All coming from a mother that would have denied her son a university education, told him the end was coming any time soon. Denied him a blood transfusion if needed and would have shunned him if he left the cult. Smart kid for getting out of the madness.
_"the end was coming any time soon"_ Because these are the lies she was told by WT when she was a child. Now she's telling her son the same lies. The abused eventually become the abuser. It's a vicious cycle.
Smart kid ? Kids are baby goats!! Smart lad !! Lads are young males / boys. (Smsrt one lad for waking up to the controll mechanisms of the WTS (WARLOCK'S TOWER OF SINS, with its witchcraft)
So very very true and so very very sad and pathetic that I once believed this also. I am so happy I was able to apologize to my children for doing this to them. All I feel when i read this now is disgust.
I had that very same poem in my JW scrapbook. Me, a mother of 6. I'm was cringing when you were reading it, because I vividly remembered what the last sentence would be. 😬
That says it all. Thank you for sharing. There is no love in that thinking. Jesus came to save the world not judge it, but these people think they know who is good & who is bad.
This... right there...is the reason I could never, will never, go back to such vomit. Absolutely disgusting to think I once sat there and was drenched in such poison. Never had the nerve to actually comment before on anyone's channel, but this did something to me as you were reading it that rocked me to my core as a mother/grandmother.
My father used to give the public talk with this poem in it all through the 90s while I was a teenager. I heard this poem so many times. When I saw the title of this video, I wondered if this was the poem I hadn't heard in decades. You don't release videos often, but when you do, it's worth the wait. The last line always hit hard, especially the way my father delivered it. People used to always comment about it to him at the Hall after the meeting or during hospitality. I wonder if my father still gives that talk...🤔
"That you would serve the Brothers, go to Bethel, Gillead School - something special" God isn't asking us to serve the Brothers/Watchtower, he wants us to serve each other. A mother, more than anyone, should be encouraging her children to do what they do best and enjoy doing rather than expecting any particular work. 1 Peter 4:10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. She exposes herself by admitting the discipline and punishment she handed out. Training, direction and guidance is proper discipline, not punishment She checked the publications to get an understanding for his being un co-operative. Obviously that didn't work for her and she even admits it. It wasn't important for him to study, there was enough meetings for him to attend each week. It wasn't important for him to witness in areas where his school mates were. Kindness and consideration could have been shown in both these matters. But oh no, she had to insist on things like this until he reached breaking point but he was to blame, not her. He didn't become a different person, she never knew him to start with. She chose to completely cut him off, with no support and wondered why he would never return. The end of that Poem is the saddest of all, She would rather have been in the Kingdom Hall, Where she was taught not to have true affection and in the future, she will grow to perfection She feels no pain for the son she never knew Whilst believing this religion is real and true She my be in for a shock To find he is one of the flock
I just watched your YT testimony from 4 years ago so wondered what has happened to you since that time. Here you are so glad to see you again. God bless you and wishing you well. I am not a JW, but lost a friend to the organization 6 years ago. We are 80 years old now and have nothing in common. I miss her friendship. Can't wish her a happy birthday, Merry Christmas, etc. The JW's have taken over her life. I have watched many of the Ex-JW videos so I understand why her life jas changed. I am a Christian so I do pray for her and still care for her. She became a JW when she retired, and her sister was her introduction to the JW org. She lives with her sister and is dependent on her since my friend no longer drives.
I became one of Jehovah’s Witnesses at 22! I was raised by two good parents who loved me who didn’t use an instruction manual to raise me! Thankfully upon leaving this organisation after 36 years I can see the difference between real love and false love. This organisation is absolutely awful they teach a conditional love that I now know that a real loving father or creator would have no part of! I was a very naive 20 year old when I started looking into the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses I have learned a very valuable lesson and so glad to be out living my life for myself and my family. Just found your channel and love what you have to say. Thank you. ❤
Wow..I started “a Bible study “ at age 20…got baptised at 22 in 1990 at the “pure language “ district convention My background was Lutheran ..but my older sister had become a JDub in 1984
Thanks Phil I can picture my biological family sitting in the KH nodding in agreement and talking about how they did the best they could. Boo hoo you psychopaths I'm glad I don't have to see you anymore!!
