So proud of you, baby. As you know, I am inspired daily by the strength and determination it took for you to escape a lifetime of brainwashing. From the little JW boy I knew at school to the force of nature I'm married to now. You're amazing
Try not to look back. I know it's hard, but keep on smiling for the freedom you now have. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you to find joy and happiness in your new life and be proud of yourself for having the strength to leave the cult.
Good to hear an English account of an escape from this cult. I remember being at assemblies at Nottingham football ground. You are probably around the age of my poor sons who I, to my everlasting regret brought up as Witness’s. One is still in it, the other mercifully, out. The one still in brought my precious grandchildren up in it too! All traumatised because of it! God forgive me for being the instrument of their demise. So glad you are out!! My poor boys had no birthdays, no parties or presents, Christmas presents or parties. I’m sorry for your awful childhood. Thank you for exposing this vile cult for what it truly is!
Glad you're free. I've had 2 birthdays thus far and my next cake will have 3 candles. I don't make a wish when I blow out the candles. I give thanks. I give thanks that I'm free
Thank you for your experience and being free. I got out 5 years ago after 36 years of being fully indoctrinated. So many are waking up, it’s great to see more and more getting their life back.
Thank you so much for your video. My husband and I are POMO in the UK. My husband was an Elder and we pioneered together. We basically woke up this past year and jumped ship. But it hasn’t been easy it does take great courage to no longer run with the herd. We both discuss the same questions and have come to the same conclusions as you. So thank you for your honesty. You are also correct it is a cult.
Excellent video. My life has been easier since I left this cult after being raised in it. Couldn't get my head around not being able to see my pet again in the new system at age 8. Asked my elder dad if I would, he said no. I asked why and was told, " because it's not made in god's image like us." I said " But if god is love and I love my bird surely that's it? God IS love." That turning of his back on me and telling me to get ready for the meeting was an early eye opener. God as a literal thing - Jehovah, Allah, Shiva etc etc doesn't exist. There's only love and not enough of it where religious fanatics are involved. We had an army swagger stick in our living room, always propped by the fireplace. It was used often on all us seven kids, some more than others 😊 My dad, the pious elder, arrived home from door knocking, dragged me up the garden path by my hair in front of my non JW friends ( I was playing football in front of our house) and threw me to the floor inside. I jumped up and called him a bastard. The first time I'd ever swore. His reaction? Walked up to me, head butted me and broke my nose. I was 15 he was 47 ex coal mining window cleaner. So much for love. I left home as soon as I could and was shunned before I left and after. I have tried so hard to keep family contact for years but have found life easier now I reverse shun them.
wowsers... turns out I didn't know much about JWs. Public facing seems so benevolent and harmless. So very happy you're living, loving and learning (and out of the cult). Thanks for sharing, and stay strong
Hi my name is Marcie and I was one of Jehovahs Witnesses for over 30 years. I served as a regular pioneer for ten of those years. I was first contacted in the door to door ministry back in 1987 and I finally left the organisation in 2022. That is the introduction to every video I have made on my RUclips channel. (There’s about 50 videos up there now) I can relate to a lot of what you say. I also worked in an area of great difficulty. I worked in the court system with victims of abuse including children and people who had been abused as children and as adults, were bringing the abuser to court. I had many questions about why this happened, where was God in all of this? Also I too was a victim of CSA starting at the age of 8 and it went on into my teens. I have made a video about what happened when I discovered there was a paedophile in my congregation. This religion had destroyed the lives and the faith of millions of people. Thank you for adding your voice to the growing community, that wants to see ‘The Tower ‘ toppled and destroyed.❤
Always great to hear another experience! I’m up in North East Scotland, I went in in my early 20’s and just left a year and a half ago and am now 60, what an absolute relief to be out and a a shock discovering what I’ve been part of. Didn’t take me long to realize I’d been in a Cult. I was absolutely mentally and emotionally exhausted but now with support of my husband who was never interested and other family members my life feels so much happier and glad to be in control of my own life again. Thank you for sharing your experience. ❤
We are in the south of England. My husband was an Elder for years and we were both full time pioneers. It’s a long journey to take so worth it. For me personally it was the huge cover up of child abuse. I just flipped at that point and realizing it’s a cult made me so angry. My husband read crisis of conscience and many others. Then we both joined the dots up as it were and we threw in our towel.
@@GrahamV-p8n quite a shock to discover all this when come out took a number of months to sort myself out! Read the book 30 years ago a Watchtower Slave realise that’s what I’d been! Also read Steve Hassan book Combatting Cults and Mind Control, horrible what these Cults do to people. I Pioneered for years too and was angry about that for quite sometime! Horrendous to realise that we’ve really been taught to go round and deceive people into a Cult.
I enjoyed listening to your story. I have been married 36 years to a man that was raised a JW but wasn't in it when we met, wasn't even baptized. Well about 10 years ago all that changed, he was baptized, and that will be what takes my wonderful marriage, up until 10 years ago. He is brain washed, and he is blind. There is no getting him to read nor question anything and it breaks my heart but nothing I can do.
i was in a similar position........dont critisice the cult or put it down ,They are indoctrinated to reject ANY facts. Let time work its magic. Its hard but be patient
Thank you for sharing your story. I was born into the cult and left at 19 years of age. Nearly 25 years later I am honestly only starting to clearly see just how much damage this cult caused to my mental wellbeing and development. It has taken being in a mentally and emotionally abusive relationship in my 20’s because that was what I thought a relationship was for a woman to then an emotionally unavailable partner in my 30’s to now be able to look back and understand how much that early brainwashing and programming has impacted my adult life. I am only now starting to truly undo and deprogram. I am lucky to have found now a supportive partner who is helping me work through everything. I suspect there were things I have suppressed from my memories of growing up but despite losing my family over my decision it helps my heart heal knowing that love is not and should never be conditional on adherence to a religious belief and if family choose their beliefs over their child this is then their loss and not mine. My chosen family love me for the person I am and for that alone with no conditions.
Never in my entire life have I had a birthday (or Christmas) present or celebration ... never, and I am an old man. Watchtower is totally totally evil and vile.
I truly understand your feelings and I'm glad you left the cult as I did. I'm older now, almost lost my husband because of my nonsensical stance. Always tried to say join!!!!! Glad he didn't. But, respectfully I do believe in a loving God. I don't understand the horrors that's done to the vulnerable. And I cannot say why God doesn't intervene. There's alot I don't understand. But I totally get what your saying. I can see your disgust. I see your anger and I get all of it.
