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JW Losses Civil Case Against Hospital

by John Davis in

jw family loses a civil case against a pa hospital where the mother died after bleeding following child birth.

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http://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2017/1838-eda-2015.html.

problemaddict 2

That was heartbreaking to read. I did learn a few things.

First I did not know that the filtration process involved in the cell saver process strips the blood of platlets and any coagulation ability.

Also they transfused a liter of Albumin. That seems like a lot! to make a liter of Albumin i can only imagine how many peoples donated blood would make that up. Albumin is only 2% of whole blood volume at best. So I suppose 50 peoples donated blood was used to make this one liter of Albumin, rather than her just accepting ONE PERSONS BLOOD to help get her out of the woods.

The surgery was complicated, and it seems like the doctor might have made an error with the odd shape of the side of her uterus. But not having the tools at their disposal to help her.....can you imagine the scenario?

they used Albumin, anticoagulants, multiple medications and volume expanders, many of which contained parts of blood. This makes no sense! The bleeding could have been stopped through blood being infused with its normal clotting factor most likely.

Even the JW's own expert said a blood transfusion would most likely have saved her life.

If they ever find out this doctrine is nonsense......can you imagine the crushing guilt they would feel?

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My finfings

by Issa in

i'm glad i found this website.

thanks for everyone who read my experience.

at first, i really didn't know what to do after i woke up, but i occupied myself doing research about the wt society.

problemaddict 2

There is really no reason to disassociate. Think twice about that. 10 years from now the unintended consequence could be your older sister shunning you to be technically faithful to that rule. If you just leave and stop attending, they can't really do anything to you, and you can fade out of their memory.

Are you in the US? Are there a large contingency of JW's around you? Are your parents baptized?

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Do I have to believe in Jesus to be saved?

by unsure in

do i have to believe in jesus to be saved?.

i was raised as a jehovah's witness.

i was born in.

problemaddict 2

I didn't read quite all of this, but I have advise regardless.

You are in a mental state of flux. Having your entire belief system blow up in front of you, with everything that entails, is a ball of yarn not easily unraveled.

So you should do the same thing you would do if you suddenly inherited a million dollars.......nothing.

The reason financial experts (that aren't trying to take your money) would tell you to do nothing with a windfall, is because people make the greatest mistakes right after receiving it. Its almost like the feel they have to do something.

You don't have to do anything. Start over. Do you believe in God? Why or why not? Do you think he is a benevolent and loving creator, or a spark of life that just kind of pushed the snowball down the hill so to speak. if you believe in a benevolent creator, then you have some details to work out, like why does he allow suffering (not because of some cosmic bet with Satan I hope....otherwise he is probably an a**hole). Do you think he has revealed himself in any "holy" books? Have you read any holy books? Have you read any skeptics books or Atheists books?

Maybe its good to just do nothing, not feel that you HAVE TO believe something else right away.

One of the most important things I learned as I left, is that its ok, and really even humble, to simply say I DON'T KNOW.

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I got a new visit by an elder and an ms .

by Chook in

the conversation soon got to spiritual subjects, this elder is company man all through and side kick well he's learning the ropes.

bang mentioned snake antivenin, blood factions, then big geoffrey jackson saying presumptuous, then vin toole in the arc saying he had never heard of theocratic warfare.

then told how god made exceptions to the rules on blood when soldiers ate unbled meat.

problemaddict 2

Chook,

Glad you are ok on the snake bite, and yes that is very interesting about the horse blood component to the antivenom. You mentioned something about soldiers eating unbled meat. Can you elaborate on your point there? Are you talking about 1 Samuel when the men out of hunger start eating raw meat...and they basically get a slap on the wrist?

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Russian Ban upheld - JWs lose appeal

by OrphanCrow in

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the supreme court of russia has rejected the jehovah's witnesses' appeal.. https://jw-russia.org/news/17071719-195.html.

july 17, 2017 the supreme court of russia has missed the last chance to restore law and justice for the 175,000 russian citizens professing the religion of jehovah's witnesses.

it took less than an hour of the meeting a panel of three supreme court judges, to leave unchanged the decision taken earlier by the judge yuri ivanenko, the liquidation and ban any and all registered organizations of the religion.since there is no more effective domestic remedies, the believers will appeal to the european court of human rights and other international organizations.. *note: as reported by the jworg source, jw-russia.org.

problemaddict 2

That is absolutely hilarious.

