Don't ask, don't tell...
Medical marijuana and the congregation
by zed is dead 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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ÁrbolesdeArabia
Don't show what you are smoking, they are going to ask you to take THC pills or some other meds. It's none of their business, just like many of the alcoholic beverages JWs love to drink at their Love-Drunk Feast (1 Bacchus 6:66).
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wha happened?
Brothers drinking over the top? Yep. Those frickin hillbillies drink like fish. Rarely did I see someone df'd over it.
MJ? Good lord, it's like reefer madness
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steve2
The difference between a pot user and a non-pot user is this: The latter bother to ask, is it okay to use it for medical purposes, whereas the former don't give a sh*t.
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WTWizard
The logical answer, which is rarely if ever used, is that medical marijuana is classified as a prescription drug and not being abused. And this is whether smoking it, taking the oil as a drug, or using extracts. You have a medical condition, you are using the drug to cure or treat that condition, you should not be subject to any action for this. Otherwise, where would it stop? You get disfellowshipped for taking guanathedine for high blood pressure? Taking Prozac for your depression caused by the witlesses? Lipitor to get your cholesterol down to the new guidelines? Ibuprofen for your headache? Magnesium for general heart health and to prevent heart disease? Where do you draw the line?
And where do they give the congregation latitude "responsibility to the responsible"? That is the Satanic viewpoint in so many areas--instead of laws and regulations, Satan only cares that we take in the full knowledge. Is smoking weed going to help you, or is it only going to ruin your brain and liver while inviting angels to attack? When stupidity is the one and only sin, responsibility to the responsible works. When you are imposing stupidity, as joke-hova does, it doesn't.
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notjustyet
Maybe if confronted by the elders about using you coud argue that you had read in the bible, and the WTBTS has printed that some first century Christians "got stoned"
NJY
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wha happened?
The elders are the worst judge when it comes to when a treatment ends, and addiction begins. They have no training and they shun worldly advice. There was a sister in our Cong that was always stoned on something. I remember her eating lunch with us and she literally fell asleep while chewing her food. Sitting there with her head turned to the side, dropping food out of her mouth. Oh but she wasn't stoned.
Turned out she was doing a Lewinsky with her Dr to get meds. Never ever spoken to, even though it was all common knowledge
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Watkins
Not Just Yet wrote: Maybe if confronted by the elders about using you coud argue that you had read in the bible, and the WTBTS has printed that some first century Christians "got stoned".
You're probably joking, but maybe[perhaps, obviously, assuredly, could be, possibly, undoubtedly(wt-style)] it's within the realm of possibility?
Genesis 1:12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.’ On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmviQBB5DHs&feature=player_embedded watkins
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ÁrbolesdeArabia
wha-happen: The elders are their worst enemy, how many people do you know who killed themselves after having a Shepherding Call? The brothers and a C.O. gathered where my cousin lives to help to suicidal Dubs, they refused to call the police (Jehovah would not want his name to be disdained by forcing a 51-50 (three day hold in a psyche ward) so after the brothers and CO but people killed themselves in 2011.