Glad you escaped! I am 4th generation and it was hard to get out until I realized that they are the apostates, and I needed to shun them. Weirdly it made it easier.
I always found it interesting that the organization felt the need to further convince people about the dangers of blood transfusions. It’s not enough to just explain that the Bible says transfusions are a sin and not allowed (which isn’t true anyways), but to further justify it by claiming they are dirty and dangerous is just ridiculous!!! Soo many witnesses believe they are unsafe and that you’ll get some disease if you get one. It’s really sad
You mentioned some books, I’ll look them up but one book that really helped me and others who were bold enough to read it contrary to the rules “Crisis of Conscience “.
There are things I'm ashamed to admit I did because of Watchtowers teachings. The way I treated people and behaved in some situations, especially with birthdays and disfellowshiping and with non believing family. It's a great embarrassment to me even after having been out for over 20 years. It is clear to me now that there are no gods. No need to adhere to absurd dogmas. Every video I see like this is helpful in reminding me that I wasn't the only one. Many of us were caught up in this monstrous cult simply by force of circumstance and power dynamics in our families. I was 6 when my mother was baptized. My father never got involved, but the manipulation is terrible meaning the kids in that situation will most likely fall victim to their indoctrination.
Sorry that the things you went through Lance made you not believe in the Lord . That is a very common feeling that those who have been abused or ordered to blindly believe and obey in a single man or a body of sinful men that are so arrogant and narcissistic that even questioning their beliefs or behaviors will get you in trouble. I believe that the problem is not God , but those who set themselves up as Gods equal . The 10 commandments were given to us to show the world that your a rightous man if you follow those principles , not an endless amount of rules by some cult . Jesus preached very simple things that would show you have love for others .
Glad you made it. Welcome to the world, it's not so bad. Wish I could get my sister back from the organization, but I guess she's happy enough. Best wishes to you-
I appreciate your point of view! As someone who served as an MS for 17 years in several congregations and foreign language. My experience was constantly being on an endless hamster wheel of work, talks, assignments, accounts, territory, literature, PTs as soon as one schedule was done another would come in and my life would be filled with these endless tasks, which I gladly did for my God. I was burnt out and had to step back when my child was born. After years of working endlessly the Elder body was more interested in getting me back to work then really encouraging me. This made me realise they just wanted to put me to work, I started to push back and they showed me their true colors. I couldn't understand why they were more interested in my reported hours then my immediate sitaution, (mum was also sick at this time and work had fired me and there was a global pandemic.) The timesheet hours weren't good enough for them to make me an elder... and the CO visit was coming up. When it comes to work the JW men are busy and burnt out... that could be the reason why so few men in the org. Many are simply not interested in working for free for a real estate business high control group.
Which church are preaching the gospel of the kingdom around the world to all nations as Jesus Christ said? Matthew 10:16, 24:14, 28:19-20, Mark 13:10, if not only only only the Jehovah's witnesses.
@@vusimngomezulu2500 do you realise how this line of argument you’re using makes you look? In the face of overwhelming child abuse cover ups you come with “but we preach the good news” Well you go champ.
Thanks for opening up about your personal story, I know it's not easy.. It can be of help for people who struggle with doubts and can't find the courage to leave, so go ahead with part 2 😉
@@Ethos1231 look forward ti hearing more - crazy how all our stories are so very similar, horrible cult for sure and sad to see loved ones trapped in its web of lies.
My dad was from Stockton On Tees (well Thornaby actually). He went to school at Thornaby and I believe it was next to the railway station but I'm not sure if there is a school there any more. I used to go to Middlesborough, Saltburn and Redcar a lot on the train quite a bit but I haven't been for some time now. Great beach walk from Saltburn to Redcar! It's fascinating hearing life stories from other former witnesses. I never grew up in the org but came in when I was around 23ish. I've been disassociated for around 15 years now. It can be traumatic for sure, but we all get there in the end! All the best.
Thanks for sharing. I recently woke up at 46. Born in. Not all was bad for me but I feel robbed of a childhood, adolescence and adulthood that I could have had. I left and haven’t looked back. Hopefully my wife and son see through the facade and do their own research.
Glad to hear I had two young girls JW come to my house the other day...and I had a great conversation about the Lord with them...though Im a russian orthodox...they looked at me like who is this guy and how does he know so much? I didn't insult them or anything...I told them they could come back and talk about the Lord again ....I love the Lord
im up i yorkshire and left 8 years ago....The stories that i know are unbelievable..........only those that have been in can know the craziness and control .........glad your out bro
Thanks for your video. I am one of eight children. One of my siblings became a witness at age ~50. My feelings are; Jehovah Witness stole my sister from me and the family. They took advantage of her when she was vulnerable.
I was a witness on and off for about 35 or 40 years. My husband and daughter came to the meetings with occasionally, but did not believe the JW doctrine. There were a number of red flags that I noticed along the way, but I did not act on them until I stopped to really think about it and decided this was a cult and not worth my time. I was never disfellowshipped. I just faded. I am so glad I did. My life was extremely stressful as a witness. My beloved husband took care of our daughter and me until after he passed away forty years later when he had his 98th birthday in 2017,
I found this fella on RUclips channel called archaix , his got a playlist called the dark scriptures , it helped me so much with sorting my mind out after leaving 26 years ago , first time I’ve really understood what the bible is .
Brother, just as much as there is an endless amount of GOOD that can happen and that one can experience, the same is true of the opposite. There’s no limit to the downward negative spiral just as there can be no limit to the upward positive spiral for our human experience. The JW’s give Jesus and Christianity a bad name. Jesus came to save sinners and that is exactly what He did for me. My life is truly a testimony of the goodness of God and transformative power of Christ when Christ really has a person’s heart.. The religion is bad, but the Spirit of Christ is good. I didn’t grow up religious/spiritual, got bad into drugs and prostitution, almost died at 25 years old from brain aneurysm now partially paralyzed on left side due to MY transgressions.. I do feel like Jesus saved me. I have changed sooo much in a short amount of time since I have given my life to Christ. Jesus came to save sinners. He couldn’t stand the religious people as well.
We were taught that Jehovah was being patient out of love, and to finish the "Sovreignty" issue, by letting mankind prove that they can't rule themselves, over time, allowing all mankinds failures to prove this. Allowing evil to proliferate and get worse and worse, just to prove that he was the only one who could solve mankinds problems, and after it was THOROUGHLY proven, FINALLY the end could come. Even if that were true, which it isn't of course, I realized at the age of 50, that, as almighty god, he could prove this, and put the sovreignty issue thorougly to rest, WITHOUT allowing child trafficking and child rape. He could at LEAST allow all other evils to carry on, and that'd be more than enough to prove that mankind can't rule perfectly. He has the power to do this IF HE WANTED TO. Easily. Instead he's proven one thing: that he doesn't do ANYTHING. This "patience" thing is just a lever for the Governing Body to keep everyone hooked forever.
