Hi Marvin
Here's a link to an essay I wrote for my Ethics class, way back when I was in nursing school.
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6Respecting Patient Autonomy Means What?
by Marvin Shilmer inrespecting patient autonomy means what?.
today i uploaded a new article to my blog comparing what watchtower requires of others in terms of respecting patient autonomy with what watchtower does itself.
this article cites and provides excerpts from multiple sources.
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Patient Autonomy Who is telling the truth?
by Marvin Shilmer inpatient autonomy who is telling the truth?.
today i loaded a new article on my blog that presents two competing statements.
one statement comes directly from the pages of the watchtower.
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Scully
Marvin:
Scully writes:
“… certain JW-apologist nurses felt that since the article was printed over 20 years prior, the current WTS position automatically fell in line with legal requirements of patient privacy under HIPAA.”
If that proposition is true, then based on what is presented in the cited 1987 Watchtower about upholding superior law, that would make HIPAA superior to divine law. Right?
You make an excellent point! I guess I didn't have my wits about me during that fracas, because I could have asked, "since we know much more about the safe medical administration of blood transfusion than we did at the time the OT and NT prohibitions were written [5000 and 2000 years prior respectively] why do JWs so tenaciously hold to beliefs that are so clearly outmoded and outdated, if WT literature can so easily be pooh-pooh'ed when it is more than a couple of decades past its original release date?"
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Patient Autonomy Who is telling the truth?
by Marvin Shilmer inpatient autonomy who is telling the truth?.
today i loaded a new article on my blog that presents two competing statements.
one statement comes directly from the pages of the watchtower.
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Hi Marvin
I encountered some flak regarding the 1987 Watchtower article some time ago on a nursing forum. Despite the fact that WTS never printed a retraction to their position on breaching patient confidentiality in the interests of "the superior demands of divine law", certain JW-apologist nurses felt that since the article was printed over 20 years prior, the current WTS position automatically fell in line with legal requirements of patient privacy under HIPAA. Surprisingly (or maybe not!), they also felt that I had an axe to grind (LOL).
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Scully
love this commercial
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Is it "volunteering" or is it "slavery" or something else?
by Scully inthe wts depends almost exclusively on a volunteer labor force.
its members volunteer their time, goods and services for the benefit and financial gain of the wts.
the "carrot" that drives this volunteerism is god's favour, and ostensibly the further recruitment of new volunteers who will also use their time, goods and services for the benefit and financial gain of the wts.. however, when the "carrot" turns out to be part of a con, and turns out to be completely false (as it often does in areas where human traffickers use the promise of "a better life" or "a better future" to recruit people) it is referred to as slavery.. people willingly sign up for what turns out to be slave labour, and often sign their children up for what turns out to be slave labour, on the false promise of bettering themselves.. now i know that bethelitestm, missionariestm and special pioneerstm receive a very modest monthly stipend that doesn't even cover personal care supplies, much less provide for clothing, transportation, etc., and that these folks rely heavily on the generosity of brotherstm and sisterstm.
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Hi blondie
This attempt by the state of Massachusetts to prohibit a child from exercising her constitutional right to practice her religion on the public streets cannot, in my opinion, be sustained.
The record makes clear the basic fact that Betty Simmons, the nine- year old child in question, was engaged in a genuine religious, rather than commercial, activity.....
The issue I have with this ruling is that under any other banner than religion, a minor child does not have such rights. A child cannot enter into a contract, a child cannot obtain a driver's licence, purchase alcohol or tobacco or firearms, write a check, get married, join the army, open a bank account, get a credit card , take out a loan, and so on, as they are not deemed, in any legal sense, to be qualified to or able to understand the legal responsibilities and implications of doing so.
Why does religion - and only religion - have the over-arching blessing of government to do with children as it wishes, or, rather, entice children [by way of their parents' indoctrination and example] with fraudulent promises into acting in the religion's be$t intere$t$ and subverting what is in the child's best interests?
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Is it "volunteering" or is it "slavery" or something else?
by Scully inthe wts depends almost exclusively on a volunteer labor force.
its members volunteer their time, goods and services for the benefit and financial gain of the wts.
the "carrot" that drives this volunteerism is god's favour, and ostensibly the further recruitment of new volunteers who will also use their time, goods and services for the benefit and financial gain of the wts.. however, when the "carrot" turns out to be part of a con, and turns out to be completely false (as it often does in areas where human traffickers use the promise of "a better life" or "a better future" to recruit people) it is referred to as slavery.. people willingly sign up for what turns out to be slave labour, and often sign their children up for what turns out to be slave labour, on the false promise of bettering themselves.. now i know that bethelitestm, missionariestm and special pioneerstm receive a very modest monthly stipend that doesn't even cover personal care supplies, much less provide for clothing, transportation, etc., and that these folks rely heavily on the generosity of brotherstm and sisterstm.
