Posts by Quillsky

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Do "Thousands of JWs die each year" because they refuse blood? I say YES!

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.freeminds.org/blogs/musings-of-a-watchtower-insider/thousands-die-each-year.htm l. this blog article is solely my personal opinion, but i have tried to present important material for your consideration because i believe that one life lost to this blood-ban is one too many and there have too many deaths since 1945 and it's time something is done about it.

however you think on the subject, just wait until you read the conclusion of my blog article.

oh, by the way, all points of view are important to me and most welcome so i look forward to reading them here on jwn .

Quillsky

I would like to raise a question about the Hospital Liaison Committees, and the "permitted" blood fractions. Is there a list anywhere of all fractions permitted by the Governing Body? I have yet to see a list like this on the internet, and yet we know somehow that some or most fractions are permitted.

If ordinary JW's or their family members cannot find such a list, do the HLC members have such a list? If they do, can this list be made available to other people please? If they don't, then what is the point of a Hospital Liaison Committee? Do they just say "no blood no blood, only saline volume expanders allowed"? or do they really have inside knowledge of the current "light" on fractions? If so, this "light" should be available to everybody!!!!

I truly would like to see a current and complete list of blood parts "permitted" to Jehovah's Witnesses, as I'm sure would many people who have loved family members enslaved by this blood-guilty organization.

Anybody?

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Do "Thousands of JWs die each year" because they refuse blood? I say YES!

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.freeminds.org/blogs/musings-of-a-watchtower-insider/thousands-die-each-year.htm l. this blog article is solely my personal opinion, but i have tried to present important material for your consideration because i believe that one life lost to this blood-ban is one too many and there have too many deaths since 1945 and it's time something is done about it.

however you think on the subject, just wait until you read the conclusion of my blog article.

oh, by the way, all points of view are important to me and most welcome so i look forward to reading them here on jwn .

Quillsky

Peggy, thank you for your story. It made me cry and smile together!!

Barbara, excellent work as always, from an incredible and ethical woman. May I ask a favor -- could you fix the In Conclusion section please? I want to send your article to a relative, but the ending is confusing (you mention a post by "Wendy" but there is no post by Wendy, and then Jman's post, although excellent, is very long and not indented, so to the reader it appears after a while to be your own words, and yet he is talking as very much a current JW so it's clearly not you.) My advice would be to differentiate the quotes somehow, and then conclude and sign off as yourself at the end?

Sorry to be critical, but I hope it's constructive.

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How Did YOU Finally Leave The Organization?

by minimus in

jw
friends

was it a long process?.

is it still ongoing?.

did you have a long range plan?.

Quillsky

Sprinted outta there, fast, and ducked the radar as I ran.

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prayer before eating

by stillin in

i mentioned to an elder/friend the other day that it occurred to me that there really doesan't seem to be any scriptural precedent or mandate for the tradition of praying before we eat.

i said that jesus blessed the loaves and fishes when he performed that miracle, and he blessed the wine and bread at the last supper, but i couldn't think of any other example of it.

i also suggested that the tradition of praying before eating was probably rooted in giving thanks to the various gods of nature and the perception og god as being involved in the outcome of the harvest, and that, by that way of looking at it, we probably shouldn't pray before eating....silence..

Quillsky

I'm actually surprised that praying before meals hasn't yet been banned. After all it is a custom that is shared with Christendom.

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Finally Erased them OUT of my phone!

by babygirl30 in

it's been about going on 2yrs that i've been df'd and not even 1yr that i stopped going to the khall at all...but...i'm proud to say that as of last night i was going through my phone and decided that i needed to just cut out all those people that didn't matter anymore!

you know, the old jw 'friends' (use that term loosely) whose numbers i've held onto all this time and don't need anymore.

i mean, never going to bother with these people again.

Quillsky

I actually thought people here were going to start shunning me because now I'm one of you and therefore not special anymore. The "love-bombing" would end, and I'd be left on an endless treadmill of posting and trying to keep up with the "national average" of posts and all the apostafests and so on.

Say what, sd-7?

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Do YOU donate blood?

by Quillsky in

if you do, what are your motivations?.

if you don't, why not?.

Quillsky

However due to my living in the UK I can't give blood here in Canada.

Interesting. Do you know the reason for that? What's wrong with having lived in the UK?

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Do YOU donate blood?

by Quillsky in

if you do, what are your motivations?.

if you don't, why not?.

Quillsky

I said.....

I've found in speaking to ex Witnesses that accepting AND donating blood are the two cult dogmas that are the last that are released.

Any comments about this opinion from those who still have a mental block about donating blood?

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Do YOU donate blood?

by Quillsky in

if you do, what are your motivations?.

if you don't, why not?.

Quillsky

Not unless I get paid,

Most of the blood donated in the UK is sold abroad.

Spawn......so what? If your precious blood saves a life in a country other than yours, it's still a saved life on this planet.

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Do YOU donate blood?

by Quillsky in

if you do, what are your motivations?.

if you don't, why not?.

Quillsky

Because of this thread, I will.

Awakening is an ongoing process.

Thanks,

om

Bless you, Open mind.

I love how online discussion turns into real life action. Please report back here how your experience of donating blood turns out for you.

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Do YOU donate blood?

by Quillsky in

if you do, what are your motivations?.

if you don't, why not?.

Quillsky

Quill, then whenever they decide to accept blood transfusions and they are healthy, they should donate.

More than that, Blondie.... if a JW is prepared to accept blood fractions, then they should logically be donating blood.

As far as I know (and you're the Queen of Quotes, so quotes are welcome on this topic!!) JW's are not permitted to donate blood. I believe it is until today a disfellowshipping offense.