It has been awhile since I've posted anything, but I got this e-mail from someone who is on the edge of falling out of the Borg due to mental stress. I've attempted to verify the information, even called the United Nations, but haven't gotten to a person who can say if this meeting happened. Need help!!!! My gut says this is a contrived experience with many details just not adding up...but you never know. If it is a falsehood, I think it needs to be rebuffed. I quote from the email that was sent to me on Monday, October 20, 2008 by the stressed out JW... "From a Circuit Overseer in Georgia...Brother Steve Kormendi We had an interesting experience at our recent assembly. Though he has never been to college, this brother who grew up in the truth is so talented that he was able to obtain a high paying job. A while ago, his company assigned him to give a talk to the United Nations. He worried over what to speak about. After much deliberation, he finally managed to prepare his speech and showed it to his sister for her to read. His sister is also in the truth. As she read the proposed speech she couldn't believe her brother would deliver it, so she asked him if he was going to give that talk to the United Nations to which he replied yes. Well, he talked about the fighting and total disunity of the world and citied the major cause of it all -- religion. After stating a series of facts and statistics, he explained that there is one group that will never be found in that category - Jehovah's Witnesses - and then went on to show why that was the case. He spoke at length of the sovereignty of God's kingdom and how that kingdom will unite the plant. The talk wasn't given to the whole UN, but rather to a division of it having to do with economics. When he finished, he nervously wondered how his speech had been received. Eventually the chairman, who like the rest of the committee held a variety of university degrees said that the last thing he expected to hear about at that time was religion. He went on to say that there was certainly no doubt that religion was the cause of so many problems. You can imagine our brother's relief? Later, as the meeting was breaking up, he approached the three members of the committee with a question: So, when are you going after religion? They were stunned. They asked him: How do you know that is what we have planned? Our brother quickly replied: The bible foretold it in much detail. After consulting together for a few moments they declared that it would be happening soon because everything was already in place. As they left the room, one turned to our brother and quietly said -- Whatever your mission, get it done quickly, for it won't be long now! Wow! Talk about excited. This surely shows Jehovah our God has entrusted the truth of his word to the right organization!"
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sir82
Urban legend. Various versions of this story have been circulating for at least 25 years.
The UN is virtually powerless - they can't accomplish much of anything (except bicker), much less "go after" religion.
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yourmomma
not only is this an urban legend, but its a very old one. i heard this 12 years ago at a talk. lol. the story is so ridiculous. why would a circuit overseer give a talk at the UN? LOL! classic
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snowbird
bttt?
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Quirky1
The idea of a CO giving a talk to the UN is like preaching to the devil in the mind of a JW. This is BS.
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hamsterbait
This tale has so many permutations, that Leo could produce a very impressive analytical thesis.
The one I heard was a NY taxidriver started witlessing to his passenger. (Who just happened to be a UN dignitary)
Said dignitary was "astonished" that a mere taxi driver would know so much about their secret project to ditch religion.
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megs
The article by Jennifer Lawinski is from Fox News... I don't know how familiar you are with Fox, but nothing that comes out of it is without bias.
Okay... I swear I saw a posting on here quoting the above article...
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mustang
Megs:
There are TWO copies of this post. Apparently the author added paragraphs to make the other one more legible. Taht one has the article you are talking about. Check the authors posting log, if you have trouble finding the other version.
Mustang
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Eyes Open
Yep. Heard a variant of this about 8 years ago.