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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in Another international blow to the Russian government Oppressor of Jehovah's Witnesses   
    Another international blow to the Russian government oppressor of Jehovah's Witnesses
    The organization of human rights without borders has presented a speech in the OSCE (organization for security and cooperation in Europe), raising the issue of the persecution of Jehovah's witnesses in Russia at the conference and called it " the most heinous violation Of religious freedom in the euro-Atlantic region after the fall of the USSR."
    They have also denounced the unjust prison that is enduring our brother Dennis Christensen
    The Russian government and its lover the orthodox sect are doing what they want, but the entire planet is knowing what they've tried to hide.
    The video is in English and collects the more than 2 minutes of the time we quoted.
     
     
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    Alexa reacted to James Thomas Rook Jr. in Melody's Interview at 2017 "Don't Give Up" Regional Convention".   
    Melody's Interview at 2017 "Don't Give Up" Regional Convention". 
    Last year my wife and I attended an Assembly in Orangeburg, SC, where a brother in an interview on stage was proud that he had not said a single word to his disfellowshipped father in over 20 years.   We were sitting up close and could see his face in person, and on the large monitors. His declaration of cruelty was followed by intense applause from the audience. 
    We were stunned and horrified.
    This video was originally posted on YOUTUBE by the mother of Melody, at a Regional 2017 Convention where she is proud of having shunned her sister, who is disfellowshipped, but many adverse comments on YOUTUBE made her ashamed .....  and she took the posting down.  
    I got this video copy from the  Russian equivalent of YOUTUBE web site,  RUTUBE.COM.
    After she details her cruelty to her sister, the audience reaction is vigorous applause.
    THIS IS WHY the Russian government and most of the people HATE Jehovah's Witnesses.
    Oblivious, clueless, extreme cruelty, in the name of righteousness.

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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in 2 smiling Brother's on the way in south Africa ;-))   
    And  3 pioneer Sisters  also  on  the  way,  preaching  in  BRAZIL.....
    just  as  so  wonderful smiing
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in 3 pioneer Sisters, preaching in BRAZIL.... and so wonderful smiing ;-))   
    3 pioneer Sisters,  preaching  in  BRAZIL....   and  so  wonderful smiing
    May  you  all  have  much  fun  and  success !
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in Never think, you aren't good enough for God to love you ! See what His repentant people once were....   
    Never think, you aren't good enough for God to love you !  See what His repentant people once were....
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in The deepest level of worship is praising GOD ! read more...   
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    Alexa reacted to The Librarian in Video: How the Haredim, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, make their own rules   
    They never stopped.....
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    Alexa reacted to The Librarian in Hulk Hogan   
    http://www.jw-archive.org/post/96072210448/hulk-hogan-gets-a-jworg-tract-from-two-brave
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in WINSTON MARCOS IMAGES   
    I like the style of these pictures too !  A wonderful work ????
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    Alexa reacted to The Librarian in WINSTON MARCOS IMAGES   
    I like the style of his pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in A popular Wrestling - sportsman in Europe.... In his hand our nice theocratic folder ;-)) That was HULK HOGAN !   
    Hahahahahaaaaaa......   yes,    maybe  he  thought  -   But  on  another  photo  I  saw  2  women,  maybe  sisters ?
    Its  on  the  link !
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    Alexa reacted to The Librarian in A popular Wrestling - sportsman in Europe.... In his hand our nice theocratic folder ;-)) That was HULK HOGAN !   
    I remember posting this one years ago... can't remember where exactly though.
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in A popular Wrestling - sportsman in Europe.... In his hand our nice theocratic folder ;-)) That was HULK HOGAN !   
    Thats  a  popular  Wrestling - sports  man  in  Europe....
    His name is,  HULK HOGAN....
    In  his  hand  one  of  our  nice  theocratic  folders
    May  Jehovah  touching  his  heart ?
