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  NOTIFY YOUR HOSPITAL & DOCTORS ABOUT JW SPYS

  by MadApostate in

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  i am sending this letter via email to both my local hospital and to several doctors (different version) who have occasion to treat my immediate family.. i thought that i would post such on the db so that others here could also do the same.

  however, i would ask that you do not completely duplicate the letter, in the event that the same hospital or same doctor receive this more than once, and discard it as a hoax.

  please take the time to change some of the wording, and personalize it to your own circumstances.. i will post any received replies, and i ask that others please do the same.. *****************************************.

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  I'm a nurse and I can tell you that it is Standard Practice for hospitals to require ALL employees to sign a specific Confidentiality Clause at the time of hire.

  The instances that Mad Apostate makes reference to appear to have originated with someone working right in a Medical Records Department.

  Hospitals often offer patients the option of disclosing what religion they practice. The intended purpose of this information is so that Doctors and Nurses have some idea of the cultural practices and values that their patients hold (for instance, strict Jewish and Muslim patients do not permit autopsies, certain groups have customs related to birth and death, and we want to respect those values of our patients.) However, in the case of JWs, as you point out, this information can be abused by unscrupulous individuals. The best advice I can offer, if you are about to be admitted to hospital, is this: Do NOT, under any circumstances, disclose an affiliation with Jehovah's Witnesses. Once this information is typed into the computer, people who have access to the system can very easily determine how many JW patients have been treated, what treatments they received and so on. If you DO NOT DISCLOSE an affiliation, your name will not come up under a specific search for JW patients. It's imperative that your physician is aware of these wishes also, as they may in discussion with nursing staff who are caring for you mention in passing that 'he is a Jehovah's Witness', and that information may get passed into the system inadvertently.

  Love, Scully

  It is not persecution for an informed person to expose a certain religion as being false. - WT 11/15/63
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  Christmas Tree Pictures-Post them

  by Pierced Angel in

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  we put our first tree up, a blue spruce with white lights and a hodge podge of ornaments and a little tinsel.

  it's beautiful and was a lot of fun, the kids were so picky about choosing where to put their ornaments.

  anyone else have a picture of their tree to post?

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  Mindfield notes:
  

  Why can you say the pagan origins of the date December 25th is crucial in determining whether is should be celebrated or not and still accept marriage with its wedding ring, which also had pagan origins? Both marriage and the birth of Jesus have their importance... what makes you selectively take one but ignore the other? Isn't the fact that Christmas no longer has resemblances to its pagan roots makes it acceptable now?

  These are excellent points, Mindfield. All the traditions surrounding modern weddings have pagan origins... the white dress and veil, the bridesmaids and groomsmen, the rings, the cake... and more and more Witnesses go for the flashy, extravagant engagement parties and weddings than ever before. The rationale is that the "origin" of marriage was in the Garden of Eden when God presented Eve to Adam, and TaaDaa.... they were married (ignoring the obvious 'fact' that there was literally nobody else there to get married to, much less witness or celebrate the occasion), and could shag about like the animals did and produce offspring. LOL Even the placing of the wedding ring on the finger during the ceremony is symbolic of the sexual act (though not exactly to scale <g>)... it was also a symbol of the man's "ownership" of his new wife (slavery was done away with in this part of the world over 100 years ago); so why putting up a Christmas tree (which according to WT lore, is a phallic symbol) is so wrong to the thinking of JWs is beyond me. It's just blatant hypocrisy to reject so-called pagan traditions related to the celebrating the birth of the Saviour, only to gobble up and perpetuate the pagan traditions related to wedding celebrations.

  Love Scully

  It is not persecution for an informed person to expose a certain religion as being false. - WT 11/15/63
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  Press release: WT human rights violation

  by Dogpatch in

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  hello randy,.

  the human rights organization i am affiliated is sending out this press release on human rights violation by the jehovah's witnesses.

  it cites several united nation human rights documents.---john brown.

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  Scully

  What is really REALLY incredulous about this situation is that the WTS published an article in the November 8, 1998 Awake! magazine detailing all of these basic human rights, which they utterly deny to its members.

  This is a link to the UN's 50th Anniversary Celebration, notice the second "birthday gift" (heh heh heh) is the article about the UN's Charter of Human Rights in the Awake! magazine.

  http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/materials/articles.htm

  Maybe that is an angle worth considering.

  Love, Scully

  It is not persecution for an informed person to expose a certain religion as being false. - WT 11/15/63
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  All questions are beautiful

  by ashitaka in

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  (i brought this over from rex's thread).

  does god exist-i always think of khalil gibran's couplet from the prophet; "do not say god is in my heart, but i am in the heart of god.

  " i beleive that people use god to keep themselves in check, and they make the bible their moral register.

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  JoelBear writes:
  

  A wise man once said:

  Everything is beautiful in its own way.

  wasnt that a Tom Jones song??

