Con Artist, Bombs, Shunning, and Lawn Mowing!!! The Latest JW News is Wild
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It took me a while because I didn’t question many things, I just went along with what I was being taught (like a dummy). The sister I was studying with (AKA My Handler) was a very kind person but she always reminded me in one way or another that our friendship was conditional. The same with the others in the congregation and I especially remember how they would always come to speak to me before and after the meetings and that first meeting after I got baptized, no one said anything to me.
It took me less than a year to get a backbone and start questioning the nonsense of the cult. I ultimately disassociated myself from the organization and went on to get my Associate and then Bachelors degree so was able to do a lot more for myself.
Whenever I would see one of the fools from my congregation, they would turn their heads as if I wasn’t even there. I remember one, who I was good friends with, shaking her head at me as I was making a deposit at the bank. It hurt and I wanted to cry but I had to shake it off and move on.
Exact experience except I was ds’fd and formally shunned. But you’re right: it was all once I got baptized that the negativity started. I never even got the warning of friendship being conditional. Never heard before baptism about anything that they punish you with. 😢
JWs use the old "bait and switch" strategy. The Bait: They smile and show joy to all newly interested ones. They talk about love, family, hope and drawing close to God. They use lots of slogans ("live forever", "It is the Truth", no part of the world, etc.). The Switch (after you are baptized) "Obey the governing body" "the Governing Body are anointed and special", "You can't hang out with "wordly" people" "you have to work for JEHOVAH (the organization) etc. etc.
They will claim that JWs are morally upright, kind and devoted to God. However, you will quickly find out that many JWs fornicate, watch porn, have affairs etc. In reality, there is no difference between a JW and a devoted Mormon, devoted Seventh Day Adventist, devoted Scientologist, etc.
If JWs were really what they claim to be, people would be standing in the doorway of the Kingdom Hall and begging to come in. Smart people figure out real quick that this is a financial power house and they love to own your soul, money and time. All JWs eventually die while they wait for "everlasting life" and the organization will perform a memorial talking about how great you were because you obeyed the organization and donated all your free time and money to them.
franswevers5039 Yes, and if you get a chance, look at how many commit suicide (particularly those who were shunned). Imagine being 18/25 or even 70 and having grown up in that organization to being shunned by your entire family of witnesses and the "friends" which includes people you've known your entire life and kids you had established close friendships with (more like family really). This is a very close-knit cult and they do everything together inside and outside of the organization since anyone who is not a JW is considered worldly or an apostate and they are not allowed to associate with either. They are only allowed to talk to worldly people when door knocking or studying but can get disfellowshipped if they establish a friendship or relationship with one if they don't discontinue it after being warned by the elders.
@@christinesotelo7655 Oh Yes!! I disassociated but when anyone does this they are still announced as being
disfellowshipped to the congregation because it is considered a way of denouncing Jehovah. They are only speaking and being friendly to newcomers and people studying because they are told they are supposed to. That's their way of luring you in by making you think they are so loving. Some of those people/couples have dark secrets (including having threesomes with other JW couples) and I won't get into the pedophilia and molestation problem but you can look at the many lawsuits they have.
@franswevers5039 So sad...
I believe they are allowed to say "Hello" or welcome someone who was disfellowshipped if they return to the KH. This is something new that the GB is allowing.
That's why ghosting someone is so evil. Obviously unless the person you ghosted was harmful.
I swear I’ve heard that wallet story a trillion times. I use to be a JW, they really do try to make it look like they are the only loving and honest people in the world
I remember that too 😂
Yeah yeah me too!
My brother (not JW) lost his wallet!
And had his id in it. A Good Samaritan came over to the house to hand it over: at the time we knew he wasn’t a JW nor religious person, he had a beard, tattooed and long hair!
As indoctrinated as I was at the time, I couldn’t believe it!! And the next Sunday my brother told me he saw the young man in mass (Catholic)!
It's as pervasive as the Smurf doll coming to life and walking out of the Kingdom Hall urban legend.
@@migdaliafuentes1618
My friend David had his id stolen. Now he's just Dav
@@adamantiumbullet9215 lol lol lol lol lol lol
I knew an elder that got convicted of grand larceny and did 10 or 15 years in prison. He worked for Florida DOT. Always wondered how he could afford his large home on acreage, all on his one salary. His wife never worked and they always had the latest ATV's, wave runners, motorcycles, SUV's and Trucks. When he finally got out my father in law, when we were still speaking, asked " Do you think he'll go back to the hall?" I said " would you want someone like that back??" I never understood the whole "they're one of us so they're to be automatically trusted" culture. I also never found out who he embezzled the money from. I moved far away from all of it by the time I found out about the conviction.
