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I don't think anyone is saying "it serves them right".
However, it does call into question a JWs firm belief that god watches over them when they are doing WT's work, especially when WT never misses an opportunity to relate some event it spins as "god's intervention and protection". WT has gone so far as illustrating that angels accompany JWs while in the ministry, which makes a tragedy like this one unexplainable for a JW.
It's a sad situation anyway you look at it.
Yea, taking any joy in people getting injured is not right. But these types of accidents (the recent bus crash in Central America is another example) are fair game to ridicule the JW-zombie types who claim all this phony "holy spirit protections and blessings".
Pointing this phony holy spirit protection and blessings stuff out to the average Jdub is one of the easier ways to either get someone thinking critically, or...... get them so confused and flustered that it is then entertaining to watch them contort themselves into defending their phony beliefs. I call that a win-win!
The guiding and protective hand of jehovah hasn't left the new jw broadcasting studio, he's so chuffed he's hanging around !!!
I hope they are ok-crazy freak accidents can happen to anyone. Take smart precautions and you can still find trouble if you don't have an angel sitting on your shoulder:)
At least the JWs on the bench didn't lose their lives like the ones below:
Five family members drown in Prestea River
Sunday, 8 June 2014
Five persons said to be from the same family are feared to have drowned, after a canoe in which they were travelling capsized.
The five- a woman, her three daughters and a baby- were crossing a river to Prestea and later travel to Takwa for the Jehovah’s Witness convention there.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=312004&comment=0#com
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Honduras bus crash leaves 14 dead and 55 injured
Bus veered off road and crashed into ravine
By Ruth Doherty , Nov 1, 2014
Updated: November 1, 2014 8:10 AM
At least 14 people have died after a bus crashed into a ravine in Honduras.
Fourteen people were killed and 55 injured when the bus ran off the road and crashed into a ravine near San Juan de Opoa, Department of Copan, Honduras, about 310 miles north of Tegucigalpa.
AFP reports that according to officials, speeding may have been the cause of the crash.
According to Reuters, Moises Alvarado, head of the country's emergency services commission COPECO, said the bus was carrying 69 people when it crashed.
The passengers were members of a Jehovah's Witness church and were travelling from the northern icy of Choloma when the crash happened.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Pummels Central Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Super Typhoon Haiyan (called Yolanda in the Philippines), one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, ripped through the Philippines on November 8, 2013.
As of November 13, 2013, the Philippines branch office of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Manila reported that 27 Witnesses have been confirmed dead. Well over 100 homes of the Witnesses and five places of worship were destroyed.
The region has had little time to recover from the magnitude-7.2 earthquake that shook the Philippines on October 15, 2013, killing 218 people. Reports indicate that the massive quake claimed the lives of three of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Sunday, Dec 2, 2012 • Updated at 9:35 AM EDT
A day of prayer turned tragic Saturday when a bus carrying a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses rammed into an overpass at Miami International Airport, leaving two people dead and at least three others critically injured, officials said...
The Jehovah’s Witnesses had commissioned the bus service to travel from Sweetwater to the religious conference in Palm Beach County, which the group did on a nearly monthly basis, Hernandez said.
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it was RTA--nothing more. unfortunatley someone was injured. end of.
It's sad to hear of their injuries and deaths of others while in the service of the organization. It does not matter if they were witnesses or not, it was a human life and we are all accountable to God for what's found in our hearts.
God knows how to distinguish between good and bad intentions. He knows if those that were killed or even injured know their deceitful ways or are merely trapped in.
Why do some members on here make disparaging comments regarding a human life regardless of whether you believe in God or not?
That's disrespectful and uncalled for. Please keep those inhumane comments to yourself as they have no place in threads that originate with sincerity for people being hurt.
Being that WT's official position is that JWs maning these carts are 'independent operators' doing a "personal ministry" for themselves, not the Corp., Big J has no obligation to look after them.
No workmans comp case or health insurance? Just struck down in the line of duty.
Tenacious, get a grip on yourself. If you are unable to see the finer point that everyone is making in this case and the other cases, do not comment!
Tenacious: Why do some members on here make disparaging comments regarding a human life regardless of whether you believe in God or not?
I have not taken any of the comments the way you have. This incident brings up a serious question/issue - that is, to what extent and how the god of the JWs protects and blesses them. JWs claim to have holy spirit and, to some extent, to have angelic protection. They (at least one of the GB) recently claimed that their god protected some chickens. Well, then, why didn't he protect the three involved in this incident? It just doesn't make sense.
JWs select to relate at assemblies, etc. only experiences that seem to indicate divine blessing. If they're going to claim divine blessing and protection, then they must account for incidents like the one mentioned here. They can't just select incidents that seem to back up their beliefs. There is absolutely zero evidence that any divine being blesses them in any way. They're just like everybody else; sometimes they experience good things, and sometimes bad things befall them.
