New Light: I was a 3rd gen born-in JW baptized as a teenager, MS in my twenties, congregation financial servant (keeping the books), and giving several 1 hour Sunday talks as I was being groomed to be an elder when I woke up and realized that 10 years out of high school my lot was low wage struggle and that the supposedly impending last days and "end of this worldly system" was a lie that my grandparents and parents fell for (making significant life changes prior to 1975) and that all these restrictions and demands on my time were man-made. I was a straight A high school student but eschewed college because Watchtower discouraged it. In my late twenties I courageously disassociated, took my lumps, and started making a new life for myself. I have no regrets, I have so many things to be thankful and joyful about in my life, and I only wish my relatives who shun me could wake up as well. You go girl - keep telling it like it is!
On point. Gods Underserved kindness was another trigger to rob you of any self worth and that love had to be earned. What parent does something kind to their child and then breaks the child’s heart by saying you don’t deserve it? Psychopaths do this.
When i used my Bible trained conscience after finding 24 scriptures which clearly tells us not to trust any man or men for our spiritual guidance,& calling out the governing body for violating the scriptures by telling the worldwide brotherhood to trust them implicitly without question,i got disfellowshipped for it.
Today’s Watchtower was about putting your trust or being “loyal to Christ’s brothers” aka them, and today I heard my mom zoom singing that one song about the Governing Body! You know, the GB worship song!🤮
@kdrazalotg-usa6345 I found all those scriptures on trust by cross referencing trust in the brown NWT Reference Bible. Here's some of those scriptures on trust that i found..Jeremiah 17:5-7,9; Micah 7:5; 1 Chronicles 5:20; Psalms 118:8&9; 146:3; Proverbs 3:5&6; 28:26.
I was told while studying, that I have to leave my friends who are not baptized witnesses. I said an adamant NOPE I am not leaving my good friends who are always there for me. Not for religion or any other means. These are good people. I found out the witnesses are not good friends at all. They hate themselves and each other. Thank you, Beth for sharing the Truth of the non-truth cult.
Friends ! I remember it well. Feeling forced to have people in your home you couldn’t stand, mostly for good reason. After giving up all your ‘worldly ‘ friends as they were ‘obviously ‘ doing bad things and bad association. After having a study and going to all the meetings and mixing with the ‘wholesome‘ fellowship within a few months I realised too many were doing much worse things than my previous ‘worldly ‘ friends. When I put this to the person I was studying with or other sisters. I was repeatedly told ‘ at least they’ve got the truth ‘ or ‘pick spiritual ones in the congregation. ‘ Well that was few and far between and led me to think , define ‘ spiritual.’
@denise: The last hall I attended was rife with wrongdoing, some of it criminal. I saw people get away with numerous violations of the so-called high moral standards of JW. There were cliques, social events only for certain ones, vicious gossipers who ruled the congregation, and the crown jewel of corruption…. a wife swapping club!! One elder’s wife excused her son’s battery of his wife on him being “lactose intolerant”. Can’t make this stuff up.
You speak for millions! I wish I had said all of these things while I was still in the concentration camp (actually that will get you de-merited, as you explained.) I used to call them Nazis all the time (my joke was spot-on but not well received 😅) It brings tears to my eyes watching your videos as someone needs to call these injustices out. Thank God I am no longer in there or married to my kool-aid drinking ex since 2011, but of course I had to have my family torn apart by this disgusting organization. You really lay it on the line in your videos, bringing out the truth, which is a service to many!!
Speaking of #2, I don’t in good conscience want to live a life based on fear and subservience. Life as a devout Jehovah’s Witness is compared to life as an ordinary citizen in North Korea is like that.
It all comes back to this god. It's not just Watchtower anymore. IT'S ABOVE WATCHTOWER, ABOVE JW, ABOVE THE KINGDOM HALL, ABOVE, ABOVE, ABOVE. This is the secret stuff nobody knows and we are all going to know it. This god was secret gang but not anymore.
God bless you for exposing those lies. Everything you mentioned was spot on. Will the last person leaving the Watchtower, please turn out the New Light!
As a pimo, I definitely agree with this. The one I truly take personal are "The Friends" category. Had a recent talk with my actual real father (Not part of the cult, but an actual Christian that the cult never will live up to) who told me not to trust any of them nor their lies they coverup just to manipulate me
I overheard on mom's zoom meeting that they now have an app to keep door to door records... I can't imagine the legal issues that could spring from this. I can't imagine a JW's reaction to someone doing this to them without their consent or awareness...
This is very true. I want to talk about many viewpoints and beliefs with the ones I love closely but unfortunately those kinds of conversations lead to me being preached to again, even if only subtly. Frustrating.
I'm doing quite well as a former JW. Now I have true freedom. I'm free to read the Bible through my own eyes, untethered and without the filter of Cult Leadership. I appreciate the content of your podcast and the no-nonsense delivery of your material. I especially like this well scripted approach because your target audience gets the material clearly, succinctly. They're not likely to get bored by lengthy drawn out dialog. Best of success!
