Posts by LongHairGal

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Have You Lost Any “Friends” Because Of Your Political Views?

by minimus in

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i have lost a couple of fb friends.

i have had conversations with many of my friends regarding politics and since we generally view politics in the same way, there is little dissension.

however i do have some friends that don’t see things properly, my way, and i still like them.🤗lol....i know of some families that have stopped talking to each other because of something as stupid as political differences..

LongHairGal

PETE ZAHUT:

I feel the way you feel about the current situation - and you were very kind to the girl!..I would have been more direct with her and she might not have liked me for it - but that’s TOO bad.

I have some liberal friends on Facebook and I ended up putting them on Unfollow because their whole FB experience is political propaganda garbage or virtue signaling crap. The reason I don’t unfriend them is because they are from my old neighborhood and I guess we are more forgiving towards people we knew from childhood. I did Unfriend somebody a few years ago (with a message explaining why) because they were posting hateful comments about the police - meanwhile they’d be screaming at the top of their lungs if the police didn’t come for them.

My want my FB experience to be non-political and I go on it to see people’s pictures and feel good. I don’t go on it to see blood and guts or stupidity. Somebody’s always pushing the envelope it seems.

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How Could We Have Been So Heartless?

by BluesBrother in

i am addressing here those who, like me, spent decades in the organisation that we called “the truth”.

perhaps like me you were brought up in it from an early age.

looking back now i wonder that i could have been so heartless as to believe that the mass slaughter of billions of people was “good news”.

LongHairGal

BLUES BROTHERS & PETE ZAHUT:

Yes, I remember the attitudes and mindset of the Witnesses. Some were more hardcore than others with their heartless attitude and tough love as some may call it (Agape love 🙄)...I can see their faces now.

Yes, they felt they were engaged in a life and death work and had to get all those hours of service in! I do know that they were hoping for the end of this system even though it meant the death of just about everybody. I think they had an attitude of if they went into their inner room and covered their eyes- then so what? Some also said ‘well maybe Jehovah will see into somebody’s heart and not destroy them, etc..’

But, the general heartless attitude (which was encouraged by the religion) also was directed towards people there who did not do all that they did..Some of these people did not have the circumstances to do all the hours others did..I was one of those people who refused attempts by busybodies to get me to quit a decent job and pursue poverty doing housecleaning. (I actually tried it once with another married sister who did it to make a few extra bucks on the side. Meanwhile, I was single and HAD to support myself.) Thankfully, I looked out for myself.

Many of these hardliner Witnesses I knew are still in the religion. I wonder what they think of their religion now?

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Is Anyone Happy That Police Forces Are Being Abolished or scut??

by minimus in

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in minneapolis, the city council has voted to abolish the police.. many cities want to either disband or defund the police.

black lives matter and other groups have influenced citizens and neighborhoods to get rid of police and their authority.

is anyone really supportive of removing the police or cutting out law enforcement through the budget?

LongHairGal

ANONY MOUS:

Interesting what you observed in the firearms place in your ‘Democratic’ area!

It wasn’t just ‘redneck Republicans’ 🙄 on line - but assorted people who you probably pegged correctly as Democrats. So, they all must feel very unsafe in the current lawless and mindless climate - as they well should. First, it was the coronavirus that sent everybody out to stock up on firearms to protect themselves against a zombies looking for food. Now, it’s civil unrest and fewer or No police to protect them.

Does anybody think that people are going to give up their right to keep and bear arms after all this has happened and what may still happen?? I don’t.

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COVID-19 won’t go away until Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton are in the Oval Office

by hoser in

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it’s no secret that the mainstream media runs the show and that they can’t stand trump.

for good reason because trump has been demeaning to journalists on several occasions.. life lesson for donald trump: don’t make fun of people that have the power to destroy you!

nobody likes getting laughed at.. don’t get me wrong.

LongHairGal

LV101 & FEDUPJW:

I would not be surprised that the release of the virus (and the social chaos) was probably deliberate!..The old rule or ruin..Who cares who dies or what happens to the economy or society?

In my opinion, ALL the guilty persons who could be behind this deserve to suffer personally (somehow, some way) from some terrible unintended consequences!

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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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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.