Stuff You'll Never Read in Awake

by metatron 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  Here are some positive things the Society is unlikely
  to talk about:

  Headline in Wall Street Journal "Turning Swords Into
  Plowshares" (Nov.20,2001)The U.S.Energy Dept. has a
  program to employ former Soviet weapons scientists in
  useful projects. "Since 1994 the program has awarded
  129 million $ in seed money, matched by corporate funds,
  to 88 former Soviet weapons institutes.." The EU and Japan
  are providing similar funds. One major project? Helping to
  find a cure for childhood leukemia.

  Most of Europe now has a single currency. Gulf states
  are discussing the creation of a customs union and single
  currency in the Middle East. Gulf states also publically
  called on Iraq to submit to weapons inspection and to
  respect other nations borders. Bahrain is finding more
  social peace with more democracy. Afghanistan is scheduled to
  get a 'Marshall Plan' of 6 billion in reconstruction funds.

  Not widely publicized, huge crowds of young people
  in Iran commemorated the Sept.11 bombing shouting
  "We love you, America!". Demonstrations in favor of
  freedom and pro-west ideas have shocked the aging,
  corrupt religious leadership of Iran. (sound familiar?)

  Both Libya and Iran have made public comments that
  in so many words, if the Palestinians got their own
  state with a chunk of Jerusalem, that would be OK with
  them - possibly leading to normal relations with Israel.

  and finally, a true story from Amnesty Now magazine
  (Winter 2001-2002). A young Muslim man named Sharam Hashemi
  got caught up in the Sept.11 Twin Tower bombing. In the midst
  of the smoke and fire, he asked what he could do to help.
  He was given a fireman's coat and pressed into service
  helping people away from danger. He told the fireman who
  gave him the coat " ...just in case anything happens to me,
  let my family know." The fireman said he would, embraced
  the young man and then made the sign of the cross, "Christ
  protect you", he said

  Sharam, a Muslim, wept.

  Later, taken to a hospital, he noticed that all the
  doctors helping people were Jewish.
  He said "It was really a moment of peace. Regardless,
  of our race or religion, we all cared about each other."

  While Watchtower leaders smugly 'trumpet' their meager
  efforts at caring - in preaching their message of "comfort",
  in which 99% of humans are slaughtered by God, stories
  like this one get ignored.

  The 'spirit of the world' isn't always something negative,
  as they would have everyone believe. It would be wonderful
  to see the Watchtower sink under the weight of their own
  cynicism and intolerance.

  metatron
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  oscartheduck

  Their cynicism was a large factor in my becoming dissilusioned with them. WEll done on pointing this information out.

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  The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "
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  patio34

  Thanks Metatron for that thoughtful post. I'd almost forgotten (temporarily!) about the WTS cynicism towards the "wicked" world.

  Today, I was watching Montel Williams (my 1st time!) and he had people who had won millions on. One of the things most of them said was how they've been involved in charitable activities with the $$. How unlike how the WT portrays the "wicked, evil world of mankind!"

  Cheers!
  Pat

  "It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the world." (from "Stuart Saves His Family")
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  Satanus

  Thanks metatron, i always like reading your posts.

  The reaction of all the people right at ground zero during and after the tragedy, put a lie to what the wt has alwaays taught. They taught that the 'tribulation' would lead to progressive anarchy, growing in scope until the whole world went nuts. They portrayed human nature as a predatorial, egged on by a ferocious superhuman devil, a lawless human nature barely kept in check by govts.

  The total lack of rioting, the volume of the outpouring of aide and offers of aide after 9-11 shows that the wt doesn't know much about human nature. Of course which ever high ranking person perpetrated that tragedy, shows that our nature has its faults. But, by and large, human nature is much better than the wt is capable of admitting.

  SS
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  LB

  Wait a sec, they chanted "we love u america" in Iran?

  It is the end.

  what fun

  
  Never Squat With Yer Spurs On
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  Simon

  One of the most shocking things you discover when you leave the WTS is that everyone in the world is not a drug taking murdering satanist. The moral majority is just that - a majority! They just don't shout about it like the WTS does.
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  Room 215

  H all,
  Giving credit where credit is due has never been the strong suit of the Awake!

  The WT refusal to acknowledge the good in anyone but themselves is one of its most damnable failngs.