growing up as a jw, we were never allowed to have holidays or birthday's etc..... never able to show my brothers affection on their special day killed me.
now every year, i sing "happy birthday" to my brothers nick and ben.
i call them on their birthday, if they pick up the phone i yell and tell them i am going to leave a voice mail message.
Current "sins":
I play the lottery
I sing Happy Birthday
I have a Christmas Tree
I attend other religion's ceremonies...(Waiting for a Hacidic Jew & Muslim invite, though)..
I sing the National Anthem at sporting events
Upcoming "sins"
I will donate blood for the first time in a few weeks
Not much interested in "sins"
Illegal drugs or smoking
Multiple sexual partners
Permanent tattoos
Beards (They look good on the right man, but just not for me.)
the name of the trust fund is save the children.
the cheques should be made out to: save the children and mailed to:.
save the children.
IW,
It's about what happened to Bethany and, most importantly, what will happen to the next "Bethany."
The WTS has a pattern and practice of advancing bogus medical claims in its blood doctrine. I invite you to read "Jehovah's Witness, Blood Transfusions, and the Tort of Misrepresentation." It's an article in the Fall 2005 edition of the Journal of Church & State. It examines the Society's "quotes" of non-JW doctor's medical journal writings. Your own religious choice to not accept blood is founded on lies of secular facts of the benefits and risks of blood transfusions and alternative therapy. Lies have helped brainwashed you into a "religious" belief. Misprescribing arsenic for Bethany's specific illness is just another example of quack medicine this religion fosters. No, we can't bring back Bethany, but we can save the next person's life from this quackery.
Tort lawsuits have two purposes; first to right the past wrong and second to foster better future behaviour. Here, Mr. Hughes wants to both right a past wrong and to help the next JW who needs blood.
I gave my $200....in the hopes that the next Bethany, Carol, Donna, Erin, Fracis, Genie, Hanna, Isabella, Jennifer, Katherine, Laura, Megan, Natasha, Ophelia, Paula, Queenie, Rita, Sarah, Tracy, Uma, Victoria, Wanda, Xi, and Zeta will be given good medical advice during the formation of their religious belief and in their time of need. I gave my $200 so that the Watchtower Society will not appoint their own attorney to "speak" for a minor.
Skeeter1
i've got $500.00 on taylor hicks to win american idol.
at 10 to one odds ( pinnacle sports ) !
normally i'm not a gambling man.
Chris to Win; Kathrine to place; and Pickler to show. Paris will get rich, regardless, and I look forward to each & every of her performances.
the name of the trust fund is save the children.
the cheques should be made out to: save the children and mailed to:.
save the children.
I SMELL A RAT.
SKEETER
P.S. IW, you are a just a stooge by the WTS. Why don't you go back to your abode and seek honesty yourself? Does arsenic cure Bethany's type of illness? No. Does erythropoitien work "very quickly? No, but Bethel's writing department thinks so Did Dr. Spratt concluded as your WTS writer (what's his name..that guy everyone doesn't like in Bethel who wrote that blood pamphlet...) wrote in "How Can Blood Save Your Life?" No. Did the doctors of the woman with hemoglobin of 1.8 really tout oxygen chambers? No, these doctors wrote the opposite...but your Bethel writer wrote a good little "theocratic" lie. Do renal transplant patients who are JWs survive the transplant...yes...but don't they die at an alarming rate afterwards? Again, your Bethel writer wrote a little "theocratic" lie. Why did your buddy there in Bethel write the wrong thing alot of times? Too many times for me to write out here.
Yes, why don't YOU go seek honesty in your Bethel writing department. Stop lying in your literature!!!! You are making a "donkey" of yourselve, similar to Tom Cruise. You are responsible for 6 million people who look to you for the Truth. How many "Bethanys" were told by HLC members to procure arsenic, when it wasn't the cure?
And, so....my question is ....what is the Canadian Bar doing about this? Why permit Bethany to be represented by WTS lawyers who also represented the wife? I SMELL A CONFLICT OF INTEREST...AND POSSIBLE DISBAR. WE NEED A WRITING CAMPAIGN TO THE CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION.
imagine, you are tom cruise/chruch of scientology publicist.
you have a public relations problem - the public thinks tom & his group are wacked out, cult members.. then, tom cruise says to a reporter that he's ready to eat the placenta of his new child after it births.. lol!
this really helps the church of scientology/tom's next movie's popularity.. i realize that today's fathers don't want to wait in a waiting room with a cigar.
Well, call me "John Boy" for not being a cultural savvy person.....I'm sure the placenta "tastes like chicken" and with a little garlic and butter sauce can be served in fancy plates like snails.
I'll stick to frog legs and gator tail, thank you very much.
Skeeter
she found an envelope with my name and "personal & confidential" typed on it taped to the door of our apartment.
i asked her to open it and read it, and evidently there is some evidence of apostacy that they want to review with me this saturday (4-21-06) at 7:30 pm.. the funny thing is that i have not been to a meeting since 1993, the last time i was at a circuit assembly or district convention was 1995!
i know that i have been spotted going to my church (3 blocks from the king-dumb hell).
