My Ex-Jehovah's Witness Story (ex-pioneer, ministerial servant, bethelite and elder)

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024

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  • @Broknchainz
    @Broknchainz Год назад +105

    After leaving the religion I realized that the real reason JW want you to pioneer and have “privileges” is to keep you busy convincing yourself the religion is the truth. Like you said, as soon as you t try take a break and have some time to think…you can think yourself right out of the religion.

    • @siggimad1219
      @siggimad1219 Год назад +5

      Perfect said! 👍

    • @mgroat7319
      @mgroat7319 Год назад +9

      Exactly why I woke up when everything became virtual

    • @deejay1216
      @deejay1216 Год назад +1

      @@mgroat7319 Likewise!!👍

    • @lauramellinger3544
      @lauramellinger3544 5 месяцев назад

      The People that are waking up, recognize that all religions are part of Babylon the Great. They are all man made and controlled by Satan. The true Christians need only the scriptures. I was thankful for the basics learned by Jehovah's Witness but realized I had to work toward better understanding of God's word on my own so after having been in the religion for many years, I recognize that leaving is my only option if I do not want to be a sharer in her sins. Be assured there are many who, like you, are leaving, having cast off the prison chains for fresh air and freedom. I know it took a lot for you to come out from under the yoke because our friends are still in while we have gotten out. I know it was not easy for you but our commitment is only to Jehovah and our worship should only be to Jehovah and not to a man made organization. For myself I am unlearning and relearning new understanding so basically starting all over but I have a lot of help from others who have left like me. Keep making sure of all things.

    • @ronhansen8471
      @ronhansen8471 2 месяца назад

      Have you heard of the word love? The reason we preach the good news is because it is a lifesaving message and all deserve to know it. We are to stay busy to protect us from the machinations of the devil. But as Matthew states some grow into harvestable wheat and some are not. (Matthew 13:1-7) On that day Jesus left the house and was sitting by the sea. 2 And such large crowds gathered to him that he went aboard a boat and sat down, and all the crowd was standing on the beach. 3 Then he told them many things by illustrations, saying: “Look! A sower went out to sow. 4 As he was sowing, some seeds fell alongside the road, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Others fell on rocky ground where there was not much soil, and they immediately sprang up because the soil was not deep. 6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them" Do you know what the birds, rocky ground, or the sun in this illustration means? Do you know who the seeds are?

  • @lacygladu2703
    @lacygladu2703 Год назад +50

    Oh my Gosh! You are telling my story!!
    I’m SO done! I stayed my whole life til 40
    DONE!!!!!

    • @EXJW-ACTIVIST
      @EXJW-ACTIVIST Год назад +1

      I would like to hear your story too!

    • @clivespendlove5993
      @clivespendlove5993 Год назад

      I'm all ears!

    • @RosePetalFriend
      @RosePetalFriend 4 месяца назад

      67 yrs for me. I was never supposed to start school!!!

    • @Mercipher21
      @Mercipher21 2 месяца назад

      Same, I'm a 3rd gen JW on both sides of my family. My dad, his dad, and both his brothers were all elders. My dad passed away in June this year. My mom pioneered for years, until she passed away in 2019 with ALS. Her brother is still an elder and her dad, even tho he was a quadriplegic, was an MS until his death in 1994. I'm 40 now, and just realizing there's no way Jehovah supports or directs this org. Watching the ARC case blew my mind and violently slapped me awake.

  • @lorenmartinez7613
    @lorenmartinez7613 Год назад +80

    I am about to be dissfellowshiped,but thanls to people like you i am ok.not sweating about it to much.

    • @lindacrowder2619
      @lindacrowder2619 Год назад

      You shouldn’t be, I myself left in October, I realized the huge mistake I was in after 25 years, I prayed for forgiveness to Jehovah in the name of Jesus, the next day I was full of Holy Spirit, happy, joyful, I had no more depression it’s like this huge stress was lifted from my body and soul, Jehovah is calling his people to get out of Babylon the great, which is what jw’s are, a false religion. I’m happier than ever and could care less for this fake Christians

    • @Nica-Ra-Wata
      @Nica-Ra-Wata Год назад

      Run!
      Israel is ISIS AMUNRA ELOHIM
      PARIS is para ISIS
      AMUNRA is amen RA
      ELOHIM is gods plural
      Black Moors taught goofy germanic tribes all secrets of occultism from way back Egyptian and Atlantis wisdom, rest is his story
      Egyptians wrote the bible or helios byblos or codex inscryptus
      Psalms is lamps
      All about energies
      Bible us an occult book
      Metaphysical

    • @deejay1216
      @deejay1216 Год назад

      Now, you can exit the cult and not look back! Congrats on living your life and not being told how by 8 rich old American men.

