Posted by B [B] on November 04, 1999 at 10:23:48 {yxewwqp4aAgzF7t4b/HAyE2AFg4uOo}:
In Reply to: *spirituality and charity posted by FaithFulJW on November 04, 1999 at 07:29:58:
In India there once was an orphaned girl and no-one knew her name or age. She and her sister were alone on the streets and were dying. Then some ppl picked them up, put them in a car and drove them to a place called "Little Lights Orphanage" Then those ppl tricked me into paying for this girl so she could go to school and get food and clothes etc...
That was five years ago and today she is a healthy young girl (12 years old or so)named Thara Bodda. She can read and write and wants to become a teacher someday. If it hadn't been for those ppl, she and her sister would be dead by now.
Now, these ppl who run this place also run a few other homes in the world. Their office is a two room flat in Iceland, they do NOT get paid, all work is unrewarded (no pay, no eternal life etc...) except for the joy of helping someone out.
They have not "saved" 6 million ppl, but they have saved about 1500 lives that would otherwise have been lost.
I'm really sorry to say this, but visiting lonely houswives in order to make them sell magazines has nothing to do with saving anyone. WTBT are just building up an empire, they make money, they are rich, they help no-one, they do nothing.
6 million lives saved you say, yeah right.
I value the 1500 lives a lot more 'cause at least that is real and the JW's "paradise fantasie" is not.
That's my fruit FaithfulJW and it's a fruit that has neve-ever hurt anyone...top that my friend :)
B