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Very good job 👏

Great to see another video from you. I'm totally stealing the bit about truth holding up to scrutiny.

Excellent video! Thank you for making it.

I am glad that the Watchtower Society/Jehovah's Witnesses are having to undergo scrutiny by the state of New Zealand because of the scandalous sexual abuse against children in their congregations over the years. They ought to realize that they are no more exempt from state scrutiny than other institutions with children entrusted to their care. Thank you for this latest update on Jehovah's Witnesses.

I can relate. I was dating an Elder's daughter (we were both 18). He was ultimately the reason we broke up. The one time we ever did anything more than kiss, he told me he felt like punching me in the face. Admittedly, I only dropped her back home at 2am. We went to a drive-in, with a chaperone. Straight after I took the chaperone home, the girlfriend and I got a bit naughty in the car. Elder dad had it in for me after that. And yet he was quite happy with his younger daughter being groomed (from the age of 15) by a 23-year-old Ministerial Servant. Oh, and I almost forgot: Elder dad must have arranged a marking talk (even though I didn't even know that was a thing). In retrospect, I think I had three marking talks. Funny. 😄

Dating as a JW....not for the faint of heart! 😂 When I was dating my hub, there was this nosey sister who would not stop calling and texting me until I told her the details of my wedding plans. She had never shown that much interest in me b4 🙄 The night after she called me, we had a circuit assembly. All these sisters kept coming up to me, talking about all my wedding plans. Since Sister Nosey was the only person I had told these things to, I knew she had immediately gossiped to a bunch of sisters about them. Ugh.

Oh man JW dating. It was awful. I had two girls in my immediate relative vicinity that were "eligible" and one of them I did end up dating. She was a very nice girl and I still think fondly of her even though she probably doesn't think much of me anymore. I liked her well enough but from the moment we were baptized the congregation had their eyes on us. Watching like a pair of pandas to see if we would mate and step in accordingly. I was conflicted about her. We got along and had similar interests, and I did think she was pretty. I could have seen myself marrying her and being reasonably happy but when we did try dating I began asking myself if "reasonably happy" was something I should accept. I didn't know if I was with her because I genuinely wanted to marry her or if because she was more or less just the best option available to me at the time. When you have to ask yourself that, the answer is self-evident. I broke it off with her and shortly after left the organization for several reasons. When I left, the elders went pretty hard into investigating why and I accidentally ruined her reputation in the congregation. We never did more than kiss, and I had nothing but the purest intentions for her when we were together but I think about the life I had if I had stayed. An on-the-surface perfect Christian marriage with me knowing this whole time I wasn't truly happy. I saved us both from that, but in retrospect I feel bad about the things she had to endure because of my actions.

I like your little avatar.. Shows you have a closet wild side

Didn't go through an experience specifically akin to that, but I do remember family members suddenly tightening up and following their programming from the Watchtower when I did something "officially" wrong

the truth is you're trans and want to hide that

I dont like your avatar and dont respect stupid religions

I was also raised JW and yeah, I can relate to quite a bit of this. I'm sorry you went through this. Miniature witch hunts and fact finding missions for displaying even the most mundane normal kid behavior, not just from parents but busybody elders and their wives. But we're both out now, and I'm happy for you.

I really appreciate your channel. And you sharing your experiences. So, so sorry about your friend not seeing the importance of how much you gave to friendships and not have you in their weddings. I had a 'best friend' do the same thing! I had her in my wedding and then when she started dating a brother she met online, when a JW online dating site was all the rage about 10 years ago, and was a regular pioneer and got in huge trouble for doing so, she's from the USA and he is from Africa and it was all the gossip! I stood by her, he had to get a green card, I let him stay aty house, we chaperoned them constantly, she asked me to be in the wedding, I bought the dress that she picked and I couldn't afford. And I thru her bridal shower and then literally 2 weeks before the wedding she told me she had no brother to walk down the isle with me because her fiances literal brother couldn't come from Africa and so I couldn't be in the wedding but the other girl she asked to be in the wedding, she was keeping in it. We had known each other since birth. Our mother's are best friends to this day. The other girl in the wedding had been her friend for maybe 10 years. We had known each other for 38 years at that point. So I got a different short dress and went to the wedding and helped them get down the isle. And went to the reception and ate and left. And she was mad at me. 🤨I'm in my 50s now and was in the org for 46 years before waking up. My friends of over 40+ years have all dropped me and I'm not DFed, I mean 'removed' 🙄 or disassociated. That friend I talked about, I just saw by chance 4 days ago at an arena for a sporting event with over 10,000 ppl there, on a ladies room! What are the chances!!! She looked straight at me. Straight in the eyes. She was helping her daughter find a bathroom stall to go into. She looked at me and then just went about her business as if she saw no one. This organization teaches conditional love. Friendship isn't real. I have found some actual friends in the last 5 years since leaving. I've also realized that having tons of friends is not necessary or healthy quite honestly. I had almost 250 ppl at my wedding. I'm very outgoing and friendly, but that doesn't mean I need to have THAT many 'friends'. A handful is plenty. The organization also teaches ppl to be intrusive and to gossip and tattle on one another. All extremely unhealthy!!! I'm more cautious about who I bring into my inner circle now but am still friendly to everyone. I wish you all the best with life and your channel! I'm a new subscriber! I have a channel as well, it can be fun and also challenging, if you ever need to talk, reach out: justjune1973@gmail.com 😉