    • @BooBooBugalugs
      @BooBooBugalugs Год назад +13

      I'm sorry they are doing this to you. Don't be afraid though because you will NOT be alone. There are so many ex JWs finding each other, and being the true brothers and sisters that they couldn't be in the cult.
      The World is far kinder, accepting, and loving, than the Borg can ever be.
      There is help and support available, so don't feel that you have to go it alone.
      You don't!
      Love and hugs xxxxx

    • @Bobby217CPA
      @Bobby217CPA Год назад +11

      Welcome to your freedom. Always love and respect yourself and others. Now you can follow your heart and think for yourself. Peace, Love, and Light, Bobby

  • @gillianacasio4218
    @gillianacasio4218 Год назад +51

    Your personality and humor made this so fun and soothing to watch. Thanks for sharing and being true to yourself.

    • @armageddoninretrospect1069
      @armageddoninretrospect1069  Год назад +3

      Thank you 🙏🏻

    • @Abi-F.-Mejia
      @Abi-F.-Mejia Год назад

      @@vusimngomezulu2500 Shut up!🤣🤣 You are disobeying your cult’s rules. You are a JW rebel. You are soon going to be a JW apostate!🤣

  • @jermangarc
    @jermangarc 9 месяцев назад +7

    Shoot! I got kicked out of my household just because I wanted to marry a pioneer sister after I served in Bethel for two years. I had courted her long distance for a year, but my super spiritual mother did not agree with my wishes and kicked me out!
    Very understanding and loving act. It was a perfect spiritual pairing, but it was still not good enough. I think that's when the first crack in my damn started.
    With all that said, I married her and we're happily married for over 23 years and completely faded.

  • @glorialeach7301
    @glorialeach7301 11 месяцев назад +9

    ‘Back in the day’ when I was still in my parents care and me being a 3rd generation JW, I still remember when the ‘Circuit Overseer’ would come visit our congregation and as you stated they would eat our food. A list would be made as to who would ‘have the privilege of serving the circuit overseer’. Favorites and dislikes would be listed AND the preferred eating times. I always thought something didn’t seem right when after the final Sunday meeting was over and we had to endure ONE more talk by the C O. A short request was made listing the ‘expenses’ and a certain Brother would be excepting monies to cover these expenses. In my mind (and of course it stayed there) I wondered WHAT did the organization pay???? Unbelievable!!!!

  • @matilda4406
    @matilda4406 Год назад +28

    This is a very valuable video. "there is no good elder" when I left I realized this too

  • @matilda4406
    @matilda4406 Год назад +40

    "the politics was mind-blowing", "elder at 26" haha that's insane. I know another young elder at about the same age, he left within a few years of being an elder at 26-27. This is getting funnier and funnier. An elder in the Bible was also an "older man", meaning 60+ (three score). They make things up as they go...

  • @JoshuaMiranda-v2n
    @JoshuaMiranda-v2n Месяц назад +1

    I sent my letter of disassociation today. Now ex-pioneer and ministerial servant, 20 years old and was raised a JW. I was feeling really depressed because my whole family is already shunning me. Your video really helped me. Thank-you so much for sharing your story, maybe one day I will share mine too 🖤

  • @mollysvanstrom6848
    @mollysvanstrom6848 Год назад +13

    I'm so happy you found the courage to live your life as you see fit. JW's are mostly good people who are sadly in a mind control cult. I was born in as a 3rd generation JW. I could see even as a child it was not for me. Although pressured, never was baptized thankfully. When I hear stories such as yours, I smile and feel happy you will now actually live your life without all the BS. Well done!

  • @maxhengst2252
    @maxhengst2252 Год назад +24

    I too, left after one year at Bethel. I couldn't stand the politics!

  • @dbyful
    @dbyful 10 месяцев назад +6

    We have experienced Peer and Family pressure. Just to please humans. Sad and pathetic display of parenting skills. Now we are shunned from the chaos. I still have a relationship with God and I’m happy not feeling the pressure of what I have gone through while growing up in a JW household. My parents bless their hearts were a mess emotionally and would never recognize their errors. Dad passed away 6 years ago and passed away alone, even we were surrounding him as he passed it was just he never healed his childhood trauma so he could have enjoyed his later life with therapy. But JW articles prohibited therapy from worldly people that he never had the guts to really help himself. But mom is a little open to listen and understand that her and dad messed up. They both needed to heal internally and Jehovah is there to help her elevate into her own thinking. It’s okay to think and ask for help understand the game of life.
    I could go on about my family’s story but all I am going to say is Stop and Enjoy life. It’s short. Smile. Dance. Heal internally. Do the work to heal.
    Peace ✌🏻 Love ❤️ and House Music 🎶
    🤣

  • @erichibbard1354
    @erichibbard1354 Год назад +11

    Thank you for sharing your experience. My youth pretty much mirrored yours. I too became an an elder and I can relate to what you experienced from the congregation when you are announced no longer an elder and when you finally get out

  • @carloslara8117
    @carloslara8117 Год назад +22

    I was studying the Bible with Jehovah witness because of my wife so I studied for 3 years and after the 1914 study I heard in Church one time I started having some doubts in my mind whether the was correct or not so I started doing an investigation online and boy I can agree with you that's what got me out I quickly stopped going to congregation and told my wife I would never ever step foot inside a kingdom hall and she got pissed at me and I told the person giving me study the I wanted to stop and he called and called I ignored it and so I just block him

    • @vintage6346
      @vintage6346 Год назад

      You "dodged the bullet". Good for you. I hope your wife will see the light.

