so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.
i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.
'my other car is noah's ark'.
"Caution - I just converted to Jehovah's Witnsses and gave up cigarettes"
"Friends don't let Friends know the truth about the Truth"
A sticker with letters that fade "Proud to be a F A D E R"
"If this car is carrying a Christmas Tree, please call (718) 560-5000"
now i understand what is happening to the wt.
i understand why my grandparents , mom and dad was.
more intelligent then i. lol.
Idiocracy is a story of my family tree.
someone close to me is a jw, and manic -depressive (or so i think).. for several decades, this person has way overspent.
to the point of not having $50 at the end of the week.
he makes decent money (about $1,000 a week), lives at home (no real living expenses), and no dependents.
"A bipolar in manic phase will get hostile with anyone who tries to interfere or slow them down. Reason has fled the building"
Exactly what I am dealing with!!!!
someone close to me is a jw, and manic -depressive (or so i think).. for several decades, this person has way overspent.
to the point of not having $50 at the end of the week.
he makes decent money (about $1,000 a week), lives at home (no real living expenses), and no dependents.
Thank you so much for everyone's thoughts and suggestions. You are a B-I-G help!
Skeeter
someone close to me is a jw, and manic -depressive (or so i think).. for several decades, this person has way overspent.
to the point of not having $50 at the end of the week.
he makes decent money (about $1,000 a week), lives at home (no real living expenses), and no dependents.
I am a relative, a close one at that. The person he lives with is not able to talk with him. Dementia. That leaves me.
He buys, and puts it IN MY HOUSE. Anything else he buys, I'll put in my truck and drive it straight to the Salvation ARmy ( that should tick him off) if he doens't return it. I'm going to have to change the locks on my house.
This suspected b-polar/manic-depressive person is a JW. So, i thought it was that JW thinking of "spend good as Jehovah will wipe out your debts at Armegheddon thinking". This was how it was in the 70s when I was in. So, I posted a topic about Family Budgeting. But, many of you responded that good JWs are miserly. So, then I looked at other reasons for this crazy spending. Come up with bi-polar.
When I try to talk to him, he slips into his dream world of collectibles and hobbies, then he dismisses me, and if I push hard, he yells.
Skeeter
someone close to me is a jw, and manic -depressive (or so i think).. for several decades, this person has way overspent.
to the point of not having $50 at the end of the week.
he makes decent money (about $1,000 a week), lives at home (no real living expenses), and no dependents.
Someone close to me is a JW, and manic -depressive (or so I think).
For several decades, this person has way overspent. To the point of not having $50 at the end of the week. He makes decent money (about $1,000 a week), lives at home (no real living expenses), and no dependents. But he has managed to run up alot of bills on nothing. As he's gotten deeper into being a JW, he's gotten more worse off. To the point of wanting to devour other people's money. Now that he can't spend his money (he's a at the limit), he's wanting to spend other people's money. He buys things for our house, and then says, "Oh, it's not a gift, you owe me $100 for it." I've told him to not do that any more, but he just went out and spent more money for me to "reimburse him." Then, he tells me that "You needed it." (Trust me, it's not something that I "Needed." So, I am at the point of cutting him off. But, is this going to solve anything?
How do you tell someone they have a mental illness? Anyone deal with a manic-depresive? Could it be something else? I am not a psychologist.
Skeeter
how do you budget?.
as a jw, we never had "classes" on family budgeting.
the world was going to end, so who cared about paying off credit card bills, retirement savings, etc.
Here's our family saving. It's a website. It bases your grocery list around recipes whose ingrediants are on sale at your chosen grocery store. It's segregated by eating stye (low carb , clean eating, vegetarian . .. . to family eating, grilling) and by serving portions (1-2 or 2-4). Last week, in 3 minutes, we picked 6 entries, 1 soup, and 2 sides. It complied a grocery list, by department. It showed each items price, for a total of $75 USD. It was very accurate, only off by a few pennies on a few items. Wish I would have thought of it. (I can't mention the name due to posting rule #6, even though I am in no way affiliated with that website).
how do you budget?.
as a jw, we never had "classes" on family budgeting.
the world was going to end, so who cared about paying off credit card bills, retirement savings, etc.
How do you budget?
As a JW, we never had "classes" on family budgeting. The world was going to End, so who cared about paying off credit card bills, retirement savings, etc. And, on the salaries many made, one couldn't be extravagant. But, I know many JWs who "take it to the limit", which would be materialistic. Regular Christiandom has classes on this, taught through the church. This is a win-win, as it helps peopel tithe their money.
What works? I dont' know the answer to that completely.
= know what you spent on what last month.
= talk with your significant other in a weekly budget meeting. Can be quick, but it's a snapshot of what happenend and what needs to happen/be paid in the short run. It's amazing how many people I speak with who don't do this.
= look for ways to save.
What ways have you found to budget & save? Did being in the Truth hurt your financial position and outlook?
Skeeter
i know i'm going to get bagged on for this, but i'm really just trying to help those who are fading if they have facebook or are on any social media outlets.. first off let's review.. .com stands for commercial.
.net stands for network.
....etc.. so facebook.com is a commercial site, meaning they are trying to sell you something....or specialized advertising trying to get you to buy something because of your browsing history.
I hate to sound like the Watchtower . . . . BUT, anything you say on the Internet, can & will be used against you. Keep that in the back of your mind as you post. I removed my Facebook account years ago. It takes a few weeks to actually be properly removed from Facebook.
Skeeter
i know i'm going to get bagged on for this, but i'm really just trying to help those who are fading if they have facebook or are on any social media outlets.. first off let's review.. .com stands for commercial.
.net stands for network.
....etc.. so facebook.com is a commercial site, meaning they are trying to sell you something....or specialized advertising trying to get you to buy something because of your browsing history.
By Susan Gunelius,
On October 7, 2010, Facebook opened up the Facebook groups feature to allow anyone with a Facebook account to arbitrarily add any other Facebook user that the person is "friends" with (meaning they have a connection on Facebook) to any group he or she chooses without asking first. In other words, beware of your Facebook "friends" adding you to random groups that you've never heard of or have no interest in.
News of the new feature spread quickly across the Internet, as PCWorld reported, "when technology blogger Michael Arrington, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis all found themselves added to a group called NAMBLA. It wasn't immediately clear what this page was set up for, but NAMBLA is an acronym for the completely unsavory North American Man/Boy Love Association."
Calacanis sent an email to Zuckerberg stating he was concerned to find himself added to a Facebook group without having the chance to opt-in first. It turned out that Zuckerberg was added to the group by Arrington who typed in Zuckerberg's name (who is his Facebook friend) and clicked a button to test the new group feature out. He learned that what he suspected was true -- anyone could arbitrarily add any friend to any group. Zuckerberg quickly removed himself from the group, and Arrington found himself no longer able to add Zuckerberg to any other groups.
So what is really happening with the Facebook groups feature that you need to be aware of as a Facebook user? The following points outline what you need to know from the information available to users:
Unfortunately, there is no way, at the time of this article's writing, to block friends from adding you to groups without asking your permission first under the new Facebook groups feature, as theFacebook Help documentation explains.
