I think so much of this type of thinking is hold over from being a JW. Why is anyone so concerned with what everyone else is doing or getting? It reeks of sour grapes. So many people get up in arms the moment they think that someone else is geting a bigger handout, more tax breaks, or any advantage. I guess it's easier being bitter and judgmental over what everyone else is doing rather than just keeping to our own business and responsibility. Odd.
Should Welfare Recipients Contribute to the Society?
by sammielee24 11 Replies latest jw friends
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sammielee24
I think so much of this type of thinking is hold over from being a JW. Why is anyone so concerned with what everyone else is doing or getting? It reeks of sour grapes. So many people get up in arms the moment they think that someone else is geting a bigger handout, more tax breaks, or any advantage. I guess it's easier being bitter and judgmental over what everyone else is doing rather than just keeping to our own business and responsibility. Odd
I swear that you appear to have the lowest grasp of comprehension....eegads.
The thinking came from the FACT that JW's preach no education. They tell kids and adults to go door to door and try and sell their magazines. They will suggest the welfare office for those needy in their congregation most of the time. They will not reach out to help the community at large and instead go out of their way to help only their own. They pay no taxes on contributions nor property. They enlist young people to live at Bethel, sign a vow of poverty, work the buildings and the bindery and then as recently happened, turn them out to congregations without social security, unemployment or health care.
More importantly they hate the world. They preach against it. A JW cannot enlist in the army - yet, many of the older ones collect army and government pensions. They tell the flock to resist any association with worldly people, even in their jobs, yet tell them to go to the same worldly people and programs in order to get money to live. The jist of the discussion was - should an organization that pays no taxes to the community, expect to receive any money back from that community in the form of contributions. This isn't relative to the JW's only, so you can take your 'sour grapes' and stuff that notion - it's got to do with religious organizations not paying a cent in taxes yet expecting cash back in whatever form they can get it. For an agnostic or atheist, for a non believer of any religious group, you pay taxes to the community for the common good - exemptions from those taxes for religious organizations should only be based on the good works they in turn do for the community. sammieswife.