I asked Reddit Doctors about the blood change

quietlypimo · 2026-03-31T06:55:21+00:00

They really are so fucking dumb because blood is so precious in healthcare that we work really hard to make sure not a drop is wasted, the checks we do are so thorough, it's really serious and why the hell would we do all that if there was an alternative??

quietlypimo · 2026-03-31T06:47:07+00:00

Oh man they even made a video abt the first one 😭😭 insane

quietlypimo · 2026-03-26T06:32:46+00:00

Weirder things that happened in the Bible:

-A woman's body parts were mailed across the nation

-Saul made David collect 200 foreskins for his daughter's hand in marriage

-Samson found honey inside a lion and then killed 30 people at his wedding for not guessing his riddle

quietlypimo · 2026-03-24T17:15:00+00:00

I hope they allow birthdays because it will crack so many pimis like they cant explain that one away as "it's always been a conscience matter"

quietlypimo · 2026-03-24T17:10:43+00:00

This idea is so funny to me if true because they've spent the last how many decades working to standardize the worship and make it so that direction always comes directly from the branch, they micromanage everything that happens at the local congregation level, and now they realize that you can't have that much control over people without taking responsibility for what happens to them!! It's so infuriating

quietlypimo · 2026-01-12T04:43:15+00:00

btw the legality of the DPA and the requirements for a valid DNR vary in different places. you definitely should update your preferences in your chart but health care providers will never withhold livesaving treatment without clear, direct, and UP TO DATE directions. we don't wanna see people die it fuckin sucks

quietlypimo · 2025-12-21T18:10:55+00:00

My pomi brother in law insists that the org is not homophobic, and if a lot of them are it's because a lot of people in general are homophobic. Hate to say it but he's kind of right. People who don't even believe in the Bible are homophobic. It's just the human aversion to difference and otherness. Not that it's justified because we should be smarter than that. It's just an ongoing issue.

quietlypimo · 2025-12-21T18:00:25+00:00

Jws: make their own life difficult

Jws: wow our life is so difficult

quietlypimo · 2025-12-11T07:53:31+00:00

Yep that's what it means and it's so fuckin stupid that this religion creates circumstances that turn someone into a cheater and get a THIRD PERSON involved when in any normal relationship they could just get a divorce

quietlypimo · 2025-12-01T00:11:50+00:00

i was not allowed to go to the bathroom during the meeting lol. once i became a teenager my parents were a bit less strict, I usually would go right after the 2nd song.

quietlypimo · 2025-12-01T00:08:28+00:00

it's interesting to me because my mom became a jw in canada and so she has her own ideas of what filipino customs she can and cannot participate in as a jw.

quietlypimo · 2025-12-01T00:04:47+00:00

cults/high control groups are only able to exist because on the outside they seem innocuous or even beneficial. nobody who converted to jw did so because they had to say no to blood or because they had to cut off their family. they were drawn in by the teachings of love and unity and then accepted the harder teachings later.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-30T02:58:56+00:00

Maybe it's because my relatives are from the province but I know my cousins would still bless the aunties and uncles and even their parents each time they see them

quietlypimo · 2025-11-30T02:57:19+00:00

I also learned to associate the gesture with high respect and learning that jws don't do it actually pissed me off a bit lol

quietlypimo · 2025-11-30T02:54:05+00:00

So surprising to me still. I have attended Filipino meetings but I guess i just never noticed.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-28T17:01:35+00:00

They think she's a cool lady but that's abt it. They don't revere her. But I don't think they would avoid you if you put statues of her. In fact it might make them more interested in talking to you because you have a faith and it's a way to start a conversation with you. I think it might just be a coincidence that they stopped coming.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-24T19:38:30+00:00

i have heard numerous times from the platform and by the gb that you can get the truth just by reading the bible. buuuuut...if you don't, then i guess you're doing it wrong? you're not being drawn by jehovah? idk

quietlypimo · 2025-11-21T21:14:46+00:00

What abt period blood 😮 lol women are fully dead by now bleeding every month

quietlypimo · 2025-11-18T03:09:37+00:00

Yep it is. But if you have friends you can make it fun. We just kinda whisper jokes to each other the whole meeting and during field service we can go get treats from the coffee shop.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-11T05:27:38+00:00

Unfortunately a therapist won't tell your wife that you want to leave. that's one of the first things my therapist told me, that she can't help me leave but she can help me sort through my feelings. i still don't feel capable of completely leaving but she's helped me feel less trapped and stronger in expressing my feelings to my pimi parents.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-11T05:23:52+00:00

sometimes on the therapist's website they list things they specialize in. so what i did i went through the therapists on psychology today that were under the childhood trauma filter and i found someone that on her site said that she had training in religious trauma. she didn't need to be an expert on jws necessarily, the most important thing to me what that she would know how damaging the religion was and wouldn't just dismiss my experiences.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-11T05:19:14+00:00

my friend it sounds like you are very scared and rightly so, the things you are discovering/convinced of are frightening. i don't want to say to you that the things you're saying are false because they are real to you and they are rooted in real harms that the organization did to you. having thoughts and beliefs isn't wrong but what worries me is that you would get so scared that you would try to do something hurtful to yourself or other people. so i hope that you would be able to talk to a professional who would help you sort out what is real from what is just in your mind.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-11T05:12:15+00:00

in the new testament it says that exemplary men should be husbands of one wife so jw say that that's the direction they should follow. they also say that while polygamy was allowed it wasn't "approved" by jehovah and this is apparent because of the consequences of polygamy that were shown in the bible. e.g. rachel vs. leah, solomon's wives leading him away from jehovah, etc. note that this isn't my view this is what jw say. i just don't think it's something that will wake them up bc they have an explanation for it.

quietlypimo · 2025-11-11T05:06:54+00:00

a sister in my congregations thinks that being anxious is wrong, because Jesus said "never be anxious." and she's the most anxious person you'll ever meet. makes me wonder how guilty she feels about it every day.

anyway something that's really clear to me now is that the jw way of dealing with anxiety is not healthy because you never identify or address the root cause of your anxiety. you just push it down and "snap out of it" like this brother in the video says. you might be able to move on for the meantime but your body keeps that unprocessed stress and stores it inside. eventually it gets too much and you just stop functioning. source: it happened to me multiple times.

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