Excellent measured take on life as a j dub ..how it kills all your aspirations and hopes of achieving something really worthwhile...i gave it 25 years of my life and when i left they abandoned me ...please make another video ..i ll look forward to hearing more of your experiences
An ex JW here - left in 1993. I really enjoyed that. But I hope you don't mind but the name "Dorian Yates" kept popping into my mind as I watched - you're definitely a ringer for him.
Thank you for sharing yr journey so far , we as ex witnesses do have to do a lot of healing and pulling apart of beliefs , I started therapy just because I wanted to know who I am 🤯 which sounds crazy , but I just didn’t know what was actually me and what was the learnt behaviour from upbringing, i look back now , I’m 52 and left at 28 and I just think wow , wtf was all that about , it’s only now that part of my journey is completely coming to a close , the guilt towards my family that are still witnesses because I don’t see them very much is fading now. I see it all with different eyes , they were hoodwinked into the religion so I try not to hold on to blame and resentment and try and be grateful that I’ve learnt what I have and went on to investigate so many other religions and cultures and where they originated , so maybe as much as it’s been far from easy I kinda get that maybe cults are everywhere in society and it’s very very easy to full into one . I haven’t really found where I fit in yet (at 52 🙃) but that’s just cool I kinda like it that way 😊
Thank you for sharing. Every story helps. While the stories all vary a bit...they are all the same. I especially related with your thoughts on Jehovah not helping victims. That disturbed me greatly! And allowing your child to die w/o blood. Crazy! Waiting for more.
Great video! Thankyou. You may find the following helpful…..“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.”
fantastic video. i love your integrity and honest thank you so very much for speaking out. would you consider speaking out on the shunning that takes place on this platform
Also the confusing part about he ransom sacrifice is that according to the watchtower God did not know Adam and Eve would sin. But is God not All knowing?
22:04 if you’d like to read more about people experiencing similar struggles about “this happened to me, so how could god let this happen? How could he exist?” I recommend reading Night by Elie Weisel But otherwise I reccommend Educated by Tara Westbrook!!!! Both are memoirs.
I remember my 5th birthday , it was my last as my mum became a jw by the time i was 6. I gave myself a 50th bd even tho i was still "in" the org. Been out now 4+ years after 50+ years in and no regrets leaving. Jesus is now my hope not the wt org .
You are more than welcome to say that you are a part of Tuatha De Acacia of Danaan ❤️🔥🪽🍀💯 Those that have God n Mother Earth within there hearts ❤️🔥🪽
@@josg3444 you’re welcome mate. And it’s going really well, deadlift will be up at 600lb soon and now it’s really only my breathing I need to figure out lol
@@Ethos1231Which church are preaching the gospel of the kingdom around the world to all nations as Jesus Christ said? Matthew 10:16, 24:14, 28:19-20, Mark 13:10, if not only only only the Jehovah's witnesses.
From the age of 16 years i started to study stopped an started again in my late 20s an got baptised soon after when for about 4 years an just stop going soon after cause i cant tek them dirty ways
@michaelsimpson5434 did something happen to trigger her fear to return? I ask because my husband thought to return after his brother died. I gently asked him to give himself 1 year to process his brother’s death before making a life changing decision that would affect us. He agreed and it’s been a little over a year now and I asked what he was thinking now about JW and he said he sees that JW does not have God’s favor or all the bad stuff in that religion wouldn’t exist. How can the “Holy Spirit” appoint someone who SA a child. Awww so thankful he is not going back into that cult. Sharing my experience in hopes that it helps.
Drop the shame ! It’s heavy , it’s not yours to carry my friend. You were programmed. We can only see with the eyes we had . Your vision had been skewed purposely by others.
Yeah, I get that. It’s so sad that you didn’t get to celebrate birthdays however you make it sound like there are no other joyous occasions that you could remember. It’s like you put all your joy in a birthday. You can have great awesome experiences on days that are not your birthday. Personally, I don’t celebrate my birthday. I don’t wanna be reminded. I’m getting older and I just find it a bit silly that people would sing happy birthday to me and it’s such a drudge and there’s so much responsibility and people expect you to put on a party and a show and even for the kids people expect you to put on a party and it’s so much work all I can say is that at least Jehovah’s Witnesses have been freed of that obligation. But I’m sorry you feel you missed out on something you didn’t really I think this thing what you feel it in your family is a symptom of something else, maybe you just didn’t feel heard or seen. I bet it’s got nothing to do with not celebrating birthdays.
@@Ethos1231 wow why so defensive? I was not analyzing your feelings. I think it would take a bunch of specialists for that, however I stated that your story was all about how you missed out in life and I pointed out to you that there are others occasions in life other than birthdays that you can find joy in that are much better than birthdays. I have a joke for you. How do you know which plane on the runway is the one from the UK? It’s the one that continues to whine even after the engines have been turned off 😂🤪😜
its all ambiguous cannot verify or validate who and what is God ? How did God there in the first place every body looks at things from thier point of view in relation to what they know at the time as you learn more your opinion can change
@@dectractos that’s the best question. In fact, looking back, no one would’ve. But there were consequences that, back then, I was scared of. As time went by I became aware that those consequences were just inconsequential. I appreciate that question mate, cheers.
@@Ethos1231 there is always consequences for our actions. I see allot of people complaining about the witness but it always ends up being their own fault….cheers..
The bible is filled with JEHOVAH YAWEHS DISCIPLINE enjoy YOUR JOURNEY me I will stay at kingdom hall. all the way to Armageddon 40 yrs so far it been fantastic wonderful I love going door to door I find a whole lot of peeps who have no religion its great we are 5000 kingdom halls behind we are in the3 fastest growing religion!!!❤
@@lanialania8387 no he wasn't he loved the temple and and the Hebrew law your a lost soul my God have mercy on you,YAWEH IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD. FIND HIM,,FIND HIM,,no need to go to kingdom hall (in your case)
Unfortunately you will be saying that same tired old propaganda all the way to your deathbed , with some how giving all your Earthly processions to WT , to help with the CSA lawsuits they're having lost in court by not turning in the criminals that hurt the innocent.
