This marks the beginning of our new AJWRB playlist on interviews regarding blood transfusions and Jehovah's Witnesses
Click on the next button on the left bottom to skip to the next video... there are three. The first is an introduction with Randall Watters and Zen Galileo, the second is an interview with Dr. Fridey of the Red Cross headquarters in Pomona, Calif., and the third is a tour of the facility with more facts!
Rejection and Abandonment. Those are two very big words. Those words instill tremendous amounts of fear in people. Many people will tolerate massive amounts of abuse to avoid being rejected or abandoned by those they trust and depend on. The fear of rejection and abandonment is what keeps so many Jehovah’s Witnesses who are trapped in a world where their physical emotional and spiritual needs are not met and where they are constantly threatened with rejection and abandonment by every Witness they know. And they are threatened with t6he ultimate rejection of abandonment by a judgmental God if they do not obey all the rules as established by the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In the years being JW and having seen some of the many end-times believers thoughts about The Rapture, the common theme is that a few people would be taken off the planet, and some would be left behind. For the Rapture believers, they believe those left behind will face trials and tribulations that they--the Elect--will escape while living in Bliss serving before the Almighty. For JWs, those left behind come through a Day of Judgement that severely reduces the count of humanity--in current statistics, from 6 billion down to 7 million "faithful."
What would this new reality be like? Paradise, they believe. But, a closer look would reveal some serious deficits in this Utopian idyllic. A curious speculative book was published a few years ago and film series on this topic have been produced showing how a world where humans suddenly disappear would decay--"Life Without People." But, the most likely scenario is a rapid decline in human numbers, leading to extinction.
Very recently, in its April 2nd letter to all congregations, the Society announced that it would be revising its approach to the internet - namely by amalgamating its three websites into just one (jw.org), which would be revamped with a focus on presenting JW beliefs in a more appealing light. I have already explained on this website why I think this strategy is both fruitless and counterproductive. By encouraging interested ones (who have no prior indoctrination to ignore "apostate" material) to turn to the internet for their information, they run the huge risk that such ones will roam further than the Society's official pages, and gather information instead from any one of the hundreds of web pages that present JW beliefs and practices in a less than flattering light - including neutral sites such as Wikipedia. It's like sending your kids into a toyshop and telling them not to touch anything - it ain't gonna happen!
In the years being JW and having seen some of the many end-times believers thoughts about The Rapture, the common theme is that a few people would be taken off the planet, and some would be left behind. For the Rapture believers, they believe those left behind will face trials and tribulations that they--the Elect--will escape while living in Bliss serving before the Almighty. For JWs, those left behind come through a Day of Judgement that severely reduces the count of humanity--in current statistics, from 6 billion down to 7 million "faithful."
