What no ministerial servants or elders to correct the situation Must have had a young brother as an elder who did not have any miles on them. Happens a lot.
Girl, the amount of pioneers sisters in our hall that turned 18 and immediately married their 37 yr old bf they had been dating for a year is disgusting.
I remember being fourteen and regularly texting or hanging around with guys in their twenties, at the time if was totally normal but I look back and just can't get my head around how anyone could have thought that was acceptable. My boyfriend has a twelve year old daughter and if she was ever texting a guy in his twenties I would report him to the police. My family did nothing as it was just normal. The number of girls who got engaged to guys ten years their senior the second they turned eighteen is just bizarre and horrifying.
Does have a creep element to it. Getting excited about "pioneering' does not make for exciting copy. All so they can interrupt and door knock, all the while waiting for the world to self-destruct 🌎
Imagine risking the lives of your children to smuggle literature. And it isn’t even the Bible, it’s literally just some propaganda papers 🤦🏼♀️ I just found your channel (the video of Tony begging members to start going back to in person meetings was a top recommendation…good job!), and I’m already hooked! So glad you’re doing this. The thing that I like most is how happy and respectful you come across. Too many ex JW’s are raging mad. They act exactly how JW’s want “apostates” to behave, which just serves to solidify their stance. My dad gets FURIOUS when he tries to offend me with his beliefs, but fails. He literally tries to persecute me when he believes that he’s supposed to be a victim 🤔
After I hadn’t gone to meetings for quite a while I felt I’d try one more time so I went to meeting. I’d moved by then and didn’t know anyone so I had no tie to the congregation and my mind had been clear from the constant indoctrination so it was like a fresh look at the meeting. A couple was there who had served in Africa, a middle aged white couple, dressed completely in brand new African garb and they had an interview kind of like this. It was the most scripted cringe thing. I actually started kind of crying because I was so weirded out and it was like yeah I’ve been in a cult my whole life.
It seems that the human race itself is endowed with good and evil and it is fought with civilization itself. Mankind since a Cain and Able,... And the rest of the stories of the ancient script scriptures mentions many accounts of what happens when you are faithful and when you are not. But I'm not going to believe that I must be faithful to men over God in any political situation. Be it a governing body of anyone.
@@jamin2859 Each individual must always remember that God is the spirit and must be worship with spirit. No matter where on earth you may be. It is nice to congregate with brothers and sisters that share that same spirit that drew them there in the first place.
It's so sad knowing that there are people endangering their lives and their families where there are bans because they genuinely believe they are going God's work when really it's all just a scam by WT that can care less about the dangers these people face. Hope all is well with you Wally and thank you for all that you do.👏👏👏👏👏✌
Hey kind Wally and Zeezy..Are you ok?? That matters more than anything else.. Sisterly love and simply kind hugs to you both-from Sydney...You Take Care...Many appreciate your work, the way you do it..& your kindness.Blessings be upon you... I thank you -For all you do.. 🙂
I was authentic too. And they don't know really how to handle that. Think many JWs hate when your not playing the game and keeping in line 😁 problem with not Been authentic is it turns you to robot sooner or later and you become a half dead public speaker. I like to sing so I kept myself authentic so I could express emotions easy
As a mexican american i always talked in chicano slang and grew up in a barrio. A rough tough neighborhood full of gamg activity and violence in the early 2000s especially. My brothers always acted rough and straightforward and kind of talked in an insulting way but thats just how people from my neighborhood grew up. So it was funny how my bros talked to the elders and so on lol lots of funny reactions
The plasticized nature of these interviews is to me the best part. From the tiny audience to the 1950s suits to the fake fireplace....it all just adds to the Borg vibe of the organization.
Know it for what it is worth: They are mocking all who expose themselves to these kinds of presentations. They have no love for the “sheep” they fleece and slaughter.
I was on several circuit assembly interview parts over the years. First off, the society has a story they want to be presented and then they ask the elders all over to find someone who has an experience that matches the story they already made up. Then you have to go over your interview part over and over and the elders make you change parts to say what they want to hear. By the time you get on stage you are just repeating a story that was fed to you. That’s why it all sounds so fake and scripted. It is!
Wally I just love what you’re doing, please know that you ARE making a difference and you’re providing us with so much needed humor in our ex-JW lives!! ❤❤
Even as a kid, I knew I didn't believe their religion and told my parents as young as grade school. I was not given free will, I was made to attend every meeting, convention, and assembly, and forced to participate in family bible studies and door to door...free will gently tugging my heart 🙄🤮
My Book of Bible Stories without the pictures? Well at least his childhood was missing one key scaring factor of all Witness Kids lives back in the day..
Hi Wally! My favorite experience was the one where they kept the watchtowers in jars of lard in Russia or Serbia i think, it's been a few years. I always giggle thinking of people trying to read the magazines as they slowly slide down cartoonishly from their hands.
Also, as a parent, it baffles me how these people were breaking the law and risking their children by smuggling literature. What would happen to all those 6 kids if they had been caught? Heartless!!
Wally, Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to informing people about this dangerous cult. Do more characters. We need some laughs and you are excellent at it.
Praying to work only half the time and get the same pay wouldn't work cause Jahova knows we aren't sincere,or something stupid like that. There's always an excuse if it doesn't happen or they say it will eventually happen sometime down the road.
