Good observation. To be a jw you have to look a certain way ie wear a suit, so if a wino or parkie is genuinely interested he will get nowhere because he can't afford a suit. Jws also need a lot of books, clothes, shoes and meeting and witnessing crap, so where would a homeless person put all that? No jw would help a homeless person access support services either because jws don't help non jws. People who don't fit the clean-cut, meeting attending mold wouldn't get help for long enough to become jws.
Julia Orwell
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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If You Were Still "In The Truth" What Type of Life Would You Have?
by minimus indo you think you would be just going thru the motions?
would you be an elder, ms, or pioneer?.
i think there are many that stay in the religion simply because of family/friends considerations.
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Julia Orwell
I'd be extremely mentally ill, even more so than now. I was headed for a huge nervous breakdown, I mean screaming raving jabooba home padded cell breakdown, as well as physical collapse. I found ttatt just in time.
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They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"
by XBEHERE ina friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.
as regards pursuing higher education?
the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.
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Julia Orwell
Warren Jeffs and other cult leaders have done the same: cut people off from education. If you're uneducated and lack many vital life skills, you're not only less likely to question the cult, you are also physically dependent on it, like this DO. Even if he learned ttatt he couldn't leave because he's in a cage and has no wings. He is totally dependent on the cult, like so many others, and that's the way the wt likes it. A poor laborer struggling to feed his kids is dependent on the cult, whereas a doctor or engineer or teacher or executive can just walk away with his or her money.
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Julia Orwell
I've known a lot of jws who live in cheap government housing or housing commission we call it here. A disproportionate number of jws live in housing commission houses I've noticed, compared with the general population. housing commission is hard to get into, and you usually have to be on some sort of government welfare to qualify for a house.
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My Experiments with TRUTH, a CO opens his heart!
by abiather inthis is the first message from the co:.
"william claire menninger, a co-founder of the menninger foundation in topeka, kansas, wrote 13 symptoms of mental illness.
one of them is: the attitude that i am always right and others always wrong.
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Julia Orwell
If this co is legit, let him come here directly and we will support his journey away from the wt.
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Julia Orwell
I think that was part of it Zeb. My wages have halved from 2006 til now due to illness and that and hubby can only work 30 hrs a week at retail due to injury and people wonder how we survive and even manage to save money sometimes. I must credit jw lessons in frugality partly for that.
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My Experiments with TRUTH, a CO opens his heart!
by abiather inthis is the first message from the co:.
"william claire menninger, a co-founder of the menninger foundation in topeka, kansas, wrote 13 symptoms of mental illness.
one of them is: the attitude that i am always right and others always wrong.
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Julia Orwell
A real co would never ever say anything positive about Catholic religion, the prime member of "Babylon the great" nor would he write in such a way. No jw would ever praise another religious belief unless it wad to say that the jws also believe it, strengthening the legitimacy of the jw belief and to say the jw one is even better. Whoever wrote that, has never been inside the head of a jw.
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My Experiments with TRUTH, a CO opens his heart!
by abiather inthis is the first message from the co:.
"william claire menninger, a co-founder of the menninger foundation in topeka, kansas, wrote 13 symptoms of mental illness.
one of them is: the attitude that i am always right and others always wrong.
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Julia Orwell
A real co would never ever say anything positive about Catholic religion, the prime member of "Babylon the great" nor would he write in such a way. No jw would ever praise another religious belief unless it wad to say that the jws also believe it, strengthening the legitimacy of the jw belief and to say the jw one is even better. Whoever wrote that, has never been inside the head of a jw.
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Julia Orwell
When I say poverty, I mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty. I'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor. Holes in clothes poor. Shabby underfed poor. Now I admit I've seen these kinds, even in Australia which has one of the highest standards of living. strangely enough, while I've seen a little poverty, I've never seen jws in that destitute kind of poverty I've listed above in Australia(except for a severely mental ill guy who was in and out of the jabooba home, and some who lived in caravans but worked full time and weren't povo). And where I've seen them in that kind of poverty in Asia, well, everyone else was too.
So have you seen any genuinely destitute jws? Like living in a car jws or ones with no food and unable to pay for basic necessities? Have you ever seen the really down n out, dirty, smelly or homeless kind of poor jws? Or ones who lived in hovels and couldn't afford basic necessities, but who didn't impose it on themselves by pioneering? Genuine charity cases?
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Been a long time...but here is an update.
by crazy2try ini haven't posted in 3 years.
my husband and i haven't gone to a meeting or memorial in 2 years.
what a great feeling!
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Julia Orwell
Whoo hoo, that's so cool. Isn't it amazing just how imprisoned we were? Something simple like a hairstyle becomes such a big deal. But you are by no means the raging, bitter apostate we were all supposed to become when we left, you know, eating at the table of demons and that. WOW.