Don't go. They will only "scold" you for thinking in order to self perpetuate their own selfish need to be omni-important and on Jehovah's mission.
imagine, you are tom cruise/chruch of scientology publicist.
you have a public relations problem - the public thinks tom & his group are wacked out, cult members.. then, tom cruise says to a reporter that he's ready to eat the placenta of his new child after it births.. lol!
this really helps the church of scientology/tom's next movie's popularity.. i realize that today's fathers don't want to wait in a waiting room with a cigar.
Imagine, you are Tom Cruise/Chruch of Scientology publicist. You have a public relations problem - the public thinks Tom & his group are wacked out, cult members.
Then, Tom Cruise says to a reporter that he's ready to eat the placenta of his new child after it births.
LOL! Hello! This really helps the Church of Scientology/Tom's next movie's popularity.
I realize that today's fathers don't want to wait in a waiting room with a cigar. They want to enjoy & coach the Mrs. (or Miss) through it ...but to eat a placenta? Isn't that a bit gross, canabalistic, and downright . I can't imagine knowing that my father ate my mother's placenta! I can't imagine even imagining that it was "ok" to eat a placenta.
Tom Cruise did "back down" from his statement after it hit google. Sorry, but Tom Cruise is not the same man he was in Top Gun. I am not seeing any more of his movies. Sorry Tom, but the aliens are not crawling over your skin anymore...they seeped into your brain and are sucking every nerve connection out.
Skeeter.
the name of the trust fund is save the children.
the cheques should be made out to: save the children and mailed to:.
save the children.
Great going Lawrence!
I sent money ($200) on PayPal. It's easy, quick, and I did not have to use a stamp. Wish my federal tax refund was here, I'd send more.
Skeeter.
p.s. Dear WTS:
If the WTS is reading this......so, are you working on a new blood booklet yet? I "bet" you have a top team dedicated on this project. Will it be ready soon? Perhaps for the Summer assembly? Does it prescribe arsenic, give false hopes of surviving low blood courts? Or, did you decide to tell the "truth" (fractions, hemoglobin, current therapy) and avoid another black eye. Your followers "informed consent" isn't very "informed" or "consensual" is it? It's more like "misinformed coercion" isn't it?
As far as legal counsel ...... I read Mr. Hughes' court case. The judge was not "happy" with the WTS assigning a JW attorney to represent Bethany and another JW attorney to represent Mrs. Hughes, especially since both attorneys were from the same religion/employed by WTS. Legal ethics require that a law firm not represent opposing views. Plus, since Bethany was a minor and your assigning her biased legal counsel was not in her "best interests." She was a MINOR who could not choose whether or not to take a blood transfusion. How did you convince the court that it was in her best interests to have a JW attorney who was from the same "organization" as her mother's? Perhaps, the Canadian Bar would be interested in your client representation schemes....
i remember when mum first started going (for the second time).
she was disfellowshipped, thus no one would talk to her or me if i was with her.
i kinda felt cut off too.
I remember being a young child, and knowing other young children getting taken "out back" for a whipping when they fidgeted. I learned to be very afraid while being at the KH. What a nice, loving environment.....for a 3 or 4 year old to withstand.
I remember being a young child & learning that members of our congregation were "caught" cheating on spouses (it was the swinging 60's/70's). (I thought they lied during board game.)
I remember the hype up until 1974, the fear of 1975, the set-back in 1976, 1977, etc.....
I remember my grandmother going to the meetings, trying to hang on to her hopes of not dying generated during the 1940's when she switched from being Jewish to JW. It was in the mid-80's when she died.
I remember being "counseled" against going to college. I remember being "counseled" for taking advanced science and math courses in high school.
I remember my friends who stayed as a JW, married at 18, divorced/unhappy & at 22.
I remember finding out that some of my friends were sexually abused by or had alcoholic, abusive JW parents.
I remember those aweful KM songs that were slower than Lawrence Welk music.
I remember staying home to watch Barbara Anderson on Dateline.
I remember hearing about the UN scandal.
I remember leaving.
I remember finding this website & lurking for months.
I remember telling my family that I wanted to be out.
I remember learning the "Truth" on blood.
Now, I remember my past, and hope for those who are still "in."
But, at least I wasn't a Scientologist!
a friend invited me and my family to roman catholic easter mass & egg hunt.
while ive been to a roman catholic church after casually leaving the jws, it was my first time attending after being truly out.
i was hedonistic and even took communion.
Oops, guess I should not have taken communion as I was never "baptised" Catholic. If I ever convert to Catholism, I guess I'll have to make another confession.
The candles were nice, and there was no mention of the Pope or the Vatican. But, I wonder if that's saved for the hard-core Catholic services (like we JWs saved the hard-core dogmas for last).
Sorry if I'm pessimistic. Think of me as optimist, but with experience.
Skeeter