Lord have mercy on this wicked man. Since you insist on being an enemy of Jehovah God. Read below what happens to people like you! Revelation 14:20 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress as high up as the bridles of the horses, for a distance of a thousand six hundred furlongs. Revelation 19:21 21 But the rest were killed off with the long sword of the one seated on the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth. And all the birds were filled from the fleshy parts of them. I'll pray for you. Have a nice day!
@@g45crrt what about the verses that promote slavery? Or genocide? Or child sacrifice? No? Convenient that you’d ignore those. Just like you ignore all the child abuse.
@@Ethos1231 I have 26 years of experience in the organization and never saw any child abuse child abuse in all different forms is everywhere, it has nothing to do with being a Jehovah's Witness. Jehovah will sort them out. God is no joke, yet the people act like he is. When judgment day comes. The people will say, were sorry, we didn't know. And Jehovah will be with Jesus and say; I sent my people to your house almost every weekend with free magazines and offering free personal study about the Kingdom of God and what did you do? I feel sorry for them because as we know from the Bible most of these wicked people will be destroyed. The ones who rejected God and honored the son. They're not going to receive everlasting life, they will go into the wine press, chopped up and left in the fields for the birds to eat. . Life is good. The key to happiness is; stay away from idiots. Have a nice day!
@@g45crrt *"I have 26 years of experience in the organization and never saw any child abuse"* What a truly idiotic statement Mike. Just because you haven't perosonally witnessed child abuse, does not mean it is not prolific in your cult. And before you respond with the usual JW bullshit, yes we're all aware that child abuse occurs in any organisation where adults and children congregate. *The difference with the JW cult and the reason you receive such universal condemnation is your 'two-witness rule' policy which prevents such incidents being reported to the correct authorities. 1. Have you forgotten Watchtower's infamous 'blue envelope' policy whereby known abusers from each JW congregation were documented and collated in a database that they have repeatedy refused to divulge (eventualy racking up a $2,000,000 fine)? 2. Have you forgotten Candace Conti who sued your cult costing them $2.8 million, for allowing Jonathan Kendrick to molest her repeatedly when she was 9 and 10 years old? 2. Have you forgotten the findings from the Australian Royal Commission who slammed your cult's policy on this subject and concluded: *"A complainant of child sexual abuse whose allegation has not been corroborated by confession by their abuser or a second ‘credible’ eyewitness is necessarily disempowered and subjected to ongoing traumatisation. To place a victim of child sexual abuse in such a position is today, and was 30 years ago, unacceptable and wrong."* Are these just 'memory lapses' Mike or could it they're yet more embarrassing truths you'd rather we forget? We're talking about criminal acts here, not just some minor trangsression of policy. Remember, that facts do not care about your feelings and your denial of these, like all JWs, makes you complicit in the abuse. Why do you facilitate and sanction such child abuse Mike?
I’m just really curious that you claimed that you left Jo’s witnesses when you were adult and you were in it for a long time. You don’t look like a Jehovah’s Witness I mean, Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t have beards or tattoos or pierced ears so did you just go wild after you left Jehovah’s Witnesses and decide that you had a lot of stuff to catch up on and did you go All in one day and get your ears pierced and get your tattoos to catch up or what that all about? I mean, you don’t even look like an ex Jehovah’s Witness.
@@myrmillionade3512 thanks for the questions. Yes, once I left, which was 15 years ago, I got my piercings, tattoos and generally other things that evidence a person living their own life.
So proud of you, baby. As you know, I am inspired daily by the strength and determination it took for you to escape a lifetime of brainwashing. From the little JW boy I knew at school to the force of nature I'm married to now. You're amazing
Brilliant video. I've been out now for 25 years. Best thing I ever did but regret all those lost years as a JW.
@valread5403 - how long were you in before deciding to leave?
Try not to look back. I know it's hard, but keep on smiling for the freedom you now have. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you to find joy and happiness in your new life and be proud of yourself for having the strength to leave the cult.
Good to hear an English account of an escape from this cult. I remember being at assemblies at Nottingham football ground. You are probably around the age of my poor sons who I, to my everlasting regret brought up as Witness’s. One is still in it, the other mercifully, out. The one still in brought my precious grandchildren up in it too! All traumatised because of it! God forgive me for being the instrument of their demise.
So glad you are out!!
My poor boys had no birthdays, no parties or presents, Christmas presents or parties. I’m sorry for your awful childhood. Thank you for exposing this vile cult for what it truly is!
You are an amazing human !
An inspiration!
I am sorry for what you endured .
It’s good to see you free , living your best life .
Glad you're free. I've had 2 birthdays thus far and my next cake will have 3 candles.
I don't make a wish when I blow out the candles. I give thanks. I give thanks that I'm free
Love that!
SOOOO TRUE!!!
Woe that's deep girl
I make wishes...
Brilliant attitude! Love the candle ritual.
Thank you for your experience and being free. I got out 5 years ago after 36 years of being fully indoctrinated. So many are waking up, it’s great to see more and more getting their life back.
Thank you so much for your video. My husband and I are POMO in the UK. My husband was an Elder and we pioneered together. We basically woke up this past year and jumped ship. But it hasn’t been easy it does take great courage to no longer run with the herd. We both discuss the same questions and have come to the same conclusions as you.
So thank you for your honesty. You are also correct it is a cult.
You cannot have humanity and remain a part of an inhumane organization. ❤
Excellent video. My life has been easier since I left this cult after being raised in it. Couldn't get my head around not being able to see my pet again in the new system at age 8. Asked my elder dad if I would, he said no. I asked why and was told, " because it's not made in god's image like us." I said " But if god is love and I love my bird surely that's it? God IS love." That turning of his back on me and telling me to get ready for the meeting was an early eye opener. God as a literal thing - Jehovah, Allah, Shiva etc etc doesn't exist. There's only love and not enough of it where religious fanatics are involved.
We had an army swagger stick in our living room, always propped by the fireplace. It was used often on all us seven kids, some more than others 😊
My dad, the pious elder, arrived home from door knocking, dragged me up the garden path by my hair in front of my non JW friends ( I was playing football in front of our house) and threw me to the floor inside. I jumped up and called him a bastard. The first time I'd ever swore. His reaction? Walked up to me, head butted me and broke my nose. I was 15 he was 47 ex coal mining window cleaner. So much for love.
I left home as soon as I could and was shunned before I left and after. I have tried so hard to keep family contact for years but have found life easier now I reverse shun them.