Dodged the JW bullet in the interesting year of 1975! My father was in a Bible Study in the Summer of 75. Luckily, the JW was in a hurry as he quit his job to be in full-time service since the end was coming by year's end. My father was reluctant to convert, so the JW had to spread the good word elsewhere ASAP!
I am so glad I came across your channel! I have been dealing with JW at my door a few times with a little debate. I also have an online JW friend that I am in current debate with. I have been grateful for the fact that it pushed me to dig deeper into my own Christian beliefs, but I must say it is mentally and spiritually exhausting trying to debate with him! I'm looking forward to watching all of your videos!
I love how you don't beat around the bush with your words and say it like it is but at the same time painting the picture perfectly.... You have a gift in teaching...which when u were a JW sister could only be used in the ministry not as a public speaker lol Look forward to you next video 😊
I too remember that ridiculous statement! The constant meeting attendance where nothing was ever interesting or informative and consisted of inane reiteration of the same phrases and trigger words was nothing less than intellectual suffocation! I watched a documentary about the dictatorship of Mao Tse Dung during his so called “Cultural Revolution” where he installed “re-education centers” and was struck by the similarities to Watchtower indoctrination…. demonization of independent thinking, only approved thoughts allowed, must adhere to doctrine or else, etc. Same playbook, different org.
Thank you! I'm in therapy with a therapist who is very interested in what goes on with JW's as he has had to have JW parents 'escorted' out while he's in session with their child. [where does this 'life or death' vibe for every single thing, and PTSD come from? - I'm going to share your videos with him since they're so concise and informative].
I was friends with a elder that achieved his Doctorate in psychology before joining the J-dubs. one time I was having doubts and he sat down and explained the prophecy of Daniel (607) to me. it sounded solid but I just knew that something wasn't right. looking back on it now I just can't believe he was too dumb to fact check that date.
You hit those points on the nose 👃 Apparently, Rutherford (greedy man) didn't like it that bearded C Taze Russell was still popular, so he banned beards. 🧙♂️ For 100 years, it was said Jehovah hated beards (even though Jesus was depicted with one). Then low and behold, New Light 🌕 Now Jehovah absolutely loves beards 😅
The beards crack me up and I see the JW's I know around town with them now and they look like clowns. I had a friend try luring me back when they changed this and I said, "I was right the whole time and I'm not even the special anointed." I had the attitude their update warned against 🤣
After reading these very understandably angry comments from former JWs, I wanted to give a quick explanation about why some people are vulnerable to being converted into this, uh, religion. I went to school with a JW and became friends with him. Eventually I met the parents. Eventually they talked me into going to a few meetings, then they wanted me to study. The list kept on going. Skip to the chase: I decided this wasn't for me and stopped. I already came from a dysfunctional home and had enough problems trying to come to terms with my life at that point. But what made me even go as far as I did? Well, for starters, my friend's dad was a freakin' genius. So if a genius was devoted to this, maybe there was something to it. But now I'm in my 60s and had since realized a thing or two. In his case, yes, he was a genius, but that didn't mean he could handle everyday practical problems. He was scared and overwhelmed. So instead of taking his own initiative in resolving those issues, he took the only option he felt he had: he turned it all over to a higher source. And guess what? JWs came at the right time and told him exactly what he needed to hear - and that was that the world as he knew it would soon end, and beings he was special as he was now a JW, would be one of the special people who would be chosen to live on a paradise earth. And to add to that is the fact that since no holidays were observed, well, that was even MORE pressure taken off of him. I'm not saying he was a bad person, but hey, even the smartest people can be vulnerable to this kind of thinking. Thankfully his children, when old enough to have moved out on their own, walked away from the religion. His wife, who undoubtedly would have left him if she herself hadn't converted also, would die at a young age from cancer (I'm believing it was stress-induced from living with someone she could barely stand). He died only a few years ago. He was in his 80s and I had long since been out of contact with him and that family. But I'm pretty sure he left the world baffled as to why Armageddon didn't arrive beforehand. I mean damn, he read the Bible cover to cover three times (I'm sure he probably did it even more times since I last saw him), he faithfully went to bible studies, and never missed a meeting or convention, so why in heck did the world not end sooner? I only wish I could have been with him when he transitioned - because I would love to have seen his reaction to seeing that tunnel of light and thinking "No way. That can't be what is happening." But I myself learned a lesson from all that. My all-out opinion of JW? Simple: It's just another religion.
I didn’t really have much of a childhood, being born into a JW household. Every weekend was pretty much taken; door to door preaching on Saturday; two to three hours meeting every Sunday; Tuesday night bible study; Thursday night meeting. All of my “worldly” school friends were out, hiking, swimming, having fun on the weekends! I finally started to rebel when I was about 17. My parents kicked me out of the house! Luckily, this was in the late 1970s, so I was able to rent a little house on my dishwasher’s salary I feel so badly for any young people stuck in this situation today. Things are so much harder, as far as being able to get out and live on one’s own without a good job and /or education.
