JOHN R1975:
I remember those young JW testimonials at the assemblies years ago. They gave up jobs/scholarships to be in the full-time ministry.
I wasn’t born-in and was not swayed by any of this.. I kept on working full-time. They all hated me but I am glad Now I never listened….You mention how those JWs are broke now and will ‘be a burden to others’. I heard this term over the years I was a JW. There is an underlying wrong assumption in the Witness religion that ‘other people in the congregation’ are going to give them money.. Meanwhile they knocked people with full-time jobs. They could Dream on as far as I was concerned.
To me this is a fallacy and urban legend and I’m Glad I’m not around this anymore!.. I remember an older sister who told me about her few cleaning jobs who said “I wouldn’t want to be a burden on the congregation”. I thought to myself that she was nuts if she imagined people in the Kingdom Hall were going to support her.
I saw a post on Reddit fairly recently where a person related how they gave up all to pioneer and apparently expected charity of some sort to come from somewhere. They were disillusioned that it did not.. This is/was an attitude that I observed years ago… Sadly, this mentality persists to this very day in the Jehovah’s Witnesses.. It is all the more ridiculous as their numbers are decreasing and there are even fewer people left to bum money from.