watchtowers official view:.
you also ask why one can be disfellowshipped for taking a blood transfusion but not for taking blood fractions.
while both may affect the life of an individual, the expression "life-sustaining" in connection with blood transfusions is synonymous with the idea of taking in food for nourishment.
The other important factor to look at is the source of WT's argument that a transfusion constitutes the "eating" of blood. W 4-15-85, p.13, quotes WT's source: Frenchman Denys...of the 17th century!
WT cannot find a single modern authority to support its view, so it does the classic WT move of finding any source from any century, no matter the level of ignorance of that century, as validation of the legitimacy of its stance.
if they say to you, he is in the desert, do not go out there;.
if they say, he is in the inner rooms, do not believe it.
(mathew 24:26).
Russell declared the pyramid at Giza "God's Stone Witness"; Rutherfraud declared it was "Satan's Stone Witness" after Russell died.
i find it fascinating to see how quickly the society has about faced on the use of the internet.
interestingly they still have not adopted two way communication channels such as facebook, twitter, instagram.
etc.. if you are lurking....why do you think that is?
Interestingly they still have not adopted two way communication
WT is not famous for two way communication. They speak, you listen. That's it.
an elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
Vidiot: Frankly, at this point, I have a hard time visualizing you not pulling things out of your ass
I actually can't argue this point.
so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.
he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.
the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.
@ skeetr1 : What did the Pixar guy say about the deaf video?
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Pixar had nothing to say about the WT masterbation video...but Carpal Tunnel surgeons absolutely love it!
so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.
he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.
the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.
I was recently sitting next to the CEO of Nike, and he is really jealous of the "JW.Org" assembly tote bags. He wishes Nike could think up really cool stuff like WT does.
so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.
he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.
the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.
@ Magnum: I'd love to know whether the Pixar incident really happened at all and if it did, how the conversation really went.
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The CO happened to be in the same airport as a guy from Pixar. As they sat in the waiting area, here's what happened:
CO: "Hi. I'm a Jehovah's Witness. You probably didn't recognize me without my literature trolley parked 30 feet away while I sip a Grande Starbucks Frappuccino. But I do have a "JW. Org" lapel pin. See."
Pixar Guy: "Yeah, I've heard of JWs. One of the janitors in the home office is one of you."
CO: "Has he shown you our latest animated feature that we take full credit for producing but we actually hired it out to a worldly firm?"
Pixar Guy: "Yes, I've seen it. You get what you pay for and JWs work for free, right?"
CO: "True."
Pixar Guy: "At Pixar, we know in order to get the best, you must hire the best, and that means paying our people big bucks. I'm glad that we at Pixar do not have to rely on slave labor to do what we do. Actually paying people makes all the difference in the world."
CO: "Care for a sip of my Frappuccino?"
im just thinking outloud and, of course, you are welcome to think aloud with me.. (1) there are the metrics used in the yearbook totals.
the average publisher count measures only those who reported time.
likely, most of those who attend the memorial are those inactive or somehow associated in some way, shape, or form.. (2) there is meeting attendance.
The way JWs measure themselves is with an invisible ruler.
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To your point, since WT is by all definitions a secret society, the truth will most likely never be known.
an elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
And once again, I am never invited to those parties.....................;-(
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consider yourself invited....
an elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
@ DFTS: he thought that JW's could not participate in the stock market because that was no different than gambling at a casino
By that moronic reasoning a JW should never buy a house either.
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@ DoC: As I recall hot tubs lead to over drinking and swinger parties.
Why do you think I bought one?
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@ Vidiot: I don't know what's weirder...these four scenarios you just pulled out of your ass, or the fact that I can actually visualize them being used in demonstrations at an assembly.
I think what's weird is you visualizing me pulling things out of my ass . Which, by the way, would make for a great assembly demonstration.