In the congregations we are nearer to criminals than in the work place!
Maaan it's always Florida
At 2:40 "social death penalty" is the best way to describe shunning. Prisons call it solitary and to some it is the worst form of punishment with the trauma continuing even after the solitary ends. Likewise even JWs who return from being df'ed/shunned never fully recover from it as it leaves a lasting scar. Let's go, Wally. You keep rolling out these bangers.
@thezenoflux8244- So true!! None of my biological family members or friends were JWs so I was able to run back into their arms after disassociating. But one of my in-laws (who I love dearly) is and she is not allowed to talk to me. It hurts!!! I imagine how hard it must be for parents and children who are not able to communicate. Or one person being shunned by his or her entire family and congregation.
It’s comparable to setting a person in the middle of a huge arena surrounded by a huge audience who stay perfectly silent and stare you to death. It is a death sentence. 😢
One the lawn mower topic, I think its to cover their ass from lawsuits. When I was a JW, I remember that we did the Kingdom Hall landscaping for free . Every month or so it would be our book study groups turn to do it. Some people dont have spacial awareness and I remember people getting injured from a piece of tree branch flying and hitting someone else and all kinds of accidents would happen. I could imagine some one getting seriously injured and then sueing.
lawn mowers throw stones that break windows and kill people.(townvcille australia a decade ago....research online)
The gardening task is still going on
Together with deep cleaning the KH!
Oh, and free labor!!
Thank goodness I left (unofficially) last year before my high school graduation. I’ve had so much freedom and privilege these past few years being POMO. I’ve made a ton of ‘worldly’ friends, and they’ve been so supportive and genuine. Way different from how the dubs describe them. You never fail to deliver, my guy. Thanks for doing what you do, man! 🙏🏽
glad you are doing good brother!!!
Congrats!!! 🎉I’ve found the same thing, most “worldly” people are supportive and kind and it’s honestly easier to make friends than I ever thought was possible! ❤
@@exjehovahswitness Thanks Wally your spot on!😂❤
Most of us get free at that age… I’m happy for you bro 🫡
Congratulations!! I’m happy for you! ❤
12:15 I'm 34 years old. Born and raised in Chicago. Never once have I mowed a lawn in my life. I think it has more to do with the kind of environment you lived in. And if you are buyer/renter. People, like myself, who have lived in large metropolitan areas never had the need to learn how to mow a lawn. And now that we are becoming a society of renters, it will soon be a less common skill.
Also, in the southwest US it's rapidly becoming too expensive, immoral, and occasionally illegal to grow a lawn even if you do own a home.
I could definitely see even a well adjusted adult from the area not knowing how to use a lawnmower properly.
I've never mowed a lawn, but I feel like if an 8 year old can do it, it should only take maybe 5 minutes of explanation to figure it out? Maybe I'm just arrogant, but I like to think I am smarter than a second grader.
I think it's clear that someone was hurt due to inexperienced and lack of training. I can remember my father teaching my older brother, and carefully warning him of the common dangers. Just because a young man is of an appropriate age, it shouldn't be assumed that he knows the necessary cautions.
The bortherly love soon fades once you become a familiar face.... real life then kicks in.
True, I moved to another area after expend many years in one congregation (happened many times) and as soon as I left nobody called anymore, but I have friends in other countries that I only expend 1 or 2 years there and after many many years they continue in contact with me, I just realized this after I stopped going to the meetings and they call me to remind me that we have to go to the meetings to encouraging one to another 😂, bs
Thank you for you work
you are very welcome!
Watchtower is DANGEROUS 🛑
So are Watchtower lawnmowers, apparently.
Recent friend was disfellowshipped on Thursday, baker acted on Friday ! Why I know I’ll never ever ever go back!!
I think the safety training for lawn mowing is actually a smart idea. Many people grow up without yards or have a service or another family member mows, etc so not assuming everyone knows the proper and safe way is best in my opinion.
But the forms sound more like a liability thing for the Watchtower more than actually training someone...
