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  Blood transfusion refused by parents of a 6 month old!!

  by outforever in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this was in the paper wednesday - in south africa - durban.

  which is quite surprising as our papers usually do not carry stories like this.. this is a prem baby - now 6 months.

  the dr's had to obtain a high court order to allow the procedure.. the baby had to have a blood transfusion as it could not absorb the mother's milk and supplements cannot be used because of his tiny body.. the parents refused to give their consent and was on life support so the dr submitted to the court that this was an infringement on the.

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  So they are baptizing babies now? That is the only way that a 6 month old would be bound by God's law.
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  Movie coming out for Easter 2014 release: "Heaven Is For Real"

  by adamah in

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  2. entertainment

  with a release date of easter 2014, coming soon to a theatre near you: hollywood (tristar pictures) is capitalizing on the near-death-experience theme with a movie starring greg kinnear.

  here's a hd trailer:.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih8hmfinsbg.

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  "What more evidence do you need?"

  Evidence that it happens to everyone and not to just relatives of people.

  The problem I have with this is: People died in the hospital and are brought back. They report that they see themselves and/or family. How can they see? They are lying on a table. Oh, it's their spirit. How can spirits see? Do they have retinas that absorb the visible light spectrum, and then that light gets converted to electrical signals to get transferred to a processing center and then those pictures are compared to memories. Do spirits have memories? Where are they stored?

  Why is it always seeing or communicating with relatives? Why hasn't anyone seen Elvis or Abe Lincoln or others in history?

  How can this kid report that he saw his grandfather at a young age when he would not know what he looks like?

  How could Colton explains how he saw Mary, Samson, Peter, John, etc in Heaven, when he does not know what they look like?
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  Why did Jesus tell the convict on the cross next to his, that he would be joining him in Heaven TODAY??

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  maybe a silly question, but i'm curious about this part of the story of christ's crucifixion, when the 1 thief challenges jesus to save himself and "us too" from their deaths, but the 2nd thief rebukes him and pleads with jesus... .

  luke 23:42-43: and he said unto jesus, lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

  and jesus said unto him, verily i say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.. .

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  Jesus was dead for the rest of that day, then Saturday, until Sunday morning. Jesus was not in any paradise.

  Thus he could not tell anyone "today you will be with me in paradise"

  KJV and its derivitives mess it up.

  Villagegirl, what is your point?

  Jesus was dead later that day. Why do people bank on words? As if words mean something.
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  Please explain God's wisdom in Judges19;22-30

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the just of the account, two people enter a city and can not .

  find lodging.

  an old man invite them to stay with him (levite).. this is so weird, all the men of the city come to have sex with.

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  Can anyone explain God's wisdom in anything?

  Wisdom would be self evident and not need any explaining.
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  136th Gilead Class Graduates-JW.Org

  by Brother Mike in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just found this video they released on their official website.

  sorry if this was already posted.

  (if not i thought some might have some thoughts about it).

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  " 25 years a JW and I always used to look at the gilead photo and article annually in the magazines when bored on a Sunday morning."

  I would always look at the picture and the cute chicks and think "Rats, they are all married".
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  Circuit Overseer says the Theocretic Ministry School may become a thing of the past

  by Brother Mike in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my congregation was in charge of host week where the d.o.

  spend the week with a congregation the week before an assembly.

  didn't show up because he was "sick" so the c.o.

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  "the organization is moving rapidly and we need to keep up"

  Like water going down a drain rapidly, or rather a toilet.
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  Anyone Here Used to Fear Persecution?

  by kneehighmiah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking today about how i no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the jws.

  i used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs.

  seeing my family tortured.

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  @Band of the Run - I'd take an AK47 and blow everyone away.

  That's what I didn't like about the stories in Nazi Germany. They say they were peaceful and didn't hurt the guards. I'm not impressed. I'd be impressed if they blew away Nazis. The Swaztika is good for target practice.
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  "Keep Doing This In Remembrance Of Me"...keep doing what???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if a witness tells you that jesus commanded you to go to the memorial, how would you respond?.

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  The bread was a symbol of his body and the wine of his blood.

  But he said to keep doing that in remembrance of him. But we never knew him. We only read stories of him.

  The way to keep remembering someone whom we read stories of, is to reread the stories.

  It made sense for those back then, but not for us today.
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  Anyone Here Used to Fear Persecution?

  by kneehighmiah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking today about how i no longer have to fear the attack of satan against the jws.

  i used to fear being rounded up and beaten by mobs.

  seeing my family tortured.

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  Fear it?

  I'd welcome it. Any chance to kick some butt is a good opportunity.

  If I were an adult who lived earlier than the 1970s, and I saw people abuse blacks, I'd love that opportunity to kick ass.

  I hate how people make it a point to ruin others' lives.
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  Evidence of Jesus being Married?

  by cantleave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/jesus-wife-fragment-is-not-a-fake-scientists-claim-9253395.html.

  a harvard professor is claiming a fragment of papyrus seemingly mentioning that jesus had a wife is an ancient document and not a forgery, following a series of tests.. the text is written in coptic and contains a dialogue in which jesus refers to "my wife.

  "karen king, a professor at the harvard divinity school, writes in the harvard theological review that the papyrus is almost certainly a product of ancient christians and probably dates to eighth-century egypt, based on carbon dating and chemical tests on the ink.. none of the testing has produced any evidence that the fragment is a modern fabrication or forgery, prof king and her team concluded.. the fragment, which has some legible lines on the front and on the back, contains the words: jesus said to them, my wife .... she will also be my disciple.. james yardley from columbia university, and alexis hagadorn from columbia university libraries, used a technique called micro-raman spectroscopy to determine that the carbon character of the ink matched samples of other papyri that date from the first to eighth centuries ce.. malcolm choat from macquarie university examined the fragment at hds and offered an independent assessment of the handwriting.. prof king first announced the existence of the fragment in september 2012, at the international coptic congress in rome, where she dubbed it "the gospel of jesus's wife.".

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  That evidence is filed right next to Obama's birth certificate.