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  Jehovah's Witness Retirement Homes and Senior Care

  by Tahoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jehovahs-witness-retirement-homes-and-senior-care/ar-aa1jrvoa.

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  Looks like a profitable business. Watchtower has thousands of captive aging true believers...= big money for Watchtower, and a guaranteed cash flow of personal assets and government checks. https://finmodelslab.com/blogs/profitability/assisted-living-facility-profitability
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  Jehovah's Witness Retirement Homes and Senior Care

  by Tahoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jehovahs-witness-retirement-homes-and-senior-care/ar-aa1jrvoa.

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  Balaamsass2

  Care homes are big business in California. Once 3rd gens mom started needing 24/7 watching (she would wander out of the house if no one watched her 24/7) we were paying $7,400 a month. It took years for Medicaid to chip in because she had "loans" to Watchtower they refused to return and Social Security considered outstanding loans as "assets".

  A story on the profitability of care homes in the NYT this week. : DYING BROKE

  Extra Fees Drive Assisted-Living Profits

  The add-ons pile up: $93 for medications, $50 for cable TV. Prices soar as the industry leaves no service unbilled. The housing option is out of reach for many families. " Assisted-living centers have become an appealing retirement option for hundreds of thousands of boomers who can no longer live independently, promising a cheerful alternative to the institutional feel of a nursing home.

  But their cost is so crushingly high that most Americans can’t afford them.

  These highly profitable facilities often charge $5,000 a month or more and then layer on extra fees at every step. Residents’ bills and price lists from a dozen facilities offer a glimpse of the charges: $12 for a blood pressure check; $50 per injection (more for insulin); $93 a month to order medications from a pharmacy not used by the facility; $315 a month for daily help with an inhaler.

  The facilities charge extra to help residents get to the shower, bathroom or dining room; to deliver meals to their rooms; to have staff check-ins for daily “reassurance” or simply to remind residents when it’s time to eat or take their medication. Some even charge for routine billing to a resident’s insurance for care.

  “They say, ‘Your mother forgot one time to take her medications and so now you’ve got to add this on and we’re billing you for it,’” said Lori Smetanka, executive director of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, a nonprofit." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/health/long-term-care-assisted-living.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU0.hGab.TaeBYsVcPnAi&smid=url-share
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  Lawyers release survey on alleged Jehovah's Witness child abuse

  by Tahoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a team of lawyers has released the results of its survey on alleged child abuse by members of the jehovah's witnesses religious group in japan.. the team held a news conference in tokyo on monday.

  it provides legal support to former members of the group as well as to children of its members.. the lawyers conducted the survey, following the publishing of the health and welfare ministry guidelines last year about child abuse related to parents' religious beliefs.

  a total of 560 people responded.. the survey shows 81 percent of the respondents said they had cards indicating they desired to refuse blood transfusions.. the ministry's guidelines state that parents' refusal of medical treatments for children on religious grounds amounts to neglect --- a form of abuse.. the lawyers said investigations are necessary to find how many people died from refusing blood transfusions, and how many of them were children.. the survey also shows 92 percent of the respondents experienced whipping, 96 percent were banned from school activities, and 93 percent were forced to limit their human relations.. the lawyers said many of the children experienced physical and mental abuse, which afterward led to problems such as loneliness, sense of alienation and a lack of self-esteem.

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  My earliest memories at around 3 are of beatings with a belt.

  The biggest proof of JWs being a death cult is the required "Blood Card" carried by all members in good standing and their children. Nothing short of a suicide pact...in writing.
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  C.T. Russell, Occultist

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one aspect of the watchtower's history that has never been.

  adequately explained is russell's fascination with the occult.. the end of the 19th century saw the prominence of many occult.

  were obsessed with egyptian symbols and magick based on the.

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  Vienne;

  You need to go to a library or eBay to actually read the ACTUAL writings of early JWs.

  
  
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  C.T. Russell, Occultist

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one aspect of the watchtower's history that has never been.

  adequately explained is russell's fascination with the occult.. the end of the 19th century saw the prominence of many occult.

  were obsessed with egyptian symbols and magick based on the.

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  Sea Breeze, The section on Occult and Witchcraft at the Bethel "Home Library" was about 4' long. Two shelves in the mid-1970s.
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  Isaiah 40:29-31 and Being Gay

  by IWant2Know in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm new here and i have perhaps an unusual question.

  it's just something that i would like to know from ex's or formers rather than from other jehovah's witnesses.

  but i would like to know what your experience and your struggle was for former jws who were gay when they were jws.

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  Balaamsass2

  Well, I have always been straight, but growing up in the 60s, and 70s outside San Francisco, we always had a number of Gay JWs in our halls. Quite a few Bethelites were gay when I was there in the 70s. "NPGs" or non-practicing gays. The old timers called them "confirmed Bachelors".

  It was hard for the Bethel gays to room together and not have sex. Quite a few were drummed out of Bethel, penniless and disfellowshipped.
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  Ken and Barbie

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  forgive the insensitivity of this but does the wt imagine the "resurrected" bodies of the dead will have useless genitalia?

  or will the humans 2.0 have the smooth appearance of a ken doll or the nipple-less breasts of a barbie.

  any breasts at all?

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  Rutherford wrote some crazy stuff about the resurrected being raised without sex....or possibly as white men in the 30s "Golden Age".. lol
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  C.T. Russell, Occultist

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one aspect of the watchtower's history that has never been.

  adequately explained is russell's fascination with the occult.. the end of the 19th century saw the prominence of many occult.

  were obsessed with egyptian symbols and magick based on the.

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  The 124 Bethel "home" Library had quite a selection of books on witchcraft and the occult.......

  Just read any of Russel's "Studies in the Scriptures". We had a set, some crazy stuff.
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  Manners and Respectfulness

  by IWant2Know in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to know if there are any ex's or formers who still appreciate good manners and respectfulness?

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  Balaamsass2

  I think ex-JWs have better manners.

  Rutherford ranted about "worldly" manners and etiquette.

  Few JWs send cards or flowers.

  JWs tend to be judgemental and gossip.
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  Governing body

  by moley in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  are the governing body really in charge or are they just a figurehead with the real power being behind the curtain .

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  Balaamsass2

  Having personally known and worked around half the GB in the 70s, having read the bios of GB 2.0, and having known a few Watchtower Attornies, I would say it is a combination.

  GB 1.0 (except Franz and Knorr) were like your sincere average Elders. You could disagree with them(as long as you had a smile) and reason with them. They had "street cred" but no education and average IQs.

  The Watchtower Attornies and Accountants have usually been well read experienced elders, WITH above-average IQs, and advanced College Degrees. They are experienced in INFLUENCEING others. They don't claim to have a special "calling"...they don't hear God talking to them. :)

  GB 2.0-3.0 have unusual biographies. Long after the official heavenly calling cut-off date they "HEARD" a calling and started partaking. Personally, I think many suffer from psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or severe depression. IE: "TRUE BELIVERS".

  I think the educated professionals have their hands full influencing these fanatical nut cases....therefore the flip flops.