A couple years ago District convention - a Pioneer family with two kids explained how they had ran out of funds and had no dinner...as they turned the corner out Witnessing they saw a Vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "Jehovah Provided in our time of need..." I felt like yelling GET A JOB YOU BUM STOP STARVING!! Not encouraging. This week an Elder with Pnemonia discharges himself from hospital, promising to remain home...so he can go out preaching! Is there some competition with Witnesses as to who suffers the MOST for Jehovah...I always thought these people were idiots with some mental problems.
Australian Convention Pioneer family Experience - We found our vegetables in the gutter..why do they wanna be Martyrs?
by Witness 007 37 Replies latest jw experiences
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mamalove
Wow, that is really, um, typical....do people in the audience all just nod in agreement? Doesn't anyone cringe, and roll their eyes?
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OUTLAW
We have a Similar JW Urban Legend..Only it was a Bread Truck..
If it wasn`t for careless Truck Drivers..
JW`s would never eat..
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as they turned the corner out Witnessing they saw a Vegetable truck had spilled some produce in the gutter and so "Jehovah Provided in our time of need..."
If the vegetable truck was still there, wouldn't that be stealing?
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Bystander39
I heard the veges from a truck AGES ago in the US. They must be re-cycling their stories (as if that's never been done before)
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Roski
My father was ill with what the doctor diagnosed as severe bronchitis. He was told to stay indoors until he improved as the weather was cool/windy and lots of flu around. He went to the convention on Friday and came home sick. I spoke to him on Saturday and was astounded that he and my mother would be so irresponsible as to go to the convention - I had seen them the previous week and advised him to follow the doctors advice (worried that he would go to the evening meeting again). I concluded our conversation on Saturday by saying "and don't go to the convention tomorrow..." I needn't have worried - he died early Sunday morning.
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((((Roski))))
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blondie
Not quite like the jws who find money in a pouch and turn it in.
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pontoon
without question fine examples of modern day miracles----no, wait, Jeh we learned doesn't do miracles for individuals any more, must be just chance & they don't mind eating garbage
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betterdaze
(((Roski))) that is so tragic. I used to worry about my mom… but then I told her I would "Sue the elders' asses into the ground" if they required her go out in FS anymore with all her myriad health issues. And I think she told THEM.
About the cruddy food from Jah, I remember some Gilead missionaries visiting our home when I was a kid. They were assigned to a far-flung, poverty-stricken "land" where all they had were eggs. Poor roads, which turned to mud in the rainy season, so it was difficult to get foodstuffs through, and the locals wanted to pay for their studies with all they had: eggs. So daily, they'd load up baskets of fresh eggs at the door.
Eggs for breakfast, eggs for lunch, eggs for dinner. Praise Jah, "We lived on eggs seven days a week! And we LIKED it!"
I was about 9 or 10 and thought, "Why doesn't Jehovah The Almighty at least send them a little bread and cheese to go with their eggs?" In my young mind, Jesus had the power to multiply it, right? So they could share it back with the studies, too. But nothing in the Watchtower ever worked that way. Always about SACRAFICE to the point of malnutrition.
That and other Gileads' experiences totally turned me off to the ministry. These folks told of MAJOR sacrifices, to be assigned to some really hellish and often dangerous living conditions, and Jehovah could never seem to keep them warm, dry, fed or clean as we could cats and dogs.
~Sue
