Or does it remind them too much of work?
2007-04-11 14:20:42 · 8 answers · asked by Swamp Thingy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion. They are Christian (of course), but they are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.
These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.
1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.
2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.
3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.
4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.
5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.
6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
2007-04-12 00:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I'm not certain they can take a joke or even laugh at themselves. One Sunday morning, while I was in the shower, I heard a knock on the door so I grabbed my towel and went to see who was there. The reply from the other side of the door, in a woman's voice was that they were JWs. I said I had just come from the shower and was not dressed and asked if they could come back later. The same woman's voice said that she had heard that line before so I dropped my towel and opened the door... She and her other female companion looked fluster, couldn't quite get their words out and seem to have left in a huff. They never did come back... I thought it was rather funny and I did have some morning cakes and tea that I would have shared...but maybe they just saw the cat and remembered they were allergic... C'est la vie! namaste
2016-04-01 10:17:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the joke and if the joke teller is funny. No, why would it remind me of Video Game sales???? Preaching is a volunteer thing. I dont consider it work.
2007-04-12 01:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
knock knock
who's there
devil
devil who
de velcro is itchy
2007-04-11 14:24:24 · answer #4 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That is funny, and pretty bad. you forgot all those other missionaries, like Mormon and more
2007-04-11 14:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol
Do they have flat noses? From all those doors slammed in their face?
2007-04-11 14:24:39 · answer #6 · answered by Gorgo 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
HAHA good one
2007-04-11 14:22:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i lol'd
2007-04-11 14:22:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