Merry Christmas from Slovakia. Tomas and Eva were in my former congregation. Actually they were quite a nice couple in comparision with all the arrogant bethel members in the congregation.
Thanks Wally, great video. We miss Zeezy 23:41 The theme should be “Nothing to see here, keep moving along. “ Well, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. 😴 22:25 hours 23Dec2022.
Wally, I wish a belated Merry Christmas and a very happy new year. You brought me great joy in watching your videos. I always look forward to your new videos.
Desensitization to the creepy televangelism vibe must’ve needed to happen to older, multi-generational JWs gradually, because I left a little while before JW broadcasting was a thing- I was basically done in 2012; and if you had told me that they’d end up being a full on slave-powered production/real estate company spitting out cheesy nonsense online, I wouldn’t have believed you. I certainly wouldn’t have believed that my JW family and peers would ever take something like this seriously as “spiritual food.”
I was also basically done with the Society around that same time, although it took another couple of years to fully stop. I know what you mean. The first real instance of my noticing something was off was in the late ‘90’s when I was attending a district assembly and the speakers on the platform all sounded as though they were speaking in a monotone whereas previously I remember hearing orators on the assembly platform. Then came the 2009 Song Book and I noticed that the Kingdom Songs had all become bland-sounding, with absolutely no vestige of four-part harmony. (As someone who was actually permitted by his parents, themselves witnesses, to be in the school orchestra and who enjoyed going through the Society’s earlier Song Books in the Theocratic School library, I just couldn’t get into the whole modern idiom of the music. It simply didn’t sound appropriate for meetings and assemblies. The songs sounded rather like something one would hear on a Top-40 radio station, or, at least, cheap imitations thereof.) After that, during my pulling away stage, I attended the Society’s 2013 annual meeting where the revised edition of the “New World Translation” was issued. This edition did the impossible, to wit, make the earlier editions seem somewhat accurate by comparison. At the same time, the Society announced that it was opening an exhibit on the Bible and the Tetragrammaton at Brooklyn headquarters. As I sat in the Assembly Hall auditorium at London, Ohio, that morning, I couldn’t shake the thought that this annual meeting was a bust. (Bear in mind that I had also attended the centennial annual meeting in October 1984. That, at least, seemed to be a resounding success, although that program was essentially a retrospective of the history of the Society.) By this time, I no longer recognized the Society as the same organization with which I had been involved since the late ‘70’s- it had completely changed its identity. Of course, the roots of that metamorphosis go back to the late ‘70’s with the goings on at headquarters, culminating in the forced resignation of Ray Franz from the Governing Body. In the wake of that and his subsequent set-up of a disfellowshipping, two subtitles in the January 15, 1983, “Watchtower” would stay with me for the remainder of my time in the organization, to wit, “Avoid Independent Thinking” and “Fight Against Independent Thinking”. The point of each was to “avoid” it in oneself and to “fight against” it in others. There was a decades-long struggle between that admonition from the Society and the encouragement- and, indeed, policy- of my witness parents to my siblings and me to think and reason for ourselves. By 2012 and 2013, I had realized that the Society had succeeded in stifling independent thinking amongst Jehovah’s witnesses. Yet, there I was questioning things in my personal study. I went as deep as I could in preparing “Watchtower” lessons so that I could both figure out what the Society was saying and see whether or not I could in good conscience agree with what the Society was saying. Of course, I could not in good conscience agree. The last straw was the Sunday sessions of the 2016 regional assembly. While the other delegates were taking what the speakers on the platform were saying and responding to it like trained seals, I felt a sense of emptiness coming from the platform as well as a sense that, as I left the arena that evening, I was saying goodbye to the friends I knew there for the last time. Indeed, by the very next afternoon, I had made a conscious decision to not attend another meeting or assembly again. And, that was it. No letter. No hearing before the committee. No discussion with the congregation servant or the field overseer or the group servant or anyone else. To use a Biblical expression, ‘no consultation with flesh and blood’.-Galatians 1:16. During the intervening couple of years, in the course of my pulling away, of course, the Society had started “Jw Broadcasting”. It was, by far the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen during my lifetime in the organization. At the same time, however, in light of the above, it was not surprising in the least. In fact, to me, it seemed a natural arc for the Society to parade its representatives in front of a camera like gaudy, tasteless televangelists, the Society’s own statements against such individuals notwithstanding. The organization is nothing if not hypocritical! “The Inside Story” segment of interviews during the Gilead graduations is but another example of hypocrisy on the part of the Society, given its statements regarding television talk shows. Yet, this is the format chosen for interviews of graduating missionaries. And, of course, their classmates comprise the studio audience and respond like trained seals! The Society, particularly in recent years, presents nothing more than mindless drivel. What most current witnesses don’t realize is this is in keeping with its own prohibition on independent thinking. The result is that eight men living at a lakeside resort in the Catskills do the thinking of Jehovah’s witnesses for them. And while we, for our part, can and should laugh at it, yet, we must do so recognizing that therein lies the danger for those still in!