Phil, brilliant and personal exposure of the and narcissism that WT grooms into its members. We escaped after 36 years (too long) involvement. We are watching our 4 born in family members “remain loyal” to the fantasy. We continue to welcome them and others to awaken to reality and human freedom.
Personally I have not heard of this poem but it reflects the sociopathic characteristics of the organisation. In order to function in it you have to adopt those characteristics in order for the org to utilise you properly. That’s why the rates of mental illness in it is off the charts in comparison to others
First, Jehovah created his "organization". Then he created alcohol and anti-depressants so people could cope with being in his organization. JWs want an eternity of this?
@@daviesngwenya9689 A long life does not mean a happy life, which I now have, but you may be right. This organization may outlive me to destroy many more lives- with the theft of human potential, the life-long trauma caused by the coverup of child sexual abuse, and the hypocrisy of caring more about its brand than it does about its people.
This is Unbelievable and a Very Sad and Unloving poem, I feel so Sorry for you to have a mother to have written such.. You deserve So Much Better. ❤ Blessings Sent Your Way. 🤗🙏🧸
I love poetry but this, the ending is so sad on many levels, poignant. It is as though you never existed in their heart nor mind. It goes against the very nature of Love 🖤
If you believe in the God of the bible, you must know that he is called the God of the living, not of the dead. What that means is that Jehovah God will resurrect those that he deems fit for resurrection, that is, those that he remembers. Those that he deems incorrigible, Jehovah has sought of erased them from his memory. "Poof" like smoke as brother Morris puts it. Like when a teacher clears the chalk board with a duster. Why should a mother shed crocodile tears like you. Any who do not value their very lives, do not deserve to live. Do they?
Oh wowie, I’ve heard this before!! Was it shared as an chain letter/chain email at one time? My auntie always forwarded all the JW spam making it’s way around.
thanks for sharing that vile bile Phil, its truly horror movie stuff. Makes me wonder if I ever heard it while I was confined as a mindless battery hen, probably! 1987-2018 now organic free range.🐔
So the point of the story is it really doesn’t matter if the son makes it or not - at least the mother’s not feeling no pain! Why would anyone want to spend all eternity with their downer mom when all the cool kids are dead?
They don't need Armageddon to separate themselves from their families. They volunteer to do it now ...willingly. and that's the whole point of it all, isn't it
It might be a good time to ask ourselves what we aspire to become. 1. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that an undetectable supernatural realm exists that is inhabited by undetectable, all-powerful, immortal beings, some good and some evil, all of them privileged to know the veracity of all things knowable and unknowable? 2. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know they are intimately familiar with a reality that is undetectable and unknowable, and have an intimate personal relationship with an undetectable good supernatural being that allows them to communicate telepathically with their master in the undetectable supernatural realm? 3. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that while our superstitious ancient ancestors went about creating religious holy books, they did not do so while pretending to know things that are unknowable? 4. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that an undetectable good supernatural being has bestowed upon them thousands of unknowable truths, including what it thinks and wants? 5. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings are continuously monitoring and passing righteous judgment upon every human thought and deed? 6. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have ordained them with the exclusive ethical moral authority, knowledge, and duty to advise me as to the truth of all unknowable knowledge that good supernatural beings supposedly want me to also pretend to know? 7. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that we are all immortal supernatural beings temporarily trapped in a mortal flesh body? 8. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable evil supernatural beings are manipulating my thinking to prevent me from pretending to know the unknowable knowledge that good supernatural beings want me to pretend to know? 9. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that being tortured in a lake of fire for eternity is just retribution for failing to pretend to know the same unknowable things that they pretend they know? 10. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have endowed them with the exclusive ethical moral authority, knowledge, and duty to recognize, challenge and condemn anyone who dares to spread a different version of unknowable knowledge? 11. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to restrict the questions, facts, narratives, and realities, I may entertain? 12. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings are responsible and deserve credit for every good thing that I experience in life? 13. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have informed them that I am responsible for, and deserve blame for, every hardship I suffer in life? 14. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have informed them that if I fail to dedicate myself to a life of servitude to undetectable good supernatural beings, it is only because I have willfully chosen a life of servitude to undetectable evil supernatural beings? 15. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that it is their righteous duty to visit hate, discrimination, misfortune, hardship, oppression, suffering, and destruction upon those whom their undetectable good supernatural mentors disapprove of? 16. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to outlaw sex acts, preferences, and practices that do not conform to the undetectable supernatural realm’s sexual standards? 17. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to condemn your sexual thoughts, desires, and fantasies? 18. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to condemn masturbation? 19. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have granted them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to restrict access to birth control? 20. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to regulate which adults you may or may not associate with, cohabitate with, have sex with, love, and/or marry?
