Posts by LongHairGal

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2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change

by Listener in

a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.

LongHairGal

RON W:

Yes, the young ones were aggressively targeted but in my opinion it was mostly females.. Somehow, a brother got a ‘pass’ or was less scrutinized if he had a full-time job.

Oh, there was an attitude here and there but it was NOWHERE near as bad as for a woman. The hypocrisy and double standard is monumental in this religion and what you describe about older retired people with cushy lives pushing poverty on some young person is entirely accurate.

I am glad I was raised Catholic and had my ‘worldly’ family and friends’ wisdom instilled in me so that Witness bullshit was rejected… Anybody who looked around the hall and saw all the older people collecting their pensions would realize you’d have to have your head examined to listen to the religion.

But, I will say it again that it’s the rank & file Witnesses who are responsible for helping to make trouble with their gossip and judgment.

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2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change

by Listener in

a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.

LongHairGal

DESIROUS OF CHANGE:

Yes, it’s true that most Witnesses in any congregation will NOT understand another JWs serious issues with the religion (and will NOT care) unless they have been personally touched.

I remember talking to men in my age category in the congregation who had full time jobs like I did.. Well, nobody was going up to them and telling them to quit their job to clean toilets and pioneer!! I guess just women got singled out for this nonsense. Thank God I ignored all these hypocrites and kept my job.

I really have no pity or use for the rank & file JWs who cannot or will not see the obvious hypocrisy in the religion. They ‘go along with the crowd’ and are complicit in my book. I could never be around them.

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2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change

by Listener in

a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.

LongHairGal

GORB & BETH SARIM:

Yes, the Witness religion will continue to reinvent itself just as it has been doing all along. Some fools will think it’s ‘new light’.

And you are right that people come and go. Imagine all the sacrifices people now and in the past have made?

I wonder what some of the die-hards there think about everything: last year’s changes especially the biggie about no longer counting hours/time slips, and now these two younger GB members? I wonder what the older JWs there really think about their religion?

All I know is that it was a happy day for me when I started my overdue ‘Fade’ from the JW religion all those years ago!

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The World Today

by peacefulpete in

jw
friends

i've been meaning to share some recent experiences that defy the usual tropes about the 'world gone to hell' or 'people now days".. as some of you may remember i was seriously ill for a while and had to close my business and shop.

now, as it seems i have beaten it, i put up a sign again advertising that in a limited way i'm back.. what amazes me is how many times over the past 2 years customers and even competition have written and called to express their concern and best wishes.

just last week i had a personal visit of someone who i thought of as a rival, come in and shake my hand sincerely happy to see me up and around.

LongHairGal

PHIZZY:

I am so very sorry that your wife passed away. You are wise to let the grief run its natural course.. It is good to hear that you are experiencing the kindness of people at this difficult time and it does give you hope for the human race.

PEACEFUL PETE:

It is good to know you are bouncing back from illness and that you have been getting well wishes and help from people! I think that most people have goodness inside them even if you don’t see it all the time. They can and do rise to the occasion.

I never believed when the Witnesses said people outside the religion are ‘bad’, etc. Of course, I wasn’t raised a JW and didn’t buy all their hype when they kept praising themselves. Too be honest, ‘worldly’ people can teach Witnesses a few lessons about being kind and Christian.

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THE PROBLEM WITH THESE 2 NEW GB MEMBERS APPOINTMENTS

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/rjr0ugtu6zu?si=d3zsz20ee33gytxi.

these new appointments are troubling, to say the least, especially considering the factors surrounding their selection.

these appointments raise key concerns about leadership, experience, and what is happening behind the scenes at the organization's headquarters.

LongHairGal

RAYMOND FRANTZ:

I got the same impression you got that these two new GB members are too young for all the reasons you mentioned and one guy into real estate(?)

The first obvious one is they have not had decades of faithful service which would have been a requirement in the past.

It’s probably been observed by everyone for a while that the old Witness religion that many of us remembered is long gone. It looks as if these appointments of younger men without the so-called spiritual qualifications required in the past is just more proof. When the Boomer JWs still attending in congregations are gone there will be no recollection of the old ways and the old days.

Maybe as predicted by some, JW is almost ready to become a totally online religion.

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annual meeting and Helene

by enoughisenough in

i was wondering if any on here watched the meeting and if so was anything mentioned about the disaster in the path of helene and the suffering of those people ( included jw ) just curious.

LongHairGal

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:

No, I didn’t watch the Witnesses’ annual meeting but read about it here and on Reddit.

Unless I missed something, I don’t believe I read anything about the recent hurricane mentioned and the people impacted!

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JWN, 23 years posting Blondie

by blondie in

jw
friends

can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.

i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.

in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.

LongHairGal

Hi BLONDIE:

I agree with you there. I am here 20 years as opposed to your 23. I can’t believe it has been that long.

I see what you mean about the few posters dominating everything with quotes galore, etc. and others jumping on the bandwagon thinking it’s a competition about who can post the most quotes 🙄.. You are certainly more of a bible (or Witness) scholar than I ever was and I post mostly about my negative experiences in the Witness religion.

This is supposed to be a Discussion forum. Everybody’s experience is unique to them. But, what we are seeing here (far too much) are people who are presuming to educate everybody with all their quotes and cut and paste… Sometimes a quote may be warranted in a discussion but this is going overboard.

Maybe people need to hear it again that when a post is TOO long and filled with quotes and cut and paste people are likely not going to read it.

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Annual Meeting live updates

by ukpimo in

i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.

LongHairGal

I just read a thread on ex-JW Reddit entitled “Stop Waiting for Changes”.

The OP acknowledged that many are concerned about family still in and how changes will affect them, etc. But, they were mostly addressing ex-JWs and how they shouldn’t be hanging on every word coming from the religion and how they should get on with their lives. They think that some have never broken free from the religion in their minds anyway.. There were some indignant answers.

Probably most of us are long out (I certainly am) and it shouldn’t make any difference what the Jehovah’s Witness religion does or does not do.. It is just plain curiosity.. Don’t know about anybody else but I don’t need any ‘validation’ for having walked away years ago. But, when the religion took away the counting of hours with time sheets at the 2023 annual meeting - I was shocked. Never expected that. But was certainly relieved to have held onto my job all those years ago!!

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Annual Meeting live updates

by ukpimo in

i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.

LongHairGal

JWGONEBAD & BETH SARIM:

To be honest, I didn’t really expect to read about any big changes at this 2024 annual meeting.

The annual meeting last year had enough serious changes that people in the religion are still reeling from.. To add any more now would send more Witnesses stampeding towards the door. They don’t want to lose everybody do they? So, they are playing it cool. But, I wonder if them adding those two new GB members might mean that somebody’s going to have to go(?)

It will be interesting to see what happens but even if they did nothing..the older die-hard JWs in congregations all over are decreasing with time!

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What evidence is there for a biblical jesus?

by Touchofgrey in

is there any independently verified evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed and did the things that the bible said he did?.

the four gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events, so can't be considered as eyewitness accounts.

i think that there may have been a apocalyptic preacher who was executed by the romans and the story evolved from their.

LongHairGal

TOUCHOFGREY:

I believe Jesus Christ was a historical person. Maybe my opinion is colored by my Roman Catholic upbringing.

There is a mixed bag of people on the forum: you have Witnesses, ex-Witnesses and everybody in between. Some angry, some not angry. Some pro-Bible, some anti-bible..Some ex-Witnesses are religious; some avowed atheists or agnostics.

Whether anybody accepts or wants to believe Jesus was the savior or in any way divine is entirely up to them. For those who insist he never existed, whatever.