Posts by Joyzabel

I met Grace in PA, at one of the conferences she attended after "chatting" with her via internet. She was a remarkable woman and helped hundreds of JW's leaving the cult.

She will be remembered in my heart.

Joy

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Help Please - Finding It Hard Adjusting To The Real World

by pale.emperor in

im asking for you guys help in a phase im going through right now.

im sure it’ll pass but id appreciate your advice..

born in, my family consists of mum, dad, two brothers and two sisters.

I went and saw Snowden this weekend. Not to minimize your feelings because you are right, we go through a tremendous amount deprogramming from a cult. But seeing how a whistleblower is being treated by a mighty nation, ostracized to a foreign country, may help put in perspective your situation and realize there are others enduring worst situations.

Unfortunately it takes time to heal. And it doesn't help that you are continually dealing with family and friends still stuck in the cult. Give yourself permission to grieve and explore what is out there without guilt.

All I can say is it does get better.

Joy

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It won’t be much longer now.

by Tameria2001 in

jw
friends

a couple weeks back my husband got a phone call from his brother, whom he hasn’t spoken to in nearly 17 years.

well i take that back, he did speak to him at the family reunion, asking him to leave.

my husband basically told him to f off, he would leave when he’s darn good and ready, but he didn’t use the word darn.

Joyzabel

Last time I set foot in a KH was for my father's funeral (2003) It helped A LOT to have partaken of some peach schnapps in the parking lot 😊 Really helps with the "who cares" attitude and keeps a slight smile on your face 🍸

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Lett facial ticks from a stroke/aneurysm?

by azor in

jw
friends

i was speaking to my mom the other day.

she stays in the group to retain a relationship with the rest of our in family.

she told me that she heard from one of my brothers that the reason lett makes all those weird facial gestures has something to do with a stroke or aneurysm when he was a younger man.

Joyzabel

Stephen's mother was not deaf (but unfortunately is dead now). His daddy talked the same way. They are from Alabama. (Pioneered with the parents for 2 years in Illinois) 🤓

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Died Due To Refusing Blood Transfusion

by rrb2016 in

well, last monday my mother, a jehovah's witness since her baptism in 1968 died last week because she would not accept a blood transfusion.

she was 76 and had lung and skin cancer.

i know that the cancer would have gotten her anyway, but she was bleeding internally, and was told that she needs a blood transfusion, as her blood count went all the way down to 3.2 (should be 12-14.

Joyzabel

I'm sorry for your loss. It is hard to accept a loss because of someone's misguided faith.

Dont let the silly JW dribble about their take on life and death effect you. Have deaf ears, just smile if you have to deal with them and then get the f#ck away from them and live your life.

Give yourself permission to grieve, you can't replace a mom.

Hugs,

Joy

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the beautiful Towers hotel now for sale

by neat blue dog in

its a gorgeous building, and you should see the commercial they made for it.. http://21clarkstreet.com.

the commercial video, as well as the cool 360° vr views are available on the home page of.

https://www.watchtowerbrooklynrealestate.com.

Joyzabel

I was a housekeeper on the 2nd floor of the towers in 1975. WT was renovating the Towers and there were "worldly" people still living in it. And now they are selling it. Poor organization, they don't know who they are or what they are selling anymore about the future.

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Meet Joy Grant - Struggles of Jehovah's Witness Women

by JT-LadyC in

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Joyzabel

What? Listen to an hour interview? It better be good😱

Thank you Lady C for all your videos very good work

Joy

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Courtesy Towards Senior Bicyclists, or First Time Riding in 45 Years!

by compound complex in

jw
friends

greetings, fellow posters:.

i bought a nearly new 7-speed bicycle at a yard sale for $30 last weekend and took it out this morning on our paved local bicycle/walking trail.

the last time i rode was in my early- to mid- twenties when i used a bicycle to get to and from the kh for my pioneer service.

