Posts by Sam Beli

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Patriot Act reaches out and touches ME !!!

by Amazing in

yes, folks ... i was shocked, horrified, and dumbfounded by what took place this evening.

a chapter right out of george orwell's 1984 ... big brother listens in for quality assurance.

even my radical right-wing conservative republican sensibilities were shaken to the ground.

Sam Beli

No problem. If this was the old Soviet style authoritarianism there would be no warning sticker on the phone. Any person not wanting his conversation monitored would surely not use that phone – assuming he/she had even half a brain.

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Always happens when I go in the hospital and I hate it!

by Kingpawn in

i got home from the dayton hospital after a heart cathertization/angioplasty, and while there the semigood control i had over my blood sugar went through the roof.. .

hospitals use what they call a "sliding scale" as far as how much insulin they'll give.

that's bad enough, but add to it the fact that they test you after you've eaten (i'm used to testing/dosing myself up to a half-hour before a meal when i can).

Sam Beli

Hello King,

In my experience, one has to be one’s own advocate while in the hospital, unless you have a spouse or other close relative, to act as your advocate. Cardiologists are not nearly as concerned about your blood sugar as is your local physician; neither are the nurses. All of these folks are busy and they don’t have or don’t take the time to think through your personal scenario.

I am on special medications that require special lab work at the correct time. My own internist and his nurse don’t get them right either. So, I quiz all involved and politely demand that things be done correctly. Works OK when I am lucent enough to do it. My wife takes over when I am too ill to do it myself.

Be an active participant in your care. Medicine is too complicated these days to leave it to complacent.

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ajwrb website

by Haelcer in

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what happened with english website ajwrb?

someone canceled it?

Sam Beli

I can't get the site to open either. I've talked to Lee and he is looking into the matter.

Thanks for letting us know about the problem.

Regards,

Sam

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Would you take blood now that you are not a JW and why?

by Joyzabel in

i have a friend, xjw, who is having medical problems and no matter what i seem to say to her, i can tell she has not gotten over the issue of <gasp> no blood.

since the no blood stand was so ingrained in us as jws (almost like the unforgivable sin) my friend just cant seem to let go of that thinking.

i know i get too clinical at times, so i need some help with reasons why taking blood is or is not an issue for you anymore.

Sam Beli

“So what is it about blood that sticks in our minds? Why aren't we just as squeemish about organ transplants?”

Joy: A blood transfusion IS an organ transplant; it is a fluid organ transplant as opposed to what is commonly thought of as an organ transplant, namely solid organ transplants such as kidney, heart, liver, etc. You know that, of course, just thought I’d mention it for the clarification of any new readers to this issue.

Solid organ transplants are done out of the public eye, by surgeons in the operating theater of a hospital. Blood transplants are often administered by nurses (under physician’s orders) in a much more public way, right in the patients’ room, within eye sight of family, friends and visiting JWs. The hanging red bag is a very visible “testimony” to the blood transplantation. Solid organ transplantation is performed in a much more “sterile,” removed manner and the mental images are not nearly so striking. Perhaps if solid organs were seen as they were removed from the cadaver fewer solid organs would be transplanted. Removal of fluid organ material for transplantation is usually seen as benign.

For me, unlearning the JW blood issue distortion was a long and painful process. An early step came from a physician telling me that transplantation was not equal to eating. That statement changed nothing at the time except that it haunted me for years afterward. To this day I wish I could find that doctor and thank him for giving me a start down the road to actuate thinking.

DJ’s point from Matt 12 is one of the most powerful arguments from the scriptures that refute the JW blood position, IMHO. However, most JWs probably do not have the nerve to buck the boys from

So, for me, the final breaking point had to come from the BB themselves. It was their word, looking so ridiculous, their lying right to my face, all the while being deceitful, it took all of that and still I was doubtful. But with my life on the line I mustered the courage to say yes to plasma, one of the four forbidden blood components, in order to save my life.

I don’t know how to get a JW or former JW to change his/her mind on this issue short of facing death right in the eye. Having lying deceitful HLC members in the room doing their lying and deceit helps.

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SilentLambs on CBS TONIGHT (Tuesday)!

by UnDisfellowshipped in

jw
friends

i just wanted to let you know, in case you didn't hear about it yet, that the silentlambs (jehovah's witness child abuse victims) are going to be interviewed tonight on "cbs evening news" (6:30 eastern time; 5:30 central time).. i believe child abuse survivors heidi and amber, and also bill bowen are going to appear on the program, but i am not 100% sure.. i saw the tv commercial for the interview, and the commercial said it was coming on tuesday, april 29th, 2003 on cbs evening news!.

"beyond the catholic church -- another church under fire for child sexual abuse scandal".

set your vcrs!.

Sam Beli

bttt

36

What Most Needs to be Changed

by jst2laws in

i have often reflected on and commented on the issues of what i believe the most devastating watchtower policies:

1 unscriptural and incomprehensible blood policy

2 child molester protection policy

Sam Beli

Hi Jst2laws,

You are "right on." As AF has demonstrated many times on this board, "the central doctrine of JWs is that the GB speaks for God." All other JW doctrines flow from there.

Sam

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Why is CNN so critical of toppling Saddam's Regime?

by Gerard in

[eason jordan is cnn's president.

after the fall of bagdad and undergoing a crisis of conscience, he reveals why cnn has "misinformed" the american public regarding sadam's brutal regime.].

the news we kept to ourselves.

Sam Beli

Wow!

Thanks for posting this information.

Sam

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FreedomFest! Who's Coming??

by Joyzabel in

jw
friends

just so that i can prepare properly (spiritual food, that is

if you dont want to post it here, please send me an e-mail:

ill give all you sweet brothers and sisters until this saturday, april 12th to let me know otherwise the door will be closed and there will be no more lamp oil to share.