I was disfellowshipped from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. My story.
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2021
- I wanted to share my story of being disfellowshipped, trying to her re-enstated for 2 years and where I am today, almost 10 years later.
This world is filled with beautiful, REAL people that are not brainwashed that waiting to love you just the way you are!♥️
Sending you all so much healing energy🤗
Intuition and conscience are what woke me up and let me escape and do my research. It is my belief that the end never justifies the means people deserve to be given evidence from both sides of any given issue. Thanks for sharing your story.
thank you for watching!
People need to stand up to this cult and start suing them for their threats!
Thank you! I really appreciate you sharing your story. It’s very encouraging. I’m currently on the fence right now but stories like these give me hope.
Matthew chiudi gli occhi e salta il recinto, prima che ti tirano dentro e perdi la tua liberta che e vita .da L'ITALIA SALUTI E BUONA VITA A TUTTI SECONDO I VOSTRI DESIDERI.
Wow....what a great story...i am very impressed....i can learn from you to be focused on "my" life..thank you😉
I think you are one of the most honest persons persons i ever heard...excuse my bad english...greetings from Germany
Thank you so much ♥️
Great story and advice for anyone waking up, or feeling lost after a life of JW indoctrination. I'm fully out 20+ years, remarried a wonderful Lithuanian woman, and life just gets better. As you enjoy travelling, if you're ever passing London, Valencia or Vilnius, let us know, we have homes in these cities and be pleased to host you both! xx
That’s a very generous offer💖🤗🙏🏽thank you Denis!
I hope your story helps people. You're a beautiful person.
Thank you so much Buffy for your kind words! :)
Thanks for sharing your story 🤗
Thank you for watching!
@@vevianvoz it’s good that we share what happened and really love to see how it turned out for you.
Wonderful,Vivían.You’re free;lock,stock and barrel.Just as Thomas Jefferson once said:”the price of freedom is eternal vigilance”.Coercive sects,are literally in every corner,awaiting for sincere people to blink,to fool them with their silly perceptions of their own reality.
Good on you.🌹
My husband and I getting reproved was the best thing to ever happen
So glad to finally be free of that cult
Ive been subscribed to you ever since you spoke about your Ayahuasca experience in 2015 and it fascinated me. I did a sweat lodge with my senior class (my school was pretty hippie school) and was introduced to the spiritual healing aspects of nature and the universe. Since your video I actually did countless research because your story of you and your mum really resonated with me. It was my full goal and intension of doing a ceremony to bring in the next decade of my 30s but i didnt manage to make it happen . I think these current videos youve been posting is a sign I need to tap back into my spiritual awakening. Thank you for sharing your journey- ive always been so drawn to you and your presence and your smile is radiating
WOW♥️ thank you still being here and writing me this beautiful message! It means a LOT!
Plant medicines have changed my life! Not just ayahuasca, but all the plant medicines including mushrooms, San Pedro and LSD. I’ve had the most experience with mushroom 🍄 and I’m so happy they are decriminalizing them in different parts of the US! Microdosing has also been super helpful.
I’m sure you day will soon come! And if you ever want to chat about it, send me an email at vevian@vozmediano.com
Live the real life the only one we ever get!...Lots of love Australia.
Absolutely! Thank you for watching Frank :)
Thanks again for sharing so much of your heart and life. As an Exjw I can relate to so much. I got engaged about 3 dates in n and we married 6 months later. But looking back I see that I felt lingering guilt about dating from the JW propaganda so I married to not feel like I was doing something immoral. Glad you found someone so amazing and a new family. 💕
Thank you for this message♥️ the religion made so many people get married just to have sex😣 only to realize they never loved the person and/or they were way to young to get married in the first place!
Beautiful! 💖
Your story is amazing it's like 2 complete halves that did come together in the end. So glad you are were you are now. Thank you for sharing it will help many including me ❤ Keep taking care. 🇬🇧
We lived in Sweden for almost a decade but came back to the US before the virus. Sweden is a wonderful country and, you’re right. Once you break through that sometimes very thick shell, they’re wonderful people. I really miss it there.
Thank you Vevian.
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I've subscribed to several ExJW channels today but I really enjoyed your story. It would make a good movie!