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The WTS depends almost exclusively on a volunteer labor force. Its members volunteer their time, goods and services for the benefit and financial gain of the WTS. The "carrot" that drives this volunteerism is god's favour, and ostensibly the further recruitment of new volunteers who will also use their time, goods and services for the benefit and financial gain of the WTS.
However, when the "carrot" turns out to be part of a con, and turns out to be completely false (as it often does in areas where human traffickers use the promise of "a better life" or "a better future" to recruit people) it is referred to as slavery.
People willingly sign up for what turns out to be slave labour, and often sign their children up for what turns out to be slave labour, on the false promise of bettering themselves.
Now I know that Bethelites™, Missionaries™ and Special Pioneers™ receive a very modest monthly stipend that doesn't even cover personal care supplies, much less provide for clothing, transportation, etc., and that these folks rely heavily on the generosity of Brothers™ and Sisters™. But does it ever occur to anyone that their volunteerism is, in fact, slave labour? I don't include Circuit Overseers™ or District Overseers™ because individual Congregations™ generally put forth a motion at the end of a visit to cover the CO's/DO's expenses. I know that Bethelites™ in Canada, at least, have to make an official declaration for income tax purposes - a Vow of Poverty - when they enter Bethel service.
The other thing that bothers me about this is the number of born-in children of JWs who participate (sometimes willingly, sometime not) in the Door-to-Door Ministry™ with their parents, even though they are not old enough to have a job. Really, does doing this kind of volunteer work for a religious group, based on the false promise of "God's approval", make this form of child labour and child slavery okay?? Putting a religious banner on what essentially amounts to slave labour seems like the epitome of repugnance to me. As evidence from third world countries shows, signing up for slavery based on a false promise of a better life or better future is still the disgusting practice of slavery.
Any thoughts??
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I need support please
by AwSnap infor the most part, i am able to understand how my family treats me.
i was a jw for 20 years...since birth.
i used to shun people.
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AwSnap
Please don't let the @$$holey-ness you are receiving from your relatives take away from the joy and excitement of your baby's impending arrival.
Yes, you could use their support at this time.
Yes, you want to share your excitement with them.
Yes, you want them to welcome you and your baby and baby-daddy with arms wide open.
You've done your part - you've tried to include them - you've vocalized your desire to have your sister be a source of support for you as you transition to motherhood. As much as it pains all of us and causes our hearts to break for you, they have answered. They have begged off and put their allegiance to JWs ahead of their blood relationship with you, your husband and your child.
A baby quilt *is* indeed a lovely gift, but it not a substitute for the relationship you want with your sister. It is not a substitute for love, even though it was clearly made with love. It can't replace the phone conversations you would love to have with your sister every day, or being able to hug her, or pour your heart out to her and have her listen to you and console you and tell you everything will be all right. On some level, I bet it feels like a knife in the heart to have to look at that quilt, knowing that she'd rather give you a token of her love rather than lovingly be in your family's life.
It's time to focus on you and your baby. At the hospital, ask your postpartum nurses for information about community groups for new parents and try to connect with other new mothers in your neighbourhood. That will give you some much needed social support (and you can do the same for them) at your most vulnerable time in new motherhood.
Years ago, I had a patient who never had any visitors when her new baby was born - it turned out she was DFd. I don't normally talk about being an exJW with patients, but I saw such pain in her eyes, knowing that her baby's grandparents wanted nothing to do with her or the baby, that I told her that I was an exJW too, and understood the pain and loneliness of being shunned by family members at these pivotal times in life. We talked a lot during the two days she was under my care, and by the time she was ready to go home, she threw her arms around me and thanked me for being there for her when nobody else was.
I've had other exJW patients since then, all with similar stories of abandonment in their time of need, as they were bringing a child into the world. They all have the same hurt and anguish. And their worst fears are that nobody understands what they are going through, and that they can't talk about it.
Please, if you need to, talk to us. We are here for you, even if we're miles apart, and even if we never meet face-to-face, we are here for you.
Love, Scully
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Buried my father today
by littlerockguy ini mostly post fluff and music posts on this thread more often now but just thought i would let some people here who still know me about what has been goin on with me recently.
my dad about a 7 month battle with lung cancer which metastasized to the bones and he died early wed morning.
my dad was a fascinating man, complex, sometimes open and sometimes a very aloof and detached person.
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Scully
Sorry to hear about your loss, LRG.
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I'm So Pissed I Can't Go To The Convention!
by Philadelphia Ponos inseriously!
i've been planning on going to this foreign langauge district convention for over a year and because some genius in new york planned it on july 4th weekend all the hotel prices have been jacked up making it impossible for me to attend.
f**k!!!!!
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Scully
Maybe there are convention rates?
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"Blood" update
by Alfred inlatest on "blood", a canadian film in the works.... http://www.brantnews.com/entertainment.cfm?page=entertainment§ion=read&articleid=10638.
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Scully
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