Reddit thread: ‘This Cult is Dying and it Brings Me Joy’

by LongHairGal 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  LongHairGal

  PHIZZY:

  Yes, it is unfortunately true that people who leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses lose their friends, contacts and sometimes family members! Even if you don’t lose all your friends right away, in time they will all be gone.

  I understand these losses are really terrible for born-ins and I wish there was a way to alleviate this.. For somebody like me..who was NOT raised in and came in a young working adult with no family there - the loss was nonexistent.

  I view the Witnesses like people I worked with on an unpleasant job I had years ago.

  I was so elated to be done with it (I ‘Faded’ after the 1995 Generation teaching) and to reconnect with relatives/old friends that it was well worth it to ‘lose’ judgmental acquaintances.... Likewise, it was worth every nickel to be shunned (by these PIMI die-hards) because I worked full-time.

  My experience in the JWs was a life lesson learned and I’m glad it’s all in the past.
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  peacefulpete

  Rather than obsessing about the death of the cult, focus on the life you are free to live.
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  Beth Sarim

  The cult will continue to reinvent itself.
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  Ugot2bekiddingme1

  The Self-righteous Asshats are stuck in a mindless roller coaster ride, While I'm free as a bird to live my life not at the demands of 9 guys in New York...
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  NotFormer

  Even if we never see its eventual demise, we've actually seen it in a form. Its founders would not recognise it today, and to a certain extent it refuses to recognise them. How often do they reverently refer to Rutherford? It's changed so much that it is unrecognisable, even from LHG's time in. So in a certain sense, it actually IS dead.
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  Beth Sarim

  Yes. Its completely unrecognizable.
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  Nancy1919

  Here is my personal story. I had a family member in it for over 60 years. She was always doing what they said following every rule. Married a jw he was mean and angry yelling but she stayed as she told me Jehovah is the truth. I begged her to leave she wouldnt as she said jw will take care of her. Well at 97 she went to a senior home and not one of them came to see her. At her funeral a jr elder did her service and not at their hall either. I asked why they said because she was inactive.
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  Atlantis

  The Cult is Dying and it Brings Me to Joy!

  
  

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1gykaxm/this_cult_is_dying_and_it_brings_me_joy/

  
  

  Petra!
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  NotFormer

  "Well at 97 she went to a senior home and not one of them came to see her. At her funeral a jr elder did her service and not at their hall either. I asked why they said because she was inactive."

  97 and in a senior home could be almost anyone's definition of inactive, not just the WT's. What heartless SOBs! 😞
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  LongHairGal

  NANCY:

  Sad. But this is the delusion too many Witnesses are under after believing false stories and urban legends.. It’s even more tragic when Witnesses were deceived into shunning their own flesh & blood children when they were younger.

  Back when they were younger and on their high-horse..their ‘friends’ in the hall encouraged them to shun their inactive children… Well, where are these Witness friends now that said Witnesses reach 90+ years old?? This is the problem listening to stupid people in the hall. They will either move away or pass away. They aren’t gonna be there for anybody!

  So, Misguided JWs imagine the Witnesses are going to ‘take care of them’. 🤣 Nothing could be further from the truth. Besides, this multi-billion dollar religion/organization has NO social programs whatsoever. So, there’s no department for free care of the aging! 🤣The religion is notorious for kicking people out of bethel after 30 years with no severance pay, etc…But yet foolish JWs will believe absurdities like this one.

  It’s all a mirage and too bad more people there won’t see it. But that’s what happens when you believe a whole lot of fantasies. 👎