This is one of the things that weighed on my mind. In 1994 when my first daughter was born, I nearly died. I was bad off for a few months afterward. Several sisters came by to sit with me while my husband was at work. One of them was the wife of an elder. Somehow we got on the subject of blood transfusions - which of course I did not have. She told me that it was a conscience matter as long it was my blood that had been stored for my future use. Now, I had been raised in the truth and had no gaps in my faith allowing me to miss this big announcement...so I thought she was just nuts. I started asking around and a few other people had read the same info in one of the magazines. How can such a big doctrine just change so non-chalantly like that? And they do still have the cards for NO BLOOD, my mother has one issued Jan 2007...I guess for those who refuse blood according to their own conscience.
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WHOPPING WTS LIES ON BLOOD
by DannyHaszard inrichard parker, a member of the jehovah`s witnesses, says that the refusal of transfusions is one of their fundamental beliefs.
based on what is written in the bible.. .
... that while it is a controversial issue, the refusal of transfusions is a matter of faith for witnesses, and deserves to be respected as their choice.
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By their deeds you shall know them - aka JW's who aint that christian
by LaniB infirstly some background.. when i was 21 i went to live in sydney and left my congregation in tasmania.
until then i had never seen the bad side of the borg.
being new in town and staying with my non jw sibling i immediately checked in with the local congregation and soon found a fellow witness to share an apartment with.
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kaalogii
A side point....the ministerial servant's mother later told me that her daughter in law did what she did to see if she would get disfellowshipped. She had gone to the elders on various occasions complaining of physical abuse but they did not believe her and would not remove him. This info came from HIS mother, not hers.
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By their deeds you shall know them - aka JW's who aint that christian
by LaniB infirstly some background.. when i was 21 i went to live in sydney and left my congregation in tasmania.
until then i had never seen the bad side of the borg.
being new in town and staying with my non jw sibling i immediately checked in with the local congregation and soon found a fellow witness to share an apartment with.
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kaalogii
This reminds me of one of our former congregation's "good boys" and the straw that broke the camel's back.
My story starts one Thursday evening when a ministerial servant called my husband to fill in for him by doing his Theocratic Ministry School Talk that evening. We didn't know what could cause such a sudden need for a fill in, especially since it was during the Circuit Overseer's visit. We assumed he was either seriously nervous or violently ill.
A few months later, this young man's wife was disfellowshipped. The word around the congregation was that she left him for an old boyfriend from her worldly days. Everyone was shocked. My husband felt bad for him. He decided to invite him to go swimming with him, which the young ministerial servant accepted.
The night they were going, he showed up at our house but told my husband that he'd really rather go to a Battle-of-the-Bands that was being held at the nearby Air Force Base. Wherever he wanted, it was his night. He had his brother-in-law with him, and they went to the concert instead of to the pool. While they were there, he decided he wanted to buy a beer. They ran into another ministerial servant there who was in line to get a beer...and they also got a beer each. Our young ministerial servant kept going for more beer. Eventually, he admitted to my husband that the night he called him to take over his talk, he'd punched his wife and given her a black eye, which was why they couldn't go to the meeting that night. The next thing that happened was that one of his old high-school girlfriends was at that concert, and they started flirting with each other. My husband told me about it when he got home. He was very worried, and told me that he and the brother-in-law had told him to steer clear of her, to which he had agreed. The guys all left the concert together, just as they had arrived.
The next day, my husband was still worrying about him, so we stopped by his house. There in the driveway was the car belonging to the high-school sweatheart. On the porch were 2 half empty bottles of beer and the front door was wide open. No one answered. Being concerned, my husband went from there to the nearest elder's house. Unbelievably, that elder reacted to my husband's concerns with anger. He was initially angry that my husband went to the Air Base and that my husband allowed his ministerial servant to get into such a situation.
The end result was that he admitted to having sex with this young woman, and still was not removed until 4 months later. However, my husband was "privately reproved" for going on an airbase and for drinking a beer in the presence of his brother-in-law (who without the knowledge of my husband was on probation). All this for trying to cheer up and encourage a ministerial servant who was out of control.
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Uhhhhh, may have done something stupid...not sure...
by mama1119 inokay, so my best friend calls this morning.
she has left the borg, but the rest of her family hasn't.
she was invited over to her moms house last night for dinner and her grandparents were suppossed to be there.
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kaalogii
You had to do it! Hopefully it will make them think of how they wear their christianity. Most likely, however, they will discuss how you were being controlled by Satan...(hee-hee)
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Get a load of this video... Mad Jw's at the door!!!
by AK - Jeff inis this staged?
i noticed the man kept calling the householder 'brother', i never heard that done in the ministry.
opinions?.
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kaalogii
Sounds like a Potter's House type operation.