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WTS/UN UPDATE - IMPORTANT
by hawkaw inthere has been some more progress on the united nations front and getting more evidence to you very nice people.. for your information i have located an ngo in toronto who houses a small library of quarterly reports that dpi sent to the various ngos.
this is my first time i have ever seen these and i will have them going back at least 10 plus years.
my previous ngo friends had offices in new york and thus, did not have these - nor was i aware i could get my hands on them.
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BREASTFEEDING IS EATING BLOOD!
by metatron intell every witness sister!
warn every pregnant publisher!.
don't breastfeed your kids!
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bluesapphire
In a single post you've just devastated the sexual confidence of all the men here who've never made their wifes breats squirt milk.
Questions, so many questions ..................
Nic'
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JW...No Blood..Dies.. Murder Conviction Stands
by MadApostate innorth carolina court of appeals.
filed: 2 november 1999. state of north carolina v. theondray ozell welch, defendant.
1. homicide--proximate cause--victim's refusal to accept blood transfusion--not intervening cause of death.
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Mad A'
I'll take time to digest this and respond later but for now, do you have a link to this item I can use at the DNC site?
Thanks,
Nic'
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BREASTFEEDING IS EATING BLOOD!
by metatron intell every witness sister!
warn every pregnant publisher!.
don't breastfeed your kids!
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I've posted this a few times but what the heck, let's get it out again...
BLOOD
REFERENCES(EA) The Encyclopaedia Americana (International Edition) Volume 4 1981
(NEB) The New Encyclopaedia Britannica 1998 Edition
(ECT) Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology Volume 4 Fourth Edition 1992
(CE) Colliers Encyclopaedia Volume 4 1997 Edition
(EE) Everyman’s Encyclopaedia Volume 2 Sixth Edition 1978(Publications listed above are available from the Reference Section of most libraries.)
From the HEALTH-CARE ADVANCE DIRECTIVE:
(2) I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. On the basis of my firmly held religious convictions (see Acts 15:28,29) and on the basis of my desire to avoid the numerous hazards and complications of blood transfusions, I absolutely REFUSE allogenic blood (another persons blood); stored autologous blood (my own stored blood); the blood components red cells, white cells, platelets and blood plasma; and blood-derived haemoglobin preparations (human or animal) under any and all circumstances, no matter what the consequences. This refusal is not to be overridden by a purported consent of a spouse, relative or other person or body.
(3) With respect to minor blood fractions or blood products containing minor blood fractions, according to my conscience I ACCEPT: [Initial one of the three choices below.]
(a) NONE.
(b) ALL.
(c) SOME. That is, I ACCEPT: [initial choice(s) below]Products that may have been processed with or contain small amounts of albumin (e.g., streptikonase, and some recombinant products [such as erythropoietin (EPO, epoetin-a) and synthesised clotting factors], and some radionuclide scan preparations may contain albumin).
Immunoglobulins (e.g., Rhesus immune globulin [Anti-D], gammaglobulin, horse serum, snake bite anti-venoms).
Clotting factors (e.g., fibrinogen, Factors VII, VIII, IX, XII).
Other:
White Cells (Leukocytes)
In the Awake! 22/10/1990 page 4 there is an illustration detailing 'The Main Components of Blood'.
White Cells are noted as making up only 1/10th of 1 percent (0.1) of the volume of blood*.Why isn't this classed as a minor fraction?
Also, The Encyclopaedia Americana (International Edition, 1981) states,
"white blood cells are capable of moving about independently and are not merely carried by the bloodstream. They can also move out of the bloodstream".
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (1998 Edition) states that,
"Most of the leukocytes are outside the circulation, and the few in the bloodstream are in transit from one site to another".
This means that if a brother accepts an organ transplant (which is permitted), he will receive into his body many times more white cells than if he had them as a transfusion (which is not permitted).
Consider also that fractions like albumin have been deemed a matter of conscience on the consideration that such pass naturally from mother to child in the womb. However leukocytes also pass naturally from mother to child during breastfeeding, particularly in the first few days when colostrum is produced. On this matter, La Leche League International state,
"Colostrum also contains high concentrations of leukocytes, protective white cells which can destroy disease-causing bacteria and viruses".
The highly respected British Medical Association in their Complete Family Health Encyclopaedia state on page 291 under the heading 'COLOSTRUM',
"It has a high content of lymphocytes (white blood cells) and immunoglobulins, which help protect the baby from infection".
