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  Nazi Trains, Blood and the Watchtower

  by metatron in

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  a simple question: is the watchtower's continuance of their blood transfusion policy rather like the way nazis used the rail system?.

  it is asserted that the nazis were so fanatically driven to exterminate jews, poles and others that they used vital railway resources to transport prisoners to concentration camps rather than transport needed weapons and soldiers to the front.. i observe a clear drift in the organization towards more ease and compromise.

  even the society now talks about witnesses who lead a double life or those who are 'part-time' witnesses.

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  What's funny though is how for a time it looked like they were starting to backpedal on this issue. Remember how the book that replaced United in Worship dropped the whole chapter on blood, and the rumors the year the blood cards were not issued.

  But yes, in the last few years they have gone really hard core in pushing the blood doctrine, even as it becomes more controversial.

  I still think there may be something to the theory that 9/11 was a turning point, that it allowed the "conservatives", the hard-liners, to gain the upper hand within the organization over the more liberal, progressive factions.

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  Singer Prince Refuses Blood Tranfusions to Help his Hip Problem

  by flipper in

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  in the sacramento bee yesterday was an article on this.

  not adept at posting links - but it's short so i'll post the sources quoted.. " rock star prince may be forced to choose between his faith and his health.

  so contends britains guardian newspaper, which reports that hip problems are affecting the purple one's mobility, and his religious beliefs are preventing surgery.

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  The other day I was reading some blurb about Prince, it referred to him as the "world's sexiest Jehovah's Witness!" LOL!!

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  Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion

  by GermanXJW in

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  on june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.

  among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.

  you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.

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  If its no big deal, will we see mention of it in the Awake! or the Kingdom Ministry? Will they even mention it on their PR website?

  If its so innocent, why are the R&F continually kept in the dark?

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  BRAVO! JW "tolerance" article

  by alamb in

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  BluesBrother,

  The licence plates in New Hampshire carry the state motto: Live Free or Die. Apparently at least one JW thought that this was a political statement and did not want it displayed on his vehicle.

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  Jw firefighter caught with child porn

  by Whoisemmanuelgoldstein in

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  http://www.cbs3springfield.com/news/local/47654212.html

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  JW's can be firefighters now? Who knew, they are going mainstream.

  I don't think this is new. Why wouldn't they be able to be firefighters? My understanding is that in some areas lots of JWs are firefighters, its a relatively good-paying job that doesn't require any evil higher education.

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  Where is Gopher?

  by cognac in

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  haven't seen him... .

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  I've seen a lot less of him since he met a gal a few months back, He hasn't been to the last few meetups. I might have to give him a call and see how he's doing, let him know people are looking for him.

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  What happens when you write a letter to Bethel

  by BonaFide in

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  when you write a letter to bethel, you will receive an acknowledgement letter.

  it usually starts by stating the date of your letter, and they restate the general question or matter you wrote about.

  then they will give a non-committal answer, and encourage you to study and preach.

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  I wrote a letter at the suggestion of the CO, with a lot of questions on how a certain molester's judicial case was handled and why he was ever reinstated, twice.

  After several months, I got back a letter basically telling me nothing and slamming me for having the nerve to dare question Jehovah's wonderful organization.

  The letter to them was me giving them one last chance to demonstrate how well their actions measured up to their words. They failed. I left.

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  Phrases NOT to say if you are in a judicial committee meeting for apostasy

  by BonaFide in

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  i have only been on a couple of committee's for actual apostasy, and in one the brother never showed, and in the other, the person said they don't want to be a witness.

  but in having experience as an elder and a c.o., and in reading this forum, here are my suggestions.. do not say:.

  "i don't believe that the faithful and discreet slave is god's channel" - why not?

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  I still like the one I heard somewhere, when they call to invite you to the meeting, ask for the details, like when, and where, and then ask if any of the elders will be armed?

  C'mon that there is funny, I don't care who ya are!

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  Star Wars: The Old Republic cinematic trailer

  by Yizuman in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjjaaa5a7w.

  omg!

  want!!!!!!!!!.

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  I'm sorry, my reaction to that was just, Meh.

  When will Star Wars quit recycling the same plot, Darth somebody vs. some goody-goody Jedi? The bad guy there was a total Vader ripoff, except he had only a partial face mask. And the good guy looked remarkably similar to Ewan McGregor's Obi Wan. Oh look, the Sith have taken the Jedi by surprise and are invading their club house!

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  Here is the GB photo from the new book "Bearing Thorough Witness"

  by BonaFide in

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  Amazing what some people find to nitpick. Oh my god they have a ring on! Those evil ba$tds!! I'm shocked and apalled!!!

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