dear friends,.
i think you all know me as a person who has always strived, despite my imperfections to only ever wanting to be and remain in the “truth”.
it is in fact what i so desperately want for my son ashton and my baby girl honey bee, to be lovers of truth and grow up to be a loyal servants of jehovah god and his son, jesus christ.
GAVINDLT:
Good that you were disfellowshipped and spared getting that Covid vaccine..
I am a long time ‘Fader’ who did not get it either. Who is to say what I might have done if I were active in the JW religion? Would I have caved in to the pressure they put on everybody there acting like it was God’s will? Meanwhile, it was something they were compelled to do because of their tax status or whatever.
But I’m Glad I didn’t.
the watchtower—study edition | september 2024. enjoy the greater happiness that comes from giving.
9 though we are imperfect humans, we can imitate jehovah’s generous use of power.
we cannot literally impart strength, or energy, to others.
RULES & REGULATIONS:
Even though it is a great principle and nothing wrong with doing a favor for somebody once in a while…I tend to read between the lines when the JW religion publishes an article.
When we went out in service years ago we would stop by an elderly person’s home to say hello. This was an inactive member of the congregation. However, there was never a need or a suggestion that we run errands. What I am getting is that they are trying to get people in the congregation to regularly ‘care for’ somebody.. This is a whole different thing.
Regarding the elderly JW who needs help: where are their children or family members? If there are none, the authorities should be called.
Is this a case of adult Witness children who are lax towards their parent(s), OR is this a case of an elderly Witness who shunned their non-believing children years ago (on the say-so of the religion) and NOW finds herself/himself isolated??? If this is the case, it is the JW religion that caused the problem and is now expecting other people in the congregation to ‘fix’ it! This makes me very angry.
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NOT FORMER:
Yes, tell me about it.
The Bible says to work and provide for yourself, but too many Jehovah’s Witnesses somehow think they are going to get ‘around’ this and attempt to be a burden on others.
But, I would never tolerate them coming near me... Call me hard but I don’t have any pity for these people deceived into ringing doorbells who didn’t work at a proper job because ‘the End was coming’.. Not my problem.. They imagine they are going to target people who worked and who got criticized!!!... I could not be around these JWs now because I wouldn’t give them so much as a dime. Anybody made a snide remark there would be an altercation.
Let these goddamn fools go ask the religion for money since that’s who they were working for.
after over 100 years...watchtower helps the poor of nyc...by leaving!!
jehovah's witnesses hotel becomes affordable housing.
developed by breaking ground, 90 sands brings new housing opportunities to brooklyn.. .
BALAAMSASS2:
All kidding aside. The many needy JWs could use REAL social programs like the churches in Christendom have (food pantries, etc.)
There must be many thousands of Witnesses who followed the religion’s faulty teachings to be in the ministry because ‘the End was near’ - instead of having a decent job/paying towards retirement.. Unfortunately, those JWs back then wouldn’t be caught dead in a full-time job like me... I was scoffed at and considered ‘unspiritual’!
Meanwhile the religion did away with their counting of time in 2023.. What are those JWs supposed to do who rang doorbells for 30+ years pushing the religion’s magazines, etc.?? Can you imagine the state of things in congregations now with needy older people waiting for the End to save them..??? Glad I am not around this - not to mention how happy I am that I never fell for the pioneering fervor all those years ago!!
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R.I.P.
after over 100 years...watchtower helps the poor of nyc...by leaving!!
jehovah's witnesses hotel becomes affordable housing.
developed by breaking ground, 90 sands brings new housing opportunities to brooklyn.. .
BALAAMSASS2:
Well, I am glad something good for the world and the non-JW community came out of this.
my brother ( an elder ) calls me every time he's assigned a public talk.
he believes listening to zoom meetings is a great start, to eventually attending in-person meetings.
the talk is titled : '' reject worldly fantasies, pursue kingdom realities.
RULES & REGULATIONS:
I DO remember this back when I was a believer. Might have been at the convention.
Those were the days when I was younger and felt bad that I wasn’t accepted like all the pioneers! ..If only I would quit that full-time job I had and join the ranks of house cleaners and full time ministers! No worries about the future or retirement.. I would be ecstatic and on a spiritual ‘high’…. Then I would be invited to all those dinners and secret gatherings..I would have older people in the hall with cushy lives telling me how ‘blessed’ I am.🙄
Well…none of this was to be.. I just could not bring myself to quit that full-time job..and boy am I Thankful today that I did what I did.
i open a new topic, to find out how it's going in your area.
from what i see as a southern european in my constituency the situation is patchy.. the congregation where i am now has 30% old people on zoom but also young couples with almost all their cameras off.
no increase but a slight decrease in the total number of publishers.. circuit assemblies: before covid you couldn't find a free seat if you arrived 10 minutes before the start.
LA FRANCIA:
From what I have heard the halls are emptier than ever.. I am a long time ‘Fader’ who had gone to a funeral talk within the last decade and was shocked at how empty my old hall was!
As far as all those Zoom cameras that are turned off: ..some Witnesses had problems with nervy busybodies commenting on something hanging on the wall in their house! ..Also, catty and unwanted remarks were made about people’s appearance… Who needs this?? ..I certainly never would have tolerated this intrusiveness.
Maybe Zoom is good in conference room settings - but not so much in someone’s home.
My opinion on Zoom used by the JWs: uninvited people looking into somebody else’s home was not a good thing and I was proved right.. Hence most of the cameras are now wisely turned off!
for the first time in ages.. a very elegantly dressed senior lady and a young chap.
but--it wasnt just having a leaflet thrust at me--it was a full blown "old style" presentation.
i stopped her going to far into it--by asking if they are jws--and told them i was an apostate.
STAN LIVE DEATH:
I suppose it is up to each individual, but I didn’t refer to myself as an ‘apostate’ to the JWs who came by last summer.
The word might sound like the ‘boogeyman’ to some paranoid Witnesses who look under their beds at night fearful an apostate might be there.🤣
I simply told them that I was glad I never followed the religion’s bad advice years ago and how I’m Glad to not be around them now.
it appears the perp got the victims disfellowshiped!
the state attorney general has re-opened the botched case.. "the trial for a jehovah’s witness elder accused of molesting three girls in 1999 began in a lancaster county court monday with lawyers giving opening statements to the jury.. norman aviles-garriga, 45, was charged by the pennsylvania attorney general with two counts of aggravated indecent assault and 16 related offenses in connection with assaults alleged by three women who say the abuse happened when they were girls.. aviles-garriga is one of five pennsylvania jehovah's witnesses charged by a statewide grand jury with using their positions within their churches to sexually abuse children.
the attorney general’s office brought charges against the men in october 2022 and february 2023.. .
BALAAMSASS2:
The Witnesses always loved to criticize the Catholic Church.. They jumped on the Church’s CSA scandals and pointed the finger at them. NOW, we see the JWs are just as bad!
I remembered the JWs used to love to call the Church ‘Babylon the Great’ and say ‘her sins have massed clear up to heaven..etc.’ Of course, I am not saying that it and religions in general aren’t guilty of atrocities committed over the centuries because they certainly are. The problem is the Church has been around since the Third Century.. That is certainly enough time to accumulate a lot of evils!
Now, look at the Jehovah Witness religion which has only been around a century and a half.. They are already grossly corrupt!.. What would this religion resemble if it were around a very long time and if (God forbid) it had any kind of power??.. What a scary thought.
