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   "One Brow"  wrote in message   
   news:rztTe.29197$1g2.27576@fe05.lga...   
   > "Cracklin'"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> ## The people here who do this are not Gov. funded.  The local churches   
   >> in my area are now taking up collections of food, personal items and   
   >> clothing for the victims of Katrina.  The Gov. is not paying them a cent   
   >> and the church itself pays the bills for the building and utilities used.   
   >> Volunteers will drive the trucks down south....  no Gov. involved.  Where   
   >> are the JWs?  What are they doing to help the non-JW victims of this   
   >> storm and flood?   
      
   > Once again, Katrina is a news-attracting event.  The JWs are not   
   > advbertising the assistance they are providing, as usual.   
      
   ## Nor are the Mormons, the Lutherans, the Jews.......   
      
   >> ## See above.   I don't know of any churches where I live that are   
   >> getting Gov. funds.   
      
   > We were discussing "Handing out  sandwiches and hot coffee/tea   
   > to the homeless at night ...", not Katrina.   
      
   Yes, churches receive   
   > governemnt funding, and their members tax breaks, for this work.   
      
   ##  Why didn't I get tax breaks when I did volunteer work?  No one I knew   
   got any tax breaks for helping the needy and homeless - or who volunteered   
   in the city hospitals (or animal shelters).   
      
   >> ##  You tell me.  Are you saying the WTS would pay medical expenses or   
   >> burial expenses if it happened?   
      
   > Do yo have any evidence they would not?   
      
   ## Do you have any that they do?   When needy JWs died in the past we all   
   chipped in to bury them.  I never heard of the WTS sending even flowers!   
      
   >> They didn't pay one cent towards the boys medical expenses who survived   
   >> the massacre. Short memory One brow?   
      
   > I had not heard abut this, but your desciption makes it different from   
   > going door-to-door anyhow.  I would not expect my employer to pay   
   > for collision damage to my car driving to and from work.   
      
   ##  Nor would I since my work is my choice and I am paid - the JWs have no   
   choice and are not paid.  Their expenses aren't even covered by the WTS.   
      
   >>   
   >> ##  So then you mean all JWs have access ... Patterson Complex in NY, to   
   >> their own glory.   
      
   > Ranting is not evidence.   
      
   ##  Ranting?  I asked a question you evidently don't want to answer.   
   --   
   CR....   
   All the JWs wish for is walking around the COUNTRYSIDE (never any towns   
   pictured in the WT rags) smiling like the village idiot and carrying   
   baskets of veggies and fruit with them.  Also note they all live in suit   
   pants and dress shirts.  The women live in housedresses of 1952 vintage.....   
   and they call that paradise?  Any normal human being would rapidly be bored   
   to death looking at trees, grass, each other's ever smiling faces and eating   
   a vegetarian diet.   
   They'd soon be longing for a good book, a movie, a Mall or a steak   
   dinner..... (Carol)   
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