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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in Monsoon Rains Devastate Mumbai ?????   
    https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/india/floods-20170914/
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in John 10:30 "I and the Father are one." They are one in purpose like a married couple are...   
    John 10:30  -  Jesus  said,  "I and the Father are one."
    Matthew,  19:5,
    5 and JESUS  said: ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife,  and the two will be one flesh’...
    They are one in purpose like a married couple are.
     
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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in Is Unfailing Love Possible? – ❤️?❤️?❤️   
    Is Unfailing Love Possible?
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    Even when King Solomon was alive, true love was not common. Why? Solomon explained: “One upright man out of a thousand I found, but a woman among them I have not found. This alone I have found: The true God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.” (Ecclesiastes 7:26-29, Immoral foreign women who worshipped Baal were living among the Israelites. As a result, many Israelite men and women had also become immoral.* (See footnote.) But about 20 years earlier, King Solomon wrote a poem about a man and a woman who were truly in love. Whether we are married or not, the Song of Solomon can help us to understand what true love is and how we can show it.
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    Read Song of Solomon 8:6. Love is described as “the flame of Jah.” Why? Because Jehovah’s greatest quality is love, and he created us with the ability to imitate his love. (Genesis 1:26, 27) After Jehovah created the first man, Adam, he gave him a beautiful wife. When Adam saw Eve for the first time, he felt so happy that he just had to describe how he felt about her. Eve also felt very close to her husband. After all, Jehovah had created Eve from Adam. (Genesis 2:21-23) From the beginning, Jehovah made it possible for a man and a woman to have true and lasting love for each other.
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    The Song of Solomon beautifully describes the love that a man and woman can have for each other. The song is about the love between a country girl from the village of Shunem, or Shulem, and a young shepherd. This is their story: The girl was working in her brothers’ vineyards close to where King Solomon and his soldiers were camped. He noticed the girl and ordered his servants to bring her into the camp. Then he told her how beautiful she was and offered her many gifts. But the girl was in love with a shepherd and insisted that she wanted to be with him. (Song of Solomon 1:4-14) The shepherd looked for her and went into the camp. When he found her, they expressed their love for each other with beautiful words.—Song of Solomon 1:15–17.
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    When Solomon returned to Jerusalem, he took the young woman with him, and the shepherd followed her. (Song of Solomon 4:1-5, 8, 9) Nothing that Solomon said or did could change the girl’s love for the shepherd. (Song of Solomon 6:4-7; 7:1-10) So Solomon let the girl go back home. Finally, the Shulammite called to her dear one to come running to her “like a gazelle.”—Song of Solomon 8:14.
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    The Song of Solomon is a beautiful song. In fact, it has been called “the song of songs.” (Song of Solomon 1:1) But in the song, Solomon did not include the names of the characters when they were speaking. He wanted the beauty of poetry and song to stand out instead of adding many details. Even though the song does not include names, it is still possible to know which character is speaking by what he or she says.*
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    If you would like to be married, look for someone you can truly love. When you find that person, work together to keep your love for each other strong. As we learned from the Song of Solomon, true and lasting love is possible, for it is “the flame of Jah.”—Song of Solomon 8:6.
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    "A mere saffron of the coastal plain I am, a lily of the low plains."—(Song of Sol. 2:1)
    “Place me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; because love is as strong as death is, insistence on exclusive devotion is as unyielding as Sheol is. Its glazings are the glazings of a fire, the flame of Jah [for it is from him]."
    (Song of Sol. 8:6) 
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    SOME EXPRESSIONS EXPLAINED
    Unfailing love: Love that lasts and stays strong. This love grows because it is loyal and unselfish Expressions of affection: Different ways you show someone that you love him or her. For example, a husband and wife may say things that make each other feel loved. Couples express their affection in ways that show they deeply respect each other https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/402015046?q=song+of+solomon+8%3A6&p=par

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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in Daily text, Saturday, September 16. 2017   
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    Alexa reacted to Queen Esther in Daily text, Saturday, September 16. 2017   
    Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God from the belly of the fish.—Jonah 2:1.
