Posts by LongHairGal

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WT needs your kids uneducated: CO training video is Master Class in F.O.G. This is jaw-droppingly stupid. Beyond moronic, it's sub-moronic.

by WingCommander in

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co training video: link to ex-jw reddit thread discussion.

today is the first time i was made aware of this actual elder body video.

it's training for how a co should handle elder's whose children decide to pursue further education.

LongHairGal

WING COMMANDER:

I always felt that a good reason that the Witness religion wants to discourage education for young people there is because brothers with businesses want these young people to work for them for low wages and low or no benefits! ..The nerve of these hypocrites to push poverty for young people!

So any young lurkers here had better keep this in mind - especially if they end up wanting to leave the religion. That low-paid shitty job working for some brother might be in jeopardy! Do yourselves a favor and Go elsewhere and get a real job!

The Witness religion has proved over and over that they hate education for its members. Firstly, because they don’t want critical thinkers questioning their stupid doctrines; and secondly, I believe they want a pool of uneducated potential laborers.

As for them getting into everybody’s personal business: this is something that has to be nipped in the bud. I had to put a few people in their places, which was another reason they disliked me. These bastards were not and are not looking out for anybody’s interest and don’t care about you. I saw this first hand back then when they tried to interfere by criticizing my full-time job. Thank God I resisted all their bullshit and never listened to them!

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What would happen if the religion just straight out gets outed as bad? The ORG admits to it and all the members get told to disperse

by Starlight.vee in

like the org just gives up and comes out saying that all of what they are saying is untrue and that there is no armageddon, nothing.

how do y’all think the the members still in it would react?.

there be a mental health crisis i perhaps.

LongHairGal

STARLIGHT.vee:

I just watched a YouTube video by ‘Life After Religion’.

It's a couple. He/they believe as I do, that the Witness religion wants to get rid of all the halls and be totally online...They are getting rid of their infrastructure. As the man says: “the JWs are going to be royally screwed.. Their halls are going to disappear and all they will be left with is their tablet and an internet connection (the religion’s website).” That’s exactly what I believe is happening.

But, he has another take on all the recent changes (beards, pants for women).. He believes the religion WANTS people to leave. He thinks they want them out of the halls so they can sell them. He even thinks keeping people home during Covid longer was to break the habit of people going to the halls. Again, the goal being to sell off more halls. Whether you agree or not with this part it’s something to think about!

He tells whatever people are left in the religion to get out now with their dignity intact instead of waiting to be kicked to the curb (I can just picture this).. I’m Glad I got out ages ago.

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Will Governing Body follow through with New Zealand Royal Commission's recommendation to publicly apologize?

by was a new boy in

'following on from an apology from the prime minister, the commission recommends all faith-based leaders offer a public apology, including the pope, the archbishop of canterbury, the president elect of the methodist church, the moderator of the presbyterian church in new zealand and the head of each individual presbyterian support organisation, the general of the salvation army, the overseeing shepherd of gloriavale, and the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses.'.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/govt-takes-blame-will-apologise-to-children-abused-and-tortured-in-state-care/ar-bb1qwoyt?ocid=bingnewsverp.

LongHairGal

THOMAS MORE:

I think the closest they would get to an apology in anything would probably be to say:

“We’re sorry you believed it!” 🤣🤣🤣

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What the watchtower demands from you

by Ron.W. in

perhaps you considering joining the wt cult - here is a concise list of why you should not.. what the watchtower demands of you:.

1.complete obedience to them.. 2. be willing to lose your life for zany blood teachings.. 3.put other cult members before your real family.. 4.refusal to let you leave their religion when the penny drops it's a cult.. 6.accept that they can backtrack and change any of their flip flop teachings at any time.. 7. you can't change your mind about their teachings without harsh discipline,.

8. insistence that you humbly and quickly apologise for your mistakes and errors.. 9.gladly accept they will never be apologising for any of their mistakes or errors of judgement.. 10.accept that even ones who follow and believe in the bible, but not the governing body are worthy of destruction.. please feel free to add more..

LongHairGal

DESIROUS OF CHANGE:

Yes, I’m glad I’m Out of there.

I never would have agreed to any of these things mentioned in the beginning posts if they were laid out on the ‘study’. So, I guess I was a victim of ‘bait and switch’.

The JW religion probably knows no sane person would agree to these things - so they are sneakily introduced later on after somebody is ‘in’.👎

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Would Watchtower Actually Murder Members Who Question the F&DS If They Could?

by Sea Breeze in

imagine if the watchtower had their own country where they could do what they wanted.

do you think they would actually kill people who disagreed with them?

would the elders be willing to carry out the executions?what say you?.

LongHairGal

SEA BREEZE:

Good for you.

When I walked away from the Witness religion 23+ years ago, I didn’t fully know everything about TTATT.. I hadn’t started to deconstruct the faulty teachings in my head except for one: I rid my mind of the paradise earth teaching and living forever. I felt this was a cruel trick to play on my mind.. I never missed it which makes me wonder how much I believed of it in the first place.

Like you.. I’m glad I got out. But, in my case, Glad I never let the JWs tamper with my life or interfere with my work/career! Sorry for anybody who did.

