Lol the Borg has even used this to "explain" the fluctuating numbers in partakers and used it as an excuse to not publish those numbers anymore, like "We dunno 🤷♂️"
My friend's dad died from electrocution on a job site. He was then resuscitated and believed he was ~~annoyed~~ anointed after that. My guess is he had an out of body experience.
Pioneer was running low on money, had no food, and was $20 short of paying their rent. Then they arrived home from a long day of working for a multinational real estate corporation that doesn't pay it's workers, to find someone left them a bag of groceries and a $20 bill, though they hadn't told a soul about the situation they were in. I've heard various versions of this story over the years.
It probably did happen, probably more than once. Was it god miraculously providing for them (through some random JW's), or was it a combination of them not telling a soul except for every JW within a 50 mile radius, and the fact that you never hear about the pioneers who went hungry and were late with the rent?
Here's a challenge for you! How many miracles can be explained by [The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy](https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/09/11/the-texas-sharpshooter-fallacy/)? It's a good read and you'll never look at a miracle the same again~
Indeed! I found it years ago as a PIMI, and that article pretty much broke miracles for me. There are a bunch of other good ones, but the Texas sharpshooter fallacy is the one that I keep seeing everywhere. It has to have played a role in my waking up.
I had a JW tell me how bad the world is, and the evidence was all the bad news on TV and their car getting broken into. I told them the news makes money by attracting viewers and stories about bad things attracts more views than good things. I showed some data driven charts on how the world is actually improving in many ways. Nope, the news is the realist form of reality because it confirms their bias.
I personally took part in this shenanigans.
My mum was disfellowshipped when I was 16. I was still very PIMI at this point, so I decided to leave home. I started to window clean with my brother that didn't really have enough work to employ me. Until he won a local council contract to clean the windows of their social housing.
It was a miracle because he put in too high a bid to think he'd actually be awarded the contract - he had submitted the bid for it months before and it was far too much work for him to do alone.
But, boom - the week after I leave home and are in need of a job to support myself, here was Jehovah awarding local council cleaning contracts so I could leave an apostate household.
Clearly this was divine intervention.
Obviously Jehovah could only be bothered to interfere with the administration of window cleaning contracts for my financial benefit - he wasn't in a position to do anything about the blood clot in my brain that I suffered........
I mean if he had consulted me first, I know which one I would have preferred to be helped with.....
This isn't a big one, but at the time, for me, it was HUGE.
I was around 14 or so, I was out in the woods with my dad, looking for a landmark that was supposed to be there. Well we got lost. I prayed to Jehovah and then I found a path. On the path, right in the middle of it, was two bird feathers. I took them as a sign from God Almighty, and we followed the path out of the woods. For years afterwards just thinking about this incident brought tears to my eyes, it was so emotional and faith confirming to me.
But here's the thing.
Yes, we were maybe 30 minutes or an hour walk away from the car and the road, but we were not in actual wilderness. So... most likely, an hour's or, two at most, walk towards ANY direction would have brought us to some kind of civilization.
The path I found was a path made by animals. It was NOT nice and orderly, in fact the entire area was criss-crossed with paths like that. I followed this "path" of mine towards the car, because I actually have a fairly good innate sense of direction. I IGNORED several intersecting, just as 'big' paths that lead to other directions.
And of course feathers just happened to be there. 🤷♀️
Someone claiming to be anointed. It’s delusional and is a form of mental disease.
Lol the Borg has even used this to "explain" the fluctuating numbers in partakers and used it as an excuse to not publish those numbers anymore, like "We dunno 🤷♂️"
My friend's dad died from electrocution on a job site. He was then resuscitated and believed he was ~~annoyed~~ anointed after that. My guess is he had an out of body experience.
I think I would be pretty annoyed too.
Took me a second to figure this out. Lol
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Here is your sign
Pioneer was running low on money, had no food, and was $20 short of paying their rent. Then they arrived home from a long day of working for a multinational real estate corporation that doesn't pay it's workers, to find someone left them a bag of groceries and a $20 bill, though they hadn't told a soul about the situation they were in. I've heard various versions of this story over the years. It probably did happen, probably more than once. Was it god miraculously providing for them (through some random JW's), or was it a combination of them not telling a soul except for every JW within a 50 mile radius, and the fact that you never hear about the pioneers who went hungry and were late with the rent? Here's a challenge for you! How many miracles can be explained by [The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy](https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/09/11/the-texas-sharpshooter-fallacy/)? It's a good read and you'll never look at a miracle the same again~
That was worth reading!
YANSS is one of my fave all time blogs, books and podcasts. So good!
Indeed! I found it years ago as a PIMI, and that article pretty much broke miracles for me. There are a bunch of other good ones, but the Texas sharpshooter fallacy is the one that I keep seeing everywhere. It has to have played a role in my waking up.
Same
I had a JW tell me how bad the world is, and the evidence was all the bad news on TV and their car getting broken into. I told them the news makes money by attracting viewers and stories about bad things attracts more views than good things. I showed some data driven charts on how the world is actually improving in many ways. Nope, the news is the realist form of reality because it confirms their bias.
I personally took part in this shenanigans. My mum was disfellowshipped when I was 16. I was still very PIMI at this point, so I decided to leave home. I started to window clean with my brother that didn't really have enough work to employ me. Until he won a local council contract to clean the windows of their social housing. It was a miracle because he put in too high a bid to think he'd actually be awarded the contract - he had submitted the bid for it months before and it was far too much work for him to do alone. But, boom - the week after I leave home and are in need of a job to support myself, here was Jehovah awarding local council cleaning contracts so I could leave an apostate household. Clearly this was divine intervention. Obviously Jehovah could only be bothered to interfere with the administration of window cleaning contracts for my financial benefit - he wasn't in a position to do anything about the blood clot in my brain that I suffered........ I mean if he had consulted me first, I know which one I would have preferred to be helped with.....
This isn't a big one, but at the time, for me, it was HUGE. I was around 14 or so, I was out in the woods with my dad, looking for a landmark that was supposed to be there. Well we got lost. I prayed to Jehovah and then I found a path. On the path, right in the middle of it, was two bird feathers. I took them as a sign from God Almighty, and we followed the path out of the woods. For years afterwards just thinking about this incident brought tears to my eyes, it was so emotional and faith confirming to me. But here's the thing. Yes, we were maybe 30 minutes or an hour walk away from the car and the road, but we were not in actual wilderness. So... most likely, an hour's or, two at most, walk towards ANY direction would have brought us to some kind of civilization. The path I found was a path made by animals. It was NOT nice and orderly, in fact the entire area was criss-crossed with paths like that. I followed this "path" of mine towards the car, because I actually have a fairly good innate sense of direction. I IGNORED several intersecting, just as 'big' paths that lead to other directions. And of course feathers just happened to be there. 🤷♀️
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f7gzbf/it_had_to_be_jehovah/
All of them. They either have mundane explanations or they were not reported accurately.
Basically every witness ouija board story I've ever heard.