I grew to hate meetings. Being old school meant five meetings a week, 100 hours a month pioneering, seven days a week meeting for field service, bible studies, family studies, assemblies, etc, etc, etc! My family and I hate meetings and the cult!
Sounds like you all were not balanced and burned yourself out. I can understand why you learned to hate the meetings. There was nothing in the rule book that says you had to pioneer then or now. 100 hours per month went away many years ago. it is down to 50hours per month now.
@@ronhansen8471 you make it sound like you are defending watchtower. The truth is that you can never be good enough for this organization, you do 50 hours, they will soon push you to do more, become a ministerial servant and I guarantee they will push you into serving as an elder.
@@ronhansen8471 _"Sounds like you all were not balanced and burned yourself out."_ Pack your bags everyone, we're going on a guilt trip. In other words, Ron is now criticizing all of us that were good Witnesses and following the counsel of the Governing Body. Make up your mind, Ron. In one thread you're criticizing exJWs for following the rules, and in other threads you're criticizing exJWs for *not* following the rules. You're just like the WT overlords you serve, Ron: there's no pleasing you and your constant question is, "What have you done for me today?"
I can't help but notice that the exjw's that leave the organization are far happier than those that are disfellowshiped. I feel sorry for those that suffer such loss and grief. My heart goes out to you all.
The Watchtower's version of paradise has changed from lounging under fruit trees & petting Pandas, to a continuation of the present work, work, work, & obey the leaders. This is because the new version of 'Paradise' has been created to accommodate the wet dreams of the authority wielding leaders of Watchtower. Bossing everybody about forever.
Its pure narcissistic thinking. Its strange how we were encouraged to ask questions when we were studying, yet once we were baptized, we were told you should have asked that before baptism.
In reality, Bible students who ask too many questions are summarily cut off and labelled as "opposers". WT isn't looking for people with critical thinking skills.
@@ronhansen8471 What difference does her answer make, Ron? All you're going to do is beat her down with unsubstantiated claims and your personal opinions in your attempts to defend WT. I've never seen you post a shred of proof for anything you post in these comments sections.
@@ronhansen8471 No one had to tell her anything, Ron. It's all in print in WT literature. You should know this, being a self-described expert on all things WT. Are you sure you want to open this Pandora's Box, Ron? I've got dozens of WT quotes cued up and ready to go. Give it your best shot.
Has anyone ever noticed, that patience in the Watchtower only works in one direction? Just imagine if all the rules they have were subject to the same standards. "Oh yes, brother elder, I was going to shave today, especially since I have a talk to give, but my razor simply didn't make it to my face. Don't be a baby, now. There's an appointed time for everything. Have patience, and I'm sure I'll be able to find the time to shave for my next part a month from now or so." But your faithful grandmother dies, and they tell you to "be patient, wait on Jehovah." Your mother dies and they tell you to "be patient." You turn 90, your back aches something fierce, and your latest physical didn't turn out all that promising, and they tell you to "be patient." But if you walk up on stage unshaven, the hand of god might come down and smite you for being an ungrateful goat.
I never realized the JW cadence was intentional. I always hated hearing brothers speak like that. It was too soft, too slow, and to me screamed that they had no skill as a speaker. It never dawned on me it was a manipulative technique, I just hated hearing it
I remember that the speakers at the Society’s assemblies used to be orators by comparison to who are allowed on the platform nowadays. They knew how to speak publicly. Of course, in the Theocratic School we used to be constantly reminded of “the Three P’s”: Pitch, power and pace. Then, all of a sudden, in the late nineties, I began noticing a marked change. Around that time, the Society started emphasizing “conversational delivery”. Really, it’s just speaking in a monotone. I never was able to make that adjustment myself. It just went against the grain. When I gave talks in the Theocratic School, I continued following the previous instructions. Even when I would read at the Congregation Book Study, I did so as though I were delivering discourses. Of course, I was always something of a throwback as a witness in that, for instance, I understood that when I would give talks or read, that was supposed to be part of my responsibility as a teacher in the congregation. (Admittedly, that was a pre-1972 attitude fostered by the Society, meaning it was from before the Society brought back the “elder” arrangement.) Just the same, however, the change to monotone delivery was a disaster in my book. I recall thinking: “How are we supposed to learn anything if the speakers don’t emphasize the key points they’re trying to make, but, rather, blend those in with everything else?” When the Society changed the format of “Watchtower” Study articles several years ago, I realized that it’s all part of an infantilization campaign from headquarters intended to lull Jehovah’s witnesses to mental drowsiness. Ron DeSantis, with all his talk of combating wakefulness, could ask the Governing Body for advice on how to impose that on Floridians!
@@thomash.schwed3662 yeah I never got the monotone, slow and deliberate thing either. I never viewed that as "conversational" because that's not how I carried a conversation. I tried to speak in my natural way and add the Ps in to try and highlight whatever point I was trying to make. The JW cadence was something I saw at first in assemblies and conventions and eventually in the congregations. I always tuned those speakers right out. Having ADHD made it all the worse. They were slow and boring and my brain was going a mile a minute. I would last five minutes tops and then it was just random thoughts for the next half hour. I never got anything out of speakers like that
It's not something intentional. It's just what happens to voice when your tense and abstract breathing. Has to do with being fake. When You are real you are calm and breath easy. Most of this people don't talk like this at home when mask is of.
