in the latest edition of 'the british medical journal', (one of the worlds most respected and foremost med.
journals) has just published a history on jw's and blood.
it discusses they're changes, and views on confidentialy and informed consent.
In the latest edition of 'The British Medical Journal', (one of the worlds most respected and foremost med. journals) has just published a history on JW's and blood. It discusses they're changes, and views on confidentialy and informed consent. Here's the link to read it online!
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7277/37
Venice
i've seen some posts here regaring child abuse, pedophila and such.
i'm sure most of you are aware of the poster knon as 'silentlambs' and his posts on h2o and other boards.
here's some links if you missed the posts.
Silentlambs has gone Public, and is making a statement. This is only the begginging--stay tuned!!!
NSNBS's websight has this article
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WPSD/17805.asp?cp1=1
http://www.hourglass2.org/wwwboard/messages/310438.html
Venice
hey all, hope you're having a great year so far.. before witnet was closed down, there was an interesting discussion regarding the fds and their failed prophecies.
i asked a question, but unfortunately there wasn't enought time to get everyone's view.. so i'll rephrase my posts, and wait to hear from y'all.. if we are so quick to say that the fds is a false prophet because of some failed prophecies (even tho they say they don't prophecy, we all know better) then how would you explain the bible book of jonah?.
a faithful prophet, jonah, followed (after much trial and tribulation to himself) jehovah's command to declare destruction on the city of nineveh.
I don't know if this has been posted already or not, I've read most of the posts, but not all. I didn't realise how big this was going to get. Here's a link to a wonderful document about the FDS! ENJOY!!!
http://www.brci.org/Publications/F&DS.pdf
The Faithful and Discreet Slave and Jehovah's Witnesses by Ronald E. Frye discusses the important Watchtower teaching linking the organization of Jehovah's Witnesses with the "slave" of Jesus' illustration in Matthew 24:45.
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i am new to this.. i have a problem.
someone on my ministry asked me about the date that we hold so dear....607 bce and asked me to prove it to them.
this would not be a problem i thought as the f&ds would have solid basis for using such a date.
If you really want to read something interesting that will really help it's called, 'Gentile times Reconsidered'by Olaf Johnson. It was written by a brother who was asked the same question in service while he was pioneering. He did extensive reaserch and it's an excellent book for anyone interested in the fall of Jerusalem.
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i've seen some posts here regaring child abuse, pedophila and such.
i'm sure most of you are aware of the poster knon as 'silentlambs' and his posts on h2o and other boards.
here's some links if you missed the posts.
I've seen some posts here regaring child abuse, pedophila and such. I'm sure most of you are aware of the poster knon as 'Silentlambs' and his posts on H2O and other boards. Here's some links if you missed the posts.
This first one if the Newspaper article dated Friday 01/05/01;
http://www.hourglass2.org/wwwboard/messages/310151.html
This is the letter sent to the newspapers;
http://www.hourglass2.org/wwwboard/messages/308225.html
This is the letter sent to the WTS.
http://www.hourglass2.org/wwwboard/messages/308225.html
He's truly doing a courageous and brave thing here, and he has our support.
Venice
...to read "crisis of concience" and continue on believing that the organization is (or ever was) gods organization?
Dad read CofC in one day, couldn't put it down.
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...to read "crisis of concience" and continue on believing that the organization is (or ever was) gods organization?
If they could, then they'd make great JW's, no conscience!!
Venice
well everybody, it's time for me to get back to school.. got lot's to learn this year.. i love all of you, what a great place !.
h20 is my battlefield and jw.com is my coffee house.. i see that you all are attracting many new members...i can't blame them for wanting to come in to this place.
it's a very nice and loving place, it's like the congregation was supposed to be like.. all the members here are very fortunate to have come together here.. yo "1" jt, you're gonna luv this board.. love,.
i have 3 sisters still in the org.
is it still called the "org"?
2 of them maintain no contact, one because i'm an evil apostate, the other is two faced about it(nice on the phone 2x a year, but does not let anyone know about the contact) the 3rd is pretty cool about it, we e-mail alot and i call monthly( all live 1200 miles away).
I heard a story recently where a sister was Df'd but her husband was a faithful Dub. When he died the funeral place was packed, full of JDubs. After the first Eulogy?, the wife got up to thank everyone for coming, all the Faithful JW's got up and walked out right in the middle!!!! Her family and all hte non-JW's were horrified. Can you image being that rude to someone. The think that terrifies me is I wonder what I would have done?
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BTW on h2O we refer to the Org. as the BORG.
what do you think was the single most high impact event of 2000?.
1 choice per person.. m2u
OrangeVale Bob, (mind if I just call you Bob, it's a heck of a lot faster to type)
Glad I could help. There are a lot of great books and sites to check out. Another good book is "Apocolypse Delayed" by James Penetnse. As the story goes he was a faithful JW in Canada, and did a short little writeup on JW's up there for the local paper. Well, it was a real hit, he has a great wrighting style. So they asked him to do a more involved piece. He got a grant from the Government to do the research, well what a good Witness he was planning on giving. But once he started researching, he found things he never would have fathomed. He was df'd and has written an excellent history of the JW's deffinentaly a must read.
There's also a great book called, "Faith on Trial", it's written by a lady who is a lawyer, trying to prove weather or not the gosple accounts would stand up as credible witness in a court of law. It's really interesting. What happens to so many when the lose faith in the WTS is they lose faith in the Bible and God, which is so sad. We need to keep up our srpirutality, but now we do it on our own. There are a ton of books out there, good and bad. If you need any nore recomendadtions for any area, feel free to ask.
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