Has anyone seen the July 22nd Awake? It is all about volunteers. How wonderful and charitable the Watchtower society is! They even donated a bunch of stuff to the poor starving chillins in Akfria.
The thing I noticed is that they are talking about charitable works now and sounding alot like the old morman commercials or the old tv spots for catholic charities. This in of it self is not a bad thing. I think it's important to help others but the society is using the old missionary trick of giving charity as a lure to these poor saps in 3rd world nations who get offered aid only to find there are strings attached, "we are helping you because we are holy, wouldn't you like to be holy and keep getting help? You need to join our cult".
They even have eduaction programs where they help the poor to read...society publications of course! Got to keep those subscriptions up after all.
I suppose the charitable works are yet another way the dubs are becoming mainstream. Or maybe it keeps governments in certain lands out of their hair. At any rate I don't think, from the organisational level anyway, that the society is doing it out of the pure goodness of it's heart.
Of course, the ultimate charitable work is the door to door preaching as the article "Volunteer work with lasting benefits" points out.
All I can say is, whatever.
July 22nd Asleep! on volunteers.
by NikL 5 Replies latest jw friends
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NikL
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messenger
This article is a pure propaganda piece if there ever was one. Any witness who reads this should feel sick to think WT would go to such large lengths to misrepresent the facts. Worldwide work my ass. The only ones who benefit from WT charity are new book salesman. It is much like saying when a encylopedia company hires new sales people that the training they get is a great charity work to help the world. NOT! The only persons who are helped is WT. If those people were not selling they get no help unless you are like the story told in Japan. A little van was sent to the hospital of EXCESS supplies. Of the thousands injured I wonder how many millions of dollars was spent by mainstream religion to help the victims compared to the little WT charity van.
Finally the sister who was highlighted as a nurse who helped hospitals when she worked unassigned territories. Is this new light from the GB? Since when did any witness do voluntary work when going to unassigned territory? NEVER, never advised to do so in any article. Yet this sister becomes a poster child for how we do our work. Disturbing, disgusting, pardon me while I vomit.
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betweenworlds
I just saw it today. I was hopeful there for a moment, until I read the whole article. It was ok, up til the end where it describes the JWs as doing the greatest charity work of all time...THE PREACHING WORK! Oh brother....I'm sure the needy of the world really appreciate that [8>] Then there's the bit that tells about the witness woman who spends time teaching the illiterate elderly to read using, of course...what else...a JW publication. The articles truly are, as messenger said, nothing but a propaganda piece.
BW
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chasson
Hi messenger and all,
I know personnally Nadine D, the french's infirmier in this Awake.
She is not a "specialist of tropical disease" (see my post on another specialist in the Watchtower two days ago.)
In fact, France is assigned by the Gb to support Africa. At the time of the war in Rwanda, a JW's doctor has made an association to help the brothers in foreign country. At the beginning it was not a Watchtower's association and officialy this is still not an Watchtower's association, but this association use the Bethel's facilities and several KH to stock for example foods and clothes..
Nadine was in Rwanda for 6 month to build a JW's camp on the Zaire's frontiers. There were several problems here.
First the Zaire's brothers were very angry. They saw foods, clothes, and medicaments coming for the Rwanda's brothers but they have nothing to eat and to wear without wars. they asked the french's brothers to send them clothes and foods too !
Second, the french's Jw teams helped only JW in one camp. The refugiees's camp around this camp with a lot of "worldy peoples" had a lot of difficulties. So the "worldy people" has seen all the clothes and food that JW had. They attacked the camp. To stop that, the jw's team WAS OBLIGED to help others people than JW. Now you can read in the stupid Awake's article that JW helped even "worldly people", this is true, but they were a little obliged if they don't want to be killed !!!!
The last time that i have some news about Nadine, she was not in Africa, two years ago. I think that the association has made a new campaing in Congo where there was the civil war last year. I will try to phone her ( I hope that she don't know that i am an apostate) to have another news..
Bye
Charles
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Fredhall
Charles,
If you can do a better job than us, then get your ass down there and help out!
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chasson
Hi fred,
If you can do a better job than us, then get your ass down there and help out!
I have not waited you advice to make my part in this world, but i don't write my "gifts of mercy" in 22.000.000 exemplary.
*** Rbi8 Matthew 6:1-4 ***
6 “Take good care not to practice YOUR righteousness in front of men in order to be observed by them; otherwise YOU will have no reward with YOUR Father who is in the heavens. 2 Hence when you go making gifts of mercy, do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, just as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to YOU, They are having their reward in full. 3 But you, when making gifts of mercy, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, 4 that your gifts of mercy may be in secret; then your Father who is looking on in secret will repay you.Bye
Charles