by Atlantis 26 Replies latest jw friends
I feel sorry for the elderly and those with special needs. During the 2 years of the Covid pandemic most of them didn't see or get a visit from elders according to a post on a different website.
I don't fancy their chances of help being readily available should civil unrest suddenly break out as the elders will be too busy protecting the congregation records to go visit the old folks.
LostintheFog1999:
I know it! There are several people who have written to us and remarked how the older ones in the congregations are just forgotten.
JW's in nursing homes who very rarely get a visit from anyone. And those who are disabled are treated as if they don't exist.
One former Bethelite writes to me and tells me how his wife has severe back pains, and she hasn't had a visit from another sister for the past 6 years.
Shameful.
Atlantis!
We hear this all the time. But, if the elderly person has money, the elders are there everyday or calling to see how they are doing. Sickening
NE - if the elderly person has money, the elders are there everyday or calling to see how they are doing
You beat me to it.
With the Watchtower Corporation(tm), it's all about the money.
How else will TOMO afford expensive whiskey to get 'as a newt' on?
LOST IN THE FOG:
I cannot imagine that if civil unrest were to break out that the congregations would be visiting elderly JWs. That would be the last thing on their minds.🤣
I’m sorry for any of them and others with special needs who didn’t hear from anybody during Covid. To be real, even before then almost nobody cared.
I’m out of the religion many years and I always felt that if you weren’t popular and part of the ‘In’ crowd - nobody even thought about you.. Besides, most times if someone got a phone call it’s because somebody wanted a favor OR because something was wrong!
Sorry for anybody who thinks this is a ‘loving brotherhood’.
"We hear this all the time. But, if the elderly person has money, the elders are there everyday or calling to see how they are doing. Sickening""
Or just governing body praise too. And governing moron praise.
I’m sorry for any of them and others with special needs who didn’t hear from anybody during Covid.
I know what you mean. There is an older fellow who still is a friend, even though I no longer run the JW hamster wheel. I stop by and visit him because he is 88 years old, confined to his bed, needing 24/7 nursing care due to severe effects of lung damage caused by previous employment and now a leg broken in three areas.
Because of COVID he was considered an "at risk" person and the oh so loving JW's decided that he should not have any personal contact, to show how much they valued his life and didn't want to take any chance of bringing in COVID exposure. So for over three years now he has had only one visitor that went to the hall before COVID. That would be me. Just today he told me that he thought it would be better if he just finally died because other than me NO ONE cares if he lives or dies.
I hate the lying hypocrisy of the self-righteous JW's who flap their gums about what a loving "brotherhood" they have! If there were a literal Hell I am sure there would be a special place for them there!
E.O.R. (end of rant)
FEDUPJW:
That is very good of you to be this man’s friend and go visit him.
It’s too bad he feels about himself that ‘it would be better if he just died because nobody but you cares about him’.. God help any PIMI JWs who are counting on friendships and attention from people in the religion to keep them going!.. I remember back when I was a ‘believer’ going through a phase of being sad because I saw so little love there. I got over it in time.
I came to see in the JW religion that if you’re not related to the ‘right’ people - then it’s all about judgmentalism, conditional friends and Users. You are only as good as the next favor you can do or $ervice you can provide. If you can’t (or won’t) do that, you’re ignored. Even those who DID these things and stopped for some reason were forgotten like yesterday’s garbage.
It’s too bad people there keep telling themselves they are in a loving brotherhood. Thankfully, I never believed it and could only count on myself.
No wonder the elders call on my mother. Mom in her on right has a couple of large bakeries she owns and a sizable portfolio. The elders just think about all that cash they can or even use to get from the family. Since mom lives with me and my family at the villa. The elders may call or even come by. BBut just don't get anywhere with us and mom.
FOOLEDNOMORE:
So, they are still at it with calling on your family!
I guess your wealthy mom is still a ‘believer’ and if she hasn’t specifically told the JWs to get lost they will still attempt to call on her. One thing is for certain: if she were poor and dressed in rags these people would avoid her like the plague.
Only certain elderly people get attention. They couldn’t care less if the others drew their next breath.
