Posts by WingCommander

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I saw this on ex JW Reddit today. Are ANY JW kids even listening to talks anymore with tablets in their hands? :)? lol

by Balaamsass2 in

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i got this notification from ex-jw reddit today via email:.

r/exjw · posted by u/nightmare_dark_shade 1d ago.

guys, my parents found out i was posting here.

WingCommander

To be fair, this whole "Threaten to quit your job if your boss doesn't give you time off for the Assemblies, cause Jah will provide a new job for you" line, is NOT a new phenomenon in JW-Land. I heard that shit from the cradle on up! (born 1979) My mother was an educated RN (obtained before converting in late 70's) and she would scoff at that stupid bullshit every time it was spouted out of some clueless dumbass janitor from the stage. Oh sure! I'll just quit my well-paying job because I can't get off to go listen to the same drivel I hear day-in, day-out during the regular meetings. Jehovah will magically make another RN position open up for me. lol! Get real! And today? Forgetaboutit! Yes, the WT leadership are 100% clueless and cloistered.

Example / Case in Point: That one video last year or so of this one middle-aged couple. We see them discussing their finances, planning, etc. They are obviously wealthy by their well furnished OUTDOOR grand patio, and apparently have so much $$$ they can afford to "downsize" to serve this greedy-ass Corporation full-time. Que seal clapping in auditorium: (((( CLAP-CLAP-CLAP ))) That is NOT the norm in JW-Land. Oh sure, for the wealthy trade business owners it is, but not for 99% of the rank-n-file JW membership. They are hand-to-mouth barely surviving. And that's mainly because an education was denied to them (AKA: "discouraged").

Man, f**k this cult. It's toxic in the extreme. Only a complete moron with no internet access would EVER be naive enough to join the JW's Mormons, or Scientology.

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I saw this on ex JW Reddit today. Are ANY JW kids even listening to talks anymore with tablets in their hands? :)? lol

by Balaamsass2 in

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i got this notification from ex-jw reddit today via email:.

r/exjw · posted by u/nightmare_dark_shade 1d ago.

guys, my parents found out i was posting here.

WingCommander

Even as a child that was considered "hyperactive", or what's today labeled as ADHD, l had to learn to kind of "space out" and go into a boredom induced trance so as to not get spanked and/or have to listen to the drivel from the stage. Even drawing too much would get you pinched, spanked, etc.

The teens today have ZERO idea just how good they actually have it. District Conventions were like 3-4 days long in the early 80's when I was a child, and I was gobsmacked to hear about those week-long 12-hour days of indoctrination the "Old Wanzzzz" had to endure in the 1950's at the Polo Grounds, etc. Who in their right minds would subject themselves, much less their CHILDREN to such a brainwashing? Then I read about how they'd go around to people in the 5 boroughs (NYC) asking/begging for a place to stay, or even just "tenting" for the week outside the Polo Grounds. Fuggin' WILD to me. That is some crazy-ass shit! It was torture enough for me having to sit in the hot baking July sun in the old Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia instead of being at the beach like a normal kid. I couldn't image being born a few decades prior.

So yeah.....the JW kids today? Got it GOOD......life on easy street. Even with that, they can't escape fast enough. WatchTower is hemorrhaging the youth.

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Fully Colored Version of My Book of Bible Stories

by Nosferatu in

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does anybody know which edition of "my book of bible stories" had the fully colored pages?

i'm pretty sure it came out late in the book's life, but i'd like someone to verify which one it is..

WingCommander

The yellow "My Book of Bible Stories" was always in colour. (1978)

I believe you're confusing it with the prior book, the salmon coloured, "From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained." That publication didn't have any colour photos. (1958)

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

by Simon in

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uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

WingCommander

45 going on 65. Dude looks shit out. Time to flush and watch the swirl down the bowl.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

by Simon in

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uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

WingCommander

Google will NOT be his friend once his daughters are old enough to really comprehend and see what for a perverted, slimy, clown he is. He'll be demoted from "Father" to merely "sperm donour".