All this inguinuity and creativity and it was wasted on literal child endangerment. If Watchtower encouraged their members to put half their effort into cultivating their talents or education, then maybe they wouldn't need to beg for money on these broadcasts 🙄
find it troublimg that they all laugh dragging kids while "smuggling"" their words , not mine..break laws they claim to follow laws.. sad, fake, just shows they too have false beliefs within their crew
Jehovahs witnesses humor formed me into the cringiest person alive. It's the hardest to heal from that and develop a real, dark, rich sense of humor 😩😆
I hadn't seen that before I thought it was a parody at first. I didn't know they had their own Maury Povitch show. Are they gonna reveal the results of the paternity test?
Christian meetings can take place in small gatherings while praising God and does not require printed literature. Jesus simply said, “ It is written”, then verbally quote a Bible passage. The main purpose for Christian meetings in the Apostles’ day were to build up one another’s faith, not for for indoctrination. 🙏🏻
It's close to zero here, and quite windy! We're supposed to get a foot or more by later today and then about 5 more inches a day later. I hope nobody loses power during this storm.
@Chrissy Parkins I live in lower Michigan. Our wind gusts are about 45 mph right now and the snowing is taking a break at the moment. Later today the gusts will be going about 50 mph. And it's down to 2 degrees now and feels like negative 16 degrees. I'm not even going to take the trash out today! Brrrr.... And our news people are telling people not to be outside. Everything is canceled too.
When I was a kid all I knew about jw"s is that they hated crosses & holy water and they always talked about blood and believed they sleep in coffins until they wake so I just assumed they were vampires.
Perhaps it really is a species that is threatened with extinction, so you need the most exemplary to create a new generation from it. So here too, they don't do much better than the commercial commercials on TV where I think they also warn that that is a distorted picture. The real people, look very different
The way it almost felt like he was laughing at her for not fulfilling her goal of pioneering was so irritating. Like...as much as they constantly preach that it doesn't matter when you start or what your "rank" is, they are so obsessed with pressuring people or putting them down for not starting earlier.
Because of the indoctrination- all those thought-stopping techniques make them seem simultaneously robotic and irrational. It’s actually kinda fascinating if you think about it objectively.
Haha, I see it!! My grandma had a vhs tape with an illegal copy of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, an episode of Casper, and a live-action Sleeping Beauty movie. It was my favorite thing to watch when I couldn’t go outside to play.
@@jrojala My grandparents bought it for us, so that is why we had it. I had to sneak to watch it when I was home sick from school, since my parents wouldn't let me watch it otherwise.
Exactly!! Real Christians have their Bible above all else. We don't need anyone telling us what God has to say. And the pastors preach from what is in the Bible. We have no literature giving us someone else's ideas and beliefs. God bless my friend! 🎁✝️❄️☃️🎄
Regarding the older elder/young pioneer girl Thing you’re talking about around 14:26 the tldr: I experienced this personally, in addition to witnessing it happening with my peers. From what I’ve experienced, they didn’t bother waiting for us to turn 18. When I was 16, I started pioneering. At the time, I lived with my best friend T (age 17) in a basement walkout. She’d been pioneering for more than a year prior. We were *very* close, we even shared a twin bed all cuddled up together at night. I think we were in love, but the indoctrination stunted our relationship to a *very intimate* friend zone. I don’t like to waste time with “if only” but sometimes… it slips out and I wonder what could’ve been if only the world was sane. Anyhoo, T and I received *a lot* of inappropriate attention from older men in our large 130+ publisher congregation. We didn’t really receive any attention from any age-appropriate/young men, in fact, they all seemed to be hiding behind the literature counter, cheeks all various shades of red. Particularly noteworthy, though was the attention and gifts we received from one set of (fleshy) brothers who were pioneers/elders in our hall. They were 29 and 32, and I think they grew up in Wisconsin before they came to haunt us in Minnesota. I imagine they had some fantasy about us getting married and moving in with them in their ticky-tacky duplex on the lake. Maybe they imagined they’d eventually move us back to their hometown… I don’t know if they flipped a coin, or picked a favorite by hair color or body type, but the older one seemed to be after me and the younger one was after my T. Eventually the younger brother bought T a brand new Nokia 3310, (she figured it was a way to make her feel obliged to talk to him). That same day, the older brother offered me my fantasy sound system for my beloved-though-stereo-less 1981 Chevy Citation (ooh I loved that car). That afternoon, T and I talked about how annoying it was that we had to act like grownups when we shouldn’t have needed to deal with this kind of behavior from our “loving shepherds.” We were just barely becoming women and we were already exhausted, ha. The next meeting, we gave the gifts back, making it clear that we saw them as father-figures, not as potential marriage mates, and that anything more than a shepherd/sheep relationship was out of the question as we did so. T had the idea to tell them we planned on following the example mentioned by the apostle Paul regarding singleness so we could better serve. The little genius; they were out pious-ed.
I don´t know about that country, but Belgium and The Netherlands have tax scales. Highest percentage of tax is applied on the top level of the salary (e.g. all above €60k you pay 42% of tax (not actual numbers)). If she was up for a raise already and taking this tax system in mind, she could probably say she made almost the same as before. Don´t forget the use of the word ´almost´, what is that to her? 90%, 80%, ...? Without proper details, her statement can be very misleading
The way he dabs at the air with his finger everytime he speaks. Like he's trying to both control the flow of his own words and the reaction of the interviewees to his words.
What about all of the JWs that are forced to work multiple jobs or quit altogether to do their little witnessing routine? It's so stupid when any random decent thing occurs that it has to be MIRACULOUS. And what did they end up doing? Quitting their jobs anyway.
