Posts by LongHairGal

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Know it’s not true but stay anyway

by Elena in

how many of the millions of jws know it’s not true but stay anyway?.

my guess is most jws know it’s not true on a subconscious level to an extent but they don’t want to think about it too much and would never ever voice it out loud.. but this is probably true with all religions around the world?.

LongHairGal

ST GEORGE OF ENGLAND:

I am sure your story and what you said describes the great majority of Witnesses and why they stay in the religion.

And you said it honestly: “You would lose far more than you would gain…” This is why I feel badly for some of them. Yes, it’s too bad the internet wasn’t around 50 years ago!

I was raised Catholic and had no family in the JWs so it was relatively easy to walk away. This is also why I was not susceptible to criticism about my job when I was there.. I wisely let it go in one ear and out the other!

I think the Witnesses have the distinction of also being in a religion with people sitting there who don’t want to be there (I wont name any others).. It is as if they have a gun pointed at them.. Truly they are captives.

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Disaster preparedness

by ElderBerry in

as your family considers its disaster preparedness plan, please ensure that the secretary has up-to-date contact information for you and your emergency contact.

also, we have re- peatedly seen good results when brothers and sisters are prepared with go bags and are ready to obey direction when they face various kinds of disasters.

please be sure you have a go bag, and review its contents at least once a year.

LongHairGal

BALAAMSASS2:

That is some list you posted (and I have heard all those things are true). I’m glad I never had any business dealings with JWs - because I would never tolerate being victimized by anybody.. So what if I got DFd?..No loss.

But reading these things one has to wonder just how such a religion/entity could even be counted on to help in a serious crisis.. Never mind a SHTF situation. The religion would be locked down like a fortress🤣. Any local help in areas wouldn’t be much and would be short-lived …In all probability, some individual brothers would be the ones doing it out of their own pockets!!! Sad to say.

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40 Years Ago Today: May 15th 1984 "1914 Generation" issue was released. False prophecy, thy name is WatchTower.

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

it's incredible how this cover, and also this "series" of watchtower's is burned into my mind.

i was almost 5 years old when these were released.

“1914 and you” — may 1, 1984 watchtower.

LongHairGal

DAGNEY:

It is probably the ‘sunk cost fallacy’ why some JWs stay there…Besides, everybody has their own personal reasons why they really want out.. Maybe some people weren’t personally singled out for anything like I was.

I was treated so badly because I worked full-time, but always had ‘hope’ things would get better.. Silly, I know but that’s the daydreamer I was.

It wasn’t until something concrete happened- like the 1995 Generation teaching - that I knew I had to get out. I realized they were stringing everybody along.. I procrastinated and around 2001 I finally left.. In my observations through JW ‘friends’ in the following years, I was glad that I left.. I’m not much interested in JWs who stay for whatever reason. What’s most important is that I got myself out and have no family there to worry about.

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40 Years Ago Today: May 15th 1984 "1914 Generation" issue was released. False prophecy, thy name is WatchTower.

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

it's incredible how this cover, and also this "series" of watchtower's is burned into my mind.

i was almost 5 years old when these were released.

“1914 and you” — may 1, 1984 watchtower.

LongHairGal

WING COMMANDER:

Yes, that is what really gets me about the Witness religion: ..at least at this point, there appears to be No justice for people harmed by their teachings - whether past or present.

All we can do is be thankful we got Out of there.

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Crisis of Conscience

by Freeatlast2024 in

this is my first time posting to this forum.

let me start by saying i was born and raised as a jehovah’s witness.

i’m thankful that i was raised this way, because i feel it protected me in some ways, especially with regard to moral issues.

LongHairGal

NATHAN NATAS:

Yes, good point.

I don’t idolize anybody on the planet…I’m just glad he wrote his tell-all book. I was already Out of the religion anyway….What I have wondered (and what we can never know) is IF he would have ever written a book at all if he were not shunned, etc.

But, because history happened the way it did, he wrote his book and we all got a look at what goes on behind the curtain in the Witness religion.

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Crisis of Conscience

by Freeatlast2024 in

this is my first time posting to this forum.

let me start by saying i was born and raised as a jehovah’s witness.

i’m thankful that i was raised this way, because i feel it protected me in some ways, especially with regard to moral issues.

LongHairGal

FREEATLAST2024:

Welcome to the forum and that’s a great user name you have.

’Crisis of Conscience’ is a great book. I read it when I was already Out (since 2001). It certainly sealed the deal in my mind that I was right to leave. The 1995 Generation teaching was the last straw for me.

The recent changes in the religion do make some wonder if the religion is just making it up as they go along.. Since I’ve been out so long, they make no difference to me.. But, the one about no longer counting time made me Glad I worked and never caved in the frenzy years ago to be in the ministry!

I have a feeling more JWs will be ‘fading’ or leaving. They have had six months or so to let these changes sink in and maybe have done a lot of thinking/research and decided to call it a day.

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40 Years Ago Today: May 15th 1984 "1914 Generation" issue was released. False prophecy, thy name is WatchTower.

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

it's incredible how this cover, and also this "series" of watchtower's is burned into my mind.

i was almost 5 years old when these were released.

“1914 and you” — may 1, 1984 watchtower.

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

Even if ‘it’ were technically coming tomorrow, I am still Glad I got out of the JW religion.

I’m just grateful I never caved in to pressure to quit my job!.. It makes me cringe to think about the consequences now if I had made this awful mistake… When they got rid of the hourly reporting & time slips at the 2023 annual meeting, I was proved super-right that I never listened all those years ago!

I had enough of them.

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A Few Simple Conclusions

by mrquik in

i had 50 years in.

here's a few (personal) observations to live by:.

1. the one true religion is not here.

LongHairGal

BIAHI:

Certainly... I don’t feel I have to ‘go anywhere’ to worship.

Some JWs who leave the religion feel they have to get involved with something else. Maybe it’s a need to belong or be social.. I was raised Roman Catholic - and after my unpleasant experience with the JWs I have No desire to go anywhere.😮

You might say I am ‘cured’ of religion.

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A Few Simple Conclusions

by mrquik in

i had 50 years in.

here's a few (personal) observations to live by:.

1. the one true religion is not here.

LongHairGal

MRQUIK:

I read your bio. It appears you went back to the JWs after the scare of 1975(?). You were among the ones scared back.. But so many ended up leaving after that. I wasn’t in the religion yet.

I tend to agree with your summation but I wonder about (2).. I also agree after all is said and done that there is NO ‘true’ religion here.. But people can go on believing whatever they want!

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Need help identifying a book

by oncebitten in

jw
friends

hello all.. i could use some help identifying the title of a wt book that i read back in the early 90's.

it was an older book when i read it.

i wish that i could recall more than i do.

LongHairGal

JHINE:

If somebody wants to engage they will. Sometimes they can’t be bothered.

NICOLAOU:

Because it would descend into stalking and insults and some FUs on the part of some individuals here who have a problem.