Posts by FedUpJW

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What happens to Bethelites?

by rickroll in

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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FedUpJW

You give your whole life to service of a loving god but when you are in need of this unconditional love, the people that are meant to love you show it by discarding of you without a second thought. Not a very loving move is it? Even “worldly people wouldn’t do this”.

Yet all the comments today fell in line with society's thinking....

Some comments I heard today: "Always think positive about any changes you have to make." "Do not draw undue attention to yourself by talking about any negative feelings. People will feel your negativity and not want to be your friend."

Can't you just feel the "love"?

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What happens to Bethelites?

by rickroll in

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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FedUpJW

Then, if they get old or sick or are surplus to requirements, they will be unceremoniously dumped with no unemployment benefit, health insurance or pension.

Oh, but the WT has lovingly provided advice on "Adjusting To A New Assignment". Things like pray more, go door knocking more, don't try to be financially secure, others can give you money or material belongings, remember this life is only temporary and you will be in paradise forever...SOON.

What a load of horse---t!

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latest WT, advice for Bible Studies

by neat blue dog in

our goal is to help our bible student to grow spiritually.. .

as his love for jehovah grows, however, he will likely begin to think about how he can help others, including those who are already part of the congregation.

(matt.

FedUpJW

When the time is right, do not hold back from mentioning the privilege of supporting the Kingdom work financially.

Ah yes, the constant subtle (and not so subtle) begging for money, just like the churches they claim to be better than. Of course it is because they have fallen away from the true teachings of Jesus Christ who reportedly said, ". . .You received free, give free." (Matthew 10:8)

As I have commented before, after ethically sending in a large nearly seven figure bequest from my father's estate the greedy money grubbing leeches sent a letter asking if that was all, or if I was going to send them more. And to date ten months later still not one damned word of thanks for what they did get!

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Do You Support Sanctuary Cities?

by minimus in

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friends

if you do support sanctuary cities, would you be happy to live in one?.

hey, in the bible, sanctuary cities were acceptable, right?

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FedUpJW

I support them...just not willingly. I pay taxes. And no, I would not live in one.

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Do You Think That Belonging To Certain Political Parties Suggests You Are Uneducated or Poor?

by minimus in

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friends

i hear some people say that if you are a republican or democrat that you must not be very educated, intelligent or monetarily stable.

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do you think it’s proper to paint any person as less than favorable because of their political opinions?

FedUpJW

I've never seen it as polarized as it is today. There are some real "haters" on both sides of the debate.

And I am sure that it would logically follow that there are "good people on both sides"?

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I am thinking about visiting Washington DC!

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

i have never been there!

where should i visit in washington dc while i am there?

thank you in advance for your recommendations!

FedUpJW

I would highly recommend the Holocaust Museum. It will take some time, and if it is like it was when I was there it may not be suitable for pre-teens. Some of the displays were pretty graphic. I saw grown men visibly shaken, and some like my father who pre-JW had been in some pretty bloody combat situations began to cry.

Anyone who wants to so freely throw the term Nazi around for political opponents today should see what Nazis really were, IMO.

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January 2020 Watchtower - Dogma being force-fed yet again as "truth"!

by The Fall Guy in

if the wording & context of a scripture is dismissed at the outset, then every statement and assumption which follows is implicititly false.

in the very first study article, the gibbering body continues to indoctrinate the sheeple to accept that over 500 people met jesus on the mountain - despite the blatant fact that 1 corinthians 15:6 says absolutely nothing about the 500 people being anywhere near galilee!

(matthew 28:16-20) however, the 11 disciples went to galʹi·lee to the mountain where jesus had arranged for them (the 11 disciples) to meet.

FedUpJW

Another perhaps small point I would ask them is IF the reference to elders in Jerusalem being the first century governing body as the basis for the eight JW governing body today, why did the entire congregation in Jerusalem have authority to make a decision and who exactly does THAT apply to today?

(Acts 15:22) . . .Then the apostles and the elders, together with the whole congregation, decided to send chosen men from among them to Antioch, along with Paul and Barʹna·bas; they sent Judas who was called Barʹsab·bas and Silas, who were leading men among the brothers. . .

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New Massachusetts Bill ProposesTo Fine or Jail Someone For Calling Someone a Bitch!

by minimus in

jw
friends

and if you call someone a bitch , you would be fined 150 dollars the first offense and second is 200 plus possible jail time..

FedUpJW

I would never call someone a bitch...I would just say that when their kids come home for a visit the mother runs out from under the porch and bites them in the ankle.

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#Persecution selfies: what do you think?

by Diogenesister in

so apparently the new watchtower russia exhibition features a pretend cell for jws to take pretend "persecution selfies' and wallow in the glorious suffering that is essential for watchtower theology to work - yet is strikingly missing from the lives of 99% of witnesses.. in fact most governments go to great lengths to protect the rights of witnesses, spending millions in public funds either directly to watchtower - in the form of grants ( norway, germany etc) - in various types of tax relief, or in the money spent in court cases establishing watchtowers rights and freedoms (& protecting their kids, whether they know it or not).. i'm interested to know how everyone feels about this...particularly terry walstrom and other guys who have spent time in jail in the name of watchtower's freedom of conscience.

personally i think it reeks of desperation by watchtower and is another example of the type of fantasizing that witnesses regularly indulge in.. also....funny how the end is soooo close that they've had time to build a museum of watchtower history!!

anyone else see the irony in that?!

FedUpJW

The Dubs need to quit the phony persecution play acting and hire REAL guards, with REAL machine guns, to use REAL clubs to beat the living hell out of them if they REALLY want to immerse themselves in this twisted persecution "experience".

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7 New Files Just Arrived!

by Atlantis in

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2019--prison witnessing training seminar.

2019--10-14--follow up tp prison witnessing training seminar.

2019--example notice to cease and desist for congregation2019--example notice to cease and desist for watchtower2019--guide to configuring kingdom hall audio and video system computer-s-132-e2019--example midweek meeting schedule-s-140-e2020--example year text-yt20-eall are in this zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-dheuiguqtf atlantis!

FedUpJW

Well, there's no Watchtower article saying that I can't take these razor blades to the inmates...

Well how are they going to get those captive studies to shave their beards off so they can be "good" Dubs?