Awake! Saved My Life!

by Funchback 27 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Funchback

  So said an Italian man on page 31 of the 2/22/03 Awake! magazine:

  "I have read Awake! for 40 years...Recently, I was at work when I experienced a sharp pain in my stomach and chest. I decided to go home, but when I had a second wave of pain, something clicked. I clearly remembered an article in Awake! that described the symptoms of a heart attack. I decided to go to the hospital. I was still in the waiting room when my head slumped to one side and I passed out. I was told this the next day in intensive care.

  "I am here today because of the swift intervention of skillful doctors. But I must also give credit to your magazine, which provided information that helped me to make the wise decision to go to the hospital. Awake! saved my life!"

  Um, yeah. Thank God for the Awake! magazines! For, if not for those types of magazines, none of us would know when we should go to the hospital.

  Gee... I wonder what people in China do when they have heart attack symptoms since the JW's are under ban....Hmmmmm....
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  Mackin

  "I have read Readers Digest for 40 years...Recently, I was at work when I experienced a sharp pain in my stomach and chest. I decided to go home, but when I had a second wave of pain, something clicked. I clearly remembered an article in Awake! that described the symptoms of a heart attack. I decided to go to the hospital. I was still in the waiting room when my head slumped to one side and I passed out. I was told this the next day in intensive care.

  "I am here today because of the swift intervention of skillful doctors. But I must also give credit to your magazine, which provided information that helped me to make the wise decision to go to the hospital. Readers Digest saved my life!"

  Mackin.
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  Mackin

  Somehow I duplicated the post. Sorry.

  Edited by - Mackin on 22 January 2003 0:44:49
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  Funchback

  LOL! Good one, Mackin!
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  avengers

  Awake! Saved My Life!

  Well, the Awake saved your life. It never saved my life, but the WT sure saved my ass!
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  SYN

  The Awake has caused more deaths than the lives it's saved. Ditto the Watchtower.
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  TheOldHippie

  Sometimes I am bit surprised at the seemingly low information/knowledge level among the readers. I'm not into yelling at the magazines and making fun of them, and their advices are good and healthy, but thru my life, most of the advices I have seen elsewhere too, even if I have just been scanning thru newspapers or magazines or TV programmes. They are not revolutionary, 100 % new things, they belong to a general knowledge which I thought most people had.

  Just as the "What our readers say"; so many Japanese or Americans write to say that finally they found in Awake! an article on this or that illness, which they have been suffering from for 25 years or so, but never have they found anything to read about it before, or never have they found a doctor who has been able to inform them - and then these problems or illnesses are more or less common or frequent. How a woman can believe that she is the only one worldwide who is depressed because she has lost a child, or how a man can believe that he is the only one with prostate cancer - really at times beats me!
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  Funchback

  Hey, avengers...

  That particular article ('Wiping Your Boo-tay') can also come in handy when you run out of toilet paper.
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  uriah

  "I have read JW.com for 40 years...( this figure is arrived at by taking the 2,560 days, adding 3 and a half times and taking away the number that makes it read 40 (in case you were wondering)) Recently, I was at work when I experienced a sharp pain in my stomach and chest. I decided to go home, but when I had a second wave of pain, something clicked. I clearly remembered an article on JW.com that described the symptoms of a heart attack. I decided to go to the hospital. I was still in the waiting room when my head slumped to one side and I passed out. I was told this the next day in intensive care.

  "I am here today because of the swift intervention of skillful doctors. But I must also give credit to your web-site, which provided information that helped me to make the wise decision to go to the hospital. JW.com saved my life!"

  Edited by - uriah on 22 January 2003 10:16:13

  Edited by - uriah on 22 January 2003 10:17:10
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  Farkel

  : "I have read Awake! for 40 years...Recently, I was at work when I experienced a sharp pain in my stomach and chest. I decided to go home, but when I had a second wave of pain, something clicked. I clearly remembered an article in Awake! that described the symptoms of a heart attack. I decided to go to the hospital. I was still in the waiting room when my head slumped to one side and I passed out. I was told this the next day in intensive care.

  Of course, the average person who DOESN'T read Awake! and experiences, not one but TWO sharp waves of pain in their stomach and chest is too stupid to figure out they should get to the hospital ASAP, so they all just go home and die. DOH!

  If the WTS is desperate enough to put in such childish rubbish in their rags, they are really suffering themselves.

  Farkel