9/11 & WTS - Out of Public View!

by metatron 9 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  Few people outside of publishers will ever read a JW Yearbook,
  so the Society is able to be more honest about their true feelings
  as published in them.

  A case in point: The latest Yearbook and what it says about 9-11.

  Here's some quotes:

  "Brothers at the United States branch office immediately began to
  find out which Witnesses had been affected by this terrible tragedy
  and what assistance might be needed. By Tuesday evening, September
  11, the Bethel family members from all three Bethel complexes-
  Brooklyn, Patterson, and Wallkill- had all been accounted for.
  By Thursday afternoon all of the Gilead graduates had communicated
  with the Gilead office...14 of our brothers and sisters were either
  dead or missing. That figure never changed in the days to come.
  ...In the months that followed, the brothers in the New York area
  took the Bible's message of comfort and hope to those in the
  community... [quote from relief worker] 'Everyone brings us food,
  hot coffee, and dry clothes, but you are the first to read a
  scripture.'(pg. 8-10, 2003 Yearbook)

  No claim is made of any charity towards fleeing victims here.
  Indeed, the last quote seems to be positioned to DENY that
  Witnesses have anything whatever to do with such compassion.

  Instead, the Society eagerly exploits the situation with its
  deceitful message of 'hope' - that billions will be slaughtered
  by God at Armageddon - specifically by falling buildings as their
  frequent art work shows! They react as if other non-Witnesses
  are nonentities, irrelevant lives and meaningless lives lost
  in a tragedy in which only Witness lives are important.
  A starkly selfish view, if ever there was one.

  As I said, watch for this kind of propaganda - telling the public
  one thing and the publishers something else - in publications
  'worldly people' aren't likely to read.

  metatron
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  expatbrit

  'Everyone brings us food,
  hot coffee, and dry clothes, but you are the first to read a
  scripture.'

  That they print this as a self-recommendation shows just how skewed thier sensibilities are. Unbelievable.

  Expatbrit
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  blondie

  'Everyone brings us food,
  hot coffee, and dry clothes, but you are the first to read a
  scripture.'

  James 2:15-16 ***

  
  15 If a brother or a sister is in a naked state and lacking the food sufficient for the day, 16 yet a certain one of YOU says to them: "Go in peace, keep warm and well fed," but YOU do not give them the necessities for [their] body, of what benefit is it?

  Matthew 7:9 ***
  9 Indeed, who is the man among YOU whom his son asks for breadhe will not hand him a stone, will he?

  Luke 11:11-12 ***

  
  11 Indeed, which father is there among YOU who, if his son asks for a fish, will perhaps hand him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he also asks for an egg, will hand him a scorpion?

  Blondie
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  William Penwell

  Is it also true that they locked the Bethel doors so no undesirables would get in? Also did they closed the blinds so they wouldn't have to look at the tragedy?

  But their arrogance to only refer to the 14 Jdubs that went missing or killed but no mention of the other 3,000 that perished in the disaster..

  Will
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  AMNESIAN

  In the months that followed, the brothers in the New York area took the Bible's message of comfort and hope to those in the community... [quote from relief worker] 'Everyone brings us food, hot coffee, and dry clothes, but you are the first to read a scripture.'

  And so it goes. Dependably making its crafty appearance, whether boldly trumpeted in the title or in the very fine print of a footnote. The ever-present justification JWs brandish in order to defend, indeed extol, their position that the provisions they offer to needy humankind ---"the good news of the kingdom"---is of real, lasting value and not of the perishable kind false religion and its agencies waste their time providing, as if they could possibly expect God's reward for doing so.

  This quote, if uttered at all---I regret that, over the years, I have grown increasingly suspicious of this kind of always anonymous praise (as if a parched-throated, traumatized victim covered in soot and ashes and gore would crave a scripture first thing!)--- effectively reinforces the conviction in the mind of the individual JW that, as regards his fellow, he is accountable to God for nothing more than the businesslike attempt to convert him to the "truth." Such subtle conditioning is the means by which natural human instincts such as empathy and compassion for those who suffer are systematically dulled and, in time, uprooted in the average JW and replaced with a "Christian" robot spouting canned sermons and hawking magazines who would take the time to soberly ponder whether it would be appropriate to p!$$ on a "non-believer" who dashes past him in flames---especially if it meant "stopping his time."

  Then again, on second thought, perhaps this is exactly what a victim stated in response to a JW sermon and exactly what he or she meant ---

  'Everyone brings us food, hot coffee, and dry clothes, but you are the first to read a scripture.'

  Without altering the quote in any way, it is possible to read it and get the exact opposite inference from the one the Society is pushing .

  They react as if other non-Witnesses are nonentities, irrelevant lives and meaningless lives lost in a tragedy in which only Witness lives are important. A starkly selfish view, if ever there was one.

  Yes, this may be how their statements read---and intentionally so--- to the flock, but their real dirty little secret is even worse than this: the lives of non-Witnesses are no less real, less relevant, less meaningful to the Society than the pitiable lives of those they call their spiritual brothers and sisters. The tragedy and carnage wreaked in the lives of their fellow believers by unscriptural, arbitrary policies are a billboard of ruthless, reckless disregard.

  In truth, as respects how they are looked upon by the Society, non-JWs are held in no more contempt than "the faithful", contrary to the misleading impression those in its leadership would convey, and the impression held by sadly deluded JWs worldwide.

  AMNESIAN

  Edited by - AMNESIAN on 24 December 2002 21:45:57
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  chachasmum

  Tom Talley

  Thank you so much for that link. The pictures are as powerful as they were on that day. I find it really interesting that the dubs in Brooklyn claim they were there for the victims coming off that bridge. Yet there was not one piece of media coverage. Had they had their doors open the whole world would have seen. SHAME ON THEM. They have no humanity.

  Cheryl
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  wasasister

  Tom:

  I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my eyes (on Christmas Eve, yet)! I'd forgotten how emotional those pictures make me.

  I have trouble forgiving myself for praying for that very scene - only a million times worse - over and over during my JW years.

  What were we thinking?
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  twain30

  From my recent convention notes:

  70 people were helped and given whatever they needed as they came across the Brooklyn Bridge. In the days afterward all kinds of goods were supplied to Ground 0 and as you know several of the Firefighters who died were Jehovah's Witnesses.

  (Strange-this was the first I heard about non-JW's being helped and materials being donated.)
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  Room 215

  Once again an unattrbuted quotation, one of responsible journalism's biggest ``no-nos" is invoked to buttress a JW-centric worldviews.. the notion that the dissemination of their sectarian message of the imminence of an oft-postponed New World, is a far greater act of Christian compassion than bringing food, drink adn clothing to suffering humanity.

  Sustained with such rhetoric, loyal JWs can validate their suppression of any natural or inherent impulse toward compassion and anesthesize their social conscience, often with the goal of eliminating it completely.
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  D8TA

  'Everyone brings us food,
  hot coffee, and dry clothes, but you are the first to read a
  scripture.'

  Did they, once again, omit what more this "relief worker" had to say? As in: "Now either pick up some blankets, pass out these water bottles, or help out that child over there who is limping from that gash in their leg; or I'll shove your bible where even God won't find it."