Hello Lee,
Nice to see you here once again.
Wishing you the best of luck with your hard fight!
Hello Lee,
Nice to see you here once again.
Wishing you the best of luck with your hard fight!
so i pioneered for 10 years in the 1990's it was 90 hours a month with alot of country driving.
i was shocked when brothers and sisters with full time jobs would park their brand new cars and go witnessing in my 20 year old orange datsun.
i was barely living on $250 a week as a yeah...window cleaner.
WITNESS 007:
Anybody who rode in your car should have given you gas money! That’s what I would have done. I also took certain friends out to lunch.
I might have driven a few times in the earlier years out in service..I got criticized for turning corners too fast by one older sister. I said I’m sorry but I could take her back to the hall if she wanted.😈. This was one with a cushy life and worldly husband. She was the one who made the remark that I ‘shouldn’t get a 2 door car’. To which I replied that if the religion was making my car payments I would get any car they liked.
I realized Witnesses were ingrates and it was a liability to have people in my car. So, I never did this again. Besides, these idiots criticized me for my full-time job.👎
experience from reddit.
i’m in my mid 20’s but i’m noticing alot of sisters that are 35, 40 and just kind of lost.
single, still live at home or heavily dependent on parents because they have measly jobs.
PISTOLPETE:
Very funny pictures, but sooo accurate!
RULES & REGULATIONS:
Your old thread from eight years ago still is very accurate - regardless of whether anybody thinks it is a ‘hater’ thread.
The only difference today is that there are somewhat fewer JWs in the religion. Many have left and I would wager most of them are male. That means there are even fewer left in the pool of ‘available’ men. This is assuming they are even desirable to a woman with common sense.
I realize Witness world is a small fishbowl where a guy who may not be attractive and has nothing going for him will be sought after by desperate women.. But as long as nobody confuses this with Real world standards outside the religion where guys like him would be laughed at!
As for that pretty 37 year old ‘spinster’ who was a convert and didn’t ‘appreciate’ JW dating standards and rejected ‘potential suitors’ (how dare she? 🙄)..she should find a guy outside. The hell with everybody in the idiot religion! ..She is not ‘condemned’ to be single if she wakes up!
experience from reddit.
i’m in my mid 20’s but i’m noticing alot of sisters that are 35, 40 and just kind of lost.
single, still live at home or heavily dependent on parents because they have measly jobs.
PISTOLPETE & DATA DOG:
Regarding ‘spirituality as currency’ mindset: I did hear plenty of talk about sisters looking for a ‘spiritual’ man.🙄..Such a silly word.
However, in my ‘unspiritual’ mind and heart I never truly ‘got’ it. Maybe it’s because I was not a born-in?? My values were shaped before I joined the JW religion. While I may have wanted a decent guy, I certainly wasn’t looking for an elder (or anybody there with a title).. I’m sorry if anybody was deluded enough to think they were hot shit because they were an elder.. I certainly didn’t think so.
Sometime ago, I read a post where somebody said something along the lines of: ‘being an elder was about as important (or exciting) as being the president of the local book club’.🤣 ..I certainly agreed with this. Sorry if this offends anybody.
Getting back to the point of the thread: there are too few men in the JW religion and far too many women there looking for any man who has a pulse. They should do themselves a favor and look elsewhere.
experience from reddit.
i’m in my mid 20’s but i’m noticing alot of sisters that are 35, 40 and just kind of lost.
single, still live at home or heavily dependent on parents because they have measly jobs.
RULES & REGULATIONS:
Of course it’s better to be single than married to the wrong person.
But, as far as your JW cousins in their 60s and never married.. I wouldn’t be sitting there if I were them!.. They are objects of ‘pity’ and are sitting ducks to be targeted by Users. This is the only use for single women there. I wouldn’t give anybody the satisfaction. I got criticized for my job so these hypocrites wouldn’t get the right time from me.
I walked away from the JW religion in my forties because of the 1995 teaching on Generation. I knew it was Over.. I didn’t leave because there were ‘No men’. Although looking back in retrospect I probably should have.
In time, I Retired. I will say this: I’m glad I’m not in the religion now after what has happened over the last two decades!!.. I’d never stand for being targeted to do favors and/or being asked for money in general - and especially for people who didn’t work. 👎
In short, I’m Glad I’m out.
experience from reddit.
i’m in my mid 20’s but i’m noticing alot of sisters that are 35, 40 and just kind of lost.
single, still live at home or heavily dependent on parents because they have measly jobs.
GREAT TEACHER:
That’s a sick story!
I agree with that ‘traditional method’ you mention. These Witness women have to look outside for a man!
