... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.
it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.
they take pride in obedience.
Found this talk by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan about the jewish background of the "The Baffling Blood Ban"
Altough the jewish organisation Chabad is called a dangerous jewish cult and quite extreme in many aspects I think this talk about blood is very interesting, to understand jewish idea of blood ban. Blood is hebrew "dam"
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/3317454/jewish/The-Baffling-Bloody-Ban.htm
last night i had jw broadcasting on in the background while i was working, i like to keep up to date with their crap.
which is strange because when i actually was a jw i hated reading or watching their material.. anyway, on the streaming section, anthony morris comes on screen telling me that higher education is bad and "the better the university, the greater the danger".
i never would have believed it if i hadn't seen him say it myself.
"Jehovah's people are the THINKINGEST people on earth"
hahaha, thinking 1000 times about the same matter with the same result is rather repetition and hammering into than THINKING. As there is only one thought allowed - we are always right - all facets of thinking allowed are concentrating on repeating the own dogmatism simply from different standpoints.
... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.
it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.
they take pride in obedience.
For exhilaration.....
According to some news dinosaurs had warm red blood. Conseqently dinosaurs' blood was also very holy for god and if dinosaurs didnt die out because god allowed their annihilation in his love, their blood would atone today, if they were killed for a meal and slaughtered kosher ;-)
But anyhow dinosaur had blood. And if a man survived the fight with a tyrannosaur and lately achieved to kill the beast, he had quickly think about not to get into yet more big troubles with capital punishement..
.....what to do with the blood,
go bear it to jerusalem
or drink it to get strong, it was like dragons-blood,
or pour it out or let it rin off, what a waste
No scripture for dinosaur to find ... not yet written....means aye freedom!
But why should god only love blood of cattle, sheep and not also dinosaur blood you might think? Only because Noah and his family liked only cattle and sheep? Or did Noah simply never see a tyrannosaurs although before the flood they lived somewhere in jurassic park and therefore could not sacrifice tyrannosaur blood to god.
But nevertheless tyrannosaur -"blood is / was sacred to god" because its red and warm, its a divine principle after all, come what may without exeptions- its only that no other species killed and ate tyrannosaurs yet. Only the fallen angels - giants - would have been strong enough to kill the beasts, but they didnt offer god a meal nor sacrifice, cause they were bad and only metaphors. Or the beasts died out together with their conquerors, who knows.
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jerome over on discuss the truth has picked up on something interesting.. in the july watchtower on page 28 of the article entitled “winning the battle for your mind” the following statement is made “keep in mind that satan does not want you to think clearly or reason things out well.
because propaganda is likely to be most effective, says one source, if people… are discouraged from thinking critically.”.
the quote comes from a book entitled: “media and society in the twentieth century: a historical introduction by lyn gorman, david mclean" the watchtower however, chose to leave out a portion of the quote.. the full quote is "therefore, it is likely to be most effective if people do not have access to multiple sources of information and if they are discouraged from thinking critically.. the following sentence which the watchtower also decided was best not to include states,.
This scientist must be a big wheel. It amuses me that the media sorry...writing department thinks it is necessary to support an actually banal thought namely that someones critical thinking could be hindered in our century by media manipulation, half troughts and fake news by partial citing of a worldly book and not the watchtowers' grey bible itself.
This excessive addiction to cite someone for anything of the Watchtower leads to bad results. There would be more important subjects where citation would be necessary.
Implementing the idea in the heads that scientific books would be more trustworthy than common sense but at the same time missing the important whole of the cited thought is a bad domestic work of the writing department, nothing of the promoted investigations, checks before printing an article.
this is the whole of the instructions that the watchtower gave jws when writing to russian officials -.
content • you are writing to the official to request his intervention.
express the hope that the russian authorities will stop the legal action being taken against the branch office and the congregations in russia so that our brothers and sisters can continue to gather peacefully for christian meetings without interference.
Putin will ask Trump. " What the hell?"
the jehovah's witness protection program.
my first clue that 'something was up' lay in the fact that it was 7 am in the intensive care unit and getting to my patient was a challenge for all of his visitors in his room.my second clue that 'something was up' lay in the fact that my patient was african-american and all of his visitors were white.now before we get all racially sensitive, i am very aware that many families are blended in many ways and many of us are close friends with people of all races.
however, in the hospital where i work, it is an uncommon sight to see a room full of white people at the bedside of a black man at seven in the morning.
Holding hands is not important. Important is keeping up the business. Following what is the strict protocoll.
the jehovah's witness protection program.
my first clue that 'something was up' lay in the fact that it was 7 am in the intensive care unit and getting to my patient was a challenge for all of his visitors in his room.my second clue that 'something was up' lay in the fact that my patient was african-american and all of his visitors were white.now before we get all racially sensitive, i am very aware that many families are blended in many ways and many of us are close friends with people of all races.
however, in the hospital where i work, it is an uncommon sight to see a room full of white people at the bedside of a black man at seven in the morning.
Reads as if a dying JW became a mere number in a protocoll of the JWPP.
it's from 3 weeks ago.
my mum told me about it.
but is this real or fake?
My comment: at least people are talking about something
oh wow!
if you haven't yet watched the feb2017 broadcast, strap yourself in for a ride!!.
( perhaps watch john cedars review of it on his youtube channel as it is better than watching the official one.
That only a person that has the same faith and the same moral standards could be a "real true friend" was a value implanted in my mind, that I am even now thinking about it. It led to stopping meeting schoolmates privately and to undertake something together with them. Now I am really without any friend at all. They are all somehow strangers for me.
new letter today (please visit avoidjw.org for a copy of the official letter and yes, i also noticed they got the date wrong!).
february 28, 2017. to all bodies of elders.
re: visiting disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals.
If they would have something to offer that is really joyful , upbuilding , heartwarming for a Disassociated person they would not stop to visit at all but run after us any day.
