Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’ (page 11)

LongHairGal

I do hope that all of this internet exposure - including forums like this and many other ex-JW activists with their numerous YouTube videos helps to prevent more young Witnesses from falling into the trap many of their predecessors did!

Please plan for your future with a decent job and savings!.. Ignore busybodies like I did.. Remember: the Bible tells us to save! It was only the religion who twisted this all around to say something it didn’t.. Let no young person today end up like older broke Witnesses who didn’t plan and who ended up being told..”Well, you served Jehovah with a complete heart”.. Like this is supposed to mean something(?)

Nobody wants to hear a condescending statement like this as a half-assed consolation prize after a lifetime of ‘service’ while they are left with nothing at an advanced age. So tragic and unnecessary.

DesirousOfChange

DOC, loss of money is the only thing that moves the WTS to take action, not wanting to support their members, certainly financially. -- Blondie

Mikejw

Some middle to older aged born ins are now very bitter and resentful of the those who made them believe the end would have come by now. Most of those who said that are dead now.

I am one of those who was brainwashed into believing there wasn’t much time left, I feel such an immense sense of regret for sacrificing career choices due to the belief that the end was right around the corner.

the watchtower clearly said in this millennium which meant before the year 1999. Now they actually changed it to say in our lifetimes.

1999 was far off when I was in school and I was made to believe I wouldn’t leave school in this old system.

I could have gone to uni and had a chance of a good career. Instead I got a cleaning job and put all my energy into working for free for the fat old men in NY.

Now many like me are really struggling with housing, cost of living crisis.

I’m f-ing furious that they gas light and try to make it sound like they always said save and invest for the future.

no they fucking didn’t when I should have been doing that🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

LongHairGal

MIKEJW:

I am sorry about your situation and hope you and other JWs are able to get decent work and stay afloat financially. This world is very hard to live in even for those of us who planned!

You are correct that those older Jehovah’s Witnesses who made presumptuous statements that younger people in the congregation wouldn’t need to plan for retirement are all gone by now.. They went to their graves after living a comfortable life.. I observed that many had BEEN in the workforce when younger.. But, yet, I was knocked for being in it.

I was an unusual JW because I wasn’t raised in the religion. I came in already with the full-time job. Wow, you should have seen the hate campaign against me because I wouldn’t quit my job. Well, it’s history and I’m Glad I never listened.

I am sure many of the numerous older JWs today feel like they got slapped in the face when some idiot elder told them “they served (J) with a complete heart”.. In my opinion, it was the religion they served for a lifetime and they got nothing but a handful of wishes.. How infuriating.

liam

Trump's investigative team has found hundreds of Billions of dollars being paid in SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS EVERY MONTH to people who are OVER THREE HUNDRED YEARS OLD .

No wonder Social Security is running out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhY6SDIeaZQ

LongHairGal

I didn’t know quite where to put my latest post but it does in some way relate to Retirement:

I just saw a thread on Reddit about somebody talking about their recent CO visit and referring to it as “Knucking Futz..” which it sounds like.

An anecdotal story was related about a sister who couldn’t get off her job one day to attend an assembly. She ends up quitting her job…but gets an anonymous letter in the mail essentially telling her somebody is giving her a great deal of money, etc. so no financial worries.

AGAIN, there is this never ending ridiculous theme of trying to convince JWs to quit their jobs! Only in this case there is the ‘hope’ planted in somebody’s mind that an anonymous benefactor might drop a pile of money on them! Anybody who falls for this garbage of quitting their job is certainly not planning for their retirement. I hate to disillusion anybody but I have never heard of the religion supporting anybody - (unless maybe if you’re a GB member who knows too much!)

If the ‘new system’ is anybody’s retirement plan — Good luck.

This is the same shit I heard there decades ago but Thank God I never listened.

liam

LHG AGAIN, there is this never ending ridiculous theme of trying to convince JWs to quit their jobs! ..Anybody who falls for this garbage of quitting their job is certainly not planning for their retirement

They are still falling for it.

Even though they changed the "Counting Hrs" to just putting a check mark on the box which indicates, you participated in Kingdom Service.......Many jws are still enrolling in pioneering where you actually DO HAVE TO COUNT HOURS.

And many young men are being appointed Elders at 21 years and MS as young as 17.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1i35bg0/this_just_in /

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1i6qfyn/does_anyone_actually_know_any_21yearold_elders/

Biahi

Something funny I found, I’m going through my mother’s things, she recently passed away. I found a notebook, she took notes in from meetings and assemblies. It says, “If your job causes you to miss meetings or field service, quit”. 🤨

Dagney

AGAIN, there is this never ending ridiculous theme of trying to convince JWs to quit their jobs! Only in this case there is the ‘hope’ planted in somebody’s mind that an anonymous benefactor might drop a pile of money on them!

Hi LHG! CO's say all sorts of thing...they used to have quite opinionated "scared straight" tactics, not sure what the group is like today. The corporation would word it much differently..."is your employment interfering with your theocratic activities? What would Jehober want you to do" guilting people into sabotaging their own financial stability.

I'm glad you and I never paid them any heed. I have worked longer than I thought I would...but it's only because I never took advantage of retirement planning and started late. But it's finally here for me.

LongHairGal

DAGNEY:

As far as the religion’s propaganda statement of “what would Jehovah want you to do?”: I have never believed the God of the Universe was interested in my secular job..This is purely an invention of the hateful Witness religion itself. Nothing more.

God help me if I had listened to those people back then. I am glad you are finally retired. I understand you worked longer to catch up - but at least you caught up.. Others on the forum are in a terrible predicament today in 2025.

This hateful false religion could have ruined my life if I had followed their ‘edicts’ years ago. I didn’t and they hated me for it and made sure I was not invited and was gossiped about.. I was scoffed at as the ‘low hour publisher’. Well, I’d wear that badge proudly today. My hours were well spent where they should have been - on secular jobs which provided a retirement.

Again, would somebody care to tell me what kind of Retirement income does working in the full-time ministry knocking on doors for 30+/40 years in the Jehovah’s Witness religion provide to anybody??? What would that monthly Dollar amount be???☺️

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