the jws make such a big deal about not taking (eating) blood in any form.
that being the case, shouldn't they avoid eating steaks?
even a well- done steak still contains the animals blood.
Must you confess to the Elders?
Believe it or not I used to worry about the occasions when I was eating and I would accidentally bite my tongue or inner cheek. Sometimes blood would be drawn. What if I didn't realize it soon enough and I swallowed some of it?
As others pointed out, this can be an issue with dental work as well. Thankfully we were too poor to go to dentist when I was growing up and I never had to worry about it.
the jws make such a big deal about not taking (eating) blood in any form.
that being the case, shouldn't they avoid eating steaks?
even a well- done steak still contains the animals blood.
I remember there being a thread here where someone used some kind of device used in medical testing that would detect the presence of blood. That contraption proved that meat does in fact have blood in it. The capillaries carry blood into the muscle tissues and it won't all run out during the normal bleeding process. Jews developed a system to try to get out as much as the blood as possible by using salts and what not.
I didn't know any of this when I was a Witness. After I learned it, it made very little sense that God would be so fanatical about blood where he would require that people die before accepting a blood transfusion yet he was apparently okay with people eating small amounts of blood with their meat dishes. How long would it take before the blood you ate became the equivalent of a pint or two of blood that you would have injected during a blood transfusion?
That's the kind of idiocy that results from people trying to apply a centuries-old book (actually a collection of books that span many centuries) literally in today's modern age.
will they "celebrate" 120 yrs... 150 yrs... 200 yrs... ?.
when will it stop?.
the wt now has its organization actually celebrating.
He's been directing his Organization spreading the Good News of Jehovah's Kingdom and separating sheep from goats."
Did he really say "separating sheep from goats"?
That became old light around the time he was born (1995).
wt inc./j.w.
are similar to amway,one promosies paradise the other financial freedom.. the top get all the benefits.the r&f do all the work.. amway has rallies/seminars/meeting/etc.. wt inc. has r.c.
(was d.c.)/c.a./tms/etc.. recruitment: amway meet for coffee for a financial discussion only to invite you to a hotel meeting but don't say what it is about.when you get there you say wtf it is an amway meeting.. wt inc/j.w.
LivingTheDream,
I didn't intend to be condescending. There's a lot of wisdom on this board. I first came here seven or eight years ago and I would stay up until 4 a.m. reading eye-opening thread after thread. It was a revelation at the time, but now it seems so obvious. There were a lot of things that I was blind to that others picked up on while they were still in. I wish you the best of luck with your book. While some of us may already be aware of the parallels, I'm sure others will benefit from seeing them for the first time.
in the 80's it became a trend to put the wt logo on the front of the speakers podium where others put a cross.
i always hated that and spoke against it to the body of elders.
i shut up and it was put there anyway untill a km came down that said not to do it.
Unfortunately, I think the 09 KM was concerned more with legal liability issues. It didn't condemn the practice on the grounds of idolatry. I could see a Witness defending the practice of using a logo by saying "mother" has decided the JW.org logo does not create the same kind of confusion surrounding legal affiliation that a corporate logo would.
wt inc./j.w.
are similar to amway,one promosies paradise the other financial freedom.. the top get all the benefits.the r&f do all the work.. amway has rallies/seminars/meeting/etc.. wt inc. has r.c.
(was d.c.)/c.a./tms/etc.. recruitment: amway meet for coffee for a financial discussion only to invite you to a hotel meeting but don't say what it is about.when you get there you say wtf it is an amway meeting.. wt inc/j.w.
I've posted this story over the years on many an Amway thread. My brother got recruited into it. A young engineer showed up and convinced my brother to join. My brother bought a "starter pack" of some kind and paid a membership fee. He was very excited about it until he went to one of their meetings. Amway met three times a week. The Witnesses met three times a week. Amway had three annual conventions. The Witnesses had three annual conventions. What put it over the top for him was the religious nature of the meetings and how similar they were to Witness meetings.
My brother is also a big believer in spiritism, the demons and what not, so he decided to quit Amway because he felt a "demonic presence" in the Amway meetings. More than likely it was a voice coming from the recesses of his mind trying to warn him that the Witnesses were just as goofy as the Amway people. He preferred to attribute the discomfort he felt to "the demons" and was able to continue with his life without having to reassess his life choices.
here's a hypothesis that we can expect to see robustly tested over the next 2 (2016) to 5 years (2019):.
as jw.org traffic goes up, door-to-door work will go down.
it will be harder to maintain a focus on the motivation and effort required to go "out" into your local territory because the "shift" has started to occur.
A point I keep coming back to is how little sense it makes to have a free labor pool involved in activities that don't contribute to the bottom line. It just doesn't make sense from a business perspective. I imagine that if a consultant were hired one of the first recommendations would be to mobilize the labor force in a way that contributes monetarily to the group.
The door to door work used to be profitable. I don't believe it's been profitable for at least 25 years and we're seeing the consequences of that namely less and more cheaply-made literature. I keep looking for signs that suggest the WT will go all-in on the real estate business. Encourage their members to donate their labor to construct buildings, use the buildings for a while, sell them for profit (since the WT only paid for materials), build new buildings, rinse and repeat. I believe we're already beginning to see this shift.
among all of the other changes recently, there have been broad hints that the biggest change(s) are yet to come.
an instruction has appeared on the elders only part of jw.org to set aside 15 minutes on the sept 1 service meeting with further details to follow.
of course it could just be another load of hot air, but it seems a strange thing to do after making a fuss about all of the service meeting parts this month being focussed on the kingdom (all of the parts for wb sept 1 have material - no local needs get out) when i hear more i'll post details..
I don't come on here very often. Could someone please catch me up on "the big changes," both real and rumored. I would greatly appreciate it.
well, that seems to be the latest hot thing amoung witnesses.
everybody buys a tablet.
even the poor families that eat carb heavy meals are gettin' em.. maybe they can't afford the latest apple product like the maxi/mini pad or whatever they're calling it these days so a trip to ebay or overstock.com fills the bill.. use it instead of a songbook.
An advantage to the JW.ORG is ... hopefully, members will stop going to the literature counters.
I suspect this is partly the motivation. Not that they'll stop printing overnight, but if they can transition their membership slowly over to electronic media they can begin winding down their printing activities.
Over the next few years a good portion of Witnesses in developed lands will have tablets. Five to ten years from now the price of tablets will have gone down tremendously and will become accessible to all but the poorest Witnesses. Perhaps in 20 years or so the Watchtower can pull out of the printing business altogether and local congregations can outsource whaever essential printing needs they may have to local vendors.
km august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for this week's service meeting):.
"the month of october 2014 will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom.
for this occasion a special edition of the watchtower will be on this theme.".
2nd Oct 1914 has always been the end of the Gentile times. The Watchtower just hopes people don't notice that WW1 does not sync up with the start of the last days.
To this day I still kick myself over this. I actually figured that out before I was baptized. There was some older publication I was reading that specifically referred to October 1914. Most of the newer publications don't use the month and year preferring simply to focus on 1914 as the start of the end time. I have always been interested in history and knew WWI had begun in the summer of that year. I remember bringing this up to a young, zealous JW who was a few years older than me and between the two of us we couldn't figure out an explanation. I remember dropping the subject since in my naive opinion there was so much truth I was being exposed to and this subject was nothing in comparison to the great truths the Witnesses possessed.
I wish I had looked deeper into this subject, but this was happening in the mid-90s when the internet wasn't widely available.
