Scenic- I was in the congregation of the brother of that Bethelite who was stabbed to death, my brother was in Bethel with him. The Society told the parents not to come to Bethel for the funeral, the mother had a nervous breakdown.
"The Family Who Missed Meeting, And Their Child Was Hit By A Bus"
by Bubblegum Apotheosis 29 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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blondie
Or the family coming home f rom a convention, stopped at a rest stop and were all but one were murdered by a gang........
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blondie
Or the jw woman who had her baby cut out of her....did she miss too many meetings? I think not.
- Teresa Andrews lived in Ravenna, Ohio. She was twenty-three years old, pregnant, and shopping when she ran into Michelle Bica. Bica was thirty-nine-year-old and was pretending to be pregnant when she ran into Teresa, and the two exchanged addresses. Then Bica started stalking Teresa. Bica invited the woman to her home, then killed her, extracted the fetus she was carrying, and buried the woman in her garage. The baby survived, and Bica claimed he was her son. When Bica was being investigated by the FBI, she became fearful of punishment for her crime and shot herself. [ 13 ] [ 14 ]
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LongHairGal
Bubblegum:
I cannot stand these anecdotal stories.
I remember being out in Sunday field service one Spring or summer. The brother driving was turning around and talking when he should have been looking straight ahead. If I hadn't yelled out, he would have gotten into a head-on collision. So, I guess my being there and being a back-seat driver was a 'blessing". But, what If I were looking down at my magazines, what then?
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NewChapter
I remember an old magazine that told how a kingdom hall was bombed during a meeting. It was about the recovery of one sister that had serious damage to her face. And in our area, many years ago, a young boy was killed in a car accident while out in service. I wish those people had skipped meetings---
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serenitynow!
Sigh. They make me so sick with their bullshit "should have been at the meeting stories." I personally knew a JW family in Ohio where the little girl was crossing the street with the family when she was struck by a passing speeding car and later died in the ER. Yeah they don't tell that story, the one where the little girl would still have been alive if they had skipped that stupid meeting. When bad things happen to JWs when they are doing "theocratic" activities, then it's just "time and unforeseen occurrence."
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DesirousOfChange
How about the dear elderly sister ( Frances Coughlin) killed while a passenger of a Bethelite who was taking her to the meeting in bad weather conditions?
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/56838/1/WT-pays-1-55-million-24
Bet the WT wishes she had stayed home that night. Not only was she killed, but it cost them $1.55 MILLION to settle the lawsuit brought by her family.
(But no one ever hears about those experiences.)
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GromitSK
What about the families that didn't miss meeting but wasted their entire lives delivering Washtowel littertray.
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JW GoneBad
What about the one back in Dec 2009 in Southlake, Texas. A car carrying four JWs out in field service runs off the road, flips upside down in a pond drowning all four. You'll never hear JWs admit....."had they only been at work or at home or somewhere else doing something else-they'd still be alive."
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BluesBrother
I thought that these stories of "urban myths" were perhaps exaggerated or had been originally a semi-joke....but get this :
WT '86 5/1 p14
"On a hot Tuesday afternoon, Ki, who operates a clinic in Taechun, Korea, was invited by three co-workers to spend the afternoon at the beach. Though the idea was tempting, Ki knew that if he went, he would not be back in time to be at the Congregation Book Study that evening. So he declined the invitation. Moments later, the three were brought back to the clinic—dead! They had a fatal traffic accident right after leaving the clinic. Ki grieved over the incident but was glad his life had been spared on account of his sticking to the good habit he had formed over the years.—Hebrews 10:24, 25."
Does the logic apply to the time that a bomb went off at a K/Hall in Australia back in the 80's killing someone and injuring many. If they had missed ..........??