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  ***URGENT Advice Needed***

  by babygirl30 in

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  2. friends

  hey everyone!.

  i will be going into the hospital for surgery on tues...my first one ever!

  the surgeon has gone over the procedure and informed me that it's 'bloody' and so she gave me all my options.

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  Hope all is well and getting better every minute!
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  JW's and home schooling?

  by semelcred in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't wish to offend any that are teaching their kids at home, but today i was again confronted by a situation where a jw family were home schooling.

  the kids had little structure to their routine and without putting the mum down, she was no teacher in an academic sense.. the subject is close to my heart because my parents who are witnesses, took my younger brothers out of school and home tutored them.

  the were subjected to below standard education and limited in social skills, particularly as my parents are crap at these skills themselves.. i have grown to hate home schooling except in the situation of medical or logistical situations.. what are your comments good or bad and do you think the option to home school is abused by the witness community?.

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  The kids had little structure to their routine and without putting the mum down, she was no teacher in an academic sense.

  They were subjected to below standard education and limited in social skills, particularly as my parents are crap at these skills themselves.

  do you think the option to home school is abused by the witness community?

  EXACTLY!!!

  EXACTLY AGAIN!!!

  ABSOLUTELY YES!!!

  I went to public school, and of course, being the little misfit that can't participate in ANYTHING patriotic, holiday-related, or extra-curricular really does take its toll. But I am so very, very grateful for the exposure public school gave me... to an odd assortment of personalities, situations, and ideas.

  My heart sinks when I hear of a JW parent home-schooling their children, truly.

  By the way, in my small research, it seems that most home-schooling resources are developed by and for Christian fundamentalists. There are many home-schooling websites and workbooks that freely mention Jesus, without mentioning any other spiritual persona or philosophies.
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  Has any Pro-JW posted here, but later became an apostate?

  by asilentone in

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  who are they?

  tell me about it.

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  BabaYaga

  No Apologies said:

  I'd argue that it's STILL a Pro-JW site. Most people here love JWs and are looking for ways to help them break free from the Watchtower Society.

  Bravo!
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  Freeminds life stories

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thanks to many contributors over the years freeminds has best part of 100 life stories on the site.. http://www.freeminds.org/life-stories/index.php.

  day in day out these stories are being read - in some cases they have many thousands of page views.

  imagine how many people have been helped by reading real life stories written first hand?.

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  BabaYaga

  Thanks, Besty... bookmarking.
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  ***URGENT Advice Needed***

  by babygirl30 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey everyone!.

  i will be going into the hospital for surgery on tues...my first one ever!

  the surgeon has gone over the procedure and informed me that it's 'bloody' and so she gave me all my options.

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  BabaYaga

  Baba popping in again with links... read up! You'll get over that "residual guilt" you feel over the blood issue!
  
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/182412/1/Im-Still-Torn-About-the-Blood-Issue

  Ever wonder why the blood issue appeared in the FIRST place? You know... it didn't start until 1945! Curious, no?
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/126825/1/Persecution-Wanes-Banning-Blood-Garners-Publicity
  
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/131789/1/Gene-Smalley-and-the-Watchtowers-Blood-Transfusion-Doctrine

  Also, check your PM in a bit... I'm headed there to leave you a note now.
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  ***URGENT Advice Needed***

  by babygirl30 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey everyone!.

  i will be going into the hospital for surgery on tues...my first one ever!

  the surgeon has gone over the procedure and informed me that it's 'bloody' and so she gave me all my options.

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  BabaYaga

  First of all, BabyGirl, best of luck on your surgery, and great strength and speedy healing to you!

  Next, do you have someone who can make medical decisions for you? If not, set up a legal power with someone you trust explicitly, and make sure they KNOW YOUR SITUATION with family etc. who might try to force a refusal! Set this stuff up beforehand and there won't be an issue... hopefully.

  Someone with more legal knowledge can advise you better...

  In the meantime... stress is not what you need right now!

  Love,
  Baba.
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  Letter I wrote to my mom

  by cammygee in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear mom,

  thank you for your last letter, i know that you care about me, and you have obviously been thinking of me and it means a lot that youd take the time to write me.

  ive been thinking a lot about you lately too.

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  BabaYaga

  Hello and welcome, CammyGee.
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  Understanding the Witness trained mind! Theocratic schooled =always defending without thinking!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  theocratic mid-week meeting was just a session of "defence tactics" training witnesses to automatically think of a defensive answer without even pondering the other persons point of view.

  witnesses send everything you throw at them in the "trash basket" of their brain...only thinking of thier next defensive response.

  this is typical cult thinking.

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  007 said:

  Theocratic mid-week meeting was just a session of "defence tactics" training Witnesses to automatically think of a defensive answer without even pondering the other persons point of view. Witnesses send everything you throw at them in the "trash basket" of their brain...only thinking of thier next defensive response.

  Exactly! They never listen to a thing... they can only hear to the extent that they scramble for a discrediting response in defense.
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  woah, did the Israelites offer human sacrifice to Jehovah?!

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i thought that never happened, but reading judges 11:30,31 looks to me like jephthat offered whoever greets him first as a "burnt offering", then when returning, his daughter is who greets him, she says for him to keep his word but let her mourn her virginity, after that, he keeps his vow.

  i gotta look this one up.

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  BabaYaga

  Jehovah's Witnesses are still offering human sacrifices to Jehovah.

  How many die needlessly every year due to refusing blood transfusions?

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  Still, thanks for pointing out this unsavory bible tidbit.
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  BOE Letter on Mothers to be

  by JWFreak in

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  2. friends

  gb getting involved with pregnancy........... jwf.

  ps.

  please don't ask me for a pdf scan, as the copies i get are interbranch copies from the us branch with individual coding on them.

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  BabaYaga

  Thank you for posting this, JWFreak.

  This world-wide photo is the reason for their attempt at control:

  

  Many people around the world mourned the loss of beautiful Emma Gough, who died needlessly while giving birth because she and her family refused a blood transfusion.

  Rest in peace and light, Emma. May the word of your needless death serve to save others from losing their loved ones.

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568447/Mother-dies-after-refusing-blood-transfusion.html