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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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GRACE (undeserved kindness)
by TheListener inthis has been bothering me for some time now and i'm hoping that some here will shed some light on the subject.. paul goes to great lengths to tell us that we can't earn god's grace (undeserved kindness).. the wts also says that.. but, the bible does give us some do's and don'ts.
the bible does tell us about individuals who would be bad association.
it also tells us about some sins that would cause the sinner to be ineligible for the new kingdom.. so do we in fact have to earn the undeserved kindness?
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Service Meeting Week Starting December 12, 2005
by TheListener insong 32.
10 min: local announcements.
selected announcements from our kingdom ministry.
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WOW
by NeonMadman in.
this is my 3000th post!
dang, that's a lot of posts.... (yeah, i know, not compared to blondie or minimus, but it's a lot for me).
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SERVICE REPORT 2005 : WATCHTOWER FEB 1ST 2006
by BluesBrother ini have had a quick look and found no references to this, so - here goes..as in the mag we picked up on sunday.. worldwide % increase over 2004 = 1.3%.
memorial partakers 8524 (compared to 8570 in 2004).
most european and nth american lands show pretty static figs - britain 1% increase, canada 0%, germany 0%, france 1%, usa 0%... but spare a thought for the inhabitants of zambia where 1 person in 90 is a reporting witness, must be hell going down to the local market!
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1984 - special meeting for old timers - do you remember?
by Bonnie_Clyde ini felt privileged to be invited to a special meeting which was earmarked only for publishers in good standing who had been baptized at least 25 years.
i was baptized 28 years (yes i was quite young) and clyde was baptized 25, but he refused to go.
it was all organization, organization, organization.
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International Convention Scam ...
by Taylor S. inmy mom said recently that she had 'applied' to go to the international conventions.
today she reported that she'd been approved.
i asked how much it was gonna cost her.
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1 Timothy 2:6
by defd in.
i was wondering why the new world translation says corresponding ransom , where as others do not.
anyone know where i can go and get a translation from greek to english.. d.
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should we pray to jesus?
by Cordelia ini'm meeting with my dad tomorrow (prob for the last time) and i have been asking him different questions and one he has tried to answer is about praying to jesus, (as i brought up that at acts 7 stephen clearly did) id like to tell you what hes printed out for me as he wants a response tomorrow,.
basiclly its all the same old :the scrips say jesus is the mediator we go to god through jesus (john-14:16, 1 tim-2:5,6).
in answering why stephen said 'lord jesus recieve my spirit' the wt says that god had caused stephen to see a heavenly vision (acts-7:54-59) he beheld the heavens open and saw jesus standing at gods right hand' so seeing jesus in vision stephen felt free to direct his request to him as the head of the cong, .
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!