If that is 62 they have a few years to go.
Posts by BU2B
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75My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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Tight Pants Tony Made The News
by thedepressedsoul inif you go to google and just type in, jehovah witness about 10 different articles pop up about tonys comment with the gays wanting men in tight pants!
i didnt play with any other google words yet but comment is getting a lot of publicity!.
he done goofed on that one!.
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BU2B
He has gone too far this time. In my neck of the woods, JWs are returning their recently purchaced leggings back to Macys, and buying sweatpants. Its sad to see. The judgementalism just in the past 2 days has been soaring among the sisters.
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
Good points. Maybe I should bring out that scripture where it says, "he gave SOME as evangelizers, SOME as Sheperds and teachers" I could say Maybe Gods path for him is to be a sheperd, and to be a provider like the Bible commands.
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
Splash- I might sound heartless here, but so be it. I WILL NOT support someones pioneer lifestyle as they WILLFULLY turn down viable employment. Its not my problem. Since I followed the WT guidelines, I can barely make ends meet right now for me and my family. I can not and WILL not support anyone else. If I was to live with them while knowing TTATT and them as deluded and crazy cultish as they are, I truly would either blow my brains out, drink till my liver was pickled, or be institutionalized. Its going to be hard enough trying to get my kids to think for themselves without having them around too. Its just not going to happen. I cannot help those who will not help themselves. If that makes me a bad person so be it. They can "Take it up with God" or the GB. If they believe Jah will provide, let him.
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
The sad part is that pioneering is supposed to bring fulfillment and make you happy, but I can tell he is miserable. He probably does not even know why. He sees all the other pioneers are retired, vacationing, living comfortable lives. Its got to wear on you mentally. Dont they always say to have a full share for your circumstances? Why couldnt they do 30 hours a month and work? Why do they feel god would feel any less about that? Its messed up.
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JWs, Rules, Laws and the Zone Meeting
by TheListener inmy takeaway from the zone visit and the reaction of some dubs i know and some i've read on here is this:.
dubs don't care what their actual religious beliefs are or how they change but they do seem to care a lot about having any specific counsel discussed from the platform.. .
i guess this makes them a lot like everyone else, and maybe now we know what the wts achilles heel may be.. .
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BU2B
In the past, the standard of modesty was wearing clothes APPROPIATE for what you were doing. Like a swimsuit, while appropiate on the beach, would not be on Main st. Therefore workout clothes would be appropiate for WORKING OUT.
I think AMIII was just ranting, and doubt many of the other GB members would even agree with him, especially since Loesch is famous for sunbathing on the bethel roof in a speedo!
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
To give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s. Around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job. He worked as a auto mechanic making ok money. My mom has not worked in 30 years. She has been pioneering for the past 20.
Even though my mom is a skilled seamstress and tailor, she refuses to find even part time work, even laughing about it when I suggested it. My dad gets called back in to work on occasion to work a day here, a day there. His unemployment has run out and they still have to pay the mortgage, buy food, pay bills etc.
Heres where it gets crazy.. Although he has no retirement, and savings are dwindling He responded to the counsel at the assembly and decided to take advantage of his not working and applied to pioneer. Soon after this he got a job offer from an auto shop for a full tiime position 9-5 not interfering with any meetings or anything. He turned it down, since his unemployment at the time paid more. A couple months later the other mechanic at his original job that he got laid off from walked off the job, clearing a space for him to resume his full time position there. Here is where it gets crazy. He told me that he feels it is THE DEVIL offering him this job because SATAN wants him to come off the pioneer list! Let me be clear. They are getting older, have NO PLAN long term or short term other than pioneering.
This morning I asked him how he was making it? He responded that he is selling his golf club collection, classic TV show VHS tapes and DVD on ebay, even some furniture! I asked him what will happen when it runs out? He said he doesnt know but Jehovah will provide "bread" if they take things one day at a time!! Again he is TURNING DOWN MULTIPLE JOB OFFERS to pioneer and is now selling off golf clubs to pay the mortgage!
If my mom and dad both got part time jobs, they could still pioneer and if they lived simple, could make it. What they are doing now is incomprehensible to me, even as cult members. Their eyes even seem to glaze over and they have this wierd expression on their faces. Their walls and tables are lined with WT publications. I fear they are becoming more and more unbalanced and making really dubious decisions. The short sightedness is mind boggling. His savings are going down, no unemployment, and they refuse to work. All they can talk about is WT related things. When a well paying job offer is described as from Satan, that says it all.
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Zone Visit feedback, from ones still in??
by Crazyguy injust wondering if any one has heard from ones still asleep, what their feedback has been and what comments have been made by the rank and file??.
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BU2B
millie210- That reminds me of pharoah ordering the Hebrews to make bricks without the straw being provided.
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BU2B
Just kidding- This excerpt from JW facts provides the background on Barry. They have had semi sane members on the GB at one time,
Barbara Anderson worked in the writing department at the global headquarters, Brooklyn Bethel, during the 1990s. Anderson recalls that Governing Body member Lloyd Barry, who himself had a university degree, was behind this new stance on education.
“Lloyd Barry was empathetic towards the low-paying job plight of Witnesses as expressed in personal letters received at headquarters, and from Jehovah’s Witnesses branch office communiqués from around the world. … Due to difficult economic changes in a world that Witnesses could not escape from, Lloyd Barry, along with the rest of the Governing Body, authorized the November 1, 1992 Watchtower article that changed the view of Witnesses towards higher education.” 10
Anderson provides a second reason for the change.
“Interestingly, another Governing Body member, Dan Sydlik, shared with a friend that the Watchtower Society was finding itself in a difficult position because this mammoth publishing company needed skilled technical people but couldn't find them in the Witness community.” 11
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BU2B
I would love, I mean LOVE to see him subpeonaed and be forced to testify in a modern day "Walsh Trial". It would me must see TV!
