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  What happens to Bethelites?

  by rickroll in

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  so if someone puts their life into serving the cult for free at bethel, then say after 25 or 30 years they are not able to for one reason or another such as illness, or family issue or old age, does the cult have any safety net for these people or is it you serve until you can't and when you can't you just go away?

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  When we left missionary-service in 1999, after almost a year in Brooklyn, and went back to Europe, we got our tickets as a loan.. As we served before at the branch of our country, the brothers here (not the initiative of HQ) were kind enough to offer us a three months allowance as special pioneers, without hours requirements, until we would arrange our life. No housing, nothing. In fact we were reasonable enough to recognise we all did it voluntarily. So soon I found a job as a sales advisor for a UK company, and we got a reasonable apartment after two or three months. What was an eye-opener that even well-done relatives, all elders didn’t give a shyt and never helped us.

  What is funny is I have now friends with the same weird back-grounds as I have. For instance a SAS veteran, who started as a plumber in my company, now a friend. He talks about killing people with the same lack of feelings I have in life. Killing this Al Baghdadi was a laugh to him this morning... they are all cowards, those Arabs, when it was their turn,every single one shitted and wet themselves...
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  PIMO Elder with a Dilemma

  by xjwsrock in

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  i haven’t been on here in awhile and this is my second user name because i was busted by my pimi wife on the first one.

  i have been basically awake since 2013. i have a super dub wife that i love and don’t want to lose and my sick mom in the hall that is a true believer.

  stupid religion has gotten between my wife and i (of course).

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  I would advice you to hand over your letter of resignation. Or send it to them by mail. I did so in 2001 when my wife was visiting family far away. It felt very good, I felt free . Your wife will get over it.
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  Good memories of full-time service?

  by fulano in

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  perhaps not a topic for everybody... mine.. in both sp service in a foreign field in europe , the freedom and helping people to read and write in spanish .

  doing a lot of work in the congregations.. in missionary-service.. helping congregations in a third-world country and see good results in family relations.

  and the siestas from 13:00 to 15:00..... who has good memories of bethel?

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  I understand your situation when you are saying you were forced to go out in field service. I graduated from high school in June 1976. My parents didn’t give me a brake. I had to do aux.p. , I think it was 75 hours a month. 16 Years old ...a hot summer and nobody to go with me. Parents? They may burn in hell...
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  Good memories of full-time service?

  by fulano in

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  perhaps not a topic for everybody... mine.. in both sp service in a foreign field in europe , the freedom and helping people to read and write in spanish .

  doing a lot of work in the congregations.. in missionary-service.. helping congregations in a third-world country and see good results in family relations.

  and the siestas from 13:00 to 15:00..... who has good memories of bethel?

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  fulano

  Perhaps not a topic for everybody..

  Mine.. in both sp service in a foreign field in Europe , the freedom and helping people to read and write in Spanish . Doing a lot of work in the congregations.

  In missionary-service.. helping congregations in a third-world country and see good results in family relations. And the siestas from 13:00 to 15:00....

  Who has good memories of bethel? ... I dont :):)
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  What happens to Bethelites?

  by rickroll in

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  so if someone puts their life into serving the cult for free at bethel, then say after 25 or 30 years they are not able to for one reason or another such as illness, or family issue or old age, does the cult have any safety net for these people or is it you serve until you can't and when you can't you just go away?

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  I dont know the current rules of course, as my main concerns are not jw related after 20 years. But I remember that our missionary guide, which one had to sign annually, stated that a missionary could consider his home as permanent after 15 years of service. As our bethel service always had been temporary others might fill me in on this. Co’s and SP’s are disposable stuff, that is what I remember.
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  elders wont pray for someone?

  by AuntBee in

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  a former member said that elders told a relative of his after she was dfed that they would not be praying for her.

  is that some kind of policy, or were they just doing their own thing in that instance?

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  Exactly... a miserable moment. Most of them leave very sad.
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  elders wont pray for someone?

  by AuntBee in

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  a former member said that elders told a relative of his after she was dfed that they would not be praying for her.

  is that some kind of policy, or were they just doing their own thing in that instance?

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  After a committee Made the decision to disfellowship someone and told it to the person during the meeting, they just split up and leave. No prayer. I always found it a very odd moment.
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  Unique JW Phrases 101

  by Solzhenitsyn in

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  what unique to jws phrases do you remember?

  something fun for those of us taught to speak an entirely unique and pure language.

  there have been posts in the past in this forum but perhaps some have new ones after having kept up with jehovah's chariot as the light gets brighter.

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  Unique JW Phrases 101

  by Solzhenitsyn in

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  what unique to jws phrases do you remember?

  something fun for those of us taught to speak an entirely unique and pure language.

  there have been posts in the past in this forum but perhaps some have new ones after having kept up with jehovah's chariot as the light gets brighter.

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  Morning worship

  Home overseer

  Cooking day

  PEA
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  How Long Did It Take To Finally Leave The Organization Once You Realized It Was Really Not The Truth?

  by minimus in

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  it actually took me a few years to finally leave the organization so i was mentally out for a while before i simply stopped all meetings altogether.. how long did it take you to finally make the break?

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  fulano

  We divorced in 2004. At that time she attended the meetings and was active. Since that moment I have never seen her again..So I dont know.