    • @Nica-Ra-Wata
      @Nica-Ra-Wata Год назад +2

      How is this? Check it
      Jacob saw god and named that place penial as in the penial gland or 3rd eye...DMT poped eye or popeye
      Tetragrammaton is Egyptian meaning FOUR LETTERS of aton atum adam electron and the SUN or jehovah is atum in Greek
      Israel is ISIS AMUNRA ELOHIM
      PARIS is para ISIS
      AMUNRA is amen RA
      ELOHIM is gods plural
      El is electron
      All religions are pure excrement
      Zeus is jesus or iesus no letter j until late 1500s
      Psalms is lamps
      Esther is star
      Ruth is truth
      Deuteronomy is duality dos 2 two twinkling
      Egyptians wrote the bible or helios byblos or codex inscryptus
      India
      Brahma is abraham
      Abrir is to open in latin and Spanish
      Abra ca da bra
      A,B,C,D
      April
      You pay taxes in April
      Adam is aton atum
      Atomic energy
      Solomon is sol or SUN and ohm's for chanting and on as in the Egyptian city of on meaning electron thus you turn the light on

  • @faithm3863
    @faithm3863 11 месяцев назад +4

    Don’t worry, you will be free. I’m out as well and I’m so free now, not afraid anymore. It’s not easy in the beginning but it will get better. Good luck to you 😊

  • @marshallh7
    @marshallh7 Год назад +12

    Your exit from the cult was very interesting. Thanks for sharing your story.
    “It’s not going back in the box.” I get it. I’ll be watching for more stuff. Your experience makes you a valuable ex-Jay-dub source. I wish you the best.

  • @puma001
    @puma001 Год назад +7

    Thank you! I hope you find the greatest happiness in life. I left at 22 and it's not like any other story I've heard. Still, it's great to check in with people who understand the insanity of the cult we once called the truth. I would love to see a video on your demon experience and the like. Cheers ❤️

  • @reggieb184
    @reggieb184 Год назад +6

    Listening to big chunks of my life come out of your mouth is eerie, man. I've heard a lot of exjw stories, but you lived my life. You got further up the ladder, but I was on my way.

  • @alystiepenros8084
    @alystiepenros8084 Год назад +14

    Thank you for being brave and sharing.

  • @matthewbaker5084
    @matthewbaker5084 Год назад +8

    I just want to say that the parallels in our lives are uncanny! From my sister being kicked out at 17 to me having a study and trying to explain the 1914 doctrine... white guy in the Spanish congregation... ect..(other than being an elder). I enjoyed and became a sub today. Well done. If you ever come to Vancouver Bc, hit me up. Matt

  • @leogolive
    @leogolive 9 месяцев назад +3

    I was raised in this religion as well and fully understand how you feel and what you went through! Man I’m glad you didn’t follow through with what you wrote in that letter. I’m gonna tell every single porno movie I’ve ever watched in DETAIL before I take myself out! Hell no!

  • @lifeisjustbetterwithataran1360
    @lifeisjustbetterwithataran1360 Год назад +7

    I lost 17 years to these people, my father passed away and I took my chance to run away. Joined the military and served for 8 years. No regrets at all. My sister finally left as well. They ruined our childhoods and stole our chance to be normal for a long time. Always glad to see people escape.

  • @manny2032
    @manny2032 6 месяцев назад +2

    I listened to your talk about everything about you. You are so admirable, and it tells me you are so human and a very good person. Thank you.

  • @bibbitty
    @bibbitty Год назад +6

    Good for you for finding a creative way to help yourself heal. You have quite the story to tell. Ngl - you giggling after some of your statements made me laugh with you. You've been through a ton of shit, yet you're still standing. You're still here. And now you can help others. Thank you. I hope you'll continue to share.

  • @4minuteman429
    @4minuteman429 Год назад +2

    Good work mate. It’s a hard road. But we all share the same experience . Wish you health and happiness.

  • @Lulu-oi9ue
    @Lulu-oi9ue Год назад +23

    It’s a hamster wheel. I clashed with my husband as he would go to meetings but nothing at home. I wanted to have the spiritual stuff at home above the outer activities people could observe. It’s now at a point I’m not going to meetings or preaching and rather study spiritual things non witness related within home. Now he’s concerned about me but he’s supportive. Both of us hated meetings and preaching because we are introverts. Meetings were soo fake.

    • @Nica-Ra-Wata
      @Nica-Ra-Wata Год назад +1

      Tetragrammaton is Egyptian meaning FOUR LETTERS of aton atum adam electron and the SUN or jehovah is atum in Greek

    • @lorenmartinez7613
      @lorenmartinez7613 Год назад +1

      Hope you find your complete freedom soon ,feels great.