RELIGION: 1. Boundless conceit concealed as utmost modesty. 2. Justification for regulating one's own behavior and coercing others to regulate theirs. 3. An inexhaustible mine of meaning for the mentally lazy. ---- Quoted from THE UNTAMED TONGUE by Thomas Szasz
This poem reminds me how Jesus said that if you only love those who love you back then what special thing have you done? Aren't the tax collectors doing the same thing?
Going through a few of the comments here I see some who are castigated the fictional mother for hindering or misdirected her child. The mother was only doing her duty as any good parent should do. Equipping her child for everlasting life in a paradise earth. What is the point of gaining the whole world but ending up dead. Killed by the "success" of this world that is passing away. "If" I repeat "if" there really is a new earth in the offing, would it not be outright stupid to chase one scrumptious meal like Esau and forfeit the next 100 ordinary meals? If you don't appreciate life, you don't deserve the real life.(1Tim 6:19)
Let's flip your hypothetical on its head. Why should someone gamble with their entire life on the slight chance at some mystical reward? What if this life is the only one you get? Don't you want to live free of regret?
@@CoffeeAddictEvan I totally agree with you on gambling. You cannot gamble with your life. As JWs, we value life. We do not gamble. If this life was all there is we would go out there and make the best of it. But we know there is more. Do you ever doubt that the summer will come and go and every 12 months we will be exactly where we are today? Why is that? An intelligent, all powerful creator set this process in motion. For what purpose? For his intelligent creation. Humans. The earth regenerates itself. It will never wear out. It is going to be our everlasting home. God proved that when he made the Israelites wear the same garment and sandals for 40 years in the wilderness. If He can do that to a pair of dead sandals, is he not capable of doing that to a living person? Do yourself a favor. Talk to the next JW you meet. Ask them how you can get to live forever. No gambling.(Psalm 37:29)
@@daviesngwenya9689 the thing is, it is a gamble. A gamble based on something that not only is fundamentally unprovable, it's worse: undisprovable. If that's the best proof of your god, then that's worse conjecture. First, we already know how the earth goes around the sun. Second, even if that were proof of a designer, you're still no closer to (a) proving God is that designer or (b) that your interpretation of God is correct. Even if you presuppose both a creator and that the creator is Jehovah, what do the many flaws in his creation mean? What about the chaos and disorder, viruses and bacteria, or even the vagus nerve? What about the many errors in the Bible? Or the many wrong interpretations given by your leaders in New York? This is a gamble no one should be willing to take.
@@CoffeeAddictEvan please do not make this look like a waste of time. Tell me, do you believe what God says through his inspired word, the bible? If you do believe, do you think the Bible can be trusted when it speaks of everlasting life in a paradise earth? (Rev 21:1-4) Secondly, you must understand that interpretations belong to God. If any man makes a wrong interpretation or calculation you cannot criticisise God for that. There is absolutely no error in the Bible. Not one. The errors are in your lack of understanding.
