through professional journals to prove something to someone stupid enough to make such an ignorant, blatantly erroneous comment. A person like that does not realize that they need evidence to back his/her statement up; the research would be lost on such a person.
I know that the last time I looked at watchtower.org about their position on blood they had references in some cases to medical journals from the 80s. It's ironic, JWs constantly change doctrines, and their understanding of the scriptures, but when it comes to medical research, they are more than content to hang on to blurbs in 20 year old texts (probably taken out of context in the first place) and not acknowledge the advancements of medical science. In medicine, a person can't just spout off 20 year old research like it's gospel and totally ignore current advancements being made.
They won't look at current journals regarding blood because the evidence will show that blood is very safe. Unless that JW is referring possibly to people getting tranfusions in 3rd world countries, he is just dumb. I have administered blood to many patients, and I have never seen a serious blood reaction. The reason is because the way that the blood is tested, and the potential recipient is tested makes the chances of a person getting diseased blood, or the wrong type minimal. There are also very stringent rules in place in order to monitor transfused patients so that if an adverse reaction should occur, we can intervene immediately.