But.....did I read something right? Did the attorney claim there are studies showing that JW's are truthful and that truth comes "easy to them"?

You have got to be kidding me. I wonder where I can find these studies.

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Jehovah's people are not happy people

by Phoebe in

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i finally stopped attending the meetings about 4 months go.

i won't be going back - ever.. but i've decided the best reply to the watchtower is to be happy and i do try to be happy every day even thought i wasted my entire life on this religion.

i cherish every day, practice mindfulness and do my best to be content with the life i have.. it is only now that i see that most jws i know are deeply unhappy people.

problemaddict 2

In their defense.....A LOT of people are depressed and dealing with it medically. I would guess it might be slightly above the average, but probably not as much as we think.

The reality is that the teaching that works its way into your mind as a JW is that you are never doing enough, even as a JW, you are not guaranteed to not be slaughtered by Jesus, and between the end of the world, and the cognitive dissonance required to be both loving to others on the outside AND be begging God to come and kill everyone in the world.....how could you possibly have a healthy view of the world, yourself, and others?

The branch is obsessed with "keeping the friends busy". They have stated this many times. I don't know if they sincerely think being busy is the cure for this "horrific world we live in", or if the busy part is a tool of control. I suspect its a little bit of both.

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Christian Times: Jehovah's Witnesses consider European court appeal after Russian Supreme Court upholds ban on sect

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://www.christiantimes.com/article/jehovahs-witnesses-consider-european-court-appeal-after-russian-supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-sect/72529.htm.

july 19, 2017the jehovah's witnesses expressed its plans to appeal to the european court of human rights in strasbourg after the russian supreme court upheld a ruling that banned the sect and declared it as an "extremist" organization.

"we plan to appeal this at the european court of human rights as soon as we can.

problemaddict 2

......for more press. They forgot to add they plan to appeal to get the word out and receive more empathy from other nations, particularly where they might be under investigation, or perhaps having their charitable status up for consideration.

Russia could seriously care less about the European court of human rights.

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An infographic I just created...

by HappyHappyHappy1914 in

hey everyone.

i don't post here often, but i lurk pretty much everyday.

i just created the following infographic based on the recent yearbook stats.

problemaddict 2

Hmmmm. I can see that. But publishers (baptized or soon to be baptized), seems to be the only real hallmark of actual members. I'm not thinking you did anything wrong by the way......just commenting. But it certainly seems like AVG publishers is the real way to measure things. We all know, you only really count if you are out in the ministry. :)

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An infographic I just created...

by HappyHappyHappy1914 in

hey everyone.

i don't post here often, but i lurk pretty much everyday.

i just created the following infographic based on the recent yearbook stats.

problemaddict 2

Great job happy. Me like.

With the 264K baptized, is it possible to extrapolate from what they give us, the amount of JW's that were DF'd, died, or simply walked away and don't report?

My thought is the best way to do that is the "avg publishers" from each year.

2016 - 8,132,358

2015 - 7,987,279

The difference is 145,079. This is their "net gain".

If 264,535 were baptized, that means 119,456 are in the left, DF'd, or died category more or less.

They have to be shitting bricks over this right? Just glancing over the last several service reports, this is sort of the recent trend. The loose almost as much as they gain.

So now its more like .82% growth as net (someone check my math).

Worldwide population growth is currently at 1.11% per year.

So they aren't even keeping up with normal population growth.

What wonderful expansion is now taking place!

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Russell's Pyramidology Originated In Edinburgh Scotland

by cofty in

the edinburgh city observatory sits atop calton hill at the east end of the city centre adjacent to burn's monument, scotland's national monument modelled on the parthenon, and nelson's monument with the time ball that falls at 1pm every day except sundays.. .

the second astronomer royal of edinburgh was charles piazzi smyth (jan. 1819 - feb. 1900).

smyth was a man of many and varied interests including meteorology, producing weather observations that still form an important part of uk climate records to this day.. building on the work of james taylor, smyth became fascinated by the great pyramid of egypt at giza.

problemaddict 2

Orphancrow, I think the spin is usually along the lines of that was the old Russelite/Bible Students/didn't make the adjustment to JW's group......not real JW's. Ugh.