I have told her about the belief that a blood transfusion changes your personality, and discovered that she believes it due to a family anecdote of her own.
schnell
JoinedPosts by schnell
-
12
It's weird to look back at old family stories about our beliefs.
by schnell inmy parents had a story that the first time my dad ever met my mom's father, he opened the door and immediately asked dad, "what are you gonna do if my grandson needs a blood transfusion?!".
grampa was a ww2 vet, an airplane mechanic, a methodist and freemason.
he and my grandmother were pictured all my life as these ogres who opposed my mother's jw conversion and her marriage to my father.
-
-
-
26
JW requesting food assistance to Babylon the Great.
by sp74bb inbarcelona (spain), jan 8, 2017 at 1.30 pm.
two publishers of the tagalog group in barcelona (public meeting at 4.30 pm) do visit an evangelical church barcelona downtown to receive free food bags.... i can confirm that the queue was long.
the pastor in charge of this church has not allowed me to take picture of some older jw living barcelona downtown, but i was able to catch these young publishers.
-
-
schnell
@tor1500, and then they need assistance, so why hate on the government that provides it solely on the basis of religious belief that it's a puppet of Satan?
And then they realize this puppet of Satan is put in its relative position by Jehovah, and their head explodes.
-
4
This popup ad strikes me as funny
by dropoffyourkeylee in.
yeah, i have russians getting in my way all the time.
-
-
schnell
I guess if you date them, they'll stop it.
-
12
It's weird to look back at old family stories about our beliefs.
by schnell inmy parents had a story that the first time my dad ever met my mom's father, he opened the door and immediately asked dad, "what are you gonna do if my grandson needs a blood transfusion?!".
grampa was a ww2 vet, an airplane mechanic, a methodist and freemason.
he and my grandmother were pictured all my life as these ogres who opposed my mother's jw conversion and her marriage to my father.
-
-
schnell
My parents had a story that the first time my dad ever met my mom's father, he opened the door and immediately asked dad, "What are you gonna do if my grandson needs a blood transfusion?!"
Grampa was a WW2 vet, an airplane mechanic, a Methodist and Freemason. He and my grandmother were pictured all my life as these ogres who opposed my mother's JW conversion and her marriage to my father. I never spent a lot of time with them, never got to know him, and only had a (not)Thanksgiving dinner with my grandmother towards the very end of her life. They were by no means perfect or even necessarily good people.
But episodes like that one were always told a certain way by my parents. As kids, we soaked up the lesson quite well: Blood transfusions are bad, and we have to withstand persecution from family about our beliefs.
And that is so completely irrational to me now. Why can't your beliefs withstand criticism, and re-examination? Why the persecution complex? Dad, why couldn't you just get off your high horse and admit this is wrong?
Now, I have to study with my wife about this because of her years of indoctrination. Because we want to have children, we have already accepted blood fractions to that end, and indeed, what am I going to do when our son needs a blood transfusion?
-
29
Is it OK for JW employees to sell lottery tickets?
by Iamallcool ini do remember reading an article that it is not ok for jw to sell cigarettes at gas stations, etc... i was wondering what about lottery tickets?
they do sell lottery tickets at few restaurants around my home.
if jw works there and rats me out to the elders, i would not give a damn about it but i still prefer not to hear from the elders about it..
-
-
schnell
@James Mixon: I had a roommate who was studying at the time a few years back. I sat in on the study, and he asked an interesting question.
If someone played the lottery and won, and donated the money to the society, would they accept it and would he be disfellowshipped?
The brother and I reasoned at the time that they would not accept it... Now I am not so sure. It's a donation, right?
-
16
JW as a secret society - a weak link in the Information Age.
by slimboyfat inin the late 1990s there was magazine article that asked the question, are jws a secret society?
obviously they said no, because they claim to be transparent to outsiders and new members.
but they really are not transparent at all.
-
-
schnell
A secret society for dorks.
-
26
JW requesting food assistance to Babylon the Great.
by sp74bb inbarcelona (spain), jan 8, 2017 at 1.30 pm.
two publishers of the tagalog group in barcelona (public meeting at 4.30 pm) do visit an evangelical church barcelona downtown to receive free food bags.... i can confirm that the queue was long.
the pastor in charge of this church has not allowed me to take picture of some older jw living barcelona downtown, but i was able to catch these young publishers.
-
-
schnell
@tor1500, no worries about a long post. I quite enjoyed it.
Ubuntu. "I am because we are."
-
7
1914 in the revised NWT ?
by Bonnie_Clyde injust awhile ago i saw someone mentioned that 1914 made it's way into the revised nwt.
if this is true, will someone tell me where?.
-
-
schnell
Boy, they really don't think they'll have to back off of that, do they?
-
29
Is it OK for JW employees to sell lottery tickets?
by Iamallcool ini do remember reading an article that it is not ok for jw to sell cigarettes at gas stations, etc... i was wondering what about lottery tickets?
they do sell lottery tickets at few restaurants around my home.
if jw works there and rats me out to the elders, i would not give a damn about it but i still prefer not to hear from the elders about it..
-
-
schnell
Waaaaaaay back when I was a grocery store bag boy, I realized really quick that I had no interest in keeping up dumb rules about conscience like this. I just did my job.
-
45
Are there any doctrines which all Christian religions follow.
by jwfacts ini cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
-
-
schnell
I got nothin', if everything comes down to varying definitions (which is your point, of course).