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Journal of Church and State: WT NO-BLOOD EXPOSE'
by AndersonsInfo in(baylor university, waco, tx) an essay entitled, "jehovah's witnesses, blood transfusions, and the tort of misrepresentation," found in the autumn issue of baylor universitys prestigious journal of church and state, published december 13, 2005, exposes the vulnerability of jehovahs witnesses religious organization to massive claims for compensation because of the religions misrepresentation of the medical risks of blood transfusions.
this milestone essay critically examines one of the religions main publications for teaching their children and new recruits about their blood beliefs, how can blood save your life?
the peer-reviewed essay details many misrepresentations of medical facts, which the religion partly relies on to support its blood prohibition, thus denying its members from making fully informed medical decisions.
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JW cd-rom availability?
by spider ini was looking for a watchtower cd rom, and as i can't go through official chanels, i looked at e-bay to see if they had it.
yes, there it was - but i found to my surprise that people are making copies and selling it - there is one here which is going for $31 dollars so far, and its still got a day and half to go.
check it out (paste it into address field).
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songs to leave by
by spider inwhen you were leaving the witnesses, were there songs you liked to play which expressed something of what you were feeling?.
here are the tracks which i turned up and sang to:.
who wants to live forever?
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Are U.S. witnesses still morally superior?
by spider infrom the perspective of a uk observer it seems to me that the divide between 'the world' as it is in conservative heartlands of the us, and the mindset of the jehovah's witness is getting narrower by the day.. is there really a big difference between a jw and a majority of people in such places?
in the newspaper today i read how the new film alexander was being slated for showing alexander the great as a bisexual.
the uk independent reported that one online critic has warned christians that are considering seeing the film to "speak to your pastors immediately because satan is attempting to enter your mind".
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online sociological research papers on JWs
by spider inhappened upon a number of research articles written by andrew holden - a sociologist - about jws.
these can be found at
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/research/restopic.htm
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should witnesses be vegetarian?
by spider invegetarianism and the respect for life .
or why aren?t witnesses vegetarian?.
this is not my own argument for vegetarianism, but merely one which i might challenge a witness to, from the perspective of their own belief system.
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two witnesses released in philippines
by spider ini heard on bbc world service that two of the female jehovah's witnesses that had been taken hostage in the philippines had been released.
they said that two others were still being held.
i can't find any other information on it at this stage.
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Persecution
by spider inwitnesses are taught to expect persecution.
the governement would turn against us, the media would turn against us.
we were god's people after all so it was bound to happen right?.
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New Functionality on site?
by Elsewhere ini just noticed a new button on the site:.
it lets me show/hide a user's posts.
is this something new, or did i miss its announcement when it happened?
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Misrepresentation of disabled poeple in the media
by Celtic inin the past, disabled people were thought incapable of looking after themselves.
we were rarely consulted about our needs, our wants or our preferences.
our parents or our 'carers' were asked what we wanted to eat, when we should go to bed, and people talked over our heads as if we were not there.