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  Prayers that God answers. Any examples?

  by punkofnice in

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  when i believed in god i tried not to pray for anything selfish.. after a while i began to think that a lot of things i was asking my imaginary friend in the sky for were selfish for some reason.. i do not ever remember a single thing i prayed for ever being answered.

  if there was the appearance of an answer it was because i did mental gymnastics to make it fit the delusion that god had actually answered me.

  there was never an obvious message/answer from god.

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  Mary

  PunkofNice asked: Any one here believe they ever had a prayer answered in an obvious way?

  I'll let you know just as soon as I check my lottery tickets from Wednesday night.
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  How many victims of the blood issue do you know?

  by refiners fire in

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  2. friends

  i knew two personally, in my congo.

  i suspect this is pretty rare.

  not that man people die of refusing a blood transfussion i think.

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  My father nearly died twice because of the ban on blood transfusions. The second time he was saved ironically because of me being on this site. At the time he was admitted to the hospital, he had not signed his blood card yet (thank god). When the doctor heard he was a JW, he looked horrified and said to my mother and me "you realize he is probably going to die if he doesn't get a blood transfusion." I told the doctor that there were some things that JWs were allowed to take now and he said "is plasma one of them?" I thought it was and I said "I think so". He didn't bother waiting till we knew for sure and he administered the plasma which saved my father's life.

  My brother-n-law died just over 4 years ago in part due to the ban on blood. He had a particularly horrific form of leukemia and there was no way he was going to survive it without blood transfusions keeping his counts up until he could get the stem cell transplant. With his red and white counts bottoming out, the idiots at the hospital administered a very concentrated bag of septra to him 2 days in a row (it was supposed to be diluted and it wasn't). Because his lungs were starting to break down because of the lack of oxygen, the septra went to the weakest part of his body---his lungs---and fried them. He was in a drug induced coma for a month before he died.

  Even if the hospital hadn't screwed up, he would have been dead within a month or two anyway. With his red count being down to 71 (which is less than half of what it should be), there wasn't enough oxygen being circulated in his lungs and the tissue was breaking down. He eventually would have had a heart attack from lack of oxygen and died.

  How these pricks at Crooklyn sleep at night knowing that this damn doctrine is needlessly murdering their own people is beyond me.
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  Justitia passes bar!!!

  by crmsicl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yay...my awesome friend justitia just found out last night she passed the bar exam.

  regardless of how you may feel about her you gotta admit that is an accomplishment..

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  Am just seeing this now. Fantastic news Justita!!
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  The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.

  by THE GLADIATOR in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  january 2014 watchtower study article.

  let your kingdom comebut when?.

  this generation will not pass away.

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  Bookmarked for later. (Assuming 'this generation' is still here.....)
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  this week's wt study

  by thedog1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i conducted the wt study tonight on higher education.

  i wondered what the reaction of the bros and sis would be.

  there was no deviation from the idea that a university education is not a good idea.

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  "Higher education The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, with its emphasis on academic study limited education and unquestioning obedience, often produces graduates followers who have few or no practical skills, leaving them unprepared to deal with the realities of life."

  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
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  HOW DE JUDGE STOLE CHRISTMAS.....

  by Mary in

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  de judge hated christmas!

  "i must find a way to keep christmas from coming!".

  i must stop christmas from coming!

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  It's that time of year again to bump de Judge.
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  "Building 1.5 Million Square Feet in 4 Years will NOT Happen Without Jehovah's Spirit"

  by Yan Bibiyan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a quote from the latest jw video pimping the warwick project.

  link below, quote @7:30 mark.. http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/construction/video-world-headquarters-jehovahs-witnesses-history-warwick/.

  i call bullshit!.

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  "Building 1,500,000 Square Feet in 4 Years will NOT Happen Without Jehovah's Spirit"

  That must mean the Vatican had Jehovah's spirit when it was built as it is comprised of 5,575,680 sq ft.
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  So are Republicans now openly terrorists?

  by Simon in

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  they seem determined to undermine the us democracy and shut the government down hurting employees and veterans.. what a despicable bunch, hope they get their asses kicked for what they are doing..

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  One of the great myths shoved down our throats is the 'free market' unincummbered by government regulation will establish fair and true values, humans are way to greedy dishonest and corrupt.

  Amen . And for further information on the subject, please google "Enron".

  a free market + unbridled greed and corruption - government regulations = disaster.
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  250,000 Jehovah's Witnesses have died refusing blood

  by nicolaou in

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  2. medical

  80+ branch davidian cult members died in waco, texas.

  250,000+ #jehovahswitnesses have died refusing blood.

  stop this #cult!

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  Mary

  The only thing I can say, is that the blood doctrine nearly cost my father his life twice, and it ended up costing my brother in law his life 4 years ago. The figure of 250,000 is not unreasonable IMO, but the problem is that the refusal to accept a transfusion is quite often, the catalyst that causes something else to happen which ultimately causes the death. In my brother in law's case, refusing a blood transfusion was not listed as the reason he died, even though it was directly responsible for his demise. The official version is that he died from cancer, so anyone outside the family is not going to know the roll that this damn doctrine actually played.

  I imagine that the same scenario has been played a thousand times over the last 50 years.
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  AGM Release: The New, Improved New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

  by Oubliette in

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  2. humour

  this just in from the annual meeting: a new release of the new, improved new world translation of the holy scriptures.

  (reposted from http://m.imgur.com/a/crap8):.

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  Mary

  OMG, that was hilarious!

  My sister went to the um 'special meeting' on Saturday. I guess only those who have been duped---I mean dunked, could attend and no kids were allowed either. I guess you had to leave them with worldly people for the day.