It must have been a brother! (page 3)

Fernando

No one has treated me and my family worse than several JWs in "good standing".

The most evil people I've ever met are in "the organisation".

Details?

Unmentionable.

Except maybe as a shortened list:

fraud, incestuous rape, slander...

snakeface

Yeah, when I had a book study at my house I would notice things missing after everyone left.

I had a close friend, a disabled brother, who told me this story that happened to him. He had gone shopping in Walmart and used one of their scooter/wheelchair things. He was able to stand and take a few steps, but he couldn't walk and carry things at the same time. Someone had driven him to the store. Well when he went thru the checkout line he stood up to pay. Then when he sat down in the scooter he put his wallet in the basket rather than in his pocket. Then he got into the other person's car, along with his items, but left his wallet behind.

It wasn't till he got home and his ride had left that he realized he had left his wallet behind. He called the store; they said it had not been turned in but they would call him if it did appear. But then someone came to his door. It was "worldly" people who had found the wallet. They had just come thru the checkout line, saw the wallet and reasoned that a disabled person had left it. So they looked inside for ID and immediately went to his home with it, to return it, on their way home from the store. Everything was intact. The brother was relived, of course

There are plenty of honest "worldly" people out. Not all of them are demon possesed immoral criminals, as the WT tries to scare members into believing.

Frazzled UBM

snkaeface - as a 'worldly' person I thank you for your vote of confidence. I have had a number of experiences of both having things I lost returned to me and returning things I found to the owner or to a lost property office. It is actually quite a common occurrence in the 'world'. Fraz

tornapart

Many years ago I lost a purse in town. I thought it had gone forever. I received a call from the police who had it in their lost property, someone had handed it in. (My phone number was in the purse). Everything was intact down to the last penny. I gratefully thanked the lady in question who had left her address and I sent her some money as a thankyou 'to have a drink on me'. I said I had my young children with me and had been distracted and dropped the purse. She replied by sending me a book and story tape for my children! Was she a JW? NO!!

redvip2000

IMO, i know that some of you are trying to make a point of saying that JWs are just like everybody else, but i don't think anybody really doubts that JWs are pretty honest and orderly.

If i was given a choice to leave my laptop at a convention hall full of JWs or at a concert hall with a mix back of all sorts of people, i'm picking the convention hall, and probably so would you.

That is not the issue. THe issue is this insistence of the Watchtower to group everybody that is not a JW into a big bucket. It is somewhat xenophobous. It is as bad as saying that all muslims are bad because some do bad things.

There are incredibly honest people outside of the organization and there are incredibly dishonest ones too.

problemaddict

JW's usually don't steal and are generally good people......you know......like MOST PEOPLE!

It must have been a brother!