Hard read this but I’m so proud of you for getting out.
wowsers... turns out I didn't know much about JWs. Public facing seems so benevolent and harmless. So very happy you're living, loving and learning (and out of the cult). Thanks for sharing, and stay strong
Hi my name is Marcie and I was one of Jehovahs Witnesses for over 30 years. I served as a regular pioneer for ten of those years.
I was first contacted in the door to door ministry back in 1987 and I finally left the organisation in 2022.
That is the introduction to every video I have made on my RUclips channel. (There’s about 50 videos up there now)
I can relate to a lot of what you say.
I also worked in an area of great difficulty. I worked in the court system with victims of abuse including children and people who had been abused as children and as adults, were bringing the abuser to court.
I had many questions about why this happened, where was God in all of this?
Also I too was a victim of CSA starting at the age of 8 and it went on into my teens.
I have made a video about what happened when I discovered there was a paedophile in my congregation.
This religion had destroyed the lives and the faith of millions of people.
Thank you for adding your voice to the growing community, that wants to see ‘The Tower ‘ toppled and destroyed.❤
Always great to hear another experience! I’m up in North East Scotland, I went in in my early 20’s and just left a year and a half ago and am now 60, what an absolute relief to be out and a a shock discovering what I’ve been part of. Didn’t take me long to realize I’d been in a Cult. I was absolutely mentally and emotionally exhausted but now with support of my husband who was never interested and other family members my life feels so much happier and glad to be in control of my own life again. Thank you for sharing your experience. ❤
We are in the south of England. My husband was an Elder for years and we were both full time pioneers. It’s a long journey to take so worth it. For me personally it was the huge cover up of child abuse. I just flipped at that point and realizing it’s a cult made me so angry. My husband read crisis of conscience and many others. Then we both joined the dots up as it were and we threw in our towel.
@@GrahamV-p8n quite a shock to discover all this when come out took a number of months to sort myself out! Read the book 30 years ago a Watchtower Slave realise that’s what I’d been! Also read Steve Hassan book Combatting Cults and Mind Control, horrible what these Cults do to people. I Pioneered for years too and was angry about that for quite sometime! Horrendous to realise that we’ve really been taught to go round and deceive people into a Cult.
I enjoyed listening to your story. I have been married 36 years to a man that was raised a JW but wasn't in it when we met, wasn't even baptized. Well about 10 years ago all that changed, he was baptized, and that will be what takes my wonderful marriage, up until 10 years ago. He is brain washed, and he is blind. There is no getting him to read nor question anything and it breaks my heart but nothing I can do.
@@danalittle3660 I’m really sad to hear this. I hope you can get through to him
i was in a similar position........dont critisice the cult or put it down ,They are indoctrinated to reject ANY facts. Let time work its magic. Its hard but be patient
Thank you for sharing your story. I was born into the cult and left at 19 years of age. Nearly 25 years later I am honestly only starting to clearly see just how much damage this cult caused to my mental wellbeing and development. It has taken being in a mentally and emotionally abusive relationship in my 20’s because that was what I thought a relationship was for a woman to then an emotionally unavailable partner in my 30’s to now be able to look back and understand how much that early brainwashing and programming has impacted my adult life. I am only now starting to truly undo and deprogram. I am lucky to have found now a supportive partner who is helping me work through everything. I suspect there were things I have suppressed from my memories of growing up but despite losing my family over my decision it helps my heart heal knowing that love is not and should never be conditional on adherence to a religious belief and if family choose their beliefs over their child this is then their loss and not mine. My chosen family love me for the person I am and for that alone with no conditions.
Never in my entire life have I had a birthday (or Christmas) present or celebration ... never, and I am an old man. Watchtower is totally totally evil and vile.
@@johnjones6112 it’s an evil organisation mate
I hope you’re ok
Well, happy birthday for your next one mate, good job escaping that cult.
Happy birthday from me to you! I don't care what day it is, I'm wishing you a happy birthday. 🎉
Yeah happy birthday for the one to come my friend
Men to.
I truly understand your feelings and I'm glad you left the cult as I did. I'm older now, almost lost my husband because of my nonsensical stance. Always tried to say join!!!!! Glad he didn't. But, respectfully I do believe in a loving God. I don't understand the horrors that's done to the vulnerable. And I cannot say why God doesn't intervene. There's alot I don't understand. But I totally get what your saying. I can see your disgust. I see your anger and I get all of it.
Glad you escaped! I am 4th generation and it was hard to get out until I realized that they are the apostates, and I needed to shun them. Weirdly it made it easier.
I always found it interesting that the organization felt the need to further convince people about the dangers of blood transfusions. It’s not enough to just explain that the Bible says transfusions are a sin and not allowed (which isn’t true anyways), but to further justify it by claiming they are dirty and dangerous is just ridiculous!!! Soo many witnesses believe they are unsafe and that you’ll get some disease if you get one. It’s really sad
Indeed! I had a nurse tell me people could change into the personality of the person the blood came from.🙄
a few ounces of blood is more precious than a human life - crazy I carried a blood card.
@@heathergriggs4463 The organization claimed that years ago as well 😂
I very much appreciated your video. I have been out seven years. Please keep posting from the heart.
You mentioned some books, I’ll look them up but one book that really helped me and others who were bold enough to read it contrary to the rules “Crisis of Conscience “.
Everything else aside, thank you for helping get so many children justice.
You don’t understand that you’re their guardian angel.
There are things I'm ashamed to admit I did because of Watchtowers teachings. The way I treated people and behaved in some situations, especially with birthdays and disfellowshiping and with non believing family. It's a great embarrassment to me even after having been out for over 20 years. It is clear to me now that there are no gods. No need to adhere to absurd dogmas. Every video I see like this is helpful in reminding me that I wasn't the only one. Many of us were caught up in this monstrous cult simply by force of circumstance and power dynamics in our families. I was 6 when my mother was baptized. My father never got involved, but the manipulation is terrible meaning the kids in that situation will most likely fall victim to their indoctrination.
Sorry that the things you went through Lance made you not believe in the Lord . That is a very common feeling that those who have been abused or ordered to blindly believe and obey in a single man or a body of sinful men that are so arrogant and narcissistic that even questioning their beliefs or behaviors will get you in trouble. I believe that the problem is not God , but those who set themselves up as Gods equal . The 10 commandments were given to us to show the world that your a rightous man if you follow those principles , not an endless amount of rules by some cult . Jesus preached very simple things that would show you have love for others .