Yes I had just lost my husband and my sister moved right in on me After my husband's lost moving closer to her because she's my family because I was alone.And a broken arm.I started seeing the flags that took two years. As soon as I started with the hard questions, they pulled the rug out.And now i'm totally alone in the state where I don't know anybody and I have my dogs.. They are terrible😢
@@astridmiller7938 I’m quite serious, read carefully the last part of her second to last sentence “I have my dogs”, followed by her own statement (last sentence). “They are terrible.”
I’ve definitely dodged a bullet bible studying with them for 4 yrs.. but my sister has 20+ years of indoctrination.. she would never leave… it’s sad how much brain washing goes on in there..
You Tube timer 7:21 I only studied to placate my mother in law, and at the time the Tuesday night book study was the "Ezekiel" book. I told my husband it was the biggest far-fetched piece of crap I ever read, and I refused to go. Well today, that book is on the Apostate junk heap. Today, I would tell my mother in law what "bus stop" to get off at, and she would have to accept me as is, or move on.
I have two brothers, my only siblings, that are both Jehovah's Witnesses. One became a witness at 19, the other around 35 and both have married second or third generation witnesses. My brothers were born less than a year apart, but I came 14 years later, so we didn't grow up together, but I did go to meetings, conventions, assemblies, and memorials occasionally with the brother who became a witness at 19 and so I have had exposure to how they teach things. I am now 47 and have not attended anything with either of my brothers for years, because it was mostly something I did as a child when I visited or later, when I lived with one brother for about a year and attending all the meetings was obligatory. The things that always bothered me include the question and answer system at meetings where everyone is just raising their hand to repeat the exact answer from tje Watchtower they studied (or was it the Awake? I don't remember), how the talks constantly taught that if someone asked questions about the "truth," but didn't blindly accept the first bottled answer given, they were just a belugerwnt person with no task intention of wanting to know what religion is true, and how some practices were just fine as long as they weren't condemned by the literature (like excessive drinking or having a cocktail attitude). My brothers are strong, intelligent men and it has always baffled me that they never woke up. I understand that they have tangled their entire family, friends, and work ecosystem around their religion, but I am sad for the cognitive dissonance they must have to employ Even though I haven't attended any meetings with them n years (and even when i did i was never tempted to believe any of it was true), I have always kept occasional tabs online with what is going on. I have one brother that I can tell with near perfect accuracy when something he says or has a soap box about has come straight from a JW broadcast or publication. It is very how nearly identical the wording is. I knew they v would both be growing beards and I knew they would have some canned response when I remarked how I had never seen them grow beards. I know that if I were to attend a meeting, I could say something about wishing I found wear slacks and that I would be told some funny line about why it's OK now, despite it being not only not allowed but disrespectful even outside the rules previously. My brothers like to talk about the JW rules as making sense and being what has shown to be right and logical, even outside religion, but when rules change they can spin on a firm and spin it as if there is nothing incontinent any tje rule charge. For example, when women had to wear skirts to meeting, they would try to talk about it as if it is something that they would choose when if it weren't a JW rule because the idea itself was so obvious and just common sense. Then when tje rule changes, there is suddenly nothing common sense about women having to eat skirts and they will say that the JW religion is so great because they are so with the times. Even if the month prior, a woman wearing sla is wasn't with the times, it was too modern. Immodest, disrespectful. The same with the beards. I know with certainty that if I had had a discussion with my brother about beards and tried to say that I didn't think nearly trimmed beards were sloppy and that they were in line with current respectable fashion, he would have explained to me how I was wrong and he would have looked down on any man with a beard, even I that man wore business suits every day and was a stand up person. As soon as tje governing body announced it, it's all good. It doesn't annoy me, because I understand why they are like that, but it does make me sad.
You Tube timer 9:19 This exploiting of the immigrants was huge. Work the underground subway of San Francisco, and magazines in different languages. In fact "Kat Kraze You Tube" exposed it. There are Elders that work these subways, and give these people janitorial jobs if they come to the Kingdom Halls. And these Elders are "King Fish" who are important in the small ponds of Kingdom Halls increasing their numbers.
#6- The friends- Spot on explanation, Beth. The "love" among witnesses is extremely conditional. Talk or look in any way different (like the whole fiasco with beards) and your so-called friends will scurry to the exits.
4:17 similar to how the Taliban publicly stoned anyone who violated their “Islamic” laws in Afghanistan (during first regime 1996-2001 and current regime since 2021)
My god you are awesome and straight to the point,,, were you a JW,,,, I studied with them and was able to get away before I was chained by going for the dip into the pool.
To my JW wife, I call her friends the "forever family. " since I'll be destroyed in armageddon, I remind her that the "good news" will be that she will have many brothers and sisters forever, even though her kids and husband will not be there.