A not very well known fact is there is a subculture of very rich JW’s. I live near the US Branch and Bethelites fall over themselves to curry the favor of the super rich. Of course, the only people the truly wealthy are interested in are those who have actual influence in the organization. GB, GB Helpers, Branch Committee, Service Department (and their wives) are lavished with extravagant gifts (cars, homes, vacations, luxury restaurants, etc.) in exchange for prominence, access and protection. One wealthy JW who was personal friends with Losch was banging his cocktail waitress for 2 years with no action taken. I’ve known wealthy witnesses who ran fraudulent corporations involving just other JW’s who were essentially untouchable because of connections (remember you can’t take your brother to court). The amount of greed, graft and corruption in this organization is staggering.
I totally agree! The last KH I attended was a snake’s den of twisted people. Grand theft larceny, wife swapping, crooked business deals. It was mind boggling how the perpetrators got away with it! Many concerned and troubled people in that hall complained to Watchtower HQ who finally sent a rep out to investigate. Guess who he investigated!? The complainers. Can’t make this crap up!
A JW woman I’ve known for years was once a member of that hall and finally admitted to me that she was one of the complainers the Bethel rep spoke to. Nothing was ever done about the elder who allowed all the criminality and she was told she had to just let it all go. Her complaint? The elder allowed his own daughter to shack up with my friend’s disfellowshipped husband in the basement suite of the elder’s own home! My friend was trying to get proof of adultery so she could divorce him and the elder refused to divulge what he knew! Like I said, you can’t make this crap up!
Good job! Thank you
you are welcome
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@@exjehovahswitnessyou are welcome here.
Never a JW here. Thank you for your video. It is interesting and important
I can definitely imagine many people not growing up learning how to mow a lawn or operate a lawn mower. For example, in NYC, and I’m sure many other places, most people don’t even have a lawn to mow! So maybe some men in the Kingdom Hall actually are making mistakes and/or are too embarrassed to ask for a demonstration.
Watchtower probably has strict mowing rules like wear safety glasses and gloves.
most likely lol
They do. You have to wear boots, pants, ear protection, eye protection and a safety vest. It’s in the rule book that they have for working on the hall.
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Probably the borg want to make sure they don’t have to pay damages if someone gets injured!!
@@joyo3890yes it will be to cover themselves legally. Someone could say they were just told to mow a lawn and the mower blade hit a stone which then hit them on the head fracturing their skull, blinding them or the like.
If they’re given a little training and told to walk the area looking for stones first along with wearing protection it removes blame from watchtower.
If you’ve been brought up in a multi story flat with no garden you wouldn’t necessarily know that stones or animal waste might be a potential problem when mowing.
WOW! That guy was in my Kingdom Hall! He was on the Oxnard pleasant valley congregation.
Watching your channel is so therapeutic, thank you!
The difference between a religion and a cult is a couple hundred years of religious acceptance.
People have always accepted cults but didn’t name them such because people ignored the abuses.
CULT: a small unpopular religion.
RELIGION: a large popular cult.
Yes! Call this "Wally's News of the Week"
in Belgium (Bornem) there was an elderly volunteer who was electrocuted and died in 2017 while vacuuming a sort of electricity cupboard in the convention hall. As a result there was a blackout in the neighborhood for an hour. So standards of safety are much needed.
I learned to mow our lawn at age 5, a small girl helping dad. 😅So funny and easy to do. Now I’m almost 60 and still manage to do it. Never ever have I read a brochure on “how to..” 🤣🤣 Probably JW are soon so brainwashed and dependent on the Org., that they need in writing, how to eat, how to sleep, how to walk 🤪 funny and strangely sad at the same time.
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When I was a kid, we only had the push mowers and then you had to rake the grass. Maybe the JWs should go back to that. The more complicated equipment is to “worldly” and “of the world”. 😂
Not everyone has had your left. Many kids are raised in condos. Many adults have never done it.
How do 5 Jehovah's Witnesses have $1.2 million to lose between them? Even the JWs that were well off by JW standards didnt have this kind of money.
yeah the only jw's that were planning for the future got scammed! so sad
I know many wealthy JW’s who go have very successful businesses, even though they aren’t supposed to chase money lol
select a well populated wealthy retirement area and the marks select themselves....
