Posts by FedUpJW

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Breaking: PIMI wife getting food basket from farms to table via WT society

by goingthruthemotions in

bottom line is this.

she came in from the weekly meeting, we sitting and talking and she said.

the society is giving us some food.

FedUpJW

Just potatoes, carrots, apples and onions.

I saw the bag a friend got. For their family it consisted of 1 onion, 2 apples, 2 small potatoes, and 1 cup of beans. I guess if some water, salt, pepper, a little stew meat, celery, some garlic, the potatoes, beans, and onion might make a passable stew. The friend did mention that they were reminded how loving Gee-HO'-Vuh was to provide the food through direction of the governing body, and that it was "training for the future GT when we will have to survive on only the bare minimum, and thanks could be shown by an online donation." Sick S.O.B's

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I was wondering how this would play out in JW land.

by wolverines in

i have a niece who is trying to get pregnant.

she was telling me her husband had to go to a room with porn in it and masturbate into a cup to get tested.

i never thought of this before but but how would a jw handle this.

FedUpJW

Nope, looking at porn is a strict no-no. Jerking to porn, as an elder commented, is the same as adultery. You looked at the naked person with enough lust to get aroused and then climaxed. Time for the back-room inquisition. Of course when his own kid got caught sleeping with a "worldly" school friend it was no big deal because he "didn't climax. So it is only loose conduct, not fornication!".

Can't make that s--t up!

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Post your experiance with JWs who did not save for retirement and had to work or live off off SS till death

by wolverines in

but one i remember was a full on dyed in the wool believer how was a farmer.

around 1975 he sold his farm moved his family to a very rural place and waited for the end to come.

he ended up working for his brother in law hanging drywall.

FedUpJW

My dad also had another saying whenever someone would go off on the "throwing money in the streets" tangent. He would say, "Better it is to have it and throw it in the streets, than to not have it and live on the street dependent on the charity of others."

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Post your experiance with JWs who did not save for retirement and had to work or live off off SS till death

by wolverines in

but one i remember was a full on dyed in the wool believer how was a farmer.

around 1975 he sold his farm moved his family to a very rural place and waited for the end to come.

he ended up working for his brother in law hanging drywall.

FedUpJW

Was your dad a non-JW? That was good advice he gave to save for the future.

No. He actually had responsibilities from the local congregation right up to the old district level. He was what some had termed a "heavy hitter", however he also was a very intelligent practical man. He was what a friend of mine described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. The velvet glove was used to comfort, assist, and gently guide anyone who needed. The iron fist, more often than not, was used to put fellow elders in their proper place. I am biased, but I believe he fit closely the example Jesus gave with the recorded kindness and forgiveness for the Ama-Ahrets, and the way he came down, hard, on the Pharisees. He was finally put out to pasture when my mother developed Alzheimer's, and I remember him saying a number of times, "Jehovah's Witnesses have love on their lips, but none in their hearts."

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Post your experiance with JWs who did not save for retirement and had to work or live off off SS till death

by wolverines in

but one i remember was a full on dyed in the wool believer how was a farmer.

around 1975 he sold his farm moved his family to a very rural place and waited for the end to come.

he ended up working for his brother in law hanging drywall.

FedUpJW

I can think of lots of JWs who didn't save a dime of what they earned because they reasoned that the scripture says they will "throw it in the streets", thus no use saving it.

My parents encouraged getting a GOOD education, getting a GOOD job, and SAVING for the future. My dad said many times, "Savings are stored labor." In order to live in later years one can either spend our "stored labor" in the form of savings on life's necessities, or you can work until you drop and spend labor that you may no longer be physically able to spend.

I know several JW's in their 70's and even 80's still trying to spend enough physical labor to make ends meet, when they could be doing what I am doing, ten to twenty years younger than they are, and living life debt free and carefully spending my stored labor set aside over several decades of physical work and investing/saving.

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Do You Think All These Organized Demonstrations Are Productive?

by minimus in

jw
friends

from washington state to new york city to atlanta and california and so on, you see thousands of demonstrators trying to get rid of police, statues, monuments and anything they consider racially biased.. do you think this type of activity and destruction is working well for the country and it’s law abiding citizens?

?.

FedUpJW

Organized demonstrations are fine. What we are witnessing though are mostly not by any definition protests or peaceful. They do nothing to make things better, and only serve to further divide this country. Of course that would appear to be the agenda behind the "protests". They are in reality nothing other than law-breaking riots, and should be dealt with as such.

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Guns...Are You For or Against Legally Owning Them?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there is a surge going on of people buying guns, especially first time buyers.

with talk of police defunding and rioting in the neighborhoods, some people want to protect themselves.. do you support owning and using a gun if needed?.

FedUpJW

I have a saying, "You can haul one horse in a ten horse trailer much easier than you can haul ten in a one horse trailer." To those who understand how this applies to firearm ownership, no explanation is needed; to those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

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Watchtower June 2020 Article, '' Return to Me''

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | june 2020. .

study article 26.

6 who can share in the search for inactive ones?

FedUpJW

He has helped more than 40 Witnesses to return to the congregation.

While lovingly ignoring the elderly already there witnesses, the poor witnesses, the less educated witnesses, the single witnesses, the younger witnesses without parental guidance, the sexually abused witnesses, the physically abused wives. . .

And how many have left because of his treatment? Welcome some in the front door while kicking many more out the back door! Sorry S.O.B.'s!

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Parents of Sarah Kellen, Ghislaine Maxwell's 'lieutenant', are JW's. Fear df'd daughter will be charged in Epstein case

by AndersonsInfo in

"parents of ghislaine maxwell's 'lieutenant' sarah kellen worry their daughter will be arrested and charged in epstein's child sex trafficking ring, as they claim teen was 'brainwashed.

quote: but with concerns mounting over her behavior, kellen was disfellowshipped, a disciplinary sanction whereby she was expelled from the church and ostracized by its members, including her own family.‘it was all handled out there.

it’s very private, there’s a committee that meets and they go over everything.

FedUpJW

The father of the "Prodigal Son" never laid conditions and restrictions upon him before welcoming him home.

And do JW's even stop to think that the father did not boot the son out? No, he simply let the son leave when the son determined he was going to go. Then he waited, and welcomed the son back when he wanted to return to the family home. Completely 180° different than the JW's.

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Guns...Are You For or Against Legally Owning Them?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there is a surge going on of people buying guns, especially first time buyers.

with talk of police defunding and rioting in the neighborhoods, some people want to protect themselves.. do you support owning and using a gun if needed?.

FedUpJW

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

I have a CWP. I carry all the time. I am not afraid. I am not "compensating". I have concealed carried for over four decades. I do find that the responsibility of doing so tends to make me more tolerant of other people's stupidity. And yes, there have been two or three times that a firearm was put into play, but so far I have never had to pull the trigger, as ill-mannered criminally engaged idiots settle right down very quickly when they only see the presence of even an un-holstered sidearm. Then the police deal with them when they finally arrive.