New Light equals we need to save and protect our money . What jw children need to know ,,you need a 2nd witness ,, Watchtower,s motto ,,Touch the children but please don't touch the money !!!! Your one smart young women Beth you must have Norwegian blood ? ,you look like a Viking ,May Thor bless you ,your videos are like lightning bolts ❤
0:40 The literature counter servant! Keep that counter polished and books and pamphlet's straight The books study conductor. Pretend to make sense out of the "word salads" in the literature.
Good job! I left from 3rd generation of jw. So I decided to dive in and research that really shocked me. I been a jw for 40 years. I believe that jw org is very, very brutal.
The light isn't getting brighter because they change doctrine totally. Even Charles Tay's Russell said that the light would not change.You would just add to it.That's not what these people do
I would live to have a double-spaced transcript of bith parts 1& 2. Your presentation is razor-sharp, point by point. I would study this transcript closely. Maybe just have to transcribe it myself.
In addition to the reasons you mentioned, I think a factor in discontinuing in home book study was to limit the Watchtower's liability in continuous CSA court battles and to limit access to children by the predators watchtower protects.
You Tube timer 10:16 That reminds me of the loud siren in "The Time Machine" where the elitists of the society, now reduced to slaves, walk through the wooden doors of the caves "to be eaten" by the Morelocks.
Your videos are excellent. With all the mindless adherence to everything JW, I often wondered why the organization hasn't come up with their version of Angie's List called JW's List. This would be a list of various professionals whose only vetting requirement for competency would be that they're JW's. Understanding that the rank and file are taught to be wary of anyone outside the cult, this would be another mindless way for members to make important decisions on finance, remodeling, insurance, etc. The organization would naturally take a cut of the business. They could further monetize the organizational inculcation!
Hi, ive just found this site and wondered if all x witnesses have given up on God. i was a baptised publisher back in the eighties and managed to escape relatively easy as i didnt have the family ties most seem to have. but to me God is still real and i have a deeper understanding of the bible now. It is not what we, or most "christians" are taught. but it doesnt disprove God. P.S. this is a test to see if im still shadow banned.
My X-self still believes in God. My concept of God has changed. It is not the one espoused by JWs, Christianity, Islam, Native, Oriental or African religions. Maybe there is some truth in some or all of them. But I feel greater reverence for life and people and the earth than ever before and am seeking to live in harmony with righteousness and goodness. Never will I allow human flesh to try to warp my mind again.
I thank the lord or anything that exists up there, if it exists in the first place that I was never baptized into it and left on my own at the age of 15, even though I was born into it. Because of that my family, except my dad who was never a member, don't have any excuses to not talk to me. YEEEHAAAAAW
ICYMI, here's Part 1: ruclips.net/video/0ItMZImIXTU/видео.html
Succinctly put. The JW Cult should come with a public warning label - published worldwide, on all medias!
you are really pretty!!!!!!!!
your eyes are beautiful
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New Light: I was a 3rd gen born-in JW baptized as a teenager, MS in my twenties, congregation financial servant (keeping the books), and giving several 1 hour Sunday talks as I was being groomed to be an elder when I woke up and realized that 10 years out of high school my lot was low wage struggle and that the supposedly impending last days and "end of this worldly system" was a lie that my grandparents and parents fell for (making significant life changes prior to 1975) and that all these restrictions and demands on my time were man-made. I was a straight A high school student but eschewed college because Watchtower discouraged it. In my late twenties I courageously disassociated, took my lumps, and started making a new life for myself. I have no regrets, I have so many things to be thankful and joyful about in my life, and I only wish my relatives who shun me could wake up as well. You go girl - keep telling it like it is!
... a wonderful success story ... a great attitude model.
On point. Gods Underserved kindness was another trigger to rob you of any self worth and that love had to be earned. What parent does something kind to their child and then breaks the child’s heart by saying you don’t deserve it? Psychopaths do this.
Yes! I absolutely loath that tern! I prefer grace over "undeserved kindness". Sounds like an oxymoron. Everybody deserves love and kindness.
When i used my Bible trained conscience after finding 24 scriptures which clearly tells us not to trust any man or men for our spiritual guidance,& calling out the governing body for violating the scriptures by telling the worldwide brotherhood to trust them implicitly without question,i got disfellowshipped for it.
outstanding move
ya heretic!!! sounds like you're cousins with @goatlikepersonality hahaha!
I only know a couple of those. How did you find that many? Would you mind putting a few here?
Today’s Watchtower was about putting your trust or being “loyal to Christ’s brothers” aka them, and today I heard my mom zoom singing that one song about the Governing Body! You know, the GB worship song!🤮
@kdrazalotg-usa6345 I found all those scriptures on trust by cross referencing trust in the brown NWT Reference Bible.
Here's some of those scriptures on trust that i found..Jeremiah 17:5-7,9; Micah 7:5; 1 Chronicles 5:20; Psalms 118:8&9; 146:3; Proverbs 3:5&6; 28:26.
