Posts by LongHairGal

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Expectation vs Reality

by joey jojo in

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just wanted to put this out there for any lurkers.. as someone that grew up during the 70s and 80s, we were promised that we would be in the first picture long ago.

if you are still on the fence, please let this sink in for a while..

LongHairGal

WING COMMANDER:

Grey hair is better than no hair and you are relatively young!!

It’s sad to read all the stories of born-in people who had normal childhoods robbed from them by a deceptive cult who had to keep people hanging on with their carrot dangling from a stick of the ‘paradise earth’ teaching..Meanwhile, whole lifetimes have passed by and people have lived and died!

Even though I was not born into the Jehovah’s Witness religion, they could have really ruined my life if I caved in to criticism over my job!..I would not be Retired today if I listened to the judgmental hypocrites!..I was a little older than you when I walked away from it ALL.

I relish every day of being free. Just live your life!

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Caleb can say mephibosheth

by road to nowhere in

that was this weeks video.

but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

True. But it’s not that I want to come across as thinking that a person with no higher education cannot think. No, certainly not.

It is just that the Witness religion has literally demonized college education. They are anti-intellectual. They have ‘elevated’ people in congregations just because these people toe the party line and ‘pioneer’ - meanwhile these people are lucky they can string two sentences together!...Also, if they are on the podium and spout something - you are expected to accept it..because they said it.

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Caleb can say mephibosheth

by road to nowhere in

that was this weeks video.

but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.

LongHairGal

ROAD TO NOWHERE:

Years ago, back when I was a ‘believer’ in the JW religion, we had a visiting Sunday speaker.

As I was listening, I noticed how this man struggled and I cringed a little bit. I’m sure he was a nice enough guy, but it struck me how uneducated he sounded..I realized the Witness religion was a place where a man with no higher education and nothing going for him could feel ‘important’.

Over time there I heard enough sad but laughable examples of this.

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JW Response to COVID

by optimisticskeptic in

i haven't been on here in quite some time so i apologize if i missed a similar thread already (i did look for one :) ) anyways, just to be clear i think the jw response to covid in general has been really positive and proactive and they've done really well trying to educate people on covid, doing zoom meetings, etc to prevent spread within the congregations.

the part that i find interesting is how compliant and non-apocalyptic the branch has been during all of this.

even as someone who's a bit of a skeptic i found myself wondering if this might be the beginning of the end between covid, economic upheaval, and blm.

LongHairGal

OPTIMISTICSKEPTIC:

So many have left the religion in recent years and the decreased numbers mean less $upport. But, their main contributing demographic are loyal JW seniors who are the most vulnerable in this pandemic! Once these people are gone, that’s it. The religion will never see the like of them again.

I also think the religion likes Zoom because it wants to sell off more kingdom halls. The religion also had a campaign to ‘reactivate’ some inactives - I assume to replace those lo$t in recent years. But, I’m glad they didn’t contact me.

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"Million(s) now requesting will never show"

by eyeuse2badub in

j f rutherford in all his wisdom hysterically, stupidly, and boastfully proclaimed the now slogan;.

"millions now living will never die".

donny trump in all his wisdom hysterically, stupidly, and of course boastfully proclaimed that a million supporters requested tickets for his much ballyhooed rally in tulsa!

LongHairGal

EYEUSE2BADUB:

I have never been to a political rally in my life and don’t need to attend one....

but I intend to make my way to the voting booth in November and vote Republican!

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Things are too quiet at Warwick (Bethel)

by RubaDub in

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friends

i guess it's the covid-19 thing.

but very little news from a couple of people i know well there.

they can't leave the "compound" or much of anything else.

LongHairGal

LV101:

I know what you mean about certain JWs ‘who profess to be crazy to get gov’t checks’. A married sister suggested this!!

Another single born-in once made a remark that she would never do what I did no matter what (referring to the fact that I worked full time). It almost sounded as if she would rather have died. Whatever.

The fact is Witnesses are afraid of the Real world and some don’t want to work and just wanted to be in the ministry. Their big mistake, sadly, was to promote hateful judgmentalism in congregations towards responsible people who DID work and prepare for retirement...For this attitude these JWs can ROT... I’d never give them anything - and I’m glad I was not contacted by JWs in this pandemic. Purportedly they were looking to ‘reactivate’ people..but I suspect they are looking for yet more candidates they can ask for money to give to desperate JWs of every sort plus those there who never wanted to work.

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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus in

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friends

i agree with people who say all lives matter.

i think blm is a racist group.

if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

LongHairGal

SILENTBUDDHA:

Thanks for posting that. I am ashamed to admit that I had no knowledge of the origins of BLM.

I knew they were radical - but I did not realize it was as disgusting as you said! I had images of sixties black radical types... I wonder how many fools in the public and on the forum even KNOW this? Worse yet.. do they care to know?

This is so sad for everybody.

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Do You Believe Polls Saying Trump Will Lose To Biden?

by minimus in

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friends

a new fox poll says biden is up by 12 percentage points.

of course, most other polls say trump will be trounced this time around.. do you think the polls might be right this time?

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LongHairGal

MINIMUS:

All I can say is..God help us all if the dems/left get in with what’s happening in the country.

We’ll all need bars on our windows!

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Covid19 "Suggestions" (aka rules)

by Huxley1979 in

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so a co just said in his talk yesterday that anyone that doesn't follow the branch's covid19 "suggestions" is disobedient and the type of person that won't survive armageddon.

didn't the letter say that each head of household would choose for himself how to apply the "suggestions"?.

the funny thing is there are other countries where none of these "suggestions" have been given..

LongHairGal

HUXLEY1979:

Yeah, that’s my view of it..I’m also delighted that I was not contacted..even once during the last several months of this Covid crisis by any JWs. 👍🏻

I had read the Witnesses were trying to contact some ‘faders’ to reactivate them. I’m glad I wasn’t on anybody’s list. Nobody wasted a stamp. Well that’s good.

I guess these hypocritical Users know they weren’t going to get so much as the time of day from a retired person who was viewed so negatively back in the day. Maybe word got to them about my views about the religion!

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Things are too quiet at Warwick (Bethel)

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

i guess it's the covid-19 thing.

but very little news from a couple of people i know well there.

they can't leave the "compound" or much of anything else.

LongHairGal

LV101:

Everything was criticized out East as well..The JW religion is filled with deluded hypocrites with double standards.

I’m glad I defied the criticism and followed my gut and held onto my job until retirement..Anybody who thought single women were there to do favors can ROT - and there were too many idiots there who thought this.

I’m glad I’m not in the religion anymore to deal with this...Imagine it now?? The attitudes in congregations are going to be positively cannibalistic towards other remaining people there - and God help if somebody looks affluent..

If more bethelites are sent packing and dumped in the congregations - people are going to regularly be hit up constantly to give money to every Tom, Dick and Harry.. If I were stupid enough to still be there, I would have to tell some S.O.B. who came up to me with an envelope to get the hell away from me! This is the ugly reality of what the Witness religion is now.