25:37 That's my parents. Shunned their own kids for decades. Now my dad is 87 years old. My mom is 76. I have a sister that left the religion in 1986 and a brother in 2003. My parents had grandchildren they haven't met. All because my parents were being patient. "Maybe they'll come back to the Truth." They say. Even if they both came back, it would be 36 years of a relationship with their own daughter they'll never get back. And 20 for my own brother. A combined 56 years at the very least.
Such a tragic story. I'm 83 years old this year and have been totally inactive for 5 years now, I've just recently found out that I've been diagnosed with aggressive Lung cancer, my son who is 60 years old is soft shunning me because of my inactivity. PS I was a jw for 46 years.
@@justinthyme5382 I'm sorry for what you're going through and I wish you all the best, even though I don't know you. A piece of advice: ask your son why the commandments against images and statues, against murder and adultery aren't just as important as "honour your mother and your father".
If they can't speed up spiritual growth....why then do they instruct that if a bible student is not making good visual progress within 6 months that thry should drop the study and move on.
@@ronhansen8471 one of us could type out a list of the government programs they secretly partnered with after demonizing them, the pervasive, systemic child abuse coverups, the false Armageddon predictions, the huge changes in doctrine that make no biblical sense, the cherry picking scriptures and lying about they say and mean, but youll simply ignore that as something someone else has gotten wrong that others are parroting. You' re not here for a good faith discussion, and that much is obvious from your other replies.
I’ve watched “The brothers” play basketball and that’s exactly how they all act, very aggressive and competitive. More proof they aren’t learning anything
"it's amazing how you can knock on one door for so long and Jehovah opens another" = throwing away your life's dreams and goals to serve the organization and then convincing yourself to equate it to a gift from God
At time stamp 15:36 he says “re-evaluate, or adjust your goals.” This is what the JWs do with their understanding of the Bible when it does not fit their goals. They re-evaluate and adjust the Bible to fit their goals.
I remember my mother scaring me as a 9 or 10 year old because she showed me the newer picture at the time of the statue that depicts todays collapsing government, aka propaganda. She explained to my little brain that the world was going to end and people would die, including the people I loved. Idk if others remember that statue of a king with clay and iron feet with a meteor flying towards it, the one that effected my little brian at the time was the one where the statue is falling over because of the meteor.
My Bible study teacher tried to use that on me too, and I'm 31. Pulling up the picture during KH on Sunday whispering in her mask 😷 "we're here **points to the feet** we're so close to the end of this system, isn't that crazy??" 🤣 I always thought "this broad is straight up crazy"
Yeah my mom did the same thing with pictures and telling me everyone who didn't worship Jehovah was going to die, traumatic for a kid who's father and entire extended family were not JW
When I was "studying" with JWs they didn't have faith that I could make up a demonstration on my own. The sisters wrote the script and had me parrot it. 😢. Really made me feel small and stupid. So glad I'm out and have no contact with the JW robots.
There was a guy in my old congregation who was AWFUL playing competitive sports. I remember noticing how unchristian his behavior was, and wondering how a person like that was allowed to be a pioneer, MS, and an elder by age 27. He was just not smart and not very nice. Of course now I know that the only prerequisites for being an elder are basically "are you a yes man", which he definitely was. The wife he eventually found was just as bad.
Our congregation youth, including a few elders started playing soccer. Our son who had a natural talent, told us he’d decided he didn’t want to play anymore because of all the rough tackling he was feeling targeted. One of the elders took us aside at the meeting asking why we had stopped him from playing. We explained to him, that our son didn’t want to play and risk an injury because of all the rough tackling that it was his choice, he told us we were being ridiculous mocking our son accusing him of being too soft, and he needed to harden up. The very next meeting, the same elder, turned up with a badly broken ankle as a result of a very rough tackle, while everyone was gathered around, giving him sympathy my husband calmly said, we warned you something like this was going to happen you should’ve taken your own advice and hardened up before taking on the young ones😂😂😂Me I wanted to kick his ankle
We had a Local Needs because some of the bros played 🏈 and took it too serious. One of them hit and drove another's face into the ground on purpose. Lol
Great video Wally. Thankfully after over 50 years slaving for the borg' all my family are out of the Watchtower. My parents, my brothers & sister all free from the unhealthy 'mental regulating' of Watchtower.
You can’t move to another Congregation unless you move to that location. At least that’s how it worked when I was a JW. You were told which congregation you belonged to and that was that. Maybe it’s different now? “New Light” or something? I tried so hard to be interested in the meetings but I was like the kids, truthfully, bored, and couldn’t wait til the meetings were over. There was no spiritual growth for a woman, just humbleness, being “teachable”, and submissive. What a dead-end, or, “No-Outlet”.
Yet another video where i got the impression that they are saying it's the kids responsibility to fix his abusive parent (the angry father) and they don't help people realize that professional help is needed for this kid and not brushing the abusive home life under the carpet.
