Anna

To me it seems like the whole idea, whatever it was, got screwed up too easily for it to have been a true "plan" so I think it was more than likely a mix up, as is typical for disorganized societies. As for the blood transfusions....I don't know...perhaps you are right, but I tend to think of blood transfusions being more of a problem with dependent children rather than young adults who surely have the right to decide for themselves what they want as regards the blood issue.

Yes, based on that scripture you quoted But I'm sure we could find something to fit in with my proposal

I guess all the other controversial topics have been exhausted But I did think my baptism by proxy was a good idea, the Mormons think so. That would alleviate the problem of inter-life complications @JW Insider

Perhaps by proxy?

Lets hope Bible Speaks contained himself/herself when writing those letters!

It seems that the Librarian, or whoever is running this forum, is doing a good job of keeping just enough relatively reasonable apostates/opposers posting here to raise just enough "controversy" to stop the discussions from becoming not discussions, but infantile naive statements akin to unicorns eating rainbows and pooping butterflies, and at the same time not allowing this forum to be overun by apostates/opposers (which would happen very quickly, as has on many forums) turning it into a mere cesspool of cynicism, negativity and unreasonable arguments, where any reasonable person would not be able to get a word in edgeways. Well done The Librarian.

These are not transcripts though....they are summaries. Something tells me the court will never make the transcripts available to the public. This is not Australia, this is Russia. @James Thomas Rook Jr. I could be wrong of course...

You both! @JW Insider @Eoin Joyce I like dogs

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER TREATMENT OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES IN RUSSIA https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-statement-on-jehovahs-witnesses-in-russia

And your point JTR?

Yeah, no matter what they say, when those hooks are in their mouth they will do things they never imagined

Or he could take it out on us since in his eyes we are a US religion...

Does he really need any help?

Interesting observation at 3:22

Adjourned till tomorrow 7th April, 10:00h this time. They all want to get this over with early so they can go to their Dachas for the weekend. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://www.jw-russia.org/&prev=search

Let's hope they pass it on!

And their answer no doubt is: yes!

You are right in part about the critical thinking skills, but that is no fault of the organization I feel, I don't think the organization discourages critical thinking, on the contrary. You don't necessarily have to go to college to "get an education", you can educate yourself quite well by being inquisitive and by reading a lot, and that's up to each individual. I believe in these particular instances the gullibility comes from being too trusting of the brothers and wishing these things were true. It's like they are already living in paradise, but in the present world it's more like La La land. It's note worthy though that many people in the world lack critical thinking also. You only have to go and read the comments after some news article and the "logic" is amazing. It's like the whole of mankind is either infantile, or cynical to the extreme, there seems to be no happy medium and common sense any more.

Here it is. And the caption says "Mail in the USA. All these are letters to Russian officials in defense of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia". Don't worry about the privacy of that person, their Instagram account is public. The sad thing is this person was repeatedly informed that these are not our letters by a large number of the friends in the comments. She deleted all the comments and disabled further commenting. The even sadder thing is I have a feeling she is stubbornly keeping her post there because it has over 1500 likes, (which shows how many were duped) and all her other posts have barely 40, so she must be very proud of it! This picture was shared like wildfire by many others on all the social media as our letters to Russia ......

https://www.jw-russia.org/news/17040510-129.html The latest

I will post it later

Awww you should have! This feed, including "bible speaks" defense rhetoric was getting my funny juices flowing (hence the memes) I probably would have enjoyed it. But you're probably right about the easily understood part. You know I received my first negative like on here? (Oh, I dont have the crying smiley I was going to insert here) And I thought it was a pretty good comment. Perhaps I should have liked it myself.

https://nyti.ms/2oy0BNW Good article I thought

Is that a rhetorical question or you want my opinion? ....No, you don't.

@Bible Speaks Oh! did you take back your negative "like" on one of my posts?