As a JW did you ever think Jah "performed miracles" because you were one?

by LovesDubs 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  LovesDubs

  I seriously think I lost all sense of reality as a JW. I was first associated wiht the JWs in 1984. June specifically. I was studying, had my little Live Forever book and my AID book and went out to California to visit my sister. I was a madwoman preaching my ass off about stuff I had JUST learned about. We went to the beach with the kids and realized we had nothing to start the fire pit with to cook the hamburgers and hotdogs. She and I decided to see if we could find some drift wood. As we walked we found...no lie...a full CORD OF WOOD still bound, laying in the middle of nowhere with no one around it. I turned to her and said "See? Jehovah provides for his followers." I ACTUALLY BELIEVED that f-ing wood was put there just for me. She had a very stunned look on her face for the whole evening. And a slightly scared one too.

  Did you get a job and think Jehovah gave it to you?

  Did you need $329.38 cents to make the rent and got that EXACT amount in a tax refund that day?

  Did you have any relatives who were sick and got better because you prayed and Jehovah only listens to the prayers of JWs?
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  lost_light06

  I once saw Pastor Russells face in a corn torilla, does that count?

  Seriously though I never had any experience like that or knew anyone that did but we always heard about them at the meetings, assemblies and DC's. I think someone should come up with with an JW urban legends site.......oh wait, they did, it's called jwfact.com.
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  anewme

  Uh, yeah, I did on the rent one.
  
  Pretty incredible coincidences. So I do forgive myself now.
  
  An arsonist set fire to my cottage when I was 24.
  I had no money for another apartment.
  A sister in my hall took up a collection and gave me $250.
  I went apt hunting and the lady said it was $250 first and last and cleaning.
  I told her I did not have that kind of money.
  She then, out of the blue, asked me what my religion was.
  I said a quick Hezekiah type prayer and told her I was a JW.
  She then said "I knew you must be a JW! My grandaughter is a JW and the finest girl around!
  I'll let you have the apt and waive the last and cleaning fee!" (Mind you this was 1978)
  
  Ya gotta admit, that was pretty neat huh?
  
  But it hurts now to look back and see how gorgeous I was and living like a shy hermit doing dog damn housecleaning for a living and being soooo broke and lonely! One of these days I will post my picture of those days.
  I guarantee you will shake your heads too at the waste of beauty and life.
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  Gerard

  Lighting were thought to be holly until explained by electricity.

  Earthquakes were thought to be damnation until explained by plate tectonics & vulcanology.

  Healing was thought to be miraculous until the immune system was explained.

  Flight was supernatural until technology & physics devised airfoils.

  Anything lacking immediate explanation is easily atributed to a deity...until explained. So far there are no proven miracles and the laws of physics are able to explain most of the universe around us and its mechanisms.
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  parakeet

  ***I once saw Pastor Russells face in a corn torilla, does that count?***
  LOL!!! That's not a miracle! That's a sign that the apocalypse is upon us! Maybe there was some miracle wheat mixed with the corn in that tortilla.
  Personally, I never saw anything that made me think Jehovah could do anything more powerful than to ruin my day.
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  Finally-Free

  I thought he might help me out if I needed him to. When I was unemployed I put faith in Jehovah and turned down job offers that involved shiftwork, because Jehovah would not want me to miss meetings, right? I lost my apartment and had to move back to my mom's house. Same thing happened again when I couldn't work because I just had an injury and surgery - just at the same time a MS refused to pay me several thousand $$ for a business he bought from me. And when I injured my back, other pioneers™ were out canvassing my customers and undercutting my prices. This was easy for them, as someone stole my customer and price list out of my car.

  I'm sure they considered my misfortune a "blessing from Jehovah" but it didn't seem like one to me.

  W
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  blondie

  The 8/1/06 first WT study article has this to say illustrating again how the WTS speak out of both sides of their mouth:

  Paragraph 11

  Like David, we can show fear of God by trusting in his promise to help us cope with our problems...this does not mean that we simply hand our problems over to Jehovah without doing what we can about them and expect him to act in our behalf. David did not pray to God for help and then leave matters at that. He used the physical and intellectual abilities that Jehovah granted him and tackled the problem at hand...Having done everything within our power, we must leave the rest to Jehovah. In fact, often there is nothing we can do but rely on Jehovah.

  Paragraph 12

  We must never be like those described by an experienced anointed Christian: "They think of God as a sort of celestial waiter," he said. "When they need something, they want to snap their fingers and have him come. And when they've got what they want, they would like him to go away."

  Blondie
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  rekless

  Right at first when my son was 2 and diagnosed with lymphatic leaukemia and we were told without a blood transfusion he will be dead in a week, he did not a blood transfusion, and he lived for 16 years, he died the week he graduated from High school. WE had run out of all the new chemo and he couldn't take anymore treatments physically.Read into this any way you want.
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  Warlock

  rekless,

  I'm sorry about your loss.

  Warlock
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  rekless

  warlock, that was 1989, but I did at that time feel that it was a meracle.