i have been coming here several months now..reading the posts and sometimes posting myself.my question to ask of all of you is this: if a jw was diagnoised with cancer and he/she needed a stem cell transplant in order to survive.what would the jw do in that situation?
would they carry on with the transplant when a donor was found or would they seek other methods of treatment?
what is the blood issue regarding jw?
Hello Everyone,
I have been coming here several months now..reading the posts and sometimes posting myself.My question to ask of all of you is this: If a JW was diagnoised with cancer and he/she needed a stem cell transplant in order to survive.What would the JW do in that situation? Would they carry on with the transplant when a donor was found or would they seek other methods of treatment? What is the blood issue regarding JW? Please respond with your comments.Thank you.
justbeingafriend
today, april 20th, is the fourth anniversary of a very special day in my life.. the anniversary of my rebirth.. this rebirth was not a religious experience, but it was something totally pure, amazing and healing.. it had nothing at all to do with the society, or rather, of freeing myself from it.
it was however, a giant first step in that direction.. today is the fourth anniversary of the day i got letter that changed everything.
the words on the pages were alive, and magical: they released me from my old life and for the first time.
Congrats Essie! Reminds me of the first time I met the man I married.We were penpals and he came where I lived and I met him at the airport...so nervous that I wouldn't be what he expected.We had been writing back and forth for months and talking on the phone..no e-mails back then..lol..That was 20 years ago!We have been married 17 years..18 on newyears eve..so I KNOW how you felt meeting the man you loved for the first time.Best wishes for a long life together :)
justbeingafriend
my first birthday celebration.
by kristen 4/5/01.
having been brought up in the organization since age 3, the only memory of a birthday celebration i had was an old photograph of when i was 2. in front of the camera was my sister and i, with a cake baked in a regular rectangle cake pan, frosted, and with two candles sitting on top.
Kristen..I enjoyed reading how you spent your birthay..Glad you were finally able to celebrate the day you were born...So from me to you..I say..(though it is belated)happy birthday to you..and many more..:)I will close on this thought...How can celebrating one's birthday be displeasing to God...because isn't He the one that gave us the miracle of life in the first place?
i have a question.
at the beginning of each meeting at the kingdom hall, the chairman invites us to find our seats and be seated.. after we have got ourselves comfortable and all is (reasonably) quiet, the meeting chairman then invites us to stand and sing the opening song.. does anyone else find this a bit strange?
why are we invited to sit, then before we've done anything else, we're invited to stand.. just seems odd to me.
In response to your question..well even in other religions..Baptist for example..everyone gets settled down and seated..then we are asked to stand to sing the first song...and sometimes we are asked to shake hands and welcome those around us..just my commments on the question...
i am preggers.. just left the doctor's office and my hubby's office.
i dropped the little plastic thing-a-ma-jig off, and he said, "what's this?
are you pregnant?!?!?!?".
Congrats Lisa..take care of yourself :)
i just called dateline and this is an ongoing story............. please please everyone...send them a letter about the corruptness of the society...........if 6 million jewish livves are important waht about 6 million others with their children.. i appeal to all send a letter about all realted subjects..... sed it to .
attn richard greenberg /jehovahs witnesses.
stephenw20
Thanks for the information concerning dateline nbc..I am interested in knowing when this will air..Do you know? I am interesting in knowing as I have a friend that is a jw..Please keep us informed..thanks.
justbeingafriend
i'm 18 and my boyfriend is 16 and an active jw.i'm a baptist and very stong in my belief and love of god.my boyfriend and i haven't been together that long but were very serious and plan on getting married (when the time is right).we both know that we have no intentions of raising our children jw but as baptist and he tells me that he wants to get out of jw but right now its very hard for him because he still lives with his parents and his mother and oldest sister are very active jw.and i understand all that its just that because i love him so much i want to understand about his life and the way he was raised and what he was raised to believe but hes made it very clear that he doesnt want to explain it or talk about it hes told me some stuff but very little.i'm just wondering about their beliefs and what the jw's have to say about us dating and just any information anyone can provide!!!
!thank-you very much!!!!
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Hello Dixie! Well I have friend in another country that is a JW.I can understand you wanting to know about your boyfriends beliefs..I was raised a Baptist..so I asked my friend, after I found out he was a JW, that it would be good to discuss our beliefs..He said sure..it would be..but he has yet to do it..I want to know..but yet I don't want to scare him off..my friendship is unconditional..I want him to believe the same as me..and I pray that I will say the right thing whenever I e-mail him.He never would talk about it..so I looked up various websites to answer my questions concerning JW.Go to this website..
http://kpjournal.homestead.com/testimonies.html.This is a good website..and I hope it will help you..Take care..
justbeingafriend
unk says i have to come up here and say hi and get hugged by y'all.
hi.. now, don't crowd around all at once, i'll hafta hurt somebody.
comf
I am new here too :) but welcome!!
jbf
those of us who spent a good portion of our lives as slaves to the printing corporation in brooklyn do well to reflect on our achievements.
we have managed to break the cult shackles and get past the guilt barrier.
we are building happy, successful lives.
Thinkers wife..
Thanks for the welcome. I do appreciate it.It has been a week since I have heard from my friend.I will remain his friend..though the silence from him is hard to accept. I still keep in touch with him.How I know things would change if I wrote him and said "guess what..I went to the kh..and want to learn more.."..He would gladly keep in touch wouldn't he? I am his friend unconditionally as I have said before..and in becoming his friend,I have searched on my own..trying to understand the church he is involved in...maybe that was the purpose of us meeting that day..of opening my eyes to the jw for if it hadn't of been for him I wouldn't be here discussing this.
justbeingafriend
who packed yours and mine parachute?.
sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important.
we may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just something nice for no reason.. charles plumb, as us naval academy graduate, was a jet pilot in vietnam.
DA..enjoyed that story :) I hear enough bad things going on in the news from all over the world..Thanks for sharing a story that makes you sit and think..have a good day and take care..:)
justbeingafriend
