https://youtu.be/lov1gsxj4tg?si=ze-fdc8yswirahwx.
this is a mini report on usa that includes an update on ramapo as it was delivered during the british bethel inauguration few days ago....
Beth Sarim - “…The Borg can claim ‘we never said that’…”
Not quite what they do.
They hum and haw and weasel-word, and remind the rank-and-file that “Satan’s World” is out to get “God’s People”, and can’t be trusted, etc., etc…
….and leave ‘em too scared to believe it.
Know how I know?
’Cause that was me.
Right up to the moment that I realized, “hey, they didn’t explicitly deny it…” 🤔.
blood transfusion history.
1665 the first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in england: physician richard lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.. 1818 james blundell performs the first successful blood transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum hemorrhage.. 1840 the first whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia is successfully completed.. 1900 karl landsteiner discovers the first three human blood groups, a, b and o.. 1902 landsteiner’s colleagues, alfred decastello and adriano sturli, add a fourth blood type, ab.. 1907 blood typing and cross matching between donors and patients is attempted to improve the safety of transfusions.
the universality of the o blood group is identified.. 1914 adolf hustin discovers that sodium citrate can anticoagulate blood for transfusion, allowing it to be stored and later transfused safely to patients on the battlefield.. 1932 the first blood bank is established at leningrad hospital.. 1939-1940 the rh blood group is discovered and recognized as the cause behind most transfusion reactions.. 1940 the us government establishes a nationwide blood collection program.. so from the beginning of the watchtower being printed in 1879, they were ok with blood transfusions until 1945. what caused this?
NotFormer - “…Conveniently, after Rutherford's death.”
Was chemotherapy a thing back then?
’Cause Rutherford had cancer, and that treatment involves transfusions, if I’m not mistaken.
🤔
https://youtu.be/pirwhbyd4uy?si=x3awvyv4midux8es.
“Persecution!!! Persecution!!!”
https://youtu.be/pirwhbyd4uy?si=x3awvyv4midux8es.
Funny how the Biblical apostles were never admonished to try and trick legitimate secular authorities.
If you go around jabbing folks with a stick until you get a black eye for your efforts, you’re not being “persecuted”.
You're just being an asshole.
i tried selling pre paid legal for about two yers.
hardly made a sale.
none of my friends gave a crap about it.
cyberjesus - “…MLM is the best business model there is to get fastest result. Of course you need to know how to use it.” (italics mine)
Being shady as fuck and not giving a shit if people get victimized doesn’t hurt, either.
i tried selling pre paid legal for about two yers.
hardly made a sale.
none of my friends gave a crap about it.
MLMs are just secular cults.
Why else do y’all think they attract so many fundagelicals?
blood transfusion history.
1665 the first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in england: physician richard lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.. 1818 james blundell performs the first successful blood transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum hemorrhage.. 1840 the first whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia is successfully completed.. 1900 karl landsteiner discovers the first three human blood groups, a, b and o.. 1902 landsteiner’s colleagues, alfred decastello and adriano sturli, add a fourth blood type, ab.. 1907 blood typing and cross matching between donors and patients is attempted to improve the safety of transfusions.
the universality of the o blood group is identified.. 1914 adolf hustin discovers that sodium citrate can anticoagulate blood for transfusion, allowing it to be stored and later transfused safely to patients on the battlefield.. 1932 the first blood bank is established at leningrad hospital.. 1939-1940 the rh blood group is discovered and recognized as the cause behind most transfusion reactions.. 1940 the us government establishes a nationwide blood collection program.. so from the beginning of the watchtower being printed in 1879, they were ok with blood transfusions until 1945. what caused this?
The more they could portray themselves as more “Biblical” and holy (whilst really just being contrarian), the easier it was to poach disgruntled ex-Protestants and -Catholics who’d grown tired of the “liberalizing” (really, just adapting with the times) of their original churches.
It actually reminds me a little of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”.
how many of the millions of jws know it’s not true but stay anyway?.
my guess is most jws know it’s not true on a subconscious level to an extent but they don’t want to think about it too much and would never ever voice it out loud.. but this is probably true with all religions around the world?.
The GB knows it’s wrong…
…but believes it’s True…
…at the same time.
Why would life-long loyalists with no other prospects view things any differently?
there is an item this week all about yang ones leaving school.. the two brothers go to a career advisor seminar.
one brother thinks it’s good to work hard full time while you are young and tries to encourage his friend to as well.. his friend (who is the good jw trust the gb no matter what they say)) he wants a part time job.. the video shows him dreaming about investing his money on his phone and the chart goes up, he drives a nice car and seems to be doing well financially.. then he reads the scripture in proverbs and next you see that investment chart go down in the red and he is so pleased he just got a low paid part time job.. this infuriates me.
how many of us are now struggling because we were told to get menial part time jobs and we were told the end would have been here by now.. i will never tell a young person to listen to the gb advice on this.
no-zombie - “…Thus the only reasonable, conclusion a person can make, is that the Governing Body wants control over the lives of young people, to limit their options and to make them mentally dependent upon the Organization.”
It’s nothing new.
“Keep them ignorant and dependent” was pretty much every feudal lord’s modus operandi back in Medieval times.
there is an item this week all about yang ones leaving school.. the two brothers go to a career advisor seminar.
one brother thinks it’s good to work hard full time while you are young and tries to encourage his friend to as well.. his friend (who is the good jw trust the gb no matter what they say)) he wants a part time job.. the video shows him dreaming about investing his money on his phone and the chart goes up, he drives a nice car and seems to be doing well financially.. then he reads the scripture in proverbs and next you see that investment chart go down in the red and he is so pleased he just got a low paid part time job.. this infuriates me.
how many of us are now struggling because we were told to get menial part time jobs and we were told the end would have been here by now.. i will never tell a young person to listen to the gb advice on this.
To a contemporary ultraconservative, all the things they valued and “defended” are being flushed down the toilet, and when the inherent shittiness of people in general is an integral component of your worldview, those values and defenses are held up as the only thing keeping civilization from descending overnight into the world of Mad Max.
EDIT: Ultraconservative religionists feel this way all the time.
