TheOldHippie

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  I went to see my Dr about the blood card issue

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i booked a double appointment so that she wouldn't be rushed.

  i explained that i'd been brought up in the jw's and woken up to what a load of shite it was.

  i explained that they have changed the blood card and that the elders in the cong are being told to effectively force people into signing it.

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  TheOldHippie

  "forcing people to sign this thing against their own wishes"

  That is not exactly true, is it? I have not signed a card in my whole life, and nobody has objected or commented.
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  Evolution is a Fact #34 - Hiccups and Tadpoles

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hiccups are a weird phenomena.

  they are a combination of two involuntary actions - firstly a rapid inhalation of breath followed 35 milliseconds later by the glottis at the back of the throat suddenly closing off our airway.. our normal breathing is controlled by a "central pattern generator" in a small region of the brain stem close to the boundary with the spinal cord.

  a signal is sent along the vagus and phrenic nerves resulting in a rhythmic contraction of muscles in chest, diaphragm and throat.. these nerves branch off right at the top of the spinal cord and follow a convoluted path through the chest cavity.

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  What about me, who has never experienced hiccups - does that mean tadpoles are not my ancestors, that I have to look elsewhere for my great-great-great etc. father/mother?
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  Australia Branch to end magazine printing

  by no-zombie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.

  the task being transferred to the japan branch.

  while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.

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  "is there a large branch in The Congo? "

  Ever heard of the Republic of South Africa?
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  Article from Jamaica: Jehovah's Witnesses' properties for sale - Rising costs force religious group to go small

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20160410/jehovahs-witnesses-properties-sale-rising-costs-force-religious-group-go-small jehovah's witnesses' properties for sale - rising costs force religious group to go small.

  sunday | april 10, 2016 | 12:00 am by erica virtue.

  norman grindley.

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  Do many Jamaicans emigrate to the US or elsewhere to find a job? In many East European countries and also in African ones there is little Growth in the YB numbers, but that is because many JWs have left for Western Europe to get a job. So there IS growth, but it surfaces as foreign-speaking congregations in other countries. Is it easy for Jamaicans to emigrate?
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  Excellent Conversation At Literature Trolley

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday my wife and i enjoyed one of our regular days out at edinburgh - movie, lunch, walk, meal etc.. in the late afternoon while mrs cofty went shopping i had an hour at the excellent museum of scotland and arranged to meet up outside the national gallery on princes street.

  on my way back i saw the jw trolley was at the usual spot on the royal mile.

  there was an older man and a young woman standing well back trying hard to look inconspicuous.

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  TheOldHippie

  Oh how excellent you are, Crofty - should I fall down on my knees now and worship you for how you managed to show how utterly stupid the JWs you met were?
  
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  Field service in Germany

  by Ben131895 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i left the organization 34 years ago but are still interested how the developments are.. when i stopped working 13 years ago (i am dutch) we moved to germany, just across the border since houses were 50% cheaper than in holland and the germans are a more polite people.

  we live in a little town with 20.000 people.. in holland we didn't see the witnesses too often, perhaps two times a year.. in germany (at least in my little town) i have not seen the witnesses in all these 13 years.

  they are standing in the shopping center and most of the time also at the railway station with a trolly.

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  I lived in Germany for a couple of years, and if the Germans are more polite than the Dutch, then I am very happy I have not lived in the Netherlands!
  
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  Why would the demons want so many of scriptures in the bible translated the same way as many of the NWT has theirs?

  by wwjdnwt in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am pretty sure that most of the former jw's here already know about johannas greber the former catholic priest who translated a bible with the help of demons, the thing is that the nwt has translated many of the same scriptures the way that greber has done.

  the story of greber freaks me out each time i look it up.

  this topic may have already been discussed prior and if so i apologize for discussing it again.

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  This point has always been a source of amusement to me, because some people try to make it look as if Greber would be the main source of the NWT, as if Greber is the one they have relied upon. That is to make Greber a tiny bit too important.
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  Three reasons why I may have to back.

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. friends

  i look back over the last two years of my life with all the experiences i have read about here and other places and these are three experiences that stand out to me.

  recently in another post a girl relates her experience of being in the borg and her mom literally threw her away by giving her over to the state after she accused an elder of groping her.

  two; i met the man that wrote the insight books for the borg and even though he was at the time the brians of the borgs doctines when he faded his family , brother and his kids are shunning him.

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  "I met the man that wrote the insight books for the Borg"

  And who was that supposed to be?
  
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  Generation Nonsense in today's WT

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  abraham was part of the 9th generation as a descendent of shem.

  yet, their lives overlapped by 150 years.

  yep, they were of the same generation!

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  TheOldHippie

  "They are really getting desperate." Not. This was not in any context with a "generation" discussion, but a reference to how Abram possibly could have heard about Jehova, since he was family and coexisted with Shem for 150 years.
  
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  Is downloading Jw application dangerous?

  by nakanozzi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi, everybody.. romor has it that here in japan, downloading jw application is dangerous because once.

  you download it, borg will know your every activity on the internet.. is this true?.

  does anybody know about that kind of thing?.

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  TheOldHippie

  No end to stupidity, it seems.