I’ve had so much abuse Before and now, it’s truly heartbreaking
I was told while studying, that I have to leave my friends who are not baptized witnesses. I said an adamant NOPE I am not leaving my good friends who are always there for me. Not for religion or any other means. These are good people. I found out the witnesses are not good friends at all. They hate themselves and each other. Thank you, Beth for sharing the Truth of the non-truth cult.
“New Light “ is the worse. I have family that falls for this governing body BS. It’s like they keep moving the goal post.
No religion has the "Truth".
Jesus said He is the "Truth." Put your faith in Jesus, not some religion.
Friends ! I remember it well. Feeling forced to have people in your home you couldn’t stand, mostly for good reason. After giving up all your ‘worldly ‘ friends as they were ‘obviously ‘ doing bad things and bad association.
After having a study and going to all the meetings and mixing with the ‘wholesome‘ fellowship within a few months I realised too many were doing much worse things than my previous ‘worldly ‘ friends. When I put this to the person I was studying with or other sisters. I was repeatedly told ‘ at least they’ve got the truth ‘ or ‘pick spiritual ones in the congregation. ‘ Well that was few and far between and led me to think , define ‘ spiritual.’
@denise: The last hall I attended was rife with wrongdoing, some of it criminal. I saw people get away with numerous violations of the so-called high moral standards of JW. There were cliques, social events only for certain ones, vicious gossipers who ruled the congregation, and the crown jewel of corruption…. a wife swapping club!! One elder’s wife excused her son’s battery of his wife on him being “lactose intolerant”. Can’t make this stuff up.
Spot on my mom got into it in the 70s and we lived in low income housing
Ah yes, the privileges. Always reminded that the privileges come from JEHOVAH!!!
You speak for millions! I wish I had said all of these things while I was still in the concentration camp (actually that will get you de-merited, as you explained.) I used to call them Nazis all the time (my joke was spot-on but not well received 😅) It brings tears to my eyes watching your videos as someone needs to call these injustices out. Thank God I am no longer in there or married to my kool-aid drinking ex since 2011, but of course I had to have my family torn apart by this disgusting organization. You really lay it on the line in your videos, bringing out the truth, which is a service to many!!
Speaking of #2, I don’t in good conscience want to live a life based on fear and subservience. Life as a devout Jehovah’s Witness is compared to life as an ordinary citizen in North Korea is like that.
Good analogy.
Speaking of #6, friendship within Jehovah’s Witnesses is conditional.
Very conditional.
@ That is correct.
It all comes back to this god. It's not just Watchtower anymore. IT'S ABOVE WATCHTOWER, ABOVE JW, ABOVE THE KINGDOM HALL, ABOVE, ABOVE, ABOVE. This is the secret stuff nobody knows and we are all going to know it. This god was secret gang but not anymore.
God bless you for exposing those lies. Everything you mentioned was spot on. Will the last person leaving the Watchtower, please turn out the New Light!
As a pimo, I definitely agree with this. The one I truly take personal are "The Friends" category. Had a recent talk with my actual real father (Not part of the cult, but an actual Christian that the cult never will live up to) who told me not to trust any of them nor their lies they coverup just to manipulate me
If they admitted they are wrong there are false teachings they are false prophets
I overheard on mom's zoom meeting that they now have an app to keep door to door records...
I can't imagine the legal issues that could spring from this. I can't imagine a JW's reaction to someone doing this to them without their consent or awareness...
It’s sad to realize with each conversation with my family they are stuck in a whole different “reality”. Appreciate you for making these videos.
A whole different reality is exactly right. It’s very sad.
This is very true. I want to talk about many viewpoints and beliefs with the ones I love closely but unfortunately those kinds of conversations lead to me being preached to again, even if only subtly. Frustrating.
I'm doing quite well as a former JW. Now I have true freedom. I'm free to read the Bible through my own eyes, untethered
and without the filter of Cult Leadership.
I appreciate the
content of your
podcast and the no-nonsense delivery of your
material. I especially like this
well scripted approach because your target audience gets the
material clearly, succinctly. They're
not likely to get bored by lengthy
drawn out dialog. Best of success!
What a bombshell! Thank you for breaking down clarifying each trigger point.❤
I was "shame sermoned" for smoking pot. I never did recover from that one.😆
Dodged the JW bullet in the interesting year of 1975! My father was in a Bible Study in the Summer of 75. Luckily, the JW was in a hurry as he quit his job to be in full-time service since the end was coming by year's end. My father was reluctant to convert, so the JW had to spread the good word elsewhere ASAP!
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I am so glad I came across your channel! I have been dealing with JW at my door a few times with a little debate. I also have an online JW friend that I am in current debate with. I have been grateful for the fact that it pushed me to dig deeper into my own Christian beliefs, but I must say it is mentally and spiritually exhausting trying to debate with him! I'm looking forward to watching all of your videos!
I love how you don't beat around the bush with your words and say it like it is but at the same time painting the picture perfectly....
You have a gift in teaching...which when u were a JW sister could only be used in the ministry not as a public speaker lol
Look forward to you next video 😊
Like every POMO, I’m incredulous that I believed that cult crap.
