Posts by LongHairGal

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No pension no preparation for retirement

by Mikejw in

jw
friends

a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

no children no money no home.

it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

LongHairGal

BALAAMSASS2:

Wow, what a betrayal by your former wife! Too bad she was stupid enough to do that plus leave you. Now, look at the circumstances she’s in!..Maybe somebody else might have thrown HER out first for her betrayal. And over what? Because you were doing the sensible thing and saving money for the future? The scriptures talk about ‘Money being a protection’. Well this implies savings of some sort.

As for those elders who took your worthless ‘privileges’ away, they deserved to have ended up in poverty. And so does anybody else there who pushed poverty (no, actually rammed it down the throats of sensible people there) and tried to punish those who they could not persuade. As far as I’m concerned, there are degrees of moral responsibility in the religion. Some felt it was only a suggestion that somebody ‘not plan for retirement but should pioneer’ and they believed in ‘live and let live’.

Any other self-righteous JWs there who did not believe in ‘live and let live’ who actively made trouble for JWs who DID plan (like myself) deserve to end up like the elders and your ex-wife described above.. They deserve NO pity..from anybody.

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No pension no preparation for retirement

by Mikejw in

jw
friends

a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

no children no money no home.

it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

LongHairGal

FEDUPJW:

Regarding the elder who decided against work so he can be in the ministry (called ‘putting Jehovah first’) there are far TOO many people in the religion like this. The Witness religion is probably filled with more needy people per square inch than any other religion.

There are: pioneers ‘who didn’t count the cost’; bethelites who got kicked out; regular publishers with low paid jobs close-by so they won’t miss meetings; and finally the disturbed people with serious issues brought into the religion in recent decades to fill the empty seats in the hall.

You have a dwindling elderly population that are among the only responsible people there with maybe some younger people here and there with a decent job. And you imagine these people are going to be regularly hit up for money to give to the deadbeats above??

When you say that elder whines about tight finances and somebody gives him an envelope stuffed with money, let me assure you it would never be me that put anything in there!! If I had done what he did and never worked, do you imagine that anybody would be taking up a collection for ME? 🤣 Nope. I’m glad I’m long Out of the JW religion with the chaos and dysfunction and people with their hands out. 👎

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No pension no preparation for retirement

by Mikejw in

jw
friends

a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

no children no money no home.

it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

LongHairGal

BIAHI:

Congratulations on your well-deserved retirement after all those years in the workforce! I certainly understand.

I didn’t realize you were out of the JW religion for so many years! Forty to my twenty-one. I also don’t regret a single minute being out and wished I’d done it a decade earlier. I wasn’t raised a JW and worked while I was there (for which they hated me). But, that’s okay.

I am sure you would have a lot of interesting things to say to the JWs if they came to your door but they’d probably try to hit you up for money if you tell them you were once a JW and now retired.

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No pension no preparation for retirement

by Mikejw in

jw
friends

a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

no children no money no home.

it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

LongHairGal

SIMON:

Well, I wasn’t aware of the part about keeping ‘most of your income’ if you live in the USA. I’m spending money like water.

So, apparently there are benefits and drawbacks to whichever system somebody lives under.

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3 years in the making

by Judgerussellford in

jw
friends

thursday while i was at work, a new elder stopped by the house (almost 3 years after fading) to encourage us to go back to meetings.

said everyone misses us.

if you did, why not stop by and say hi every now and then?

LongHairGal

Okay. (Peace).

Then you should go for it!

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An aspect of dealing with my elderly, PIMI, Father

by joe134cd in

for a bit of back ground.

i’m a full blown pomo apostate.

nothing would please me more to see wt burn to the ground.

LongHairGal

JOE134CD:

I tend to agree with Carla that they know or suspect that you don’t agree with the religion anymore. You’ve been out for over ten years.

I don’t think you should write a DA letter either. Just keep your thoughts to yourself and don’t get cornered into any discussions with people your dad has invited over!

But, just because the local congregation hasn’t bothered you up until now, doesn’t mean somebody can’t come knocking on your door at some point…to encourage you. 🤮

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No pension no preparation for retirement

by Mikejw in

jw
friends

a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

no children no money no home.

it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

LongHairGal

HOSER:

Well, here in the USA it’s not like that. You have to pay into Social Security to get anything (unless you are a spouse of someone who paid in or disabled and qualify for something else).

While it may be true that they penalize high-earners where you are - the problem with saying this is that you will have lazy fools (JWs and others) who will use this as an excuse to do absolutely nothing. And that’s the truth.

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3 years in the making

by Judgerussellford in

jw
friends

thursday while i was at work, a new elder stopped by the house (almost 3 years after fading) to encourage us to go back to meetings.

said everyone misses us.

if you did, why not stop by and say hi every now and then?

LongHairGal

JUDGERUSSELLFORD:

I doubt he will come alone. The point is: why would you allow it? You should have met him at some coffee shop.

I remember making the mistake years ago when I was still ‘in’ of getting a shepherding call at my home. I always hated shepherding calls but this was the worst.

Even though I’m Out of the JWs many years and the point is moot, they would never be welcome in my Home for any kind of ‘official’ visit. No, I wouldn’t want them stepping over the threshold.

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No pension no preparation for retirement

by Mikejw in

jw
friends

a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

no children no money no home.

it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

LongHairGal

FOOLEDNOMORE:

Me neither.

This is why I am Glad I am no longer in the religion as I do not want any of these people coming up to me looking for money or anything else! This is what’s happening there now.

96

No pension no preparation for retirement

by Mikejw in

jw
friends

a lot of my ex fellow servants must be now in their seventies, what can you do?.

no children no money no home.

it is so sad.. so many decided not to have children as the end was right around the corner and that was decades ago.

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

We are over twenty years into the millennium. All the nonsense and fervor by Witnesses as well as other religions, etc. has been debunked. Remember Y2K? Also, enough Witnesses (if their eyes are open) have seen what happened to older JWs who didn’t plan.

So, I have a problem believing the same number of JWs TODAY are going to check their brains at the door like in the past and not plan for their retirement.

JWs who have to stay in the religion (for the sake of relatives) can still plan. They just have to keep their mouths shut and not blab their business all over the place like stupid children….This is a weakness for Witnesses and they better work on it.. Nobody has to know anybody has a 401K or contributes to anything.

Just make sure you don’t use a JW as a tax preparer like I did. My business got blabbed all over the place. I was told by this person: “you’ll never see this money” (meaning, I presume, that Armageddon will have come). Well, I am Retired several years.

I openly spoke about retirement planning if the topic came up. I know I wasn’t the only one who planned and a few other people here and there thought as I did.👍🏻