The Roman Catholic Church? The worst religion perhaps.
Joker10
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Another Television Show on the Jehovah's Witnesses on May 10th
by jschwehm inhi gang:.
i will be interviewed on the cable tv network known as the "eternal world television network" (ewtn) about my conversion from the jehovah's witnesses to the roman catholic church.
the program is called "the journey home" and it will air on monday may 10th at 7 pm central time (usa).
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New to the Forum
by Candles of Light ini am new here and i have never been a jw, however by boyfriend has been one for most of his life.
he is now kicked out of the church.
i have to deal with his pain over the experiences he tells me about in regard to his association with this church and i don't know how to help him.
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Joker10
So he didnt go to college. He still can. The religion can't stop you from going to college. Tell him to get real help.
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New to the Forum
by Candles of Light ini am new here and i have never been a jw, however by boyfriend has been one for most of his life.
he is now kicked out of the church.
i have to deal with his pain over the experiences he tells me about in regard to his association with this church and i don't know how to help him.
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Joker10
I disagree with you about the love and kindness, Candles.
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Satans Witness
by Nordic in.
this day in denmark ther is frontpage article about, jehovahs witness:.
http://ekstrabladet.dk/visartikel.sasp?templateid=1
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Joker10
it is a brief article. About nothing, really. They call them Satan Witnesses because they don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. It says they idolate from society, bla bla. A cult. This is the kind of bogus paper we see at supermarket counters
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I wrote a letter of complaint about a Witness....
by Dolllie inand sent it to the watchtower society.
the witness was/is a "racist".
i was told by her that i could not go to the local kingdom hall, or have a copy of the watchtower or awake because i was black.
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Joker10
What do you mean by "i have to go"? How old are you?
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What's your ethnic background?
by Joker10 in.
it seems that light skinned ex-ws speak out more against watchtower than people of a darker skin color.
what is your ethnic origin?
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Joker10
It seems that light skinned Ex-Ws speak out more against Watchtower than people of a darker skin color. What is your ethnic origin?
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jw's and holidays
by prgirl79 ini was with a ex-jw for 5 years or shall i say disfellowshipped but still never moved on!
anyways the whole time we were together no birthdays, funerals, weddings (only reception not church), thanksgiving, christmas.
i always felt alone and like i would offend him celebrating these things.
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Joker10
If somebody host a good holiday party or whatever, then i'm there. Since holidays is another thing made up by people it is not important to me.
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St. Louis: Blood transfusions would have saved woman's life, doctor says
by jwsons innews on april 22nd 2004:.
haematologist says: blood transfusions would have saved woman's life".
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Joker10
$412,500 is awarded in suit against surgeon By WILLIAM C. LHOTKA
Of the Post-Dispatch
04/24/2004 A jury in St. Louis County Circuit Court awarded $412,500 Friday night to the family of Linda Grissom, a Jehovah's Witness who refused a blood transfusion and died after surgery in November 2001.
The jury found in favor of Linda Grissom's husband, Gene, and her daughters, Patty, Lisa and Sheila. Jurors found against Dr. Ronald Gaskin, the surgeon who cut her aorta during gallbladder removal surgery but repaired the wound on the operating table.
The jury ruled for total damages of $750,000 but found Gaskin only 55 percent at fault and the family 45 percent at fault.
The key questions in the weeklong trial were:
Did Grissom's decision to reject a blood transfusion unfairly shift the responsibility for her death to the doctor?
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Bible prohibits church members from accepting blood from others.
Grissom, 64, of Imperial, was a production line supervisor, a wife, mother and a grandmother who was planning her retirement in two months when she died on Nov. 21, 2001, a day after surgery.
Gaskin is a general surgeon with a practice in south St. Louis County and surgical privileges at St. Anthony's Medical Center. He had performed more than 500 laparascopic cholecystectomies, procedures to remove the gallbladder that are less invasive than open wound surgery.
Gaskin's attorney, Philip Willman, argued, "This case is about freedom of choice, and it is unfair to blame Dr. Gaskin for that choice" of rejecting blood transfusions that Grissom made before surgery in waivers she signed - and after surgery when she was questioned by a hematologist at St. Anthony's.
