The only reason I hesitate on this is because any lawsuit in the US on the blood doctrine as a religious teaching is likely to fail. And what happens when the society wins in court? They plaster it all over their website as confirmation that Jehovah is blessing them.
Jehalapeno
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How to Sue the WT
by Lee Elder ina basis for taking legal action against the watchtower society's blood transfusion policy.
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http://ajwrb.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blood-misrepresented-2005-kerry-louderback-wood-1.pdf.
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News spot for JW convention - keep barf bags ready
by days of future passed ini could barely stand listening to it.
watching the jw pushers at the same time was too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgix-5pfwf4.
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Jehalapeno
The fat shaming on this thread is reprehensible and petty.
We don’t know this guy’s individual situation.
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Do you think that race is a factor in education in the U.S.
by recovering ini was wondering if racial bias is a factor in u.s. education?.
would you be concerned if it was?
why would you be concerned?.
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No, culture is. Black culture is rotten. They need to stand up and fix it.
I find this comment unhelpful and unnecessarily inflammatory.
It’s not black culture that’s rotten. It’s inner-city culture.
Black, White, Hispanic...either of those raised in poverty in the inner city have a much higher likelihood of ending up in a life of crime and never ending poverty.
I just recently moved my family from a small town of about 40,000 to the second largest metropolitan area in Florida.
The schools here are overwhelmed. The school board is inaccessible to parents, teachers are underpaid and schools are understaffed. School administrators are obsessed with politics and the latest cause du jour.
My kids aren’t dummies. They’re sharp little “turdles,” as my wife and I lovingly call them. But in the town we came from, they were average, at best. In this city, they’re top of their class, straight A students without even breaking a sweat.
I can’t quite put my finger on the issue exactly or what can be done about it, but there’s something about living in the inner city and having limited resources because of how many people are living on top of each other that makes the education system suffer.
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Everything Happens For A Reason
by Charles Gillette indoes everything happen for a reason?
i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.
what do you think about this belief?
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Jehalapeno
What do you mean by “happen for a reason”? Do you mean they happen to affect something in the future? That I don’t believe.
But earthquakes do happen for a reason. That reason being that tectonic plates in the earth crash with each other.
Holocausts happen for a reason. That reason being that man frequently underestimates the capacity of their fellow man for committing evil acts.
But they didn’t happen because of fate.
However, for everything that happens to mankind, you can point to a root reason that caused it to happen.
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Do You Ever Wish That Hillary Was President?
by minimus inhillary is very supportive of doing whatever it takes to undermine trump.
would you be happy if she were your president?.
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Jehalapeno
What is Aleppo?
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The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD
by Still Totally ADD inthis is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
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Jehalapeno
This is amazing news! So happy for your family!
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Everything Happens For A Reason
by Charles Gillette indoes everything happen for a reason?
i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.
what do you think about this belief?
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Jehalapeno
Well, there are consequences to every action.
So yes, everything happens for a reason. Doesn’t mean it’s always your fault. But it does happen for a reason. There are rational ways to explain everything that happens, even if that explanation is that someone was being irrational.
When ANYTHING happens, ask yourself, “Why did this happen?” You’ll always have an answer of some kind to that question. That answer is called a “reason” something happened.
Can you name one thing that didn’t have a “reason” for occurring?
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Medical marijuana
by Mikethegreek inhey everyone.... i'm new to this but i would like to run my experience with medical marijuana past you.
i'm 48 years of age and have been in the truth for my whole life.. i suffer from ankylosing spondilitis and have for many many years.
it's a debilitating form of spinal arthritis and the symptoms of this auto-immune disorder affect more than my spine.
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Jehalapeno
Crazyguy: I have a child in my home that takes CBD to help with lung issues connected to a bigger over all problem.
Let me know in a private message, Crazyguy, if you want a coupon for some CBD. I'm sure Simon doesn't want me sharing it in public, so I won't. But PM me if you need a discount on something like Elixinol.
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Medical marijuana
by Mikethegreek inhey everyone.... i'm new to this but i would like to run my experience with medical marijuana past you.
i'm 48 years of age and have been in the truth for my whole life.. i suffer from ankylosing spondilitis and have for many many years.
it's a debilitating form of spinal arthritis and the symptoms of this auto-immune disorder affect more than my spine.
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Jehalapeno
It's an inevitability here in the U.S.
Even Trump, a self-proclaimed teetotaler (I doubt he is), has publically stated that he would support a bill for the decriminalization of Marijuana.
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On leaving JW's and hating religion...
by Jehalapeno init's been nearly 4 years now since i completely woke up to the watchtower lies.. thinking back on my jw life, during the time i believed, the organization truly did teach us to hate all beliefs that were contrary to the watchtower's.. i hated "false" religion.. so, when i finally woke up and applied critical thinking to my beliefs, i just went on hating religion in general...only this time i added jw's to that list.. a few months of waking up, i decided to base my beliefs on evidence.
i didn't want to have a set of beliefs unless there was some logic or evidence behind it.
so, now i consider myself an atheist.. and i kept on hating religion.. within the last six months or so, something has changed.
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It's been nearly 4 years now since I completely woke up to the Watchtower lies.
Thinking back on my JW life, during the time I believed, the organization truly did teach us to hate all beliefs that were contrary to the Watchtower's.
I hated "false" religion.
So, when I finally woke up and applied critical thinking to my beliefs, I just went on hating religion in general...only this time I added JW's to that list.
A few months of waking up, I decided to base my beliefs on evidence. I didn't want to have a set of beliefs unless there was some logic or evidence behind it. So, now I consider myself an atheist.
And I kept on hating religion.
Within the last six months or so, something has changed. I suddenly don't hate religion anymore.
I'm still an atheist, but I've been reading a lot on Western Civilization and the contributions made to liberalism by religious ideas. The idea of a free press was started by religious people in an effort to get the bible into the hands of the layperson.
The idea of being tolerant of others beliefs, even if you disagree with them, started because of religion. John Locke was extremely influential on the enlightenment period and the liberal movement. The framers of the United States Constitution was heavily influenced by Locke and other liberal thinkers of their day.
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I kind of took a detour there. I guess what I'm saying is that, even though I don't agree with believers and see no evidence of it:
IT'S OK TO BELIEVE IN GOD.
I truly feel that holding on to that tradition in our society is important to the preservation of individual human rights.
I do still detest certain religious practices, like the honor killings in the middle east, treatment of women, treatment of homosexuals. But religion, in general, has come a long way since the middle ages. Islam needs a reformation on the human rights front, I feel. But other than that, I think religion is continuing to get less oppressive over time. Hell, even Saudi Arabia is allowing women to drive now!
Anyhow, sometimes when leaving a group like the JWs, the pendulum can swing wildly the opposite direction. I think my pendulum is starting to get more centered now. Though I still am basing my beliefs on evidence, I no longer have any issue with people that want to believe in God.