Posts by Lynnie

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The awful treatment of my disfellowshipped cousin still continues

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my cousin was disfellowshipped twenty years ago when he was 18 years old.

he admitted to the congregation elders that he was fornicating with his ''wordly'' girlfriend.

the elders were following him and hiding in their cars to see what he was up to.

Lynnie

Boy I can relate! I've been DF'd for 40 years and shunned the whole time BUT this past year my uber elder cousin decided it was time for me to help with my aging mother's care and oh now I'm no longer shunned at least for all the heavy lifting part of the stuff like clearing out her house when she moved to a retirement home. Funny how the rules change when they decide it's okay to associate with me. And during this time they were very much in contact blah blah. Now that my mother has passed away of course they no longer need me and the silence has begun again.

Funny how they can decide when it's okay and when it's not. Feel the love!!!

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Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Ever Do Anything For Anyone But Themselves?

by minimus in

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i was thinking of how witnesses were always admonished to take care of their own before they should ever help a worldly neighbor.

i don’t think they ever do anything for the community unless it’s a benefit to them..

Lynnie

My mother always gave $$$ to the WT and no one else but it didn't matter when she needed the congregation's help the most. Yes I was called upon to "help" after 40 years of shunning and was told my uber elder cousin that it wasn't the WT's responsibility to care and help people in the congregation it was the family's! And he had "decided" that now was the time for me to help even though I'm disfellowshipped. Unlike other religions who will help if needed.

She passed away in September and they had the memorial in October and now they are done with me again forever! Feel the love.

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Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Ever Do Anything For Anyone But Themselves?

by minimus in

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friends

i was thinking of how witnesses were always admonished to take care of their own before they should ever help a worldly neighbor.

i don’t think they ever do anything for the community unless it’s a benefit to them..

Lynnie

Yes it's true they barely do anything for each other. There was no one to help my 86 year old mother who was a devout member and pioneer for 40 years. All of a sudden everyone was too busy going out in service to help with her getting groceries or anything like that. So she had to hire someone to help her that wasn't a witness.

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Do You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Believe They Are Living In The Time Of The End?

by minimus in

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friends

i think they talk a good game and that’s about it..

Lynnie

Funny how my cousins have long term care insurance they pay for every year ($8K per person) but of course they inherited $$ from his non witness father so they extensively remodeled the family home and are living happily ever after. Oh and they bought a new car too and called it their "death car" because they think it will be the last one they buy!

it really does help to be a rich witness instead of a poor one, life is so much better then. We have lots of rich JW's here in Seattle.

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Jehovah’s witnesses and having kids

by Addison0998 in

in my area, a lot of young people don’t want to have kids.

they get married young from 18-22 years old, and think that they know how they’re going to feel the rest of their lives about having children, (which they think will be never).

i respect people who don’t want to have kids, there are good reasons not to, but i think it’s foolish at a young age to think you will never think differently for the rest of your life.

Lynnie

My uber dub cousin got married at around 28 or so and he was a pioneer and so was his new wife. Well apparently they didn't know how birth control works because she was pregnant before their first year of marriage which surprised everyone since they were so devoted to pioneering and he was one of the youngest elders appointed in the "new arrangement." And apparently they didn't figure it out again when their second daughter was born about a year or so later after the first one. They had a third girl a couple of years later and then she decided to get her tubes tied since they couldn't seem to figure it out otherwise! LOL Lack of sex ed for sure!

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Reassigned, ...to complete erasure from memory and near poverty.

by Lostandfound in

a complete scandal is the reassignment to nothing of the thousands (?

) of bethelites, over age cos etc, .

out on the street atfter decades of unpaid service in very many cases.

Lynnie

And there are some elderly folks still at Bethel that are cared for at Warrick by my uber cousin and I wonder how that works and how they get to stay in the compound. These people are really old too but I guess they get to stay in and get cared for. Wonder how that is determined?

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Cleaning out my mom's house

by Lynnie in

so i'm cleaning out my jw mom's house since she's gone to assisted living.

she had tons of bound volumes of the wt and awake from the 80's and 90's and the cousins decided to recycle all of them since "everything is online now.

they even recycled old nwt bibles!!

Lynnie

So I'm cleaning out my JW mom's house since she's gone to assisted living. She had tons of bound volumes of the WT and Awake from the 80's and 90's and the cousins decided to recycle all of them since "everything is online now." Really? They even recycled old NWT bibles!! And they are acting all nice and everything since they need my help with this even though my elder cousin is in charge and Power of Attorney. Just amazing to watch these people work.

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Kingdom Interlinear Version

by Lynnie in

my mom has gone into assisted living and i've discovered a treasure trove of old wt publications, 2 interlinear bibles for example.

is anyone interested in these?

i live in seattle..

Lynnie

My mom has gone into assisted living and I've discovered a treasure trove of old WT publications, 2 interlinear bibles for example. Is anyone interested in these? I live in Seattle.

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2 Kingdom Halls burned in Washington

by Lynnie in

on the local news last night it was reported that two kingdom halls in olympia wa were set fire to.

i wonder who has a grudge with those congregations?

unfortunately we know the jw"s eat this crap up and enjoy the "persecution.

Lynnie

On the local news last night it was reported that two kingdom halls in Olympia WA were set fire to. I wonder who has a grudge with those congregations? Unfortunately we know the JW"s eat this crap up and enjoy the "persecution." Does anyone know anyone in Olympia with more details?

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Are some of the long serving Bethel servants being given marching orders?

by carefullyread in

does any one have any info on the treatment of long serving elderly bethel servants who are retiring or virtually having to retire?

with the closing & selling off of their properties & relocation's, what is happening to their elderly servants who cannot just move away & have lived at some of their jw accommodations for so long?

many of these servants have worked for very little financial rewards & i have heard some have no life savings or superannuation retirements payouts.. shouldn't the society be paying out a redundancy sum to them?

Lynnie

Yes some old bethelites do get to stay and actually are taken care of but I'd love to know how that is determined. My uber second cousin is at the compound in Warwick and apparently does take care of some of the older folks and some have dementia. But they haven't been kicked to the curb so I wonder who gets to stay and who doesn't?