Alvin A. Wolff Jr., the plaintiffs' attorney, said the cutting of the aorta during what was supposed to be bloodless surgery was "malpractice every time. I can't imagine anything else."
By "every time," Wolff was referring to admissions by the surgeon that he had cut or nicked arteries in surgeries in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and took a voluntary suspension of privileges at St. Anthony's for 2 1/2 months in 1998.
Dr. Edward Mason of Atlanta, an expert on the procedure and the last witness in the trial, disagreed. Mason said cutting the aorta was inadvertent and Gaskin would have been negligent only if he had not recognized it and successfully sutured it on the operating table.
Mason said he had performed 5,000 such gallbladder removals, however, without cutting an artery.
In arguing negligence by Gaskin, Wolff cited a study in 1993 in the American Journal of Surgery in which 4,292 hospitals reported just 13 instances of aorta cutting in 77,604 cases.
Willman noted the testimony of the hematologist, Dr. Victoria Dorr, who told the jury that Grissom would have survived if she had accepted blood transfusions. -
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My daughter came home wearing a cross...........
by happehanna in.
and it made me feel odd, unnerved.. i haven't been to a meeting for two years now and am quite anti jw but this still felt odd, to see her wearing a cross.
any ideas?
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Joker10
why the hell would she wear one? with all the nice jewelry out there.
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JW's BANNED IN RUSSIA - 04-01-04
by 4JWY injehovah's witnesses banned from moscow by russian court.
is the heading of the article in the religious section of our newspaper yesterday.
moscow (ap) a moscow court has banned the religious activities of jehovah's witnesses from the russian capital in a move that critics called a step back for democracy and religious freedom.
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Joker10
Russian Jehovah's Witnesses complain to European rights court over ban - TV.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2004 Financial Times Ltd.
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
[Presenter] Today Moscow's Golovinskiy Court passed a decision banning the Moscow community of Jehovah's Witnesses. Aleksandr Mostoslavskiy reports.
[Correspondent] This is not the first attempt to outlaw the Jehovah's Witnesses - the previous one failed in the same court six years ago. Both then and now, members of this Protestant organization were accused of stirring up religious discord, destroying families and carrying out financial machinations. Prosecutors brought these accusations a month ago adding that the teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses was dangerous for life.
[Tatyana Kondratyeva, senior aide to the Moscow Northern Administrative Area prosecutor, captioned, interviewed outside the courthouse] There is a categorical ban on blood transfusion which under certain circumstances poses threat not only to Jehovah's Witnesses themselves but to their children too.
[Correspondent] Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned in 25 Asian and African countries, China among them. The Christian world does not like Jehovah's Witnesses but tolerates them. The main contradiction between the Jehovah's Witnesses [and other Christian confessions] is that they do not believe in Holy Trinity, hell, heaven and immortality of human soul.
[Unidentified woman, speaking to camera] Since I have acquired this joy, my heart orders me to tell other people about this joy. But people are getting angry, I don't know why. They reject and persecute us.
[Correspondent] Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in the Soviet time for their anti-Communist protests. In 1991, along with other religious organizations, they obtained an official registration which was confirmed by the Justice Ministry last year.
Jehovah's Witnesses are disappointed but nor surprised by today's decision to stop their activities in Moscow. Senior believers say that in the Soviet time they had already been banned, imprisoned and killed.
[Vasiliy Kalin, chairman of a managing committee of the centre of Jehovah's Witnesses, captioned, interviewed outside the courthouse] In the Soviet time a Russian had to be an atheist. The situation has changed and a Russian must be Orthodox now.
[Correspondent] The Witnesses say that despair is not their feeling. They will appeal with the Moscow City Court on Monday [29 March]. Moreover, a complaint about Russian justice has already been filed with the European Court of Human Rights.
[Video shows court proceedings, people reading the Bible, interviews, magazines, people outside a courthouse]
Source: Ren TV, Moscow, in Russian 1630 gmt 26 Mar 04
[c] BBC Monitoring
