Posts by LongHairGal

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If The Jehovah's Witnesses Stole Your Past...Don't Let Them Steal Your Future!

by The Bethelite in

jw
friends

yes, many here have lost many years of life due to being infected by this cult like religion.

for many it is very hard to let go of that life and those wasted years.. of course people need time to heal and this web site is a great place to do that, swap war stories and commiserate.. i was in for over 50 years.

so of course it will be with me for the rest of my life.

LongHairGal

LONGLIVETHERENEGADES:

You said it correctly that our Time is the currency of life itself! And, we have a limited amount of it.

Every person on the forum has invested a different amount of time in the religion. Myself, I was not born in but came in as a young working adult. I wasted about twenty+ years there (even if I was on the fringes) and am Out that amount of time. Many others were born-in and/or spent more time there. The longer somebody is in the harder it is for them.

While I am angry about failed prophecies and the deception which got me in, I am more angry about how I was treated.. Even though what I experienced personally can never be forgiven in my book (and I would never again subject myself to this treatment anywhere).. I do believe we have to move on.

We all have a New Year in which to work on it.

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How Life May have Started on This Planet Without YHWH

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

some may be interested in this research from the scripps research institute.. this research and its conclusion builds on previous work, quote: "in a study published in the chemistry journal angewandte chemie, they demonstrated that a simple compound called diamidophosphate (dap), which was plausibly present on earth before life arose, could have chemically knitted together tiny dna building blocks called deoxynucleosides into strands of primordial dna.. the finding is the latest in a series of discoveries, over the past several years, pointing to the possibility that dna and its close chemical cousin rna arose together as products of similar chemical reactions, and that the first self-replicating molecules -- the first life forms on earth -- were mixes of the two.".

read more at this science daily web-site .... link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201228095428.htm.

LongHairGal

PISTOLPETE:

Very good posts and thoughts.

With regard to us being created as an experiment and (they) didn’t quite know what they were doing. Possibly. I often felt that when I read the biblical story of the flood I wondered why He didn’t know his creation was going to displease him..and to destroy a whole world as a punishment??

With regard to what you last said: “those being(s)(?) who created life on earth are long gone”..that could very well be the reality - depressing as it is. To be abandoned. Otherwise, where the HELL are they?

I had read somewhere that ancient mines in Africa were found (hundreds of thousands of years old) and that the first humans were supposedly created (Ancient Alien theory) to be a slave race to work these mines. This is also depressing and far from the noble beginning some imagine the human race had..But, will we ever know the truth about any of this?

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Are Jehovah Witness willing to end studies?

by Maria Nieves in

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-october-2020/how-to-conduct-a-bible-study-that-leads-to-baptism-part-two/.

i recently came across the above watchtower article which spoke about conducting bible studies which lead to baptism.

it progressed to say that if the bible study instructor does not see growth within the student or the desire to work towards baptism, then the studies should end.

LongHairGal

MARIA NIEVES:

I believe they would be willing to end studies if someone doesn’t ‘progress’ in a certain amount of time.

They are lucky they can hang onto the JWs they already have! They will not want to risk having these JWs around a so-called worldly study that possibly has more education than they do, thinks too much and asks questions they cannot answer!

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Please Watchtower Society : Not another '' LIVE FOREVER'' publication.

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

there will be another new generation of watchtower society followers that will be introduced to ''the.

carrot and stick.

'' promise something that will never be attained!.

LongHairGal

PISTOLPETE:

Yes, it is true that the older generation of JWs is passing away. These people who expected to walk into the ‘new system’ are mostly gone.

Even years ago when I was active, I heard an elder in conversation say to somebody (about someone who died) that many JWs will get to the new system the ‘underground way’. This made me angry when I heard this because it sounded like they were backing away from their belief that the new system was coming in time so they wouldn’t need to experience death.

When I began my Fade several years later, the first thing I did was to rid my mind of this paradise earth teaching because I felt it was a cruel trick to play on my mind. I don’t know if I truly ever believed it. It was a nice mental exercise..Everybody and every creature has died all throughout history (unless a few special people are keeping their existence secret).

The fact that a new publication might possibly be in the works to whet younger people’s appetite to supposedly ‘live forever’ and hang onto the religion doesn’t surprise me..I just know I’M past the point of falling for this.

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I have a deep seated hatred for the leadership of the JW Cult

by mrquik in

i look back on my life & realize all major mistakes fall at the feet of the jw leadership.

no college, no birthdays, basically no celebrations.

lived my younger years as an outcast.

LongHairGal

GREATTEACHER:

Well, I’m certainly not ‘chained’ now and I’m glad I was raised Catholic and had a normal childhood and heeded my father’s ‘worldly’ wisdom.

Yeah, I know different congregations may have differed slightly but overall - the hypocrisy stinks to high heaven with these people. They thought single women were going to be targeted to do favors. But, they got nowhere with me.

At some point, some younger wives got jobs and then it was OKAY!! But, it sure wasn’t if I did it...Also, ALL the older JWs that I knew without exception had been in the workforce when they were younger and were getting their pensions!

Don’t ask where the trend came about pursuing poverty. But, the poverty being pushed wasn’t for THEM - just some other fool....A lot of the people who criticized me went to their graves after living a cushy life.

Looking back in retrospect I’m delighted I never listened to the foolish talk by older ones and even my own age peer group. These people wouldn’t be supporting me in Retirement now, that’s for sure. In fact, some of the younger couples may have gotten smart over the years and one partner got a job in an office because they needed medical benefits. Good for those who did because they were probably able to Retire!

One thing’s for certain: I’m glad I’m not there now because anybody who came up to me with an envelope asking for money for people who never wanted to work would be told off.