Many of them that had some money back in the 60's (since we weren't supposed to go for higher learning aka college) had the foresight to start Cleaning Businesses and were able to get other bros and sis to work for them. Especially those who were pioneering and could only handle part-time jobs because it was 100 hrs a month back then. 🧹 🧼🪟 🚪🚽🪠🪞 🧻🚻etc.
Maybe that they are from Carpinteria, which i know is somewhat a wealthy area, that 1.2m between the five aint that much??? my guess
I’m an ex-Catholic who came out of a cult-like (at least according to one of my therapists) or high demand parish community and I’ve been mostly watching from ex-Mormon channels since there isn’t much material specifically for us as part of my deconstruction in the last couple of years and it wasn’t until recently when I started watching channels like yours mostly out of curiosity as you said. Also JWs still come to our door from time to time and they’ve given me Watchtower literature that I’ve kept out of curiosity (if my understanding is correct they’re pretty much creationist and that’s one of the main reasons why I don’t buy their belief system), I try to be nice to those folks as they’re mostly elderly people and they don’t stay around for long.
I have to say that as much as I regret ever getting involved with conservative Catholicism everyday I feel grateful that my upbringing wasn’t worse, JW shunning sounds pretty brutal to me and I have nothing but sympathy for anyone who has gone through that.
I was raised as a conservative catholic, until I joined the JWs. And raised my children as JWs. If I got to compare childhood and raising children in this cult is not good! I had a normal childhood and I regret the mental harm we imposed into our children.
I was talking to my husband and all his nephews and nieces have some level of mental or emotional including my children. We regret what we made them go through and asked for forgiveness after we ALL woke up! Thank God they are adults and out of the cult and working with their issues and raising the grandkids in another way.
@@migdaliafuentes1618all I can say is that don’t be too harsh on yourself for those past actions, there’s some things I regret doing but I did them because of indoctrination and I used to be mad at my past self for falling for all of that until I realized I might have ended up in a worse group. I’ve been able to find a therapist and medication to treat the depression I got after leaving my community and it has helped me heal from my past so I recommend that if y’all can afford it. I wish you nothing but healing in your journey.
Hi Wally. I enjoy your videos so much, not only for the humor, but because I learn something new from them each time.
Excellent as always ❤
Love it when u upload 🎉
We had a letter and info page we had to read like 5 years ago. We had to wear ear protection, eye protection, boots, long pants, safety vest. I’m all for safety but we had to wear pants even when 100 degrees out. And of course you don’t get paid
❤😊❤ thanks 4 all u do
That was great Wally. Thank you!
Thank you for all you do❤
In defense of mowing a lawn. Plenty of people live in an apartment where you never mow the lawn. I'm 41 and I've never mowed a lawn in my life. But I'm a women. I'm not qualified anyway
I just recently realized how much local Kingdom Halls are designed like a bunker compared with most churches. It’s really twisted 🤔👻🎃
I hope more attention will be given to fiduciary abuse of the elderly. It can happen through that JW Hospital Liason Committee too. I hope the GB shuts down that Committee, a person should be able to feel safe in a hospital or nursing home setting.
Great Job Wally
Lawn mower
On Jimmy Kimmel they asked students including a Harvard student to address an envelope
None of them could do it
W H A T !!? How SAD
No young person even knows the Art of Penmanship anymore. I got a JW letter in the mail once, all printing, no return address. No handwriting because the Art is a lost one now. 😢
The large home centers have to conduct training clinics to teach the 20 year-olds they hire how to use a tape measure. A tape measure!
It's not a stretch to imagine a lot of JWs, especially the younger ones, are just as untrained in mowing a lawn.
There was a family in my hall. It was an open secret that they were pot growers. Every now and then they would befriend another family and 3 months later that other family would have a new car and a new house. We all knew what was happening but we pretended like we didn’t know.
Are they still there and still in, heck, even if they are now out, idc... - (asking for a friend)
I knew a brother like. He worked at Burger King and used his drive thru access to sell pot and meth.
Crazy!
@@gagoomt4076WT taking more and more $
Awesome work Wally!
My brother in law and my sister JW were financially destroyed by a highly revered brother...
Lawn mowing safety. Right, Elder reads the instructions book with you, and then makes you sign a form stating that you will not hold them responsible for any accidents that may occur, thus relieving them of any associated costs due to possible injury or injury lawsuit. (have to keep all monies in our headquarters pocket)💲💲 can't let it 💸💸💸 away
Another Great one. It’s aggravating how the GB “bobs and weaves” with new verses and interpretations to justify new spin (umm… light). As good as Muhammed Ali. Hope this new spin is more nakedly obvious (🙏).
