Posts by LongHairGal

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Expectation vs Reality

by joey jojo in

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just wanted to put this out there for any lurkers.. as someone that grew up during the 70s and 80s, we were promised that we would be in the first picture long ago.

if you are still on the fence, please let this sink in for a while..

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

I’m glad you have a decent job and are planning for retirement. If you are still active in the religion, ignore criticism and don’t discuss your personal business. That’s how I behaved towards them.

I also remember the young JWs used at assemblies claiming they ‘turned down scholarships’, etc...What you never hear about are those who were broke later on and needed to go to work!.. It’s also sad about any young JWs today who are being indoctrinated against college or career!

All I know is that I would be so screwed if I had listened to the religion. What a scary lesson learned.

The older people in the congregation were pushing pioneering/housecleaning for ME (and young women in general) or trying to get me to do favors..I refused. These older JWs (long gone) were living cushy lives because a ‘worldly’ husband was supporting them OR were getting a pension having been in the workforce early on.. What hypocrites!

Thank God I did not listen to them.

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Expectation vs Reality

by joey jojo in

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just wanted to put this out there for any lurkers.. as someone that grew up during the 70s and 80s, we were promised that we would be in the first picture long ago.

if you are still on the fence, please let this sink in for a while..

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

Yes, very sad..the time wasted and many lives that came and went in the Witness religion over generations with people hanging on because of that carrot dangling from a stick.

Funny, though, when I ‘faded’ my first mission was to rid my brain of that ‘paradise earth’ teaching because it was a cruel trick to play on my mind.. I don’t think I totally believed this teaching because I had no problem forgetting it. So, the carrot on the stick and the guilt trip is what keeps people there. I think being a JW has become nothing more than a bad habit for people there.

I was shunned by some hardliner JWs since I was a working woman.. But, as FINKELSTEIN said: there are JWs who have reached retirement age unprepared. They caved in to strong pressure to go out in full time ministry and wouldn’t be caught dead working like I did at a secular job!!!. They considered me as ‘unspiritual’..But, I’ll get down on my knees in thankfulness that I worked because I’m Retired.

These ‘spiritual JWs’ got invited to dinners I was never invited to. Well..they can track down their spiritual friends to ask THEM for money! Don’t come near ME!.The same also goes for ex-bethelites kicked to the curb..Brothers with businesses will have to offer them jobs! Good luck.

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They Are Going To Start Clamping Down With Staying At Home - Local Needs + GB Update #4

by thedepressedsoul in

many of us have watched the gb #4 update.

most of us jumped for joy when they basically said that there will be no meeting in person for a long time to come.. one aspect we overlooked was how hard they hit home the "love of neighbor".

how this "love" is what makes a true christian and as a result our love for our neighbors will motivate us to stay at home.. well now they released a letter that is instructing all kh's to view this video during their local needs part.

LongHairGal

THEDEPRESSEDSOUL:

Because the JW religion is pushing the stay-at-home thing so forcefully, I believe they want to sell off more halls!

They must feel Zoom is a success and plan to stick with it. They might keep an assembly hall here and there for occasional talks or meetings when the coast is clear to go out but I think they want to sell off more.

I could be wrong but I feel they are imitating businesses who used the Covid crisis to permanently get rid of employees. The Witnesses would just get rid of property.

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Have You Lost Any “Friends” Because Of Your Political Views?

by minimus in

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i have lost a couple of fb friends.

i have had conversations with many of my friends regarding politics and since we generally view politics in the same way, there is little dissension.

however i do have some friends that don’t see things properly, my way, and i still like them.🤗lol....i know of some families that have stopped talking to each other because of something as stupid as political differences..

LongHairGal

PETE ZAHUT:

I feel the way you feel about the current situation - and you were very kind to the girl!..I would have been more direct with her and she might not have liked me for it - but that’s TOO bad.

I have some liberal friends on Facebook and I ended up putting them on Unfollow because their whole FB experience is political propaganda garbage or virtue signaling crap. The reason I don’t unfriend them is because they are from my old neighborhood and I guess we are more forgiving towards people we knew from childhood. I did Unfriend somebody a few years ago (with a message explaining why) because they were posting hateful comments about the police - meanwhile they’d be screaming at the top of their lungs if the police didn’t come for them.

My want my FB experience to be non-political and I go on it to see people’s pictures and feel good. I don’t go on it to see blood and guts or stupidity. Somebody’s always pushing the envelope it seems.

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How Could We Have Been So Heartless?

by BluesBrother in

i am addressing here those who, like me, spent decades in the organisation that we called “the truth”.

perhaps like me you were brought up in it from an early age.

looking back now i wonder that i could have been so heartless as to believe that the mass slaughter of billions of people was “good news”.