    Jehovah hears our pleas and understands us even when no one else does. His response to our prayers is a beautiful expression of his enduring love for us. We can learn much from prayers recorded in God’s Word. At times, therefore, we may find it very beneficial to consider such prayers during family worship. Reflecting on how Jehovah’s servants of the past expressed their deepest thoughts to God may help us to enrich our own prayers. For instance, consider Jonah’s contrite prayer from the belly of a huge fish. (Jonah 1:17–2:10) Review Solomon’s heartfelt prayer to Jehovah at the inauguration of the temple. (1 Ki. 8:22-53) Meditate on the model prayer that Jesus offered for our benefit. (Matt. 6:9-13) Above all, regularly “let your petitions be made known to God.” As a result, “the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your mental powers.”—Phil. 4:6, 7. w15 8/15 1:11, 12
    https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2017/9/16
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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in Jehovah God you are Amazing! I "leaf" or a "leaf hopper?" ????? – REAL NOT FAKE!   
    Jehovah God you are Amazing! I "leaf" or a "leaf hopper?" ?????
    REAL NOT FAKE! 
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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in YOUR HISTORY!! – Its 1918 - 1919 and the “two witnesses are lying dead in the street”. Brooklyn Bethel is locked up and shut down. All the Directors are in prison. ???   
    YOUR HISTORY!! – Its 1918 - 1919 and    the “two witnesses are lying dead in the street”. Brooklyn Bethel is locked up and shut down. All the Directors are in prison.
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    The brothers and sisters that could keep things going came back to Pittsburgh on the corner of Federal & Gen.Robinson streets right across the street from C.T.RussellÂ’s haberdashery that was the 2nd main office for ZionÂ’s Watchtower.
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    The preaching had stopped but not a single issue of the Watchtower magazine was missed and even many other publications were produced and distributed from the office here on the 3rd floor of the Martin Building. 
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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in “Of Whom Shall I Be in Dread?” ?????   
    “Of Whom Shall I Be in Dread?”
    “Though against me war should rise, even then I shall be trusting.”—PS. 27:3.
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    "Instruct me, O Jehovah, in your way."—Ps. 27:11. 
    While fear can exert a weakening influence, the feeling of dread is even more severe. But no underlying dread should agitate one who fears Jehovah. (1 Pet. 3:14) When we make Jehovah our stronghold, we “will reside in security and be undisturbed from dread of calamity.” (Prov. 1:33; 3:25) 
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    The metaphor “Jehovah is my light” draws attention to the fact that Jehovah frees us from ignorance and spiritual darkness. (Ps. 27:1) A literal light may reveal a danger or an obstacle on our pathway, but it does not remove it. We must act wisely on what we see. In a similar way, Jehovah reveals to us the basic meaning of world events. He alerts us to the dangers of this system of things. He provides us with Bible principles that always work, but we must apply what we learn. When we do, we can act with more wisdom than either our enemies or our teachers.—Ps. 119:98, 99, 130.
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    David’s words at Psalm 27:1 show that he must have recalled how Jehovah had delivered, or saved, him on previous occasions. For instance, Jehovah had delivered him “from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear.” Jehovah also gave him victory over the giant Goliath. Later, King Saul tried to pierce David with a spear, but each time Jehovah delivered him. (1 Sam. 17:37,49, 50; 18:11, 12; 19:10) No wonder David could say with conviction: “Jehovah is my . . . salvation”! Jehovah will again become to his servants what he was to David—a salvation. How? By delivering his worshippers through the coming “great tribulation.”—Rev. 7:14;2 Pet. 2:9.
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    To remain courageous, we need ongoing instruction in God’s way. This is evident from David’s plea: “Instruct me, O Jehovah, in your way, and lead me in the path of uprightness on account of my foes.” (Ps. 27:11) Acting in harmony with this prayer means paying careful attention to any Bible-based direction that we receive through Jehovah’s organization and applying it at once. 
