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  WT and Higher ED

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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.
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  WT and Higher ED

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  LongHairGal

  RULES & REGULATIONS:

  Yeah, what a load of nonsense! What nobody ever hears about is when people like her end up broke in a year or so and have to come off the pioneer list.

  This whole dialogue against college/careers was heard I’m sure by many younger Witnesses over the years.. If any of these thousands of Witnesses unwisely kept on the pioneer list.. in an unpaid ministry daydreaming their whole lives, they had a rude awakening when it came time to Retire.. What recourse do they have??

  This is why I’m Glad I never quit my full-time job like older affluent Witness busybodies wanted me to!!! I worked until Retirement. These JWs (who are now in their graves) aren’t even around to help anybody they misled!!!

  I’m just Glad I never listened to any of it.
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  What would you change?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m agnostic so maybe the universe started by chance or by design.. if it was by design (hypothetically) and the bible is the designers word, and jws seem to be the closest to it, then what would be the largest things you would change?.

  here are a few ideas.

  -do away with the governing body thinking they are gods only channel.

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  GRREAT TEACHER:

  You pretty much nailed the toxic culture and mindset of Jehovah’s Witnesses. I doubt this will change.

  The ‘love bombing’ is phony and designed to keep people there. The ‘enmeshment’ part I absolutely hated with everybody wanting to know your business. If you were a young single woman like I was, there was no regard for your boundaries and these idiots imagined they could come up to you and ask or say anything!.. Maybe a married woman got somewhat more respect.

  These intrusive older hypocrites with unwanted advice were certainly not looking out for my best interest and I made sure I kept this in mind.. I am especially referring to older people (who have gone to their graves after living a cushy life).. They had ALREADY made their living…yet they preached poverty to younger people like myself.

  Thankfully for ME, I kept my job and their garbage went in one ear and out the other.
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  No more public WT & Awake?

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

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  VIDIOT:

  Yes. Meanwhile these services are sorely needed. The fact that the JW religion has absolutely No social programs like the ones you mentioned is something that should be held against them, in my opinion.

  They have created poverty among their followers or at least those gullible enough to totally buy into their teachings. Thankfully I never listened. Now, all the baby boomers are reaching retirement age with many among them having No preparation.. They were duped into spending decades in volunteer work.👎 They wasted time in a full time unpaid ministry instead of holding down decent secular jobs!
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  No more public WT & Awake?

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

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  LongHairGal

  WING COMMANDER:

  I am laughing about your remark about ‘homeschooled morons’. You know, before I became a JW I had never heard of home schooling.

  There are probably quite a few in the Witness religion.. Sadly, in their case, it’s like having No education at all unless it’s done right - which I doubt it was.. They can barely read and write and have no knowledge about anything.👎 It’s like being brought up in a broom closet.. It would not surprise me if most would score much lower than a HS dropout.

  I’m sure they and others considered the magazines to be the equivalent of a ‘college education’. 🤣

  Too bad if any of these Witnesses were led to believe they were more ‘spiritual’🙄 than other people in the congregation who attended regular schools and got decent jobs.
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  JWs unrecognisable compared to my grandfathers time

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my grandfather who has been dead for 37 years would not recognise the borganisation today.

  he would turn in his grave if he knew the end didn’t come by 2023.. back in the 1970s he really believed in the 75 thing.

  he was so disappointed and almost blamed everyone else why the end didn’t come.

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  LongHairGal

  PHIZZY:

  I’m glad he didn’t clap for this GB person. Your father was a wise man.

  The guy on Beroean Pickets has a current video on how Jehovah’s Witnesses have fallen into idolatry and you can guess what the topic is about.. I, for one, never held any GB member on a pedestal and I consider any Witnesses who do to be absolute morons and fools.
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  2023-August-S-147-Announcements And Reminders!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  page 1. https://imgbox.com/32tnfnel.

  page 2. https://imgbox.com/f8jh7e0m .

  page 3. https://imgbox.com/chjmr4km .

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  LongHairGal

  BETH SARIM:

  Yes, they are their own worst enemy. If they changed their stance and encouraged college/careers they would have more affluent members sitting there.

  It’s obvious they are very threatened by education. Maybe it’s because education can shake the flimsy belief system OR that education can make a person more confident and they can’t have that. Maybe it’s plain old jealousy because the ‘higher up’s’ don’t have higher education.

  They want servile members with low self-confidence sitting there.. I’m not exaggerating and I think this is literal.

  So, rather than have educated, confident and more affluent people there, they would rather have poorer more ignorant members. Maybe they feel they have more control this way and none of the uneducated higher-ups need feel intimidated or embarrassed by encounters with educated individuals in the circuits. Just my opinion.
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  'church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately'

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  'the spokesperson also said that church elders are told to report any allegations of child sexual abuse to the authorities immediately, even if there is only one complainant.'.

  https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rebekah-vardy-sexually-abused-child-jehovahs-witnesses/.

  is this true?

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  VIDIOT:

  Very good points you raised and how these awful views certainly cannot help any children or young people in the religion.

  I wanted to address your Second point: I once had an aggravating thing said to me years ago by a rather stupid sister.. She’s a Witness who tolerates too much, low self esteem and who believes you should accept bad things happening to you. This belief is probably at the heart why there is an acceptance of being a ‘victim’ of anything in this idiot religion and not speaking up about it.

  This is yet another reason I’m Glad to be done with this dysfunctional religion.