    • @Lulu-oi9ue
      @Lulu-oi9ue Год назад +3

      @@lorenmartinez7613 yes I’m free. Wrote my letter of disassociation 1 May and was announced that Wednesday. Since then I’ve met new people and reconnected with my best friend that was also a JW in my congregation but left. Life is soo much better.

    • @lorenmartinez7613
      @lorenmartinez7613 Год назад +3

      @@Lulu-oi9ue and it keeps gettinf better.i will celebrate my kids 11th birthday for the first time.if only you could see his face.

    • @Lulu-oi9ue
      @Lulu-oi9ue Год назад +3

      @@lorenmartinez7613 I will be celebrating my daughters 6th birthday in a couple weeks. Can’t wait. My daughter is super excited.

  • @clivespendlove5993
    @clivespendlove5993 Год назад +4

    I'm beginning to see that funny ex JWs are not at all unusual. Well done, mate. Oh, and beautifully honest. And what a nice man - your humanity cannot be doubted.

  • @paulsmith8109
    @paulsmith8109 Год назад +7

    Great story. Hold your head up high and be proud of your achievement here.

    • @armageddoninretrospect1069
      @armageddoninretrospect1069  Год назад

      Thank you!

    • @Katherine-zk5zj
      @Katherine-zk5zj Год назад +1

      ​@@armageddoninretrospect1069watch the ultimate Mordecai channel on ex Jehovah's witness Katherine's testimony on the home page

  • @tammyg8031
    @tammyg8031 Год назад +10

    So, glad that you made it out and hopefully you are doing well. Thanks for your activism and please continue to help others wake up.

    • @donniebgood1486
      @donniebgood1486 Год назад

      Hi Tammy you seem really spiritual… do you want to go out in service some time 😏

    • @tammyg8031
      @tammyg8031 Год назад +2

      @@donniebgood1486 lol...I already have a permanent field service partner. Lol..

    • @donniebgood1486
      @donniebgood1486 Год назад +1

      @@tammyg8031 When I was a teenager I was super in love with a JW Tammy so I figured I would give it a shot lol… thanks for being fun and replying 😎

    • @tammyg8031
      @tammyg8031 Год назад +2

      @@donniebgood1486 Wow. That's interesting. Where 🤔 are you located? Just proximity? Just curious.

    • @donniebgood1486
      @donniebgood1486 Год назад

      @@tammyg8031 Texas

  • @Unisata
    @Unisata Год назад +6

    we served as pioneers in the same hall, activism looks good on you bro. Back on the bass?

  • @BeckyInKorea
    @BeckyInKorea Год назад +3

    Thank you for sharing your story with a smile 😊we have to otherwise it's all too much. Really enjoyed your experience

  • @PistolPackingPilot
    @PistolPackingPilot Год назад +5

    Oh my god! You could be my brother. Lots of similarities! I’m also a 3rd generation JW. Well, ex-JW. I’m now happily disfellowshipped. That’s my new term I’m coining. I just recorded my cult, errr, I mean JW horror story. Not really what my RUclips channel is about, but I needed to do this. Great video.

  • @poon
    @poon 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for sharing your story. Glad to see you are doing ok

  • @exprezza1648
    @exprezza1648 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for sharing your story… I felt every bit of it as I disassociated about 28 years ago now… the freedom is priceless.. we still all have the war wounds but life is good.

  • @NitaM1272
    @NitaM1272 Год назад +3

    Wow my heart goes out to you , I faded almost three years ago, some still associate many treat me like I’m DF like you I still believe , it’s not the true religion. I was in really bad health, some of them still helped, many appeared that they didn’t care still didn’t associate, sorry that you had to endure all of that.💕

  • @jovialbivouacker99
    @jovialbivouacker99 Год назад +2

    Fortunately, for me, my grandmother and mother converted at the same time before I was born and my father never converted (thank goodness), and I left the cult after attending and graduating from college in 1991. However, I still enjoy watching these videos (which were not available in the late 80s/early 90s), but I was able to wake up with good old fashioned logic and critical thinking (which I learned in college and most likely a reason the wtbt society doesn’t encourage higher education!)
    Thanks again for your service!🫡

  • @sharonrich7414
    @sharonrich7414 7 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for sharing,, I have a beautiful family in this situation . Not sure what the future brings for all of us.

  • @heylonnie
    @heylonnie 3 месяца назад

    thank you for sharing this story and your vulnerability. MY JW mum called me on Sept 11th 2001 to tell me to turn on the news and I remember her telling me that this was it, the Great Tribulation was starting. I'd been out of the organization for 15 years by then but it turned on the fear. It was really validating to hear you talk about that, thank you.

  • @knitspired
    @knitspired 11 месяцев назад +1

    I enjoyed this. Your upbringing was very similar to mine. You got the CO voice down pat! 👌
    So much insight and it’s so shocking! Thanks for sharing.