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    By allowing Jehovah to instruct us and lead us in the path of uprightness, we will have no cause for fear. 
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    David next underscores the necessity of faith and hope by saying: “If I had not had faith in seeing the goodness of Jehovah in the land of those alive—!” (Ps. 27:13) Indeed, where would we be without our God-given hope and our appreciation for the things discussed in Psalm 27! May we, then, continue to pray confidently for strength and deliverance as we face the events leading up to Armageddon.—Read Psalm 27:14.
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    https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2012524?q=ps+27%3A11&p=par

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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in Twice saved from the Houston floods, but still, mysteriously, a victim ?????   
    Twice saved from the Houston floods, but still, mysteriously, a victim
    Houston - it was a difficult choice, but in the end it was not a choice. A small rescue boat had climbed down the road, offering help. Carl Ellis was with his fragile 73-Year-old, Wilma Jean. The boat had room for one.
    The water was already on Mr..'s knees. Ellis, so there was no time to wait for the rescuers with more space. His mother would have to go alone.
    Using the back of a van as a runway, Ellis helped his mother get into the boat, with his belongings tied in trash bags. There were no life jackets, but it was a short trip and the rescuers promised to return to him.
    He never saw them again, or his mother.
    Any catastrophic climate event has its measurable aspects: inches of rain, wind speed, cubic yards of debris. Others are incalculable: photographs photographs, communities, invisible moorings and security sweeps.
    But perhaps the worst things are the unknowable, lost forever in confusion, mysteries like what happened to Ellis, who was rescued not once, but twice, and yet became a victim of the storm.
    When his son thought he was being transported to a higher ground, he was found floating upside down in the water of the flood. In what became one of the moments of the day, Mrs. Ellis was resurrected by a group of civilian navigators in Louisiana, part of an informal organization known as the Cajun Navy. That moment was acclaimed on National Television and social media as an example of heroism and the link between two gulf coast states.
    But with a huge and chaotic rescue effort going on, much of it handled by private citizens who took things into their own hands, few people paid attention to Ellis's next 10 hours.
    A woman saved twice
    The Peak of despair for the residents of Northeast Houston flooded by Hurricane Harvey came on Monday, August 28 Greens Bayou had swollen to a 43,4-foot record where he crossed tidwell road, evicting cars and tearing apart flats to their poles.
    In the middle-class neighborhood, predominantly black, where mrs. Ellis lived in a three-bedroom brick house, people woke up in the early hours to find the water that was leaking. Hundreds, if not thousands, escaped in ships of all kinds. The water became thick and oily, boiling with angry clusters of fire ants.
    At some point around 7 in the morning, three men on a ship were going up to the entrance to Ellis's house at drifting winds drive.
    Mrs... Ellis was a strong woman, an engaged Jehovah's witness who made sausages sausages from scratch, played video games in a sega genesis, drove a giant truck with a grill the size of a portcullis and enjoyed the occasional pressure from Windsor.
    However, a surgery was recently performed, followed by a stroke, said members of the family.
    So Mr. Ellis didn't stop to ask exactly who the men were on the boat - he just helped his mother on board. She was still wearing the hospital's bracelet from her recent treatment. Without knowing, the ship had just arrived at the corner of the corner when his mother somehow fell into the water of the flood.
    "they were trying to make a right, but the boat leaned over", said a neighbor, Desmond Clark, who was looking through the rain from his window on parkway forest drive. And he added, "I didn't see anyone go for it".
    Mr... Clark said that the person in the water was floating in one direction, accompanied by the garbage bags, while the others supported the boat against a truck to drain, then they went back up and headed to the opposite side.
    "I'm not thinking of myself, ' oh, she's drowning ', ' cause she didn't look like she was drowning", Clark said. It looked like he was swimming.
    Soon, three sailors from st. Tammany, the Cajun Navy members, saw something floating in the water. At First, they thought it was a garbage bag. Then they realized it was a body.