Be blessed
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Loved hearing your story. Incredible they took so long to reinstate you but a blessing all the same. It is ridiculous the power they have over a person's life. I was raised JW and thankfully escaped before baptism. I look back on it in a positive light from a child's perspective but would not want to walk that path as an adult. I also got into Life Coaching and New Age. But then I started receiving visions from Jesus, dreams and some other big experiences happened. My life has been one unexpected thing after the other. I have learned more about Jesus from Himself than I did in that religion. So many dear death experience people meet Jesus also and He never tells them to find the JW organisation when they come back. He always just says to love people 💜
Thank you so much Mandela! I couldn't agree with you more! Sending you much love
Your story is so great, thank you for sharing.
This is so sad. I'm glad that you are doing so well. You are a lovely person. I think Jehovah still loves you anyway no matter what and despite what people think. Wishing you the very best in life, you deserve it Vevian. Kind regards from Ireland ❤️🤗
Thank you 💛🙏🏽
So glad I found you!!! Thank you for sharing!!! xoxo
What a beautiful uplifting and inspiring story...thank you for sharing your positive outcome!
The same situation happen to me i was dissed many years ago tried to give one last hevjo so i went to a memorial a few years ago sat in the back and after the prayer my inner conscious said bro this isnt for you anymore! I got up and left and never went back. I truly believe god was telling me this is not for you. There are 70,000 people who are dissed a year that is dark and mind blowing. I believe in a higher power but its fleeting coming and going. Religion as a whole is outdated and most of us have our own spirituality and feel no need to sit in any church to find god! Also most have endured so much on our own and got through it were are just exhausted 😢.
Thanks for sharing your story. I can relate to the mother part my mother was abusive to me most of my life, even more so after I disassociated. But, the Lord gave me a beautiful mom-in-law and I had the best ever mom for 14 years.
Thank you for sharing your experience in a very open, honest and candid way.
Wow needed to hear this. Thanks for sharing
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I'm praying for you hun, that must've been so lonely and painful for you. Thank God you were strong because most people get suicidal. I'm so glad you're doing well. I was in a bad lonely spot too, not as bad as yours, but I felt so alone than I became a serious Catholic and made so many great loving friends. There's nothing cult-like about my faith at all. So blessed... It's not perfect, but it's great...
Thank you for your videos
My pleasure!
Fascinating 🧡
Nice story and glad your life has become better.
Your story with your now husband is so magical!!
Thank you so much for sharing your journey.
I'm inspired me to share mine now, I'll be working on it.
Much love!
Hi Vivian we are friends on Facebook so I follow you there… i’ve noticed that you’ve liked a few of my photos on Facebook. Your story is fantastic! So glad that you’re happy now, you and your husband make a fabulous couple… I live in orange county California… I really wish I could’ve met you when you lived in California I don’t live too far from Huntington Beach… I would’ve loved to exchange stories with you, as being a Jehovah’s Witness… You are a beautiful person!
Thank you so much Nadine♥️I lived in Huntington Beach for 2 years and LA for 5 years before I left.
My dad (rip) had a parakeet bird but he never clipped her wings. She was free to fly around the house and the bird knew how to talk. So one day I came home from school and my job was to let her out the cage and go on the porch and scoop the kitty litter. The damn bird flew out the door. I felt so sad cause I felt like I lost his bird. Surprisingly, when my father came home I was honest with him and told him I lost the bird and it flew down the skreet. He wasn’t mad about it. He told me not to worry. About 6 hrs later the bird came back. My point is, I’ve always treated women like the bird. I’m pretty sure a couple of my exes will say I’m not affectionate enough so that’s why they cheated. Marriage to me sounds too much like slavery. One of my best friends is a girl from highschool. Everybody thinks we are a couple but we aren’t we just enjoy each other company. Whenever she in the Bity I pick her up and give her keys to my apartment. When she leaves she always leaves like 3-500 under my coffee maker.. when I visit her in Vegas she lets my family stay in her condo and she takes my car to get detailed.. I always leave her like 400-500 on her nightstand. I’d love to be married to her but we both understand that we free birds.
Sending love from Scotland x
Thank you Frank XO
Grazie da L'ITALIA.