  • @yogi19581
    @yogi19581 Год назад +5

    Excellent video, I could listen to you all day, thank you 😊

  • @julieellis2076
    @julieellis2076 Год назад +9

    Really enjoyed your candid story of how you left the org. I'm a lot older than you. I was a born-in, father an elder. I left when I was given a challenge by a Christian to read my new testament and come back and tell him that I still believed that Jesus was the Archangel Micheal. Which I was arguing him about. I love reading (so was bound to leave at some stage😅) I accepted his challenge to prove him wrong of course. But not only could I see that Jesus could not be any sort of angel - I could see so many other things too. Revelation was ALL given in symbols so the number 144000 only found in Revelation had to symbolise something, not be a literal number, which I had worked out to average of 70 world-wide saved per year (2000 years ÷ 144000) Which has to be crazy. Jesus definitely commanded his followers to partake of the emblems. He died on a cross ( nails in his hands - Not singular John 20) So many things. In fact the flavour of the bible is so different than the jws teachings. I confronted the elders and of course they couldn't answer my many questions. I was disfelliwshipped for denying that the wt bible and tract society was Gods sole channel for truth. Ridiculous looking back. I attended church for 7 years before scrutinising the bible itself and becoming agnostic. Give you a laugh though. Having never set foot inside a church and not knowing the protocol, I gave a good clap at the end of the vicars sermon on my first visit. Only to wonder why the heck no one else did, it wasn't that bad a sermon was it? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 One thing that has always stuck that he used to say is 'God (whoever or whatever you take that to be) doesn't read labels, he reads hearts. ❤'

    • @armageddoninretrospect1069
      @armageddoninretrospect1069  Год назад +2

      Amazing story! Thanks for sharing! I hope that you clapped at the end of my video too 😂

    • @compositioncompilation
      @compositioncompilation Год назад

      Factor in rev 11:6 & rev 16:13&14.
      Through those lenses things are looking much better for the governing body .
      Rev 11:10 shows they're distinguished by not exchanging gifts..which the opposers of the two witnesses..do do..lol

  • @c.t8958
    @c.t8958 Год назад +3

    Top video! Thanks so much. I can relate to this so much.

  • @luisrodz3939
    @luisrodz3939 Год назад +7

    Excelente amigo. Me identifico mucho con usted. Nací dentro de la secta. Fui precursor varios años de mi vida. Hijo de anciano. Fui anciano por casi 25 años. Sin embargo, sufrí una depresión. Eso hizo que entregara la responsabilidad de coordinador de cuerpo de ancianos. Durante mi depresión me pescó un video apóstata. En cuestión de tan solo algunos días ya había caído por el sumidero de abrir los ojos. Leí Crisis de Conciencia. Luego el libro “Los tiempos de los gentiles reconsiderados”. Una vez entendí con claridad la mentira sobre el 607 todo se derrumbó. Ya no hubo vuelta atrás. Llevo 4 años totalmente inactivo. He seguido investigando y realmente casi el 100% de lo que enseña la organización es una mentira descarada. Es un Fraude. Lo más terrible es que el cuerpo gobernante sabe que enseña falsedades. La realidad: se tiene que ser realmente inicuo y perverso para manipular las vidas de millones de personas sabiendo que tus doctrinas son un fraude. El cuerpo gobernante está compuesto por algunas de la personas más despreciables y malvadas que existen. ( Sería un placer hablar algún día con usted ) Cuídese mucho. Éxito. Muchas gracias por su video.

    • @Ava2969ny
      @Ava2969ny 7 месяцев назад

      @luisrodz3939 - Como logro rehacer su vida despues de tantos anos dentro? -- Como logro sanar sus emociones despues de la caida en el sumidero y enterar "la verdad" sobre la verdad? Le pregunto porque me parece interesante que alguien que nacio dentro se haya permitido hacer una investigacion profundo sobre las ensenanzas sabiendo de la posibilidad del derumbo de toda la base de su vida.

  • @tyedup8884
    @tyedup8884 Год назад +2

    Man I hope your doing well man. Im going to look for more exjw blogs from you man your sense of humor is fire. I like the "well THAT ones obviously wrong" part you expressed when looking at the history books on 607 lol

  • @henrycordero8265
    @henrycordero8265 Год назад +2

    Great video! Keep ‘em coming

  • @miat8264
    @miat8264 Год назад +2

    I'm enjoying your story. You reminded me of a Bethel story. A regular pioneer I dated briefly in the early 70's, mostly going in field service, (is that really dating?) had done the temporary Bethel work and the main thing that stuck with him was that the predominant stats showed that one in six of a JW family's children would "stay with it". I think today, it's one in six families, a member will stay with it. What do you think?

  • @ThomasTraver
    @ThomasTraver Год назад +3

    Thank you for your time. Well done.

  • @asherasky8147
    @asherasky8147 Год назад +5

    Really look forward to hearing more about your attempts to re believe/ re write your JW beliefs at the end of your indoctrination. Thank you for sharing

  • @SandraHansford
    @SandraHansford 10 месяцев назад +2

    Enjoyed your story..... I think Revelation is revealing a lot regarding JWs..the Australian video just woke me up... then you realize why they don’t want you to read apostate literature. It exposes Them.thanks. . Look forward to you next video..laugh a little, cry a little.... walk around in a daze for a while.. then you see the real “truth”. I’m just faded have an injury I’m taking care of , so it’s kind of a natural thing.