Why then are white cells not approved of by the Society for transfusion?
Platelets (Thrombocytes)
Again, NEB states,
"The blood platelets are the smallest cells of the blood, averaging two to four micrometres in diameter. Although much more numerous (150,000 - 400,000 per cubic millimetre) than the white cells, they occupy a much smaller fraction of the volume of the blood because of their relatively minute size".
EA puts platelet size smaller still at just "1 to 2 microns in diameter".
Why then aren't platelets classed as a minor fractions?
In the Questions from Readers article in the 10/1/94 issue of The Watchtower, the question raised was,
"Would it be proper to accept a vaccination or some other medical injection containing albumin derived from human blood"?
The first line of the response was, "Frankly, each Christian must personally decide on this". (The article then discussed the matter in detail and made the following observation,) "Currently a small amount of albumin is also used in injections of the synthetic hormone EPO (erythropoietin). Some Witnesses have accepted injections of EPO because it can hasten red blood cell production and so may relieve a physician of the feeling that a blood transfusion might be needed".
Why then are platelets prohibited?
The New Encyclopaedia Brittanica states that,
"The effect of the platelet response is to stop the bleeding and to form the site of the developing blood clot, or thrombus. If platelets are absent, this important defense reaction cannot occur, and protracted bleeding from small wounds (prolonged bleeding time) results".
Surely efficient clotting and reduced bleeding time would 'relieve a physician of a feeling that a transfusion might be needed'.
Blood Plasma
The Awake! article mentioned above states that,
"Plasma [makes up] about 55 percent of the blood. It is 92 percent water; the rest is made up of complex proteins, such as globulins [includes immunoglobulins], fibrinogens, and albumin".
NEB agrees with this and fills in some of the details. It states,
"The liquid portion of the blood, the plasma, is a complex solution containing more than 90 percent water. The water of the plasma is freely exchangeable with that of body cells and other extra cellular fluids and is available to maintain the normal state of hydration of all tissues. The major solute of plasma is a heterogeneous group of proteins constituting about 7 percent of the plasma by weight".
EA defines this portion of the plasma as 8 percent and states,
"The three principal plasma proteins are albumin, globulin and fibrinogen".
Whether 7 or 8 percent, this portion of the plasma (about 3.7 percent of the volume of blood), is comprised entirely of elements, which are approved of by the Society for transfusion.
The plasma is prohibited but its ingredients are approved!
TABLE 1. THE CONSTITUENTS OF PLASMA (in milligrams per 100 millilitres)
(Taken from Colliers Encyclopaedia, Volume 4, 1997 page 263)The chart below details every component contained within the water that makes up human plasma. Not ONE component is forbidden from use by the Society. Even the water is permitted as ‘saline’.
Sodium 310 - 340
Potassium 14 - 20
Calcium 9 - 11
Phosphorus 3 - 4.5
Chloride 350 - 375
Glucose 60 - 100
Urea 10 - 20
Uric Acid 3 - 6
Cholesterol 150 - 280IF EVERY COMPONENT OF PLASMA CAN BE TAKEN WITHOUT SANCTION, WHY IS THE PLASMA ITSELF FORBIDDEN?
PLASMA PROTEINS 6000 – 8000
Albumin 3500 – 4500
Globulin 1500 – 3000
Fibrinogen 200 – 600
Carbon Dioxide 55 – 65(Volume in millilitres, corrected for temperature and pressure, per 100 millilitres plasma)
Storage
In respect of albumin and immunoglobulins, very many litres of stored blood are needed to produce the small amounts of approved products. For example, to produce enough globulin for a single vaccination jab almost 3 litres of stored blood are needed. (See Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology, Volume 4, Fourth Edition 1992)
This is more blood than a patient would normally get from a transfusion and remember that the globulins have been taken from FFP (fresh frozen plasma), which is stored blood.The Society has also approved Factors VIII and IX.
But to produce enough of these products to keep just one haemophiliac alive would mean taking components from thousands of litres of stored blood.How do we reconcile this? Why is it that we are allowed to make use of the stored blood of an anonymous donor, but aren't allowed to use our own stored blood?
If we can make use of stored donated blood in this way, why, as stated in the ‘Advance Medical Directive’, are we required to "absolutely REFUSE-stored autologous blood"?
It has been noted by the Society with respect to albumin, that as Jehovah's creation allows for this component to pass naturally from mother to child, it could be considered appropriate to duplicate this transfer via an injection or other means for medical purposes.
