As I attend some meetings I like to make notes on statements
that are made that make my jaw just drop and almost laugh
out loud. Here a collection from the past three weeks:
Elder states: "At the Elder's School we were told that our
New World Translation of the Bilble is one of the finest
gems that Jehovah has given to mankind."
From elder giving the public talk: "We are the only religion
that has God's spirit, not the church down the street." The
only problem that I saw with that statement is that the Kingdom
Hall was half full with about 30 cars, and the church down the
street had their parking lot full with an estimated 85 cars.
From Elder conducting the Watchtower: "No one takes better
care of their fellow believers than do Jehovah's Witnesses."
The only problem with that is my mother who is in her 80's
and been a devout JW most of her life, is in a nursing home
for the past 10 months has been visited twice by Jehovah's Witnesses,
however my brother who is not a witness but a Christian, has members
of his church visit mom every week and even help her eat and pray
with her. (I think that mom is loosing her religion)
Comment made by an elder: "Many of God's people thought that
the end was coming in 1975 and here we are now deep into the
time of the end. And the longest possible time that we will have to
endure this old system is until we die, and then we will be resurrected
into to a beautiful Paradise earth."
The only problem is that I was told back in the 1960's that the
end was so close that I would not even finish high school.
It is interesting how the elders now talk about maybe we will have
to die before the end comes. They have sacrificed their entire life
for a pipe dream and did not live their only life only to live for a
future life that may not even become a reality.
Elder from the platform: "Jehovah's Witnesses are giving a thorough
witness to every nation in the world." I wonder how the Witnesses
are doing in China with a population of 1.3 billion, or Pakistan with 172
million, or Egypt with 79 million people, or Iran with 76 million people
just eager to receive a witness or Turkey with 73 million people just
waiting for a knock on thier door, or Afganistan with 28 million people
eager to hear the good news, or Saudi Arabia with 27 million people
who can't wait to get the latest public addition of the Watchtower.
This just makes me Sour Grapes