Posts by LongHairGal

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Reddit post about elder asking congregation for money to fix his car!

by LongHairGal in

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yes, there’s a post on reddit.

it says that after a zoom meeting a request was made to baptized publishers to give $20 apiece to fix this elder’s car.. while this sounds highly irregular to me and not necessarily approved by the religion, i am not at all surprised at the nerve.

this, unfortunately, seems to be the direction that things are going there!

LongHairGal

LITTLE ROCK GUY:

Your thoughts echo mine exactly and I’ve made many posts on the subject. I would not be polite either in this circumstance.

I wouldn’t be Retired if I listened to the religion - urging me to quit my full-time job to take up housecleaning and pioneering. Thankfully I refused - but they made sure I was ostracized and not invited anywhere.. And I heard remarks of ‘not spiritual’ or ‘materialistic’.. So, even though I’m Out, I have No tolerance even for the idea of Witnesses asking for money. They can go fly a kite.

I hate being right all the time but this story just shows the sad direction things are going in the religion. 👎

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Reddit post about elder asking congregation for money to fix his car!

by LongHairGal in

jw
friends

yes, there’s a post on reddit.

it says that after a zoom meeting a request was made to baptized publishers to give $20 apiece to fix this elder’s car.. while this sounds highly irregular to me and not necessarily approved by the religion, i am not at all surprised at the nerve.

this, unfortunately, seems to be the direction that things are going there!

LongHairGal

Yes, there’s a post on Reddit. It says that after a Zoom meeting a request was made to baptized publishers to give $20 apiece to fix this elder’s car.

While this sounds highly irregular to me and not necessarily approved by the religion, I am not at all surprised at the nerve. This, unfortunately, seems to be the direction that things are going there! I’m Glad I walked away years ago before it got like this. It seems to be turning into a panhandling religion. I wonder what they are going to do when more older Witnesses pass away and there are yet fewer responsible people to even ask money from? 👎

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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

by WingCommander in

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this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

LongHairGal

DROPOFFYOURKEYLEE:

Interesting speculation as to whether AM3 is really out because he needs expensive medical care. Only time will tell if this is true.

FFGHOST & EXBETHELITENOWPIMA:

I am sorry about the couple that got their minuscule amount of Social Security because they only worked ten years. That’s how it works unfortunately.

I also went out ‘early’ at 62. But, since I worked for decades and thankfully never listened to Witnesses telling me to quit and do housecleaning, I get a decent benefit, etc.

All these people booted out of bethels is obviously sad but it only adds to the large amount of needy people already in congregations around the world! And we all know why they are needy.. What does all this say for the condition of the congregations and the feelings of desperation within?.. Not a situation I would want to be around!

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a pet peeve of mine

by enoughisenough in

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putting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.

it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.

there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.

LongHairGal

TONUS OH:

You pretty much touched on the mentality that Witnesses had: ‘..we would enjoy salvation while those smarter people (i.e. those with college/white collar jobs) died at Armageddon’.

This arrogance (with nothing to back it up except hot air) is why Witnesses with trades made themselves out to be superior to somebody with college/white collar job.

Again, nobody is knocking these perfectly okay trades jobs. The problem is (1) that JWs (with no credentials) acted as if they could counsel people on serious matters that should be left to professionals.. Also, (2) the mistaken stand of ‘superiority’ led these JWs to knock people like me who didn’t follow their example.. I’m sure all those pioneers who cleaned years ago felt morally superior to me.. Well, I hope they can pay their bills now.

Getting back to the OP: I hope this makes it clear about the origin of this issue.

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a pet peeve of mine

by enoughisenough in

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putting this under "friends" because i couldn't figure out where to put it.

it is very often on here and in ex jw videos, ect that people like to undermine some of those who once we would have called friends.

there seems to be a view that window washers, plumbers, cleaners, construction workers are somehow less intelligent than those who may be college educated.

LongHairGal

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:

I understand your point.

Unfortunately, what you have seen with regard to insults about ‘window washers’, ‘housecleaning’, etc. is a backlash against Witnesses who had these jobs in the congregation but who stupidly knocked other Witnesses that had college or white collar jobs.. They acted as though theirs was the only ‘approved’ 🙄work.. And in the eyes of jealous, judgmental Witnesses it was.

In the Witness religion there is/was a terrible bias with regard to college educated and/or those who had decent white collar jobs. (God forbid if you’re a woman.) SO, this is why the insults against the types of work you mention are plentiful and in some cases well-deserved.. In my opinion, the JWs have brought it on themselves with their wrong attitudes, envy and ignorant bias.