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I have a deep seated hatred for the leadership of the JW Cult

by mrquik in

i look back on my life & realize all major mistakes fall at the feet of the jw leadership.

no college, no birthdays, basically no celebrations.

lived my younger years as an outcast.

LongHairGal

GREATTEACHER:

Interesting you say your dad was an elder who ‘always’ held a full time job - and was able to retire at 58 with a pension.

I also had a full time job but treated like shit in the congregation because of it..I guess because I’m a woman, right?..(Double standard).. These covetous idiots (who were apparently bothered by the existence of an independent woman with self-respect - who minded her own business)..thought they were going to get ME to quit my full time job to pursue poverty and pioneer - and do favors for Users to boot. I refused of course and let their garbage go in one ear and out the other! I wouldn’t be Retired today if I had listened.

I’m not the envious type and never resented anybody who was affluent, rich, dripping with diamonds, comfortably well-off or whatever. If they were able to retire early - fabulous. But, what I DID and do mind are older hypocrites who already had a job/pension under their belt who attempted to interfere in my life as a young person. Luckily, I never listened!..Maybe because I wasn’t born in.

There is absolutely No forgiveness in my book for what I experienced in the JW religion and this is mostly why I got the hell out.

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I have a deep seated hatred for the leadership of the JW Cult

by mrquik in

i look back on my life & realize all major mistakes fall at the feet of the jw leadership.

no college, no birthdays, basically no celebrations.

lived my younger years as an outcast.

LongHairGal

MRQUIK:

I feel some of your pain and I wasn’t even a born-in.

I’m a twenty year ‘Fader’...What particularly bothers me is that there appears to be no accountability. Time just marches on, people die and the wrong done to them is forgotten, etc. I’m just grateful I followed my gut years ago..The only thing I can take comfort in is that the internet and the media exposes everything today and young JWs aren’t going to remain ignorant like in times past.

You deserve to get some happiness out of life!

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QUITTING QUIETLY here is the Canadian version of the document

by gone for good in

a while back, i suggested that an easy, quick, quiet exit with the signing and dating of a concise and irrefutable document would spur faders and pimos to preempt the elders' interference by quitting quietly first , before a fade or a confrontation.

here is the document .

https://1drv.ms/w/s!avoitfxyvyqghq3gbmkhfyqp_jqp?e=8bttg1.

LongHairGal

GONE FOR GOOD:

Hi. I’m sorry if I misunderstood as I thought your intent was to stop shunning by submitting this signed and dated document. I see where you are coming from in that you want to stop the disfellowshipping of voluntary leavers.

However, if you were able to do this, what would it accomplish as far as the religion is concerned? Whether DFd or voluntary leaver: they see you as Out. It’s a distinction without much of a difference. It’s sort of like saying I quit so that somebody can’t say they were fired. Once somebody submitted this written document there would be a private meeting about the person and it would be put in their file. Even though there would be no formal announcement, the gossip would start and the person would be the talk of the town. There would be gatherings where the person is the topic of conversation and the whole circuit knows.

Having no announcement made does not mean a person will retain their friends and family there. I don’t think you can win here..Even if somebody retained one friend, this person would be your friend secretly and would not broadcast it because then THEY would be judged.

Of course, none of this matters if a person wants to leave and not have anything to do with anybody there. The problem arises if somebody hopes to defeat the JW system in general to avoid being shunned or gossiped about because this would be a lost cause. I would say just Move On with your life!

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Thoughts on Zoom

by waton in

the wt sponsored zoom meetings reduce individual freedom, spirituality.

the wt sponsored zoom meetings enables ego maniacs, narcissists to have their influence beamed right into your living room.

conversations that were private, personal are now broadcast, forced on all participants.

LongHairGal

WATON:

Earlier on in 2020 when I read about Zoom meetings for JWs, I felt this was an invasion of privacy.

At least when a person attended the hall, when they went home and closed their door they were in privacy. With Zoom they can see right into your home and even make comments on things you have hanging on YOUR walls. (I would be livid if somebody did this.)..Plus, a person is supposed to be dressed up just to be in their own house!! Also, there is an assumption that because people are mostly home because of Covid that you should always be available for a Zoom meeting or conference. In other words, a person can’t hide.

I would hope that after all these months and now that we are into the New Year, that these intrusive Zoom meetings have lost their charm and more JWs are switching off the camera. That way busybodies can’t see into people’s homes or make criticisms about the decor, people’s dress or whatever!

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QUITTING QUIETLY here is the Canadian version of the document

by gone for good in

a while back, i suggested that an easy, quick, quiet exit with the signing and dating of a concise and irrefutable document would spur faders and pimos to preempt the elders' interference by quitting quietly first , before a fade or a confrontation.

here is the document .

https://1drv.ms/w/s!avoitfxyvyqghq3gbmkhfyqp_jqp?e=8bttg1.

LongHairGal

GONE FOR GOOD:

If the purpose of this letter is to prevent a JW from being shunned by other JWs in the congregation, I do not believe it will work - regardless of what any JW or soon to be ex-JW says about their so-called status as a believer, non-believer or whatever.

Maybe in their files it will say you stated you were no longer a JW on such and such a date (for legal purposes), but this will not prevent you from being shunned.

The plain fact is that nobody can force people to talk to them or associate with them. And we all know what they are like with shunning and judgmentalism - even with people active in the religion. If somebody were to submit a letter like this - they have no idea what’s being said about them and what it will be perceived to be in the JWs who hear about it.

If I submitted such a letter and afterwards were in a store - and my former JW friends ignore me when I say hello..if I ran after them waving the letter in my hand saying in a loud voice what it states..will that compel these JWs to change their attitude towards me?? I doubt it.