Widows, Orphans and Homeless People???

by Big Jim 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • Big Jim
    Big Jim

    Why dosen't the WBTS do anything as far as helping the widows,orphans and homeless people?

    And what about battered women?

    I think they dont because they do not have a clue about unconditional love. The type of love Jesus left for us as an example to follow>

    Also the main reason they probally dont is because there is no money in it for them.

    What is your thoughts?

    (HERE ARE SOME QUOTES ON LOVE)

    Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

    It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

    Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

    Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

    Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

    There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

    We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.

    What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

    If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

    And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

    Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

    Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

    The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
    Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

    Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

    Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

    You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

    It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

    Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

    To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

    Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

    In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

    Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

    Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
    I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

    Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

    Love is the cheapest of religions

    For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

    The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
    Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

    They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

    Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

    What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

    Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

    A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

    The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

    We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

    One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

    But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

    Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

    Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

    Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.

    When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

    Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

  • LovesDubs
    LovesDubs

    Widows, orphans, homeless...just so much RIF RAFF that the JWs cannot be bothered with. They would sooner throw a magazine in the general direction of such ones and called it "placed" and brag about giving those needy ones SPIRITUAL food which is as you know, much EASIER to do...requires NO effort and NO love whatsoever. They look down on such ones as that man who was beaten and left on the side of the road in the bible...as someone ELSES mess to clean up, not caring and not wanting to dirty their holy hands on them. They are uncharitable, selfish, self serving and unloving on a WORLDWIDE scale...and when confronted with their lack of charity, will quickly remind you how they "helped out" when Hurrican Andrew hit. Not intentionally of course, but damn they bragged about that for nearly 10 years now. And the sad part is, thats the only example they can come up with.

    putrid specimen

  • SanFranciscoJim
    SanFranciscoJim

    During my tenure as a J.W., much to the chagrin of the body of elders in the congregation to which I belonged, I often brought me the poor, the elderly, the homeless, and the mentally ill - all people who I thought were the most deserving of survival into the New System because of all they had to endure now. The congregation did not see it that way, however. Here is an excerpt from my story, posted at http://www.gayxjw.org/jimstory.html which tells of my experience bringing a mentally ill man with me to the Kingdom Hall:

    "Then my spiritual world caved in. I was still faithfully doing street work, when one day a man approached me seeming very interested in my message. During the course of our conversation, I invited him to start a Bible study, to which he quickly agreed. Excitedly, I asked for his address, whereupon he told me "Wernersville State Hospital", which was a nearby mental institution. As it turned out, he was a long-term patient there, having lived on the ward over twenty years. Nevertheless, I approached another brother (as yet unbaptized) in the congregation and asked him if he would care to join me for a Bible study there, to which he enthusiastically agreed. Little by little, other long-term patients on the ward joined in our study, and it made my heart glad that I could offer hope to these seemingly hopeless and abandoned people. Eventually, I approached the manager of the ward and requested day passes, two at a time, for the patients, to take them to Sunday meetings at the Kingdom Hall, which were granted. The gentleman I had originally studied with came with me every time, but he had one serious idiosyncrasy: He had a loud, bellowing laugh, and always laughed at inappropriate times during the Sunday talks, which would send the congregation into hysterics. After several weeks, one Sunday I was surrounded by elders who asked why I was bringing these people with me to the Kingdom Hall. Astonished, I stated that these people needed to be saved most of all, to which the reply from the elders retorted "Yes, but they cannot understand our doctrines". I asked if that would exclude them from ever being able to become Jehovah's Witnesses, therefore condemning them to die at Armageddon, to which I was icily told "Yes". It was at this point which I began to question my beliefs."


    The elitist, bourgeois mentality of Jehovah's Witnesses never ceases to amaze me. Jesus walked among lepers, whores, thieves, and tax collectors. Jehovah's Witnesses, it seems, only want those who are already "morally upright" to join their congregations.

  • bigboi
    bigboi

    Hey Big Jim:

    Well the reason they don't get involved in real charitable causes is because they just would not make as much money as they do with their publishing enterprise. If they stopped the "preaching work" they wuld no doubt lose their main source of income and a lot of the real-esate they've acquired through the yrs as they simply would not be able to afford the maintenance.

    Also remember that the WTS has to appear different, and they are masters at playing on common misconceptions ppl have. A lot of ppl simply do not trust charitable agencies as these really don't seem to be making a lot of headway in solving most of the problems of the world. For instance ppl are still starving in underdeveloped countries etc despite organizations raising untold millions to solve the problem of hunger. So I guess the the WTS raises itself above the fray, and gives its dupes the feeling that they are helping to saves ppl's lives eternally. That's better than just feeding a starving person right? HA HA.

    "..... anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he had been taught how to destroy himself, not how to preserve himself." The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli.

  • MacHislopp
    MacHislopp

    Hello Big Jim,

    thanks for your post,...basically on TRUE
    love. I'll read carefully all your quotes on love; and print
    the best to give away at work.

    Agape, J.C. MacHislopp

    P.S. as for the "big money" read Expatrbrit post!

  • Lindy
    Lindy

    The only help you will see for these ones, if any, is going to be on the local level and the conditions will be that they keep going to meetings on a regular basis and turn in time regular. They will also be encouraged to take advantage of any governmental help available. Nothing more than that. And the local level of generousity will be only to the level that the local elders and individuals feel charitable. Sad, but over the past 45+ years, that is how I have seen it.
    Lindy

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