Reading stuff on this board makes all sorts of nearly forgotten memories come sneaking back.....now what exactly was I taught about praying to Jah for any personal concerns? Help me out folks, I forget just how the phaseology went: something like, god is under no obligation to mankind, not even JW's, to grant personal requests in prayer; the only proper things to pray about are to do with advancing the kingdom, like in field ministry etc.
So if you lost your job, it's not really right to pray for help finding a new one, or even like if your afraid of walking through a bad neighborhood at night, still no dice. Oh yeah you can still pray.....but Jah might or might not be willing to hear your prayer, I guess depending what side of the bed he rolled out of that morning.
That's the gist of it, but there's a simpler way of putting this nasty, horrendous idea, wasn't there? I can't remember the wording....
Which is why unless we were like praying for the society or the field circus, everybody always ended their prayers with "if it be your will" if it was any kind of personal request. Emphasis heavy on the if part.
I remember years ago, I am pretty sure it was sometime shortly after I left the borg, there was a reader's digest condensed book about a JW family whose big pleasure boat (yeah right how'd they get that, slaving away at minimum wage to please the Fucking Discrete Slave?) sank or capsized in the Pacific Ocean....there they were, theocratic dad, mom, kids, all clinging to a raft, sharks circling around, waves crashing on them yada yada.....so they pray to jah for help and rescue....ending of course quite properly with the telltale phrase "if it be your will".....which I'm sure the RD editors thought was just a pious line.....but of course I knew exactly why they tacked that on....cause god as explained by the wt society really could care less if they drowned or not....no skin off his back. They had to literally beg him to save them.
Geez, what a sick, perverted excuse for a religion.