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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the basis behind being opposed to blood transfusions? So that one "true" Christian does not get a non JW blood?

You say people have JW bosses, friends, classmates etc - are there geographic areas where JW population is highly concentrated (like Utah for mormons) ? I've lived in the US for many years and never met any JWs at university or workplace, just the once who knocked on my door, so I  am just courious where their communities are mostly concentrated.

You mentioned your step brothers. Does that mean your mom was divorced and remarried? Is that allowed?

Thank you! This is a very interesting thread. [/quote]

There are congregations everywhere,  in most sizable communities.  They really keep to themselves and you probably wouldn't know if you met one. Most of them are very nice and won't preach to you at work, etc. It's not concentrated,  lime Mormons,  that I'm aware of. I grew up in VA.

My father died from a brain tumor when I was 4. My mom was Catholic and she said she was angry because she was asked to buy mass cards to get my father's soul from purgatory to heaven.  The Jehovah's Witnesses came a knocking and caught her in her pain and converted her. When I was 7 , she met my stepfather,  and they married five weeks later, moving my brother and I into his double wide trailer with his three sons. He was divorced because his wife cheated on him. His children didn't like him and wanted to live with the mother, and took their anger out on me, the youngest and shy one.

You can get a divorce if there's proven adultery or life threatening abuse. There are many cases of women who were being abused to set a godly example and stay because they hadn't been near death yet. The elders get to make these decisions. [/quote]

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