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  Change in WT Stance on Retirement? A qualified answer?

  by blondie in

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  i was reading the march 2025 wt today, and i notice this: "march 2025 p. 29 jehovah’s hand is not too short p.29-31 (retirement, but qualified statement) (notice , it is not wrong, but, in the end we must rely on their god.

  retirement is alluded to as "making the quest for material things the focus of our life.

  " are we confident that their god will provide (why have retirement then?

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  Blondie

  maybe they want people to save up so they can go after their retirement funds.
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  The Governing Body is Restructuring the Org.and encouranging young ones to REACH OUT!

  by liam in

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  the governing body just doesn't let up on encouraging the young children to reach out to do free labor for the organization.

  so another generation of young people with ruined lives.

  another generation of young people that will get old and wake up in their 50s to realize they were in a religious doomsday cult.. and they are getting rid of some old workers that ran the branches of the organization, and giving them different assignments or maybe they are just sending them home, who knows.

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  Beth sarim

  week after next’s watchtower study is about why saving for retirement is following the Bible’s advise.

  I’m sure that will piss off more than one boomer.
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  Putin was almost killed.

  by liam in

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  if you have been seeing the world news, you probably aware that zelensky launch a drown attack on putin and almost killed him.

  putin lost it and hit ukraine with the largest drone and missile attack of war so far, killing not only soldiers by many civilians.

  even trump has said putin has changed.

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  July 14 2024

  a few centimeters would have definitely changed where we are today for better or worse depending on who you are and where you stand.

  Funny this event has pretty much disappeared off the radar.

  Did they ever come up with a motive or were there others acting behind the scenes?
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  Is there a new rule regarding disfellowshipped people?

  by HOTB in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone have any information about a relaxing of the rules regarding family reaching out to disfellowshipped members?.

  i've heard of an elder being openly in touch with a long time disfellowshipped family member.

  apparently the term 'compassionate view' had been bandied about.. i can't find anything relating to this.. i'd be interested what the new rule is in when came into play.. hotb .

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  It’s the free labour they want which they can turn into money.

  I know people who have been df’d for decades and two elders wave their magic wand and presto they are back in good standing. Just like that.

  One who has building skills was immediately asked to go on the ldc like nothing ever happened. No restrictions whatsoever.

  Funny that for some privileges you have to wait 3 to 5 years after reinstatement to get back but plumbing in toilets on commercial real estate you can do the weekend after the announcement.
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  The Governing Body is Restructuring the Org.and encouranging young ones to REACH OUT!

  by liam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the governing body just doesn't let up on encouraging the young children to reach out to do free labor for the organization.

  so another generation of young people with ruined lives.

  another generation of young people that will get old and wake up in their 50s to realize they were in a religious doomsday cult.. and they are getting rid of some old workers that ran the branches of the organization, and giving them different assignments or maybe they are just sending them home, who knows.

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  LHG:

  The same people that were/are condescending to us for working are now expecting a handout from the same diligent hands they criticized.
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  You Could Be Stuck in a University When Your Parent Dies. Convention Day 2 Video

  by liam in

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  the governing body is going all out at this years convention.

  they are still discouraging university education.

  i guess the end must be real close .

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  LongHairGal:

  It is expensive to be a Jehovah’s Witness in good standing. Maybe this is why so many failed to save.

  1. You need to own a 4 door car, suv or minivan and make it available clean and ready to use in door to door. If you are eager to please others your car will be used to drive the farthest on the worst roads.

  2. You need to own and maintain the Jehovah’s Witness uniforms. Dress clothes, dress shoes and boots and winter wear.

  3. You are limited in your employment opportunities. You can’t work shifts that interfere with “spiritual” activities thus limiting you to a 9 to 5 monday to Friday job that are usually reserved for those with some academic training which you can’t do either.

  4. Your friends keep you poor. If you are a good jw you will have good jw friends that will discourage you from topping off your 401k or rrsp or any other savings. You won’t think about the future as they don’t . You will be involved with the ldc in doing Kingdom Hall building and repair and you will have to pay your own way there and back and it will take up a lot of you weekends that you could be earning money elsewhere or just spending time relaxing.

  5. The circuit overseer keeps you poor. I’ve seen this one play out countless times. When the kids leave home and you are in your 50’s, maybe you just paid off your mortgage and are in a good place at work the circuit overseer will want to love bomb recruit you into need greater work.

  This of course means you and your spouse need to quit your jobs, sell your house and move to some remote failing congregation and prematurely spend your money doing all of the above. This is the big mistake. When the money is gone, your house is gone and you are out of your profession for 10 years it is over. You can’t go back to your job and your house and you are too old to do good paying work.
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  Why do they want to kill all the White People?

  by liam in

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  the hatred against whites is escalating to an unprecedented degree.

  in south africa, they are calling for complete genocide of white people.

  for some reason they are targeting all the white farmers.. i’m so glad trump noticed.

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  A few years ago I sold one of my rental houses to a South African farmer who relocated to Canada . They are Boers, not British. He told me his neighbor farmer in SOuth Africa was murdered and didn’t want to raise his kids there.

  The violence is real but possibly not politically motivated
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  Why do they want to kill all the White People?

  by liam in

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  2. current

  the hatred against whites is escalating to an unprecedented degree.

  in south africa, they are calling for complete genocide of white people.

  for some reason they are targeting all the white farmers.. i’m so glad trump noticed.

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  Y’all forgot about the South African white on white violence, concentration camps and purges of the Boer wars 1.0 and 2.0

  Seems like it’s just a violent place to be.
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

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  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  Americans will soon pay more for your groceries and dry goods at Walmart.
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  You Could Be Stuck in a University When Your Parent Dies. Convention Day 2 Video

  by liam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the governing body is going all out at this years convention.

  they are still discouraging university education.

  i guess the end must be real close .

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  Nathan Natas

  Neither my wife nor I were born with the intelligence or family background to become medical doctors.

  We were just not university material and there are only so many openings in the system for specialized training and the university obviously takes the best candidates. Basically a rare few can be doctors. The rest of us have to figure it out on our own.

  Neither me nor my wife are ashamed of our abilities or disabilities depending on how you look at it,

  I am definitely pro education but it has to be focused on a marketable skill and monetized. In addition to that the money has to be managed properly unless you want to be flat assed broke when you are 70 years old.