You Tube timer 1:32 My favorite was "If you read five years of Watchtower and Awake, that's the equivalent of a college education."
I too remember that ridiculous statement! The constant meeting attendance where nothing was ever interesting or informative and consisted of inane reiteration of the same phrases and trigger words was nothing less than intellectual suffocation!
I watched a documentary about the dictatorship of Mao Tse Dung during his so called “Cultural Revolution” where he installed “re-education centers” and was struck by the similarities to Watchtower indoctrination…. demonization of independent thinking, only approved thoughts allowed, must adhere to doctrine or else, etc. Same playbook, different org.
Thank you! I'm in therapy with a therapist who is very interested in what goes on with JW's as he has had to have JW parents 'escorted' out while he's in session with their child. [where does this 'life or death' vibe for every single thing, and PTSD come from? - I'm going to share your videos with him since they're so concise and informative].
I want to find a therapist like this
I would like to locate a therapist like yours😢
I was friends with a elder that achieved his Doctorate in psychology before joining the J-dubs. one time I was having doubts and he sat down and explained the prophecy of Daniel (607) to me. it sounded solid but I just knew that something wasn't right. looking back on it now I just can't believe he was too dumb to fact check that date.
You broke it down like a fraction. So true in all you said!!
Freaking beautiful and articulated
Thanks again!❤
Apostate greetings from the Netherlands 😊🇳🇱👍🏼
You hit those points on the nose 👃
Apparently, Rutherford (greedy man) didn't like it that bearded C Taze Russell was still popular, so he banned beards. 🧙♂️
For 100 years, it was said Jehovah hated beards (even though Jesus was depicted with one). Then low and behold, New Light 🌕
Now Jehovah absolutely loves beards 😅
The beards crack me up and I see the JW's I know around town with them now and they look like clowns. I had a friend try luring me back when they changed this and I said, "I was right the whole time and I'm not even the special anointed." I had the attitude their update warned against 🤣
After reading these very understandably angry comments from former JWs, I wanted to give a quick explanation about why some people are vulnerable to being converted into this, uh, religion. I went to school with a JW and became friends with him. Eventually I met the parents. Eventually they talked me into going to a few meetings, then they wanted me to study. The list kept on going. Skip to the chase: I decided this wasn't for me and stopped. I already came from a dysfunctional home and had enough problems trying to come to terms with my life at that point. But what made me even go as far as I did? Well, for starters, my friend's dad was a freakin' genius. So if a genius was devoted to this, maybe there was something to it. But now I'm in my 60s and had since realized a thing or two. In his case, yes, he was a genius, but that didn't mean he could handle everyday practical problems. He was scared and overwhelmed. So instead of taking his own initiative in resolving those issues, he took the only option he felt he had: he turned it all over to a higher source. And guess what? JWs came at the right time and told him exactly what he needed to hear - and that was that the world as he knew it would soon end, and beings he was special as he was now a JW, would be one of the special people who would be chosen to live on a paradise earth. And to add to that is the fact that since no holidays were observed, well, that was even MORE pressure taken off of him. I'm not saying he was a bad person, but hey, even the smartest people can be vulnerable to this kind of thinking. Thankfully his children, when old enough to have moved out on their own, walked away from the religion. His wife, who undoubtedly would have left him if she herself hadn't converted also, would die at a young age from cancer (I'm believing it was stress-induced from living with someone she could barely stand). He died only a few years ago. He was in his 80s and I had long since been out of contact with him and that family. But I'm pretty sure he left the world baffled as to why Armageddon didn't arrive beforehand. I mean damn, he read the Bible cover to cover three times (I'm sure he probably did it even more times since I last saw him), he faithfully went to bible studies, and never missed a meeting or convention, so why in heck did the world not end sooner? I only wish I could have been with him when he transitioned - because I would love to have seen his reaction to seeing that tunnel of light and thinking "No way. That can't be what is happening." But I myself learned a lesson from all that. My all-out opinion of JW? Simple: It's just another religion.
Thank you Beth for everything your doing to help people open their eyes and ther minds ❤
I didn’t really have much of a childhood, being born into a JW household. Every weekend was pretty much taken; door to door preaching on Saturday; two to three hours meeting every Sunday; Tuesday night bible study; Thursday night meeting. All of my “worldly” school friends were out, hiking, swimming, having fun on the weekends!
I finally started to rebel when I was about 17. My parents kicked me out of the house! Luckily, this was in the late 1970s, so I was able to rent a little house on my dishwasher’s salary
I feel so badly for any young people stuck in this situation today. Things are so much harder, as far as being able to get out and live on one’s own without a good job and /or education.
Yes I had just lost my husband and my sister moved right in on me
After my husband's lost moving closer to her because she's my family because I was alone.And a broken arm.I started seeing the flags that took two years.
As soon as I started with the hard questions, they pulled the rug out.And now i'm totally alone in the state where I don't know anybody and I have my dogs..
