LongHairGal

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  Michael's Story (JW commits suicide)

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the story of michael.

  a 4th generation jw.

  elder, husband, father with relational ties to marley cole.. pimo, stepped down as elder, and the body went after him tooth and nail.

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  SIMON:

  I agree that being a PIMO JW is dangerous and that a person should just get out and run. They should block phone numbers.

  However, you might be pursued if you are a man and/or have something they want or can offer freebies (a business, etc.) They’ll either come into the business or corner you when you’re leaving your house.

  Being PIMO is especially harmful to a person’s mental health with all this pretending and fakery. And, they absolutely have to keep their mouth shut about anything they don’t like or else they are blown and everything can be taken from them as we have sadly seen.

  Unfortunately, not every JW is in a position to just get out and run if they have family there or (God forbid) work for Witnesses. I’m glad I had no family there. The JWs didn’t look for me because I was considered a lousy Witness anyway. I had low hours and wouldn’t do favors for all the Users in the religion! They have no use for anybody they can’t exploit.
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  Worship study this week

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since i need to keep up for family's sake i "study"(skim, its not deep).

  worship: pray, study ( wt), go to meetings ( formal, not gathering 2 or 3), preach.

  thrn add helping build halls, donating, and since donations go one way only, give material aid to others.. note construction time isn't for service,( but i may have turned in time for it).

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  ROAD TO NOWHERE:

  Sorry you still have to attend meetings for the sake of your family. 🤮So, it’s pray, study, meeting and donate (and give material aid to others)?

  I’m sure there’s very much stress on that nowadays with all the needy people in the religion.

  Let’s see: you have the run of the mill JWs who worked at not-so-great jobs and didn’t make much; you have pioneers of all ages (who didn’t count the cost); you have bethelites who got kicked out and hopefully brothers with businesses help; you have people with serious issues that JWs started studies with to fill the empty seats in the hall and then you have assorted types who may have lost their jobs because of Covid downsizing..Aside from this there may be a few responsible types mixed in who make a decent living: some older, etc.

  The point is that the ‘needy’ types are more numerous now than over 21 years ago. I was surrounded by mostly suburban homeowner types. Once in a blue moon you’d be approached by somebody with an envelope.

  This is in sharp contrast to what is happening in the religion now. So, in addition to not really knowing what they actually believe in, the JWs are pretty much about aggressive asking for money. People there are poor MAINLY because they followed the religion’s advice not to get careers or plan for their retirement..Meanwhile, I was criticized because of my full-time job.

  I am Out now and would never tolerate these people looking in my direction asking for anything! Sorry for what the JW religion has turned into..That’s it in a nutshell.
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  Meeting announcement for emergency contact info of non-JW friends & relatives (?)

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just saw this post on reddit and can hardly believe it.. if i remember correctly years back they told you not to have anything to do with non-jw friends or relatives.

  they discouraged you from bothering with non-jw family and to avoid them on holidays!!

  i needlessly missed out on some delicious holiday meals with people who genuinely cared about me.

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  LongHairGal

  Thanks for the comments. I guess we will be hearing or reading more on this topic as it sinks into the minds of the JWs there.
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  Hospitality for speaker

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there seem to be hospitality starting again.

  fully vaccinated and assume masked.

  neither a set in stone rule.

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  NEAT BLUE DOG:

  I’m glad you liked my fast food comment and, yes, maybe that is too good for some of these arrogant COs…They can also sleep in their vehicle if they have one.

  Guess you can tell I have no use for anybody who knocked responsible working people..but yet imagined they were going to be offered ‘hospitality’ or handouts or whatever. Just as well I’m Out of that religion. I would have a hard time being civil if anybody came up to me asking for anything.

  WANNAEXIT:

  What nerve. I don’t need to tell you where this character can go.
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  Hospitality for speaker

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there seem to be hospitality starting again.

  fully vaccinated and assume masked.

  neither a set in stone rule.

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  HOTPEPPER:

  I don’t blame you for feeling the way you do.

  I can understand the special hate for those who criticized people for working and then exploited gullible people’s hospitality. I was one such person sitting there who worked full-time and was knocked and viewed badly. Thank God I didn’t listen to anything they said!

  Reading some of the stories around just makes me crazy: Stories about people whose families hosted these COs who ate their food and lived under their roof rent free - all while discouraging the children from higher education!

  I have no use for anybody who gives the impression that money grows on trees and some miracle will occur similar to Jesus Christ’s multiplication of the loaves and fishes to feed the crowd.

  Most of these COs are men who have NO idea of what it’s like to work and live in the REAL world. Some of them are even ingrates who don’t deserve the shit off somebody’s shoe. But, their sin was to discourage young impressionable people from getting higher education to support themselves. Now these people are grown and struggling in life today.