I came across this you tube video which scripturally refutes JW. "JW and the Truth 02 Who raised Jesus from the dead" You might want to place this in your research library for when you speak to a JW. Delightful Christmas and Jolly New Year.
“ those cute little faces, don’t look like smugglers” Hey, thanks mom and dad.. for putting us at risk..for watchtower. I’m actually shocked that they allowed this to be a part on this great show(🤣) it’s that line they like to use, ..pay back Caesar’s things to Caesar and gods things to god. .. it goes to show , that watchtower does not abide by the laws of the land. And that watchtower authority supersedes government laws. Because watchtower and god are one.
Been interviewed on a Regional Convention once and a circuit assembly once. You practice before part so Elders know what you’ll say… Ya you practiced more than once😒
I have never been part of JW but it is pretty silly and outdated, isn't it? I am proud of my age. Took me 50 years to get here and lots of folks didn't make it.
I think that's why they want to get that new studio built. The jw's won't have to watch "worldly" TV anymore. Tripling down on even more indoctrination and control of their people. It's disgusting.
I'm not a phycologist, but there were so many tells in that 15 second clip coming from Tony's eyes that I've just figured out how to win every Poker game in Vegas!!!
What about the hug at the end? No need for that. There are no good reasons for a man to put his hands on a woman, out of respect for all women, unless she is friend or family or invited him to do so. These creeper hugs have got to stop.
Your content is amazing and I don't want to miss an episode, except that sometimes you have so many unnecessary graphics and other distractions from the actual content e.g. cats moving around, etc. Could be your style though, no big deal.
WOLF'S HEAD SCROLL and KEY SKULL and BONES all 3, the TRINITY OF EVIL THROUGHOUT THE EONS DUST 2 DUST GHENNA, SHEOL, HELL , LAKE OF FIRE, FIRE AND BRIMSTONE HAPPY TRAILS WALLOLY
It's every old preast, minister and elder 's dream to to have a life twise less his age and this elder/helper ( I don't know what exactly he is ) didn't had it 😮💨😟😫. So he's still obsessed with women's ages 🤣.
What do you expect of people, whose big hope is, when they die, to be physically resurrected, placed in a physical World (albeit, a "paradise"), where there's nothing to do, except sing praises to God (oops, "Jehovah"), forever and ever?
Can confirm, I was pioneering when I turned 18 and it felt like a meat market. I would literally run and hide from 30 to 40 year old brothers.
Lol, I was hiding from 70 year olds!! 😉 and their wives 🤣
What no ministerial servants or elders to correct the situation
Must have had a young brother as an elder who did not have any miles on them. Happens a lot.
@Jdub NoMo JW standard issue Pedo.........
Girl, the amount of pioneers sisters in our hall that turned 18 and immediately married their 37 yr old bf they had been dating for a year is disgusting.
I remember being fourteen and regularly texting or hanging around with guys in their twenties, at the time if was totally normal but I look back and just can't get my head around how anyone could have thought that was acceptable. My boyfriend has a twelve year old daughter and if she was ever texting a guy in his twenties I would report him to the police. My family did nothing as it was just normal. The number of girls who got engaged to guys ten years their senior the second they turned eighteen is just bizarre and horrifying.
Does have a creep element to it. Getting excited about "pioneering' does not make for exciting copy. All so they can interrupt and door knock, all the while waiting for the world to self-destruct 🌎
Imagine risking the lives of your children to smuggle literature. And it isn’t even the Bible, it’s literally just some propaganda papers 🤦🏼♀️ I just found your channel (the video of Tony begging members to start going back to in person meetings was a top recommendation…good job!), and I’m already hooked! So glad you’re doing this. The thing that I like most is how happy and respectful you come across. Too many ex JW’s are raging mad. They act exactly how JW’s want “apostates” to behave, which just serves to solidify their stance. My dad gets FURIOUS when he tries to offend me with his beliefs, but fails. He literally tries to persecute me when he believes that he’s supposed to be a victim 🤔
I look forward to your videos bro! Thanks
After I hadn’t gone to meetings for quite a while I felt I’d try one more time so I went to meeting. I’d moved by then and didn’t know anyone so I had no tie to the congregation and my mind had been clear from the constant indoctrination so it was like a fresh look at the meeting. A couple was there who had served in Africa, a middle aged white couple, dressed completely in brand new African garb and they had an interview kind of like this. It was the most scripted cringe thing. I actually started kind of crying because I was so weirded out and it was like yeah I’ve been in a cult my whole life.
It seems that the human race itself is endowed with good and evil and it is fought with civilization itself. Mankind since a Cain and Able,... And the rest of the stories of the ancient script scriptures mentions many accounts of what happens when you are faithful and when you are not. But I'm not going to believe that I must be faithful to men over God in any political situation. Be it a governing body of anyone.
I would never go back, it doesn’t make any sense what they say anymore.
@@jamin2859
Each individual must always remember that God is the spirit and must be worship with spirit. No matter where on earth you may be. It is nice to congregate with brothers and sisters that share that same spirit that drew them there in the first place.
No Tie hmmm.
