LongHairGal

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  What would you change?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  2 years ago

  i’m agnostic so maybe the universe started by chance or by design.. if it was by design (hypothetically) and the bible is the designers word, and jws seem to be the closest to it, then what would be the largest things you would change?.

  here are a few ideas.

  -do away with the governing body thinking they are gods only channel.

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  GRREAT TEACHER:

  You pretty much nailed the toxic culture and mindset of Jehovah’s Witnesses. I doubt this will change.

  The ‘love bombing’ is phony and designed to keep people there. The ‘enmeshment’ part I absolutely hated with everybody wanting to know your business. If you were a young single woman like I was, there was no regard for your boundaries and these idiots imagined they could come up to you and ask or say anything!.. Maybe a married woman got somewhat more respect.

  These intrusive older hypocrites with unwanted advice were certainly not looking out for my best interest and I made sure I kept this in mind.. I am especially referring to older people (who have gone to their graves after living a cushy life).. They had ALREADY made their living…yet they preached poverty to younger people like myself.

  Thankfully for ME, I kept my job and their garbage went in one ear and out the other.

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  No more public WT & Awake?

  by mikeflood in

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  2 years ago

  have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  VIDIOT:

  Yes. Meanwhile these services are sorely needed. The fact that the JW religion has absolutely No social programs like the ones you mentioned is something that should be held against them, in my opinion.

  They have created poverty among their followers or at least those gullible enough to totally buy into their teachings. Thankfully I never listened. Now, all the baby boomers are reaching retirement age with many among them having No preparation.. They were duped into spending decades in volunteer work.👎 They wasted time in a full time unpaid ministry instead of holding down decent secular jobs!

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  No more public WT & Awake?

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  2 years ago

  have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  WING COMMANDER:

  I am laughing about your remark about ‘homeschooled morons’. You know, before I became a JW I had never heard of home schooling.

  There are probably quite a few in the Witness religion.. Sadly, in their case, it’s like having No education at all unless it’s done right - which I doubt it was.. They can barely read and write and have no knowledge about anything.👎 It’s like being brought up in a broom closet.. It would not surprise me if most would score much lower than a HS dropout.

  I’m sure they and others considered the magazines to be the equivalent of a ‘college education’. 🤣

  Too bad if any of these Witnesses were led to believe they were more ‘spiritual’🙄 than other people in the congregation who attended regular schools and got decent jobs.

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  JWs unrecognisable compared to my grandfathers time

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  2 years ago

  my grandfather who has been dead for 37 years would not recognise the borganisation today.

  he would turn in his grave if he knew the end didn’t come by 2023.. back in the 1970s he really believed in the 75 thing.

  he was so disappointed and almost blamed everyone else why the end didn’t come.

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  PHIZZY:

  I’m glad he didn’t clap for this GB person. Your father was a wise man.

  The guy on Beroean Pickets has a current video on how Jehovah’s Witnesses have fallen into idolatry and you can guess what the topic is about.. I, for one, never held any GB member on a pedestal and I consider any Witnesses who do to be absolute morons and fools.

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  2023-August-S-147-Announcements And Reminders!

  by Atlantis in

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  2 years ago

  page 1. https://imgbox.com/32tnfnel.

  page 2. https://imgbox.com/f8jh7e0m .

  page 3. https://imgbox.com/chjmr4km .

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  BETH SARIM:

  Yes, they are their own worst enemy. If they changed their stance and encouraged college/careers they would have more affluent members sitting there.

  It’s obvious they are very threatened by education. Maybe it’s because education can shake the flimsy belief system OR that education can make a person more confident and they can’t have that. Maybe it’s plain old jealousy because the ‘higher up’s’ don’t have higher education.

  They want servile members with low self-confidence sitting there.. I’m not exaggerating and I think this is literal.

  So, rather than have educated, confident and more affluent people there, they would rather have poorer more ignorant members. Maybe they feel they have more control this way and none of the uneducated higher-ups need feel intimidated or embarrassed by encounters with educated individuals in the circuits. Just my opinion.

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  'church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately'

  by was a new boy in

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  2 years ago

  'the spokesperson also said that church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately, even if there is only one complainant.'.

  https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rebekah-vardy-sexually-abused-child-jehovahs-witnesses/.

  is this true?

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  VIDIOT:

  Very good points you raised and how these awful views certainly cannot help any children or young people in the religion.

  I wanted to address your Second point: I once had an aggravating thing said to me years ago by a rather stupid sister.. She’s a Witness who tolerates too much, low self esteem and who believes you should accept bad things happening to you. This belief is probably at the heart why there is an acceptance of being a ‘victim’ of anything in this idiot religion and not speaking up about it.

  This is yet another reason I’m Glad to be done with this dysfunctional religion.

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  Mary And The Two Witness Rule

  by NotFormer in

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  2 years ago

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/47672/top-secret-confidential.

  in the above page, the september 1, 1987 watchtower article about breaching confidentiality is quoted.

  mary is a medical worker and finds out that someone in congregation has had an abortion.

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  NOT FORMER:

  If I worked somewhere and knew of somebody who breached confidentiality, I would report them ASAP.

  I would pay a confidential visit to the management or the HR department telling them. Who knows? Maybe it would save them from a costly lawsuit.. I learned to despise Witnesses on jobs.

  If they’re only in business for themselves cleaning toilets they can’t hurt anybody.

  Because of their ignorance and not being in reality about the world, they have no regard for rules/regulations or don’t have any idea about unintended consequences. The results can be disastrous.

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  Jws getting drunk

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  2 years ago

  has anyone got any good 'jws and alcohol' stories?

  i always found it amazing that so many jws got blind drunk at parties and got away with it!

  i suppose alcohol was the only fun thing we were allowed to partake in....

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:

  You say that to this day you never found out who spread this lie about you being drunk. It’s doubtful you ever will.

  It’s bad enough when somebody got ratted out in the religion about something they actually did. But, when it’s a false accusation, it makes you even more angry. As for the hypocrites’ excuse that they ‘won’t reveal their sources’, this is nonsense as well. Maybe only one person (with an issue) said this and in order to cover himself, he will say ‘he heard somebody else say…’
  

  There is no defense against the rampant character assassination and gossip in the Jehovah’s Witness religion. Sometimes it’s based on jealousy and somebody wants somebody to look bad.. Many have been victimized one time or another over something.. It varies. In your case it was over an accusation about ‘drinking’.

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  2023-August-S-147-Announcements And Reminders!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2 years ago

  page 1. https://imgbox.com/32tnfnel.

  page 2. https://imgbox.com/f8jh7e0m .

  page 3. https://imgbox.com/chjmr4km .

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  ROAD TO NOWHERE:

  I could never stand hearing this.

  They knock higher education and full-time jobs/careers - as I well know from personal experience. As a result, any Witnesses in the congregations who listened to this stupid advice - struggle to pay for these necessities for themselves including food and a roof over their heads!

  I am Glad I’m No longer active in the religion to listen to these things because it would make me ill.

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  2023-Price-Per-Publisher!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2 years ago

  2023-price per publisher.. .

  https://imgbox.com/jshf0csu .

  atlantis!.

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  LongHairGal 2 years ago

  FEDUPJW:

  I meant ‘keeping a seat warm’ in a general sense specifically aimed at PIMOs. I wasn’t referring to somebody just visiting.

  There’s probably a lot of Physically In Mentally Out people in the Witness religion and nobody can know for sure just how many. They are faking it for the sake of family or whatever.🙄 They do not want to be there.

  They play the game and look ‘active’ enough to keep the elders off their back and do some ‘service’ and are counted as publishers. 👎

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