    Two of them, identified in news like Ricky Berrigan and Donnie Davenport, jumped while a third, Joshua Lincoln, stayed with the ship, said Lincoln.
    The woman had lost her dentures and the other was blocking the airway, according to Mr. Lincoln. She seemed to be dead.
    "I don't know what made them do it", he said, but they started doing chest compressions. " after that he began to breathe slowly."
    Unable to lift it on the ship, the men recruited two neighbors to help. "she was alive", said one, Brando Flanagan. She was nodding. I just said, " you're gonna be okay, mommy. You're gonna be okay. " he shrank, remembering. " I looked him in the eye. I told him it was gonna be okay
    At that time, hospitals were practically impossible to reach. The Transporters took Mrs... Ellis to the nearest dry corner, where people get into a nursery and a gas station. " I was worried that she would not install too well in a chair ", said Lincoln, " so we asked them to say that they would be more attentive to her ".
    He took a picture of her, still with the black head of style that had left him at home, with a warm brown blanket covered on her. He took a close-up of the hospital bracelet that had his name and date of birth.
    Just after 8 am, another evacuated posted on Facebook that an Wilma Ellis had been rescued and needed help.
    More than 10 hours later, Mrs. Ellis arrived at Lyndon B. Johnson in a body bag. She was brought in, according to the records, by the coast guard - or maybe a hospital spokesman said later, the fire department. The hospital bracelet was missing. Wilma Ellis was a jane doe.
    Acclaimed as a hero
    That night, China Davis was at the hospital where he worked when the phone rang. "someone called me and told me my sister was floating in the water", she said. "' China, your sister's on CNN '".
    Mrs... Davis was confused: His nephew, Carl, had told him that Mrs. Ellis had been taken to a nearby school. I was still waiting to be rescued.
    But there was Mr..'s voice. Lincoln on TV, describing how he'd found mrs. Ellis in an extremely intense current.
    The journalists are to the words of Mr. Lincoln. - were they moved to act? They asked. " how is she now?"
    As it is common in natural disasters, accurate information is scarce. On Tuesday, Mr. Lincoln told MSNBC: " now he's with his family, they say, and he's fine." he had received an address, he said, so he could return his dentures.
    But Ellis's family didn't know where he was.
    They called hospitals and shelters. They got in touch with Mr. Lincoln, who joined the search by posting on social networks and conducting follow-up interviews. A man said he'd seen her in a shelter. But still, no one could find her.
    It wasn't until Thursday that Mrs. Davis got a call from the morgue.
    Combing through tracks
    Mrs... Ellis, who spent his childhood collecting cotton in Northern Louisiana and later became a nurse in Houston, was a matriarchal figure in an extended clan - had seven brothers, six children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They called her mom, or Jean.
    To find her, they had been eagerly panning through the meager tracks, left as fragments of storm debris hooked on a chain fence. But now that they knew she was dead, those clues refused to add. How, if he had almost drowned, was the turban stuck in his head? In The Photograph taken by Mr. Lincoln, didn't it look dry?
    More importantly, where'd he stay and with whom? Had there been a dirty game? Or did anyone ever wonder, just didn't care enough about a lonely, old black woman?
    The bureaucracy didn't help. His son, Carl Ellis, went to get his medical records, but he came out empty-handed because he didn't have a death certificate. The Autopsy report wouldn't be available for weeks. Mrs... Ellis had been identified using fingerprints, said the medical examiner's office.
    But there was an official cause of death: drowning. Who raised more questions - if he had been revived, how did he drown? Had he been fished out of water to be swallowed again? Could he have gone through something so destructive to boot the bracelet from his wrist?
    "my mom wouldn't have left", said Ellis. He wondered if he had left it to himself. " if I saw an old man or an old woman, I wouldn't do that. I'll stay with them, make sure they're okay.
