Posts by life is to short

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Has The Society, or Any Bro or Sis, Ever Screwed You Out Of Your Money?

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this thread was inspired because of 3rdgn, and her asking, on behalf of her destitute elderly widowed mom,.

for the return of her mother's "conditional loan" to the society of $20,000.00.. (this was stated today, under my thread of, "what was the effect on you of knowing hypocritical jw's?").

the society more or less yes, no, it is now our money, and you can't have it back.

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When I was a dumb kid of 18 years in the hall and working part time on minium wage there was a couple in the hall who had two kids. They decided they needed new carpet. Now I was living on my own and struggling to make it with no family to help me. I was always so afraid of not having enough moeny and no one to fall back on that I saved 10% of the little I made (an emergency fund) in case I lost my low paying job. Now I had $500.00 in my saving it was all I had to my name. For some reason this couple could not get a loan from the bank and stupid me I told them I had this savings. I let them borrow the money with no interest.

When it came time to pay me back the wife was so rude and threw the money at me. I was just a kid of 18 she was pusing 40. Finally she told me it was not fare that I had money in savings. I was blown away and I said I work hard for it she said and to quote her "I do not care how you got the money it is just not fair that you have it."

I have so many stories of the greed of ones in the religion but I am finding it is also outside. People are people good and bad, some will help you when you need it and other will take when you are down. You just need to be careful who you trust. The thing is in the JW's we are taught that we are all brothers and sisters and should trust without question. That is so dangerous.

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Check this out- JW Car Lot

by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

http://www.circuitvehicles.com/home/.

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Tech49

When I was at Bethel the rumor had it that Judah Ben's father-in-law was a Buick car dealer and thats why then went with them as he got them a huge cut in price. He apparantly had has a ton of money. When Judah Ben got married her dad chartered the Circle Line cruse around Manhattan and only the GB and the big wigs were invited. None of the low caste at Bethel had a prayer of going. This was told to me by my overseer who was very bitter at it. I was blowen away at his bitterness at the time as I was new to Bethel and thought the GB walked on water. Now I know why he was bitter.

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OMG Have you seen this?? This site is sooo hysterical. It reminds me of The Onion, but for exJW's

by noni1974 in

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http://jehovahstrumpet.com.

i read the cat baptisim article and i doubled over laughing.

one time when i was a kid i asked why my kitty couldn't go to the kh with us and my mom told me that animals were perfect and didn't need to go to the kh.. .

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I loved it thanks.

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I told my mother to stop contacting me

by kyria in

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after two months of terribly abusive emails from my mother telling me that i "am not capable of appreciating true love" and her weird delusions that i have no friends and my life is a mess, i finally cut her off.

i blocked her email address, and i told her to stop contacting me.

yes, the jehovah?s witnesses.

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LoisLane

I am fairly sure Kyria is the one who wrote "I'm perfect your doomed". If you have not read it yet I recommend it. You can get it from Amazon. I do not know if anyone else knows for sure if this is the same Kyria but I think it is. She is a great writer.

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The New Diary of Winston Smith

by WinstonSmith in

we had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.

fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.

i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.

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Former Elders? What did you not like about serving as an elder?

by JakeM2012 in

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a few of my pet peeves were:.

the po/cobe knowing that he needed to have an elders meeting after the meeting but not telling any other elders.

humm, but his wife knew.

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As an elders wife I hated the way it was just expected that I would wait in the car for hours and hours on end for a surprise elders meeting knowing I had to get up at 5:00 in the morning to go to work. They way it was just expected that I had to use our car in field service and put in more people in it then the law allowed because no one else wanted to use their cars. Never having my husband home when I needed him because he was out doing some elder thing to help some one else.

Listening to other sisters going on about the fun date nights they had with their husband and when I planed a date night with my husband it was always canceled because of some elder thing coming up. Being told by the CO that I was selfish because I wanted time with my husband when I was newly married, the CO told me 'I could have my husband in the new system as Jehovah needed him now.