They are terrible😢
I’m surprised that your dogs are terrible, most dogs are great companions and loyal above all…
Just saying.
@@greyberet1 your joking right?
@@astridmiller7938 Surely she’s being sarcastic lol. I wonder if you wouldn’t mind telling me which state you’re in?
@@astridmiller7938
I’m quite serious, read carefully the last part of her second to last sentence “I have my dogs”, followed by her own statement (last sentence).
“They are terrible.”
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I’ve definitely dodged a bullet bible studying with them for 4 yrs.. but my sister has 20+ years of indoctrination.. she would never leave… it’s sad how much brain washing goes on in there..
Right on! Right on! Right on!
You are right as rain..
I've listened to your husband also thank you for the validation❤
"Trap-tism", God, how perfect!
Excellent information and so very true 👍👍
Apparently they've said they're done with doing marking talks. Probably just for legal reasons they've said they've stopped it.
Spot on Beth
Wow, eye opening JW indoctrinations to keep one in line.
Your translations make me laugh, every time😂
Excellent!!
You Tube timer 5:16 In retrospect, most of "the friends" I viewed as social misfits.
Where are her critics? No where because they are not allowed to check the internet or facts
You Tube timer 7:21 I only studied to placate my mother in law, and at the time the Tuesday night book study was the "Ezekiel" book. I told my husband it was the biggest far-fetched piece of crap I ever read, and I refused to go. Well today, that book is on the Apostate junk heap. Today, I would tell my mother in law what "bus stop" to get off at, and she would have to accept me as is, or move on.
I have two brothers, my only siblings, that are both Jehovah's Witnesses. One became a witness at 19, the other around 35 and both have married second or third generation witnesses.
My brothers were born less than a year apart, but I came 14 years later, so we didn't grow up together, but I did go to meetings, conventions, assemblies, and memorials occasionally with the brother who became a witness at 19 and so I have had exposure to how they teach things. I am now 47 and have not attended anything with either of my brothers for years, because it was mostly something I did as a child when I visited or later, when I lived with one brother for about a year and attending all the meetings was obligatory.
The things that always bothered me include the question and answer system at meetings where everyone is just raising their hand to repeat the exact answer from tje Watchtower they studied (or was it the Awake? I don't remember), how the talks constantly taught that if someone asked questions about the "truth," but didn't blindly accept the first bottled answer given, they were just a belugerwnt person with no task intention of wanting to know what religion is true, and how some practices were just fine as long as they weren't condemned by the literature (like excessive drinking or having a cocktail attitude). My brothers are strong, intelligent men and it has always baffled me that they never woke up. I understand that they have tangled their entire family, friends, and work ecosystem around their religion, but I am sad for the cognitive dissonance they must have to employ
Even though I haven't attended any meetings with them n years (and even when i did i was never tempted to believe any of it was true), I have always kept occasional tabs online with what is going on. I have one brother that I can tell with near perfect accuracy when something he says or has a soap box about has come straight from a JW broadcast or publication. It is very how nearly identical the wording is. I knew they v would both be growing beards and I knew they would have some canned response when I remarked how I had never seen them grow beards.
I know that if I were to attend a meeting, I could say something about wishing I found wear slacks and that I would be told some funny line about why it's OK now, despite it being not only not allowed but disrespectful even outside the rules previously. My brothers like to talk about the JW rules as making sense and being what has shown to be right and logical, even outside religion, but when rules change they can spin on a firm and spin it as if there is nothing incontinent any tje rule charge. For example, when women had to wear skirts to meeting, they would try to talk about it as if it is something that they would choose when if it weren't a JW rule because the idea itself was so obvious and just common sense. Then when tje rule changes, there is suddenly nothing common sense about women having to eat skirts and they will say that the JW religion is so great because they are so with the times. Even if the month prior, a woman wearing sla is wasn't with the times, it was too modern. Immodest, disrespectful. The same with the beards. I know with certainty that if I had had a discussion with my brother about beards and tried to say that I didn't think nearly trimmed beards were sloppy and that they were in line with current respectable fashion, he would have explained to me how I was wrong and he would have looked down on any man with a beard, even I that man wore business suits every day and was a stand up person. As soon as tje governing body announced it, it's all good.
It doesn't annoy me, because I understand why they are like that, but it does make me sad.
Exact behavior of cultists.
You Tube timer 9:19 This exploiting of the immigrants was huge. Work the underground subway of San Francisco, and magazines in different languages. In fact "Kat Kraze You Tube" exposed it. There are Elders that work these subways, and give these people janitorial jobs if they come to the Kingdom Halls. And these Elders are "King Fish" who are important in the small ponds of Kingdom Halls increasing their numbers.
Thank you so much Beth!!
Love your videos! Johns too.very good work
Damn! You are GOOD!
that series is exquisite;) I love it! soooo true......
This is truly awesome content, and info sorely needed.