@@daviesngwenya9689 why should I believe the Bible to be the infallible word of God? What evidence is there for that claim? A lot of the imagery in the Bible only makes sense when you realise that the ancient Israelites believed the earth is flat. For example, Genesis chapter 1 talks about the firmament separating the waters above the earth from the waters below. That's why the sky is blue, they believed, because the firmament holds back the celestial ocean. The flood of Noah is described as the sky opening up, and allowing the ocean above to fall on the earth beneath. The book of Job talks about God supporting the earth on pillars. Israel was never captive to Babylon for 70 years. Israel was destroyed in 586, and Babylon was captured by Persia in 539. Tyre was destroyed by Alexander the Great, not Nebuchadnezzar (Ezekiel 26, although this prophecy is worded a little vaguely), and was eventually reinhabited (Ezekiel 28:19). Pharoah defeated the invading Babylonians (Ezekiel 29:19), and was later conquered by the Persians instead. We have archeological evidence that different languages existed long before the tower of Babel, if it even existed, and that humans have existed for much longer than 6000 years. Matthew chapter 2 puts Jesus' birth sometime before 4 BCE, because Herod died in 4 BCE and Joseph and Mary were already in Egypt at that point, whereas Luke puts his birth in the year 6 CE. Luke 2:2 Quirinius became governor and issued the decree for a census in the year 6. There are more, but I'll let you discover them yourself, if you wish.
Going through a few of the comments here I see some who are castigated the fictional mother for hindering or misdirected her child. The mother was only doing her duty as any good parent should do. Equipping her child for everlasting life in a paradise earth. What is the point of gaining the whole world but ending up dead. Killed by the "success" of this world that is passing away. "If" I repeat "if" there really is a new earth in the offing, would it not be outright stupid to chase one scrumptious meal like Esau and forfeit the next 100 ordinary meals? If you don't appreciate life, you don't deserve the real life.(1Tim 6:19)
All coming from a mother that would have denied her son a university education, told him the end was coming any time soon. Denied him a blood transfusion if needed and would have shunned him if he left the cult. Smart kid for getting out of the madness.
_"the end was coming any time soon"_
Because these are the lies she was told by WT when she was a child. Now she's telling her son the same lies. The abused eventually become the abuser. It's a vicious cycle.
Smart kid ? Kids are baby goats!!
Smart lad !!
Lads are young males / boys. (Smsrt one lad for waking up to the controll mechanisms of the WTS (WARLOCK'S TOWER OF SINS, with its witchcraft)
@@robertgrey6101and there I was thinking to be the only one that hates the expression kids, when referring to human offspring
A Mother's Thoughtlessness ...great topic .....worthy of a Tombstone 🎉🎉🎉
So very very true and so very very sad and pathetic that I once believed this also. I am so happy I was able to apologize to my children for doing this to them. All I feel when i read this now is disgust.
I had that very same poem in my JW scrapbook. Me, a mother of 6. I'm was cringing when you were reading it, because I vividly remembered what the last sentence would be. 😬
The ending was so shocking! They truly brainwash them in to being cold hearted.
That says it all. Thank you for sharing. There is no love in that thinking. Jesus came to save the world not judge it, but these people think they know who is good & who is bad.
This... right there...is the reason I could never, will never, go back to such vomit. Absolutely disgusting to think I once sat there and was drenched in such poison. Never had the nerve to actually comment before on anyone's channel, but this did something to me as you were reading it that rocked me to my core as a mother/grandmother.
I'm pretty sure I heard it in Onamia, MN. Circa 2006-2009. Onamia KH is gone now, sold in 2010.
As you listen to this poem, just remember,
"Jehovah’s servants are the *most loving* people on earth." w07 8/15 p.26, par.18
That's Funny, will make your eyes roll, and then burst into laughter, sweet dreams after that one ...
