Verse 12 where it says we certainly wouldn't turn to the world for assistance. My bullshit detector went off and spewed out the letters U and N.
And that we are to stay close and rely on our brothers. Really? The brothers who pulled their elderly mother out of a nursing home who had dementia and was in diapers and the minute she was down here they took her for seven thousand dollars and asked us to look after her and when we got tired of their bullshit then they shipped the poor woman back to her home ten hours away to a caregiver who was suppose to be beating the crap out of her in the first place. Or the elders who are now bad mouthing us to neighbours who are not jw's? Or to the elder who's mother has two kids that were df'd because they charged her with sexual assault and she took off until things could quiet down. Or to the elder who gives a local needs on marrying in the lord all the while knowing about a brother who was living common law with a worldly woman as well as admitting that he had been seeking out prostitutes for the last twelve years. Or stick close to the elders who go away for the weekend leaving their daughters at home alone just to come home to their fourteen year old who becomes pregnant by a thirteen year old worldly boy and the rest of the body of elders cover that one up. Or stick really close to these goons who let a guy associated with the congregation that was reinstated while still a smoker, fooled around on his wife and threatened to blow off her head with a loaded gun, had the cops called on him because he also threatened to kill his father, poccessed an illegal firearm with no special firearm license along with no regular gun license and had his worldly high school employee forge a legal document using his wife's name on the document. Once the elders knew that we knew they came after us and used that guys whole family as my accusers. Or the elder who got his wife to ask me while my husband was at work for three thousand dollars the very next day after we were baptised. Or our po who said that it doesn't bother him at all to see starving countries and children dying. There's a reason why they are there and we are here, coming from a pig who inherited his father's insurance company and didn't have to work for it. Or the elder and his wife who studied with us at the beginning and we had to discontinue their studies because after the study was done out came the booze and they would get so polluted. These are the ones that we are to stick close to, Really????????????????????????
Verse 19 about the Philippines. Weren't they told to go to their hall when their disaster happened and the hall was swept away. That the brothers and sisters received no warnings until it was too late. That the meetings were not cancelled and that they were to go.
Thank you, Blondie