Stupid paragraph in this weekends wt study

by stuckinarut2 51 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  stuckinarut2

  And this classic!...

  “Ask the elders for Scriptural advice, and show your faith and trust in Jehovah’s promise to help you by following his counsel. The elders cannot make decisions for you, but they can help you make choices that will lead to happiness in the long run.​—2 Cor. 1:24.”

  Seriously???!!!

  And this one too....

  “Can you provide funds in an emergency or help a fellow Christian to find work locally? If so, you can reduce the pressure that he or she may feel to leave the family to find work elsewhere.​—Prov. 3:27, 28; 1 John 3:17.”

  Yes wt, show by example please! Instead of putting such burdens on the flock and demanding donations to you, why not give money to those who really need it?
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  steve2

  Prayer again is the panacea.....but wait...it isn't: It's the charity of others. Thank God there are way more practical solutions than prayer!
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  NAVYTOWN

  My guess is Eduardo applied for government disability benefits. His wife probably cleans other people's houses. My hunch is that the poor kids are missing out on a LOT more than Bible stories: Adequate food and medical care, after school activities, time to play outside instead of trudging thru hours of door-knocking, Christmas, birthdays, etc. All because the parents got sucked into a high-control cult. It really is child abuse!
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  cantleave

  My guess is the whole account is complete and utter bullshit sprinkled with cowpiss.
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  jgnat

  No self respecting Filipino is going to pass up an opportunity to pull their family out of poverty.

  With the gruelling schedule the WTS demands, how exactly are the parents available to their children?
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  stuckinarut2

  I agree cantleave! It's all made up!

  the first footnote said "the names have been changed"... In other words we made the whole lot up!
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  will-be-apostate

  Imagine the feeling of those witness parents who provided and did everything exact as the WT told them to and yet their children left the org or didn't become a member.

  This sunday afternoon thousands of witness parents are asking jehovah: "what did we do wrong?"; including mine..
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  stuckinarut2

  Yes willbeapostate....they just don't think out the comments before printing them! No forward thinking!

  The point may help the immediate topic they are trying to make, but it just opens a whole other range of topics as a result!
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  TG-Jasper

  Oh yes, HeyThere, the thing that I find most disturbing about that story is that Lott would rather give his daughters to the mob than have them rape the angels! So disgusting!
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  westiebilly11

  Funny isn't it that when out of it these sham accounts are exposed as utter nonsense with no basis in reality....and to think that for many years we swallowed such tripe hook line and sinker when we were in...