My father used to give the public talk with this poem in it all through the 90s while I was a teenager. I heard this poem so many times. When I saw the title of this video, I wondered if this was the poem I hadn't heard in decades. You don't release videos often, but when you do, it's worth the wait. The last line always hit hard, especially the way my father delivered it. People used to always comment about it to him at the Hall after the meeting or during hospitality. I wonder if my father still gives that talk...🤔
Same! My dad would always get choked up reading it.
I remember this poem😢. I don't remember how I heard it, probably a public talk.
I live on the west coast, you were in the east.
So heart breaking 💔
2:58 *"Then you began to lie, cheat and deceive."*
So why wasn't this mother happy that her son was actively working toward becoming an Elder?
That poem gives you a lot to think about and shows what JW’s are really thinking!
"That you would serve the Brothers, go to Bethel, Gillead School - something special"
God isn't asking us to serve the Brothers/Watchtower, he wants us to serve each other.
A mother, more than anyone, should be encouraging her children to do what they do best and enjoy doing rather than expecting any particular work.
1 Peter 4:10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
She exposes herself by admitting the discipline and punishment she handed out.
Training, direction and guidance is proper discipline, not punishment
She checked the publications to get an understanding for his being un co-operative.
Obviously that didn't work for her and she even admits it.
It wasn't important for him to study, there was enough meetings for him to attend each week.
It wasn't important for him to witness in areas where his school mates were.
Kindness and consideration could have been shown in both these matters.
But oh no, she had to insist on things like this until he reached breaking point but he was to blame, not her.
He didn't become a different person, she never knew him to start with.
She chose to completely cut him off, with no support and wondered why he would never return.
The end of that Poem is the saddest of all,
She would rather have been in the Kingdom Hall,
Where she was taught not to have true affection
and in the future, she will grow to perfection
She feels no pain for the son she never knew
Whilst believing this religion is real and true
She my be in for a shock
To find he is one of the flock
I just watched your YT testimony from 4 years ago so wondered what has happened to you since that time. Here you are so glad to see you again. God bless you and wishing you well.
I am not a JW, but lost a friend to the organization 6 years ago. We are 80 years old now and have nothing in common. I miss her friendship. Can't wish her a happy birthday, Merry Christmas, etc. The JW's have taken over her life. I have watched many of the Ex-JW videos so I understand why her life jas changed.
I am a Christian so I do pray for her and still care for her. She became a JW when she retired, and her sister was her introduction to the JW org. She lives with her sister and is dependent on her since my friend no longer drives.
I think we should all write a different ending how we woke up and lived happily ever after. Thanks phil
Great idea 💡
I became one of Jehovah’s Witnesses at 22! I was raised by two good parents who loved me who didn’t use an instruction manual to raise me! Thankfully upon leaving this organisation after 36 years I can see the difference between real love and false love. This organisation is absolutely awful they teach a conditional love that I now know that a real loving father or creator would have no part of! I was a very naive 20 year old when I started looking into the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses I have learned a very valuable lesson and so glad to be out living my life for myself and my family. Just found your channel and love what you have to say. Thank you. ❤
Wow..I started “a Bible study “ at age 20…got baptised at 22 in 1990 at the “pure language “ district convention
My background was Lutheran ..but my older sister had become a JDub in 1984
Interesting Poetry Stuff !
My cat has better feelings though. She just took over 5 kittens whose mother died, and nurse them along with her own 3 kitten.
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Questo e vero amore da L'ITALIA.
Always a chilling last line. Remember the one they wrote about abortion that ends with "today my mother killed me!"
Thanks Phil I can picture my biological family sitting in the KH nodding in agreement and talking about how they did the best they could. Boo hoo you psychopaths I'm glad I don't have to see you anymore!!
another great video Phil...i never heard that poem, but way up here in canada
My mother suffer from mental illness , you can't imagine the pressure put on my siblings and myself to get baptized in 1969
Phil, brilliant and personal exposure of the and narcissism that WT grooms into its members. We escaped after 36 years (too long) involvement. We are watching our 4 born in family members “remain loyal” to the fantasy. We continue to welcome them and others to awaken to reality and human freedom.