That basketball game was a metaphor for Judicial Committees. Guess which character represented the Elders? Hint: it wasn't the rational, self-reflective one.
Is Watchtower trying to find a place in the "daytime drama" programming.? It seems their target audience may be the same prople watching "Days of Our Lives," and "Young and the Restless."
It would be ironic considering that the Society condemns soap operas. But I can almost hear the announcer now: “Proctor and Gamble presents ‘As the Tower Crumbles’, the story of a typical congregation in a typical city, which asks the question: ‘What are you doing working for a multi-billion dollar publishing and real estate corporation? Get out and do something with your life!’” “Will August’s dad ever be re-appointed as a servant? Will Ben realize he needs professional help to deal with his anger issues and to keep calm when his parents fight? Will Sister So-and-So find the Lord’s ‘other sheep’ in her ‘need greater’ assignment? Will August ever move away from home? For the answers, tune in tomorrow to another installment of ‘As the Tower Crumbles’.”
As many times as I’ve seen that video, I never noticed until NOW that when asked what they learned, ALL Caleb and Sophia learned was to pay attention. They learned nothing from the actual CONTENT of the meeting 😮
And compared to other "lessons" these poor kids have learned...yeah. Sophia has learned that she has to tell her friend that her lesbian parents are not acceptable in Jehovah's eyes, so there goes a friendship down the toilet. More recently, she had to give up on science club and we found out she has no friends her age...just a grown woman! Caleb has learned that he has to throw away a toy a friend gave him, because Jehovah doesn't like wizards, so there's another friendship down the drain as well. Then he was guilt tripped over eating a birthday cupcake, you can't make this stuff up! And who can forget when both siblings were urged to give their ice cream pocket money to Jehovah!
"Put away wrath," yeah tell that to the God of the Old Testament. Pick up sticks on the wrong day? Dead. Didn't mutilate your child's genitals? Dead. Don't do what I say? Dead. DO do what I say? Dead. The lack of self-awareness and Olympic levels of mental gymnastics... it's honestly mind-boggling.
My God, how ridiculous this is. Getting angry in a basketball game? Really? This is the most pressing thing that needs to be dealt with? It just keeps getting more awful.
They probably have cameras monitoring the Bethel facility basketball court and saw an altercation. We have to deal with this worldwide, if it happens here in gods holiest of holies, it must be a major issue out there with every publisher everywhere. I don't know, just my odd thought.
Funniest part about this is witnesses aren't even allowed to play sports in school it's something that is highly discouraged and whether they admit it or not it is a punishable offense
Wally I would use an example of a doctor with the point you’re making at the 6:40 mark. Doctors are imperfect, but they can’t make oopsy mistakes when it comes to “saving lives”
This is the second part of the first part of the first day of the latest convention, and soon will be the last part of the last part of the last day of the last convention until the next convention.
You always get a like from me. You are definitely on my wavelength in your attitude towards the witnesses. You have a balanced and kind way of reviewing them. Yes the religion is crazy but you don't just bash them for the sake of it, you do give fair comments. There's no bitterness there. I understand why some would be bitter but I also think it can really damage your life after the witnesses if you can't. Anyway... good video again. Thanks
I remember sports being a big thing in the congregation, and without fail you would see people upset during a game, whether playing it or watching it. If you want to see a JW throw a tantrum, hold a congregation baseball game. All that pent up emotion that they can't normally express comes bubbling to the surface very quickly.
Wally, I give you a G on your use of illustrations. 😁 You use such good analogies! The parent promising their kid $20 for doing some chore, at some point.... spot on!
I was raised a jw never got baptized, too much hypocrisy in my own home. Funny thing is i have brother who is still in, in order for us to stay close I humor when their is assembly or special talk, I've noticed that all the speakers young old black white speak in one cadence it sounds hypnotic, when u was young is wasn't this way, the speakers spoke according to there personalities
I had to laugh at the end of the video right after they hug; they did everything possible to avoid eye contact and then quickly go about their business as if ashamed they touched each other. Just check that clip again, you’ll chuckle 😂
My dad gave his life to the organisation, to the point where he was so busy being an elder he hardly had time for us. In the last year of his life, the congregation turned against him because of me not being a JW anymore. They spread rumours about us and forced him out. He died suddenly. His funeral was all about his acts of service and barely about him...
It’s hilarious seeing how everyone on here knew the one brother who would get too worked up during a sports game. We had an MS that was beyond asshole-ish during every game. Down to him charging another brother during a football game and breaking his collarbone.
You ended that expose on a real downer. It's a tragedy of our times, but there is always a way out. I think the way out is going to occur within the fellowships. Phone numbers exchanged, clandestine underground meetings between like-minded people, the courage to go through the motions and outwardly make all the right signals without being detected, until it's time to cut loose completely. They won't have to fear the tyranny of the elders' passively aggressive wrath by threat of being disfellowshipped, because they will be among friends. They will need to beware, though, not to be seduced by the idea of forming another cult
OH MY GOD!!! Playing with witnesses was the WORST!!! Worldly games are always more civil and competitive. Where as with witnesses 1.) You’re held to the fake code of niceness. In sports it means they’ll yell and pretend there tough because nobody’s allowed to get punched in the face 2.) All the brothers who never played on a team during their childhood want to take over and prove something. It was all so cringe, don’t miss it. I’ll gladly stick to my “worldly friend” runs and Babylon funded YMCA leagues😂😂
Actually I did move to different congregations. It didn't work, but I really think that they saw me as someone who asks too many questions. I didn't just follow the leader. I let all of that go and felt so much better for it.