  • @daliaspencer2139
    @daliaspencer2139 Год назад +3

    GREAT INFO! Thank you for this.

  • @DictatorTuna
    @DictatorTuna Год назад +9

    It's never enough, they always want just a little bit more.

  • @feb196940
    @feb196940 7 месяцев назад +3

    That was my childhood now no wife no girlfriend & no children thanks to my parents for fear mongering!

  • @janespitfire9884
    @janespitfire9884 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for telling your story!! Interesting and so glad you woke the hell up!!

  • @bryannieznajko3386
    @bryannieznajko3386 7 месяцев назад +2

    Aw, fuck it! 🙂You are not alone ... this brought back a lot of memories I had suppressed.

  • @Kathyco96
    @Kathyco96 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great video thank you for sharing 👏👏I left this cult 3 years ago 🎉

  • @dolf5039
    @dolf5039 2 месяца назад +1

    Don’t look back… look forward.
    Now you have time and the means to create a whole new future and beyond. Just forgive them and move on…

  • @b1crusade384
    @b1crusade384 Год назад +3

    59:19 Yeah. You got treated like a White male. When elders dealt with me, they were brutal. One elder even went on the platform and insulted my African heritage. I refused to go back and the elders spread rumors.

  • @darrengreen9273
    @darrengreen9273 Год назад +6

    Hahahaha hahahaha, I loved the way you delivered your escape story!!! Hahahaha hahahaha

  • @porchej
    @porchej Год назад +2

    Sooo much personality 😅thank you ❤I needed this ❕

  • @andracadicecrawford4256
    @andracadicecrawford4256 Год назад +4

    ALL THAT FREE LABOR!! SMH....WELCOME TO YOUR FREEDOM BRO.

  • @TheWadetube
    @TheWadetube 7 месяцев назад +2

    Good story. I have been out for 26 years. I have come full circle in that I know it's not the truth in the whole sense of the word, but look back 2,000 years ago, the elders of the one true religion were labeled as "Sons of Satan" by Jesus himself. Snakes and offspring of vipers, he called the elders, the pharisees. So those were the chosen people of Jehovah and Jesus expressed a concern for them over the centuries like a mother hen over chicks. The real problem is that all hierarchies of any religion will not take responsibility for their mistakes, false teachings, false prophesies or harmful practices that drive sheep away from Jesus. And the Witnesses no longer acknowledge Jesus as their leader but the governing body who's leader is Jehovah directly and they drag God's name through the mud on a daily basis. God will destroy them and preserve the sheep for Jesus to lead. "I have another flock and I must bring them and they will listen to MY voice," Jesus stated. Not the governing body who claim to be the only channel of communication between God and Man.
    Once you realize the parallel between the organization and the pharisees and the prophesies of their destruction it takes away the heavy expectation of them as leaders. I would not want to be an elder and not know what to do when their leaders are killed off. I am thinking of returning and getting reinstated to see from a front row seat how it will all go down and perhaps keep some from leaving and thinking Jesus does not love them or care for them. I am sure he is eager to come down and set things right but the anti-Christ must come first and be welcomed by apostates into the most holy of places. Then all hell will break loose and the truth will be revealed like never before. Good luck. But my advice to anyone wanting to leave is to keep cool, keep your mouth shut and don't complain too much, don't write a letter of disassociation but wait it out like a storm. Good luck in the future.

  • @matilda4406
    @matilda4406 Год назад +7

    Wow, you have really been through it all and survived... was there no chance with your wife? Or was she the type to bathe in the fake glory of being a perceived authority figure in the cong ?? Actually elder's wifes are probably the worst. They know all the evil and still carry on. In the end, I'm so happy for you, good attitude. Not many can laugh and joke, but it's one of the better coping mechanism. After making all the corrections with people we may have hurt, what else is there other than to laugh at the sheer insanity. Didn't Jesus say, "many will come in my name and deceive many"?

    • @armageddoninretrospect1069
      @armageddoninretrospect1069  Год назад +4

      Thanks! To be honest I don’t have one negative thing to say about my ex. One of the kindest women I’ve ever met. We ended up with too big of an expanse between our world views and social lives. Was there a chance? There probably always is but it in the end it wasn’t working for me on a foundational level.

    • @matilda4406
      @matilda4406 Год назад +3

      @@armageddoninretrospect1069 She must have know about all the horrible stuff, the horrendous politics, the child abuse, the lies from the organisation. How on earth does she reconcile that if she is so kind ?? I'm guessing her whole family is in the org. Very lucky you don't have kids too.

  • @Charleneslife-23
    @Charleneslife-23 Год назад +3

    Well done on your exit. Thoroughly enjoyed your videos.

