after seeing some vids and links yesterday about the society's intrest in hedge funds, as well as being in the united way (they have a code for donations thru the united way) i decided to search the wt cd to see if anything negative was said about either.
look what i found;.
from the 2/15/1972 watchtower.
a religious organization may appear good - doing and saying certain things taught in the Bible - but if it does not believe and faithfully adhere to all (there italics not mine) the teachings of God's Word, does God approve of it?"
By "all", did you mean the parts about looking after orphans and widows, feeding the poor, and helping the homeless?? You know, the things that the WTS feels are not worthy of their effort.....
or what book is being studied......... or the way magazines are distributed at the hall......... it's bloody brilliant!!!!!!
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Isn't it great to not give a crap about that stuff anymore?
the cancer finally got to her and now my sisters and i are left without our mother.
we take comfort only in knowing that she is no longer in pain.
how do people move on from such a massive loss?.
So sorry for your loss. In grieving, as with many other things, time is your friend. Don't let anyone rush you through the process of grieving. Even though you knew that your mom was terminally ill, and is now free from the pain of cancer, it doesn't make her passing any easier.
It might help to keep a journal and write down all your thoughts and feelings as you go through the process of grieving. Get your sisters to do the same. At some point in the future, you can share these with each other and may find that you've all compiled a lovely tribute to your mom.
Hugs, Scully
i've done no research on this but i suspect that a members belief or absence of belief in god may have some correspondence with the number of posts he or she has made.. my tentative suggestion is that members with fewer than 500 posts are mostly believers while members with more than 3000 posts are mostly non-believers.
of course there are exceptions, maybe quite a few, but i'm only dealing with generalities here.
so how about a survey?
Atheist.
I wasn't one when I joined JWD almost 10 years ago, but somewhere along the way.... I'm not sure exactly when or how it happened... made me realize that I no longer believed in the existence of god.
leavingwt:
If a$$holes could fly, Bethel would be an International Airport.
LMAO!!!
Best.
Line.
Ever.
for 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.
Congratulations!
Your daughter is lovely! Give her a cuddle from me please.... :-)
so in the hustle and shuffle of moving i must have left my entire collection literally in the appartment parking lot.
just to give you an idea of what was in there i had about a dozen america and canadian silver dollars, a couple gold coins, a bunch of ancient coins from the 1600s, old canadian paper money and us money and a bunch of coins, stamps, paper currency ive been collecting since i was a kid.. all in all my stuff was worth in the 5-7 thousand dollar range.
believe it or not a young guy in his mid twenties from the appartments across the st came over and asked me if i lost anything and what my name was.
Quick call the WTS... they need to do an article about an actual Worldly Person™ who is honest!
If you give the address, they'll send some Pioneers™ and Elders™ over to rough him up for messing with JWs super-honest reputations.
we discuss biology from time to time here (usually as it relates to evolution) so i thought this might be fun.. below are two mice; male and female:.
below are the offspring they consistently (90% of the time) produce:.
can anyone guess why?.
The mouse with dark eyes carries the genetic trait for dark pigment (melanin, perhaps?), which is dominant over the albino genes (double recessive for lack of dark pigment)?
respecting 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.
Hi Marvin
Here's a link to an essay I wrote for my Ethics class, way back when I was in nursing school.
patient 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.
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?"