What of Jehovah's creation with respect to blood and its storage outside of the circulatory system?
Please note the following quote from 'Biology, a Functional Approach' 4th Edition 1998 page 208,"(11) Storing blood. The veins in the liver have great powers of expansion and contraction, to such an extent that the total volume of blood in the liver can vary from 300 cm3 to 1500 cm3. This enables the liver to serve as a blood reservoir. Along with the spleen, it can regulate the amount of blood in the general circulation".
If Jehovah's creation allows for the removal and storage of blood outside of the circulatory system could it not be considered appropriate to duplicate this for medical purposes?
Notes:
The Society may be mistaken in assigning to white cells such a low value for volume (0.1%).Colliers Encyclopaedia, Volume 4, 1997 Edition, states that white cells "make up 0.5 to 1.0 percent of total blood volume".
Compton's Interactive Encyclopaedia 1997 Edition, states; "There are far fewer white cells, or leukocytes, than there are red cells. In the bloodstream there is approximately only one white cell for every 700 red cells".
NEB states that white cells and platelets together constitute "less than one percent of the volume of blood".
Even at 1 percent, this is still a smaller amount than both of the permitted fractions, albumin and globulins. (EA page 91)
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Was Rutherford drunk when.....?
by Pureheart inhave any of you read the finished mystery that was written in 1917?
it was started by russell and completed by rutherford who published it.
i am half way through the book and have skimmed through the majority of it.. rutherford either had to be drunk or crazy when he wrote that pitiful interpretation of revelations.
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Randy's site at http://www.freeminds.org has to be the best for buying old books and reprints/CD's etc.
However, if you go to http://communities.msn.co.uk/altJehovahsWitnesses/studylinks.msnw you'll find links that will enable you to read all of the following online for free. Not bad!
Studies in the Scriptures (volumes 1 - 6)
The Finished Mystery (volume 7)
Pay Attention to Yourselves and to all the Flock (Elders Manual)
Pastor Russell's Sermons
Tabernacle Shadows of the Better Sacrifices
The entire set of Zion's Watch Tower from 1896 to the 1916!
The Photo Drama of Creation (The full text and all 600 hand-painted slides of this historical production.)Nic,
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IKEA bans birthday celebrations.
by nicolaou inbwwaaaah!!.
the dubs are gonna be even more popular in denmark after this!.
"ikea in denmark announced to its employees that it has banned birth-day presents because jehovah's witnesses might find them offensive, banned wedding presents because single workers might find them offensive and will no longer host its traditional danish christmas lunch, replacing it with "an international cultural day.".
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Bwwaaaah!!
The dubs are gonna be even more popular in Denmark after this!
"Ikea in Denmark announced to its employees that it has banned birth-day presents because Jehovah's Witnesses might find them offensive, banned wedding presents because single workers might find them offensive and will no longer host its traditional Danish Christmas lunch, replacing it with "an international cultural day."
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JW mugged! Bible stolen!! BIG BIG NEWS!!!
by nicolaou intaunton -- the middleboro man who is accused of last week's mugging outside jehovah's witness kingdom hall and a knifepoint robbery at dunkin' donuts was ordered held in lieu of $15,000 cash bail yesterday.
richard e. morse jr., 41, of 1 everett st., was arraigned in taunton district court before judge kevan j. cunningham.. the charges against him, two counts of armed robbery, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a count of receiving a stolen motor vehicle, were continued to feb. 7.. morse is accused of threatening a woman with a knife outside the jehovah's witness kingdom hall off jackson street last thursday.
he allegedly stole her pocketbook, bible and cellular phone.. then last friday, he allegedly went into the dunkin' donuts at harts four corners, grabbed the woman behind the counter and threatened her with a knife.
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HEY!
Don't go ballistic man!!!!!
Here's the link:- http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3116447&BRD=1711&PAG=461&dept_id=24232&rfi=6
No I don't live in Taunton, I've got a news ticker set up at the DNC site (click on jw news) that trawls over 300 newspapers for me.
Nic'
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Interview with Prof. Rodier on Sects and Cults.
by nicolaou inthe following is a transcript of a live chat with prof. david rodier.
prof. david rodier .
so, yes, they tend to have a charismatic individual as a leader.
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The following is a transcript of a live chat with Prof. David Rodier.
