Exactly. When our leaders fail to be civil, it encourages the masses towards incivility.
Lee Elder
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Encouraging the nasty angels of our nature
by Lee Elder ini see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation.
reverting to tribalism and racism.
i wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-26t08%3a30%3a04&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbcnn.
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Encouraging the nasty angels of our nature
by Lee Elder ini see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation.
reverting to tribalism and racism.
i wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-26t08%3a30%3a04&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbcnn.
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I see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation. Reverting to tribalism and racism. I wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.
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Former HLC Chairman’s Confession: A victim can become guilty of harming others
by Lee Elder ina former hlc chairman, and member of ajwrb's leadership team explains how his family and others suffered from following jehovah's witness policy on blood in this new article which will have you glued to your screen.
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http://ajwrb.org/former-hlc-chairmans-confession-a-victim-can-become-guilty-of-harming-others.
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A former HLC Chairman, and member of AJWRB's leadership team explains how his family and others suffered from following Jehovah's Witness policy on Blood in this new article which will have you glued to your screen.
http://ajwrb.org/former-hlc-chairmans-confession-a-victim-can-become-guilty-of-harming-others
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Undue Influence
by Lee Elder inthis is what "undue influence" looks like.
it's how you train someone to abandon their children, become a martyr, and drink the kool-aid.
watchtower november 15, 2013. p.19, para.
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This is what "undue influence" looks like. It's how you train someone to abandon their children, become a martyr, and drink the Kool-Aid. Watchtower November 15, 2013. P.19, para. 17.
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Relative rates of mental illness
by Doug Mason ina report produced 50 years ago by a psychiatrist at a west australian mental health facility ("asylum"l reported that the mental illness rate among jws was 3 times the norm of society.
other similar studies at the time concluded the rate was much higher.. i wrote to the psychiatrist at the time, asking whether the wts attracted people who were already susceptible to mental illness or if the situation was created after the person became a jw.
he responded that they did not know.. being myopically focused on the wts at the time, but more importantly belonging to an alternative eschatological apocalyptic body at the time, i did not think more broadly.. i think that today i would like to know:.
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Lee Elder
Very complex questions.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Kicked Out Of Restaurant For Supporting Trump
by minimus ini think it’s ridiculous to kick people and families out of a restaurant because of politics.
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Lee Elder
Pretty sure that partisan spin doctors are not a protected class.
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Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?
by Sugar Shane inhere are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.
his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.
he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.
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Lee Elder
The extreme right wing of the Republican party love this nonsense. They, of course, are racists and in many cases Fascists. "Very good people" in Trump's dystopian world.
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Do You Think President Trump Is Doing a Good Job?
by minimus ini think he is.
if you don’t want to put reasons for your yes or no, it’s ok. .
your vote,please?
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Lee Elder
Comedians adore him. Endless material.
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JW Mother Rejected for taking Blood
by Lee Elder ina jehovah's witness mother was rejected for accepting blood to save her life.
this is the so called "pastoral care" given by watchtower leaders when a member violates official policy.
while the exact circumstances surrounding this particular case are not known, its bears noting that these so called "bloodless surgery" centers are often staffed and managed by active jehovah's witnesses.
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Good for you! Please tell us how the story ends.
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JW Mother Rejected for taking Blood
by Lee Elder ina jehovah's witness mother was rejected for accepting blood to save her life.
this is the so called "pastoral care" given by watchtower leaders when a member violates official policy.
while the exact circumstances surrounding this particular case are not known, its bears noting that these so called "bloodless surgery" centers are often staffed and managed by active jehovah's witnesses.
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A Jehovah's Witness mother was rejected for accepting blood to save her life. This is the so called "pastoral care" given by Watchtower leaders when a member violates official policy. While the exact circumstances surrounding this particular case are not known, its bears noting that these so called "Bloodless Surgery" centers are often staffed and managed by active Jehovah's Witnesses. If this was the case, and said members turned her in to the elders, they would have violated her medical confidentiality. The article is in Italian, and a slightly enhanced Google translation to English follows:
Jehovah's Witness accepts a blood transfusion: She was nearing death. Rejected by the community: They took my daughters. Grazia has chosen life, but this has cost her the affection of her daughters. Grazia Di Nicola was a Jehovah's Witness who chose to get away from the community after the harassment received for undergoing a transfusion, prohibited by their beliefs, in order to survive after surgery. The woman is a 48-year-old housewife, mother of four, lives in Colliano, a village in the province of Salerno. Her belief, however, almost caused her to die. After an intervention was necessary with transfusion, and she agreed not to die. An unpardonable sin for her church, so much so that Grace found herself humiliated by her "cult brothers". It was she who introduced the religion into her home, even against the initial resistance of her husband, convincing everyone (husband and then children) to attend meetings, convinced that that belief was the only possibility of salvation. When fighting against a tumor in 2016, she choose a clinic that guaranteed she woul not be transfused, but she lost a lot of blood, and the transfusion became necessary for survival. Grazia choose to live, but her choice was not forgiven by the elders, and her three daughters then repudiated her. Today the woman is living a real drama. After undergoing numerous humiliations to be re-admitted to the community after the transfusion, she decided to leave, but in this way she lost her daughters who no longer recognize her as their mother, and accuse her of having betrayed Jehovah. The daughters, except the male son who remained close to her, as FanPage also reports, live in the home of an old man and do not seem to want to regain a dialogue with the woman who is desperate not only because of the distance from the girls, but because she fears for their safety within the sect. https://www.leggo.it/italia/cronache/testimone_di_geova_trasfusione_sangue_grazia_di_nicola-3812660.html