One _wild yeah and God removes his spirit from nations, tribes, organisation and congregation also
It's so sad knowing that there are people endangering their lives and their families where there are bans because they genuinely believe they are going God's work when really it's all just a scam by WT that can care less about the dangers these people face. Hope all is well with you Wally and thank you for all that you do.👏👏👏👏👏✌
Hey kind Wally and Zeezy..Are you ok?? That matters more than anything else..
Sisterly love and simply kind hugs to you both-from Sydney...You Take Care...Many appreciate your work, the way you do it..& your kindness.Blessings be upon you...
I thank you -For all you do.. 🙂
I have always been authentically myself. The brothers were so afraid of me!
I think that’s why they liked me, Lol🕊
I was authentic too. And they don't know really how to handle that. Think many JWs hate when your not playing the game and keeping in line 😁 problem with not Been authentic is it turns you to robot sooner or later and you become a half dead public speaker. I like to sing so I kept myself authentic so I could express emotions easy
As a mexican american i always talked in chicano slang and grew up in a barrio. A rough tough neighborhood full of gamg activity and violence in the early 2000s especially. My brothers always acted rough and straightforward and kind of talked in an insulting way but thats just how people from my neighborhood grew up. So it was funny how my bros talked to the elders and so on lol lots of funny reactions
I am so disturbed that in, that very large theater, they are all sitting right next to each other like a bunch of smoked kippers in a tin.
The plasticized nature of these interviews is to me the best part. From the tiny audience to the 1950s suits to the fake fireplace....it all just adds to the Borg vibe of the organization.
And the plasticized talking
Nothing like DIRECT TO THE POINT "COMMUNICATION
INTER-ACTIVE, LIVE, FROM THE ❤️.
Know it for what it is worth: They are mocking all who expose themselves to these kinds of presentations. They have no love for the “sheep” they fleece and slaughter.
I was on several circuit assembly interview parts over the years. First off, the society has a story they want to be presented and then they ask the elders all over to find someone who has an experience that matches the story they already made up. Then you have to go over your interview part over and over and the elders make you change parts to say what they want to hear. By the time you get on stage you are just repeating a story that was fed to you. That’s why it all sounds so fake and scripted. It is!
Indoctrination crap.
I never got baptised but studied for years. And what you said is what it came across to me as also.
Wally I just love what you’re doing, please know that you ARE making a difference and you’re providing us with so much needed humor in our ex-JW lives!! ❤❤
It was a blessing from Jehovah! There was not one time duing the sexties or seventies that I recall the concept of anyone receiving blessings!
Wishing you and your pets all the best from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Nice Oslo mug!
Norway is the Apostate Country of the World!🥳🥳🥳
Bravo Norway! May they be the first of many!
No it isnt lol
New chapter of oppression
Even as a kid, I knew I didn't believe their religion and told my parents as young as grade school. I was not given free will, I was made to attend every meeting, convention, and assembly, and forced to participate in family bible studies and door to door...free will gently tugging my heart 🙄🤮
Wally, you do a great job. This is funny and you point everything out🙂.
My Book of Bible Stories without the pictures? Well at least his childhood was missing one key scaring factor of all Witness Kids lives back in the day..
Even the fireplace is fake
Hi Wally! My favorite experience was the one where they kept the watchtowers in jars of lard in Russia or Serbia i think, it's been a few years. I always giggle thinking of people trying to read the magazines as they slowly slide down cartoonishly from their hands.
Also using the freezer to store books and magazines.
@@freespirit3891 apropos frozen literature designed to create ‘brain freeze’
Your humor is awesome. Your personality is bright 🌞 I always get a laugh and the JW's label you a devil🤣🤣🤣🤣
😮 I almost spit my coffee out, I had Papinot as my CO not too long ago!!
Also, as a parent, it baffles me how these people were breaking the law and risking their children by smuggling literature. What would happen to all those 6 kids if they had been caught? Heartless!!
@@iberiancanadian4681 I completely agree! And the wt doesn't care if they're caught or not! The wt makes me so MAD! What a joke on the human race. 😪
Wally,
Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to informing people about this dangerous cult. Do more characters. We need some laughs and you are excellent at it.
8:00 into it, "looking out for your neighbor "...goes beyond the realm of MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS.
Ah, God may "respect our free will," but the "Watchtower" organization sure as Hell doesn't!
Praying to work only half the time and get the same pay wouldn't work cause Jahova knows we aren't sincere,or something stupid like that. There's always an excuse if it doesn't happen or they say it will eventually happen sometime down the road.
I don't know but they sick me.
Omg at least the audience count is about right
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
The creepy vibes from that interviewer was all I could notice the whole way through it.
Great thanks very much 👍😍🤩❤💖💗😻😺
I think your completely right about the wink and nod regarding the age difference
Merry Christmas from Slovakia. Tomas and Eva were in my former congregation. Actually they were quite a nice couple in comparision with all the arrogant bethel members in the congregation.
The symbol that apoears at the center of the stage resembles the scale and compass of the masonry.
Thanks Wally, great video. We miss Zeezy 23:41 The theme should be “Nothing to see here, keep moving along. “ Well, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. 😴 22:25 hours 23Dec2022.
Because children aren't people they're accessories like handbags and property like a possession
Wow can’t believe it I was watching these videos seriously😅Ah, those smiles!
Wally, I wish a belated Merry Christmas and a very happy new year. You brought me great joy in watching your videos. I always look forward to your new videos.