About knowing how to use a lawnmower….I know how to use a lawnmower because l’ve for most of my life lived in Miami where I own a house and I “mow” my own back and front “yards” and before that I did it at the house I rented and I would “mow the grass” at my parent’s house before that. Besides, I’ve always loved mechanical things, specially and specifically cars, I graduated from an Automotive Trades HS in Brooklyn, NY so, I always knew how to “start and use a lawn mower” ….even before I ever did use a lawnmower I knew how to use and how 13:45 a simple mechanical device like that works and how to use it, safely. However, if you grew up in, NYC, Boston, Detroit, Chicago….or Madrid, Paris, London, Rome…. at an apartment building or condo where there is not a “yard” or grass area that you are responsible for mowing, and you are not a mechanically gifted person, or maybe you had a yard but you could afford to pay someone else to do it, it is entirely possible that you don’t know how to use lawnmower and you haven’t an idea about how a lawnmower works. That being said, it is a fairly simple piece of gear or equipment that can be learned to, not only use but also repair fairly quickly. So I get what you meant.
Great video as usual Wally. You are one of….
… maybe “The”…….Goats of ex JW activism. You’re certainly NOT one of the sheep. Pun intended.
BTW….I’m sure Watchtower is more wooried (“more worried”…is that proper English?….so sorry but Shakespeare’s language is not my native tongue) Watchtower is not so worried about you taking off your toes or fingers while mowing the grass at the KH….they just can’t afford to pay more lawsuit since they are always having to pay child sexual abuse case settlements.
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Yesterday an earthquake shook New York. Epicentre? In Ramapo!
I hear Lett saying: "So the events are showing we are living in the last of the last days...(of a cult?)😅
😂😂😂. I thought the same!!
Maybe it Gods wrath- don’t build the movie studio???
GB: "It's a sign that Jehovah is blessing the Ramapo project."
Earthquake levels Ramapo.
GB: "Well, it is Satan's system, bad things happen, and it's the last of the last, last, last, last final few seconds of the last moments of the remaining seconds of the remaining nanoseconds of the last days."
@@adamantiumbullet9215. oh yeah, they always have an answer for everything.
If Good: it God’s blessing
If bad: oh it’s because we live under Satans system of things!
I was disfellowshipped 20 years ago in two congregations since I moved to the Spanish hall but they only had two elders so the third on the judicial committee came from my old congregation so when they announced it was in two languages on two sides of town. Gotta be a record right?
for sure
Good video! Quick thought: Not all families grow up with lawns and not all folks who were taught how to mow a lawn were taught safety with the machine. Companies and orgs typically have documentation on simple tasks to try to minimize risk.
Thanks for the video!
The JW con artist phenomenon isn't talked about enough I think. I knew a family that did this. Allegedly had tough luck back in New York, moved hall to hall asking for "help," for the same "tragedy," everywhere they went, milking people for all they could offer. I remember my mother gave my bed to their daughter. They moved shortly thereafter. Reportedly the same thing happened where they moved to.
I wonder if some JW’s have injured themselves? To me it’s looking more and more like a business with training programs. Edit to clarify for the lawn mowing
Those are SOPs- standard operating procedures . Businesses use these to cover their backs and Watchtower as a business is doing it too!
You would be surprised how many people have no idea how to operate lawn care equipment.
As an aside there are probably a higher percentage of women now having to perform the lawn care duties. Historically speaking women will have less experience with the equipment. IMO women are better stewards of equipment and operate said equipment better then men
lol yeah men have to much bravado to be trusted with the safe operation of lawn equipment!
There are those who were raised in very urban environments who never had to mow a lawn. If you grew up in an environment where your family owned the home of course you learned how to mow lawns at an early age. However, if you grew up in a rental or project environment where the owners maintained their property you would not have been required to learn how to mow lawns at any age.
The conman story doesn't say he was a witness, so maybe he "studied" and ingratiated himself? There is no doubt there are criminal JW's though, I've known some.
True. Because WT ive heard does a prison ministry, their “converts” are of course welcomed into Kingdom Halls when they leave prison.
I'm 4th generation JW. I've heard these kinds of stories my whole life and had some personal experience with a JW elder swindling a relative out of huge amounts of money.
