by konceptual99 15 Replies latest jw friends
A sick little girl goes to NY to meet Caleb and Sophia for her Make a Wish trip.
http://www.kmph.com/category/170789/video-landing-page?clipId=11142038&autostart=true
I don't want to make too much comment as there is an innocent and poorly young girl at the heart of this but I do have to wonder what the purpose of the parents courting the media's attention over this really was.
Wishes are bad, that's what I was always taught. Like magic.
No Apologies
It doesn't cost anything to go on a cult tour. Make a wish foundation would have sent that little girl to a better place, I'm sure.
The mother was sickening to listen to since she was telling the girl what to say and constantly getting the JW.org label out there. How fortunate the mother's sister could go on the trip as well.
The mother reminded me of the elders wives in our hall. Always telling the husbands what to say and do. She probably writes her husband's talks. There was one in our hall that did.
The little girl was cute
I'm very conflicted with this one. The media which jw's condemn in a heartbeat were as usual very sweet. The parents are living in a unique hell my family knows all to well having a young child battling leukemia. I feel for them when it comes to that.
Make a wish is an amazing organization. One that jw's would not contribute to because it is a rice Christian thing according to them. As an example I have volunteered for a Ronald McDonald 5K walk and sent sponsorship requests to various people. Workmates, vendors, customers, family, and an elder that I served with. The only group that has not contributed are the witness family and so called friends.
My son is 7 and still as is obvious to those not in a cult heavily influenced by my wife and me. We are applying for a Disney Cruise next year. He and my daughter deserve it after the trauma of the last 3 years.
Poor girl having this terrible condition and then the unfortunate circumstance of being born in this cult. No fun for her. Just indoctrination and product placement using her condition.
The parents only think in terms of their false god. They no doubt have had many sleepless nights as my wife and I have. This organization is using her. No doubt you will see this soon in one if their monthly gb broadcasting indoctrination sessions. Can't you see it now if this family has a child with this condition and uses their wish to go to bethel what's stopping you!!! This is disgusting. The congregation could have taken care of this at a minimal cost and they could have really done something fun for her and them with make a wish Foundation.
Yeah let's take our sick kid to a factory that makes books!!! It is truly disgusting what this cult does. Sometimes I wish there was a hell. Especially for the people at the top that propagate this bs. Any real leader that had a heart and heard of this would pay for a special trip for this child anywhere that was really fun. But they won't because this is the loyalty they are looking for. Tomos talk has really driven the point home.
If anyone on here knows this family please pm me. I would like to see if I can generate something for this sweet little girl that is just fun for her.
Feel sorry for this and all little ones suffering life threatening deceases.Agree that wearing the JW logo was ugly. Also strange to hear the father is so happy and thankful to live in California and with the staff and quality of the hospital and stanford university while his organisation is SO AGAINST higher education. Hypocritical I might say.
Why make use of s secular organisation to fulfil a wish from a sick child in your congregation? Why not paid and arranged for by the organisation? Or the congregation.
If the child is happy, I am fine but just for the child.
Cute little girl and a sad story.
Funny how the parents made sure they plugged JW dot org. The t shirt and pin on the Dad's shirt.
Make a wish is a fantastic organization. I fine it interesting that the JW organization has sold millions of dollars in Real Estate and is building their new resort in NY but can not afford to send a family to Brooklyn on their dime (to see there own facility). All take and no give. Nothing new!
I agree with everyone above. I feel so bad for poor little Makenna . She seems so sweet, and yet she has this terrible affliction to deal with (being born into and indoctrinated by a mind-control cult). She also has devastating medical problems.
It does seem her parents are getting her the vey best medical care available, and that's a good thing. I am sure they cannot see the contradiction between praising the work of highly educated people at advanced research facilities and their own precious organization's continuous rant against acquiring such knowledge and contributing to that research. It seems they are "using the world to the full," and I am glad they are in this case, but still...
Less important, but still significant, is the fact that the parents quite willingly accepted the Make A Wish Foundation's generosity but barely mentioned any sort of thanks or gratitude to those who made it possible. This broadcast would have been a perfect opportunity to do so. At least they allowed the little girl to wear a Make A Wish t-shirt. Of course, they then dampened that little bit of acknowledgment and gratitude by pinning a big ol' "JW dot org" button on top. It's also highly unlikely they ever donated to Make A Wish or anything similar, because their masters (the Slave™ is such a misnomer!) strongly discourage doing so. Can't be helping any worldlies, you know.
With that attitude, I think the JWs should conscientiously decline any such gift from a "worldly" organization and make their own arrangements if a desperately ill child wants to visit Bethel. The Society could easily afford to do so in extreme cases like this. Might even give a "good witness," because you know they'd publicize it to the hilt. But I doubt that'll ever happen. They seem to be accumulating wealth simply for the sake of accumulating wealth.
I don't know if blood will be an issue in this case (and it might, given the prospect of brain surgery), but the same principle applies. Most JWs are quite willing, maybe even appreciative, to use whatever blood fractions are on the "approved" list, but adamantly refuse to donate blood. I would bet the majority don't know, and none of them care, that it takes thousands of blood donations to provide the fractions that even one JW patient might use. To me, this is selfish and hypocritical. You might even say greedy. I fervently hope Makenna doesn't wind up needing blood. But if she does, and her parents deny her that, I hope that gets publicized just as much as did their visit to the JW Mecca on someone else's dime.
I also thought the parents' shameless promotion of "JW dot org" was in poor taste. It was not enough to mention it several times and refer to it as "Jehovah's house." They had to pin a big button on Makenna's t-shirt and a pin on the dad's top as well.
All that said, the parents do seem to be genuinely loving and concerned for Makenna's welfare. And she is the precious innocent in all of this. Little does she know they would sacrifice her on the altar of the Watchtower if it came to that. They would be very sad, and they would wish it otherwise, but in the end, they would do it. Such is the tragedy of living under the delusion of "serving God" when one is actually under the thumb of a self-serving mind-control cult.
Regardless, I do wish Makenna and her family all the best. I know how devastating her illness must be on all her loved ones, and my heart goes out to them. What kind of a "loving God" would permit such needless tragedy?
To quote one wiser than I:
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
under the radar - "They seem to be accumulating wealth simply for the sake of accumulating wealth."
If you ask me, they're shoring up the nest eggs and real estate holdings in anticipation of global downsizing, lawsuit penalties, and general religious decline in the West.
