When I was younger, I was told a story about how a KH wanted to build at a particular site. The proposed site had a very old, historical tree on it(what exactly is a historical tree?) and the city denied the request. Within a few days, a terrible thunderstorm came and lightning hit the tree and knocked it down. The JW's were able to build their hall in that spot afterall, it was a miracle!!!
JW Tall Tales
by lancelink 51 Replies latest jw experiences
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PSacramento
Hi Lancelink,
I saw that video not too long ago, the video of that that speaker described.
A horrid example but typical of how the JW's view Jesus's death and God "hand" in it.
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PSacramento
Of course we can't forget the Jeopardy Tv game tale, the infamous " the NWt is the most accurate bible translation" one.
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jookbeard
What about that B/S story from Japan about a Yakuza member and something to do with his daughter?
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Crux
This actually did happen.
A friend of mine who was a pioneer at the time and was having a rough time finacially had a blowout and was running on a spare not able to afford new tires. After about a week of stressing he came home to find four brand new tires with a note that said "From Jehovah".
Despite what some people think, sometimes there is actual loving kindness amongst the jw's.
On the flip side, I had two close friends (twin brothers) who had a hard time distingushing imagination from reality. That's another way to say they lied constantly, about everything. A lot of moving tables, floating cats/animals acting wierd, unexplainable and mysterious noises. All of it was of course demons. I let them borrow a video game one time and had it promptly returned to me due to the fact that apparently once the laser hit the disc it released a demon into the house (my words not theirs). Not that they were particularly religious, just impressionable... oh and liars. :P And by the way, they didn't have an answer for why I never had "demon problems" despite the fact that apparently several of my possessions were possessed.
How sad is this though, I actually used to reason with myself that the reason I never had demon problems was because the demons knew I had doubts, so if anything ever did happen it would solidify my beliefs, so they chose to not interfere.
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Crux
Oh that reminds me! A reason for not using drugs was once you drop your mental guard you allow the demons in!
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daniel-p
How about the murderer on the run (or other random violent criminal) who opened the door to a little old JW lady with two big guys behind her who later turned out to be angels from heaven sent to protect said little old lady.
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dissed
Crux - "How sad is this though, I actually used to reason with myself that the reason I never had demon problems was because the demons knew I had doubts, so if anything ever did happen it would solidify my beliefs, so they chose to not interfere."
Hey, the logic makes sense to me. Oh those demons! They are a clever lot.
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daniel-p
Could we be overlooking the greatest JW Tall Tale of all, the Smurfs Walk Out of Kingdom Hall story?
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WuzLovesDubs
Lance I heard that exact story, probably at Janesville as well where I was baptized. We used to hear stories like that all the time until they started regulating the outlines to the points where they were boring as hell and there was no interjection of any personal touches allowed. I remember something about a jar and ping pong balls and fitting time in for field service, personal study, family study and meetings all at once in your life...that jar. Something about controlling your temper and not flying off the handle during which the brother was trying very hard to use a broom handle and a toy fly on a string to make this point and it failed miserably except to make us laugh about his efforts. This same brother came to visit our book study to talk about approaching all kinds of people in field service trying to use the illustration of Jesus being amongst the lepers...but he kept saying leopards "And Jesus reached out and touched the Leopard and...." and the guy next to me drew a picture of a guy in a toga petting a very confused looking leopard and I busted out laughing..pretended to be choking...and ran out of the room!! :)