It happens in WT a lot simply because most JWs are gullible and too trusting of their "brothers". They never suspect anything's going on until it's too late.
I didn’t learn how to mow a yard until I was 16 because growing up my dad always mow the yard so
his point is that it's silly for the organization to focus on tedious things like the safety hazards of mowing a lawn instead of other more "important" things fam
@@CarlosSanchez-qv2in I know
lol brother Lovett attended my Kingdom Hall but in a different congregation
In my opinion the old returning the found wallet story is as much of a JW urban myth as the possessed Smurf doll. I’m 50 and I’ve heard that tired ass tale over and over since I was a kid.
HA! The possessed smurf doll! I remember that! 😂
I've never mowed a lawn. I'm 29. But it's because I have lived in condos where we have lawn services do it. But I feel like I'm intelligent enough to be able to figure it out by looking at the lawn mower and maybe flipping through the manual that comes with it. I can drive a car, so I'm pretty sure a lawn mower isn't beyond me.
There are millions of people who live in apartments that have no grass. So why would they know how to cut grass properly?
Um ... do u know how to walk? Do u know how to push while walking?
Congratulations. You just learned how to mow a lawn!
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@@aloramermaidful 😘
@@cultytalk I've never in my life weed whacked. I watched a short RUclips video on how to change the cord. I'm now an expert 😂
Mowing a lawn is intuitive, just like walking. Having said that, they do need to make sure they’ve covered their arses for safety issues.
i'm 20 and i don't know how to mow a lawn because i never had a lawn to mow in my life :( always lived in an apartment
im 17 and ive known how to mow a lawn since I was 8 years old. Too bad the watchtower wont be able to take advantage of my lawn care exspertise anymore.
Exposure is better than explosure, I like it!
Some KHs have ride on mowers, which do require a bit of a lesson to use properly. String trimmers, same. An idiot can destroy thousands of $ worth of equipment in a single use
I’m 31 and have never used a lawnmower. We’ve always lived in a complex that does the lawn for you, so there wasn’t a need 😂 probably should though
So wait, they can go to the police for money, but not for Child SA?
I grew up in apartments and the lawn care was managed. I was older when I finally had my own house and never before had to manage landscaping so yeah you can be older without knowing those skills. Love the videos though!
I personally know someone, a “sister” (she was in one of the halls I was in before I faded) who ran a very upscale rehab/mental health facility and bolted in the night leaving clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. No one can find her and it’s believed she’s being harbored by GB members that she’s friends with in upstate NY, but all anyone in the congs around where she was said when it happened was just “we hope she’s okay” even though there were MULTIPLE news articles about her fraud
I think nowadays kids are expected to help out in ways that don't risk mangled limbs...
“Exposure not explosure” lmfaaooooo
“People who believe false things can’t be around honest people. If you believe things that are false, you can’t have freethinking people who are skeptical and curious and who care about you enough to tell you the truth and free you from the foggy, narcissistic death grip of error and falsehood and delusion. Who is content to let you live in a delusion?? …..People who share those delusions and who don’t care about you.
Delusion, fantasy, falsehoods and propaganda are solitary confinement. The reason propaganda is so dangerous is because it isolates people. And through isolation people go crazy. If you are isolated and you know it you experience a peculiar type of agony that will motivate you to do whatever it takes to get contact with people. If you are isolated and you don’t know it because you’re only surrounded by people who share your same delusions (cults) …..you are isolated because the only thing you have in common with the people around you is shared delusion. Collective madness is not emotional intimacy.
The isolation that separates us from each other when we get wrapped in falsehoods is the worst thing of all because it is without obvious symptom…. Yes, you become unstable, defensive, inoculated against any truth teller and will attack anybody that tells the truth in your environment, but you can’t love, you can’t be loved, you can’t relax. You are always on guard for whatever might puncture your delusions which provokes rage which drives good people away and anybody might rescue you from delusion will be driven away and you are left alone in the foggy devil ribbed cage bosom of falsehood…
That which is not real, that which is not true, that which is not proven, that which is the opposite of truth. You are full of peculiar hatreds, instability, vanity… because anybody who just repeats lies and only listens to lies is vain because they won’t submit themselves to reason and evidence. So, the vanity, the narcissism, the isolation the peculiar hatreds…. to be falling without even knowing that you’re falling, to be ill with no symptoms….. is the most dangerous thing of all. And to be lonely in a crowd of thousands of people cheering all the same falsehoods, to be certain, pompous, to be vain, to be full of rage at anybody who threatens these delusions…. to be told that the pursuit of truth is the acceptance of evil… to be isolated and thereby easily manipulated.
