VERY good questions, Eyeslice.
Posts by Roddy
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5Has anyone else asked this question about blood?
by eyeslice inabout a year ago, even though we had not been issued with no blood cards, there was some talk about filling in and signing the health care advanced directive.. for those who havent seen this document, it is quite detailed and specific about what blood fractions an individual will accept.
so basically, it states the individual will under no circumstances accept whole blood or its major components, but may accept what could be quite a long list of minor blood fractions.. so here is the tricky question(s) i asked one of our local elders.
q. you understand that these so called minor components are extracted from donated human blood and often it takes many pints of this human blood to produce just a small amount of these fractions?.
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Alaska and Hawaii
by Roddy indoes anyone know why alaska and hawaii are considered their own "countries" in wts statistics?
how come they can't be grouped with the usa statistics?.
and another thing.
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Roddy
Does anyone know why Alaska and Hawaii are considered their own "countries" in WTS statistics? How come they can't be grouped with the USA statistics?
And another thing. How come the addresses for the Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico branches appear weird in the mailing addresses found in WTS literature? How come the WTS can't write the addresses in the normal address layout for USA postal mail?
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Meat In Due Season: February 2003 KM
by Stephanus inthanks again to dmouse, we have more provision from the fds' table, i.e.
february's kingdom ministry.
enjoy:.
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Roddy
I would like the site to include the Canadian and USA Kingdom Ministries along with the UK Kingdom Ministry as comparison.
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1934 Yearbook
by betweenworlds inso then, is the 1934 yearbook rarer then hen's teeth?
can't seem to find one anywhere!
bw
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Roddy
>>Once in a blue moon one comes around on Ebay. I got one last year for about $135. You might be better off asking someone for a photocopy.<<
Are photocopies of the key pages of interest available somewhere?
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Any theories why sudden growth in WTS?
by Mr Bean inlately is observed some small growth in wts troops.
any idea what is causing it?
i've heard that an age of baptized new members has dropped and 9/11 makes an impact.
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Roddy
9/11 may have brought fence sitting fearers of Armaggedon into the fold. But as Armaggedon delays and that fear wanes, the WTS should experience a fall in the numbers in a year or two.
Also remember the new numbers manipulation in eased field service requirements in order to keep the ever growing elderly population of JWs in the regular ranks. And to keep the aux and reg pioneers pioneering.
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The Judge's Illegal takeover
by RR ini have often wondered why the bible students did not pursue a lawsuit against j.f.
davies, auerbach & cornell.
davies, auerbach and cornell.
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Roddy
You learn something every day. Thanks RR.
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Elders want letter from my daughter!
by reubenfine inbackground: my unbaptized daughter married an unbaptized young man when they were both 18 years old.
it didn't work out and 2 years later they divorced.. now it's 6 years later, (after the divorce), and my daughter never got baptized.
her ex-husband did and is engaged to another dub.
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Roddy
>> Since my relationship with my ex husband I have led an entirely celibate lifestyle, not that it's any of your business. <<
Yep! That will mess up their plans real good!!! Perfect!!! LOLLLLLLLLL
Of course, your house might be watched for a while. If any male non relative is observed staying over for more than 15 minutes, the perverts will assume you've had sex with him.
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Jesus Is God (John 1:1)
by JesusISJehovah inaccording to john 1:1, jesus is god.
how do jehovah's witnesses rationalize that blatant statement of jesus' deity?
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Roddy
DakotaRed, it doesn't get any simplier!
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I wonder if they are still a Jdubs
by William Penwell ini was doing research on another topic and came acroos this article taken form the 1971 kingdom ministry.
i was wondering how many of these good dubs are still selling this crap.
like the fellowin paragraph 6 that started to study and writes, "i am now selling my home and plan to move .
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Roddy
As I was growing up I was rather a quiet one. I did good without fanfare. I rather missed out from being used in circuit assm programs, demonstrations, and talks. As I reflect back, it was probably a blessing.
Friends that where held up as examples in the circuit assm either faded out, had to be kicked out, or are barely hanging on. One sister that was used twice in a circuit assembly program for her stance in school and her pioneering is living in an intolerable marriage with her equally intolerable JW husband. Every brother I know who did a talk at the theocratic ministry at a circuit assembly years ago are depressed or has some kind of problem.
When I realized this, I stopped feeling passed-up anymore. Even felt a bit grateful. A few more years have passed, now I find the coincidence a bit scary.
Hanging low does have advantages.
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Greg Stafford --- Update
by ExpandedMind ingood morning!
i found this post on channel c and thought i'd share it with those of you who are interested.
happy new year to all of you!
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Roddy
I feel deeply for Mr Stafford. I feel I'm walking in his path although he is miles ahead of me. As I study independently from, and objectively of, the WT, it is not a coincidence that fewer and fewer intellectuals remain in the JW camp. It is as if the more they know, the worse it becomes. They are either compelled to leave or forced to. With Mr Stafford's situation, I am convinced more than ever before that the JWs have no intelligentsia at all!!!
The brain drain among the JWs and in the WTS is not only real but practiced.
If there are any even pretending scholar status in the WTS, they have to be viewed with intense suspicion internally and they must be overruled by the whim of the GB and other political powers that be.