Prof. David Rodier
— Six years after federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the controversy surrounding the cult and leader David Koresh lingers....--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Moderator at 1:57pm ET
Welcome Prof. Rodier.
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Kara from berlex.com at 1:57pm ET
Could you list items that would indicate a religious sect is in fact a cult?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:01pm ET
In the field of religious studies, we generally don't like to use the word "cult." To brand a religion as a cult, at least in popular usage, is to say that it is an illegitimate group and ought not to be allowed to function freely in the society. According to our Constitution, we have free exercise of religion, and that means that no religious belief can be criminal as such or forbidden by the government. Religious groups, and members of religious groups, may well be guilty of criminal acts and those acts are of course subject to prosecution like any other criminal activities. But the religion cannot itself be banned. There are a lot of dissident religious groups that seem to be very far out of the mainstream, and we may not like them -- we may disapprove of them -- but given our country's commitment to religious freedom, we must tolerate them.
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Mike from greenwich.com at 2:01pm ET
How does a cult get started? Is the key ingredient a highly charismatic individual like a Manson, Jones, or Koresh?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:03pm ET
Most new religions or nontraditional religions do have a charismatic leader. So do most new political and social movements. So, yes, they tend to have a charismatic individual as a leader. But charismatic religious leadership is not peculiar to these religious groups.
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Jon from Maine from proxy.aol.com at 2:04pm ET
With all the new government laws and regulations coming out concerning health and safety where the government feels it is acting in the best interest of the citizens (i.e. smoking, gun control etc) are laws regulating religions foreseeable?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:09pm ET
Not unless we change the First Amendment. The courts have, over the past several decades, been very careful in cases involving any religious group to make a distinction between religious beliefs and religious practices and activities, which can be regulated by law. The free exercise clause of the First Amendment has generally been taken as forbidding the government from making any laws specifying permitted or non-permitted religious beliefs. The courts have, in general, held that only overriding social need permits the regulation of religious practice. Instances of this have been requiring the Amish to put reflective brightly-colored decals on their black buggies and requiring mass inoculation of students at a Christian Science school when there was a local epidemic.
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Elan from cae.wisc.edu at 2:09pm ET
Why is the fear of cults so prevalent in American society?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:11pm ET
I think, basically, it's the general fear of anything strange or different. We're not sure how the members of a group that we see as radically different are going to behave ... and so, we tend to fear them. Most nontraditional religious groups have beliefs and patterns of behavior which are out of the mainstream ... and so, we tend to fear them. It might also be the case that if we reject firm religious commitments ourselves, we may feel a little guilty and hostile when we come in contact with individuals whose lives are governed by their religious beliefs.
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Chris From Chicago from mvn1.interaccess.com at 2:13pm ET
The Branch Davidians stood out in part because of their storage and anticipated use of weapons. There were, and are, other religious groups that are similar in this way. Did the combination of religion and guns motivate us to confront the Branch Davidians?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:15pm ET
The reports about the Branch Davidians and their guns seems to be a bit ambiguous. Apparently, the local sheriff's office had already investigated and been allowed in to check out the compound and had had no sever problems with the alleged storage of weapons. So, I'm not sure that the combination of guns and religion is necessarily a problem. Personally, I'd rather see religious groups in a society advocating only harmony and peaceful coexistence. But lots of religions have a different view of the world.
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Paul from MD from bcbsblue.com at 2:15pm ET
It seems like we only hear about the extreme religious groups. Which gives them a bad rap. Are there groups out there that are acceptable?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:18pm ET
Well I'd hope that any religious group that doesn't engage directly in criminal activity would be acceptable. Certainly there are a lot of non-traditional minority religions, which have joined the religious mainstream. About 150 years ago, the Mormons were considered an extreme religious group -- and in the 1870s, the federal government even suppressed their corporate charter. But in 1952, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was honored performers at President Eisenhower's inauguration. So, what are seen as extreme religious groups can, and often are, accepted into the broad spectrum of accepted religions.
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:19pm ET
By the way, extreme religious beliefs might be "extreme" in a number of different directions. The Amish are, after all, rather extreme in their beliefs about non-violence and absence of electrical equipment.