It’s seems to me the JW leadership is conditioning it’s followers for “new light” that the end isn’t around the corner after all and may be years into the future in contradiction to some other things they’ve said. In the meantime, “be patient” and “enjoy the journey”. That’s what I’m getting from these talks and videos.
These films are SO cheezy. And SO DARK & DEPRESSING! ..i guess that’s the hint if you catch it. Come to the actual truth & see the light when u leave JW! YOUR INSIGHTS ARE ON-POINT!👏👍
So I've been learning Hebrew (after the JWs I don't want anyone telling me what the Bible actually says). When it says you shall not take the Lord's name in vain it doesn't have anything to do with cussing. It means you better not say, "we represent God", "come in God's name" or act like you speak for God. Especially if you are wrong. So all the wars fought "In the name of God" that were not? Those people will answer to a Holy God someday. I wouldn't want to be a member of the governing body of JWs on judgment day. Even the elders will face a much heavier punishment, for teachers are held to a higher standard. I pray they all wake up before its too late. I was 4th generation and my dad's an elder. I pray for my whole family all the time.
I grew to hate meetings. Being old school meant five meetings a week, 100 hours a month pioneering, seven days a week meeting for field service, bible studies, family studies, assemblies, etc, etc, etc! My family and I hate meetings and the cult!
Right there with you. It was like being on a hamster wheel from Hell.
@@adamantiumbullet9215 Great way to put it!
Sounds like you all were not balanced and burned yourself out. I can understand why you learned to hate the meetings. There was nothing in the rule book that says you had to pioneer then or now. 100 hours per month went away many years ago. it is down to 50hours per month now.
@@ronhansen8471 you make it sound like you are defending watchtower. The truth is that you can never be good enough for this organization, you do 50 hours, they will soon push you to do more, become a ministerial servant and I guarantee they will push you into serving as an elder.
@@ronhansen8471
_"Sounds like you all were not balanced and burned yourself out."_
Pack your bags everyone, we're going on a guilt trip.
In other words, Ron is now criticizing all of us that were good Witnesses and following the counsel of the Governing Body. Make up your mind, Ron. In one thread you're criticizing exJWs for following the rules, and in other threads you're criticizing exJWs for *not* following the rules.
You're just like the WT overlords you serve, Ron: there's no pleasing you and your constant question is, "What have you done for me today?"
Watchtower is DANGEROUS RIP Raymond Franz please read Crisis of Conscience
I can't help but notice that the exjw's that leave the organization are far happier than those that are disfellowshiped. I feel sorry for those that suffer such loss and grief. My heart goes out to you all.
And in general they are definitely more Loving 💕😇👋🦘hi from Perth Australia.
Amen ❤
There is a difference between those of us who left on our own accord versus people who are forcefully kicked out.
This is so true. Fortunately, I was never baptized
@@justinthyme5382 Jesus sent you to preach about the JW's????????
The Watchtower's version of paradise has changed from lounging under fruit trees & petting Pandas, to a continuation of the present work, work, work, & obey the leaders. This is because the new version of 'Paradise' has been created to accommodate the wet dreams of the authority wielding leaders of Watchtower. Bossing everybody about forever.
It's so funny how they accurately portray how miserable, sad, and guilt-ridden their lives constantly are, and still think it makes them look good.
The only ones who are guilty are those who have reason to feel guilt by not following the rules of Christian conduct.
@@ronhansen8471 The rules of Christian conduct are immoral
@@luna-p Really you think love is immoral?
@@ronhansen8471 The rules violate love all the time
@@luna-p Can you give me some instances
Its pure narcissistic thinking.
Its strange how we were encouraged to ask questions when we were studying, yet once we were baptized, we were told you should have asked that before baptism.
In reality, Bible students who ask too many questions are summarily cut off and labelled as "opposers". WT isn't looking for people with critical thinking skills.
Can 1:53 BBG
rebecca who told you that
@@ronhansen8471 What difference does her answer make, Ron? All you're going to do is beat her down with unsubstantiated claims and your personal opinions in your attempts to defend WT. I've never seen you post a shred of proof for anything you post in these comments sections.
@@ronhansen8471 No one had to tell her anything, Ron. It's all in print in WT literature. You should know this, being a self-described expert on all things WT.
Are you sure you want to open this Pandora's Box, Ron? I've got dozens of WT quotes cued up and ready to go. Give it your best shot.
Has anyone ever noticed, that patience in the Watchtower only works in one direction? Just imagine if all the rules they have were subject to the same standards.
"Oh yes, brother elder, I was going to shave today, especially since I have a talk to give, but my razor simply didn't make it to my face. Don't be a baby, now. There's an appointed time for everything. Have patience, and I'm sure I'll be able to find the time to shave for my next part a month from now or so."