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The Last Days of a Pioneer

by madisoncembre in

i am starting a new topic since this blog entry is about something different.. i have posted before about my recent split with the jws.

no exit comes out of nowhere and there were seeds planted long before this.

i have never enjoyed field service.

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

Thanks. While there are some ‘JW victims’ out there who supported themselves like I did until retirement - I tend to think they are few and far between.

I wondered if most younger Witnesses back then caved into all the peer pressure - while my ‘worldly’ upbringing saved me perhaps.. I also don’t see myself as a ‘victim’ the way other JWs are.. After all, I did not listen and I continued working.. I let their talk go in one ear and out the other.

It certainly doesn’t matter now who ‘hated’ or disapproved of me decades ago.. Many have passed away while others are struggling because they followed bad advice.. Likewise, how would it matter now if a broke pioneer got invited to gatherings and dinners back then?? Is it going to pay their bills now?

Any lurkers reading this had better look out for themselves and learn from other’s mistakes.

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The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

by SydBarrett in

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any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

terrifying.

what's your gut feeling?

LongHairGal

SYDBARRETT:

This is very sad and unless by some miracle they are rescued - then the Titanic will have more victims.

Stupid ventures like this should be made illegal. You couldn’t pay me enough money to get into a claustrophobic contraption and go into some death zone!

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The Last Days of a Pioneer

by madisoncembre in

i am starting a new topic since this blog entry is about something different.. i have posted before about my recent split with the jws.

no exit comes out of nowhere and there were seeds planted long before this.

i have never enjoyed field service.

LongHairGal

MADISONCEMBRE:

Good blog. Like others have said, I also hated field service. They try to say it’s a ‘warning work’ but I don’t buy it. You would use the media for any Real warning work. I believe it’s just a busy-making work and a yardstick by which to judge the rank & file Witnesses!

FFGHOST:

You are absolutely right that the ones pushing full-time ministry for somebody else are the least worried about money! That was MY observation when I was younger and came into the Witness religion.. ALL the older people were either collecting their pensions or on their way to; Or they had a business and were well-off.

They tried aggressively to get younger people to pursue poverty and ‘pioneer’. (As I said many times, they got nowhere with me.) They hated me because I held onto my full-time job.. For spite, they made sure I wasn’t invited anywhere - meanwhile all the pioneers got invited to special gatherings.

Well, now all those pioneers have reached retirement age. Hopefully, they can pay their bills. If not, they can go ask the religion for money.. As for me, I retired when the time was right and am ever-grateful I followed my gut.👍🏻

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We are now 23 Years past Armageddon as the GB stated

by JohnTron7 in

so the end was going to come by 2000 as documented in the magazines back in the late 80's early 90's.. so how did they get the time off so badly ( over two decades and still nothing) since the gb is jehovah's earthly mouthpiece right ?

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LongHairGal

BALDEAGLE:

Thank you for showing this old Awake 1961 article which I never saw before.. Probably many on the forum have never seen this as it was way before their time!.. Yes, we are past the twentieth century and well into the twenty first.

Sadly, the congregations are now full of older people who made bad decisions based on the religion’s teachings of the ‘End’ being near. (‘Armageddon’ was coming so who needed to prepare for retirement??) I’m Glad I never listened to them..

This situation couldn’t have come at a worse time since the economy is in the pits.. It isn’t like the ‘70s when there were jobs aplenty in the country. Nope! these JWs threw it away with both hands - instead opting to be in the religion’s full time ministry!👎

I cannot imagine the feelings of panic and despair in congregations and I would not want to be around this!

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Witnesses were Anti vaccine till 1950!

by Witness 007 in

"brother mcmillan wrote "faith on the march" about his wonderful life at bethel.

he wrote of an incident in 1943 where a group of witnesses in jail for refusing military service were against getting vaccinated and he came to the rescue visiting them and telling them it was ok. the reason for this was "the golden age" magazine in the 1920's describes vaccines as puss filled poison...so they were following their watchtower training..

LongHairGal

WITNESS 007:

Even though I was born after this, I am grateful I was not raised a Jehovah’s Witness. I am glad my childhood wasn’t further complicated by naive parents listening to foolish advice from a stupid religion.

Even the Catholic grade school I attended had a vaccine program. I believe I got more than one vaccine there. One I remember is us children lining up in the auditorium and getting that sugar cube with the bitter pink stuff on it.