Bombshell: Is the AJWRB for real?

by Nickolas 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Nickolas
    Nickolas

    It appears, from my recent visit to www.ajwrb.org that there is an underground group of practising Jehovah's Witnesses who are seeking to change current blood doctrine. They call themselves the Associtated Jehovah's Witnesses for Reform on Blood, or the AJWRB. Does this group actually exist?

    The question is important because it is solidarity alone that keeps the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society intact. If the AJWRB actually exists, it means there is a faction of dissenters within the WTBTS who are risking being disfellowshipped if discovered but who, if they are successful, will help to loosen the grip of the Governing Body on the rank and file.

    If the group exists, does it not follow the hierarchy must know about them and must be trying to find out who they are? If it exists, and their number is significant, it pulls at the very underpinnings of the Society itself.

  • pirata
    pirata

    The about page lists most of them as mostly ExElders and some current elders.

  • blondie
    blondie

    It exists and some members are jws and other ex-jws. Years ago they even posted here on JWN.

    Lee Elder - Lee [email protected]
    Director and Founder of AJWRB - former JW elder

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/member/4039

    Dr. Osamu Muramoto, M.D. - [email protected]
    AJWRB medical advisor

    John - [email protected]
    Jehovah's Witness elder

    Sam Beli - [email protected]
    AJWRB convention coordinator - former JW elder

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/member/5630

    Ros - [email protected]
    AJWRB Editor

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/member/5550

    Wayne Rogers - [email protected]
    AJWRB Public Affairs Director - sanctioned by the Watchtower Society for supporting AJWRB

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/member/5963

    ConcernedElder - [email protected]
    AJWRB Director - Latin America - former JW elder & H.L.C. member

    Zack Daniels - [email protected] - AJWRB science advisor and researcher

    Mary - [email protected] - her teenage son died after rejecting a medically necessary transfusion.

    Haelcer - [email protected] - former Polish JW edler and HLC member

  • Nickolas
    Nickolas

    Is there an estimate of the number of active Witnesses involved?

  • blondie
    blondie

    You'd have to check with the people listed above. I would think that most jws want to keep anonymity as individuals and group.

  • Nickolas
    Nickolas

    Anonymity is not a problem. It's the number of anonymous ones that is important. It defines how large the movement is and how much of a threat they pose to the Governing Body. The fact of the matter (from what I am reading so far) is that there are active Jehovah's Witnesses involved in this group and if they are not uncovered and purged from the Society they threaten to undermine it's foundations from within.

    Go, AJWRB.

  • agonus
    agonus

    Isn't there a guy named Marv Shilmer who's involved with them who posts here occasionally?

  • blondie
    blondie

    I'm not aware that Marvin Shilmer is directly associated with ajwrb. I think he tends to be a solo act.

  • Balsam
    Balsam

    Nickolas,

    I am Mary, my son's and our story is told on AJWRB.ORG. I was a JW for 30 years. Like most of us on AJWRB we were active JW's but in time all of us faded, disf'ed or dis'assoced evenutally. I assure you we are all real people and all of us have been very active JW's at one time. Randy Watters has taken over AJWRB.ORG for Lee Elder because of poor health.

    When I came on AJWRB I had to conceal my idenity to protect my sons from harrassment by the Elders because of my speaking out about the blood policy. Today I don't care who knows. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have. My son Dak McGill died at 15 as a result of an auto accident and my chidlren's father refusing blood transfusion to save him. You can read about him at: http://www.mem.com/ContentDisplay.aspx?ID=4047091

    Sincerely,

    Ruth Baker aka [email protected]

  • Nickolas
    Nickolas

    I am humbled and honoured to meet you, Mary. So, it is you I have been reading about. I will be looking into your older posts. I hope someday to meet you in person.

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