But your faithful grandmother dies, and they tell you to "be patient, wait on Jehovah."
Your mother dies and they tell you to "be patient."
You turn 90, your back aches something fierce, and your latest physical didn't turn out all that promising, and they tell you to "be patient."
But if you walk up on stage unshaven, the hand of god might come down and smite you for being an ungrateful goat.
Adults eat when they're hungry. Livestock waits for the master to bring the feed on his time.
It is best to leave this organization at warp speed
I never realized the JW cadence was intentional. I always hated hearing brothers speak like that. It was too soft, too slow, and to me screamed that they had no skill as a speaker. It never dawned on me it was a manipulative technique, I just hated hearing it
Yes, very hypnotic. Very intentional.
Just where they want their followers, in a half state of consciousness.
I remember that the speakers at the Society’s assemblies used to be orators by comparison to who are allowed on the platform nowadays. They knew how to speak publicly. Of course, in the Theocratic School we used to be constantly reminded of “the Three P’s”: Pitch, power and pace. Then, all of a sudden, in the late nineties, I began noticing a marked change. Around that time, the Society started emphasizing “conversational delivery”. Really, it’s just speaking in a monotone. I never was able to make that adjustment myself. It just went against the grain. When I gave talks in the Theocratic School, I continued following the previous instructions. Even when I would read at the Congregation Book Study, I did so as though I were delivering discourses. Of course, I was always something of a throwback as a witness in that, for instance, I understood that when I would give talks or read, that was supposed to be part of my responsibility as a teacher in the congregation. (Admittedly, that was a pre-1972 attitude fostered by the Society, meaning it was from before the Society brought back the “elder” arrangement.) Just the same, however, the change to monotone delivery was a disaster in my book. I recall thinking: “How are we supposed to learn anything if the speakers don’t emphasize the key points they’re trying to make, but, rather, blend those in with everything else?” When the Society changed the format of “Watchtower” Study articles several years ago, I realized that it’s all part of an infantilization campaign from headquarters intended to lull Jehovah’s witnesses to mental drowsiness. Ron DeSantis, with all his talk of combating wakefulness, could ask the Governing Body for advice on how to impose that on Floridians!
@@thomash.schwed3662 yeah I never got the monotone, slow and deliberate thing either. I never viewed that as "conversational" because that's not how I carried a conversation. I tried to speak in my natural way and add the Ps in to try and highlight whatever point I was trying to make. The JW cadence was something I saw at first in assemblies and conventions and eventually in the congregations. I always tuned those speakers right out. Having ADHD made it all the worse. They were slow and boring and my brain was going a mile a minute. I would last five minutes tops and then it was just random thoughts for the next half hour. I never got anything out of speakers like that
It's not something intentional. It's just what happens to voice when your tense and abstract breathing. Has to do with being fake. When You are real you are calm and breath easy. Most of this people don't talk like this at home when mask is of.
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DeSantis is not combating "wakefulness" but "wokenesss."
25:37 That's my parents.
Shunned their own kids for decades. Now my dad is 87 years old. My mom is 76. I have a sister that left the religion in 1986 and a brother in 2003. My parents had grandchildren they haven't met. All because my parents were being patient. "Maybe they'll come back to the Truth." They say.
Even if they both came back, it would be 36 years of a relationship with their own daughter they'll never get back. And 20 for my own brother.
A combined 56 years at the very least.
Such a tragic story. I'm 83 years old this year and have been totally inactive for 5 years now, I've just recently found out that I've been diagnosed with aggressive Lung cancer, my son who is 60 years old is soft shunning me because of my inactivity. PS I was a jw for 46 years.
@@justinthyme5382 I'm sorry for what you're going through and I wish you all the best, even though I don't know you. A piece of advice: ask your son why the commandments against images and statues, against murder and adultery aren't just as important as "honour your mother and your father".
So glad I got out of that fkn mess of mass confusion and self hatred. Life is SO GOOD!
If they can't speed up spiritual growth....why then do they instruct that if a bible student is not making good visual progress within 6 months that thry should drop the study and move on.
Answer: If a potential convert can't be completely bamboozled by JWs within 6 months, they are unfit to be a JW.
The angry young man needs anger management and a therapist. Abusive parents require real help to recover from!
I was thinking the same thing, they always ignore the reality and pretend some watchtower article is going to solve everything.
Keep Exposing Watchtower LIES Abuse and Hypocrisy
What exactly are the lies, abuse and hypocrisy? Or are you parroting what others told you?
@@ronhansen8471 one of us could type out a list of the government programs they secretly partnered with after demonizing them, the pervasive, systemic child abuse coverups, the false Armageddon predictions, the huge changes in doctrine that make no biblical sense, the cherry picking scriptures and lying about they say and mean, but youll simply ignore that as something someone else has gotten wrong that others are parroting. You' re not here for a good faith discussion, and that much is obvious from your other replies.
@@ronhansen8471are you living in a cave???
