Topics Started by besty
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JW's and higher standards
by besty inin a recent conversation i had with a nominal jw they were literally lost for words when i put it to them that i had higher standards now that i was no longer a jw.... 1 - i don't agree with letting babies and children die for want of a banned blood fraction.
2 - i don't agree with taking from but not donating to the blood supply.
3 - i don't agree with religious discrimination aka jw shunning.
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How far away from their original beliefs are JW's?
by besty ini was struck by a quote in a very recent watchtower claiming that wts publications are now part of the bible.
quite a bold statement.. how about these two quotes beside each other:.
we would not refuse to treat one as a brother because he did not believe the society is the lord's channel.
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Current JW debating me on Google
by besty inhttps://knol.google.com/k/paul-morrison/why-jehovahs-witnesses-shun-people/290ks3g12r97j/3#.
feel free to post a reply at the bottom.... helpful discussions are not found at that website or other antijw sites.
i heard that it is shutting down because it collapsed from its own hatred that it creates.
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any problems with this 607 response from Elder PO
by besty inback in may 2007 i got this response from my brother who later acted as chief witness for the prosecution at our kangaroo court.
in fact he travelled 1000 miles round trip to do so.
he was motivated :-).
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Amazon pulls Scientology book for 'legal reason'
by besty inhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/11/amazon_pulls_scientology_expose/.
amazon uk pulls scientology expose for 'legal reasons'track this topic print story post commentsilences former member of church's 'secret army'.
by cade metz in san francisco get more from this author.
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Ethical question posed in UK Daily Telegraph
by besty ina child's right to life must be protected.
by george pitcher.
last updated: 12:01am gmt 11/11/2008.
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Notes from AGM
by besty indear family & friends,.
yesterday was annual meeting.
it was packed out.
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On the essence of being British...
by besty inamid all the hysteria of global financial meltdown, armageddon climate change and various other crises, here's a glimpse of why britain used to have an empire :-).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3109788/gardeners-severed-arm-saved-by-frozen-sausage-rolls.html.
difficult to paraphrase and still retain the spirit of the story so just click and enjoy.... .
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Lisa Magdalena life story in London Times
by besty ininteresting that editors still feel there is mileage in this type of story - great to see that lisa is doing well now.. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article4723924.ece.
best of times, worst of times: lisa magdalena, former jehovahs witnesslisa magdalena, 38, is a former jehovahs witness whose father made legal history by being forced to have a blood transfusion.
now a trained counsellor, she recalls how she broke free of the secti was two years old when my father died, in 1971. he had his wisdom teeth out and he didnt stop bleeding, so he was rushed into hospital in margate.
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Creationism visits the Royal Society
by besty intwo nobel prize winners - sir harry kroto and sir richard roberts - have demanded that the royal society sack its education director, professor michael reiss.
the call, backed by other senior royal society fellows, follows reiss's controversial claim last week that creationism be taught in schools' science classes.. reiss, an ordained church of england minister, has since alleged he was misquoted.
nevertheless, several royal society fellows say his religious views make him an inappropriate choice for the post.. 'i warned the president of the royal society that his [reiss] was a dangerous appointment a year ago.