The interviewers pants look awfully tight
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I'll phone Tony.
Desensitization to the creepy televangelism vibe must’ve needed to happen to older, multi-generational JWs gradually, because I left a little while before JW broadcasting was a thing- I was basically done in 2012; and if you had told me that they’d end up being a full on slave-powered production/real estate company spitting out cheesy nonsense online, I wouldn’t have believed you.
I certainly wouldn’t have believed that my JW family and peers would ever take something like this seriously as “spiritual food.”
I was also basically done with the Society around that same time, although it took another couple of years to fully stop. I know what you mean. The first real instance of my noticing something was off was in the late ‘90’s when I was attending a district assembly and the speakers on the platform all sounded as though they were speaking in a monotone whereas previously I remember hearing orators on the assembly platform. Then came the 2009 Song Book and I noticed that the Kingdom Songs had all become bland-sounding, with absolutely no vestige of four-part harmony. (As someone who was actually permitted by his parents, themselves witnesses, to be in the school orchestra and who enjoyed going through the Society’s earlier Song Books in the Theocratic School library, I just couldn’t get into the whole modern idiom of the music. It simply didn’t sound appropriate for meetings and assemblies. The songs sounded rather like something one would hear on a Top-40 radio station, or, at least, cheap imitations thereof.) After that, during my pulling away stage, I attended the Society’s 2013 annual meeting where the revised edition of the “New World Translation” was issued. This edition did the impossible, to wit, make the earlier editions seem somewhat accurate by comparison. At the same time, the Society announced that it was opening an exhibit on the Bible and the Tetragrammaton at Brooklyn headquarters. As I sat in the Assembly Hall auditorium at London, Ohio, that morning, I couldn’t shake the thought that this annual meeting was a bust. (Bear in mind that I had also attended the centennial annual meeting in October 1984. That, at least, seemed to be a resounding success, although that program was essentially a retrospective of the history of the Society.) By this time, I no longer recognized the Society as the same organization with which I had been involved since the late ‘70’s- it had completely changed its identity.
Of course, the roots of that metamorphosis go back to the late ‘70’s with the goings on at headquarters, culminating in the forced resignation of Ray Franz from the Governing Body. In the wake of that and his subsequent set-up of a disfellowshipping, two subtitles in the January 15, 1983, “Watchtower” would stay with me for the remainder of my time in the organization, to wit, “Avoid Independent Thinking” and “Fight Against Independent Thinking”. The point of each was to “avoid” it in oneself and to “fight against” it in others. There was a decades-long struggle between that admonition from the Society and the encouragement- and, indeed, policy- of my witness parents to my siblings and me to think and reason for ourselves.
By 2012 and 2013, I had realized that the Society had succeeded in stifling independent thinking amongst Jehovah’s witnesses. Yet, there I was questioning things in my personal study. I went as deep as I could in preparing “Watchtower” lessons so that I could both figure out what the Society was saying and see whether or not I could in good conscience agree with what the Society was saying. Of course, I could not in good conscience agree. The last straw was the Sunday sessions of the 2016 regional assembly. While the other delegates were taking what the speakers on the platform were saying and responding to it like trained seals, I felt a sense of emptiness coming from the platform as well as a sense that, as I left the arena that evening, I was saying goodbye to the friends I knew there for the last time. Indeed, by the very next afternoon, I had made a conscious decision to not attend another meeting or assembly again. And, that was it. No letter. No hearing before the committee. No discussion with the congregation servant or the field overseer or the group servant or anyone else. To use a Biblical expression, ‘no consultation with flesh and blood’.-Galatians 1:16.
During the intervening couple of years, in the course of my pulling away, of course, the Society had started “Jw Broadcasting”. It was, by far the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen during my lifetime in the organization. At the same time, however, in light of the above, it was not surprising in the least. In fact, to me, it seemed a natural arc for the Society to parade its representatives in front of a camera like gaudy, tasteless televangelists, the Society’s own statements against such individuals notwithstanding. The organization is nothing if not hypocritical!
“The Inside Story” segment of interviews during the Gilead graduations is but another example of hypocrisy on the part of the Society, given its statements regarding television talk shows. Yet, this is the format chosen for interviews of graduating missionaries. And, of course, their classmates comprise the studio audience and respond like trained seals!
The Society, particularly in recent years, presents nothing more than mindless drivel. What most current witnesses don’t realize is this is in keeping with its own prohibition on independent thinking. The result is that eight men living at a lakeside resort in the Catskills do the thinking of Jehovah’s witnesses for them. And while we, for our part, can and should laugh at it, yet, we must do so recognizing that therein lies the danger for those still in!
All this inguinuity and creativity and it was wasted on literal child endangerment. If Watchtower encouraged their members to put half their effort into cultivating their talents or education, then maybe they wouldn't need to beg for money on these broadcasts 🙄
"You where not regular pioneering when you got married? What where you doing?."...."Fu@#!ng"... Roll credits.
find it troublimg that they all laugh dragging kids while "smuggling"" their words , not mine..break laws they claim to follow laws.. sad, fake, just shows they too have false beliefs within their crew
Jehovahs witnesses humor formed me into the cringiest person alive. It's the hardest to heal from that and develop a real, dark, rich sense of humor 😩😆
I hadn't seen that before I thought it was a parody at first. I didn't know they had their own Maury Povitch show. Are they gonna reveal the results of the paternity test?
