during today's wt: "satan has the world on a treadmill wearing blinders"..
WTWIZARD:
You forgot something. What about being cornered from time to time by somebody with an envelope asking for a contribution for some ‘needy’ person there who hardly worked, if at all?
I don’t know about you, but that’s a reason I’m Glad I ‘Faded’ decades ago - looking back in retrospect.. As a working person who got criticized, I saw the ‘handwriting on the wall’ with regard to gullible JWs ‘waiting for Armageddon’ who didn’t want to work.👎
2023-01-27--civil unrest.
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LOSTINTHEFOG1999:
Yes, sadly, the hypocrisy and lack of love in the Witness religion is monumental. It’s all about show… I knew enough never to expect anything from anybody there.
I’m happily Out of there now for many years so this does not affect me. But, it’s certainly sad for any ‘believers’ still there who are expecting attention or loving behavior from any of their fellow worshippers.
hey.
does anyone else dread attending (in person or on zoom) the memorial months in advance?.
literally as soon as new year hits, i feel sick and super anxious, and i've realised it's because of the memorial, which i only attend because of family, who kinda tell me the reason they have bad health is cuz i left the jw sevel years ago..
FOOLEDNOMORE:
I always felt this way too at the memorial. I deliberately do not capitalize the word.
I can’t tell you how many times I felt it was a total waste to be sitting there and I’m Glad I don’t anymore! To me it was just an occasion to get dressed up and see Witnesses’ ‘worldly’ relatives who were dragged or bribed to be there and certain other people that came only once a year. 🤣
in the 90's my fading begun.
it had a great impact on me, and took a lot of energy.
later on it gave me a much better life, also for my wife and children.
GORB:
You really did some digging! You just gave people yet more reasons to walk away from the Witness religion!
But, I am very glad to see that you ended four generations trapped there.👍🏻 The buck stopped with you. I’m the only dope in my family that got involved with the JWs, but I rectified that error years later when I left.
As I mentioned to you, the shock of their 1995 Generation teaching was what made me finally walk away from the charade!.. Even their intrusiveness and attempted high-control criticism about my full-time job didn’t make me leave! Thankfully, I held onto that job until retirement.
I’m sorry for others on the forum with worse stories who are suffering today.😞
for the most of us, we have left the jws...and even though we are no longer jw, many of us are still interested in their beliefs, doctrines and practices as currently practiced.
i was trying to sort out in my mind why i still care about what they are doing.
i think the answer to that is a hope that something will develop in the jws that will wake up a lot of others, and selfishly, a lot of my friends.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:
Also, so many people have been negatively affected by their policies. As others have said, the chickens have come home to roost! It seems to all be hitting at once.
The worst policies are the shunning and the anti-education/career policies. Over the decades too many have felt the awful effects of these policies. Untold numbers of JWs are poor/needy/indigent today and this was totally unnecessary.
The shunning routine has broken up families and worse. I was a ‘victim’ to a much lesser degree because I worked. Today, I look back and see how I resisted busybodies and stupid fools from interfering with my life.
The religion has acted arrogantly, in my opinion. They were so disfellowship-happy for so long. Now they can’t get people to stay. So, it is interesting to watch as a spectator and see what’s going on.
this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
DISILLUSIONED JW:
I sent you a private message. You do read them, right?
spotted this picture on a friend's page, he was highlighting the mental health issue.
however,we thought the magazine on stress was deliberately placed in the summer months because for any jw going to a convention, paying high season hotel rates for themselves or their whole family to stay near the convention centre, fighting coworkers and managers to get the time off work, travelling expenses, buying their own meals for the family, buying new shiny suits and dresses to impress (particularly if you have teenage girls who are looking for their prince), and more.... by the time they come home again and straight away back to work, their nerves will be so frazzled that their stress levels will have sky rocketed!.
as brother elder says to them, "don't worry.
BETH SARIM:
Wearing a denim outfit, however nice.
If you do, expect to be followed around by some idiot.. It was similar to a store employee following a potential shoplifter around a store. Pathetic really.🙄 I had this happen years ago in the early days my ‘Fade’ when I went one Sunday.
kingdom halls will be the thing of the past.. conventions (mini assembly halls will still be going on) but will charge for attending and parking and always a donation.
elders will play a much smaller role since csa.
cart preaching will replace door to door.
FOOLEDNOMORE:
As others have said, the JW religion will probably be around for a while.
They will try to reinvent themselves possibly. They will still keep the public preaching work to some degree to keep their charitable status, as has been mentioned.
What I really think will greatly weaken them, in the not too distant future, is the demise of those very elderly ‘faithful’ Witnesses.. When these people go, so will their donations.
As a result of this, the religion will also lose more numbers.. In my opinion, other JW family members presently hanging on and ‘faking it’ for their elderly parents’ sake, will leave.. Once the elderly Witnesses die, everyone will see some family members just stop coming.
Ultimately, at some point in the future…the religion will resemble other defunct sects in the USA. Time will tell.
for the most of us, we have left the jws...and even though we are no longer jw, many of us are still interested in their beliefs, doctrines and practices as currently practiced.
i was trying to sort out in my mind why i still care about what they are doing.
i think the answer to that is a hope that something will develop in the jws that will wake up a lot of others, and selfishly, a lot of my friends.
CARLA:
You say like a horoscope. I think it’s more like horror-scope! 🤣
this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
WING COMMANDER & EVERYBODY:
Just yesterday I spoke to one of my few JW friends.
I told them that I heard Anthony Morris is no longer a governing body member and I asked what happened. I was told I was mistaken and that he fairly recently gave a talk (for whatever). I said I heard he was out. Again, I was told that whatever I heard must be ‘wrong’. I let it drop and changed the subject.
This certainly tells me (as if I didn’t already know).. that there is a news blackout among the rank & file Witnesses. It isn’t openly talked about. If this person didn’t hear about it, no doubt there are others who haven’t heard it either.