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Peter in Utah from discoverbrokerage.com at 2:20pm ET
Religion has become a way to control the weak minded. We need to stop people like Koresh before they get a chance to get started, wouldn't you agree?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:24pm ET
Emphatically NO. I do not agree. I think it's very dangerous for any individual -- and especially for the government -- to prescribe for an individual what they may or may not believe and what groups they may or may not join. Obviously we have people who need to be institutionalized because they are not able to run their own lives, because of physical or mental problems. But we have very strict legal standards, which must be satisfied, before we rule a person as incompetent. I certainly would not like to see these standards weakened, and some group either governmental or regulatory suddenly deciding that large numbers of people must not be allowed to make decisions about their most basic values and commitments. Nor am I happy with the thought that either the government or some private group would be given the power to decide what religions are permitted.
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Tina from [216.161.38.1] at 2:25pm ET
What's your opinion of "deprogramming"? I've heard of a number of instances where it appeared that someone's parents simply didn't approve of their child's non-mainstream religious beliefs. "Cult" wasn't the real issue.
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:29pm ET
There have been a number of court cases involving self-described "deprogrammers," and usually the persons who have been the subjects of the "deprogramming" have won damages. The basic concept behind "deprogramming" is a rather loose version of "brainwashing." It's not at all clear that any religious group has done anything like the alleged brainwashing, which is supposed to have happened to American prisoners in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The usual activities which new converts to many different religions (either mainstream or non-traditional) engage in hardly constitute "brainwashing." I don't find the idea of either brainwashing or deprogramming very helpful in understanding religious commitment.
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Denise from [158.72.82.92] at 2:29pm ET
Why do you think nontraditional religions are now becoming more and more popular?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:31pm ET
I'm not sure that they are becoming more and more popular. I think that we are noticing them a lot more than we have in the past. But the statistical studies which have been done since the 1970s seem to suggest that the percentage of people involved in such groups is fairly constant.
And historians of religion in the U.S. seem to think that the figures from the 1970s on probably reflect the patterns of religious commitment for at least most of the 19th century and 20th century as well.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike from greenwich.com at 2:32pm ET
Are there any particular "millennium cults" out there that we should know about? 1999 seems like prime recruitment time for anyone preaching "End of the World" scenarios.
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:39pm ET
It's certainly true that people who use our calendar seem to be very excited about "the new millennium." We should remember that there are a number of different calendars out there, which don't see next year as anything special. However, for those of us using the Western/Christian calendar, the new millennium does mark a major psychological milestone and there certainly are a lot of religious fears which seem also to be a Y2K phenomenon.
End-of-the-world cults have been a fairly regular phenomenon in European and American history, since at least the middle of the 1300s. In the U.S., in 1848-49, many people thought that the world was coming to an end and did all sorts of eccentric things like selling off all their possessions, dressing in white robes, and standing on top of hills waiting for the world to come to end. The U.S. survived these eccentric end-of-the-worlders .. and so, I think we can probably survive other end-of-the-world/millennium religious groups. Personally, I think that there's no need to compound Y2K problems by introducing religious panic on top of everything else.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
J Cooper from [208.25.126.3], at 2:39pm ET
What do you think should be done about religious practices that endanger the lives of children. A specific example would be refusal of blood transfusions by Jehovah's Witnesses. JW children are often allowed to die because of this belief. Yet if a child is beaten to death because 'the devil was in him' or malnourished (both of these examples have happened) for religious reasons, it isn't tolerated. This seems inconsistent to me.
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:45pm ET
I think it is inconsistent, but the whole area of parental rights is one that we have not had any social consensus on. When we talk about the health of children, and the right of the government to override parental decisions about health care, we can construe this in a very narrow way to allow intervention only in cases of severe medical emergency. Or we can give a much looser construction and decide that anything in the child's environment which might be considered as affecting physical and mental wellbeing are subject to government regulation. Neither the courts nor the general population seems to be comfortable in deciding exactly where the line should be drawn. Jehovah's Witnesses have been successfully prosecuted for refusing blood transfusions and have been unsuccessfully prosecuted for the same kind of action. There is, as yet, no general agreement on what should or shouldn't be done about these kind of actions and the religious motivation for making decisions about children's care is only part of a general discussion of parental rights which is still going on.
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Kerrith from [206.190.35.147] at 2:45pm ET
What do you think Waco's long-term impact has been/will be on religious tolerance in this country, particularly for groups with extreme right-wing beliefs?
