typical JW reaction

by fern 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • fern
    fern

    I just had to share this funny and also pathetically sad story with everyone. Today my mom took me to a Doc appt and while we were in the waiting room the story about the California eathquake came on. It got my mom talking about the earthquake several months back in Illinois. It was felt in Michigan and apparently woke her out of a sound sleep. She had fallen asleep with the TV on and when she woke some TV evangelist was on. She was still feeling the vibrations and immediately thought there were demons at work so she quickly clicked off the TV. I laughed out loud at this. Feeling earthquakes in Michigan is indeed rare but how sad her first thought was of demons. This makes me remember another story from my childhood. My 83yr old step-grandmother had decided to become a JW and was studying with my mother. During one of their studies my grandmother's eyes rolled back into her head and she slumped back in her chair. My mothers first thought? DEMONS! Now if you were in the company of an 83 yr old and that happened would demons be your first thought? I don't think so!! I was probably only around 10 at the time and remember thinking how rediculous this was. By the way.....grandma was fine.

    Fern

  • mkr32208
    mkr32208

    It's not just witnesses thought. I sit with a lot of patients who are in an 'altered mental state' (in fact I'm typing this post from a patients room!) Anyway we have quite a few techs from the islands and south america (I guess they work cheap!) and some of them are terrified that they will catch a demon from a patient. I had one a few months ago who wouldn't come into the patients room. The poor woman had suffered a stroke and this jack ass tech wouldn't come in and change her linens because she thought she was possessed!

    WTF year is this anyway?

  • Tired of the Hypocrisy
    Tired of the Hypocrisy

    Once I ate a bag of oreos and pooped black, when they heard about this the elders thought I was demonized!

  • Mandette
    Mandette

    WHAT????????????????????????????

    Fern!!!!!!

    She didn't say the earthquake meant that Armageddon is at 9am sharp tomorrow morning?????????????

    HA!

    Mandette

  • fern
    fern

    Hahahahah.....no she did'nt say that but it wouldn't have surprised me if she had something like "it's a sign of the times" Kinda shocked she didn't actually. Love you Mandette!

    Fern

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    Another way to keep the witlesses going. See the earthquake? That is a sign of the end. Never mind that there have always been earthquakes, and always will as long as the interior of the earth is still fluid.

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