tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574858940069385599.post6944536053736478230..comments2023-04-17T21:27:49.092+08:00Comments on Jesus <i>is</i> Jehovah!: Re: I am a young Jehovah Witness who by chance came across your site #4Stephen E. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16183223752386599799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574858940069385599.post-58024927811404371002010-12-07T07:24:44.895+08:002010-12-07T07:24:44.895+08:00Anonymous
>As a 15 year Zealous Person for Jeh...Anonymous<br /><br />>As a 15 year Zealous Person for Jehovah (and elder) here is my story out.<br />><br />><a href="http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com/topic/922" rel="nofollow">http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com/topic/922</a><br /><br />Thanks for comment. I read your Letter of Disassociation. I was encouraged by:<br /><br />"Well, while keeping up with the news one day back in November, I noticed there was a very flattering article on the MSNBC News Website front page; the title of the article was "<a href="http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/2005/10/jehovahs_roofin.html" rel="nofollow">Jehovah's Roofing Service</a>". It was about Jehovah's Witnesses volunteering to put on a new roof for a Hurricane Katrina victim. The article was so encouraging that I e-mailed it to many friends in the truth; something I rarely do if at all. At the bottom of that article however, I noticed people were publicly commenting about the article itself. After the first day there were perhaps some 30 comments. The next day there was over 100. After a few more days they finally capped the comments off with almost three hundred altogether. Some were critical, (mostly "the Witnesses only help their own" variety) a few were casual and nice, but most were from other Witnesses like us, defending the truth against these so-called "critics". In fact I too at one point sent in a comment defending the truth, though it was never posted since there were many others similar to it. <b>There was one comment near the end however, that stopped to make me think several times throughout the next few weeks. It actually shook my faith a bit you might say. It presented negative comments about the truth that I had never heard of before. So much so, that I had to look up Watchtower and Awake articles to verify if these statements were in fact true.</b> Well, after a little research, I found out that these comments were indeed true. One of the claims had to do with the Golden Age magazine (now the Awake) years ago saying that vaccinations were not allowed for Jehovah's Witnesses. The article said that accepting a vaccine was: "a crime, an outrage, and a delusion". It also said that the smallpox vaccination itself would: "cause syphilis, cancers, leprosy and many other loathsome diseases". For 21 years the Society did not allow vaccinations for Jehovah's Witnesses. I had never heard of this before. Even more of an issue for me from this same comment, was that I learned from 1967 to 1980, the Society also forbid Jehovah's Witnesses from accepting organ transplants. Going so far as calling it "cannibalism". The consequences for those accepting an organ transplant was disfellowshipping; complete shunning for those that did not follow this decree. After over 12 years, the society did finally reverse this, instead making it a "conscience matter". My immediate thoughts after learning about these two facts were; I wonder how many people died from following the Society's direction regarding these two medical procedures? <b>This information bothered me quite a bit</b>."<br /><br />What encouraged me is that JWs <i>can</i> and <i>do</i> read on the Internet facts about the Watchtower which they were unaware of, and it <i>can</i> and <i>does</i> shake their faith in the organization and cause them to come out of it.<br /><br />Stephen E. JonesStephen E. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16183223752386599799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574858940069385599.post-86576961285951399962010-12-07T02:25:30.146+08:002010-12-07T02:25:30.146+08:00As a 15 year Zealous Person for Jehovah (and elder...As a 15 year Zealous Person for Jehovah (and elder) here is my story out.<br /><br />http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com/topic/922Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com