    But medical experts said that drowning could be listed as the cause of death even if mrs. Ellis initially survived. The Autopsy could have found fluid lurking in his lungs, or the nearby drowning could have led to fatal complications due to weakened organs, blood-Unbalanced Chemistry or a swollen airway. With Immediate medical attention, he could have survived. If the emergency medical workers had tried to treat her at any time, they might well have cut off the hospital bracelet to get her out of the way.
    Ellis could have been watched, but no one seems to remember. A man who worked at the gas station where mrs. Ellis was abandoned for the first time. He said he couldn't remember seeing her during the storm. Less than two miles away, near an emergency station, there was another gas station, where hundreds of evacuees had been taken.
    The employees there didn't remember mrs. Ellis. But one, karim musani, took a second look at the photo that Mr. Lincoln had taken. " I can remember this brown thing," he said, indicating the plush blanket. " I picked him up. When I picked it up, it was so heavy.
    Picking up the pieces
    More than a week after his mother died, Ellis took out his mother's truck on the road to his ruined house; his own car had been flooded. Using a pair of denim monkeys, he prepared for the job of getting rid and sorting.
    The day before, he had avoided a meeting of 13 family members on the road, and still seemed to be lost in self-reproach about what had happened. Asked about what he had thought when he heard about his mother's rescue on the news, he objected. " when my mother left here ", she said, " I thought it was her rescue."
    A few days later, Mr. Lincoln returned to Houston for Mrs..'s funeral. Ellis. Emotionally overwhelmed, he said, lost on the way. Mr... Lincoln said that he had been "drastically" affected by finding, then losing, Mrs. Ellis. "all this sounds spiritual when reborn, or born again, when I found her", he said. It's like I can't lie anymore.
    But in the memorial service, he found a family still under tension of unanswered questions - perhaps never to be answered - about the late hours of Mrs. Ellis.
    Mrs... Campbell, Ellis's sister, said he had tried to help. "I tried to gather them one by one and sit and explain something: time and unforeseen events happen to us all", he said, to paraphrase the scriptures. "there are only two people who know what really happened: Jean, and Jehovah".
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/16/us/hurricane-harvey-houston-wilma-ellis.html

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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in "the Bible is the standard" Why do Jehovah's witnesses reject blood transfusions? Why don't they choose? Achim Stemler, the regional commissioner for the news, and Evelyn Richter, the community press officer in greven, give answers in an interview.   
    "the Bible is the standard"
    Why do Jehovah's witnesses reject blood transfusions? Why don't they choose? Achim Stemler, the regional commissioner for the news, and Evelyn Richter, the community press officer in greven, give answers in an interview.
    In Germany, Jehovah's witnesses were long regarded as a cult, which this year, after many tests, also received the status of a church in nrw. In Reckenfeld, the community maintains a "Royal room" as a meeting room. Editor Monika Gerharz spoke to Evelyn Richter and Achim Stemler, two active witnesses, about how they are understood as Jehovah's witnesses.
    How do you get to Jehovah's witnesses?
    Achim Stemler: I grew up Catholic, my mother was Catholic, my evangelical father. I was fascinated by biblical stories like a teenager, I loved them. But I found no evidence of much of what the Catholic Church taught - about the triad, hell. By Chance, I came in contact with Jehovah's witnesses when I was a teenager, taught me to understand the Bible. When I was 19, I became a member.
    Evelyn Richter: I have grown through education. My mother belongs to Jehovah's witnesses. My Father is evangelical.
    In fact, it is always heard that Jehovah's witnesses only marry one another. Is this a rumor?
    Judge: there is no exclusion if you have a partner who is not part of Jehovah's witnesses. But personally i already wish someone with whom I can go together on the path of faith.
    An important complaint from the critics of his religious community refers to the ban on the acceptance of blood transfusions. How are you?
