Betheliesalot

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  Reddit thread Warning young JWs that ‘Spiritual Goals’ are Not a Career!

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as somebody who worked full-time when i was in the witness religion, this topic naturally caught my eye.. many of the responses are heartfelt.

  there are about 90 at this point.

  from what i read so far.. many are people who woke up before they got old but even these are resentful over their life being derailed with wasted time pursuing spiritual goals and having to start over at a later age getting an education/job.. i imagine born-in young jws would be most susceptible to this.. in today’s world, a ‘career’ is something that earns you a living.. as many of the responses there will say: anybody who pursues ‘spiritual goals’ only will end up with wasted time in the end with no money and no retirement plan… i couldn’t agree more.. it would be a shame if this happens to yet more jws..

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  Betheliesalot

  In the 80,S , I would volunteer for overtime just to get out of going to a boring meeting, what a blessing that was which led to making better pay, higher positions and now a very comfortable pension plus SS. Those rythemic voices from the platform,were nothing but wolves in sheep,s clothing out to scam those that blindly listened to their false reasonings. So grateful I moved on and woke up
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  Hotel Bossert, a storied hotel on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, was sold

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  memories..... a 1970s-1980s meetup location to grab a ride to local trips on the subway...or a bite on montague st.. brooklyn heights hotel to be turned into homes.

  the hotel bossert, a storied hotel on montague street in brooklyn heights, was sold to someraroad, a new york city and nashville-based real estate investment and development firm.. bk reader staffmay 31, 2025 10:00 amjun 2, 2025 9:20 am.

  photo: supplied/jim.henderson via wikimedia commonslisten to this article00:01:23. .

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  Betheliesalot

  Just to compare , in1977 I drove. My brother to NYC for his new position at Sloan Kettering, and looking on our own found him a tiny apartment above a disco on 5th ave for $360/mo till he could get housing at their student residences a few blocks away. So much blo at the residences, I would get buzzed just walking in there.
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  Channel C ex-jws bios from long ago/several

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://sites.google.com/view/channelc2-experiences/experiences/barbara-joe-anderson .

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  Betheliesalot

  Great insight into this high control group of men, who deceive themselves and others that god is in charge. Interesting to know I might have crossed Barbara,s trail when living in WPB in 1961. She would know Bazarr International mall back then and the best NY pizza in Fla.
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  Just because Jehovah had to prove His Right To Rule? I don't think so!

  by liam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we get old because jehovah had to prove to all the angels that his way of ruling was the best?

  that's the sorriest argument the watchtower has come up with.

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/11hz_jqjkjo.

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  Betheliesalot

  Need a laugh button….
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  Luke 23:43 the NWT

  by Ade in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  luke 23:43 - and jesus said to him, "positively i say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.

  nwt places comma here , giving a totally different meaning to the verse.

  now the average jw uses this to back their doctrine and it seems in itself virtually impossible to reason with them on it.

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  Betheliesalot

  Concerning the rich man parable, I would ask a JW why would Jesus use one of satan,s lies, that we are conscious after death, to teach a parable? According to JW speak, we are unconscious at death, which Jesus should have known when he told the rich man parable. Jesus knowingly used a lie? Not
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  What do you see?

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you see a man with a backpack running into the woods?.

  do you see a dog running out of the woods?.

  i saw the man running first .... .

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  Betheliesalot

  reminds me of the Mandela effect.
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  Zoom meetings

  by molybdenum in

  1. social
  2. humour

  being pimo i attend the meetings regularly over zoom.

  ( i have to as my wife is a dyed -in - the wool, and stick-in-the mud pioneer witness.

  i have no possibility of leaving as it would create havoc in my life and at 68 years of age i just don't want the hassle of having to cope with the ramifications of disassociating myself.

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  Betheliesalot

  Im similar to you as I never bought in to the bs, but my spouse is 45 years in and cant stand to hear any negative words about the GB or the troof. So I set her up on the mac and then sling it to the 75 inch screen with apple tv. works great, she gets seen and Im in another room sometimes with adult beverages. Most time all they say is Hello and goodbye, but on her morning pionier boasting session, they talk about just what most worldly people talk about but inserting the big J once in a while makes it ok. I try to leave when its on, cause I might blurt out something that she don't like ,so I go play with my dogs, cause they don't care what I think. One thing they boast about is how wonderful the GB is for getting ahead of this pandemic before the world did, (which is a lie_)
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  Movies about JWs

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have seen many movies or shows that make a passing reference to jehovah's witnesses but very few dwell on jws.

  some like a deadly devotion episode i saw once tells a true story but the portal of jws is all wrong.

  by movies i am not talking of documentaries.

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  https://vimeo.com/160789542

  Dateline has done a few stories
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  What useful piece of literature have the JW produced?

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  seeing on another post here about former jws throwing away literature.

  i am curious as to the various opinions on there value.. for me i have been inactive for 3 years almost 4. i still have alot of books and of course all their bibles ever produced (except a few from the 1800s.).

  in my opinion i think there are four books the jws produced that are useful:.

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  Betheliesalot

  Just to use one of many of their own illustrations, If any truth has only 1% of false information, then the whole of the truth is 100% false. Like putting a drop of poison in a bucket of water, it pollutes all of it. You can get new light out of some magazines, by just throwing them in the fireplace.
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  One State bucking the Trend-------TEXAS

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as thanksgiving is just around the corner, just about all the states are implementing total lock-down with high penalties on any citizen who disobeys.

  but what is the deal with texas!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh0fg5gqhvw.

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  Betheliesalot

  In Hawaii they are so constricting that loud laughter has been banned as well. Now you can only do a low HA.