Hey wally good xmas i hope and feeling good, hope the new year is better for you
Christian meetings can take place in small gatherings while praising God and does not require printed literature. Jesus simply said, “ It is written”, then verbally quote a Bible passage. The main purpose for Christian meetings in the Apostles’ day were to build up one another’s faith, not for for indoctrination. 🙏🏻
Where did they get good Italian coffee: the best is Caffe` Corretto.
We didn’t get the snow….just 8 hours of FREEZING RAIN. The coast is shut down 😂🤣
It's close to zero here, and quite windy! We're supposed to get a foot or more by later today and then about 5 more inches a day later. I hope nobody loses power during this storm.
For Western Washington, we’re just all perplexed 🤣
@@terridovey7648 where do you live?! I’ve never dealt with weather like that. It doesn’t sound terribly pleasant!! Be safe!!!!
@Chrissy Parkins I live in lower Michigan. Our wind gusts are about 45 mph right now and the snowing is taking a break at the moment. Later today the gusts will be going about 50 mph. And it's down to 2 degrees now and feels like negative 16 degrees. I'm not even going to take the trash out today! Brrrr....
And our news people are telling people not to be outside. Everything is canceled too.
We look like having close to 40c here at Christmas, hello everyone from Perth Australia.
Why does the interviewer remind me of reverend Henry Kane?
He gives me vibes of a gay repressed man...sad
New light is just old light waiting to age like fine wine 🍷 😂
When I was a kid all I knew about jw"s is that they hated crosses & holy water and they always talked about blood and believed they sleep in coffins until they wake so I just assumed they were vampires.
1:35 my friends and I used to clap like that at assemblies and conventions 🤣
Perhaps it really is a species that is threatened with extinction, so you need the most exemplary to create a new generation from it. So here too, they don't do much better than the commercial commercials on TV where I think they also warn that that is a distorted picture. The real people, look very different
I'm confused. He said, "there's still time..." That is NOT what Lett says.
The way it almost felt like he was laughing at her for not fulfilling her goal of pioneering was so irritating. Like...as much as they constantly preach that it doesn't matter when you start or what your "rank" is, they are so obsessed with pressuring people or putting them down for not starting earlier.
Why do JWs so often remind me of Stepford people?
Because of the indoctrination- all those thought-stopping techniques make them seem simultaneously robotic and irrational. It’s actually kinda fascinating if you think about it objectively.
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Very true!
Hi Wally and Zeezy 🐈⬛ Thanks for all the work you have put into these videos. Man it's like every thing that WT puts out is so cringe 😵💫
Off topic, but the guy on the far left in the first interview looks like Ichabod Crane from that old Disney cartoon.
Oh from the adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad?
Haha, I see it!!
My grandma had a vhs tape with an illegal copy of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, an episode of Casper, and a live-action Sleeping Beauty movie. It was my favorite thing to watch when I couldn’t go outside to play.
@@DarthMagog That's the one!
@@jrojala My grandparents bought it for us, so that is why we had it. I had to sneak to watch it when I was home sick from school, since my parents wouldn't let me watch it otherwise.
You see literature ! Not the Bible !!
Exactly!! Real Christians have their Bible above all else. We don't need anyone telling us what God has to say. And the pastors preach from what is in the Bible. We have no literature giving us someone else's ideas and beliefs.
God bless my friend!
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21:22 Is that Mathew Perry?
Regarding the older elder/young pioneer girl Thing you’re talking about around 14:26
the tldr: I experienced this personally, in addition to witnessing it happening with my peers. From what I’ve experienced, they didn’t bother waiting for us to turn 18.
When I was 16, I started pioneering. At the time, I lived with my best friend T (age 17) in a basement walkout. She’d been pioneering for more than a year prior.
We were *very* close, we even shared a twin bed all cuddled up together at night. I think we were in love, but the indoctrination stunted our relationship to a *very intimate* friend zone. I don’t like to waste time with “if only” but sometimes… it slips out and I wonder what could’ve been if only the world was sane.
Anyhoo, T and I received *a lot* of inappropriate attention from older men in our large 130+ publisher congregation. We didn’t really receive any attention from any age-appropriate/young men, in fact, they all seemed to be hiding behind the literature counter, cheeks all various shades of red.
Particularly noteworthy, though was the attention and gifts we received from one set of (fleshy) brothers who were pioneers/elders in our hall. They were 29 and 32, and I think they grew up in Wisconsin before they came to haunt us in Minnesota.
I imagine they had some fantasy about us getting married and moving in with them in their ticky-tacky duplex on the lake. Maybe they imagined they’d eventually move us back to their hometown… I don’t know if they flipped a coin, or picked a favorite by hair color or body type, but the older one seemed to be after me and the younger one was after my T.
Eventually the younger brother bought T a brand new Nokia 3310, (she figured it was a way to make her feel obliged to talk to him). That same day, the older brother offered me my fantasy sound system for my beloved-though-stereo-less 1981 Chevy Citation (ooh I loved that car).
That afternoon, T and I talked about how annoying it was that we had to act like grownups when we shouldn’t have needed to deal with this kind of behavior from our “loving shepherds.” We were just barely becoming women and we were already exhausted, ha.