    Stemler: the basis for this is two bibliographies in the Old Testament and one in the apostelgeschichte, where it is necessary to refrain from blood. This compels us. But this does not mean that we are not allowed to operate, for example, or against organ transplantation. There are very good alternatives to blood transfusions. Many doctors who are not part of Jehovah's witnesses are investigating this, and we have a special committee composed of the hospital that carefully monitors these investigations.
    The Ban on blood transfusion also applies to children, there are court judgments that have forced treatment.
    Stemler: when children are sick, the situation is particularly stressful. I'm glad she never asked me about my kids. However, the Bible is the standard of our actions.
    Jehovah's witnesses have long fought for recognition as a public law corporation and therefore as an officially recognized religious community with the right to vote for the church. They are accused above all of the lack of loyalty to the democratic state, because they do not vote. What's behind this rejection?
    Stemler: I say it sometimes careless: I have already chosen - namely the kingdom of God. We feel compelled to work for it. We live in the world, but it's not our responsibility, and that's why we're not voting - like 25 percent of all the other Germans. But we stick to the laws - with one exception: we reject the war service.
    Many witnesses were placed in the concentration camp in the third reich and killed. Is this denial also behind the prohibition and reprisals that Jehovah's witnesses are currently exposed to in Russia?
    Stemler: honestly, I don't know. We're suspected of being extremists, but we don't know what that means.
    Critics who call Jehovah's witnesses a cult are often told that they leave the community, cut by all the old friends and even their own family. Is this correct?
    Stemler: if a member violates the rules of the bible not only is contrary, but this violation also approves and takes place - as adultery continued - then over time this man has moved away from the community, and therefore with He would like to have no contact.
    Isn't this attitude so attached when you think of the parable of the good shepherd who follows the last lost sheep?
    Stemler: we are not going to drop anyone, who made a mistake. Our elders always try to stay in touch. It's about this opposite, non-repudiation. He's also relentless when someone insists on his behavior.
    Is this also true within families? For example, would your wife stay away from you if she wanted to get rid of her fellowship?
    Stemler: No, I'm sure my wife won't get away. The decision to them was the second best in my life - after the decision of the faith. Our community does not require families in such a case to violate members.
    Could Jehovah's witnesses enter a fruitful ecumenical dialogue with other religions?
    Stemler: No. We see no basis for this.
    Finally, a very personal question: ringing in the doors at regular intervals and making conversation offers, which are rarely accepted. Isn't this disgusting?
    Judge: you can't expect people to have time. We make the offer because we have mission mission - everything else is people's decision.
    Stemler: what seems to me to be a pity, though, is that people are less and less aware of what is in the Bible. There is often only disinterest. There are tears. At least people must have their own opinion of faith.
    How do your neighbors and colleagues react when they hear that they belong to Jehovah's witnesses?
    Judge: there are questions of course when I do not participate in Christmas or birthday parties. Then I declare it, and it is accepted.
    And why don't you party?
    Stemler: we do not celebrate festivals that have a pagan background.
    So you're not a muffle celebration in principle?
    Judge: not at all! My husband and I are celebrating our wedding day, for example.
    http://www.wn.de/Muensterland/Kreis-Steinfurt/Greven/2861356-Zeugen-Jehovas-im-Gespraech-Die-Bibel-ist-der-Massstab

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    Alexa reacted to Bible Speaks in The Quebec court requests the adoption of a collective demand for sexual abuse against Jehovah's Witnesses   
    The Quebec court requests the adoption of a collective demand for sexual abuse against Jehovah's witnesses
    A trial proposes to accuse the leadership of the religious organization in Canada and the United States to protect alleged abusers
    The lawsuit is looking for $ 250.000 per plaintiff for moral and punitive damages.
    Radio-Canada says that, if approved by the court, collective action will be the first of its kind against Jehovah's witnesses, a religious movement that is already the subject of several individual trials in the United States.
    It is now up to the québec high court to determine whether the application is sufficiently substantiated to authorize collective action.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-court-asked-to-approve-sexual-abuse-class-action-lawsuit-against-jehovah-s-witnesses-1.4293138

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