Very very good job 👏

JW friendships are wierd. The org actively stunts feelings & is ruinous to friendship. Your stories remind me of an old JW friendship. The family that brought my family in. They had 9 boys, & called me their daughter. We were at their home a minimum of twice a week. I was best friends with one of their kids & my little brother was best friends with another of their kids. I knew them for the 1st 15 1/2 yrs of my life. We moved away. They had our address & phone number. I never heard from them again! Wow! Guess they really cared. My mom got a little news thru the grapevine & maybe shared a phone call or 2 over the yrs, but...there was apparently no interest in the people they brought in. I was hurt, but that was 50 yrs ago.

You have a lovely voice to lesson to.

You're doing great. Honestly we need more vtubers and twitch streaming exjws to raise awareness for younger generations. Forget these boomer grandpas that dont even know what a twitch is.

People complain about content styles like they had no choice but to watch your video vs something else. 😂

Well said 😢

Wow! That’s actually insane, I’m so sorry

Thank you for your work, Lou❤

6:56 the music here was in sync

Speaking of females in position of responsibility, when I was looking after the sound one day, I asked my female friend to handle the roving mic’s. Hehe! Lol

So very interesting. The Royal Commission Case is so thorough. And Public. All the best in your graduate studies!

In my experience as a kid, my relatives would force friendships because they didnt want us to be friends with kids outside from JW. So, a lot of fake friendships formed out of just doing what the adults told me to. It was a drag... Except I have one JW friend since childhood that i love to death but her mother got to her (shes a controlling JW) and i havent heard from her in years☹️

I don't have any experience with JW but I can relate to being left behind by friends when you use all your energy for them. I've been struggling to come to terms with what happened and it's been harder to find friends when anxiety leaves you second guessing yourself.

It is good that New Zealand's Royal Commission is investigating the Watchtower Society's practices concerning the handling of cases of sexual abuse against children in their congregations. Thank you for this eye-opening video.

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Absolutely like my experience, that even happens inside so called family if they are JW.dubs. I consider the removal and absence of festivals, who you usually enjoy together with friends and family (installed very early by that villain Rutherford) , as a disocialization process. Rutherford used a psychology trick to make all kinds of relationships blurry and superficial. Otherwise disfellowshipping (now called removal) would not work.

I don't have any friends, I have a dog, best friend you'll ever have.

what are you following?????ar you a bot??

Abuse happens in any group. Compare Roman Catholic!! I do not fear associating with catholics though!

All religions have a headquarter. Church of England in England R/C in Roam so what?

If you look in the congregation, nobody has actual feelings for anybody else. It’s all a narcissistic love bomb. That’s how we’re trained. From the first time we ever go to a meeting, we’re trained. Everybody else is going to die.

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Thank you Lou for sharing. It's unfortunate that a lot of JW "friendships" are very superficial!

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I was studying for almost a year and it was going great! Met many wonderful people and was feeling overall better with everything I was learning. Then I stumbled upon something about the organization that I didn’t align with which was a sensitive topic for me in my life and decided to stop studying kind of abruptly. I was hoping I could stay in touch with all the new “friends” I made along my study journey but I was dropped instantly and have lost all communication with them :( I really saddens me because I thought I connect with them after spending time with them outside of the meetings and conventions I attended with them often but once I stopped studying, it was all gone. Really changed my perspective on the organization as a whole.

Welcome! Interesting that JW's are so messed up that they dont realize how their behavior drives people away from the org, rather than attracting them! Duh!

One thing I learned thee hard way is I needed to get to know myself better before trying to make my circle of friends larger- a slow start isn’t always a bad thing

You’re awesome

Nailed it. In a way, it's fascinating, how deeply entrenched this "non-Watchtower information about JW == demons" view is in once's brain.

It all rings true.

Since my research of this org, the Anointed especially ones with special rings are secret club members😅So it means, their children are also and which is why we may see some young ones still around those conventions😅

How did I get here? Welcome to the algorithm!

Lou I love your channel, keep up the good work. One of the most potent parts of JW CULTure is the social structure that will be lost when someone decides to leave, you even touched on it in your video here. The guilt of letting friends and family down because you no longer think like they do. The thought that if I leave I will disappoint so many, what will they say about me, all of this plays into why the younger generation does not leave. In most cases, they dont know why they believe what they do, they just believe it because their mom, dad, brother, sister, uncle, grandmother and so on believe it. They dont need to make sense of it because their parents or grandparents already made sense of it and if its good enough for them, its good enough for me. IMO, this is the reason why most of the younger generation stay. I think that teens and those still living at home have other reasons as do those that have been in the organization for decades and getting up in years also stay for different reasons.

Hi, Lou. Thank you 🎉

Thank you Lou. Yes, WT is slick at brainwashing skills.