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Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

by LongHairGal in

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apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

sad because these people expected to be lifers.

now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

WingCommander

Ha! That is nothing knew. Just ask Keith Cassernova. His "New Boy" series/book details out exactly what they expect you to say/do after being "sent out to the Field Work" (AKA: given the boot) from "God's House."

Keith was told the same thing. Only talk positively about Bet-HELL to ensure that young people aspire to want to go there and work as slaves. It's really something how these heartless grifters operate.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

by Simon in

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uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

WingCommander

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

by Simon in

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uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

WingCommander

Wonder if Lloyd has "meth mouth" yet? lol

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Reddit thread about Bethel Reducing Headcount

by LongHairGal in

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apparently, the downsizing is still happening and from what i read those let go are over 50!.

sad because these people expected to be lifers.

now they have to make their way in the world at an advanced age with no education or desirable skill!..

WingCommander

I have to agree that most thought being a Bethelite was "For Life", or at least thru to the "New System of Things."

In fact, even in the 80's I recall the push was to forgo any sort of education and make Pioneering in order to get into a Bethel a priority. It was seen as kind of a meal ticket to Paradise. Once you were "in", you were set! Out of the wicked world and safe in "God's House."

After the multiple rounds of Bethel lay-offs in the past 25 years, you'd have to be a complete MORON to think that you'd be able to be a "lifer" now. It's plain as day that they use people up in their prime, then kick them to curb as they age but before they become a liability.

What a shameless, cruel, money-grubbing CULT!

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MANY DIFFICULT YEARS AHEAD : PER CHRISTENSEN

by raymond frantz in

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https://youtu.be/jsmbtv4nafi?si=ezj0dnudyjls4knc.

there was a time they preached the great tribulation was a short period of time between the fall of babylon and jesus coming back to save them, now they realize there are difficult years ahead of us, watch this latest morning worship video by per christensen on this subject .

WingCommander

I was born in 1979, so I'm technically Generation X.

I can confirm that our "Generation" is def the 1st to really wake up and leave en masse. It's no exaggeration to state that out of the people my age I grew up with in the religion 9 out of 10 (90%) left, and have NEVER come back. Some are even grandparents now, and so it's literally 2 "generations" removed from the JW's.

In the mid-90's, we saw the game was up. Now I can't point to just one red flag. But in hindsight, the extreme fear in the 1980's of "any day now the Great Tribulation is going to break out", evaporated. A few things caused this to happen. In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. 1991, the USSR dissolved. These were truly shocking events for people my age. Combine this with grunge and the fact that we actually made it to high school, then GRADUATED......when all the while growing up we were basically told that we wouldn't even MAKE IT TO high school, much less graduate or have to get a job. So this really shook a lot of us Awake! The 1995 generation mast-head change wasn't even shocking to us, because by 1995, we were 16 and starting to work after school, so we weren't even paying attention to those changes. Hell, I didn't even know about that until 1999-2000, when I started searching Yahoo! with my questions and doubts and scales totally fell from my eyes. 9/11 - Truly a game changer. My reaction was, "My Gawd, if this doesn't usher in the UN attempting to ban religion and cause WW3 and the Great Tribulation, nothing will." The long Afghanistan War aside, 9/11 came and went just as all previous wars and no "End" in sight. This was probably the final nail in the coffin and sealed the deal on WatchTower's previous century of constant fear-mongering my "Generation." Enough was enough, and we were then totally out of there. Not only that, but were out of there AND resentful about a childhood lost and stolen to a man-made end-times apocolyptic CULT!

Today? Youth search and ask AI about everything. Nothing WatchTower has done or is doing will EVER be hidden again. The jig is up. Any 5 minute scan of the JW's reveals their dubious, weird, psycho history and high-control cult BS. Just like Scientology, their hey-day is now in the past. VERY much in the past. No amount of "lightening the reins" or serving up "baby food" is going to change that. Like I said....I know several grandparents my age who left in the 90's, and then raised their kids outside the JW's, and now their kids have kids.....never even been exposed to the JW's except to hear warnings against joining up with them.

Checkmate, WatchTower.