by Newborn 20 Replies latest jw friends
When I was JW I never had money but that was how it was supposed to be (have a boring part time job and pioneer)...I didn't worry about my pension coz paradise would come long before I'd reach that age (gee! did I really believe that??!) God would take care of me...
Well, now I will grow old (hopefully) and I do worry a little bit about my pension. However, I do have some money saved now and earn a good living. I hope it will be enough.
Do you worry also? Do you save money?
Newborn
I try not to worry.
I would advise you to try not to worry, also.
It's all good.
Syl
Money is like sex, it's only a problem when it's in short supply!
I ignored the directive on education and went to Uni after I got married, it was the best thing I ever did. We are not rolling in money but dread to think how we would be financially if we had followed the party line; still stuck in some dead end job and trying to make ends meet.
I know a brother who is mid 70's and still window cleaning full-time as his OAP is just not enough to live on.
George
I wish I did not but the older I get the more I do. I gave my youth to Jehovah, so did my husband all of his 20's, 30's, and most of his 40's.
Yeh I worry about what will happen when I get in my 60's and 70's as my husband is older then I am. If I had not given my youth to Jehovah I am a true saver I would be set OK now but not so, I joke I will be busing tables at the local McDonalds or being a greater at Walmart until the day I day thanks to my poor chooses when I was young.
I wish I had at least given my youth to something worthwhile that I could look back on with happiness instead, like truly having helped people to have made their lives better.
LITS
LITS
I hear ya!
Fortunately I got a good education and a decent job that (so far) has been able to "keep the lights on".. but I still worry about money. I probably always will. It's built into my blood.
Come to think about it, I now "worship on the alter of worry"...
I am so glad for you who got a good eduacation despite the borgs advice against it!
I could go ahead and put my money in a retirement account only to watch Osama Obama take it away to dole out as a pension (and that's if he hasn't figured out how to waste it giving it to the witlesses who are pio-sneering) or the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and Morgans totally devalue it through 15,000 digit inflation when they feel ready. I would rather go ahead and spend it on items that are going to hold up for decades when money becomes worth more as toilet paper than as currency. After that, I would go ahead and buy gold, silver, and other assets that hold real value. You spend $1,350 for an ounce of gold today, and the Morgans and Rothschilds make it cost 10^1,350,000 tomorrow, that is $1,350 they will not be able to touch.
And I think it's more important to spend money on items that could be used in barter. It is going to come to that: Paying for goods and services by providing other goods and services. Of course, the more Osama Obama can pass stupid laws, the more it will be a crime to do that: Already, $510 is passing, making it a crime to grow your own food and give it away in exchange for other services. That will hold us hostage to paying for it with money (that will be worthless), since Monsanto is not going to accept getting their place decorated for Christmas or a leaky roof fixed as payment for their "phude".
I have land and forests in the countryside and I don't trust the "beast" will pay my pension when I'll be old. So I will rely on my property and on my personal savings. I will be happy just to earn enough to eat, pay the electricity and a little gas.
