Posts by hoser

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My Most Memorable Circuit & District Overseers

by MillennialDawn in

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friends

i would love to hear from anyone who may have encountered the following the traveling overseers:.

david wesley - an incredibly kind and humble man.

just the most down-to-earth co you'll ever find.

hoser

wannaexit3 days ago

My most memorable was Wayne Johnson. He was so stuck up and made a whole bunch of rules for other to follow. A real ass. I heard he was later removed from his lofty DO throne. He served in Canada and particularly in Ontario

I remember him. I was too young to know what kind of a prick he really was but older people have filled me in.
Larry Erickson. He made grown men cry. One elder actually stepped down before Larry’s visit because he knew he was out (shift worker) and didn’t want to endure being bullied by Erickson.
Terry Attick. Manipulative prick. Obsessed with talking about the dangers porn with the elders and ministerial servants. I think he was viewing it secretly and projecting. That guy would interfere in everyone’s lives and broke up many boyfriend/ girlfriend couples. He belittled my wife and children to their faces. Not a pleasant person to be around.

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A registered sex-offender became a ministerial servant; he’s now in prison for assaulting child

by Tahoe in

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-registered-sex-offender-became-a-ministerial-servant-for-jehovah-s-witnesses-in-springfield-he-s-now-in-prison-for-assaulting-child/ar-aa1h4vjg.

a level 3 sex offender who moved to springfield and secured a role with the jehovah’s witnesses religious organization is now in prison.

jay aaron smith, 62, was sentenced recently in hampden superior court to 15 years in prison for several counts of indecent assault and battery on a child.

hoser

They lied about not reporting as well.

They told the media they reported but in fact didn’t.

Do jws think the police are stupid?

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Annual meeting 2023....

by mikeflood in

any news?

it should be pretty soon....

hoser

They are masters at begging for money.

By turning a legal, fiscal requirement into a religious event they can guilt the attendees into $$$$

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Retirement savings

by TxNVSue2023 in

what's the current jw stance on retirement savings?

i know it changed.

pre1975 it was an attitude of "don't worry about retirement, this system is ending soon".

hoser

I see many Jehovahs witnesses that earn more than sufficient income but can’t manage their finances. They spend it as fast or faster than they earn it.

I think part of the problem is the “We’re in the last, last, last part of the final part of the last days” bullshit that the governing body spews from their pie holes. One thing of certainly is this: The governing body, circuit overseer, body of elders don’t give a shit about your financial future or retirement. What they care about is your meeting attendance, field service report and time that you donate to building kingdum hauls. It’s nothing to do with you but all about them.

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Observation

by Gorb in

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friends

today i noticed 2 jw's and chart on the quest moment and the quest possible place.

looked tyred, ignorent and no kingdom smile.

what is going on with the motivation of the jw?.

hoser

I would actually go as far to say that the org pads the numbers at every level to appear to be more charitable than they really are and to keep the person above you off your back. I just can’t imagine the hassle the circuit overseer would give to an elder body with low hours.

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Disfellowshipped for Fornication

by TxNVSue2023 in

hi i want to tell my story and get advice.

i'm a single sister ( in usa) that has been baptized for 20 years.

i came from the world, so did not grow up in the truth and i have no family in the truth -- i am alone.. last year i met a brother & we did have premarital sex while we were dating.

hoser

Knowing what I know now if I were in that situation I would vehemently deny having sex before marrying, referring to the two witness rule.

Honest people get to eat all the shit in life while abusive con artists like your ex husband screw you over in more ways than one. I would have thrown him under the bus for what he did to you

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JW elders TAUGHT to treat Higher Education as WRONG!

by BoogerMan in

in this jw training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other jw's by pursuing higher education.

🤣.

@ 13.35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2ohrbdm-c.

hoser

People need to learn to not become emotionally attached to a situation. It’s too easy for others to control you.

One elder I knew carried a resignation letter in his briefcase. He was a good elder but wouldn’t allow himself to be manipulated.

When things got heated he would pull out the letter and offer to hand it to the PO. That would end the conversation and he would remain an elder.

Going through any kind of meeting as depicted in this video is demeaning, humiliating and likely to cause life long trauma.

Pimo elders. Have your resignation letter ready to hand to them.

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JW elders TAUGHT to treat Higher Education as WRONG!

by BoogerMan in

in this jw training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other jw's by pursuing higher education.

🤣.

@ 13.35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2ohrbdm-c.

hoser

LongHairGal:

The words I should have used were strongly discourage their members from attending university.

You or your kids can go to university but you will be soft shunned by the group.

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JW elders TAUGHT to treat Higher Education as WRONG!

by BoogerMan in

in this jw training video, an elder gets deleted because his daughter has "stumbled" other jw's by pursuing higher education.

🤣.

@ 13.35 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u2ohrbdm-c.

hoser

I watched the elder training video online and I will say that they portrayed brother brown as a pompous, belligerent person that should have never been an elder in the first place.

This was done on purpose to associate elders that just want a better life for their kids as total assholes when they are probably more reasonable than that.

The irony is that the borganization begs for people with university level skills to help at bethel yet in effect doesn’t let their members attend university.

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Customers being frozen out of their bank accounts for political views is a very worrying trend ...

by LoveUniHateExams in

yeah, so i know nigel farage is a bit of an abrasive twat.. he no doubt holds views that other people disagree with.. but that doesn't mean his bank can just tell him to sod off and freeze his accounts.. such a thing might go on in commie china or authoritarian russia.

no doubt hitler closed lots of jewish people's accounts in nazi germany, too.. but the fact that it is happening here, in the yew-kay, is pretty chilling when you consider this country is supposed to champion freedoms, including the one to hold and express varying political views.. this seems to be part of a trend to delegitimise and cancel people who hold certain views.. i remember looking at a yt video of richard dawkins questioning muslim journalist mehdi hassan about his belief in flying horses and muhammad.

all fair analysis and criticism by dawkins until he suggested that hassan shouldn't be a journalist because of his beliefs.

hoser

It’s really hard to explain what is going on. It’s more of a blue collar worker uprising. I think they would have been more effective if everyone just stayed at home. 5 days the grocery stores would be empty.

The same essential workers that risked their health at the beginning of the pandemic were now being fired for refusing the untested, unproven vax.