Good points, Robert
So a person can't be a doctor or artist and tell people about God? This article gives no information of exactly how walking door to door and sitting for hours in a kingdom hall is a fulfilling life? And we should live our life so as to have a good eulogy?? I thought JWs don't need to worry about death?
I guess the WTS feels that if want the carrot, everlasting life on a paradise earth, only d2d will achieve that, and you don't even have to bring anyone in to qualify. And yes, jws are told that they will never die living right into the "new system."
Hi, WTWizard, but then Solomon was allowed to explore all types of work....and write about it in the Bible. It reminds of jws I know that have professional careers and are admired, mostly because they donate great sums to the WTS. Money talks.
Hey, Bluesbrother, I always wondered if the d2d is the most satisfying, why so many jws spent so little time doing it and that there is a national average of only 10 hours. Back in the olden days, ten hours was the required goal, in black and white. So that is all jws would do even if they could go out 30 or 40 hours. So the WTS changed that policy hoping that the rank and file would DO more. But the average has changed little and few jws pioneer compared to the past, where is the urgency?
Good comments, OTWO.
I know an elder that bought a $250,000 plane...sure he had the money, but then there was a family that had been laid off and their unemployment was running out and the job prospects were little...did he help...no. Eventually, their non-jw BIL found them a small house and hired him on his construction team, all the while asking why no one in the congregation had helped.
Yes Bob, wisdom is more than words, but is what we do that. Wisdom is applied knowledge.
Keyser, d2d could be boring. I made it my goal to find out about people and encourage them. My style at the door made other jws uncomfortable. I would imagine that this person could be my friend. I avoided pushing publications and concentrated on using an interesting scripture. I also made it a point to go out when people were home. It was hard at first to leave the WTS model behind but I had more fun and made some good friends. My problem was convincing myself that coming to the KH and being treated unkindly was a good thing for these people.
Very good, Billy. It is amazing how the WTS picks such examples for Christians to follow. Where was the holy spiriit when God made this promise to David...a promise that couldn't be rescinded. And then out of all David's sons, was only Solomon qualified, the offspring with a woman whose husband he killed so he could marry her? If God had applied the law of death for adultery to Bathsheba (had a promise been made to her and had she shown mercy to others?), there would have been no Solomon.
Well, heathen, that is a colorful comment. I always imagined that Solomon probably did not have sex with all those women but that many of them were just political alliances. With only 365 days a year, and 1000 women..........
Hey, Borgia, it is also good to Google any incomplete allusions to non-jw sources. The WTS is very deceptive. How can you accept their information as authoritative if you don't know who, when, and the complete source.
Love Blondie