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  Danger Witness Robinson! Danger!!!

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  danger witness robinson!

  danger!!!

  today i added a new article to my blog highlighting the danger of power consolidation along with an overt attempt to ready millions for obeying irrational direction from this power.

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  Teleologist

  What happened to Marvin's blog? It seems to have disappeared.
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  So...why is taking blood essentially viewed as unforgivable by the WT?

  by sd-7 in

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  2. medical

  been hearing about this 'grey's anatomy' episode, and while i didn't see it, it brought up a question i wanted to throw out there, albeit a long-winded one, as is my usual nature.. the fact that people would rather die than take blood, as if...if they take it, they're doomed for sure to not make the new system--it doesn't make sense to me.

  people both in the organization and the bible stories are forgiven for heinous crimes, murder, adultery, child sacrifice, everything up to and including denying jesus altogether.

  (let's not forget child molestation and rape, apparently...) so why does it seem like this one act is presented to jws as one that's never to be forgiven?.

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  Blondie wrote: Between 1967 and 1980, jws would not have an organ transplant,, it was cannibalism.

  Yes, and now the Watchtower Society views blood as an organ and a blood transfusion as an organ transplant but still argues that having a blood transfusion is the same as eating blood even though they don't claim that having a kidney transplant is the same as eating a kidney.
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  Watchtower Letter Shows Blood Doctrine Is False

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  see my blog article titled.

  watchtowers answer shows blood doctrine is false.

  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2010/09/watchtowers-answer-shows-blood-doctrine.html.

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  We do not abstain from objects themselves, we abstain from specific acts done in connection with these objects. For example, what does "abstain from alcohol" mean? Does it mean to not have anything to do with alcohol? Devoid of any context it is impossible to tell. It could mean not using alcohol in one specific way while allowing other uses of alcohol. For instance, it could mean not drinking alcohol but allowing its use as an antiseptic. Likewise with "abstain from blood." It could mean not eating blood but allow for other uses of blood that don't involve eating it.

  The bare statement "abstain from blood" devoid of any context is ambiguous. How does one comply with it? Though short, the statement fails to stipulate what blood must be abstained from, and it fails to stipulate what abstention (or abstentions) is required. Are we to abstain from looking at, thinking about, touching, smelling, or talking about blood? By itself the statement is impossible to follow for it is impossible to universally "abstain from blood." Afterall, our very lives are dependent on the blood flowing through our veins. If the abstention is not universal then we are forced to look elsewhere in applicable scripture to see how Christians should abide by the Apostolic Decree to abstain from blood. If one does that it becomes clear that the blood Christians are required to abstain from is the blood of slaughtered animals and the abstention required is not eating this blood.
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  Blood Fractions

  by alice.in.wonderland in

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  someone is pressing me about blood fractions on an unrelated thread, so i just moved the topic to an appropriate location.. "the point for me in every thread you touch is your sickening dishonesty and nauseating apologies for the old men in brooklyn who tell you what to do.. they have told you that products made from blood don't use blood, and you are so corrupt and gullible you just accept it.".

  i accept any bible-based religion that adheres to the bible as its authority.. the purpose of this magazine, the watchtower, is to honor jehovah god, the supreme ruler of the universe.

  just as watchtowers in ancient times enabled a person to observe developments from afar, so this magazine shows us the significance of world events in the light of bible prophecies.

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  Teleologist

  Blood fractions are derived from the donated blood supply. Using from the donated blood supply is contrary to abstaining from blood.