Posts by LongHairGal

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73 years old, a Witness for 48 years, an elder for 24 years, Baptized just before 1975. WOKE UP!

by pistolpete in

i thought i would post an encouraging experience i found today.

i've been seeing a lot of 70-80 year old jws waking up, and their children are posting their experience on reddit.

these are old elders, pioneers, circuit overseers who have given their everything and finally at the end of their life, are walking away.. maybe the key to waking up is that a person has to have a deep sense of right and wrong.

LongHairGal

PISTOL PETE & JW GONE BAD:

Yes, I also saw this on Reddit. It’s quite possible he was disgusted with that ‘overlapping generation’ among other things (like maybe being hit up for money for people who never wanted to work)..I got out about twenty years ago and can’t imagine still sitting there through all that!

I just hope he has some kind of social support besides the one child (maybe other relatives/friends who are out). It would definitely be tough when somebody is older. I’m glad he had the courage to say ‘enough’. 👍🏻

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Poor circuit overseersr

by stan livedeath in

my recollection of cos were they may have been very low paid almost volunteers..but they werent poor.

most appeared well dressed.

i knew a few..and they were well connected with wealthy famlies.

LongHairGal

STAN LIVEDEATH:

What I remember is them stepping up the fervor to pioneer. If you didn’t cave in to pressure to pioneer you were looked down on in the religion.

I always felt they were out of touch with reality - like a lot of JWs never really in the workforce. But, I let all the talk go in one ear and out the other and it’s good that I did because I planned for Retirement. Would anybody support me if I didn’t?? Nah, I didn’t think so.

From what I have read, some have done well for themselves. If not, brothers with businesses will have to help them. I have NO interest in anybody who knocked me for my full time job. Go tell somebody else.

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Circuit overseers wives.

by stan livedeath in

or..as i remember the title..circuit servants wives.

but then i left 40+ years ago.. any recollections of those females that led such an unnatural existence?.

those that i recall seemed such aloof creatures..

LongHairGal

STAN LIVEDEATH:

They seemed nice enough to me but then again, other than the one time I may have been in a car group with one, I never spent any time around circuit overseer’s wives like other people on the forum may have.

I suppose I never really gave CO’s (or their wives) a second thought.

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What’s Your Prediction For The Future Of The Covid Virus?

by minimus in

jw
friends

will it ever end??

will a vaccine end this pandemic?

will it suddenly dissipate if joe biden becomes president?

LongHairGal

DESIROUS OF CHANGE:

No, it’s not ‘kooky’ as I have had several people say that they suspect this very same thing..It is evil though..The problem is the unintended consequences that the virus apparently can also kill people not in the supposed ‘target’ demographic of elderly and those with serious underlying conditions.

I’d hate to believe in any such conspiracy ..but it does make you think.

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UPDATE: Fanatical Mom wants to report me

by Scarlett_Martin in

*** update 2020/11/21 ****.

hello people,.

some time ago i made my first on this forum after i have just woken up.. i was very scared and honestly i am still amazed from the fact that i am still getting replies in the old thread.. here is the link to my previous thread: link.

LongHairGal

JOE134CD:

I agree with you that young people who leave the JW (or any) religion because they want a lifestyle without rules will not only end up disappointed - they can end up in serious trouble.

There is no such thing as a lifestyle without rules. That’s a fallacy..Being free from any oppressive situation doesn’t mean there are ‘no rules’, it just means the person governs themselves (based on common sense principles).

I also left the religion at an older age and for ‘intellectual’ reasons. I still have the same lifestyle but minus all the B.S. or drama.

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Telling a JW to pissoff!

by Overrated in

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friends

as a jw, have you ever tell an elder, pioneer, or other jw to go pissoff!.

LongHairGal

CARLA:

As for you telling off the MS and the elder:.. I can only imagine the anger you probably felt at the intrusiveness and overstepping of boundaries that occurred when your husband got involved with the religion. We all know how they feel about wives and women in general.

I’m single and have to stand up for myself in life. It’s just as well I’m out of the JW religion because at this point in my life I would have No tolerance for them.

I don’t expect to encounter them anywhere and they haven’t done D to D in ages..but if I ever were faced with nervy types like years ago, something worse than ‘piss off’ might be used.

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Letter read cong is now an association

by Yomama in

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friends

what does that mean?.

LongHairGal

ALIVE:

This is the first place I read about this change of terminology...How can anybody keep up with this?

I also believe the cost of leaving is great for many JWs:..they are shunned. Doesn’t matter if they didn’t do anything morally wrong in a scriptural sense.

It must be particularly hurtful for people who were popular and in the thick of things with a great social life and many friends - only to see it dry up overnight. That’s why anybody planning their exit has to prepare with new acquaintances and contacts beforehand!

I guess I was fortunate in the sense that I was not popular and had few friends in the religion since I worked full-time..I was already an ‘outcast’ in their eyes - so it didn’t matter all that much when I ‘Faded’.

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Do You Ever Wonder Where Are They Now?

by minimus in

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friends

i remember so many witnesses who were pretty liberal minded.

i knew some that were the ones someone would talk to to get a “balanced “ perspective.

they were not hardliners.

LongHairGal

MINIMUS:

I remember one or two back in the day who I was able to have an intelligent practical conversation with. They tended, though, to keep certain conversation pretty much to themselves or select company.

These were older JWs and were among the few who didn’t push ‘poverty and pioneering’. They realized I had to work to support myself. They ALREADY earned their living/pension so they were sympathetic and told me to do my ‘best’.

Sadly, most of these people of the Greatest Generation have passed away.

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''Faith in Action'' video....Jesus Disciples depicted with ''field service bags'' and preaching with ''Scrolls''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

here is a screenshot from a video on jw.org.

go to videos, our organization, history .

jehovah's witnesses—faith in action, part 1: out of darkness.

LongHairGal

DESIROUS OF CHANGE:

You are so right! It made me furious when some idiot would refer to a picture in a book or magazine as though it were from the First Century.

Nobody had video recorders or cameras back then so why the stupidity about this??? ..This is simply modern-day artwork depicting somebody’s OPINION and what they want brainwashed R&F to believe actually happened centuries ago. The Bible says something else.

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Collapse of JW Org - Possibly on the Horizon?

by JWTom in

this topics get a great deal of discussion here.

what i find interesting is even some of my pimi family is embracing the reality that all is not well with jw.org and that many current jws are just going through the motions due to not having a good way out of the org.

wondering what could realistically lead to the collapse of jw.org in the not distant future?

LongHairGal

BLUES BROTHERS:

Yes, we have seen so many topics about the JW religion collapsing..but yet it’s still here.

I have been Out for about twenty years but I never actually believed it was going to totally collapse. But, I do think their glory days are over.

With all the changes I have heard about in the last two decades: the Zoom meetings, selling off of halls, kicking out bethelites, constantly asking for $, TV exposes about the scandals, I don’t believe it is viewed the same way it was years ago. The diehards may still be there but I suspect most stay for social reasons and it’s really too late to start over. The Sunk Cost theory probably figures into it.

The problem IS many of the diehards are the faithful elderly and sad to say they are passing away. I think in time the religion will just be a small group and a shadow of its former self.