LongHairGal

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  1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
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  awake!

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

  because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  ZOOOOOO:

  Sorry you didn’t understand my post. I assume you are out of the JW religion.

  When I walked away from the religion I made sure I changed my vocabulary and no longer used certain terms used by the religion. For instance: you’ll notice I call it ‘the religion’. I would not say ‘the truth’ like some still do. 🙄. Also, I don’t use terms like ‘spiritual’ when describing people or phrases like ‘weak faith’. Nobody can know this about people and it sounds silly and presumptuous to me.

  In a nutshell: I was treated hypocritically when I was in the religion years ago. As a young single woman I was expected to pursue poverty and be a doormat for Users in the congregation. These Users were mostly older people with affluent lives and the poverty they were pushing wasn’t for them, just some young gullible fool. Thankfully, I did not listen to any of them.
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  What is your status (as of today) as a Jehovah's Witness?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  active believer...still attend meetings, go out in field service, believe it's ''the truth''.

  active non-believer... go to meetings and field service to please family... living a double life .

  inactive believer...don't attend meetings but believe it's the truth, one day might go back to kingdom hall.

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  LongHairGal

  RULES & REGULATIONS:

  I am a twenty year+ Walkaway/Fader from the JW religion.

  Over the years I contacted all my ‘friends’ to let them know what my issues were with regard to the religion’s intolerable views towards careers/jobs, etc. and how I’m glad I never fell for any of the high pressure they tried to put on younger people especially women in the congregation back then.

  I think everyone knows I’m Out and not coming back!
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  1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake!

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

  because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  LongHairGal

  ZOOOOOO:

  So..What about all those older people I saw in the congregation who were collecting their pensions or had businesses and were doing well? These people went to their graves after living a cushy life..Would you say they had ‘weak’ faith? 🙄

  Why do these people get a ‘pass’ and yet somebody who is a Baby Boomer like myself who worked to support myself back in the day not considered to have ‘faith’? This is a double standard hypocrisy. There were people dripping with diamonds and I don’t begrudge anybody well off. But, why was it expected that some young person there pursue poverty?????? I did have faith in God, just not in the religion or organization.

  The fact that you use terminology like this tells me where your head is at..Sad to say. Oh, right! Maybe you didn’t mean it and it was just a Freudian slip. 😉

  I’m just SO glad I never paid any heed to self-righteous people and all the nonsense talk about ‘spirituality’ back then because I would be in a serious predicament now instead of Retired.
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  Remember how it felt before you woke up. Living forever in a Righteous World.

  by pistolpete in

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  i woke up early in life.

  it’s not because i was smarter than my brothers and sisters.

  in fact, reflecting back, i actually don’t know why i didn’t embrace the watchtower teachings?

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  LongHairGal

  PISTOLPETE:

  I don’t know how much I totally believed in living in a ‘righteous world’. My disgust with the JW religion grew over time and I don’t know at what point this particular teaching left me.. I just know that I was DONE with it all when that 1995 Generation thing came out. This was the last straw.

  OVERRATED:

  I know what you mean and I have no pity either. But, I’m just grateful I followed my gut.👍🏻
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  1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake!

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

  because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  LongHairGal

  FFGHOST:

  I’m glad this was bumped up because there are many JWs and ex-JWs who are suffering today in their senior years because of this teaching and who must feel bitterly about this!

  I wasn’t yet in the JW religion in 1969. I was a teenager headed for the workforce. When I did make the fateful mistake some years later of entering a hall, there was never a whisper of this (or the 1975 fiasco). Thankfully, I resisted all their efforts to get me to give up my job or I wouldn’t be Retired today..Meanwhile, all the hypocritical older people in the congregation pushing poverty for some young person were collecting THEIR pensions at the time!

  So, yes, this 1969 article is one of the most damaging teachings of the JW religion. No wonder they wouldn’t want to highlight it.
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  Do JW women expect LESS from their man than Non-jw women?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
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  non-jw women usually expect their man to have some type of social status.

  whether it's education, money, fame, etc.. these days, feminism also plays a role in a future, marriage.

  (the man is not the head, maybe the women is the head).

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  LongHairGal

  ASP59:

  I hate to rain on anybody’s parade but status in the JWs isn’t the same as status in the world.

  That’s why I was always dumbfounded when people in the hall were seeking titles.🤣..Of course, I was not a born-in and this probably figures into why I felt this way. I was NEVER impressed because somebody was a ‘pioneer’ or whatever...It sounded so stupid to me but I kept this to myself.
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  Do you still talk to the dubs?

  by Iamallcool in

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  just wondering!

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  LongHairGal

  I moved recently and don’t see any here but then again I hardly ever saw them around in my previous location.

  I do, however, have a couple of JW old friends that I keep in touch with long distance. They know I’m Out and everybody knows the friendship can’t be like the old days. Everything has changed, not just me.
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  Reminder re: Spammers

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  just a reminder about spammers.. please ignore them!.

  they are idiots, we have a real "gay-for-j" zealot right now who hasn't got the message that they are not wanted and no one is interested in their bible-fantasy gibberish.

  there's a certain irony that their own site is covered in "don't spam" rules but they think it's acceptable to do it to others.

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  LongHairGal

  SIMON:

  Yes, I have two private messages I cannot see that must be what you are referring to. 🙄
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  Narrowly focused, sometimes illiterate

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
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  three of my sisters - there are five of us - were baptized as witnesses.

  one of them has gone from reading voraciously to only reading her textbooks and watchtower publications.

  this does not seem to be unusual among witnesses.

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  LongHairGal

  VIENNE:

  The trend towards poor grammar is pervasive nowadays and not just among JWs with poor education.

  The schools in the US watered down the education in grammar schools decades ago. I even see college grads with atrocious spelling and know one teacher who should be ashamed. Spell check is not loaded with every word and sometimes you need a dictionary. I have seen mistakes on signs, TV news and in internet articles. This lowered standard is here to stay unfortunately and it’s not getting better.
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  Why JWs Can't Cope With The Real World

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
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  no clue how i got this.. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1trgavbqlx9e9qv7begvmp0742tpawg3vfkh1eifqepe/edit?usp=drivesdk.

  top ten reasons.

  (why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.

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  LongHairGal

  VANDERHOVEN7:

  All good points. But, I don’t really believe ALL Witnesses adhered to every one of them.

  I think a lot of Witnesses might have disagreed with some things in the list but kept it to themselves. Reading all this though, I can understand how born-ins can really be messed up. The expectations are absolutely outrageous. I’m so grateful I wasn’t raised in the religion and came in as a young working adult.

  It was SO obvious to me that too many of the younger JWs (my peers at the time) weren’t in reality about financial things and the planning that normal people take for granted. The older people in the congregation were more wise but unfortunately kept it to themselves OR worse yet tried to discourage younger JWs from looking out for themselves financially because it was more in keeping with the party line.

  Too many of the younger JWs that I saw were in la la land on this issue and I remember speaking my mind about it and got put-downs and the old argument about ‘faith’ (which means do nothing). I’m very happy today that I never listened to any of these people!