People who pursue delusion and end up wrapped in delusion are saying… I can’t be loved, all I can do is pretend to merge. I can’t be loved for who I am so I will hide in a room full of photocopied people with photocopied opinions and pretend that I’m part of something. I will dissolve my individuality, I will shred and eviscerate any original thought I might possibly have, any curiosity, any skepticism I might possibly have so that I can dissolve into the nothing of the photocopies around me. I can’t have love, but I can self abase and self erase into proximity. I can nod, smile, agree, and praise who everyone praises and hate who everyone hates… I can be a shadow cast by the tombstone of my mind. I can’t exist, I can’t excite, I can’t be unique, but I can blend. I can submit I can conform and then I will have physical proximity combined with unbelievable isolation. I can’t approach the truth so I will just burrow into empty people.
We can only ever meet in reality itself. We cannot meet in fantasy we cannot meet in lies we cannot meet in propaganda. We can only meet in the truth. When you are with the truth, you can do without people because you are with yourself and with the facts and reality. When you don’t have the truth you have a bottomless desperate need for people that you could never connect with. If all you have in common with others, with those around you is a mutual agreement to slash your mind into ribbons and accept whatever lies come rolling down the conveyor belt, you’re not with anyone, and you will never feel loved. The price of conformity is the absence of love. The price of conformity is terror of solitude.
Truth tellers can handle the journey from the town of the dead to the outposts of the living and the thinking. It’s a long journey across that desert. The ghosts can’t make it. You can’t love a character in a video game because they are programmed. You can’t love people who don’t think for themselves because there is no one to love, thought is the only individuating characteristic that we have. The only thing that we have that is uniquely our own is our capacity to think for ourselves, and that is the only passageway through which the light of love can reach. They suffer in the worst possible way which is to not even know what they are missing… Avoid it if you can at all possible costs.”
Jehovah's Witnesses, Palestinians... people care about people, if:
*they recognise the humanity of those people (tribalism is, I think, a defense mechanistic response to trauma)
*they know about those people's lives & suffering
*they've not been manipulated into thinking it's "none of our business" - so the JW church is complicit in selling that idea.
Everybody uses gardeners now, so lots of youngins don’t mow lawns!
They might do that about the lawn, concerns of liability and injury. So they don't get sued if someone gets injured? Probably need to sign a form they won't sue if they get hurt..lol
lawnmowers throw stones
Only Old Testament lawnmowers do that.
Never touched a lawn mower in my life. Yes you can make fun of me if you want. I remember as a kid being way too sensitive to the sound. My brother learned. I helped in other ways. I don't even think I was asked more than once. I was like, NOPE. Now I'm in an apartment where the concept of yard work does not exist in my life.
Lawn mower, so funny.
My guess for the lawn mower training is that maybe governments have become more aware of child labor used in kingdom halls and this is watchtower covering their buts when having children use dangerous machinery.
No Wally..the wt is not to blame for power hungry, god like elders..it’s the elders that enforce their own rules and will not bend. And when your d’fed for any reason, the rest of them turn on you anyway. Hurting the wt is not their aim, it’s personal. And who can blame them? We have all been on the receiving end, but to what extreme? That is the point..what did the elders do to these people making the devices?
Ruin their lives.
I had all this rolling around in my head, so I decided to put it in a poem
You said your Governing Body were the only ones who speak with God
But now your teachings have been changed
Don't you find that kind of odd?
You teach your people the Governing body to the heaven they will rise
But when they're asked in court all they did was lie
You say Jah will Know his people by their Earthly Fruits
Do you really think that is you because you wear a fancy suit?
You get mad when when we decide to walk away
But do you really listen to the things you say?
You taught that that time would never pass away
But the people of that time have left us anyway
You stand up and tell us you are speaking about Jah.But all we really hear is Just Bla Bla Bla
You say all you want is for us to come back
But that will take a whole lot more than allowing beards and Slacks
You said we need to trust in you so God would Help your people
But when we came to ask for help you sent me to a steeple
You say your people are only taught the truth
And for our children to be saved they must be Baptized in their youth
When the children came to you about abusive men
You told them not to go get help because that would be a sin
How can you preach you are God's earthly organization
When all you really care about is your reputation?
