as a jw would you have allowed your pet to have a blood transfusion to save it's life?
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what is the society's stand on this today?.
Atlantis - QFR - The Bible is very clear in showing that blood should not be eaten.
Such loaded language those scum suckers use.
Let's be fair. If you ask the WBT$ anything except, 'can I give you money and goods?' or 'should we protect and hide child abusers?'. Their answer is usually, 'No!'
sadly the wt failed to teach fundamental biblical doctrines.
i did never really understand the doctrine about ransom while i was still in the congregation.. i did not either understand what it really means that "god is love" as stated in the bible.
i did not either understand from the wt what is love.
I tried to put my own document together once. It was simply going to be about who the Apostles and Disciples were. A potted history of them as people.
I went to the WT Library disc and what did I find?
Not a lot of any use. Just, 'do more in the ministry(tm)'. Give us more money.
Perhaps I should have realised that all the info I needed was in the Bible itself. that's when I read it on it's own without watchtower(tm) goggles. What a huge difference. The WT Library really depressed me.
So much for 'accurate knowledge(TM)!
judging by some forum comments and tweets, it seems like some female exjw's feel they are being ignored or excluded from things.
i thought i'd share my views.
what could possibly go wrong .... first, i think it's unfair to post and judge people based on a private chat shared without permission and posted without context.
I feel like I've missed out on all the action here.
Probably best.....
i know this subject has been talked about lots over the years, just thought i would share a recent finding from canada.. while visiting with a group of friends, an elder (don’t recall how the subject came up) mentioned the local body had voted to allow brothers with beards be allowed to give talks from the platform.
(it was a very close vote).
the direction given was for each congregation to decide for themselves if that is now acceptable.. so some congregations will be for, and for many it will not.. it’ll probably be a long time before we see any pictures on the watchtower where they’re allowing this though..
I would imagine the WTBT$ relish their control. However, if by allowing beards, they get more money to get sozzled on fine whiskey whilst protecting their like minded child abusers, they'll allow it.
Otherwise, their favourite word is NO.
the last 2 1/2 years have been extremely stressful.
while the rest of the world was dealing with covid, i was also dealing with cancer.
in fact it seems none of my doctors knew about it.
what’s the world coming to?
(i guess this makes me officially an older while male now ).
It's another boring buzzword.
for argument sake let’s assume that this verse should apply to 1914. what are your thoughts on generation?.
Hello, Sir Fish. I hope all is well with you.
Whatever my views, I don't think they 'overlap(tm)'.
As for 1914, I see no significance there. When I left the Jobots and became a mainstream Christian, I got the impression from this text as being more about the generation alive up to the Romans and Masada and all that stuff because they saw it.
Now, it's pretty meaningless to me. I'm more inclined to a Buddhist-lite version of life.
I've got an idea. Destroy all publications(tm).
i am reading a lot on quora digest about this chap joel osteen.
i and other brits have said that he is hardly known in the uk .
it has been asserted that he is filling stadiums over here.
It's a shame people take these frauds for real.
...although a lot of us were Jobots.
i would like to collect as many instances of watchtower dishonesty and pretense as possible.
here is one from a bulgarian as an example of what i'm looking for.. are jehovah's witnesses disfellowshipped for receiving blood in a hospital?.
helge fauskanger writes: "if witnesses can’t convince the elders that they are utterly “repentant” for this vampiric lapse of theirs, they will be held to have disassociated themselves from the religion — even if they never said a word about wanting to leave it!
Vandy - I am having an ongoing discussion with a JW...........
How tedious and frustrating for you.
