by badboy 13 Replies latest jw friends
Our friends had their house built exclusively by JW's. The house is worth over $400,000 - gorgeous. The built it for about 1/3 of that.
2 weeks after the house was finished and they moved in they very publicly disassociated.
They had been having doubts for a year after reading C-O-C but wanted cheap and free labor.
They just sold the house and are building a new one with nothing but problems.
WG
Let me just add...when I say our friends very publicly disassociated. This is what they did.
After all the "Friends" helped them build their house for super cheap and gave free labor...They sent a letter of disassociation. Then they decorated the house with Christmas decorations inside and out..They didn't tell anyone of these same friends and sat in the hall for the DA announcement - got up and walked out.
I personally didn't think it was very nice or honorable. Not what I would have done...but who am I to judge.
These people have always been kind and loving to me and my kids and husband.
WG
WHAT EMBLEZZMENY WAS THIS?
There were several MLMs that various JWs were promoting within the congregation here in CT. Almost all of them folded pretty quickly, but not before the original promoter made some money off the "friends".
One elder (my bookstudy conductor for a time) was quite aggressive about it... even came to talk with me at work. Unbelievable. Sure never came to my office to make an appointment to talk to me about spiritual things, but to make a buck, he had no problem encroaching on my father's time by interrupting my day for his business.
I know he justified doing this with a serious of "reasons": a) he was helping lowly ones in the congregation, ones who could probably use extra money, by introducing them to this exciting new business prospect. b) in my case, he justified calling on me at work by claiming I could put some of the merchandise from the catalogs right on our store shelves...the first and only time the actual products you supposedly wanted to sell in this MLM were ever highlighted. c) He felt that some might be able to quit their jobs and pioneer if they built a good enough network, thereby getting checks off of other people's sales and networks without doing much work at all. The dream of all witnesses.
I'm sure this happens in other churches too, but I get so indignant about it because I believed that JWs were different, that they really had the morals they droaned on about, and really cared about their fellow witnesses. Never pleasant to realize you've been duped.
