Back in the 80s during the AIDS scare, everybody was pretty freaked out about transfusions.
Not so much, now.
Posts by Vidiot
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13Do worldly people (never a JW) request no blood in case of emergency?
by Iamallcool injust wondering.
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The JW Business Method
by MrFreeze ini got to thinking about this today.
what other business would survive for very long if they had the jw business method?.
first, they hire on workers to sell their literature... except they don't pay them.
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Vidiot
MrFreeze - "I got to thinking about this today. What other business would survive for very long if they had the JW business method? First, they hire on workers to sell their literature... except they don't pay them. That alone would sink your business by not having the manpower. Second, they somehow actually get their workers to PAY THEM through "voluntary" donations! OUTLAW says that the WT is run by idiots but frankly, I think they are run by geniuses! How else could they manage something so ridiculous and actually get it to work?"
Truly, they must have Jehovah's blessing...
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Governing Body Autographs Gift Bibles For Cuban Authorities
by PublishingCult in"the one sacred book that thus from first to last declares its author to be jehovah god is the holy bible.
" (w60 10/1 p. 584 par.
5 the holy biblethe book by jehovahs witnesses).
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Vidiot
Ho. Lee. Shit.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it.
Good find.
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Hidden implications of Genesis
by losthobbit intoday when i read it, i see a completely different story.. the bible is completely true, or at least that's what many people believe.
when asking them which translation is true, the person might pick their favourite translation.
when asking about things that contradict, be logically incorrect, or refer to unscientific things like the four corners of the earth, one might get a response that some of it is symbolic, and not meant to be taken literally, but everything else is entirely true.. the same principle can be applied to any piece of writing.
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losthobbit - "It's probably still there... all we have to do is look for the cherubim and a flashing sword."
I just had a great idea for an Indiana Jones fanfic.
OnTheWayOut - "All JW's know that the tree of life was removed at the flood."
Slight correction; it was "evidently" removed...
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It is truly a "Dog & Pony" Show !
by Pitchess Co-Gen inmy bother ( who i don't really talk too because of a different issue with him ) and i got disfellowshipped on the same day ( 2/28/09 ).
ive been pretty inconstant when it comes to meeting attendance ( i haven't been in more than six months ), while ever sence my brother and his wife had a baby he's been super regular at the meeting ( nine months straight without missing one meeting !).
when he turned in his reinstatement letter ( by the way he moved to a new congregation ).
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sabastious - "If you have been disfellowshipped it means you were not loyal to the rules... it means you are a possible problem. That's why their reinstatement process is so grueling, they have to be sure you are not a problem anymore."
This makes the most sense from an institutional perspective; I wouldn't be surprised if an honest elder with JC experience actually admitted it, too (if asked).
I've heard elders publicly acknowledge more extreme things.
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Keeping JW's as Friends - Healthy? - New Awake Article
by GOrwell inkidding about that awake article title - i know it sounds like the title of an awake article, please forgive me :).
but seriously, do you think it's healthy to maintain friendships with people who are jehovah's witnesses?
when is it time to "move on," even if they don't seem to want to?.
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Vidiot
Actually, this sounds like a Witchtower article.
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Fight Club
by d ini love the movie fight club.the theme being that you are your own person.you do not have to bend to the will of others.what do you think about fight club?.
d.
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Vidiot
Guys, you're all breaking the first rule! Shut up!!!
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Evolution vs. Watchtower Society
by FrankWTower ina few months ago i had a part in the service meeting about evolution.
it was based on the reasoning book's entire section on the topic.
my conscience bothered me because it was the scientific method and science in general that led me to doubt my beliefs in the first place.
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Nickolas - "A fair assumption."
Umm, the part about me possibly being wrong, or the rest of it?
If you think I'm mistaken, why?
(not mad, just curious)
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Creationists . . . . hope you can laugh at yourselves.
by nicolaou in.
because i sure as hell laughed at you when i saw this!
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Vidiot
Creationists rejection of evolution is ideological, rather than scientific, despite what any of them might tell you.
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1994 Canadian TV documentary "Children of Jehovah"
by MrMonroe insorry to be a forum shopper, but just in case there's someone here that didn't read it there, i'm wanting to find anyone who remembers a tv doco produced in 1994 for the canadian "rough cuts" series of independent documentaries called "children of jehovah".. it took a devastatingly honest look at the lives of jw teens, showing them begrudgingly doing field service, revealing the tricks they pulled to boost the figures on their monthly reports and talking about what would happen to them if they left the religion.. it appears to be available for $149 as a dvd, but i wonder if anyone taped it at the time or has a copy they could, you know, share.
somehow.. it made quite an impact on me when i watched it on australia's sbs in 1995. does anyone remember it?.
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Vidiot
They've run it on PBS once or twice; maybe they will again...