heres a report on whats up with the witnesses affected by Katrina

by PaNiCAtTaCk 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  Jim_TX

  I find this interesting...

  First - it's obvious that it was a scanned 'letter'.

  Second... it is filled with the usual JW 'urban legend' type of hype.

  Just one example. It starts out by stating...

  "They have made 800 rooms available to house these friends who are coming in as refugees."

  Then later on in the 'letter', it reads...

  "...and some 800 homes were generously volunteered by Sunday night."

  So. Were these 800 rooms? or 800 homes? or what? It seems to keep getting bigger and bigger, doesn't it? Soon, it'll turn into 800 hotels.

  There are other examples in this 'letter' that have blown-out-of-proportion hype in it... I recognize it from my days in the past as a JW. (Part of it even sounds like a bit of Insurance fraud...)

  Don't get me wrong, I feel for the victims of this disaster... but let's give 'aid' to all. Not just the JWs.

  Regards,

  Jim TX
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  Sassy

  well to be honest. if they help their own let them.. that takes numbers down and then other workers who aren't dubs can be helped others....

  any help there is something..

  Actually I knew a family in the area in a town very close to New Orleans and I am very sure they are completely underwater, having been in their home.. I fear their home could not have handled this and they were the most loving people w/o a great deal a money. I may have left the WTS, but it doesn't mean I stopped caring for good people. I just no longer association with them.. and this family is not shunning me.. I chose to not contact them to tell them..
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  avishai

  It's funny. When we needed to move, my mom a widow, and myself and two bro's, who moved us? Well, see, the lady who was moving in was a poor mormon. So, the Mormon's moved us, as the dubs were in service that saturday. And when we had other disasters, it was usually the "spiritually weak" Jw's and their outta the truth spouses that helped out the most. Yep, other dubs had more important things to do. Service.
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  Sassy

  I have to say, in the congregations I came from, they really did help one another. When I had a modular home brought in on some land after my divorce, nearly the entire congregation (brothers mostly but not all) came and put down forms and laid my concrete slab. I just didnt' have enough money to pay for it professionally done and although I didn't ask for help it was offered..

  Not all congregations are not loving, good people
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  jaffacake

  The criteria for aid should be based on who is the most NEEDY, not on whether you are a JW in good standing. Even the most depraved people in any society usually help their own kind, it is not a measure of Christianity; on the contrary this is a h allmark of the anti-Christ!
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  avishai

  Yeah, the parable of the good samaritan was about helping a samaritan helping JEW!! Not another Samaritan. Interestingly, they were both sects of Judaism, and both considered the other APOSTATES!!!
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  Honesty

  Witnesses helping Witnesses. Nothing new.

  At least they are helping someone even though it is conditional and it allows people to help others who don't care what religion a victim belongs to or how many meetings they attend each week.
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  Mulan

  I just read this report to my mother, who was so happy to hear it. She has called all her elders trying to find out how "the friends" are doing. Funny, she didn't ask me how I got this info.

  She has been so upset by this disaster and we talk about it two or three times a day. She did say she hoped the JW's would help others who were in need too. I think all the churches will be pitching in to help their people as well, so JW's are not unique in that area.
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  free2beme

  Good thing they're taking care of the Brothers and Sisters and letting the others suffer. Really shows how god feels about his people in that they should live and others should die in horrible ways. Praise Jehovah! Kill all non WITNESS!!! Jehovah ... do your bidding NOW.
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  Mulan

  I meant to thank the poster who reported this. It meant a lot to my aged mother to hear it. I try to be supportive of her and her religion, and she is the same with me, and having departed the JW's. She told me years ago, that she respected me and my intelligence and that I must have a very good reason to have left. I know that's odd, but it works for us. She doesn't want to know, so we don't talk about it anymore.

  She always says "this country guarantees freedom of religion". I can't argue with that.

  She also keeps saying "critical times hard to deal with". Gag. I reminded her today of the potato famine in Ireland (her grandparents left Ireland during that time) and she agreed that was a bad one too. So she is reasonable at times.