neverendingjourney
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Twilight Zone
by Ding ini just watched a rerun of the twilight zone episode where billy mumy played an omnipotent boy named anthony.. everyone had to pretend that anything he did was wonderful even if it terrified them.. they had to do anything to please him so as not to incur his wrath.. one guy got sick of it and told him off.. he begged the others to end the nightmare by killing the kid and thereby getting their lives back.. when they did nothing, the boy turned him into a jack-in-the-box and sent him into a cornfield.. the other adults were horrified, but smiled and told anthony it was a fine, fine thing that he just did.. when i saw it this time, it reminded me of how the wts functions.. the gb claims divine authority to run every aspect of jws' lives.. those who stand up to it are demonized and cast away.. the rest have to suppress any negative feelings and be "happified," lest they suffer the same fate..
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I was on the PVG and it was an eye opener
by gubberningbody inyou get involved.
you go to seminars, study up on blood, the history of transfusion medicine, medical ethics, legal cases and the like if you're motivated like i was.
then it hits you that there is no biblical basis for distinguishing minor blood fractions, that df'ing someone on these grounds are without biblical support and that you're ashamed of the whole thing because the supposed principle of showing respect for life is actually violated by the prohibition.
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Was the use of the term "regular try-oneer" common in your area?
by neverendingjourney init just occurred to me that i've never seen the term on the forum before.. it was pretty common in my area.
there was a group, a clique really, of regular pioneers, mostly stay-at-home mom types who placed the "try-oneer" label on newly-appointed regular pioneers.
it was their way of cementing their importance.
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Need some info
by TweetieBird ini haven't been to a meeting in a couple of years but getting ready to visit witness relatives and will have to go to meetings.
can someone fill me in on what they are studying at the book study and anything else that might be new or different the past 2 years?
thanks!
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Site Update: Feb 5, 2014
by Simon injust a quick update .... there was an issue with password reset / email sending not working which is now fixed.
if you've tried to do anything with your account that involved getting an email and instead got a server-error then it should be fixed now and can be retried.. my apologies for the inconvenience..
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synthetic blood from stem cells
by spider inwhat is the society's stance on stem cell research?
and is there any difference from a jw standpoint between blood taken from a patient and blood grown from stem cells.. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/british-scientists-to-create-synthetic-blood-1651715.html.
british scientists to create 'synthetic' bloodhuman embryos will be used to make an unlimited supply for infection-free transfusions.
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The JW's in some other countries have no real understanding of the GB
by BonaFide ini don't know if many of you know this, but in the "developing" countries, such as south america, the watchtower bible and tract society and the governing body is hardly ever mentioned on a bible study, or at the meetings.
i know this because i served there, and in spanish congregations here in the u.s. where there are a lot of immigrants from those countries.. the friends do talk about the faithful slave at the meetings.
sometimes they say governing body.
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What happened to the new light on the generation? Has it come out yet?
by neverendingjourney inadmittedly, i spend a lot of time on jwd, but i haven't seen anything recently in regards to the new light on the meaning of the generation in a while.
there were several threads on here not too long ago regarding how this new light had been announced at the society's annual corporate meeting.
someone said that it would be formally unveiled in the new study edition of the watchtower.