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  Accepting blood transfusions. By which instrument it ceased to be a disfellowshipping offense to become cause for disassociation?

  by EdenOne in

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  2. beliefs

  ok, i know the story of how it went, with the deal they reached with the bulgarian government, etc.

  i know.. what i need to know is if there is an internal document that redefines willingly taking blood as a disfellowshipping offense into a cause for disassociation.

  a letter from the branch?

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  Is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses marries a disfellowshipped person, what is the outcome?

  by EdenOne in

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  2. beliefs

  hello all.. i need a quick answer, and also a solid reference in the literature, please.. if a jw marries an unbeliever, there is reproof, it's frowned upon, it's disloyal, there will be loss of privileges, etc, but there's no other more serious consequences.

  but, in a scenario where two people are free to marry, but one is a baptized jw and the other is disfellowshipped / disassociated, what are the consequences?.

  thanks for your help.. r..

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  I had a 'conversation' with ChatGPT about shunning and human rights .....

  by EdenOne in

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  hello chatgpt.

  can you discuss human rights?.

  human rights are a set of fundamental rights and freedoms that are inherent to all human beings, regardless of their race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, or any other status.

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  Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany

  by EdenOne in

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  2. current

  mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

  at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

  single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.

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  Could the law abiding Jesus or his disciples have used a coin depicting Caesar?

  by EdenOne in

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  2. beliefs

  so, i was just viewing an interview with professor yonathan adler regarding the origins of judaism as an everyday practice of the masses.

  he makes a very convincing argument that the jews only became torah observants in a generalized way around the beginning of the hasmonean dynasty, between the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc.

  you can watch the interview here:.

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  Nutty Nine Fat Balloons

  by EdenOne in

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  2. entertainment

  and then there were nine .... a little homage using nena's 80's hit:.

  nutty nine fat balloons /.

  floating over warwick sky /.

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  Resurrection after a death sentence in the OT?

  by EdenOne in

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  2. bible

  i have a question for those more versed in biblical history than i. .

  knowing that a belief in a resurrection on messianic times was a later jewish belief ... but still ... did the ot jews believe that someone served a capital punishment / death sentence would be elegible for future resurrection?.

  meaning: when coding the torah, did its writers intended that the capital punishment also be understood as an obliteration for all eternity?.

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  What kind of literary device is this?

  by EdenOne in

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  i know there's a name for this technique but i need a name, nonetheless.. if i say to my audience: apostates are horrible, satanic, dirty, sinners, mentally diseased etc ... all hateful traits.

  and then i say: person a is an apostate.

  then my audience will associate all the traits previously associated with "apostate" with person a. but i can say: i never said person a was horrible, satanic, dirty, mentally diseased etc.

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  HELP NEEDED: In publications, reference to suffering due to DF/DS

  by EdenOne in

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  2. beliefs

  hello everyone.. i need your help again.. please point me to instances in the publications of the watchtower (video links also valuable) where there is evidence of the watchtower's awareness that shunning inflicts suffering / damage to the excommunicated and to family members, friends, fellow witnesses, friends .... .... or that shunning is designed to cause distress and suffering to the excommunicated (with the purpose to hammer him/her back into submission).. .... or that shunning treatment is objectively and purposely a differentiated treatment vis a vis to what treatment is given to unbelievers in general.. i need to be able to locate those publications in the wol, and then find the portuguese version of it, to then print.. thank you in advance for your help.

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  Another shocking tidbit from the "Douglas Walsh" trial of 1954.

  by EdenOne in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm reviewing the entire transcript of the douglas walsh case, and found this shocking bit that normally doesn't come up in the search engines, but it should:.

  pages 370-375. hayden cooper covington on the stand:.

  q: “in your experience of your own congregation in new york, did you have children there of eleven or twelve being baptized?”.

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