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  Homeopothy

  by cofty in

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  Lion Cask

  But if someone lit the fart and fire was chasing you down the hallway I bet that would give you energy too!

  Gee, but I sure do miss Grade 6 sometimes ....
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  Arizona massacre -- Where does JW line of self defense get crossed?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witnesses are peaceful folks, just ask them.

  having been one till many years ago i used to know the stock answers to questions about that fine line between being peaceable and defending oneself.. this came to front and center during the past several days with that horrific arizona shooting where some 7 folks have lost their lives.

  it could have been more if it weren't for several onlookers ganging up on the perpetrator after he emptied the first magazine of bullets, getting ready for his spare magazine.. these onlookers instinctively became aggressive and restrained the perpetrator, one of them choking the man when needed, etc., and etc.. heroes, all of them, in my opinion.. none of them remained passive, thinking that this man wasn't really a threat to them personally so why get involved.

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  Sounds like an interesting book, TD. What's the premise of it - exposé, apology, defense or documentary?
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  JW MIL having surgery - Elders there are the "blood nazis"

  by Robert7 in

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  2. friends

  so my jw mother-in-law is having some rather major abdominal surgery today.

  given the type of surgery, there is a chance that the blood issue may come up, where in worst case if there's a loss of blood she may need a transfusion.. so in the waiting room for the entire 3 1/2 hour surgery are two elders.

  these guys don't know my mil that well, and they are not there to support her... when it comes down to it:.

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  I'm shocked though they didn't DF her, i mean, Shes a sister that ok'ed a transfusion? thats some fancy footwork to get around that!!

  It is perhaps not so shocking. The recent clarification issued on the blood doctrine (S-55-E 9/10) directed at parents whose children are in a situation that might require the use of blood appears to reinforce the strictures but on close examination seems clearly to be written by lawyers who are seeking to limit the Society's exposure to liability. Most telling are the words to the effect that the parents should seek out a cooperative doctor who will "assure parents that he will do everything he can do to avoid using blood." Read that carefully. If the parent gets that assurance and tell a doctor they are not authorizing a transfusion, they are off the hook, but if a doctor feels he has done everything he can do, then he should feel free to go the extra step and prescribe a transfusion should he deem it necessary.

  The WTS is in trouble with its blood doctrine. It changed the rules in 2000 to allow blood fractions and cited New Light for the change. The analogy used is that of someone who leaves a dark room into full sunlight and is blinded by it. Apparently, God does not want us to injure ourselves by giving us too much information all at once. But the analogy fails because the Old Light caused real harm, even deaths, to those who observed it faithfully.

  Your mother may not even know about the changes to the rules, which now allow transfusions of hemoglobin from either human or bovine donors. Check out the official Watchtower.org website and type hemoglobin into the search field. Read what it says carefully. It basically says the choice is up to the individual JW based on conscience - this is the ONLY scriptural interpetation about which I am aware that is left to the discretion of the individual.

  If you must intervene, intervene. You should not care whether or not your mother gets angry or feels she has lost her ticket to the magic kingdom because the alternative is far worse than you know. You don't know what you've got til it's gone, girl.
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  JW MIL having surgery - Elders there are the "blood nazis"

  by Robert7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my jw mother-in-law is having some rather major abdominal surgery today.

  given the type of surgery, there is a chance that the blood issue may come up, where in worst case if there's a loss of blood she may need a transfusion.. so in the waiting room for the entire 3 1/2 hour surgery are two elders.

  these guys don't know my mil that well, and they are not there to support her... when it comes down to it:.

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  One should always start off being polite, OUTLAW, before he ups the ante.

  New light for you, your mother's wishes could get her killed. In your place, I would have absolutely no respect for them. If she is angered by you saving her life, at least you have a living angry mother.
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  Arizona massacre -- Where does JW line of self defense get crossed?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witnesses are peaceful folks, just ask them.

  having been one till many years ago i used to know the stock answers to questions about that fine line between being peaceable and defending oneself.. this came to front and center during the past several days with that horrific arizona shooting where some 7 folks have lost their lives.

  it could have been more if it weren't for several onlookers ganging up on the perpetrator after he emptied the first magazine of bullets, getting ready for his spare magazine.. these onlookers instinctively became aggressive and restrained the perpetrator, one of them choking the man when needed, etc., and etc.. heroes, all of them, in my opinion.. none of them remained passive, thinking that this man wasn't really a threat to them personally so why get involved.

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  Put all this into the context of the OT massacres and genocides at the hands of God's chosen people. Hypocrisy.
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  JW MIL having surgery - Elders there are the "blood nazis"

  by Robert7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my jw mother-in-law is having some rather major abdominal surgery today.

  given the type of surgery, there is a chance that the blood issue may come up, where in worst case if there's a loss of blood she may need a transfusion.. so in the waiting room for the entire 3 1/2 hour surgery are two elders.

  these guys don't know my mil that well, and they are not there to support her... when it comes down to it:.

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  Have you considered politely asking them what they're doing there and then asking them to leave? In your place I would be making it uncomfortable for them, asking them pointed questions about the blood policy, like the number of people who died needlessly before the changes that were effected in 2000, like the dead kids on the cover of the May 22, 1994 Awake! magazine.
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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
  2. current

  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Here's a bit of an apropos eye openner.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
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  Adam's sin

  by The Finger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today if i think of the flesh and how i would like to sin i firstly think of sex.

  adultery.

  then i think of drunkeness and gambling and gluttonly ect.

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  Acid, maybe?
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  Does God Create Evil?

  by rvalich in

  1. watchtower
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  the view held by christian theology is that god did not create evil.

  you may argue this point using scripture to support either side.

  however that argument is but a symptom of a much larger problem which is choice and free will.. the concept among christians is that sin, suffering, and evil deeds began with the original sin.

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  Your question presumes two givens. One, that God exists and two, that capital-E Evil exists.

  Whether the motive is greed, lust, fear, hatred, pleasure or just plain survival men do evil because it is inate. In an effort to reconcile the disconnect between the perceived existence of a higher power and the evil done by men it was necessary for man to create a story about how Evil came into a perfect world created by a Good God. And that's what it is. A story. If only people would really analyse it, they would realise how irrational and nonsensical it is.

  The answer is no.
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  Adam's sin

  by The Finger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today if i think of the flesh and how i would like to sin i firstly think of sex.

  adultery.

  then i think of drunkeness and gambling and gluttonly ect.

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  Lion Cask

  Its the Rusty Nails.

  And here I thought it was the shrooms.