Posts by 88JM

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Wife is FOR SURE waking up

by cappytan in

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well, this is a new development.

she broached the subject of ttatt tonight.

said i was right about the flood.

88JM

Sounds like you're doing all the right things.

You just have to be ready for that crunch moment when someone wakes up and realizes the whole thing is a lie - some people react badly at that point.

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today i added a new article to my blog that shares a bit of astounding evidence of just how ridiculous it is for a jw to tell anyone anywhere that jws abstain from transfusion of blood, and plasma in particular.

this article is based on two studies authored by medical staff at duke university's center for blood conservation, a program that is heavily touted by the active "noblood" crowd among jws.

one of these studies contains a real whopper of a piece of information!

88JM

Isn't blood plasma 95% water? (by volume) Or are these percentages without the water?

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CO has been coming to my door. Would like 1 or 2 solid and easy arguments.

by The Laser Viking in

i am 6th generation.

i have been out for a few years.. back story on the situation:.

i had a co come by while going door-to-door in the neighborhood.

88JM

Agreed - a C.O. of all people has his life so invested in the cult that he is just not going to seriously respond to anything which proves the JW's wrong - to acknowledge that would mean his whole life is pointless.

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Blondie's Highlights in February 22, 2015 WT Study (FACING THE END)

by blondie in

paragraph 1.

paragraph 2.

paragraph 3.

88JM

hoser and steve2 nailed it - the WTBTS is hemorrhaging younger members, and all they can come up with is a Watchtower blaming young people for looking elsewhere? They are so far up themselves, they never stop to consider that people might be leaving because there are huge problems and people can see the WTBTS for what it is?

There is no real future for young people by staying in, missing out on college etc. - if they stay in, they will just be another slave to the WTBTS property development business, and Armageddon will still be "just around the corner".

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IDEAL BATHROOMS

by TerryWalstrom in

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i use to dream about designing a bathroom that was, well.

crazy.. today, i saw this photo and almost fell over.

obviously somebody else had the same dream!.

88JM

The Man's Bathroom...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-V04Q-Ymhk

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Neanderthal man

by scary21 in

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my ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).

he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.

i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .

88JM

Seems like a good excuse to wheel out the diagram...

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The 'Message" is spread into 700 languages...SO WHAT??? Big Deal!

by stuckinarut2 in

you know how the org goes on and on about how the "preaching work" takes place in so many languages by the website?.

they also trumpet the fact that witnesses are in "sooooo many lands and nations"....... so what!.

just because the message is spread far and wide, does not mean the content of the message is correct or of value.. take the example of coca-cola or mcdonalds.... these products are in nearly every nation around the world....but does that mean they are beneficial or healthy?

88JM

Translation is a nice money spinner for them these days - besides the money they get from potential new recruits, their property scheme also includes lots of "regional translation offices" popping up all over the place, like the one in Wales.

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Does everyone here know they are on record with JW's forever?

by runForever in

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richard ashe a full-time special servant of the order of jehovah's witnesses testified in the lopez case that every single disfellowshipping and disassociation and other things have all been scanned in 2011 and are and will be on permanent record with jw's forever.

is this legal?

another completely ironic and warped thing is the disfellowshipping form is called the s77 form.

88JM

If they are doing it here in the U.K. they must already have their story worked out as regards data protection - I think as long as they can "legitimize" the reasons for holding the data then they are probably in the clear.

It's not like they're unfamiliar with the data protection laws already, after the whole S-8 form debacle.

They probably don't even hold the data in the U.K. anyway - they can probably circumvent it even more if they just upload it to the U.S. branch.

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Your body of elders - were they liberal, conservative or moderate?

by minimus in

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in my first kingdom hall, the elders were ultra conservative.

our presiding overseer used to be a zone overseer.

the second hall i was in was moderate.

88JM

Moderate, but stupid.

13

The Theory Of Everything

by 88JM in

question: should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?.

i got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a facebook group.

it was partly based on this article in the guardian:.

88JM

Xanthippe - I meant "later in life" as opposed to someone who was born with a disability and lived with it for their entire life.

I just think it's a very contrived argument to say that a film which celebrates the success and life of someone with a disability actually harms the cause of disability awareness.

I also wonder if the same arguments would still be being made if the film wasn't as successful. Where were all these arguments back in 2012 with Bill Murray playing F.D.R. in "Hyde Park on Hudson"?