Many at the SIlent Lambs' site are sick of hearing the JWs say, "Wait on Jehovah." In replying to a post about "Waiting on Jehovah," I went off on a little story telling venture, and this is what came out... Contributed for Entertainment Purposes... GRITS :-)
------------------------------
The Witnesses are probably thinking of scriptures like Ps. 37:7, where it says to "Keep silent before Jehovah, and WAIT longingly for him." However, I doubt seriously Jehovah would be looking down from heaven, watching a child being brutally raped, and thinking to himself, "Child, KEEP SILENT BEFORE ME while you are BEING RAPED. WAIT LONGINGLY FOR ME until the New Earth, and KEEP SILENT until then." If we were to apply Ps. 37:7 (wait for Jehovah) to instances where we see "our neighbor" being tormented, how would that be "loving your neighbor as yourself"? It wouldn't.
It would be more like any of us (GB included), sitting in our homes (KHalls) with our trashcans overflowing, and REFUSING TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE, but instead, we sit back in our LazyBoy Chair and defiantly say, "I'm NOT budging from my chair to take out the trash. I will WAIT until the garbage man COMES INTO MY HOUSE HIMSELF to get my garbage."
So I sat and sat decade after decade, one trashcan full, then two, then three, etc., and the smelly trash and garbage was piled all the way to the ceiling, and the smell was horrendous. Finally my neighbors (fellow JWs) complained about my stinking (sex abuse) garbage to Channel 2, and they, in turn, told the "superior authorities," The County Health Dept., because MY garbage was smelling up the ENTIRE neighborhood. The STENCH was more than anyone could bear any longer. (Me? well, I just wore a GAS-MASK [cover-up] in MY [KHall] house ALL the time so I would be able to endure it, even though it WAS very UNpleasant, and I sometimes felt I SHOULD take out my garbage, but aren't we SUPPOSED to "hide" our garbage from the neighbors when it gets THIS bad?)
So then the Health Dept. shows up and CONDEMNS my ENTIRE [WTBTS] HOUSE, and they HAUL OUT my Garbage RIGHT IN FRONT of ALL the neighbors, with Channel 2 recording the entire event! HOW EMBARRASSING! WHY is this happening to me, I wondered? Surely, the DEVIL IS PERSECUTING ME! (and he's using my apostate-neighbors and his tool, the media, to do it!!!)
So I raised cain and CURSED all my (apostate) neighbors AND Channel 2 as LIARS telling them there really was NO GARBAGE in MY house! {I even tried to have my tattle-tale apostate neighbor thrown out of the neighborhood). But it was TOO LATE. By this time NOBODY would believe MY house was NOT full of garbage because the EVIDENCE was TOO GREAT.
Previously, when my (apostate) neighbors had LOVINGLY asked if I (GB) would like them to wash me down with the hose to get the STENCH of my garbage OFF me, I REFUSED (pride, you know). So I was thereafter FORCEFULLY taken away and "washed down" by the superior authorities, and my house was CONDEMNED.
And ALL of this shame and humiliation came about due to my NOT WANTING to TAKE OUT MY TRASH a long long time ago, because I EXPECTED the Garbage Man (wait on Jehovah) would come in and GET IT HIMSELF.
Edited by - grits on 24 July 2002 1:26:39