The next meeting, we gave the gifts back, making it clear that we saw them as father-figures, not as potential marriage mates, and that anything more than a shepherd/sheep relationship was out of the question as we did so.
T had the idea to tell them we planned on following the example mentioned by the apostle Paul regarding singleness so we could better serve. The little genius; they were out pious-ed.
Everything Is just so fake
What does she say before the interviewer says “oh, so they made it fun for you”? I couldn’t make it out.
As you put so sagely my friend its A LOAD OF BOLLOX - brilliant!
I don´t know about that country, but Belgium and The Netherlands have tax scales. Highest percentage of tax is applied on the top level of the salary (e.g. all above €60k you pay 42% of tax (not actual numbers)). If she was up for a raise already and taking this tax system in mind, she could probably say she made almost the same as before. Don´t forget the use of the word ´almost´, what is that to her? 90%, 80%, ...?
Without proper details, her statement can be very misleading
The way he dabs at the air with his finger everytime he speaks. Like he's trying to both control the flow of his own words and the reaction of the interviewees to his words.
What about all of the JWs that are forced to work multiple jobs or quit altogether to do their little witnessing routine? It's so stupid when any random decent thing occurs that it has to be MIRACULOUS. And what did they end up doing? Quitting their jobs anyway.
It looks like a good ol' 50's + colors.
4:14 Damn, she looks annoyed AF
I came across this you tube video which scripturally refutes JW. "JW and the Truth 02 Who raised Jesus from the dead" You might want to place this in your research library for when you speak to a JW. Delightful Christmas and Jolly New Year.
I thought coffee was forbidden?
These things are so contrived... And thoroughly boring.
Need more George Strait concerts.
“ those cute little faces, don’t look like smugglers”
Hey, thanks mom and dad.. for putting us at risk..for watchtower. I’m actually shocked that they allowed this to be a part on this great show(🤣) it’s that line they like to use, ..pay back Caesar’s things to Caesar and gods things to god. .. it goes to show , that watchtower does not abide by the laws of the land. And that watchtower authority supersedes government laws. Because watchtower and god are one.
Been interviewed on a Regional Convention once and a circuit assembly once.
You practice before part so Elders know what you’ll say…
Ya you practiced more than once😒
Wally you are funny 😄
What is that image above the mantle?
I never cared about my age and all the sisters would gasp when I said it out loud, and I was young! Old stereotypes irritate me.
I'm curious what you mean? Could you explain? I'm a ex Jehovah's witness and like people's stories.
I have never been part of JW but it is pretty silly and outdated, isn't it? I am proud of my age. Took me 50 years to get here and lots of folks didn't make it.
The inside story, Cracks me up.. the applause.. if I was still in, I think this “ show” would start waking me up. Because it’s so staged!
What's going on with that audience? 🤣
More examples of witnesses being proud of their deception and sneakiness
Wow!Are'nt you cold in that weather!? I would be seized up like an icicle,,🙂 🙂
Hey Wally?
Love Mr Bean!
Is this a real JW program? It looks fake, like an ad that’s pretending to be a talk show
Holly Jolly Wally!
Is this org. attempt to make like a entertainment kind of show like see y'all don't need 2 watch anything worldly we have all your needs n wants here
I think that's why they want to get that new studio built. The jw's won't have to watch "worldly" TV anymore. Tripling down on even more indoctrination and control of their people. It's disgusting.
Do you not find it strange that you refer to yourself in the 3rd person?
I do believe in the power of prayer. I still believe in God even though I left the faith. And my God does talk to me. My God is the God of the bible.
The God of the Bible? The one who dwells above the waters of his firmament and his kingdome is Stretched out over the Earth!
Geeez! Can anyone see what’s over the fireplace? Very clear who they really are!
Let the brow beating begin
I'm not a phycologist, but there were so many tells in that 15 second clip coming from Tony's eyes that I've just figured out how to win every Poker game in Vegas!!!
What about the hug at the end? No need for that. There are no good reasons for a man to put his hands on a woman, out of respect for all women, unless she is friend or family or invited him to do so. These creeper hugs have got to stop.
Your content is amazing and I don't want to miss an episode, except that sometimes you have so many unnecessary graphics and other distractions from the actual content e.g. cats moving around, etc. Could be your style though, no big deal.
WOLF'S HEAD
SCROLL and KEY
SKULL and BONES
all 3, the TRINITY OF EVIL
THROUGHOUT THE EONS
DUST 2 DUST
GHENNA, SHEOL, HELL , LAKE OF FIRE, FIRE AND BRIMSTONE
HAPPY TRAILS WALLOLY
Okay you went too far with the kids haircuts!🤣🤣 leave the kids alone!
It's every old preast, minister and elder 's dream to to have a life twise less his age and this elder/helper ( I don't know what exactly he is ) didn't had it 😮💨😟😫. So he's still obsessed with women's ages 🤣.
😂you’re hilarious
Cheesy!!!! 🤦🏼♀️
The audience was so little 🤷🏼♀️
No one has any personality. They always seem so dull and boring, and so robotic .
What do you expect of people, whose big hope is, when they die, to be physically resurrected, placed in a physical World (albeit, a "paradise"), where there's nothing to do, except sing praises to God (oops, "Jehovah"), forever and ever?