Long ago in the 1970s, I studied for a few months and decided at 19 yrs old that I’d found ‘the truth’. Fortunately my sense of fun didn’t allow me to be reined in which led me to drop the bible study and eventually marry a guy who told me wt was bullshit. (I guess I was POMI from 1973 until 1989 before POMI was ‘a thing’) Pre-internet, there was no one to talk to about the torturous fear of armageddon and the nightmares I had for YEARs. I was embarrassed that I deeply believed the jw fear-mongering. I worked hard, became a graphic designer but told no one why i had a guilt migraine at every christmas party, felt uneasy when big halloween costume parties rolled around. I went to counseling because I was depressed and suicidal but I didn’t want bring shame to Jehovah so I never spoke about why I was terrified. The marriage ended, and then of course someone knocked at my door inviting me to a bible study. At the kingdom hall in 1989, I was love-bombed and I finally joined the religion. I faded after 4 years because I just could not stand the conservative lifestyle. I left and faded in 1992 and re-gained POMI-ship until I woke up in 2019 when I discovered the xjw community. I see young beautiful women like you who have courage and goodness and I remember my young, beautiful self once-upon-a-time. I’m so happy to see people gain the freedom and support that took me so long to find. 🧡 😻
You don't want what your friends say, you want what God says!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was in a bad marriage and also committed adultery in my wife was a Jehovah's witness but she had one of the worst temper of anyone I've known I became spiritually check-in remembered that scripture that if you confess your sins to Jehovah he will forgive and you will get new wings to fly again. I remembered the scripture about your sins being as red as Scarlet that Jehovah would make them white as snow and I also remembered the story of The prodigal son. How fast I learned that it was a mistake to confess your sins to the elders. There was no love and no mercy shown. There was no story of The prodigal son and I was disfellowshipped. I tried to go back and sit in the back of the room but I just couldn't take it. Then I was told it would probably take 18 months to get reinstated. Where do they come up with this. shuyt? There is no prep digital son story because there is no forgiveness did it take his father 18 months to forgive him? I knew the daughter of an elder who is disfellowshipped for simply dating a worldly person. She was just fellowshipped in reinstated after just three months only to turn around and start dating him and she was disfellowshipped for another three months and then she was reinstated again.
A year ago you made this video to encourage people. A year later & it is still doing just that! I’m so glad you’ve escaped 💕⚖️💕
Thanks so much!! Looking for your first RUclips video that you mention and got lots of view, but I can’t find. Can you share the Link. I would love it 😀
sure thing ruclips.net/video/q6otxy6VTZg/видео.html
That's interesting; I attempted suicide on 4/20/2011 and after that the Jehovah's Witness I had been was gone. The next meeting I attended I found there was no longer any meaning to it; I might as well have been someone's bible study at a meeting who was like "this isn't for me." I also found that I was bound more to my non JW coworkers and managers than I was members of Jehovah's Witnesses. After 4/20/2011 I walked away from the Organization and on 6/18/14 I formally disassociated.
A "booty call" manuever! I get you, ' sis!' 1 of the (50 ways to leave your l...r! - P. Simon) ...😇😇 ...to dump the chump...
PIMO in Md.
Cool story! Wish you well!
#1 NEVER give the JW society ANY of your life. Follow this advice and you are certain to have a great life. NONE of this JW society has any right to have any say about your life. Never look back
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You were disfellowshipped from a print company hiding as a religion...🤦♂️
Lol
I walked away from jw little over 3 months ago. The last 18 months was horrible they gave me the silent treatment then my former friend got really snippy with me. I called him and rest of them out. Then I never went back.
It took me over a year to get reinstated when I got df'd in 1988.
I hope you don't feel you ever need to meet with those goons again. Women need to stand up to elderly bullies who have nothing better to do than get off on sexual phantasies. That's something for a more private setting with a professional setting if you want to work through something. Lots of friends elsewhere. You ain't lost jack. It gets better every day. They are evil relationship killers you don't need in your life.
I totally agree with you! I feel completely free and liberated right now.
Just curious what congregation did you go to? I used to live in OC too.
I didn't go to any congragation in California. I was a JW in Michigan, in the Metro Detroit area.
pleasure to meet you darling #~~~ change title to my lucky break
LOL! True that!
I'm no longer a witness. I left in 2019
🌿🌹 JOEL 2:32 STATES "AND EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED ; (emphasis mine). Moreover, what are they teaching that only the 144000 will be saved. The bible clearly states that the 144000 will consist of 12000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. No where in the Word of God, it is said that they will be Jehovah's witnesses. No way!
The like 200 :)
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What about your psoriasis? Are you healed ?
It was almost gone when I was living in Costa Rica for 3 months. I was going into the ocean almost everyday and the heat and humidity helped it. But now im living in Sweden and its very dry here and my psoriasis came back :(
She cheated on the beta male provider. No surprise
You can go to a different congregation and write a letter ?