I’ve watched “The brothers” play basketball and that’s exactly how they all act, very aggressive and competitive. More proof they aren’t learning anything
Do you know how many fight I’ve broken up involving elders and M/S playing basketball?🤣🤣
There was a brother in the congregation who was just like that. Acting like a basketball game at a congregation picnic was a championship
@@Wyzevibez seems to be a common thread
Great video. The REAL TRUTH will set all of us free from this complete nonsense!!!!!
i had a visit today nice people but terrified i was prepared to talk to them.
Great job Wally my you be blessed with your showing people the truth about the BORG and it's lies. Keep up the good work ❤
Stop finding fault in Jw everything .... Do are you aware that this is too Satan's quality? I feel for you ( Revelation 12;9-10)
"it's amazing how you can knock on one door for so long and Jehovah opens another" = throwing away your life's dreams and goals to serve the organization and then convincing yourself to equate it to a gift from God
At time stamp 15:36 he says “re-evaluate, or adjust your goals.” This is what the JWs do with their understanding of the Bible when it does not fit their goals. They re-evaluate and adjust the Bible to fit their goals.
You’ve put out some absolutely stellar content over the past few weeks Wally. very impressive
Great Job Wally
I mean watchtower got the environment right,it's dim,dull and depressing 😂. Grey everywhere, beige walls. They've got the whole shabaz
Wally, why do all the speaking reps for watchtower act like robot zombies? Very creepy!!!!
Am I the only one that see it... or does this brother giving the talk seem like he has some sugar in his tank 😂
I remember my mother scaring me as a 9 or 10 year old because she showed me the newer picture at the time of the statue that depicts todays collapsing government, aka propaganda. She explained to my little brain that the world was going to end and people would die, including the people I loved.
Idk if others remember that statue of a king with clay and iron feet with a meteor flying towards it, the one that effected my little brian at the time was the one where the statue is falling over because of the meteor.
My Bible study teacher tried to use that on me too, and I'm 31. Pulling up the picture during KH on Sunday whispering in her mask 😷 "we're here **points to the feet** we're so close to the end of this system, isn't that crazy??" 🤣 I always thought "this broad is straight up crazy"
WT will get a shock of their life when they realise it's them that's falling down....with a mighty thump.
Yeah my mom did the same thing with pictures and telling me everyone who didn't worship Jehovah was going to die, traumatic for a kid who's father and entire extended family were not JW
Remaining hopeful that my family members still in that cult see through the BS and leave just like I did.
When I was fully in the org I asked my sister why she left and she said it was because the meetings were so boring.
When I was "studying" with JWs they didn't have faith that I could make up a demonstration on my own. The sisters wrote the script and had me parrot it. 😢. Really made me feel small and stupid. So glad I'm out and have no contact with the JW robots.
What they don’t tell you is that the abusive parents are an elder dad and a RP mom. 🤔
There was a guy in my old congregation who was AWFUL playing competitive sports. I remember noticing how unchristian his behavior was, and wondering how a person like that was allowed to be a pioneer, MS, and an elder by age 27. He was just not smart and not very nice. Of course now I know that the only prerequisites for being an elder are basically "are you a yes man", which he definitely was. The wife he eventually found was just as bad.
Great job Wally, thank you
Haha, the basket scene from The Office was perfect.
Hey Wally. All Watchtower messages are' rinsed and repeat.' Have a great day!!❤
Our congregation youth, including a few elders started playing soccer. Our son who had a natural talent, told us he’d decided he didn’t want to play anymore because of all the rough tackling he was feeling targeted. One of the elders took us aside at the meeting asking why we had stopped him from playing. We explained to him, that our son didn’t want to play and risk an injury because of all the rough tackling that it was his choice, he told us we were being ridiculous mocking our son accusing him of being too soft, and he needed to harden up. The very next meeting, the same elder, turned up with a badly broken ankle as a result of a very rough tackle, while everyone was gathered around, giving him sympathy my husband calmly said, we warned you something like this was going to happen you should’ve taken your own advice and hardened up before taking on the young ones😂😂😂Me I wanted to kick his ankle
Personally I would have wanted to kick his teeth in and in my younger years (more impulsive), I probably would have done that…
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We had a Local Needs because some of the bros played 🏈 and took it too serious. One of them hit and drove another's face into the ground on purpose. Lol
Great video Wally. Thankfully after over 50 years slaving for the borg' all my family are out of the Watchtower. My parents, my brothers & sister all free from the unhealthy 'mental regulating' of Watchtower.
You can’t move to another Congregation unless you move to that location. At least that’s how it worked when I was a JW. You were told which congregation you belonged to and that was that. Maybe it’s different now? “New Light” or something? I tried so hard to be interested in the meetings but I was like the kids, truthfully, bored, and couldn’t wait til the meetings were over. There was no spiritual growth for a woman, just humbleness, being “teachable”, and submissive. What a dead-end, or, “No-Outlet”.
I remember growing up as a jw (disassociated 15 years ago now) and this is the nail on the head, it was like entering rollerball on court haha 😄
Thanks!
Yet another video where i got the impression that they are saying it's the kids responsibility to fix his abusive parent (the angry father) and they don't help people realize that professional help is needed for this kid and not brushing the abusive home life under the carpet.
Ex jw here. Love the channel man! And also the tears of the kingdom reference.
