i was a jw from infancy.
we had a melting pot type of congregation.
i grew up with all types of witnesses , all with different backgrounds.
And for those of us elders who served for years think back to meeting time rotations!
We never asked the Spanish if they wanted to rotate into Sundays. We (white privileged men) were #1 too coward to have to deal with the backlash after announcing to the cong that they would have to endure Saturday meetings, #2 were unwilling give up Sunday football, #3 assumed the Spanish "love their Saturday slot" so why even ask them.
i was a jw from infancy.
we had a melting pot type of congregation.
i grew up with all types of witnesses , all with different backgrounds.
A black brother gave a public talk at our all white KH one Sunday, had his son turn the lights off at a predetermined point, and made the statement loudly into the microphone..."turn the lights off and we're all black".
Yeah, um, JWs are generally racists. Both from what he said and the backlash over his "stunt" that led to me having to give a local needs several weeks later from all the nasty gossip.
i haven’t posted in a while, but i wanted to share.
so my brother-in-law was dfd a couple of weeks ago.
his mom & dad are hardcore jws so they are full shunning, but told him to hurry back.
It's a social and emotional form of modern-day torture.
On the other side of what ultimately is only short-term torture, exists an amazing freedom in every way.
One bad day outside the Watchtower cult is better than a thousand good days in it. This is something that seems best appreciated over time.
did anyone else have a parent who could be described as highly narcissistic who was a jw?
how was that for you growing up?
which was worse - the narcissistic religion or the narcissistic parent?.
Yep, both.
And they made me... Narcissistic JW Jr.
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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They are allowed to remain special full time servants (which includes a monthly allowance) and many given a KH apartment in their new "assignment" with most expenses covered by the cong/circuit.
every single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..
The better question would be:
Did anyone ever turn in a truthful report card?
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).
Bingo LongHairedGal.
All I would add is you need to project "am broke/injured". If you do than you'll be the hero who's modest and humble, recognizing that you have to "step down in order to step up to Jehovah."
And on the night your deletion is announced maneuver things to get yourself on that platform to say the closing prayer. That'll buy you a shard load of acceptance.
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?
Pioneered in the SE USA because it was a requirement to go into the circuit work.
No good memories other than the narcissistic ones that accompanied being a CO brown nosing, spiritual lobotamy giving, pedophile protector.
As a 4th gen, Caucasian, Mandarin bible study conducting, Uberdub...that woke up via the the very org that trains its member's to stay asleep...everything she said rings true.
think of how much time and money the tower stole from any who were in the cult.
think of the vacations as a child you could have taken with your families the memories you could have made instead of sitting in a hot bs week of echo talks and propaganda.
they stole so much from us.
Not only did they steal something from us but the WT Corporation left many of us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually f&cked for life or a large portion of whats left of it. Some calling card eh?
As stated by another I feel the same that I am SO THANKFUL that all our children, their children, their children's children, will not have to shun or be shunned. And by the time my great grand-children are on earth, the WT will be gone.