Never having a family life, being told by others that my husband owed it to them to be at their home to help them when I was dying inside because I had no one, no friends and no family. Having ones ask for money, and rides to meeting and help to pioneer while they were on welfare and I worked. Having to have everyone in the book study over when it was our turn to feed the speaker, with no one else ever offering to help.

The list goes on and on.

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Please Share one of your Favourite Quotations

by cofty in

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have you ever come across words that resonate with you?

it doesn't have to be a great gem of wisdom, just something that is meaningful to you.. please share, and if you want to, tell us why it's meaningful to you.. here is something that made me nod when i first read it.... .

"fortunate are those who have learned to see, in the wild things of nature, something to be loved, something to be wondered at, something to be reverenced, for they have found the key to a never-failing source of recreation and refreshment".

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When you have compassion for evil, it shows disdain for the innocent. Dr. Laura

The fly in the vinegar was happy until he got out and tasted honey.

It easier to fool people then to convince them that they have been fooled. Mark Twain

A man with experience is not at the mercy of a man with an an opinion.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of the truth. Albert Einstein

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Wait on Jehovah - What does is it truly mean?

by ProfCNJ in

good evening folks!

we have encountered this advice countlessly on wt study articles.

this especially comes out to ease the waiting pain of brothers eagerly waiting for god's new world and the end of the old system of things - with all the sufferings that go along with it.. i also noticed this being floated to try to extend the patience of brothers who are jumping ahead of the organization in terms of thinking - as if they are pre-empting the organization on certain sensitive views and issues.. if a brother has gotten an idea or insight that is far more superior than the present affairs in the society, or regarded as way in advance - he can be branded as a brother "not in order".

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I was told to wait on Jehovah when I was concerned that some child might be harmed by one of the child molesters we had in the hall.

The CO even told me that it was not my place to worry about such things ( I am after all only a lowly woman in a man's world) and even if the worst case happened and child was molested Jehovah would wipe that memory out of their minds in the new system.

The answer I got was I just needed to wait on Jehovah to fix the problem, because not telling parents did not make sense to me but if that was the way the Faithful Slave wants it then I should not question it.

By the way Tim Hopper loved your post, how truly sad is that toomstone.

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800-why-1914 helpline, Marilyn Zweifel

by coffee_black in

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for many years, since the mid 80s, marilyn zweifel manned the help-line.

several months ago, the help-line stopped due to marilyn's serious health issues.

marilyn was hospitalized a few weeks ago.. she has serious health issues and has suffered from 2 serious falls... she is now in a nursing home.

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I am so sorry to hear this. I think we all owe her a hug amount of gratitude for all of her hard work. I myself have never spoken to her but I have heard only good about her and how much she did to help those who were so depressed and in need when they felt so alone after leaning TTATT.

My thoughts are with her and her husband.

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Hi, my name is Brock Talon. Yes, I'm a recovering JW-aholic.

by LivingTheDream in

hi, my name is brock talon.

yes, i'm a recovering jw-aholic.. .

my addiction started just around my 6th birthday.

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I love that analogy of the religion being a drug. I have thought about that a lot since I woke up to it not being the "truth".

It is so much like getting a high. It starts when you are young and do a demo on the service meeting or even before that when you are three or four years old and you raise your hand to answer a question from the WT. Everyone is so proud of you and you get a high off it and then you chase it the rest of your life only you have to do more and more and more to get the same high and it is never as good as that first high.

When you are in your teens when all of the other kids are out having fun in the summer camping, swimming, just being kids doing and making memory's. You dress up in hot cloths and auxiliary pioneer but then that is not enough so you are pushed to drop out of school to reg pioneer at least where I lived that was encouraged. Soon that is not enough to get the high and as a women there is not much more room to do anything and so you loose the high which pushes you try and try to do more.

I was able as a women to go to Bethel but not many are and even at Bethel you never get the high you seek as you never can do enough even there.

After awhile you are a true addict away's wanting that first high that you can never get again and you wake up one day realizing that you wasted your life chasing a drug that will never give you fulfillment.

Thank you Living a Dream for all you have done, looking forward to reading your book.

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