Unbelievable, but so typical of what I'm seeing here on RUclips and many other ex-JW forums. As a long-time ex-elder of JW's; I can say that if I were on your judicial committee, I would have recommended just private reproof, and then allow you to divorce your abusive hypocritical husband. Perhaps a dual public reproof of both of you, just so the congregation would not be pointing fingers and judging either of you, but allowing you to divorce scripturally.
If someone has the courage to go to the elders to confess a sin they committed; that alone screams a repentant and remorseful attitude. No excuse for DF'ing, in my opinion. I feel that way because when you actually really READ the gospel letters of the apostles; you realize that Jesus himself would have never treated you like that. His many lessons on mercy and forgiveness and his dealings with practicing sinners shows that even though he was appointed to be Judge of all mankind one day, he never treated a sheep in his flock like dirt and kicked them out of his association.
And I too was unjustly and unscripturally disfellowshipped for something that wasn't even a scripturally serious sin! These clowns made up their own interpretation of what constituted a "sin"! It took me 8-12 months before I began to realize that though I never lost my relationship with God, and prayed for forgiveness where I did fall short; I had not committed something worthy of shunning someone for! I gleaned what cautionary counsel I could from the experience overall, but began to realize that the organization was transforming itself into a cult! A cult who follow men and their elders manual OVER THE BIBLE. They have forgotten the hundreds of scriptures showing God's love and mercy, and Jesus fairness and mercy in judging sinners he came into contact with! Now THEY ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO JEHOVAH FOR THIS GROSS APOSTASY from the teachings of scripture!
Hi are you religious or have any religious beliefs in any way
Hey Wonder :) I do not believe that god lives in religion and am not religious, rather, I am spirtural and believe in believe in a Higher power. Where you once a JW?
I been df twice.
It's a total cult. They say they worship Jesus, but they actually worship st. Michael, that's so creepy and blasphemous.
I got divorced from Laura last March after 17 years. Lol. Remember when we dated for a few months lol.
So are you still lost after 40? Keep digging for few more months, you will find your treasure
@@ricardorodriguez-ci2ze ya I'm so lost
What made you think being honest was the answer? Clearly you misunderstood the way the religion cult operates. It's about following their rules, not being honest!
your audio is too low
jW would rather here lies .the truth makes no difference. Your husband can say and do what ever they want it's absolutely a terrible way to live I no I lived it.
very true
Is there a reason you feel like you have to drop F bombs so much? I've been baptized since I was 17 and have realized what the organization really is. But listening to your video, though I'm very interested in your story is frustrating because of how much you curse. Not everyone that leaves this organization goes to the extreme opposite
If my cursing offends you, it’s also ok to not watch my video.
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I'm aware of that. I just don't understand why you went from being this devout witness to not caring at all. I agree with a lot of what you have brought out about the organization but just because they aren't "the truth" doesn't mean we should toss out everything we ever learned.
Who said I was a "devout witness"? Did you personally know me?
You must of done something really bad and be unrepentant to get disfellowshipped, let me guess it had to do with sex?
Liberating isn't it! I've DF the Witnesses to protect my Family. CSA , financial fraud and spiritual abuse. Stay strong and well always everyone!
Life is about more than followimg Dead religion's get over it get away from religious people stop being emotionally blackmailed get a life stop being manipulated. Very sad to listen to tbis.
why is the "very sad to listen to""? Its my story! You didn't have to watch my video
Don't listen to your intuition or your heart. Listen to god Jehovah.the maker of heaven an earth.
If your created in gods image you should be listening to your intuition.
This religion tends to demonize your doubts saying it comes from Satan! The answer is within yourself, if you know yourself you know all things.
Exactly
Even after 10 years you can't still move on.My advice,go back to where you got real love.
You have a lot of money!
What?
You said a lot in this video but nothing about your personal relationship with God. From everything you said you were serving him for people not for him. Jehovah knows who belongs to him.
Sounds like you are an active JW. You probably should not be on my channel.
You were disfellowshipped because you committed a serious sin and were unrepentant. You were going to be disfellowshipped regardless of how honest you were. Also, you got baptized for the wrong reason. You were supposed to get baptized to serve Jehovah, not to please your mother because Jehovah's in charge of your salvation, not your mother.
So you proved your ex husband right by cheating on him and you were mad at him for trying to prevent that... Lol im a little worried for the current husband. At least you eventually realized that you were trying to get reinstated for the wrong reason, some people dont and only do it for family rather than actually believing that God has a name and his son is Jesus.