Posts by LongHairGal

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Sunday January 15 is my 76th birthday. I answer some of your questions.

by Terry in

jw
friends

happy birthday 2 me!!.

sunday is my 76th birthday and i know that you want to know how it "feels" to have outlived my usefulness, to have lost my natural beauty (being reduced to wrinkles and flab), and constantly walking into a room not knowing why i'm there.

you also are curious as to how i can continue to find a reason to live since none of my kids think my opinions have any possible value, most of my facebooks friends i wouldn't recognize if i tripped over them on my way into starbucks, and my monthly expenditure on bird treats exceeds u.s. spending on the military.

LongHairGal

Terry, Happy Birthday!

We’re all getting up there!

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The Watchtower—Study Edition | November 2022 Let Nothing Separate You From Jehovah

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

study article 47. .

7 maintain your spiritual routine.

consider how doing so helped shirley, a sister in papua new guinea, when she faced hardships.

LongHairGal

RULES & REGULATIONS:

Of course, they don’t answer those questions.

I always hated these types of articles because you could never know if the person was real. Naturally, there are so many needy people in the JW religion because they didn’t get a decent job/career but spent their time in the ministry.

Maybe it’s like CARLA said: the hypothetical person went down to ANOTHER local Christian church and got provisions with no questions asked and no strings attached.

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Pioneer Hours Update

by Bartolomeo in

regular pioneers: 600 per year, 50 on average per month.auxiliary pioneers: 30 hours per monthauxiliary pioneers in march and april: fee reduced to 15 hours.

LongHairGal

THOMAS MORE:

Interesting that you say the last person to join your congregation was somebody you would classify as someone ‘with serious issues’.

In maybe the previous decade+ or so that is pretty much who was brought into the congregations. I assume it was to fill the empty seats in the halls.

The problem I have with this is because I suspect some people were enticed by the talk of a ‘brotherhood’. They might have also been told ‘they would be taken care of’. This is crap. Incidentally, I remember a sister telling this to me when I was new - but since I worked and supported myself it didn’t apply. I think JWs who study with people and tell them ‘they will be taken care of’ - are telling a big fat lie.

The religion has absolutely No social programs to take care of anybody. What ends up happening is that they carefully target responsible people in the hall for money to give to these useless people. So, somebody like me who got criticized for working could count on some idiot coming up to me with an envelope asking for money. If I were stupid enough to still be there I guarantee this would happen!.. This is one of the main reasons why I am Glad I left ages ago.

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bringing up the 1954 Walsh Trial

by enoughisenough in

i went back into this forum a little ways and found quite a bit of discussion on the walsh (1954) for those newly out or those who don't know of what i write, you should really check it out.

anyone who is a jw or studying with jw should see material from this trial.

my take away...the printed materials of the wtbts were to believed over the bible and if you didn't believe the wt teachings over the bible, ( even though they admit to false prophesy )you would be disfellowshipped and deserving of death.

LongHairGal

I remember reading about this Walsh trial years ago at the beginning of my ‘Fade’ and thought it was very damning.

I was particularly shocked to read where (somebody) said that unity was important and that everybody had to believe something no matter how wrong it was and that change had to come from the top - or words to that effect. I thought it was all about ego and extreme arrogance.

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Have you ever been on a congregation picnic?

by LostintheFog1999 in

were you ever on a congregation picnic?

i was on several occasions.. the arrangements were often announced from the platform after the closing song and prayer by the last elder up on the platform.. sometimes it was included in the service meeting announcements as "on saturday we're meeting at 10.00am at the kingdom hall for field service, and after field service for anyone who wishes, especially for the younger ones, we will be having a congregation picnic meeting at the beach carpark on seaview road.".

well, according to the new elders manual you won't be hearing those words again.

LongHairGal

I remember a particular congregation picnic that might have been held in the ‘80s or so.

It was so-so. They may have meant well but there were still cliques. I had seen a friend who was walking around by herself. She said nobody was bothering with her and she ended up eating her ham and cheese sandwich by herself.

I don’t remember any picnics after this and I don’t know the exact reason or reasons they stopped.

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burning another bridge

by enoughisenough in

i feel like i am burning another "friend" bridge.

i just can't seem to keep the lies the wt prints to myself!

i don't know how the pimo do it!

LongHairGal

HOSER:

Thank you for understanding.

When I experienced this indifferent and uncaring attitude with certain Witnesses that I tried to talk to, it was yet another rude awakening to me even though I was ‘Out’ and retired.. I wondered if those people were in unreality? But, it is as you said about them viewing me negatively just for ‘who’ I was. They didn’t give a fig about me.

This made me cringe at the thought about how screwed I would be if I didn’t follow my gut! I would be up that famous creek without a paddle.. I’m so Glad I listened to my common sense and my father’s ‘worldly’ wisdom!

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burning another bridge

by enoughisenough in

i feel like i am burning another "friend" bridge.

i just can't seem to keep the lies the wt prints to myself!

i don't know how the pimo do it!

LongHairGal

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:

As Thomas More has said: you cannot hope to make fully PIMI JWs see the sense of anything you say!

A personal rude awakening has to happen to these Witnesses in order for them to wake up! And even then, it’s a personal journey that nobody else can do for them. I learned this because I tried, in vain, to tell Witness friends/associates what I went through in the religion with the shunning/criticism because of my career.

These JWs weren’t swayed because of what I went through!.. I got two types of responses: some admitted that what I experienced was unjust and they were affected themselves.. The second type of response indicated that other JWs were not really sympathetic - almost like it wasn’t really ‘important’ what happened to me in my life!! This was a real eye-opener and I was glad I followed my gut all those years ago!

I feel it isn’t my problem if people want to stay in the religion. I’m just Glad I got the hell out.

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Happy New Year!

by Vanderhoven7 in

may 2023 bring you happiness health and love!.

what are you thinking will happen in 2023....positive or otherwise?.

LongHairGal

I wish everybody all the best and hope everybody on the forum has a wonderful New Year’s celebration!

Be safe and happy! 😊

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Is The Religion Of Jehovah's Witnesses Biblical?

by Vanderhoven7 in

the answer is a definite no!.

because every doctrine that is unique to jehovah's witnesses is not in the bible.

the unique doctrines of jehovah’s witnesses are the ones that only jehovah’s witnesses teach.

LongHairGal

LOSTINTGEFOG1999:

Totally agree.. I remember when I was brand new in the Witness religion and they were talking about that Cedar Point thing.

I absolutely did Not believe that any biblical prophecy pertained to their convention or their religion in any way!.. I just wasn’t buying it. I thought they were deluded and flattering themselves.

Naturally, I kept my doubts and my opinion to myself. But, the presumptuousness of what I heard should have made me walk out the door then.. I could have saved myself from unnecessary aggravation!

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I don't get it.

by LostintheFog1999 in

i am a historian and the period of english history from henry vii to elizabeth i is my specialist area.. i was talking to an ex-jw about the time when tyndale first translated the bible into english with his intention that everyone from the ploughboy upwards would be able to read and understand the scriptures.

it dawned on us both that this was a significant point in english history.. just having access to the bible in hi their own language allowed the common man to understand what god wanted him to understand.. it was and is, so simple.. why then oh why then do jehovah's witnesses think that they need a fds to explain it to them?

when in the 1600s just having a bible written in english was enough for people to understand the word of god?.

LongHairGal

LOST IN THE FOG1999:

I am in total agreement with you. By the common man having his own bible, he can see for himself what God wants him to understand.

Nobody else has any right to set themselves up as an intermediary (no less making divine claims)! 🙄