Glad you made it. Welcome to the world, it's not so bad. Wish I could get my sister back from the organization, but I guess she's happy enough. Best wishes to you-
I appreciate your point of view! As someone who served as an MS for 17 years in several congregations and foreign language. My experience was constantly being on an endless hamster wheel of work, talks, assignments, accounts, territory, literature, PTs as soon as one schedule was done another would come in and my life would be filled with these endless tasks, which I gladly did for my God. I was burnt out and had to step back when my child was born.
After years of working endlessly the Elder body was more interested in getting me back to work then really encouraging me. This made me realise they just wanted to put me to work, I started to push back and they showed me their true colors. I couldn't understand why they were more interested in my reported hours then my immediate sitaution, (mum was also sick at this time and work had fired me and there was a global pandemic.) The timesheet hours weren't good enough for them to make me an elder... and the CO visit was coming up.
When it comes to work the JW men are busy and burnt out... that could be the reason why so few men in the org. Many are simply not interested in working for free for a real estate business high control group.
Which church are preaching the gospel of the kingdom around the world to all nations as Jesus Christ said? Matthew 10:16, 24:14, 28:19-20, Mark 13:10, if not only only only the Jehovah's witnesses.
@@vusimngomezulu2500at the same time as covering up child sexual abuse?
This is typical though right? By keeping us busy with these things we are prevented from thinking and seeing stuff.
Method in the madness.
@@Ethos1231 but your ignore my simple question 😭
@@vusimngomezulu2500 do you realise how this line of argument you’re using makes you look? In the face of overwhelming child abuse cover ups you come with “but we preach the good news”
Well you go champ.
I AGREE WITH YOU A GAZILLION PERCENT MY GOOD MAN. GLAD YOU GOT OUT OF THAT WICKED CULT!
Thanks for opening up about your personal story, I know it's not easy.. It can be of help for people who struggle with doubts and can't find the courage to leave, so go ahead with part 2 😉
Funny how having a kid and allowing our brains to mature wakes us up and exit - good for you fella.
Thank you mate
@@Ethos1231 look forward ti hearing more - crazy how all our stories are so very similar, horrible cult for sure and sad to see loved ones trapped in its web of lies.
Thank you great info will help many.
Please, I just discovered your video and I wish you could make it daily. I felt that it came straight from your heart 💙
Thanks for sharing your Exjw experience. Would love to hear more.
Greetings from London.
My dad was from Stockton On Tees (well Thornaby actually). He went to school at Thornaby and I believe it was next to the railway station but I'm not sure if there is a school there any more. I used to go to Middlesborough, Saltburn and Redcar a lot on the train quite a bit but I haven't been for some time now. Great beach walk from Saltburn to Redcar!
It's fascinating hearing life stories from other former witnesses. I never grew up in the org but came in when I was around 23ish. I've been disassociated for around 15 years now. It can be traumatic for sure, but we all get there in the end! All the best.
Hugs. Thank you for sharing your story. It was great.
Thank you for sharing
Welcome friend
Allways so nice and good to see and meet here another fellow friend who woke up!!! ❤ Thank you for your great video! ❤
You're still figuring it out my brother. You're very strong. We'll all be together as one in eternity. See you then!🎉
Good for you sir. 🇮🇪🙏
This is excellent. It is very powerful and great storytelling. I hope to hear more. Hello from Pennsylvania.
Thanks for sharing. I recently woke up at 46. Born in. Not all was bad for me but I feel robbed of a childhood, adolescence and adulthood that I could have had. I left and haven’t looked back. Hopefully my wife and son see through the facade and do their own research.
Thankyou for sharing 💜
I too was brought up JW
I got out at 16
I relate to you and the conditions we lived under .
Glad to hear I had two young girls JW come to my house the other day...and I had a great conversation about the Lord with them...though Im a russian orthodox...they looked at me like who is this guy and how does he know so much? I didn't insult them or anything...I told them they could come back and talk about the Lord again ....I love the Lord
Thanks for sharing, we all have our reasons. I never got baptized even though I studied for YEARS! Apparently I ask to many questions 😅
im up i yorkshire and left 8 years ago....The stories that i know are unbelievable..........only those that have been in can know the craziness and control .........glad your out bro
Thanks for your video. I am one of eight children. One of my siblings became a witness at age ~50. My feelings are; Jehovah Witness stole my sister from me and the family. They took advantage of her when she was vulnerable.
I was a witness on and off for about 35 or 40 years. My husband and daughter came to the meetings with occasionally, but did not believe the JW doctrine. There were a number of red flags that I noticed along the way, but I did not act on them until I stopped to really think about it and decided this was a cult and not worth my time. I was never disfellowshipped. I just faded. I am so glad I did. My life was extremely stressful as a witness. My beloved husband took care of our daughter and me until after he passed away forty years later when he had his 98th birthday in 2017,
@@lindanelsonwheeler1970 I’m so glad you got away and had some quality time with your family. I hope you and your daughter are doing well.
Very similar experience waking up. Thank you for sharing your story!!
Thank you for telling your story a lot of their things don't make sense
I found this fella on RUclips channel called archaix , his got a playlist called the dark scriptures , it helped me so much with sorting my mind out after leaving 26 years ago , first time I’ve really understood what the bible is .
Awesome thank you
I didnt have a birthday till I was 21, I was raised a JW .Many years later im now an Orthodox Christian.
Brother, just as much as there is an endless amount of GOOD that can happen and that one can experience, the same is true of the opposite. There’s no limit to the downward negative spiral just as there can be no limit to the upward positive spiral for our human experience.
The JW’s give Jesus and Christianity a bad name. Jesus came to save sinners and that is exactly what He did for me. My life is truly a testimony of the goodness of God and transformative power of Christ when Christ really has a person’s heart..
The religion is bad, but the Spirit of Christ is good. I didn’t grow up religious/spiritual, got bad into drugs and prostitution, almost died at 25 years old from brain aneurysm now partially paralyzed on left side due to MY transgressions.. I do feel like Jesus saved me. I have changed sooo much in a short amount of time since I have given my life to Christ. Jesus came to save sinners. He couldn’t stand the religious people as well.
We were taught that Jehovah was being patient out of love, and to finish the "Sovreignty" issue, by letting mankind prove that they can't rule themselves, over time, allowing all mankinds failures to prove this. Allowing evil to proliferate and get worse and worse, just to prove that he was the only one who could solve mankinds problems, and after it was THOROUGHLY proven, FINALLY the end could come. Even if that were true, which it isn't of course, I realized at the age of 50, that, as almighty god, he could prove this, and put the sovreignty issue thorougly to rest, WITHOUT allowing child trafficking and child rape. He could at LEAST allow all other evils to carry on, and that'd be more than enough to prove that mankind can't rule perfectly. He has the power to do this IF HE WANTED TO. Easily. Instead he's proven one thing: that he doesn't do ANYTHING. This "patience" thing is just a lever for the Governing Body to keep everyone hooked forever.