  • @matthewmundy5805
    @matthewmundy5805 Год назад +3

    Thank you so much for your video. I liked the humor, it kept me very interested. I've been 1/2 heartily a JW for 47 yrs. I am cutting that tree down..

  • @MoniqueWagner-j7t
    @MoniqueWagner-j7t Год назад +2

    You are AWESOME!!! I UNDERSTAND!!!

  • @salvatoresulano878
    @salvatoresulano878 Год назад +2

    Enjoyed ur video I'm almost sure we met cuz I knew several bethelites in the kitchen at walkill. Took so many bus tours in those days

  • @natalielove6934
    @natalielove6934 5 месяцев назад +1

    The way you say "fuck off" so funny 😂

  • @elypevets5633
    @elypevets5633 6 месяцев назад +2

    Witnesses should not be referred to as a religion but a cult. Billy Graham defined the difference.
    "What do they believe about the Bible? Is it alone the Word of God (as Christians affirm) - or do they add to it, or claim they alone have translated it correctly?"
    "Second, what do they believe about Jesus? Is He alone the divine Son of God, sent from Heaven to save us from our sins? Or do they deny this, or claim we must work to save ourselves?" continued Graham.
    "Third, what do they believe about other Christians? Do they claim that they, and they alone, have the truth - or do they rejoice that God is also at work elsewhere?"
    JWs are a cult in every aspect. So they should be referred to as such.

  • @incognito_JW
    @incognito_JW 11 месяцев назад +2

    Its people like you who I wish stayed in the ORG to bring about change. Its a true shame that the mechanic put in place by the ORG to make people "spin themselves" out when they have these thoughts instead of using their position to undermine bad policies and protect members from being DF'd (within your ability) - are missed opportunities. Thats my goal.

    • @armageddoninretrospect1069
      @armageddoninretrospect1069  11 месяцев назад

      I appreciate what you’re doing. I think I would have died on the inside trying to bring about changes within the organization. I couldn’t play the game enough to blend in and I didn’t want to. All the best to you though!

    • @vestland3877
      @vestland3877 3 месяца назад

      Are you a Pimo Elder?

  • @anonymousemoosy2287
    @anonymousemoosy2287 Год назад

    At 32:02 I thought you were going to say, "He reaches into his briefcase and pulls out... a set of knuckle dusters!" LOL. 😆😆

  • @HudsonChalmers
    @HudsonChalmers Год назад +2

    When I was a ministerial servant, I had Public talks and a lot of other shit dumped on me, until I learnt to say NO WAY

  • @harrieelias5756
    @harrieelias5756 Год назад +1

    Bravo intelligent guy. Enjoy your unlimited freedom, good luck.
    👍🏻 ❤amazing

  • @dannycasey8261
    @dannycasey8261 Год назад +1

    "Don't sign it, Don't sign it, (scribblescribble)
    Doh!!!"
    Simi quote of Homer Simpson 😂

  • @codydowns8251
    @codydowns8251 Год назад +1

    Great pod! Nice to hear your story.

  • @onsearchfocus
    @onsearchfocus Год назад +2

    I look forward to the politics video! Thanks a lot for this video.

  • @angelawhitfield7498
    @angelawhitfield7498 2 месяца назад

    Me and my ex married at 18, had our first kid at 20, he was an elder lecturing at assemblies by twenty five. I relate to the age semantics. Lets don't forget the perfection required by me and the children in support of him.....

  • @kmm291
    @kmm291 6 месяцев назад +1

    A language Coordinator (sure developed a new language after you left the organization) 😮The story was interesting,without all the cussing.

  • @FUNNYMANERICWHITE
    @FUNNYMANERICWHITE 10 месяцев назад +1

    😂😂 good video, nice intro. Love the dry humor

  • @nickmorris9383
    @nickmorris9383 2 месяца назад

    Dude our souls are union......we understand life the same. 🔥🌊🙏

  • @thehigherevolutionary
    @thehigherevolutionary 4 месяца назад

    I love how you worked on overlapping generations

  • @honorindadelindro3357
    @honorindadelindro3357 Год назад +1

    i really enjoy your video I think I ll seaarch your interview with Loyd

  • @bryn6000
    @bryn6000 16 дней назад

    Glad to hear you are out of that cult.

  • @bold810
    @bold810 Год назад +3

    The best part is knowing the branch davidians broke off from the Jehovah's Witness mainline because the Jehovah's were too liberal.

    • @kyariskai
      @kyariskai Год назад

      Wth were/are they like then??? 🫣

  • @lisettebordeleau3765
    @lisettebordeleau3765 Год назад +3

    What a powerful testimony. Thank you so much.

  • @genesistv5912
    @genesistv5912 Год назад +1

    Hi... Great history.. every day we are more. Welcome to the world free.

  • @konstantinoskazantzis3893
    @konstantinoskazantzis3893 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great help friends Burt Eharman great to know

  • @FUNNYMANERICWHITE
    @FUNNYMANERICWHITE 10 месяцев назад +1

    Same, the guilt and shame for little things was real

  • @SH-fb7gw
    @SH-fb7gw Год назад +2

    Just started listening to this and I’m already laughing. I love the over lapping generation joke. Hilarious.

