by truthseeker 8 Replies latest jw friends
How many times did you hear JWs say that you have more time for "Jehovah and the ministry" if they knew you were out of work.
It makes me sick. I was recently unemployed for a couple of months and all I get is these comments. Like, I have nothing
better to do with my time than waste it knocking on doors trying to recruit.
I sometimes wonder if you took the ministry away from these dubs, they'd need to go to rehab to cope with having nothing to do.
I always wondered why some JW's stretched out their unemployment checks to the last week before they found a job.
Field Service ain't gonna get 'em a free ticket on the Watchtower's Paradise Express no matter what the cult tells them.
there brainwashed.
I had that happen once. The store I was working for closed down, and the Witlesses tried to make pioneering a priority. I don't think so! The highest priority at that point was to find another job before losing my apartment and having to move in with a family that only wanted to totally run (ruin) my life.
They were making it like Jehovah is going to get me another job if and only if I kept knocking on doors full time. Bullsxxx! If I get up at 5:30 AM for street work and stay out until late evening every day, when am I going to have time to find another job? And, suppose I would have found one. What are they going to do when my field circus time returns to normal (their idea is that, when you lose your job, you should increase field circus and then lock it in; when you get another job, it has to fit around the new field circus schedule). For sure, everything would get shot down as fast as I found something until I got stuck moving in with a "brother" that wants to ruin my life.
Too bad they didn't have an opening for someone to set up and decorate Christmas trees. The trees would be set up for maximum showcase effect and pay $100 an hour or more. I wonder what the Witlesses would have done if I took that job as soon as they opened their mouths about pioneering.
If you listen to the Society and Pioneer when un-employed you will end up cleaning toilets and other peoples crap the rest of your life. My mother still gives me a hard time about my new Career taking me away from the meetings...but I don't care...alittle schooling and hey presto! A job that I really love doing and feel proud of, what a change!!
I had a similar situation happen to me when I decided to work full time. I had a job that allowed me to work 25-30 hours a week and yet collect full time wages. That was winding up so on to full time employment. Everyone was on me because the system wasn't going to go on for another 5 years. Keep pioneering. I went full time at a new job and told everyone to leave me alone. That was in the year 1989.
Knocking on doors won't put food on your table. Of course if you put the Kingdom first in your life, God will bless you with a job....
One zealous Elder I knew delivered frozen food for a living so he could spend more time Witnessing. He was an Engineer or something technical before the truth. I was shocked when he admitted on stage that he suffers from depression...no wonder, his car is worth $800 Dollars and his wife and kids dont have much. He told me he should go back to his old work as it was less stress for more money, but...THE KINGDOM, WHO WILL PREACH ABOUT THE KINGDOM. I get so angry at this!
The Witnesses in my area are generally a bunch of lazy b#stards. Any ache or pain and it off to apply for a 'Disability' pension and then it's on to Pioneer school. Last year I know of 3 sisters in one congregation alone who are all now entitled to a free ride for the rest of their lives, thanks to Canada's generous social system.
The one sister inparticular really pissed me off: She was a bookkeeper (not a very good one) and whined and complained about some ailment that she had "which made it impossible for her to do her job". I think it was the Dubs favorite ailment: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Anyway, the day she got word that she was approved for Disability, she quit her job and she and her hubby went to Hawaii for a vacation, then she came back and immediately put in her application for pioneering.
