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  BIG ELDERS MEETING ON THE BLOOD ISSUE! SHOCKING CHANGES AFOOT!?

  by Gill in

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  i have just been informed that something is going in with the blood issue within the borg.. a large meeting is being held this weekend with local elders and also many elders from all over the country/the united kingdom and members from the bethel and hospital liason committee to discuss the blood issue.. is anyone else aware of what this is going to be about?.

  i wondered whether this would be part of the expected or possible changes that the organization is expected to announce this year that might lose them many members.

  any elders here know anything?.

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  otherwise, they are just learning to explain it in such a way that the flock thinks they get it.....

  I agree 100% with this analysis. I had occasion last year to see a rough draft of some materials that were meant to "sort out this blood mess." The multipage article written was very articulate, and explained clearly, (though with a JW slant) how they were defining the breakdown of "fractions." It was complete with an additional 4 page spread of full color illustrations and diagrams that looked like it came out of at least a H.S. level biology textbook. (This whole draft was researched and written by a woman, btw.)

  When the new articles on Blood and fractions came out this year, I figured it was her article and research. Imagine my surprise when nearly a month later I received scans of this magazine and it was the same old drivel, reworded. Disgusting. I really thing that at least the article I saw would have given many people the green light to accept fractions (including hemoglobin substitutes,) but what they actually printed really made very little change. Just more legalistic maneuverings and meanderings.
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  What makes a truly great kiss?

  by nicolaou in

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  now i'm not going all girly or anything but kissing is still great!

  if my wife is, for example, preparing a meal i might be able to kiss her on the side of the neck while she's peeling the potato's.

  i know what you're thinking, 'that nic's a smooth ol' romatic operator'!.

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  There's a scene in Boston Legal where Tara is tantalizing Alan Shore with "Christmas Eve"

  It’s not the part where the lips actually touch; it’s the part just before that . . . when they’re so close. When you know it’s about to happen. You can almost feel it,

  taste it—I like that bit to last forever. Don’t you just love to make it last forever?

  yeah. like that.
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  Your Feelings On Getting Reinstated For Family Considerations

  by minimus in

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  i just read the mary/gumby where are they thread.

  i want to say right from the start that i like gumball very much.

  i've talked by phone to him in the past and we've had some discussions here over the years.

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  Bullshit.....I'll spill the beans on ya fer a mere buck fifty with no tax.

  cheapskates everywhere cozy up to Mary...
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  Knocking documentary email

  by Rebirth in

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  so it appears that many local pbs affiliates are refusing to air knocking according to an email i got this morning from the producers.

  he beseeched jws to call their local station and ask for it to be aired because "other programming directors might get a skewed impression that the community does not want to see knocking, based on only receiving negative calls and letters about jehovahs witnesses.

  they may have never heard from actual jehovahs witnesses.

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  3:30 through that preview, Seth's mother says that if her son took blood and got his liver transplant, she would "still love him" and he "is still our son." How misleading is that since she may still love him, but would she also shun him if he had a transfusion? It seems apparent from this that he is living at home and dependent on his parents for care. Does he truly have a choice? Or is his stand against accepting blood partially motivated by immediate self-preservation? (As in, he can survive in the "now" -with the direct support of his family and the congregation - only if he remains a loyal JW.) Apparently he did find someone to do the surgery without blood, which is good. But the delusion that he really has a "choice" in the matter is misleading to the viewers of this video.

  I also find it strange that this Joel Engardio (sp) who produced/directed the documentary is embraced by this community, in spite of having been raised as a JW, but not accepting it. It seems that the JWs should take issue with his lack of committment to the "truth."

  In spite of my negative feelings toward this production, it is likely that I will view it, given the opportunity. I'd like to see the extras and commentary, even though the program appears to be a severely biased "puff piece" for JWs.
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  lWow, interesting YouTube JW video

  by mavie in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwyldqcsga&mode=related&search=.

  i love the labels 'persecutors' and 'apostate'.

  this poor kid is already controlled..

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  I don't get it. I thought the butt-slappy and field-humping was funny though, especially with those little towers on their shirts.
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  So long, and thanks for all the kids...

  by Paralipomenon in

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  i recently remembered this jw rumor that went circulating around when i was younger.

  two sisters call on a door in service and is confronted by an obviously demon possessed individual.

  (the details always changed, floating lamps, speaking in tongues, the usual folklore) sensing a disturbance in the force the younger sister leaves but the older pioneer sister stays determined to give her witness.

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  LMAO! I had forgotten about that one!
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  JW Claymation Propaganda

  by mavie in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-i7xqqdhq.

  found this on another board.

  it's about 10 minutes...and o so sickening!.

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  Well, the same account uploaded this gem...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yrEYYKvsNE

  that's revolting.
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  In Memorandum

  by RichieRich in

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  it was the 14th of april last year that i had to sit my mother down and tell her i was an apostate.. i was closer to her than anyone else.

  my father and mother are still married, but he let her raise me as a witness, and that meant it was me and mom.. me and mom in field service for 100 hours in july because she had to make her time as a regular pioneer.. me and mom fighting over what to bring for lunch to the district convention.. me and mom up late at night, when she would berate me, and then unload all her problems on to me.. me and mom and our 4 hour family studies, where we discuss 2 paragraphs of a random book, and then she would browbeat me until early in the morning.. somehow, through all that, i pretended to be a witness for years, just to appease her.

  looking back, i don't know if i loved her, or if i was just afraid of her.

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  I'm sorry Richie. What a shame.
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  Your favorite JW euphemisms...

  by AuldSoul in

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  the heart and soul of doublespeak is euphemistic references.

  i think many jws are not aware of how often they do this.

  since leaving slightly over a year ago, i have discovered many that i had not even been aware that i used.

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  witnoids just came to my door! woo hoo!!!

  by tetrapod.sapien in

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  looks like i am not on their "do-not-call" list anymore!!

  mwa ha ha ha!!!

  i bet they are going to have to rewrite the reasoning book now~!

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  Fun conversation. I doubt they will come back, but you can be sure this "householder" will stick in their minds for quite awhile.