  • @marvelenedelks8189
    @marvelenedelks8189 Год назад +3

    I like you, and your sense of humor!😂

  • @cultytalk
    @cultytalk 6 месяцев назад +2

    Regular Pioneers now only do 50 hours. Auxillary pioneers are 15 hours!! 😂😂😂 Everyone else has no hour requirement. They just ✅️ that they did service 🤣 🤣 🤣

  • @hannahdivine8699
    @hannahdivine8699 Год назад +6

    Thanks for sharing! I had a similar sticker issue 😂 Beastie Boys stickers= condoning beastiality

  • @matilda4406
    @matilda4406 Год назад +4

    Wow your grandfather woke up !!!

  • @b1crusade384
    @b1crusade384 Год назад +2

    You were a young White male who obeyed orders without questions and not ugly. You had potential to go far.

  • @matilda4406
    @matilda4406 Год назад +3

    We get blindsided when they start to control.... but at the point where he told you what you can and can't do with your car...... that's the point where they should immediately be put in their place, told to fxck off and take a walk.

  • @FINALYFREE59
    @FINALYFREE59 Год назад +2

    😂😂 I love your video. So original. 👏👍

  • @lynnwilson6893
    @lynnwilson6893 Год назад +1

    This is a quick review of astronomical texts that are currently used to date Biblical events. Since they all reflect the same timeline, each is linked to the Exodus.
    1. VAT4956. Dates year 37 of Nebuchadnezzar to 511 BCE. Year 23 falls in 525 BCE which is the year of the last deportation beginning a 70-year exile at Babylon ending in 455 BCE. The Exodus is exactly 19 jubilees prior to the return from Babylon, which occurs in 1386 BCE.
    2. Assyrian eponym eclipse. A solar eclipse over Assyria occurs in month 3, which is dated to 709 BCE. This dates year 5 of Rehoboam in 871 BCE. Solomon and Rehoboam had a six-year co-rulership, so year 5 of Rehoboam is year 39 of Solomon. Solomon's rule is dated from 910-870 BCE. David's rule is dated from 950-910 BCE. The 4th of Solomon falls in 906 BCE. The Exodus occurs 480 years earlier in 1386 BCE.
    3. The KTU 1.78 records a solar eclipse in progress during the sixth hour seen at Ugarit. The eclipse dates a palace fire at Ugarit, which is reported in year 12 of Akhenaten. This would date the 1st of Akhenaten and likewise the death of Amenhotep III in the Red Sea in 1386 BCE. Amenhotep III and Akhenaten were the pharaohs of the Exodus.
    4. The Thales eclipse was a predictable eclipse over Asia Minor predicted by Thales. Thales learned of this predictable eclipse while studying astronomy in Egypt. The eclipse occurs in year 2 of Nabonidus in 478 BCE. The predicting eclipse 54 years and 1 month earlier occurs over Egypt in 532 BCE. This predictable eclipse series occurs every 54 years and one month later in the same longitude approximately 12-14 degrees farther north. Nabonidus ruled 19 years from 480-461 BCE. Darius the Mede ruled for six years from 461-455 BCE. The Jews returned from Babylon in 455 BCE, which is 931 years (19 jubilees) after the Exodus. The Exodus occurs in 1386 BCE.
    5. Two Greek period solar eclipses date important events during the Greek period. One solar eclipse that can only be matched to January of 402 BCE, begins the Peloponnesian War in the Summer of 403 BCE, which is the first year of the 4-year Olympic cycle. The 10th year of the War falls in 394 BCE, which ends the 30-year peace agreement inacted when Xerxes invaded Greece in 424 BCE. A second solar eclipse occurs over Persia as recorded by Herodotus in the early Spring on March 21, 424 BCE. This dates the Battle of Marathon in 434 BCE. Darius died at Marathon and thus 434 BCE is the same year the temple was completed at Jerusalem after 21 years. The building began in the 1st year of Cyrus, which must be dated to 455 BCE. The Exodus 931 years earlier occurs in 1386 BCE.

  • @dannycasey8261
    @dannycasey8261 Год назад +1

    I'm at around the 20 minute mark now.
    Great sense of humour!
    If you wanna say Fuck say Fuck,
    I don't give a Fuck!!! 😂
    I've got a bruise from how hard I hit the subscribe button! 😅
    I'll go check out your previous videos.
    I just remembered I have to finish this video first. Lol
    I'm glad you're out and doing well

  • @xjwfurious
    @xjwfurious Год назад +2

    Thanks for sharing your story. Keep the videos coming. Subscribed. I won't be fucking off. 🙂

  • @compositioncompilation
    @compositioncompilation Год назад +1

    As a witness never unravelled rev 11:6 nor rev 16:13&14.
    Those Who are referred to as blasphemers then go out to kings
    Rev 16:8-11

  • @PootsandYayaArtTime
    @PootsandYayaArtTime Год назад +2

    How did I forget about the daily text. 😂