That basketball game was a metaphor for Judicial Committees. Guess which character represented the Elders?
Hint: it wasn't the rational, self-reflective one.
Is Watchtower trying to find a place in the "daytime drama" programming.?
It seems their target audience may be the same prople watching "Days of Our Lives," and "Young and the Restless."
It would be ironic considering that the Society condemns soap operas. But I can almost hear the announcer now: “Proctor and Gamble presents ‘As the Tower Crumbles’, the story of a typical congregation in a typical city, which asks the question: ‘What are you doing working for a multi-billion dollar publishing and real estate corporation? Get out and do something with your life!’” “Will August’s dad ever be re-appointed as a servant? Will Ben realize he needs professional help to deal with his anger issues and to keep calm when his parents fight? Will Sister So-and-So find the Lord’s ‘other sheep’ in her ‘need greater’ assignment? Will August ever move away from home? For the answers, tune in tomorrow to another installment of ‘As the Tower Crumbles’.”
Don't forget Bruce Willis and Armageddon!!
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Funny you!
It's funny how the kingdom hall always look empty 😂😂😂
Ben sounds like he may be in the closet he should open the door and let the anger go .
As many times as I’ve seen that video, I never noticed until NOW that when asked what they learned, ALL Caleb and Sophia learned was to pay attention. They learned nothing from the actual CONTENT of the meeting 😮
And compared to other "lessons" these poor kids have learned...yeah.
Sophia has learned that she has to tell her friend that her lesbian parents are not acceptable in Jehovah's eyes, so there goes a friendship down the toilet. More recently, she had to give up on science club and we found out she has no friends her age...just a grown woman!
Caleb has learned that he has to throw away a toy a friend gave him, because Jehovah doesn't like wizards, so there's another friendship down the drain as well. Then he was guilt tripped over eating a birthday cupcake, you can't make this stuff up!
And who can forget when both siblings were urged to give their ice cream pocket money to Jehovah!
"Put away wrath," yeah tell that to the God of the Old Testament. Pick up sticks on the wrong day? Dead. Didn't mutilate your child's genitals? Dead. Don't do what I say? Dead. DO do what I say? Dead. The lack of self-awareness and Olympic levels of mental gymnastics... it's honestly mind-boggling.
They colorgrade these dramas like slasher films. It's deeply disturbing.
Ah, that's why they're so depressing and ultimately creepy without the jump scares or gore.
It's also very reminiscent of the 90's show X-Files. Sci-Fi films use this color grading, too.
@@Rhonda_Maldonado_61824 yeah, X-Files leaned into that same creepy/unsettling kinda vibe too. But ya know, more fun. Haha
When are the JWorg. Oscars Awards ? 😆
lol
I believe the JWs have the Tony Awards, in honor of their favorite Morris.
They always win Oscars in my opinion.
As in Oscar Meyer.
Because it is all bologna!
@@alans.wendelschafer6588 lol
I think they've already happened, ie.Bruce Willis and Armageddon.
Damnit Wally, you've got me paranoid about my keyboard now!
lol
My gaydar is going crazy with these clips. The speaker. One of the actors. I hope these people wake up.
This drama is a FOUL!!! “A flagrant personal intentional FOUL!”
That “foul” video 🤬 Reminded me of a nerd in high school smh.
My God, how ridiculous this is. Getting angry in a basketball game? Really? This is the most pressing thing that needs to be dealt with? It just keeps getting more awful.
They probably have cameras monitoring the Bethel facility basketball court and saw an altercation. We have to deal with this worldwide, if it happens here in gods holiest of holies, it must be a major issue out there with every publisher everywhere. I don't know, just my odd thought.
Love the SpongeBob part. Spiritual goals are always going to be unattainable.
Funniest part about this is witnesses aren't even allowed to play sports in school it's something that is highly discouraged and whether they admit it or not it is a punishable offense
Yep. Anyone playing on a school team or doing any after school activity would be considered “weak” or “bad association” at the very least.
The chore analogy was perfect.
👋 The W is working!😁🥰👍
Wally I would use an example of a doctor with the point you’re making at the 6:40 mark. Doctors are imperfect, but they can’t make oopsy mistakes when it comes to “saving lives”
"but brother, as an adult I eat whenever I want" INDEPENDENT THINKER!!!
Thank you WT for making more meme material.
still can't believe that they talk the way they do when they are teaching..........
This is the second part of the first part of the first day of the latest convention, and soon will be the last part of the last part of the last day of the last convention until the next convention.
Pick up lines from the GB
1 - do you want to see my aquarium?
2- you know when they were talking about ...... the person i was thinking about was you.
Those office clips are hilarious 😂
You always get a like from me. You are definitely on my wavelength in your attitude towards the witnesses. You have a balanced and kind way of reviewing them. Yes the religion is crazy but you don't just bash them for the sake of it, you do give fair comments. There's no bitterness there. I understand why some would be bitter but I also think it can really damage your life after the witnesses if you can't. Anyway... good video again. Thanks
I remember sports being a big thing in the congregation, and without fail you would see people upset during a game, whether playing it or watching it. If you want to see a JW throw a tantrum, hold a congregation baseball game. All that pent up emotion that they can't normally express comes bubbling to the surface very quickly.