Otherwise the young ones will be pursued by older disgusting guys. (I was once a young girl and would have never wanted an old guy to touch me 🤮.). And the older sisters there (no matter how beautiful or accomplished) would be passed over by these unattractive guys who must have a magic mirror it seems!
All these extra ladies (unclaimed treasures) would only be viewed as somebodies to ask favors from (or hit up for money). [They are degrading themselves just being there subjected to the attitudes and bullshit]..Some User/Loser types would try to befriend them to try to convince them into a co-dependent relationship.😮 No thanks! I’m not interested.
experience from reddit.
i’m in my mid 20’s but i’m noticing alot of sisters that are 35, 40 and just kind of lost.
single, still live at home or heavily dependent on parents because they have measly jobs.
PISTOLPETE:
Yes, I saw the Reddit thread. All those good-looking JW single women should look outside the religion if they want to get married or are worrying about their ‘biological clock’!
They shouldn’t be lowering themselves chasing the few Witness guys who aren’t worth it or are playing ‘games’.. Find a man more worthy outside and then come back with the new husband. After a while, all the busybodies will forget. Unfortunately, too many men are dysfunctional (in and out of the religion). But, at least a guy from outside isn’t mentally emasculated from a repressive religion!
As for me, when I came into the JW religion as a twenty-something, I didn’t see any brothers that were attractive to me. All the good men were taken..Some young guy had shown an interest but he was a born-in, younger than me. He was cute-ish but he wasn’t for me.
I wasn’t really keen on getting married anyway and didn’t want kids (otherwise I would have looked outside)..I saw desperate sisters settle for guys in the ‘Truth’ that either weren’t so ‘hot’ or damaged mentally..I couldn’t do that..As time went on I heard of pathetic older sisters chasing the few ‘available’ men in the circuit. To me, that’s degrading.
It’s true that I was one of those ‘picky’ sisters and thought very highly of myself..I had more than one person say this to me..But, that was my business and not anybody else’s.
leviticus 10:1-3. .
the death of nadab and abihu.
10 aaron’s sons nadab and abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the lord, contrary to his command.
RULES & REGULATIONS:
I totally agree with you that what Jehovah’s Witnesses really have are their OWN literature studies - with maybe a look-up of a selected scripture here and there that seems to fit their agenda!!
In my opinion, these are not really true bible studies!! A true bible study would be using the Bible. Period.
With regard to the general gist of the thread, I think most of the Ten Commandments and the health regulations elsewhere in Leviticus are the rules (or general moral guides) in the Bible that I think are useful or important.. Everything else? 🤷🏻♀️
what “the abomination that causes desolation” mentioned in mathew 24:15 means could be understood only by close followers of jesus because it was part of his personal discussion with them.
by stopping to greet those whom they consider as “their enemies” jws are identifying themselves as “pagans,” according to jesus.
(mathew 5:43-48) thus they cannot correctly understand what the abomination that causes desolation” that would appear as part of signs of “last days.”.
CARLA:
I agree with you. I was brought up Roman Catholic and the cross was just a representation of Christ’s sacrifice. Same thing with other statues, etc..I certainly didn’t worship any particular item.
As far as I was concerned, the Witnesses just differed for the sake of being different. I let their claims of ‘idolatry’ everywhere go in one ear and out the other. Meanwhile I have seen photos of wearable items with their corporate logo (tie tacks, etc.) What do you call that??..This is the same as people in Christendom selling cross and medal necklaces!
When I first started my ‘Fade’ from the JW religion, one of the things I soon did was go into one of those Catholic stores and purchase a lovely set of rosary beads which I keep as a memento.
karl klien life story from the watchtower.. "president rutherford had repeated occasions to reprove me for breaking some rule.
(under president knorr 1950) brother knorr invited me to join the writing department...when i told him it did not matter where i served he reproved me..saying when an added privilege is offered we should be eager to accept it...my attitude was due to my health which has always been a problem.
knorr was older we were like brothers with the older brother knorr prone to expressing inpatients to my short comings.
FOOLEDNOMORE:
Yes, it was painfully obvious about the Witnesses’ terrible attitudes about women.
I really let this Old Testament stuff go in one ear and out the other.. After all, I wasn’t married to anybody there and only had to see these people in public, etc..I also was raised Catholic and had a fairly ‘normal’ life before I got involved with the JW religion. My self-esteem was already established. I knew who I was.
Nothing negative about women that was said in the hall really ‘got’ to me personally.. I also had a full-time job before I joined the religion which I held onto until Retirement. I knew enough not to allow any of these meddling fools or hypocrites interfere with my business or private life!
I guess this explains why they didn’t like me.☺️