That was just too much...hard to belive that children's would listen to this...
The first line of that poem should be, “Pack your bags, son, you’re going on a guilt trip”
😂exactly
Personally I have not heard of this poem but it reflects the sociopathic characteristics of the organisation. In order to function in it you have to adopt those characteristics in order for the org to utilise you properly. That’s why the rates of mental illness in it is off the charts in comparison to others
First, Jehovah created his "organization".
Then he created alcohol and anti-depressants so people could cope with being in his organization.
JWs want an eternity of this?
That's True...
Thanks Phil. I have never heard that poem before and I hope I never hear it again! What a load of emotionally manipulative BS!
WTAF, I hate this organization more than I will ever be able to express.
You're not alone... many others do.
It will outlive you
@@daviesngwenya9689 A long life does not mean a happy life, which I now have, but you may be right. This organization may outlive me to destroy many more lives- with the theft of human potential, the life-long trauma caused by the coverup of child sexual abuse, and the hypocrisy of caring more about its brand than it does about its people.
@@excultcarol5570 there is only +8 million. Why be bothered by such an insignificant number. But if you are really ex JW, you know the drill.
This is Unbelievable and a Very Sad and Unloving poem, I feel so Sorry for you to have a mother to have written such.. You deserve So Much Better. ❤
Blessings Sent Your Way.
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Such an interesting perspective. When you are finally free of that cult, you hear that poem for what it really is…sick.
WoW! What a guilt trip 🥺
I love poetry but this, the ending is so sad on many levels, poignant. It is as though you never existed in their heart nor mind. It goes against the very nature of Love 🖤
If you believe in the God of the bible, you must know that he is called the God of the living, not of the dead. What that means is that Jehovah God will resurrect those that he deems fit for resurrection, that is, those that he remembers. Those that he deems incorrigible, Jehovah has sought of erased them from his memory. "Poof" like smoke as brother Morris puts it. Like when a teacher clears the chalk board with a duster. Why should a mother shed crocodile tears like you. Any who do not value their very lives, do not deserve to live. Do they?
HOLY SH*T, that poem it disgusting…thanks for your channel.
Damnnnn! Stone cold! That's a shameful, twisted lack of natural affection .
That poem gives me anxiety 😦
Well hellooooooooo Phil!!
I have a poem for WT:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Watchtower sucks.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Funny Funny Funny, lots of money, in a Rich Mans World, Aha, Aha, sings the GB.
Jesus that was dark
Oh wowie, I’ve heard this before!! Was it shared as an chain letter/chain email at one time? My auntie always forwarded all the JW spam making it’s way around.
Never heard it! Thank you for all your videos!
The letter you read made me cringe at the end.
thanks for sharing that vile bile Phil, its truly horror movie stuff. Makes me wonder if I ever heard it while I was confined as a mindless battery hen, probably! 1987-2018 now organic free range.🐔
Hi Janice that's a priceless reply,,the reward hit the Sky, ********.........*.....
I thought the former things would not cross our minds.
So the point of the story is it really doesn’t matter if the son makes it or not - at least the mother’s not feeling no pain! Why would anyone want to spend all eternity with their downer mom when all the cool kids are dead?
😂😂😂👍
They don't need Armageddon to separate themselves from their families. They volunteer to do it now ...willingly. and that's the whole point of it all, isn't it
That's no true for me. I suffer now thinking my children will not be with me. The pain is real and great.
That was brutal
It might be a good time to ask ourselves what we aspire to become.
1. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that an undetectable supernatural realm exists that is inhabited by undetectable, all-powerful, immortal beings, some good and some evil, all of them privileged to know the veracity of all things knowable and unknowable?
2. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know they are intimately familiar with a reality that is undetectable and unknowable, and have an intimate personal relationship with an undetectable good supernatural being that allows them to communicate telepathically with their master in the undetectable supernatural realm?
3. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that while our superstitious ancient ancestors went about creating religious holy books, they did not do so while pretending to know things that are unknowable?
4. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that an undetectable good supernatural being has bestowed upon them thousands of unknowable truths, including what it thinks and wants?
5. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings are continuously monitoring and passing righteous judgment upon every human thought and deed?
6. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have ordained them with the exclusive ethical moral authority, knowledge, and duty to advise me as to the truth of all unknowable knowledge that good supernatural beings supposedly want me to also pretend to know?
7. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that we are all immortal supernatural beings temporarily trapped in a mortal flesh body?
8. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable evil supernatural beings are manipulating my thinking to prevent me from pretending to know the unknowable knowledge that good supernatural beings want me to pretend to know?
9. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that being tortured in a lake of fire for eternity is just retribution for failing to pretend to know the same unknowable things that they pretend they know?
10. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have endowed them with the exclusive ethical moral authority, knowledge, and duty to recognize, challenge and condemn anyone who dares to spread a different version of unknowable knowledge?
11. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to restrict the questions, facts, narratives, and realities, I may entertain?
12. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings are responsible and deserve credit for every good thing that I experience in life?
13. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have informed them that I am responsible for, and deserve blame for, every hardship I suffer in life?
14. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have informed them that if I fail to dedicate myself to a life of servitude to undetectable good supernatural beings, it is only because I have willfully chosen a life of servitude to undetectable evil supernatural beings?
15. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that it is their righteous duty to visit hate, discrimination, misfortune, hardship, oppression, suffering, and destruction upon those whom their undetectable good supernatural mentors disapprove of?
16. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to outlaw sex acts, preferences, and practices that do not conform to the undetectable supernatural realm’s sexual standards?
17. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to condemn your sexual thoughts, desires, and fantasies?
18. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to condemn masturbation?
19. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have granted them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to restrict access to birth control?
20. Should I allow myself to become one of those who pretend to know that undetectable good supernatural beings have delegated to them the exclusive ethical moral authority and duty to regulate which adults you may or may not associate with, cohabitate with, have sex with, love, and/or marry?
RELIGION:
1. Boundless conceit concealed as utmost modesty.
2. Justification for regulating one's own behavior and coercing others to
regulate theirs.
3. An inexhaustible mine of meaning for the mentally lazy.
---- Quoted from THE UNTAMED TONGUE by Thomas Szasz
I never knew we had poetry or any culture.
wow. ugh.
JWs shut off their hearts to family members who leave the borg. That's why this mom won't cry. So sad.😢
Sad but funny and true 👍 that poem must be from the twisted crazy mind of a fully indoctrinated person.
Obeeeed! :D
@@theblueenvelope Phiiiillll!!! 😄
Hi Phil,
I just realized that this poem may not be written by your mother, sorry I misunderstood. 😮
Still, Unbelievable.
Take care!❤
I doubt that a mother wrote that.
Hopefully not.
That’s how they breed the BORG….HAVE EVERYONE LISTENED TO CRAP LIKE THIS,
This poem reminds me how Jesus said that if you only love those who love you back then what special thing have you done? Aren't the tax collectors doing the same thing?
I pity your dad. The good part is that at least you know what's coming to you.
when you finished the last sentence of the poem, my first thought: that's horrible.
Going through a few of the comments here I see some who are castigated the fictional mother for hindering or misdirected her child. The mother was only doing her duty as any good parent should do. Equipping her child for everlasting life in a paradise earth. What is the point of gaining the whole world but ending up dead. Killed by the "success" of this world that is passing away. "If" I repeat "if" there really is a new earth in the offing, would it not be outright stupid to chase one scrumptious meal like Esau and forfeit the next 100 ordinary meals? If you don't appreciate life, you don't deserve the real life.(1Tim 6:19)
Let's flip your hypothetical on its head.
Why should someone gamble with their entire life on the slight chance at some mystical reward?
What if this life is the only one you get?
Don't you want to live free of regret?
