ButterflyCharmer - your car story reminded me of a (probably Urban Legend) story I heard at the KH as a child. Desperate JW's answered an otherwise ignored advertiement for a car that was TOOOOO cheap (disgruntled wife selling husband's car at knock-down price) - was JEHOVAH making car available for HIS people.
Any "Miraculous" experience happen to you like the ones said at Conventions
by soundbox_guy 49 Replies latest jw friends
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Farkel
did any of you used to be one of those people on stage giving an experience about how something miraculously happened
I only had one miracle happen to me at an assembly. That was the time Nathan Knorr kept his closing prayer under 45 minutes long.
Farkel
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soundbox_guy
They keep giving that experience about this brother that turned down a lucrative job to do something for Jehovah. Then at the end of the experience they reveal that if he went he would have died because of it was in the World Trade Center. People always act shocked each time they hear it and start making moans as if the brother did the "right" thing. I think this example is sort of offensive, though, because it makes it seem like everyone else that died in the World Trade Center was a bad person and that they deserved to die or something. Jehovah isn't supposed to be partial, so why would he pick one guy to save while everyone else (including other witnesses) blow up in or burn to death in a building. Just doesn't make sense, but people seem to be scared into submission when they hear that one though.
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upside/down
they re-word all experiences for the conventions.
It's all contrived.... or at the minimum some serious sttrrreeeetching has taken place.
I know ... I was on Assembley's.
There is almost NO TRUTH to them... as I found out....
But I believed them till I saw if for myself... and I used to wonder at my apparent lack of faith in J...as money NEVER fell out of the sky when I needed it. And groceries were NEVER left on my doorstep....although I did leave some on other peoples....
It's a one way street with the Dubs....
u/d (of the knew something was fishy class)
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DannyBloem
I have to admit that I am one of them, who once gave such an experience on a convention.
It was somethig about preaching, and it was a great coincidence. But anyway if you preach long enough coincidences happen. They are not miraceles. Just statistics.
Anyway nobody did check the truth of the experience. It was just assumed to be true. And of course I did give it a bit more flair then it actually was. As most did at that time, I talked to the others. Just told more juicy etc. Left out some thigs that would make it less a 'miracle' etc.
Danny
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Crumpet
I am praying right now to be endowed with katie kitten's wit and humour!
Give us this day our randomly required household implements as and when we see fit to request them. And give them to us immediately so we can relate these improbable stories to other people just to irritate them.
Katie you make me sick laughing!
JW83 - i had exactly the same experience as you when I was getting baptised at 13 and I prayed all the way through my ducking "Please Jehovah - don't le me bleed in the pool". Well I didn't bleed - so maybe that was my miracle. But neither did the experience feel very spiritual.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Oh Big J helps his 'true' servants in so many ways.
When my family was driving to Norval Ontario for an assembly other people on the highway would try to get our attention, and it looked like they were always pointing to the same side of our car. Well my Dad made nothing of it, even though we counted about six cars flagging us so far. He said the car seemed to drive fine ( I admit I didn't feel anything wierd either ) and he didn't want to be late for the assembly. But even as a kid back then I was wondering where the hell is the sense in NOT pulling over?!!!
We got there safe. We didn't notice anything funny about the tires except for a bit of a buldge on one of them. Must have been that said my Dad...see nothing to worry about and there's lots of time to enjoy the "wholesome association".
At lunchtime when we went back out to the parking lot to get our lunch we found the front tire with a small blow out on its side wall. Others heard about the way our tire gave out in the parking lot, and my, weren't we grateful for Big J's protection? But there was never a mention of how several people were trying to warn us on the highway, yet my Dad was too obsessed to stop.
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doofdaddy
To Crumpet and Jw83, that's called stress gurls not a miracle. X stress stops your period donchaknow?
And Crumpet I think ya funny!!!
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diamondblue1974
Apparently my mother was having a breakdown when I was a baby and LO! up the garden path comes a Jehovahs Witness...now thats gotta be God at work....life always has a way of kicking you in the bollocks when you think things cant get worse
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Honesty
Sure did. Everytime I ate some shrooms or smoked some good Morrocan hash all kinds of miraculous things happened. Let me tell you about the time when I was 17 in 1970 and me and this knockout Puerto Rican chick from my high school went to a Ted Nugent concert in Atlanta.....