The 9/8 Awake - Well Crafted Deception!

by metatron 27 Replies latest jw friends

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  RunningMan

  Let's translate some of these actions into the cold measurement of dollars and cents.

  Sealing the windows of one house where some of the residents were non-witness must be worth, what? a hundred bucks?

  Full page advertising space in a magazine with a circulations of 23,000,000 must be worth what? fifty thousand bucks?

  The JWs do the least that they can possibly do to help people. And when they do, they make sure that they get the maximum PR value from it. In reality, after being a Witness for 40 years, living in 10 congregations, I never once saw a Witness lift a finger to help a non-Witness. In fact, charitable contributions outside of the organization are actually discouraged.
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  Zoewrex

  Thank you for this thread!

  After reading the article and the verse it's WAY too obvious what the WTS is Spin Doctoring! The best way to avoid bad press is to highlight good press (yes, this is what I do in the real world) and focus on all the great and wonderful things. Yet as I've been taught by the military (some of the best S.Doctor's around) the flip side to that is you have to acknowledge the wrong doings as soon as you can. "Yes we did something wrong - we're doing this to ensure it doesn't happen again - now we're doing 10 times the amount of public / community relations so 'you'll' forget about it" Well, the course was much longer than that and much more detailed.

  Don't let them get away with it and keep bringing out their lies.
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  stillajwexelder

  In fact, charitable contributions outside of the organization are actually discouraged.

  Absolutely correct - I was once rebuked by a sister for making a doantion to a charity -- I was leter told all my money should go into the contribution box at the KH because scripturally that was helping fund the most important charitable work as instructed by Jesus -- the kingdom preaching work -- charitable contributions by witnesses to ANY worldy charity is very much dissapproved of -- so yes this magazine article is a Well Crafted Deception
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  waiting

  Hey Met,

  "By Saturday evening, approdximately 200 volunteers from local congregations had sealed the windows of 91 Witness homes. Many non-Witnesses also benefited. A local newspaper carried a photo of a home worked on by the Witnesses, noting that only one of the eight occupants was one of Jehovah's Witnesses."

  "Many non-Witnesses also benefited." That's interesting........HOW did they benefit? The WT doesn't actually write that JW's help fix the windows of non-Witnesses. Just that they "benefited" somehow. We've learned that it's important to actually read the words of the WT.....not what we think they're writing. The WT never stated they physically did repair work for a total non-jw home.

  "91 Witness homes." Not 92 or 90? Exactly how many non-Witnesses homes were fixed, since it's known exactly how many jw homes were fixed?? Wouldn't it have been more truthful to state a total amount of homes fixed? Like - *JW's fixed a total amount of homes for jw's and non-jw's of "..............."* Wouldn't that be much more impressive in number than just "91"?

  "noting that only one of the eight occupants was one of Jehovah's Witnesses." Why was it necessary to put that in there? Perhaps because it's the only provable time they helped some non-Witnesses? And, as usual, there's no way to try and look in the news......un-named "local newspaper."

  "However, the support Jehovah's Witnesses render to one another and to their neighbors bears testimony to the power of true Christianity. Jose' put it well when he said: "Jehovah's organization does not delay in rendering aid to us when we are in need."

  This is the concluding statement. Notice the peculiarity? Jehovah's Witnesses act like true Christians (in their opinion) and..............Jehovah's organization helps us (jw's).

  Always the organization has the final statement.

  And............if Muslims, atheists, Wiccan, Buddhists, do the same -- "support....rendered... to one another and their neighbors".....it's a testimony to the truthful powers of their religions also?

  ah well.

  waiting
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  gcc2k

  In my mother's congregation one of the elder's homes was flooded, his wife was not

  Um, how did he get to be an elder if his wife was not a JW? I thought you had to have your household in order before you could be appointed?
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  run dont walk

  good post, well said !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! metatron
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  DanTheMan

  Yes, in the late 90's/early 00's the self-congratulatory articles in the Awake seemed to come more and more frequently.

  Especially absurd when you realize that the core of this religion is pure misanthropy.
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  Mary

  In fact, charitable contributions outside of the congregation is strongly discouraged.

  That's putting it politely. A few years ago at the District Assembly, the District Overseer (DO'H!) gave a talk about money, money, money, and gimme, gimme, gimme, and he gave the example of a brother who died (he wasn't married and no kids) and left all his money to the Humane Society instead of the Watchtower Society. Instead of praising this man for what he did, the DO lit into him (nothing like bashing a kind hearted dead person eh?) and gave no doubt that he thought this was a pathetic idea as he said in a disgusted voice "I guess you could say his money literally went to the dogs!"

  On a more positive note, this District Overseer had a stroke shortly after he gave this pathetic talk. And some of you don't believe there's a God?
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  blondie

  I thought you had to have your household in order before you could be appointed?

  Here are some clarifying quotes, gcc.

  w96 10/15 pp. 21-22 Father and Elder—Fulfilling Both Roles/Married to an "Unbelieving Wife"

  Concerning Christian men married to unbelievers, Paul wrote: "If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and yet she is agreeable to dwelling with him, let him not leave her . . . For . . . the unbelieving wife is sanctified in relation to the brother; otherwise, your children would really be unclean, but now they are holy. For, . . . husband, how do you know but that you will save your wife?" (1 Corinthians 7:12-14, 16) The word "unbelieving" here does not refer to a wife who has no religious beliefs but to one who is not dedicated to Jehovah. She could have been a Jew, or a believer in pagan gods. Today, an elder might be married to a woman who practices a different religion, is an agnostic, or even an atheist. If she is willing to stay with him, he should not leave her simply because of differing beliefs.

  w90 9/1 p. 25 Are You Qualified to Serve?

  True, a man may be opposed by an unbelieving wife. (Matthew 10:36; Luke 12:52) Or one of his children may become guilty of serious sin, though the others are doing well spiritually. Still, if the man has done all that can be expected, and especially if he has had spiritual success with others in his household, rejection of his fine direction by one family member would not necessarily disqualify him from being a ministerial servant or an elder.
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  Stephanus

  "Many non-Witnesses also benefited." That's interesting........HOW did they benefit? The WT doesn't actually write that JW's help fix the windows of non-Witnesses. Just that they "benefited" somehow. We've learned that it's important to actually read the words of the WT.....not what we think they're writing. The WT never stated they physically did repair work for a total non-jw home.

  They don't actually state that the non-witnesses benefited from the actions of witnesses, either. Careful reading of the fine print yields very little in the way of JW charity to those not of their number, as per usual!