@@CoffeeAddictEvan I totally agree with you on gambling. You cannot gamble with your life. As JWs, we value life. We do not gamble. If this life was all there is we would go out there and make the best of it. But we know there is more. Do you ever doubt that the summer will come and go and every 12 months we will be exactly where we are today? Why is that? An intelligent, all powerful creator set this process in motion. For what purpose? For his intelligent creation. Humans. The earth regenerates itself. It will never wear out. It is going to be our everlasting home. God proved that when he made the Israelites wear the same garment and sandals for 40 years in the wilderness. If He can do that to a pair of dead sandals, is he not capable of doing that to a living person? Do yourself a favor. Talk to the next JW you meet. Ask them how you can get to live forever. No gambling.(Psalm 37:29)
@@daviesngwenya9689 the thing is, it is a gamble. A gamble based on something that not only is fundamentally unprovable, it's worse: undisprovable.
If that's the best proof of your god, then that's worse conjecture.
First, we already know how the earth goes around the sun. Second, even if that were proof of a designer, you're still no closer to (a) proving God is that designer or (b) that your interpretation of God is correct.
Even if you presuppose both a creator and that the creator is Jehovah, what do the many flaws in his creation mean? What about the chaos and disorder, viruses and bacteria, or even the vagus nerve?
What about the many errors in the Bible?
Or the many wrong interpretations given by your leaders in New York?
This is a gamble no one should be willing to take.
@@CoffeeAddictEvan please do not make this look like a waste of time. Tell me, do you believe what God says through his inspired word, the bible? If you do believe, do you think the Bible can be trusted when it speaks of everlasting life in a paradise earth? (Rev 21:1-4)
Secondly, you must understand that interpretations belong to God. If any man makes a wrong interpretation or calculation you cannot criticisise God for that. There is absolutely no error in the Bible. Not one. The errors are in your lack of understanding.
@@daviesngwenya9689 why should I believe the Bible to be the infallible word of God? What evidence is there for that claim?
A lot of the imagery in the Bible only makes sense when you realise that the ancient Israelites believed the earth is flat. For example, Genesis chapter 1 talks about the firmament separating the waters above the earth from the waters below.
That's why the sky is blue, they believed, because the firmament holds back the celestial ocean.
The flood of Noah is described as the sky opening up, and allowing the ocean above to fall on the earth beneath.
The book of Job talks about God supporting the earth on pillars.
Israel was never captive to Babylon for 70 years.
Israel was destroyed in 586, and Babylon was captured by Persia in 539.
Tyre was destroyed by Alexander the Great, not Nebuchadnezzar (Ezekiel 26, although this prophecy is worded a little vaguely), and was eventually reinhabited (Ezekiel 28:19).
Pharoah defeated the invading Babylonians (Ezekiel 29:19), and was later conquered by the Persians instead.
We have archeological evidence that different languages existed long before the tower of Babel, if it even existed, and that humans have existed for much longer than 6000 years.
Matthew chapter 2 puts Jesus' birth sometime before 4 BCE, because Herod died in 4 BCE and Joseph and Mary were already in Egypt at that point, whereas Luke puts his birth in the year 6 CE. Luke 2:2 Quirinius became governor and issued the decree for a census in the year 6.
There are more, but I'll let you discover them yourself, if you wish.
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?
That is a messed up piece of propaganda! Thanks‼️🌟
Love your enemy and hate your child
JW fan friction
I hate it.
So gross!
Going through a few of the comments here I see some who are castigated the fictional mother for hindering or misdirected her child. The mother was only doing her duty as any good parent should do. Equipping her child for everlasting life in a paradise earth. What is the point of gaining the whole world but ending up dead. Killed by the "success" of this world that is passing away. "If" I repeat "if" there really is a new earth in the offing, would it not be outright stupid to chase one scrumptious meal like Esau and forfeit the next 100 ordinary meals? If you don't appreciate life, you don't deserve the real life.(1Tim 6:19)