You call us Apostates for Questioning our Different views
But every single one of your sins are in the National News?
And now because the world now know about your every sin
Hopefully soon they will shut you down so we can have our family back again.
Alanna K Anderson
Anyone who grew up in a city has never mowed a lawn, first of all there’re not too many lawns to mown in the first place, second of all you definitely don’t own one & third is the city is responsible for mowing the existing lawns. To have lawn moving experience at 8 yo your parents gotta own a house & the lawn that comes with it.
Watchtower is most dangeros cult ever.🤣😂😁😆
Maybe Stavi became a witness 😂
It's all a game
Pretty soon there should hazmat books with data safety sheets for products brought in, used at or possibly stored in the halls and convention centers, I will bet, as the "Organization" gets up to Fuller Brush/Kirby vacuums speed in today's moddern world
Then their Armageddon will come along and destroy it all 😂
😂😂lawn mowing technology. U need the full manual on how to do it within the limits of professionalism. It will be only those trained whole would qualify for this sacred assignment
I would love to get to chat with you a few stream just need to know the time
Some ppl don’t know how to mow a lawn. Don’t shame ppl that don’t know how to do things. You didn’t know u were in a cult once upon a time
It's cause you were a witness. I'm pretty sure we were all born knowing how to cut grass and wash windows
What's the difference between a religion and a cult?
A religion has more people.
Thats a good one
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 clearly identifies the JWS and its top leaders the GB men ..
13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
Increase Bible studies, they need to really and seriously study the Bible themselves before they pretend to teach it.
Rank and file are victims and perpetrators at the same time. My sympathy grows less for them being attacked. I don’t wish them attacked.
But Can you be a good person and at the same time blindly following orders of men… I don’t think the two are compatible
At least you’re honest. I sometimes feel so sorry for them then other times am outraged a parent would allow a baby to die rather than live through a blood transfusion. I also wish no harm, yet I DO hope someday Authorities will hold JWs accountable for wrong-doing. Thanks for your honesty.
Liability. That is all JW is about. Legalities. Do you understand that you need to wear proper PPE? If you throw a rock w the mower, you are responsible for all damages. Dumb shit like that.
I think there are two things that make JWs cultish: Shunning and Changing doctrine on the fly... as if God rewrites the Bible every day or something.
Beside that, they are just another universalist Christian religion, but these cultish attitudes is what damage people the most, and ironically scare people away from the religion too.
JWs are strict, but there are other religions as strict that don't encourage to treat former members as trash. It is quite sad that JWs are so eager to change doctrine and rules on the fly about beliefs and the Bible, yet they stick to the most damaging aspect of their own faith.
You got me thinking and now analyzing what makes any cult and here is my take. It takes narcissism to start a cult rolling, and it gains momentum when one man is presumed to be som much more wiser or charismatic than the others, but it isnt the admiration of him that empowers the ult, it is his level of narcissism winning and over-powering the other narcissists to make him the greater. In narcissism either other narcissist leave (which man exJWs and exMormons are mere competing narcissists) or they are humbled forcefully demeaned by the greater narcissist until he is in power and leads. Now most of YOU peopleseem to think the GB itself has become a narcissistic entity (like BIdan admin or Trum admin) are two beasts of separate but whole entities devouring their path. When the identity is a beast, you can chop its head off because someone else will rise to be the head.
So, Jehovah can supposedly protect every JW through Armageddon, but he can't do the same for some poor JW who drew the short straw and has to mow the KH lawn?
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name of the God of Israel Yahweh found inscripted.
Not knowing how to mow grass surprised you? I've had to pump gas for a lady before.
You're very look like with a elder of my congregation. 😂
You’re knit picking with the lawn mower. It’s safety and liability. I have to sign forms to let my kid play in a jungle gym. Can you imagine your episode if someone DID get hurt.? Damned if they go damned if they don’t. Your Lawn mower spiel was childish
yall making money bashing jehovah witnesses but theres issues in every religion, especially the church,plus yall teach the wrong information 😮
I left five years ago and I am so happy, I wish I had left earlier, it’s a evil cult, they are so cold and callous
Where do kingdom halls have lawns???