Excellent measured take on life as a j dub ..how it kills all your aspirations and hopes of achieving something really worthwhile...i gave it 25 years of my life and when i left they abandoned me ...please make another video ..i ll look forward to hearing more of your experiences
Man the irony. I just got in the gym after leaving. So your channel is about to be perfect for me
@@mightbephil happy to help lol
An ex JW here - left in 1993. I really enjoyed that. But I hope you don't mind but the name "Dorian Yates" kept popping into my mind as I watched - you're definitely a ringer for him.
@@tommysmith5479 I’ll take that as a compliment, he’s a legend in the weightlifting world.
its amazing we are got to be here in the first place and are thinking it
Thank you for sharing yr journey so far , we as ex witnesses do have to do a lot of healing and pulling apart of beliefs , I started therapy just because I wanted to know who I am 🤯 which sounds crazy , but I just didn’t know what was actually me and what was the learnt behaviour from upbringing, i look back now , I’m 52 and left at 28 and I just think wow , wtf was all that about , it’s only now that part of my journey is completely coming to a close , the guilt towards my family that are still witnesses because I don’t see them very much is fading now. I see it all with different eyes , they were hoodwinked into the religion so I try not to hold on to blame and resentment and try and be grateful that I’ve learnt what I have and went on to investigate so many other religions and cultures and where they originated , so maybe as much as it’s been far from easy I kinda get that maybe cults are everywhere in society and it’s very very easy to full into one . I haven’t really found where I fit in yet (at 52 🙃) but that’s just cool I kinda like it that way 😊
Ah that Fritzl case made a big impact on me too!
Thank you for sharing. Every story helps. While the stories all vary a bit...they are all the same. I especially related with your thoughts on Jehovah not helping victims. That disturbed me greatly! And allowing your child to die w/o blood. Crazy! Waiting for more.
Great video! Thankyou. You may find the following helpful…..“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.”
@@4flyguyeli thank you for your response 😊
@@4flyguyeli thank you for your response 😊
fantastic video. i love your integrity and honest thank you so very much for speaking out. would you consider speaking out on the shunning that takes place on this platform
@@lennmacart yes I certainly will.
I’m interested in part 2, thanks for sharing
Good and honest speech!
Also the confusing part about he ransom sacrifice is that according to the watchtower God did not know Adam and Eve would sin. But is God not All knowing?
@@rizaanjappie their answer for that was “he can choose to see things or not
@@Ethos1231 that implies he did not see something at some point. Therefore he is not All knowing. And God by nature should be All Knowimg
@@rizaanjappie yep we agree
Interesting thank you & good luck to you 👍
22:04 if you’d like to read more about people experiencing similar struggles about “this happened to me, so how could god let this happen? How could he exist?” I recommend reading Night by Elie Weisel
But otherwise I reccommend Educated by Tara Westbrook!!!!
Both are memoirs.
@@bridget8586 thank you, I’ll look this up
great vid. im struggling to get myself out as well.
What are you struggling with?
Thank my friend..from Sydney
I am a ex jw
@@devinmedeiros9466 excellent work mate
Yeah no love ever ever shown from this God… great video 👍
I remember my 5th birthday , it was my last as my mum became a jw by the time i was 6. I gave myself a 50th bd even tho i was still "in" the org. Been out now 4+ years after 50+ years in and no regrets leaving. Jesus is now my hope not the wt org .
You're so good looking! Welcome to freedom brother! I left over 30 yrs ago!
I was 35. My mom threatened suicide if I didn't increase my field service.
Why do humans believe in something when there is insufficient evidence 🤔
I wish you brought up the fact that there is white blood cells in all mammals milk, when you were talking about blood !!
You are more than welcome to say that you are a part of
Tuatha De Acacia of Danaan ❤️🔥🪽🍀💯
Those that have God n Mother Earth within there hearts ❤️🔥🪽
Interesting…. Thanks for sharing
How’s the husafel coming along?
@@josg3444 you’re welcome mate.
And it’s going really well, deadlift will be up at 600lb soon and now it’s really only my breathing I need to figure out lol
@@Ethos1231Which church are preaching the gospel of the kingdom around the world to all nations as Jesus Christ said? Matthew 10:16, 24:14, 28:19-20, Mark 13:10, if not only only only the Jehovah's witnesses.
@@vusimngomezulu2500at the same time as covering up child sexual abuse
@@vusimngomezulu2500 why are you here? Aren't you breaking the GB rules by watching ex-JW content?
Part 2,3,4,5 please
Excellent 👍 ❤
From the age of 16 years i started to study stopped an started again in my late 20s an got baptised soon after when for about 4 years an just stop going soon after cause i cant tek them dirty ways
My wife is just going in and it’s crazy
@@michaelsimpson5434 just joining?
Yeah,she was in an out before me and now she has decided to go back,I had the rules she is going by
@@michaelsimpson5434 man that sucks
@michaelsimpson5434 did something happen to trigger her fear to return? I ask because my husband thought to return after his brother died. I gently asked him to give himself 1 year to process his brother’s death before making a life changing decision that would affect us. He agreed and it’s been a little over a year now and I asked what he was thinking now about JW and he said he sees that JW does not have God’s favor or all the bad stuff in that religion wouldn’t exist. How can the “Holy Spirit” appoint someone who SA a child. Awww so thankful he is not going back into that cult. Sharing my experience in hopes that it helps.
She just seem to think she was loosing friends and making bad decisions in life
Would love Pt2
🙏 🙏
Tony we didn't have have a car when you were aged 4...you were almost 6 when we bought our first car!!!..😮
👍👍👍👍
its crazy but I cant get out even as an adult I want To.
@@jimjay999 how can we help you buddie
we know a lot more now because of the internet
Respect from nz
Xjw from Carlisle UK 👍
Drop the shame ! It’s heavy , it’s not yours to carry my friend.
You were programmed.
We can only see with the eyes we had .
Your vision had been skewed purposely by others.
Love your tattoo.. is that vegvisir?
