so greta thunberg thinks the world pollutes too much.
specifically, the parts of the world that pollute the least and have the cleanest industries.
she doesn't seem to care about india or china who are the biggest polluters by far.. "how dare they".
I`ll bet, what she has to say when she`s 66 years old, will be a helluva lot different to what she is saying now .
What person alive today that is older than 60-70 years still has exactly the same belief they would have had when they were 16 years old ?
jehovah’s witnesses can donate blood.
today i added a new article to my blog that answers the question of whether watchtower doctrine forbids jehovah’s witnesses from going to their community blood bank and donating some of their blood to help replace all the products from blood accepted on a daily basis by the community of jehovah’s witnesses.. .
my article is titled jehovah’s witnesses can donate blood and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2012/03/jehovahs-witnesses-can-donate-blood.html.
This has been a fascinating thread and I wonder how I ever missed it .However with all due respect to Marvin ,in my 32 years as a JW I cannot for the life of me see any BOE in any congregation on earth not having a serious problem with any JW donating their own blood for any purpose .
They just would not believe that the GB has ever authorised such a thing.And no matter what you showed them it would be dismissed as apostate lies.
Admittedly I have not been able to watch the Blog as it has been taken down and I wouldnt have a clue if their is any way to retrieve it ?
With my 32 years as a JW from 1960 on and now out for approx .26 years I have never come across this thought before ? Which to me is very surprising as it has so much implications attached to it.?
And if anything I have come across quite the opposite. The WT has come out against JW`s donating their own blood in case of future emergency`s for them that may occur in the future .
It should / would have been an ongoing topic for years surely ?
Thank you for resurrecting it Vanderhoven7
the jw broadcast for march 2020 is a hard push for more baptisms, where mark sanctamonious sanderson makes ready use of the phrase "baptised disciples of jesus" instead of their typical catch phrase "baptised servants of jehovah".
the "jesus message" is somewhat unusual rhetoric for jehovah's witnesses.
why the big push for more baptism?
Jehovah`s Witnesses have always been criticized by Christendom as not being a Christian religion and looked more upon as being an Old Testament religion with their emphasis on the name Jehovah.
Maybe its finally dawned on them they may gain more approval / acceptance / converts if they start bringing the name Jesus back to the fore.
was in the middle of my research bout "anointed/ anointing /holy spirit".
this question n the illustration got my interest.
notice the last sentence and last word.
Thank you Zing and Finkelstein for such an informative post
.I need more time to digest all of the info.
What was the earliest recorded time that this practice started I wonder ?
Every time I try to find a historical example of being anointed or anointing it always has to do with religion ?
covid-19 (coronavirus) what to do - recommendations from an expert.
subject: what i am doing for the upcoming covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
dear colleagues, .
COVID-19 ,does that mean there have been 19 variations of the Coronavirus since the 1970`s when it was first discovered ? And now a potentially more severe form of the virus has emerged ?
Just asking
Thanks barb for sharing this info.
i was listening to a radio show about a jw women who had been disfellowshiped , her daughter cut off all contact ,must admit at the time i thought so what.. then this man phoned up and explained he was disfellowshiped for asking about jws being ngo in the united nations during 90s till early 2000s when a newspaper exposed them , i still thought he's a apostate but looked it up found the article then found this forum and even more info..
Welcome Fadeaway1962 ,for many of us it was a gradual thing over many years ,little things we were told to wait on Jehovah about ,however being a bit impatient because no jehovah was answering any of our doubts we took things into our own hands and looked up the internet , WALLA ,here were the answers we were looking for , not evidently`s,presumably`s, or its most likely , or any other such mumbo jumbo that spews out of the G.B./WT/JW`s mouth .
And here we are liberated from a lying ,controlling ,cult that has kept millions Captive in A Concept that they are chosen by God to be their spokesperson for God in this day and age,as his prophets .
this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
This topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please)
Good luck with that one Simon.
hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.
a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.
so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.
That article is a fantastic piece of Journalism ,how can that article be spread around the world ? It should be available to everyone to read.,JW`s and non JW`s alike
.Please read this article on the database of child molestors kept by Watchtower .
How can I spread this article around without exposing myself as the source of its distribution ?
Or identifying my real name and location.?
my wife and i are not religious nor do we want to be.
we are very set in our spiritual beliefs.
we have worked with a jw who's family have been like a part of our family for 6 years.
Dano3456 ,you have been warned by many people here who have have had years of experience ,no , decades of experience being JW`s themselves , myself included ,,we know what we are talking about .
Disregard these warnings at your own and your family`s peril .
where does one begin ?.
jehovah`s witnesses pride themselves as being a bible based religion ,that their beliefs and practices are all bible based ?.
words & phrases jehovah`s witnesses use or have used that are not in the bible.. organization.
Thank you for clarifying your post fultimestudent .You do make some valid points.I have some vague memory of we as JW`s were to speak a pure language and it led to some speculating whether we would in time be given ancient Hebrew the language Adam and Eve used ?
I have fond memory`s of listening to Dave Madzay`s talks when he visited our Congregation north of Brissy. The rumour I heard was that the booze got to him and he was DF ended up homeless and drank himself to death .
I didn`t know anything about the fire episode .