I agree. It’s like they have all this anger under the surface and it just comes out in that context!
Any efort pointing to the TRUTH as it is, is welcome for the most.
Watchtower wants it both ways! Double talking is their M.O.
S/N: Zelda Tears of the Kingdom is awesome!
Of course the elder daddy was covering SCA and ignoring Bible teachings because he is following GB orders. 😢
Wally, I give you a G on your use of illustrations. 😁 You use such good analogies! The parent promising their kid $20 for doing some chore, at some point.... spot on!
hey thanks! I am glad I passed. What is my next counsel point?
@@exjehovahswitness Use of gestures 😁
To it sounds like: keep running behind the air because next time you may can catch it.
I was raised a jw never got baptized, too much hypocrisy in my own home. Funny thing is i have brother who is still in, in order for us to stay close I humor when their is assembly or special talk, I've noticed that all the speakers young old black white speak in one cadence it sounds hypnotic, when u was young is wasn't this way, the speakers spoke according to there personalities
Favorite part of my day.....
That basketball bit was hilarious bruh😂🤣
I haven't watched this yet, but the title is really interesting. So, I'll have to save this to both my Watch Later list and my Religion: JW list.
Oh NO not into the library with the gang!!
I didn't know Pee Wee Herman was a jw 🤣
Hi Wally!
I had to laugh at the end of the video right after they hug; they did everything possible to avoid eye contact and then quickly go about their business as if ashamed they touched each other. Just check that clip again, you’ll chuckle 😂
My dad gave his life to the organisation, to the point where he was so busy being an elder he hardly had time for us. In the last year of his life, the congregation turned against him because of me not being a JW anymore. They spread rumours about us and forced him out. He died suddenly. His funeral was all about his acts of service and barely about him...
Have you see "The Whale" yet?
I don't watch The View.
It’s hilarious seeing how everyone on here knew the one brother who would get too worked up during a sports game. We had an MS that was beyond asshole-ish during every game. Down to him charging another brother during a football game and breaking his collarbone.
In their defense, there have been a couple trials in TotK that have made me want to throw my switch against the wall.
You ended that expose on a real downer. It's a tragedy of our times, but there is always a way out. I think the way out is going to occur within the fellowships. Phone numbers exchanged, clandestine underground meetings between like-minded people, the courage to go through the motions and outwardly make all the right signals without being detected, until it's time to cut loose completely. They won't have to fear the tyranny of the elders' passively aggressive wrath by threat of being disfellowshipped, because they will be among friends. They will need to beware, though, not to be seduced by the idea of forming another cult
Or When your struggle trying to understand why do you have to paint a building with a 2 inches Brush...!!!! Right.
W yes it's working.
That's a real Narcissist full of hate and evil, a scamming conman
Let us not forget "My Book of Horror Stories". Chapter 2; Abel in a pool of blood. Make sure you don't lick it up though!
OH MY GOD!!! Playing with witnesses was the WORST!!! Worldly games are always more civil and competitive. Where as with witnesses
1.) You’re held to the fake code of niceness. In sports it means they’ll yell and pretend there tough because nobody’s allowed to get punched in the face
2.) All the brothers who never played on a team during their childhood want to take over and prove something.
It was all so cringe, don’t miss it. I’ll gladly stick to my “worldly friend” runs and Babylon funded YMCA leagues😂😂
Yeah when jdubs played basketball all thought they where nba players
I see MULTIBILLIONAIRE INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE COMPANY NEEDS YOUR MONEY AND FREE WORK: now I understood fully who Jehovah really is.
Actually I did move to different congregations. It didn't work, but I really think that they saw me as someone who asks too many questions. I didn't just follow the leader. I let all of that go and felt so much better for it.
It’s seems to me the JW leadership is conditioning it’s followers for “new light” that the end isn’t around the corner after all and may be years into the future in contradiction to some other things they’ve said. In the meantime, “be patient” and “enjoy the journey”. That’s what I’m getting from these talks and videos.
"THAT WAS A FOUL!!!" 😂😂
^ jw's playing bb at the park was always cringe 😬.
These films are SO cheezy. And SO DARK & DEPRESSING! ..i guess that’s the hint if you catch it. Come to the actual truth & see the light when u leave JW! YOUR INSIGHTS ARE ON-POINT!👏👍
So I've been learning Hebrew (after the JWs I don't want anyone telling me what the Bible actually says). When it says you shall not take the Lord's name in vain it doesn't have anything to do with cussing. It means you better not say, "we represent God", "come in God's name" or act like you speak for God. Especially if you are wrong. So all the wars fought "In the name of God" that were not? Those people will answer to a Holy God someday. I wouldn't want to be a member of the governing body of JWs on judgment day. Even the elders will face a much heavier punishment, for teachers are held to a higher standard. I pray they all wake up before its too late. I was 4th generation and my dad's an elder. I pray for my whole family all the time.
Very interesting point about taking the Lord’s Name in vain! Thank you for that!
Hi Wally. Yep my W key works.
A girl talked to him! He should repent for her talking to him to the Elders.