@@morganrickards3811 it is yes…well spotted 😉
Yeah, I get that. It’s so sad that you didn’t get to celebrate birthdays however you make it sound like there are no other joyous occasions that you could remember. It’s like you put all your joy in a birthday. You can have great awesome experiences on days that are not your birthday. Personally, I don’t celebrate my birthday. I don’t wanna be reminded. I’m getting older and I just find it a bit silly that people would sing happy birthday to me and it’s such a drudge and there’s so much responsibility and people expect you to put on a party and a show and even for the kids people expect you to put on a party and it’s so much work all I can say is that at least Jehovah’s Witnesses have been freed of that obligation. But I’m sorry you feel you missed out on something you didn’t really I think this thing what you feel it in your family is a symptom of something else, maybe you just didn’t feel heard or seen. I bet it’s got nothing to do with not celebrating birthdays.
@@myrmillionade3512 apart from the fact that your analysis of how I feel is, in its entirety, absolutely nonsense, I still appreciate comment.
@@Ethos1231 wow why so defensive? I was not analyzing your feelings. I think it would take a bunch of specialists for that, however I stated that your story was all about how you missed out in life and I pointed out to you that there are others occasions in life other than birthdays that you can find joy in that are much better than birthdays.
I have a joke for you.
How do you know which plane on the runway is the one from the UK?
It’s the one that continues to whine even after the engines have been turned off 😂🤪😜
Dude you are so cool
Good job brother 👍 I have a message for all JW get a real bible study and the truth will set you free
did God ever answer your prayers
@@Sportliveonline nope.
Because he doesn’t exist
Stay Alive 75
its all ambiguous cannot verify or validate who and what is God ? How did God there in the first place every body looks at things from thier point of view in relation to what they know at the time as you learn more your opinion can change
You weren't allowed? Who was going to stop you?
@@dectractos that’s the best question.
In fact, looking back, no one would’ve.
But there were consequences that, back then, I was scared of. As time went by I became aware that those consequences were just inconsequential.
I appreciate that question mate, cheers.
@@Ethos1231 there is always consequences for our actions. I see allot of people complaining about the witness but it always ends up being their own fault….cheers..
The bible is filled with JEHOVAH YAWEHS DISCIPLINE enjoy YOUR JOURNEY me I will stay at kingdom hall. all the way to Armageddon 40 yrs so far it been fantastic wonderful I love going door to door I find a whole lot of peeps who have no religion its great we are 5000 kingdom halls behind we are in the3 fastest growing religion!!!❤
Jesus was against Organized Religion! Better reread The World Famous Story of The Samaritan Woman and Jesus Christ!
@@lanialania8387 no he wasn't he loved the temple and and the Hebrew law your a lost soul my God have mercy on you,YAWEH IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD. FIND HIM,,FIND HIM,,no need to go to kingdom hall (in your case)
Following 8 men in new York. Jesus said he is a true Christian’s role model
@@ukanita865 last of my words You do you ill do me ,,,after Armageddon we will chat in gods kingdom see you then,,,
Unfortunately you will be saying that same tired old propaganda all the way to your deathbed , with some how giving all your Earthly processions to WT , to help with the CSA lawsuits they're having lost in court by not turning in the criminals that hurt the innocent.
1914 millions living now will never die
@@janicewilson3373 imagine
Lord have mercy on this wicked man.
Since you insist on being an enemy of Jehovah God. Read below what happens to people like you!
Revelation 14:20
20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress as high up as the bridles of the horses, for a distance of a thousand six hundred furlongs.
Revelation 19:21
21 But the rest were killed off with the long sword of the one seated on the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth. And all the birds were filled from the fleshy parts of them.
I'll pray for you.
Have a nice day!
@@g45crrt what about the verses that promote slavery? Or genocide? Or child sacrifice?
No? Convenient that you’d ignore those.
Just like you ignore all the child abuse.
@@Ethos1231 I have 26 years of experience in the organization and never saw any child abuse
child abuse in all different forms is everywhere, it has nothing to do with being a Jehovah's Witness.
Jehovah will sort them out. God is no joke, yet the people act like he is.
When judgment day comes. The people will say, were sorry, we didn't know. And Jehovah will be with Jesus and say; I sent my people to your house almost every weekend with free magazines and offering free personal study about the Kingdom of God and what did you do? I feel sorry for them because as we know from the Bible most of these wicked people will be destroyed.
The ones who rejected God and honored the son. They're not going to receive everlasting life, they will go into the wine press, chopped up and left in the fields for the birds to eat.
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Life is good. The key to happiness is; stay away from idiots.
Have a nice day!
@@g45crrt *"I have 26 years of experience in the organization and never saw any child abuse"* What a truly idiotic statement Mike. Just because you haven't perosonally witnessed child abuse, does not mean it is not prolific in your cult. And before you respond with the usual JW bullshit, yes we're all aware that child abuse occurs in any organisation where adults and children congregate.
*The difference with the JW cult and the reason you receive such universal condemnation is your 'two-witness rule' policy which prevents such incidents being reported to the correct authorities.
1. Have you forgotten Watchtower's infamous 'blue envelope' policy whereby known abusers from each JW congregation were documented and collated in a database that they have repeatedy refused to divulge (eventualy racking up a $2,000,000 fine)?
2. Have you forgotten Candace Conti who sued your cult costing them $2.8 million, for allowing Jonathan Kendrick to molest her repeatedly when she was 9 and 10 years old?
2. Have you forgotten the findings from the Australian Royal Commission who slammed your cult's policy on this subject and concluded:
*"A complainant of child sexual abuse whose allegation has not been corroborated by confession by their abuser or a second ‘credible’ eyewitness is necessarily disempowered and subjected to ongoing traumatisation. To place a victim of child sexual abuse in such a position is today, and was 30 years ago, unacceptable and wrong."*
Are these just 'memory lapses' Mike or could it they're yet more embarrassing truths you'd rather we forget? We're talking about criminal acts here, not just some minor trangsression of policy. Remember, that facts do not care about your feelings and your denial of these, like all JWs, makes you complicit in the abuse. Why do you facilitate and sanction such child abuse Mike?
I’m just really curious that you claimed that you left Jo’s witnesses when you were adult and you were in it for a long time. You don’t look like a Jehovah’s Witness I mean, Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t have beards or tattoos or pierced ears so did you just go wild after you left Jehovah’s Witnesses and decide that you had a lot of stuff to catch up on and did you go All in one day and get your ears pierced and get your tattoos to catch up or what that all about? I mean, you don’t even look like an ex Jehovah’s Witness.
@@myrmillionade3512 thanks for the questions.
Yes, once I left, which was 15 years ago, I got my piercings, tattoos and generally other things that evidence a person living their own life.