Could this be accurate? (page 2)

LoisLane looking for Superman

Yes, yes and unfortunately, yes.

The Watch Tower Society set us up for failure. What's the surprise. Don't get an education, don't waste time with sports or hobbies. Even having a pet, can take time away from serving The Watch Tower.

It is insane and cruel to keep people in perpetual fear, Armageddon is coming ...billions of people will die. You Have to Preach, shove these magazines, in your bag, and go place them. Take our books, go sell, oh right, you don't sell them, you work for free for us, and you pay us for all this stuff. Don't think. Just say what we tell you to say.

Remember, our made up motto. Listen, obey and get screwed. Nothing's new.

Just Lois

pbrow

hey tater...

You cant be the man you are today w/out going through what you had to go through yesterday.

Gongratulations!!

pbrow

clarity

Oh yeah ....that's the magazine that changed the course

of my childrens lives! One of the Biggest mistakes of our

lives!

clarity

trujw

Tater I have to say congratulations wow uses be ecumedated family. How can we brain wash her now. You suck

LisaRose

Yes, I feel that my JW belief lowered my socio economic status, for various reasons. First, I did not go to college. I converted (along with my parents) and was bapptized in 1969 at 14 at the height of the 1975 hysteria. I laughed at my guidance counselors who suggested I go to college. I married at 18, like many of my peers, who were desperate to get married, partially because there wasn't anything else to do, and partially because we feared we could never marry if we went into the new system single.

My chances for financial prosperity were further impacted because my husband was unstable and couldn't keep a job, and I could not divorce him due to the Watchtower divorce rules. It was not really accepted for a wife and mother to work full time, but I eventually found work, because I had to. I worked my way up until I was making a decent wage, but that took several years. It took me twenty years to reach the kind of income I would have hat in five years, had I gone to college, and not been hampered by a bad marriage.

Pickler

Congrats tater on breaking the cycle! I read it that the beautiful girl is your daughter? (Hope that's right)

Sad but true, no one was meant to do anything but pioneer until Armageddon arrived. That's why anyone left in at my age will be dirt poor.

Trujw I'm gonna click on your link now....I suspect it's going to p*ss me off!!!!!! Haha

watson

It's kind a funny, when you listen to the experiences at the Conventions, to a man/woman, there doesn't seem to be any regrets. They have been blessed beyond their wildest dreams.

scotoma

Those words are accurate. I keep a PDF of that Awake article on my computer as a reminder. That issue is full of goodies (meaning baddies).

I think its going too far to call them liars because I don't think it was their intent to mislead people.

I also don't believe they need to apologize. We chose to follow the blind - blindly. The consequence is both the blind leaders and the blind followers fall into the pit. The smart ones will say "never again". The dumb ones will keep playing their game.

Here is the sore point. They continue to claim to be directed by holy spirit. They punish severely anyone who questions their authority. At the same time they hide behind the curtain of being "only human" with regard to these serious errors. They lost their right to the title of "Faithful & Discreet Slave" because the facts show that the words they spoke weren't from a divine source and certainly not meat in due season. The words were all from a group of misfits living an institutional life in a dormitory. It appears that the one voice that tied everything together from Russells death onward was a socially awkward bachelor that convinced everyone around him that he was their special oracle - Fred W. Franz.

The real sin is the authoritarian structure they use for their protection, praise, and power.

gma-tired2

Those is high school in 1969 are in their late 50s and early 60s and those who were just out of teens are in mid 60's all of us are near or in our senior years, our children are now middle age and now many of these in 69 just aren't prepared for our senior years. Also we are now finding out how much of our paents money has been donated to WTBTS, my mother in law is 86 and donatd so much She is livig on very minimum ss. She married in 1971 to an Elder who retired in his 50's with a small pension who used her inheritance to support serving the WT and making large donations. His gone and she is struggleing.

gone for good

Tater -

What a great ''snap o' life'' picture! Takes me right back to my youth on the farm.

Thanks and congrats to you and yours.

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