#6- The friends- Spot on explanation, Beth. The "love" among witnesses is extremely conditional. Talk or look in any way different (like the whole fiasco with beards) and your so-called friends will scurry to the exits.
Great Video Beth🎉 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4:17 similar to how the Taliban publicly stoned anyone who violated their “Islamic” laws in Afghanistan (during first regime 1996-2001 and current regime since 2021)
Thanks for telling the truth about " The Truth "
👍👍👍👍
My god you are awesome and straight to the point,,, were you a JW,,,, I studied with them and was able to get away before I was chained by going for the dip into the pool.
Why didnt you swim in the pool?
To my JW wife, I call her friends the "forever family. " since I'll be destroyed in armageddon, I remind her that the "good news" will be that she will have many brothers and sisters forever, even though her kids and husband will not be there.
The days of the cult are numbered
Very disturbing questions to consider, it is YOUR LIFE!.
Really cool video Homie. Great work.
Gotta watch it twice it was so good.
New Light equals we need to save and protect our money . What jw children need to know ,,you need a 2nd witness ,, Watchtower,s motto ,,Touch the children but please don't touch the money !!!! Your one smart young women Beth you must have Norwegian blood ? ,you look like a Viking ,May Thor bless you ,your videos are like lightning bolts ❤
very well said justin
0:40 The literature counter servant! Keep that counter polished and books and pamphlet's straight The books study conductor. Pretend to make sense out of the "word salads" in the literature.
Thanks Beth❤
Good job! I left from 3rd generation of jw. So I decided to dive in and research that really shocked me. I been a jw for 40 years. I believe that jw org is very, very brutal.
The light isn't getting brighter because they change doctrine totally.
Even Charles Tay's Russell said that the light would not change.You would just add to it.That's not what these people do
You're spot on love you're insight
I would live to have a double-spaced transcript of bith parts 1& 2. Your presentation is razor-sharp, point by point. I would study this transcript closely. Maybe just have to transcribe it myself.
In addition to the reasons you mentioned, I think a factor in discontinuing in home book study was to limit the Watchtower's liability in continuous CSA court battles and to limit access to children by the predators watchtower protects.
This young lady is so glib in translation. Although serious, it tickles me much. Great idea for a really specialize lexicon.
What I really love is the aerial view of the jehovah witnesses establishment in denmark
You should have a look it's very interesting
Love you jehovah will never hurt you turn to him in prayer man sucks sometimes
Hello Sir Joey! How are you?
You Tube timer 10:16 That reminds me of the loud siren in "The Time Machine" where the elitists of the society, now reduced to slaves, walk through the wooden doors of the caves "to be eaten" by the Morelocks.
Great work like always ❤
Excellent delivery girl!
Exactly!
The female members of the organization don’t get #10 except the door-to-door preaching work and serving at Bethel.
stunningly beautiful
“Deserving ones” was another way of saying honest-hearted ones. Someone rejects “the truth”? Pfft, they didn’t deserve it anyway! 😅
Excellent video!
Assignments another word for privileges or being a faithful discrete slave and sheep like one without financial compensation for your unpaid labour.
You are SPOT on was in it from 72-2020
These 2 Videos are definitely Triggering. I definitely don't miss any of that BS.
May many witnesses secretly watch this and be awakened.
Most of them knows that their religion in fake.
Your videos are excellent. With all the mindless adherence to everything JW, I often wondered why the organization hasn't come up with their version of Angie's List called JW's List. This would be a list of various professionals whose only vetting requirement for competency would be that they're JW's. Understanding that the rank and file are taught to be wary of anyone outside the cult, this would be another mindless way for members to make important decisions on finance, remodeling, insurance, etc. The organization would naturally take a cut of the business. They could further monetize the organizational inculcation!
You are so good!
Hi Bethany! 👋🏽
I think there is room for a TRIGGER WARNING PT 3 ;-) I do so recognise all of these words. Sometimes I ask myself if the JW followed a NLP training?
Facts! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Great video
True stories
Kisses from Brazil ❤
Your approach and logic are unlike any female I’ve ever known.
Hi, ive just found this site and wondered if all x witnesses have given up on God. i was a baptised publisher back in the eighties and managed to escape relatively easy as i didnt have the family ties most seem to have. but to me God is still real and i have a deeper understanding of the bible now. It is not what we, or most "christians" are taught. but it doesnt disprove God.
P.S. this is a test to see if im still shadow banned.
My X-self still believes in God. My concept of God has changed. It is not the one espoused by JWs, Christianity, Islam, Native, Oriental or African religions. Maybe there is some truth in some or all of them. But I feel greater reverence for life and people and the earth than ever before and am seeking to live in harmony with righteousness and goodness. Never will I allow human flesh to try to warp my mind again.
I thank the lord or anything that exists up there, if it exists in the first place that I was never baptized into it and left on my own at the age of 15, even though I was born into it. Because of that my family, except my dad who was never a member, don't have any excuses to not talk to me. YEEEHAAAAAW
You smart little cookie! 😁