LongHairGal

BLUES BROTHERS & PETE ZAHUT:

Yes, I remember the attitudes and mindset of the Witnesses. Some were more hardcore than others with their heartless attitude and tough love as some may call it (Agape love 🙄)...I can see their faces now.

Yes, they felt they were engaged in a life and death work and had to get all those hours of service in! I do know that they were hoping for the end of this system even though it meant the death of just about everybody. I think they had an attitude of if they went into their inner room and covered their eyes- then so what? Some also said ‘well maybe Jehovah will see into somebody’s heart and not destroy them, etc..’

But, the general heartless attitude (which was encouraged by the religion) also was directed towards people there who did not do all that they did..Some of these people did not have the circumstances to do all the hours others did..I was one of those people who refused attempts by busybodies to get me to quit a decent job and pursue poverty doing housecleaning. (I actually tried it once with another married sister who did it to make a few extra bucks on the side. Meanwhile, I was single and HAD to support myself.) Thankfully, I looked out for myself.

Many of these hardliner Witnesses I knew are still in the religion. I wonder what they think of their religion now?

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Is Anyone Happy That Police Forces Are Being Abolished or scut??

by minimus in

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in minneapolis, the city council has voted to abolish the police.. many cities want to either disband or defund the police.

black lives matter and other groups have influenced citizens and neighborhoods to get rid of police and their authority.

is anyone really supportive of removing the police or cutting out law enforcement through the budget?

LongHairGal

ANONY MOUS:

Interesting what you observed in the firearms place in your ‘Democratic’ area!

It wasn’t just ‘redneck Republicans’ 🙄 on line - but assorted people who you probably pegged correctly as Democrats. So, they all must feel very unsafe in the current lawless and mindless climate - as they well should. First, it was the coronavirus that sent everybody out to stock up on firearms to protect themselves against a zombies looking for food. Now, it’s civil unrest and fewer or No police to protect them.

Does anybody think that people are going to give up their right to keep and bear arms after all this has happened and what may still happen?? I don’t.

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COVID-19 won’t go away until Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton are in the Oval Office

by hoser in

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it’s no secret that the mainstream media runs the show and that they can’t stand trump.

for good reason because trump has been demeaning to journalists on several occasions.. life lesson for donald trump: don’t make fun of people that have the power to destroy you!

nobody likes getting laughed at.. don’t get me wrong.

LongHairGal

LV101 & FEDUPJW:

I would not be surprised that the release of the virus (and the social chaos) was probably deliberate!..The old rule or ruin..Who cares who dies or what happens to the economy or society?

In my opinion, ALL the guilty persons who could be behind this deserve to suffer personally (somehow, some way) from some terrible unintended consequences!

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Expectation vs Reality

by joey jojo in

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just wanted to put this out there for any lurkers.. as someone that grew up during the 70s and 80s, we were promised that we would be in the first picture long ago.

if you are still on the fence, please let this sink in for a while..

LongHairGal

WING COMMANDER:

Grey hair is better than no hair and you are relatively young!!

It’s sad to read all the stories of born-in people who had normal childhoods robbed from them by a deceptive cult who had to keep people hanging on with their carrot dangling from a stick of the ‘paradise earth’ teaching..Meanwhile, whole lifetimes have passed by and people have lived and died!

Even though I was not born into the Jehovah’s Witness religion, they could have really ruined my life if I caved in to criticism over my job!..I would not be Retired today if I listened to the judgmental hypocrites!..I was a little older than you when I walked away from it ALL.

I relish every day of being free. Just live your life!

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Caleb can say mephibosheth

by road to nowhere in

that was this weeks video.

but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.

LongHairGal

BETH SARIM:

True. But it’s not that I want to come across as thinking that a person with no higher education cannot think. No, certainly not.

It is just that the Witness religion has literally demonized college education. They are anti-intellectual. They have ‘elevated’ people in congregations just because these people toe the party line and ‘pioneer’ - meanwhile these people are lucky they can string two sentences together!...Also, if they are on the podium and spout something - you are expected to accept it..because they said it.

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Caleb can say mephibosheth

by road to nowhere in

that was this weeks video.

but the elders cant say: liberry, pitcher, aks, pronounsiation, mono-tone-us, unconscience.

LongHairGal

ROAD TO NOWHERE:

Years ago, back when I was a ‘believer’ in the JW religion, we had a visiting Sunday speaker.

As I was listening, I noticed how this man struggled and I cringed a little bit. I’m sure he was a nice enough guy, but it struck me how uneducated he sounded..I realized the Witness religion was a place where a man with no higher education and nothing going for him could feel ‘important’.

Over time there I heard enough sad but laughable examples of this.