Posts by LongHairGal

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Church buys GEICO Woodbury property for $27M

by Rattigan350 in

https://libn.com/2023/01/09/church-buys-geico-woodbury-property-for-27m/.

after a previous sale fell through, geico has sold its sprawling woodbury property for $27 million.

the buyer for the 236,365-square-foot office building on 20 acres at 750 woodbury road is the christian congregation of jehovah’s witnesses.

LongHairGal

JOURNEYMAN:

With regard to the Witness religion’s recent large purchase on Long Island: ..it would not surprise me if you and others might be correct about the religion possibly wanting fewer large facilities because they want to sell off more of the halls that are around that are half empty anyway!.. It’s all about business and saving money.

I am sure it will make a lot of JWs angry who will now have to drive longer distances to these places.. This might become tiresome for some and the religion might lose more people over time.. But, maybe they don’t care.. I know I don’t because I’m long gone from their useless treadmill.

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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

LongHairGal

EASY PROMPT:

ExBetheliteNowPima should warn his buddies in bethel to make plans because there may be more downsizing! And this might be before any ‘great tribulation’.

Any bethelites with an ounce of sense (especially older ones) should have a plan and some phone numbers to call.. While it’s possible this can come about the way you said, it’s more likely to come about because of the org/religion just wanting to save money.

And so the congregations out there will get yet another bunch of needy people dumped on them. More chickens coming home to roost.

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What happens when people are shunned from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

by Black Sheep in

an article on rnz, a news site in new zealand.. https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018901718/something-evil.

LongHairGal

BOOGERMAN:

I also agree that if the shunning is directed towards a child, the elderly or those with mental illness it is especially bad.

In my case, I was a young adult not raised a JW…so I was able to ‘take it’ 🙄 and knew it was over my job. I shrugged my shoulders and didn’t care. But, for young born-ins who know nothing else, it could be devastating.. The religion should not be allowed to ruin some child’s life.

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Half of disfellowshipped one suicidal?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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this ex brother says about half of disfellowshipped ones are suicidal at about 43 minutes into this video https://youtube.com/watch?v=otcdksnf4zo&feature=sharec.

it really is that brutal having your family and friends shun you that many unfortunately do actually take their own lives including steve letts nephew.. no wonder the drastic change in the elders book to not have any more judicial committees if suspected it would make them suicidal.. this is probably one of the largest changes in recent history that most rank and file don’t know about yet.. how it will work in practice i just don’t know.

what if someone keeps sinning but says it’s weakness not wickedness and they are suicidal?

LongHairGal

LEE MARSH:

I heard of a few JWs who killed themselves. But, one I know of was not disfellowshipped.. Who knows what was going through his mind - and what kind of hangups he was saddled with?

With regard to disfellowshipped people, everything you said is correct: when all is said and done some might wrongly assume they have nothing to live for…

I was not raised a JW and I remember them trying to separate me from non-Witness friends and relatives….Now, of course, it’s obvious they want to isolate the new JW so it will be easier to ‘shun’ him or her when they are in ‘violation’ of any of the rules and regulations and even popular people’s opinions!! If the JW has people on the outside to turn to, the shun gun has little or no effect. No control. The religion can’t have that.

I’m grateful I had my full-time job at the time, so I wasn’t totally isolated much to the religion’s disappointment. That’s why they hated me.

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JW elders TAUGHT to treat Higher Education as WRONG!

by BoogerMan in

in this jw training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other jw's by pursuing higher education.

🤣.

@ 13.35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2ohrbdm-c.

LongHairGal

HOSER:

Everything you said is right and they are detestable hypocrites with their manipulation, etc. However, I have a problem with the word ‘let’ as in ‘let their members attend..’

To me this implies that grown adults there (especially men) are children who need to ask for ‘permission’ to do something.. It kind of also implies that there could be force to prevent something (however absurd to visualize this). This servile mentality offends my brain and makes me sick.. I know old habits die hard and some ex-JWs on here inadvertently make a Freudian slip once in a while.

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JW elders TAUGHT to treat Higher Education as WRONG!

by BoogerMan in

in this jw training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other jw's by pursuing higher education.

🤣.

@ 13.35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2ohrbdm-c.

LongHairGal

VIDIOT:

The problem is that it IS a problem - even if nobody there is talking about it too loudly. ‘Armageddon’ hasn’t come yet to save anybody.

