I did my degree as a jw cuz my supportive parents were in favour of education. However, that was it. I could have been an artist, a writer or a musician or all three years ago, but creativity and creative industry is just not Jw. I held myself back because as a jw I thought I had to spend all ny time doing wt things rather than enriching myself and making a career and money. Now I'm poor because those bastards stole over a decade of my time and energy.
Julia Orwell
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How Being a Witness made you Lose out on Higher Education and Careers
by flipper inhi, folks.
been thinking of this, because of having been raised in the witnesses.
i reflect back on opportunities i would have encountered and seized, had it not been for being controlled by the witness organization being told higher education was not needed.
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A DOUBLE LIFE - What's the worst case you've seen
by sizemik inlots of jw's lead a double life.
many are young people that simply go through the motions until they can free themselves .
others have relatives or family still trapped .
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Julia Orwell
That reminds me of the pedo brother who was caught having an affair with another married sister...how he was caught was he was with her while his wife was dying in hospital after a car accident...probably would have lived if she took blood...and his daughter also was in the accident n spent 3 months in hospital.
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Julia Orwell
I don't think that's a jw.
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A DOUBLE LIFE - What's the worst case you've seen
by sizemik inlots of jw's lead a double life.
many are young people that simply go through the motions until they can free themselves .
others have relatives or family still trapped .
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Julia Orwell
Yep, an elder in my lasy cong, mid 40's, been with his wife since high school, gave talks on marriage etc and talk on dc. They had no kids and couldn't conceive so he put her thru ivf to make babies. She had two girls, and all the time he was making family with his wife he had a woman on the side, and she even came to the dc to hear his talk. He also embezzled from the contribution box, and a sister caught him but they disfellowshipped her for lying...and he swore like a trooper at his work and embezzled there as well. He lost that job but got another.
Eventually be was caught after 5 years with the other woman while his kids were about 2and 4...dfd. rocked the congregation. I had also known an elder and Pioneer who had been the exemplary family always interviewed who had been conning brothers... Got stepped down as elder but not dfd, moved interstate. Made me start wondering if the whole org was rotten in the core like these two creeps, and boy was I right.
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Marriage only possible as an M.S. as a JW???
by ADJUSTMENTS init seemed to me for a male jw to begin the steps of dating and eventually getting married you at least had to be an m.s.
to get anywhere with a sister at least a decent sister.
i'm wondering if others felt this way?
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Julia Orwell
Some young, pretty sisters might only look at young, good looking ms. Seriously though, I saw the most ugly jw guys marrying good looking women and women marrying anyone they could get, even from a young age. Some women were determined to get the nice ministerial servants with personality but are now old maids. But I've known all sorts of jws, functional and dysfunctional, ms, pioneer, born in n converts, get married. I've always thought though, that if you're a single jw male 30+ there must be something terribly wrong with you, unless you've already been married n divorced, cuz there are so few jw men to go around.
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How bad is the nepotism really with the appointments of elders?
by toto555 ini've seen brothers related or who are friends of elders who get appointed after only 6-12 months as an m.s.
while they were other brothers slaving away for years.
elders also who promote their sons and basically say to other young brothers "to heck with everyone else".
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Julia Orwell
Yep, by voting with your feet as we have done.
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Julia Orwell
Aww SNAP! Love the bit where he goes silent when you quote the WT about the 'mentally diseased'.
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How bad is the nepotism really with the appointments of elders?
by toto555 ini've seen brothers related or who are friends of elders who get appointed after only 6-12 months as an m.s.
while they were other brothers slaving away for years.
elders also who promote their sons and basically say to other young brothers "to heck with everyone else".
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Julia Orwell
Cat's butt!
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Why are there no black angels?
by snare&racket injw literature is racist as hell.
jesus looks like an american folk singer, the governing body look like a corrupt version of an enron luncheon.. the jw's literally print different magazines for africa with african pictures, black people instead of white, to make it 'more appealing' to them.... just to be clear that means they think the opposite is true too!.
....and then there is the lack of black angels..... .
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Julia Orwell
No Asian angels either. That's silly considering that over 50% of the world's population is Asian.
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Why are Watchtower call center operators so economical with the truth?
by Island Man inlisten in to this conversation with watchtower hq and notice how the responders are not forthcoming with the truth about how they treat ex-jw family members:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltqvpy6i0q.
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Julia Orwell
It's a JW thing. We all had to sugar coat the cult to non believers when we were in. We all had to only select the information that would put the cult in a positive at best and not negative at worst light. It's all about impressions and appearances. The facts must be treated very flexibly in order to make unbelievers think JWs are normal.