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  Ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago from Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/ohio-woman-thanks-lawyer-who-saved-her-life-36-years-ago/1#.uqm0_ltwulp.

  ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago by douglas stanglin, usa todayupdated 2012-03-27 9:29 amflorida attorney joel cohen says the e-mail he recently got from carolynn ivey "raised the hair on my neck.

  " the last time she was a part of cohen's life, carolynn ivey weighed less than 2 pounds and desperately needed a lifesaving blood transfusion despite the religious objections of her parents.. cohen, then a young pensacola attorney, was tapped by the escambia county circuit court to become temporary guardian to give legal consent for the transfusions for carolynn and her twin sister, julia, the pensacola news journal reports.

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  Her Mom has a story a retired nurse

  Here's her comment on the USA Today article website "i think it is time for me to comment on this subject, after all i lived it. i was 23 years old when carol and julie were born. i had been pregnant 7 times and lost 3 other babies. i was at that time in my life a prisoner to my husband and to the religion he chose. during the week that both twins were alive i asked the doctors for alternative measures, anything to keep my girls alive. most of this time i was kept in the dark as to what was happening. it was a 5 days before i even saw the girls, julie died just a few hours after being given the transfusion, i never even held her. i left my former husband the year after the twins were born because he was an abusive tyrant, all with the blessings of the jw. while the children were visting him on a vacation, he left fl and vanished for 8 years. i lost my kids for 8 years ! the jw hid him in az. i found them when they were teens. my present husband raised them to be the adults they are now."
  
  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/ohio-woman-thanks-lawyer-who-saved-her-life-36-years-ago/1#.Uqsqo_RDtqC
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  Ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago from Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/ohio-woman-thanks-lawyer-who-saved-her-life-36-years-ago/1#.uqm0_ltwulp.

  ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago by douglas stanglin, usa todayupdated 2012-03-27 9:29 amflorida attorney joel cohen says the e-mail he recently got from carolynn ivey "raised the hair on my neck.

  " the last time she was a part of cohen's life, carolynn ivey weighed less than 2 pounds and desperately needed a lifesaving blood transfusion despite the religious objections of her parents.. cohen, then a young pensacola attorney, was tapped by the escambia county circuit court to become temporary guardian to give legal consent for the transfusions for carolynn and her twin sister, julia, the pensacola news journal reports.

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  Ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago from Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. medical

  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/ohio-woman-thanks-lawyer-who-saved-her-life-36-years-ago/1#.uqm0_ltwulp.

  ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago by douglas stanglin, usa todayupdated 2012-03-27 9:29 amflorida attorney joel cohen says the e-mail he recently got from carolynn ivey "raised the hair on my neck.

  " the last time she was a part of cohen's life, carolynn ivey weighed less than 2 pounds and desperately needed a lifesaving blood transfusion despite the religious objections of her parents.. cohen, then a young pensacola attorney, was tapped by the escambia county circuit court to become temporary guardian to give legal consent for the transfusions for carolynn and her twin sister, julia, the pensacola news journal reports.

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  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/ohio-woman-thanks-lawyer-who-saved-her-life-36-years-ago/1#.Uqm0_LTWulp

  Ohio woman thanks lawyer for saving her life 36 years ago

  By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY Updated 2012-03-27 9:29 AM

  Florida attorney Joel Cohen says the e-mail he recently got from Carolynn Ivey "raised the hair on my neck." The last time she was a part of Cohen's life, Carolynn Ivey weighed less than 2 pounds and desperately needed a lifesaving blood transfusion despite the religious objections of her parents.

  Cohen, then a young Pensacola attorney, was tapped by the Escambia County Circuit Court to become temporary guardian to give legal consent for the transfusions for Carolynn and her twin sister, Julia, the Pensacola News Journal reports

  Although Cohen never saw the girls or spoke to the parents, he threw himself wholeheartedly into the case, rushing off to Tallahassee for critical appeals court documents and hurrying back that evening so that the doctors could get to work.

  "Once I saw the gravity of the situation, I jumped in with both feet," Cohen says.

  Carolynn Ivey Evans, now a 36-year-old shipping clerk in Ohio, survived, but her weaker sister did not.

  Ivey Evans, who has four children, three stepchildren and three step-grandchildren, tells the News Journal that she found out about her case over the Internet and wanted to thank Cohen "for saving my life."

  "If it was not for Mr. Cohen fighting for me, I would not be here today! It brought me to tears that he would try so hard," she tells the newspaper.

  Ivey Evans says her mother left the Jehovah's Witnesses faith a year after she was born, and her father later went to prison, where he died in 1995.

  "My relationship with my mother is great," she says, "Though this is something that we have not really discussed. I don't want to upset her."

  Ivey Evans tells the News Journal she donated her children's cord blood at birth and hopes that a child's life might have been saved.

  "If one of my children were in need, I would not think twice about getting the help they need to survive and get the fighting chance I have been given," she says.
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  Humor can help heal the pain of shunning

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  humor can help a person deal with extreme.

  emotional pain like shunning.

  i don't mean to take away from this group at all .. .

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  emotional pain like shunning.
  
  I don't mean to take away from this group at all .
  
  But there's alot of healing going on at this Facebook group also
  
  "Apostate & Ex-Jehovalarious Meme Collection "
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/533379860036649/

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  YouTube interview with Sam aka KateWild

  by RayPublisher in

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  2. experiences

  it was a pleasure to interview our own katewild about her experiences and her recent audio recording with the elders.

  the link is below:.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_uwfkdfmdq.

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  Great interview
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  This JW is posting on Yahoo Answers for Bible studies

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. beliefs

  this jw is posting on yahoo answers for bible studies .

  they put this email out there .

  [email protected]

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  This JW is posting on Yahoo Answers for Bible studies
  they put this email out there . [email protected]
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  The Governing Body Have Stabbed Many Old Bethelites In The Back By Not Taking Care Of Them In Their Old Age

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. scandals

  these guys are real company men when they have mass lay off of older bethelites tossing them to the curb and making the congregation they are assigned to carry some of the load, so that the watchtower corporation can cut costs of providing for these nolonger young people who have devoted theirs lives to the corporation.. they are heartless bastards aren't they?

  i wonder what kind of undercurrent this is causing at headquartes?.

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  Feedback on Letter

  by mrhhome in

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  looking for feedback.

  to bring you all back up to speed, wife is ex-jw.

  shunned by her brother and parts of her family at uncles jw funeral.

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  Humor can help heal the pain of shunning

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  humor can help a person deal with extreme.

  emotional pain like shunning.

  i don't mean to take away from this group at all .. .

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  Apostate & Ex-Jehovalarious Meme Collection
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/JWmeme/

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  May Jehovah rebuke you

  by Londo111 in

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  2. bible

  8 despite this, these men too are indulging in dreams, defiling the flesh, despising authority, and speaking abusively of glorious ones.

  9 but when michael the archangel had a difference with the devil and was disputing about moses body, he did not dare to bring a judgment against him in abusive terms, but said: may jehovah rebuke you.. the watchtower uses this passage in jude against its critics, and applies the term glorious ones toward those in the watchtower hierarchy.. however, a little research will uncover that these glorious ones are as some translations say, not human religious leaders, but angelicmajesties.

  the word for speaking abusively is blasphemeo which means to speak reproachfully, rail at, revile, calumniate, blaspheme.. similarly, bring a judgment against him in abusive terms, a similar word blasphemia arises, which means slander, detraction, speech injurious, to another's good name.. here jude contrasts those who thought so much of themselves, likely gnostics, so as to blaspheme angels, to the archangel michaels approach toward the devil.

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