during the height of the pandemic all elders had to report to the co anyone who was struggling with bills or who couldn’t pay the rent.
the co reported it to the branch.. i don’t know what happens next.
do the branch help at all?
LOngHairGal:
I don’t think the elders in our congregation give a rats ass about poor people. They are too busy going on vacation, playing sports, moving to more prestigious neighborhoods, riding their expensive motorcycles AND telling me I’m not spiritual enough to give a shit about some single mother that can’t afford milk for her kids.
i came across an xjw post on redditt from a rn.
she states that nearly every jw she ever treated was on anti-depressants or anti-psychotic drugs:.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/f35vaa/just_about_every_jw_i_come_across_is_on/ i once read somewhere that 1 in 5 jw's were on anti-depressants, but i couldn't find any documentation.
50% of my immediate family(brothers, sisters, parents ) are on meds. My elde BIL isn’t that I know of but he’s a drunk.
fourteen years ago i started a thread on how horrible my disfellowshipped cousin was treated after his mom passed away and the terrible actions on the part of the elders at the funeral home.. 67. horrible conduct by congregation elders at my cousin's funeral.............. well, here we are 14 years later, and things haven't changed!.
my aunt ( who is my disfellowshipped cousin's grandmother ) was placed in home hospice care.
the nurse told her daughters ( who are jehovah's witnesses and live with their mother ) that their mom probably has 2 days left to live and that they should call the immediate family.. my disfellowshipped cousin and his sister show up in the early morning.
Who’s house is it anyway?
during the height of the pandemic all elders had to report to the co anyone who was struggling with bills or who couldn’t pay the rent.
the co reported it to the branch.. i don’t know what happens next.
do the branch help at all?
The elders here don’t seem to give a shit about the congregants monetary situation.
As a business owner we from time to time get gift cards from some of our vendors and customers at Christmas time and other times of the year. We are doing good enough that we don’t need them and pass the generosity of our clients on to others.
I offered to give the gift cards valued at several hundred dollars for gas, groceries and I think a few prepaid visas to the elders to distribute anonymously to needy members of the congregation. I don’t need to know who is in need and they don’t need to know who the giver is.
The elders said the congregation doesn’t do that and by the way your field service report for last month is late.
what is spiritual warfare to you?
i experienced a situation that i could clearly say was spiritual warfare.
but that was something i could only see years laters.
Spiritual warfare=lies
either you think the governing body was correct giving direction to be fully vaccinated and do you will keep getting the boosters, or.... if you don’t think the boosters are safe and you decide not to keep getting them then you are admitting that the direction was wrong.. if the direction was indeed harming brothers and sister who kept going to get these injections because of the covid updates then this is a huge wake up call?.
how could this direction from the gb who are i doubt jehovah give such harmful direction?.
Are any of the governing body members medical professionals that are qualified to give medical advice?
What about privacy laws? Does the congregation keep your medical history private as required by secular law?
didn't know silicon valley bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.
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system seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. thoughts?.
The fed and other central banks just print up some more Monopoly money and life goes on. They’ve been doing this for the last 52 years and the average citizen hasn’t figured out why they’re working so hard for so little.
study article 19. how can we strengthen our faith in jehovah’s promise of a new world?.
17 many servants of jehovah have applied jehovah’s counsel to “keep in expectation”—even for decades.
louise, for example, began serving jehovah in 1939. she says: “at that time, i thought armageddon would come before i finished high school.
Is Louise still alive?
facts for shareholders-1917-november-15th.
the watch tower society is not a religious society for public worship, such as a church, but is a business corporation, not for profit, and statutes requiring religious corporations of that nature to have three directors in pennsylvania do not apply.. .
scan: click image to enlarge.. https://postimg.cc/vgw9vymx.
don't complain if you get kicked out of bethel after 23 years (it's really a blessing to be assigned back to the field) and don't complain if they sell your kingdom hall even if you have just invested your time and energy renovating it.. so encouraging?.
I’ve got jw relatives approaching 60 wanting to retire and it probably won’t happen. Never bethelites but pioneered and eldered most of their adult lives