Joyzabel

10 years ago I was going through a very rough time in my life, hadn't been on a bike in 20+ years ( ok I can't really remember how long it was) and started riding a beach cruiser (fat tire, one gear bike) everyday for therapy. Ended up riding more and more. Changed to a hybrid (too scared of the skinny tire road bikes) and accepted a challenge from a poster on here to ride with her the STP in July 2006. That's the Seattle to Portland 200 mile ( 100 each day) bike ride. It was FANTASTIC. The scenery was spectacular, bikes were decorated in all kinds of things. It was like a rolling block party. Ended up getting a beautiful carbon fiber road bike I would ride several times a week on long distance rides. Now that I'm retired and living near a walk/bike path I've slowed down to trying to ride 6 - 10 miles a day on an e bike. It has an electric motor "hidden" in the frame and is so easy to ride up hills. 😉

Keep up the riding. You never know where it is going to take you. You meet some nice people riding their bikes 🚴

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WT's expert on blood!

by Joyzabel in

the january 8, 2000 awake magazine published an article "the growing demand for bloodless medicine and surgery".

this article has been quoted extensively by jws as support for their "scientific" justification for refusing blood products.. a quote from that article that is familiar to most jws and exjws is this one:.

“all those dealing with blood and caring for surgical patients have to consider bloodless surgery.”—dr.

Joyzabel

The January 8, 2000 Awake magazine published an article "The Growing Demand for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery". This article has been quoted extensively by JWs as support for their "scientific" justification for refusing blood products.

A quote from that article that is familiar to most JWs and exJWs is this one:

“All those dealing with blood and caring for surgical patients have to consider bloodless surgery.”—Dr. Joachim Boldt, professor of anesthesiology, Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Dr. Boldt has been exposed as a fraud.

From the British Medical Journal:

The withdrawal of almost 90 fraudulent studies by a German anaesthetist is one of the biggest medical research scandals of recent time. Jacqui Wise examines what happened and what lessons have been learnt
Joachim Boldt was a prominent German anaesthetist with an international research reputation. He was regarded as a leading specialist in intravenous fluid management and was an advocate for the use of colloids, particularly hydroxyethyl starch solutions, to boost blood volume during surgery.
However, a lengthy investigation has led to 88 out of the 102 studies that Boldt has published since 1999 being withdrawn from the medical literature. He has been found guilty of research misconduct, including failure to acquire ethical approval and fabrication of study data, and sacked from his position as professor at Klinikum Ludwigshafen, a large teaching hospital in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where he carried out his research. The retraction of such a large body of work has had far reaching effects on clinical practice, research oversight, and editorial policies.

And from The Daily Telegraph:

Millions of surgery patients at risk in drug research fraud scandal
Millions of NHS patients have been treated with controversial drugs on the basis of "fraudulent research" by one of the world's leading anaesthetists, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Joachim Boldt is at the centre of a criminal investigation amid allegations that he may have forged up to 90 crucial studies on the treatment. He has been stripped of his professorship and sacked from a German hospital following allegations about his research into drugs known as colloids.
Experts described Mr Boldt's alleged forgeries as possibly the biggest medical research scandal since Andrew Wakefield was struck off last year for falsely claiming to have proved a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
Guidelines for British anaesthetists regarding colloids – used to boost blood volume in patients undergoing surgery – are being revised after it emerged that four of the key studies on which they were based are to be formally retracted.
Mr Boldt, 57, was regarded as a leading specialist in intravenous fluid management, and his work was published widely in British medical journals.
He claimed to have proved that colloids were as safe as other, similar treatments despite earlier studies showing them to be more dangerous. Mr Boldt's alleged forgeries date back up to a decade.

Retraction Watch, a website that tracks the retraction of scientific papers, places Dr. Boldt as "second on the leader board" for number of scientific studies retracted:

Boldt’s retraction count upped to 94, co-author takes legal action to prevent 95th

...the ombudsperson has indicated the following in his letter to the journal: “In view of the inconsistencies and Dr. Boldt’s misconduct in this and many other aspects of scientific integrity, JLU recommends that journal editors retract all papers where Dr. Boldt is the responsible author even if there is no obvious indication of falsification. All articles by Dr. Boldt should be read with great caution because they may contain falsified data.”

If a person does a search for Dr. Boldt, they will find that some of Dr. Boldt's falsified research involved Jehovah's Witness patients and, his work has been used to bolster the position of "bloodless" surgery.

The Watchtower has yet to retract the damaging statement by Dr. Boldt and the quote is still used by many JWs to justify their no blood stance. Dr. Boldt's quote has no validity in the scientific world whatsoever - he is a fraud.