Ooo, Right On, Room 215!!
Mad Sweeney, You SLICED him! Yeah, that particular form of hypocrisy has ALWAYS puzzled me - all those JWs on Facebook yet claiming they're such good little servants of Jah... The JWs getting college educations and claiming "but the WTBTS doesn't forbid it!" Of course it doesn't; it merely IMPLIES that it's "wrong"... Like they IMPLIED that Armageddon was coming in 1975... Hilarious that JWs are blitheringly obtuse to the "commands behind the implications" when it serves their own personal agendas...
sd-7, your post is SPECTACULAR!!! I am IN AWE! About that 87-year-old lady, your comment: "The woman from El Salvador--what would have happened to her had she refused a Bible study? There's a pretty good chance that if she did so and really was in need of food, she would have starved to death. This story is just another example of conditional love; if they helped her even though she refused the message, then I'd give credit where credit is due..."
Too painfully true. Some of us on this board have seen this same "crocodile concern" in action with the poor gent who fell in love (?) with a JW woman who was trying to bring him "into the truth" as a feather in her cap - while she was dating and preparing to marry someone else! Get those converts any way you can...
Besides, since Blondie found another reference to that same story - dated 1979, if I remember correctly - that 87-year-old-lady is dead, by now... Wonder if she willed her material goods to the WTBTS?
http://www.watchtower.cc/CharitablePlanning.pdf
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