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  I'am in the Penalty Box! I asked the Circuit Overseer "Who Donates Blood For Jehovah's Witnesses Blood Fragments".

  by AuntConnie in

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  told my husband to put a muzzle on my mouth over the blood dogma.

  we all were driving around in field service when the topic of "which fragments would you take if you were in a car accident or cut yourself badly".

  said his choice is a personal one, another sister with chronic health problems said she had no problem with the governing body's new light on taking various fragments.

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  Very good point...
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  Alameda County Administrator makes $423,664 a year!

  by VM44 in

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  alameda county administrator's premium pay end hearst/article/premium_article_tools_480.tpl end premium_story_header.tpl article/types/premium_story.tpl hearst/common/author_name.tpl by matier & ross.

  e hearst/common/author_name.tpl article_timestamp.tpl march 25, 2013. alameda county supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business, rewarding county administrator susan muranishi with the wall street-like wage of $423,664 a year.. for the rest of her life.. according to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, muranishi receives:-- $24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.. -- about $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.. -- an annual performance bonus of $24,000.. -- and an additional $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member surplus property authority, an ad hoc committee of the board of supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.. like other county executives, muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.. muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. when retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.. that's because, according to the county auditor's office, muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package - $413,000.

  she also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.. "and she's worth every dime," said supervisor scott haggerty, who was on the board when it promoted muranishi to county administrator in 1995, voted for her and joined in approving her base pay and perks.. "we're lucky to have her," haggerty said.. he likens the job of running the county administration to being ceo of a $2.4 billion corporation, with 9,000 employees.. granted, the $2.4 billion is taxpayer money, and the county isn't set up to turn a profit.

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  Chump change..

  WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton is reportedly earning a whopping $ 200,000 per speech, nearly six months after she stepped down as US Secretary of State.

  Hillary, 65, is earning $ 200,000 a night in the lucrative world of professional speech-making, according to the Washington Post.

  Clinton hit the circuit a few months after leaving office this year amid speculation that she might pursue a run for the White House in 2016.

  Her first speech, the National Multi-Housing Council in Dallas in April, was delivered around the same time that fellow possible 2016 candidate Jeb Bush was giving a speech in Dallas, US media reports said.

  Election ethics laws prohibit politicians in office from giving paid speeches, but it's fairly common for those out of office.

  Hillary's husband and former president Bill Clinton has racked up over $ 100 million in speech fees, according to the New York Times.

  It is reported that he received $ 700,000 from just one event in Nigeria last year, bringing his annual earnings from speech to $ 17 million in 2012.
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  What kind of scandal would cause most JW to leave the "truth"?

  by Iamallcool in

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  I agree with the 'personal experience' reason.

  When the organisation hurts you deeply and personally.. when you feel let down by it, when you experience it's indifference towards you, ignored, marginalised, betrayed, lied too, deceived, when your own sense and intelligence are insulted again and again. That's when you have no choice but to step away. To remain would make you party to your own demise and destruction and madness.
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  who signed your blood card?

  by losingit in

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  two elders in my congregation signed mine bc hubby couldn't bear the repercussions of either 1- saving my life by allowing the blood transfusion, which would probably lead to him being df'd, and 2- me dying bc he did not allow the blood transfusion and having my parents call him a murderer.. isn't that so nice?

  when i most wanted him to represent me, he didn't have the guts, even hypothetically.... so, who signed your blood card?.

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  Mine was never signed by anyone. It remained blank. I had several different elders try to make sense to me the societys current view of the blood issue. They all failed. It made no sense what so ever.

  I rencently trashed the card and all the paperwork that went with it.
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  Are we alone?

  by Xanthippe in

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  the title of this thread is the title of a chapter in the book by richard dawkins that i'm really enjoying in spite of or perhaps because of it having been written for young people.

  i thought i would share a couple of paragraphs on his theories of the kind of bodies aliens on other planets might have :-.

  'let's exercise our imaginations a bit more.

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  What kind of scandal would cause most JW to leave the "truth"?

  by Iamallcool in

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  For me it's simple..

  John 13:35

  "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

  They do not have real love..
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  What kind of scandal would cause most JW to leave the "truth"?

  by Iamallcool in

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  Are there any instances of groups, families or individuals leaving the nation of Israel in Bible times due to the unfaithfulness of the priests or Kings? Or because of the massive collective unfaitfulness and apostacy of the Jewish nation in general and then being 'blessed' as a result?

  Find the answer to that and you will maybe find the answer to the question in this thread..
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  My daughter has been officially df’d, unfortunately...

  by suavojr in

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  unfortunately she still does not know ttatt... the good thing is that my wife (her mom) is not shunning her!.

  i gave my daughter love & comfort and told her that nobody is ever going to divide us, i might not be happy with all of her choices and decisions but i just want her to be happy.

  my family is still asleep and still thinks this is the truthtm and my wife wants her to come back.

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  Being disfellowshipped was the worse and also the best thing that ever happened to me. It showed me how cruel, cold, insensitive, ignorant, narrow minded, how NOT appointed by any Holy Spirit what so ever any of them are.

  But I could net see any of this clearly until I actually went back and got reinstated. By which time I had so much more experience with human behaviour, nature and psychology. I could see them for what they really were. Deceptive and dangerous liars, frauds and fakes.
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  How do I get them to stop houding me?

  by lostinthought in

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  i stopped attending all meetings this summer.

  i prefer not to be dfed or to da myself.

  i just want to be inactive.

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  This worked for me. Changed my number. Told them that I am not happy in that congregation and am seeking another. It worked.

  Although I am smack bang in the middle of their territory and only a stone throw from that hall and walk past it daily, I have not had a single visit from anyone in well over half a year what so ever which although somewhat upsetting at first it suits me just fine now.

  It upset me when I used to believe they were sincere and good and genuine people.. now I know oh so much better, they are the very last people I think I ever want to see.
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  Conversation I had with Elder, "It's Ok To Lie If they don't deserve the truth!" Who created this dogma?

  by AuntConnie in

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  what is the origin of "theocratic warfare" and jehovah's witnesses being able to freely life if they feel it's for the "greater good" of the watchtower?

  i asked the elder if jesus christ ever lied, he said "yes, jesus refused to answer questions from people!

  " can you show me where this is in the bible?

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  I completely agree that whatever pure motives and objectives the early group of brothers used to have in the late 18-hundreds they have gone gradually and totally off the rails. And they show no signs at all of desisting.

  I sit and watch in amazement how they go from bad to insane. What they teach now is bordering on the plain ridiculous. Even what little respect fro them I had as a people is gone. They have become a joke..