God's good for "$66 dollars"

Separation of Powers

Last week's Watchtower study related an experience of a sister who prayed that God would help her with her rent. She needed $66 dollars. She went to her waitressing job on an off night and would you believe? She got a whopping $66 in tips. Amazing!

This was the best example they could find to show that the Almighty is looking after his people? $66?

What about that brother with cancer or those that don't have insurance? Those that lose their jobs and have a family to support? That brother stricken with ALS or that sister with ovarian cancer whose husband ran out on her? Where is there $66 bucks? I mean, if this is the best example you can provide in a study article to encourage the brethren of God's intervention in behalf of believers...it would have been best NOT to include it.

Seriously?!?!

Just a thought,

SOP

Narcissistic Supply

On Behalf of the Watchtower corporation i would like to thank you 100 years of shunning your fellow man.

2004 – 360 Furman Street – sold for $205 million
2006 – 67 Livingston Street – sold for $18.6 million
2006 – 89 Hicks Street – sold for $14 million
2007 – 169 Columbia Heights – sold for $50 million
2011 – 50 Orange Street – sold for $7.1 million
2012 – 165 Columbia Heights – sold for $4.1 million
2012 – 161 Columbia Heights – sold for $3 million
2012 – 183 Columbia Heights – sold for $6.6 million
2012 – 105 Willow Street – sold for $3.3 million
2012 – 34 Orange Street – sold for $2.825 million
2012 – Bossert Hotel – sold for $81 million
2012 – 67 Remsen Street – sold for $3.25 million
2013 – 173 Front Street, 177 Front Street & 200 Water Street – sold for $30.6 million
2013 – 55 Prospect Street, 81 Prospect Street, 117 Adams Street, 77 Sands Street, 90 Sands Street & 175 Pearl Street – sold for $375 million
TOTAL (so far) – $804,375,000

Splash

Our hall lapped it up. No way to determine the actual facts of what happened but it was very well received as a faith strengthening example.

The only way it could have been improved is if the sister put that $66 in the Worldwide Work contribution box, and went home to find an anonymous envelope with twice as much in, posted through her door.

Splash

DATA-DOG

Yes, yes. They failed to mention that later she ignored a " No trespassing " sign while regular pioneering, and a Pit-bull ate her face off. Thanks for the $66 dollars.

Separation of Powers

Now, was her rent $66 dollars or she just needed $66 dollars to complete her rent?

If she's renting somewhere for $66 dollars then THAT is the proof of divine intervention! Then again, if she is renting someplace for $66 dollars that means that the area is obviously economically challenged, if it is that challenged then $66 bucks would be a phenomenal take in tips!

Knew a sister who ran out of gas while pioneering because she didn't have the money for gas. Her car stranded her and two sisters out in the boondocks. A farmer came along and picked them up, took them to his farm so they could use the phone. It took the tow truck three hours to get them, $50 dollars for the tow on one of the other sister's credit cards, and several other people inconvenienced because they had to pick up the two passenger sisters from the gas station where the "credit card" sister put $10 of gas in the pioneer's car (now she's out $60).

Evidence of God's blessing? The pioneer sister left a set of mags with the farmer. Divine intervention!

Hey, where's that sister's $66 bucks, she be ahead $6!

SOP

OUTLAW

The WBT$ should try Praying for Cash..

Instead of Begging for Money from the Assembly Stage..

As usual We don`t have Enough Money..

To pay for this Assembly..

Maybe skip a meal and give us that money..

Most of you need to go on a diet anyway..

......................... ...OUTLAW

bigmac

i bet satan would have coughed up 666 dollars. god is just a cheapskate

Dagney

When something "good" happens it's always from Jah, not the hardworking, kind people that may have provided windfall.

When something "bad" happens, it's always a test from Satan...raise in rent, car repair, gas prices etc.

rmt1

A rudimentary comprehension of statistics and probability, particularly a Gaussian normal distribution with its sigma or standard deviation, is probably tantamount to apostate thinking. It would be apostate because WTS is crafting a mode of high significance from an outlier of low significance. But in the real world, like say science, you frequently have to 'sigma clip', or disregard outliers above a pre-selected sigma. What is more, for equal populations of good and bad people, statistically equivalent numbers of 'acts of god' will occur to each. Does the WTS mention the apostate who accidentally came by an extra $66? Did Jehovah let that slip? Was it part of Jehovah's active, mindful, purposeful plan? If it was not, and Jehovah simply allows (sort of like an ambivalent or groovy Deist deity) a normalized Gaussian distribution of $66 dollars to be awarded to a random sampling of good and bad people, why does WTS treat it as special?

Separation of Powers

Was it part of Jehovah's mindful, active, purposeful plan?

Great post! However, I must remind you...God doesn't have a plan...He has a "purpose." Does he have a purposeful purpose? Or if he is a Prince fan...Does he have a purple purposeful purpose? If he were a marine mammal that liked Prince, could he be called a Porpoise with a purple purposeful purpose?

By the way, great scientific angle in addressing the subject.

Just a thought,

SOP

God's good for "$66 dollars"

On Behalf of the Watchtower corporation i would like to thank you 100 years of shunning your fellow man.

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