  This has contributed to all the needy in the JW religion with their hands out..I could never stand to be around any of this now.👎
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  Meeting announcement for emergency contact info of non-JW friends & relatives (?)

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just saw this post on reddit and can hardly believe it.. if i remember correctly years back they told you not to have anything to do with non-jw friends or relatives.

  they discouraged you from bothering with non-jw family and to avoid them on holidays!!

  i needlessly missed out on some delicious holiday meals with people who genuinely cared about me.

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  SOLOMON:

  I’m happy to hear that old bachelor was smart enough to give his money to his ‘worldly’ nieces and nephews.👍🏻 Surely he wasn’t stupid. He must have sensed the JWs were sniffing around and that any attention paid to him might have been for a purpose.

  Who would want to be around this repugnant and predatory mentality??.. I’m out of the religion mainly because of the 1995 Generation teaching. The idea I would now be targeted because I am single and worked is bad enough.. But to be asked to give money to hateful people who wouldn’t be caught dead in a full-time job I got criticized for is reason enough to stay the hell away. How revolting.
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  Hospitality for speaker

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there seem to be hospitality starting again.

  fully vaccinated and assume masked.

  neither a set in stone rule.

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  LongHairGal

  JUDGERUSSELLFORD:

  Isn’t it funny how they push people out the door?

  It always seemed to me they arrogantly delighted in telling somebody they were disfellowshipped. They then imagined the DFd person was going to come crawling on their belly to be reinstated. They then would tell such ones they were ‘not ready’ and had to wait longer and demonstrate their ‘repentance’, etc.

  Now they can’t even get people to stay in the religion. Serves them right.
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  Hospitality for speaker

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there seem to be hospitality starting again.

  fully vaccinated and assume masked.

  neither a set in stone rule.

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  FEDUPJW:

  Hospitality? 🤣 Yeah. Me neither!

  After listening to visiting Circuit Overseers years ago knocking people like me who had full-time jobs/careers saying we weren’t spiritual because we weren’t ‘pioneering’ .. I would NEVER have offered them anything.

  As far as I was concerned, they could order that special or a Number 5 with fries at a fast food place and eat it in the parking lot.
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  Meeting announcement for emergency contact info of non-JW friends & relatives (?)

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just saw this post on reddit and can hardly believe it.. if i remember correctly years back they told you not to have anything to do with non-jw friends or relatives.

  they discouraged you from bothering with non-jw family and to avoid them on holidays!!

  i needlessly missed out on some delicious holiday meals with people who genuinely cared about me.

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  FEDUPJW:

  Yes, I understand. But, far too many other Witnesses cling to erroneous beliefs..There are too many urban legends, misinformation and nonsense stories about a pile of money being dropped on needy JWs. So an assumption that somebody is going to care for somebody else’s aged parents is just one more thing added to the list.

  The religion is totally wrong for telling people all along that they should have no association with relatives who are not in the JW religion. (I remember being told this in the beginning.)

  So, you have far too many extreme Witnesses who alienated themselves from their flesh and blood families. There ends up being hard feelings and real hatred. I have heard of some stories!

  How, then, is a Witness in later life supposed to undo decades of alienation and hard feelings created towards their families not in the religion? Some families maybe don’t WANT anything to do with the Witness.

  Too bad for any haughty Witnesses who treated their non-JW families like garbage. They erroneously imagined they’d never need them and people in the hall would take care of them! ..And shame on any JWs who helped to promote such fallacies to other people in the hall..This also goes DOUBLE to any JW who started studies with people with serious issues in recent years and told them ‘they would be taken care of’. By who? I might add…Another lie added to the list of urban legends.
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  Meeting announcement for emergency contact info of non-JW friends & relatives (?)

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just saw this post on reddit and can hardly believe it.. if i remember correctly years back they told you not to have anything to do with non-jw friends or relatives.

  they discouraged you from bothering with non-jw family and to avoid them on holidays!!

  i needlessly missed out on some delicious holiday meals with people who genuinely cared about me.

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  LongHairGal

  HELLOTHERE:

  Yes, but it’s too bad that the teachings of the JW religion denouncing college and careers led to the situation today of too many people in one place with their hands out.

  When I was there I was in the midst of major criticism because of my full-time job. Thank God I paid no heed.

  If the religion instead encouraged college and careers - you would have self-sufficient, responsible people there who wouldn’t have to worry about needing help from anybody in the congregation.

  The bad situation there today is largely a direct result of decades of knocking decent careers and the gullible people who followed this. Elderly affluent people are dying off; intelligent and/or fed up younger people are leaving the religion. Who are the ones left? I’ll bet a significant portion are needy..And, now these ones are apparently being encouraged to have contact with their non-Witness relatives. 🤷🏻‍♀️