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Reddit thread re Oct 2024 WT with picture of window washer - Theme knocking people who Planned

by LongHairGal in

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this thread currently has over 300 comments.. it shows a picture of an older man washing a window looking wistfully… then it talks all about how some may have doubts about not having planned and the situation they are in now that they are older, etc.

it refers to others who did plan and who supposedly have ‘apparent’ financial security.

in my opinion, the whole gist of this article is to make older witnesses feel better who did not pursue a career or plan well for retirement.. it tries to imply that those others who planned only have ‘apparent’ financial security - which is to say they don’t (?).

LongHairGal

BALAAMSASS3:

Firstly, I’m glad you stopped providing free labor when you were young. And, those elders trying to guilt you about materialism - were they wearing rags and starving? I doubt it. It’s also sad about your ex. I certainly would never wish this on anybody.

Again, I’m so Thankful I never listened and kept on working full time.. But, I did not have the undue influence of people born in..so I never cared what anybody thought.

It all just shows how damaged somebody can be by following what this religion says. The sobering thing is seeing how so many older JWs have passed away. They can’t help anybody and what does it matter what they said and what their opinions were.

I also read that article about how 60 year olds today are not prepared with savings/pensions. Of course,, this isn’t just Witnesses but others as well. But, let’s never forget that Witnesses actually criticize people who work - whereas non-JWs are looking for jobs and can’t find them!

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What would happen if the religion just straight out gets outed as bad? The ORG admits to it and all the members get told to disperse

by Starlight.vee in

like the org just gives up and comes out saying that all of what they are saying is untrue and that there is no armageddon, nothing.

how do y’all think the the members still in it would react?.

there be a mental health crisis i perhaps.

LongHairGal

STARLIGHT.vee:

I agree with VIDIOT.

I also think that even if the JW religion were not ‘outed’ as bad, this is the direction they are heading-in if there’s a more drastic loss of members and they end up selling off the halls. Some may disagree.

They can then be online with a changed name or whatever; almost no physical presence except an assembly hall (or maybe not)... Since I’m Out for many years, this scenario would make no difference to me.. But, the physical disappearance of their religion would be devastating to the remaining few Witnesses - especially the ‘needy’ ones.

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Would Watchtower Actually Murder Members Who Question the F&DS If They Could?

by Sea Breeze in

imagine if the watchtower had their own country where they could do what they wanted.

do you think they would actually kill people who disagreed with them?

would the elders be willing to carry out the executions?what say you?.

LongHairGal

SEA BREEZE:

Yes.

NOT FORMER:

I do remember reading something like that. It read to me that they were sorry they could not.. It’s an evil of human nature that there would always be some idiot only too glad and too cruel to do this, IMO.

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WATCHTOWER OCT '24: HOW TO BE A HAPPY WINDOW CLEANER

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/sbh213gbedo?si=ceeaip451t6i0zjp.

so as they say one picture is as strong as a thousand words and here you have it guys in the latest study edition of the watchtower for october 2024 that has just been posted on their website a middle aged jw window cleaner dreaming of the new system where things will get better.

why does the watchtower need to talk now about jws on minial self employed jobs?

LongHairGal

KERRY KING:

Nobody is knocking any particular line of work. At least I’m not. And I am well aware that some window washers can do quite well… And, yes, we are all tax slaves even though it’s a little silly to compare a doctor to a window cleaner.

But, you are missing the point and over simplifying things - even doing a little gaslighting. The fact of the matter is that the Jehovah’s Witnesses (at least back when I was younger) criticized college, white collar and/or full time jobs.. They made it out to be that the ‘only’ work JWs should do was house/office cleaning and/or window washing. They made it sound like if you did other work you were not ‘spiritual’🙄. People who did were looked upon suspiciously even if it was pt time.

JWs were instructed to work part time only to meet their immediate needs. They were made to feel saving was not having faith (totally ignoring wise Bible counsel).. Over righteous Witnesses really went out of their way to make snide remarks to people like me who had a full time job.. Doesn’t matter that I minded my own business and did the best I could with meetings and going out D to D.. I was still criticized.

Fast forward to now: I am retired (but live carefully). JWs who did otherwise and have now reached retirement age may be in trouble if they believed and did every single thing the religion told them.. In plain English: those who did not save or have a retirement plan (whatever their occupation) are in a serious predicament today!!

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WATCHTOWER OCT '24: HOW TO BE A HAPPY WINDOW CLEANER

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/sbh213gbedo?si=ceeaip451t6i0zjp.

so as they say one picture is as strong as a thousand words and here you have it guys in the latest study edition of the watchtower for october 2024 that has just been posted on their website a middle aged jw window cleaner dreaming of the new system where things will get better.

why does the watchtower need to talk now about jws on minial self employed jobs?

LongHairGal

RAYMOND FRANTZ:

I already started a thread on this and it’s four pages long.

Many fine comments. Bottom line: I am ever so Glad I never listened to the JW religion and I kept my job until retirement.. People like the guy depicted in the article are going to have to ask somebody else for handouts!