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Prof. David Rodier at 2:51pm ET
I would hope that a tragedy like Waco would make all of us -- both individuals and governmental authorities -- much more sensitive to the dangers of religious confrontation. Religious beliefs are a fundamental part of a person's sense of self-identity. We cannot change or compromise our religious beliefs without feeling that we have become a quite different person. Since this is the case, any confrontation over religious beliefs -- whether these are right wing, or left wing, or centrist -- has the potential for violence, either on the part of the believers or on the part of those who deny the legitimacy of the religious beliefs. During the Waco confrontation, a number of religious experts within the academic community told the government that the situation was being handled in a way that was virtually guaranteed to have a tragic outcome and that such a confrontation was not necessary, even if the government's belief about the members of the Branch Davidian were accurate. That the desired investigation could have been conducted in a way, which was respectful of the Branch Davidian's belief, was clearly possible. Although some people may see the anniversary of the Waco tragedy as a time to gut the First Amendment's protections of all religious beliefs, I would hope that more of us would see the message of this anniversary to be the need for greater understanding and tolerance of religious diversity in our country.
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Moderator at 2:53pm ET
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JW mugged! Bible stolen!! BIG BIG NEWS!!!
by nicolaou intaunton -- the middleboro man who is accused of last week's mugging outside jehovah's witness kingdom hall and a knifepoint robbery at dunkin' donuts was ordered held in lieu of $15,000 cash bail yesterday.
richard e. morse jr., 41, of 1 everett st., was arraigned in taunton district court before judge kevan j. cunningham.. the charges against him, two counts of armed robbery, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a count of receiving a stolen motor vehicle, were continued to feb. 7.. morse is accused of threatening a woman with a knife outside the jehovah's witness kingdom hall off jackson street last thursday.
he allegedly stole her pocketbook, bible and cellular phone.. then last friday, he allegedly went into the dunkin' donuts at harts four corners, grabbed the woman behind the counter and threatened her with a knife.
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TAUNTON -- The Middleboro man who is accused of last week's mugging outside Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall and a knifepoint robbery at Dunkin' Donuts was ordered held in lieu of $15,000 cash bail yesterday.
Richard E. Morse Jr., 41, of 1 Everett St., was arraigned in Taunton District Court before Judge Kevan J. Cunningham.The charges against him, two counts of armed robbery, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a count of receiving a stolen motor vehicle, were continued to Feb. 7.
Morse is accused of threatening a woman with a knife outside the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall off Jackson Street last Thursday. He allegedly stole her pocketbook, Bible and cellular phone.
Then last Friday, he allegedly went into the Dunkin' Donuts at Harts Four Corners, grabbed the woman behind the counter and threatened her with a knife. He was arrested on Route 44 in Raynham, allegedly driving a stolen pick-up truck. A knife and cash, allegedly from Dunkin' Donuts, were seized, police said.
As one reason for setting bail, Judge Cunningham noted that Morse "confessed to both crimes," according to court records.
Morse's attorney, Frank D. Camera, said his client is a formerly recovering drug addict, who "fell off the wagon" sometime before his arrest.
"He's got a serious drug problem, both cocaine and heroin. He apparently does an excessive amount of both," Camera said.
While police pursued Morse late Friday night, two officers crashed head-on while driving on Summer Street. Neither officer, Dennis Scully and Robert Lima, was noticeably injured. But police yesterday said both cars will be out of commission for some time.
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EX-JW Activism, anything new?
by Mindchild inive seen posts here and there in the past months on this board that talk about ex-dub activism but i hate to admit this but most of the activities mentioned are rather ineffective in really doing anything but making us ex-dubs feel collectively better.. we have discussed protesting at conventions, making a protest walk, peeing on c.t.
russells grave, playing some games at local kingdom halls, and playing mind games with dubs online.
i really dont have anything against these forms of activism but i dont think they accomplish much.. what i therefore dare suggest and beg for your comments are new ideas of how we can redirect our anger more effectively and support actions and causes that sting the borg like hell and also help others out the door.. i have nothing but praise for the actions of people who take a stand like silent lambs, or others who have setup informative ex-dub websites and i think one good thing we could do is support these efforts by doing some fund raising.. i also would love to stick something right up the ass of the gb but im trying to think of just how to do it.
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[Get it right this time]
At the DNC site I've posted a couple of ideas for direct action, if you'd like your idea put there as well just drop me a line. http://www.do-not-call.org/volunteer.htm
Also, I'm not happy with my WARNING leaflet. Englishman is helping out with a revision but of course, the more imput the better. I welcome your suggestions for improving this: http://www.do-not-call.org/WARNING.doc
Cheers,
Nic'