Back in the late seventies when I came into the JW religion with my full-time job… pioneering/working part time was the ‘thing’. If you didn’t you were criticized and looked down on.. Young people my age at the time wouldn’t be caught dead in a full-time job like I had.. They scoffed at me.. Some of them pioneered for decades. They have certainly reached retirement age.

They and others who didn’t take college/careers or preparing for the future seriously are NOW dealing with the consequences.

This is one reason I’m Glad I’m not around them now.

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WT and Higher ED

by enoughisenough in

watched this video and was wondering if any of you recall seeing this video besides on this presenter's youtube platform.

anyway, watch it !

it is disgusting but enlightening.

LongHairGal

FOOLEDNOMORE:

Very true.

But, they have a special hate for you and me because we would NOT tolerate being used and abused by a cult. So, let them hate away. I’m just so Glad to be Out of it.

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WT and Higher ED

by enoughisenough in

watched this video and was wondering if any of you recall seeing this video besides on this presenter's youtube platform.

anyway, watch it !

it is disgusting but enlightening.

LongHairGal

FOOLEDNOMORE:

I wonder if the Mr. Super Righteous Elder with his Mercedes 🙄 was the type to tell other people in the hall to ‘keep their eye simple’?

Nothing wrong with liking the finer things in life. Just don’t go telling somebody else to not get their college education and to pursue poverty... I saw the audacity of types like this back in the day telling me to quit my job and do housecleaning.. The poverty they were pushing was certainly not for them. Hell no. Just somebody else. I ignored them. Can everybody understand why I have no use for this religion??

As far as that guy looking at you and shaking his head:.. they are angry they lost an affluent family. You left and they are pissed. No doubt the tales got back to him about how Users who go to your stores expecting freebies left empty-handed. They are also angry they couldn’t manipulate your mom! They lost a good thing when you stopped going.

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WT and Higher ED

by enoughisenough in

watched this video and was wondering if any of you recall seeing this video besides on this presenter's youtube platform.

anyway, watch it !

it is disgusting but enlightening.

LongHairGal

SMIDDY3:

As I might have said in the past, I’m glad for you that things went better in Australia with regard to Witnesses having full-time jobs or college ed. This would mean fewer needy Witnesses in your area hitting retirement age unprepared!

I know it’s hard to believe but things are different in the USA in the JW religion. Maybe it’s because it originated here and/or is geographically closer to the ‘GB’.. As you have heard, people with full-time jobs in the Jehovah’s Witness religion and/or someone getting college are shunned to varying degrees - depending on who you are and if you’re related to anybody there.

It’s enough to make me shudder and cringe when I think about what could have happened if I allowed these control freaks to interfere in my life.. So, I got a reputation for being ‘independent’ which means they couldn’t ‘control’ me!

So glad I wasn’t raised a Witness and maybe this saved me(?) All I know is I’m Retired and glad I’m Out of there.. I followed my gut.. Who cares what popular types who got invited everywhere decades ago thought of me. Let them go ask their ‘spiritual’ friends for assistance.

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WT and Higher ED

by enoughisenough in

watched this video and was wondering if any of you recall seeing this video besides on this presenter's youtube platform.

anyway, watch it !

it is disgusting but enlightening.

LongHairGal

JOURNEYMAN:

I totally agree with your whole post. I wonder though if the Witness religion feels ‘married to’ their stand against college and is afraid to change it for fear they will look worse? They look bad enough as it is.

I totally agree that their stand against college is the teaching of ‘men’. I believe it had its origins in some uneducated elders or COs in the religion looking like fools when they had arguments with some college educated brothers in congregations. I once had an elder admit that ‘college educated brothers are harder to counsel’! There you have it. The religion couldn’t give a rat’s a$$ if people can’t feed themselves or keep a roof over their heads. All they care about is if they have servile followers with low self confidence.

Even though I’m long Out, I could never get over this.. As for what somebody said about ‘passive aggressive punishment’ towards somebody who goes against what they say: I experienced shunning because I refused to quit my full-time job. I knew I had to support myself. I’m now Retired.. The religion wouldn’t be supporting me or anyone else.

I see all the JWs who listened to their bad advice who didn’t get decent jobs/careers and are struggling today - like people who lost in a bad investment or pyramid scheme.

This hypocritical religion is beneath contempt and there is No forgiveness.