stichione,
As usual with JW's it is not enough that Brooklyn does nothing to help, Brooklyn feels it must contribute to and heighten the level of poverty of the sheep in its flock, skinned and thrown about.
Read here this advice for a Jehovah's witness retirement plan, published in the 1971 Yearbook:
WESTERN
SAMOA
Population:
140,000
Peak
Publishers:
92
Ratio:
1
to
1,522A brother with a family of eleven, including an adopted daughter and pioneer living with them, wanted to get all of them overseas to the international assembly in Fiji. Only one source of finance was available. His employers kept a superannuation fund to be withdrawn on retirement or in very exceptional circumstances. Having worked there many years, the brother figured he would have enough in it to get the family to the assembly. Reasoning that integrity and faith in Jehovah will get one through the coming tribulation whether one has money in a fund or not, he resolved to invest his fund toward guaranteeing his familys future spiritual survival.
It was not until the week of travel to the assembly that he was able to contact his managing director. Naturally, his director felt as many would. He wondered why a family man would wish to withdraw his only security against the future and chance leaving nothing for them if something happened to him. The brother explained the importance to him and his family as Jehovahs worshipers of attending the assembly and that this was the only way for them to get to Fiji. His being a respected and trusted employee, his director favorably granted the request and made an unprecedented exception in letting him withdraw his superannuation fund in full. Happy and thankful to Jehovah for this blessing, he went the following day and paid his familys ship fares to Fiji. The family then joyfully prepared to leave.
Later that week, however, the brother was informed that the ship was strike-bound in another country and would not be sailing as expected. The only other way out of the country, so as to be at the assembly in time, was by air at greater expense. Suffice it to say that the brother and his family enjoyed the assembly, with no regrets. They know that only spiritual steadfastness, faith and obedience to Jehovah will preserve them. in the future and not transient material possessions.
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Thirty years later, how do think this retirement plan worked out?
Do you think anyone from Brooklyn ever did so much as a follow-up?
Do you think Brooklyn gives a crap for those sons and daughters who must now support this old man and his wife with their own transient material possesions?
They can build some fine old age homes for the rickety old asses who have lived in comfort all their useless lives, but there will never, ever be a penny to repcompense the broken backs they climbed up upon.
Sorry, red mist,
Eric