  Love, Scully

  It is not persecution for an informed person to expose a certain religion as being false. - WT 11/15/63
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  All questions are beautiful

  by ashitaka in

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  (i brought this over from rex's thread).

  does god exist-i always think of khalil gibran's couplet from the prophet; "do not say god is in my heart, but i am in the heart of god.

  " i beleive that people use god to keep themselves in check, and they make the bible their moral register.

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  JoelBear writes:
  

  A wise man once said:

  Everything is beautiful in its own way.

  wasnt that a Tom Jones song??

  Love, Scully
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  I blame the jw's

  by Naeblis in

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  today i woke up and my left sock was missing.

  i blame them.

  filthy sock bastards.

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  Naeblis writes:
  

  People let's stick to the issues here and by issues I mean me. My sock is missing. I searched high (then low) and turned up nothing. Did Rutherford have a thing against socks?

  Well they do seem to have a thing against "sex". Perhaps someone at Bethel needs to spend some more time with their Hooked on Phonics game. <g>

  Love, Scully
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  WTS TO END MAILED SUBSCRIPTIONS

  by Seeker4 in

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  just heard that the society is going to stop mailed subscriptions.

  magazines will all have to be picked up at the kingdom hall.

  not sure when it's starting, but soon, i suppose.. sorry if this has been posted before, but i think this is very new info.

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  Pathofhorns writes:
  

  Yes, I agree with Old Hippie (this once LOL). We've had the same arrangement in Canada for the last 4-5 years.

  It's been longer than 4-5 years. I believe it started in the early 90s. We were still going to meetings when they started, and we've been "out" for almost 8 years. This year will be our 7th Christmas!!
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  The dubs are in the neighborhood

  by OUTLAW in

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  yep,its them alright.i can see them from my computer desk right now.doin the dub shuffle down the street with their suits and breif cases.they work this street 2-4times a month and they avoid my house like the plague.ha-ha-ha must be from the times i chewed on them!and there they go,past my house twice,and didn`t even stop in to get chewed.i haven`t had roast dub for lunch in years.maybe next time..no i doubt it.i guess i`ll stay on my dub free diet(lol)...outlaw

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  That's the trouble with this new generation of jaydubs... they have all their human rights and freedoms.... they don't know squat about persecution, or the looks you'd get for not standing to sing the National Anthem in assembly (a teacher once pulled me up to my feet by the hair at the nape of my neck!).... those are the kinds of things that make you ZEALOUS for The Truth™, that convince you that you are RIGHT and the World is WRONG.

  *sigh* nostalgia isn't what it used to be ;) lol

  Love, Scully
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  WTS TO END MAILED SUBSCRIPTIONS

  by Seeker4 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just heard that the society is going to stop mailed subscriptions.

  magazines will all have to be picked up at the kingdom hall.

  not sure when it's starting, but soon, i suppose.. sorry if this has been posted before, but i think this is very new info.

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  I had a mailed subscription (in Canada) up until a couple of years ago. I told the 'sister' who called on me that my husband was bitterly opposed (using theocratic war strategy... heehee!) and that if he was here when they called with the mags he would go ballistic. The ploy worked for a LONG time, as the sister disclosed to me that this is a provision that is made for women in 'abusive situations' so that they can receive "spiritual food" without endangering an 'interested' woman whose mate might beat the crap out of her for letting JWs into their home.

  We had a PO Box at the time (I told the sister that I used it to get mail from my family that my husband would rip up if it came to the house) so the subscription was sent there for about 3 years, and was renewed simply by filling out the renewal forms and sending them back to the Canadian Branch Office. I'd put a $5 bill in the envelope to keep them happy, along with a note saying how much I 'valued' the magazines as a poverty-stricken mother of 3 living with a brute of a husband; that I had to 'hide' the magazines so that he wouldn't find them. Not surprisingly, I never received any response; although you'd expect that a conscientious person/organization would want to do something to help a woman in those dreadful circumstances to get as far away as possible. I guess it was a good thing that it wasn't really happening to me, and those were the only cries for help that I was making. I'm sure there are some people out there who *are* going through just that, and getting the same non-response. After all, The Truth™ is the most valuable thing <BLUCK> they could possibly give. NOT! <HURL> <HURL> (i can't believe i just typed that, and i can't believe i ever "believed" that load of crap!!)

  Love, Scully
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  10 Things You'll Never Hear at a Kingdom Hall

  by Scully in

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  (originally posted by armageddon1975 on yahoogroups).

  "a donation to a charity.

  good idea.".

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  (originally posted by Armageddon1975 on yahoogroups)

  10."A donation to a charity. Good idea."

  9. "So you're a priest? Welcome Father."

  8. "I was so amazed, I never noticed the meeting over-ran 15 minutes."

  7. "I just love singing these songs."

  6. "Personally speaking, I think ....."

  5. "No literature placements this week. No problem."

  4. "What a wonderful thing the internet is."

  3. "Long live Ray Franz"

  2. "Sorry. We were wrong."

  . . . And the one thing you've probably never heard in a Kingdom Hall:

  1. THE TRUTH!!!!!