The Worst Caleb And Sophia Cartoon EVER!!!
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exjw ex jehovah's Witness Former Pioneer Former Ministerial Servant Former Elder Tony Morris Watchtower Cult
As a kid, I always found it weird (and kinda scary) that Moses could throw a stick on the ground and have it turn into a snake and also turn an entire river into blood by pointing said stick at it, but a child playing with a toy character that has make-believe magical powers totally upsets the creator of the entire universe, according to them.
It's not the magic that's bad, it's *who* makes the magic that is. Jehovah wants to be the exclusive Wizard of the Universe, the one and only purveyor of parlor tricks.
If you actually read the account... It's weird being out and reading without the rose tinted glasses. "Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his servants, and it turned into a snake. Pharaoh called in his wise men and sorcerers. The magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their spells: each man threw down his staff and they all turned into snakes."
The plagues were just like team Moses&Aaron vs Pharaoh's magicians having like a wizard competition. Whoever could wizard the hardest would win.
Well said. Amen
@@lumino0001
Yeah I remember questioning this account when I was still in as a raised-in jw child (exjw since many years now); I asked how the magicians of Egypt had the power to create living creatures (snakes), never got any answers, but I’m sure that any answers presented would have been bullshit, just as all the other statements coming from the wt and its representatives 😂…
I knew a family that pushed their 13-year-old son to get baptized. By the time he was 15 or 16 he was disfellowshipped. Come to find out later. One of the "elders" was sexually abusing the boy. They ruined that boy's life and no one was held accountable instead somehow he was to blame.
That makes me want to vomit. This Borg needs to be exposed for that boy’s sake, for so many others sake. There needs to be a full blown, well produced documentary like Shiny Happy People, for example so everyone knows stories like his.
@@KC-gi9ol didn't want to go into detail but I knew him before his mother got married. He couldn't have been more than four or five when I met them. Unfortunately he's not the only one. Another excellent individual committed suicide under pressure from the self-righteous judgmental Watchtower Cult. Basically shamed to death for having homosexual urges All the while watchtower is still infested with pedophiles and molesters.
Ugh that is so upsetting. That poor boy. 😕
This is what gets me. These parents push and push to get this kid baptized and the kid is actually getting molested. What a horrid life for him. OMG. I am surprised that more JW's arent shot like the ones shot in Germany.
@@robinkish-miller2990 in the JW Cult world if your minor children are baptized it puts you on a fast track to become elder pioneer or whatever. Please don't confuse so-called elders with actual Elders like in Africa where these men go to war and lay down their lives for their village. The so-called pioneers conned into thinking they're recruiting for Jehovah when actually they're just recruiting more publishers for watchtower who will be required to deceive people into thinking they're getting Bible studies. These pastors are nothing more than prison guards and if you leave for any reason you will get shot in the back by character assassination lies and slander.
My uncle stopped talking to my grandma because he assumed she stopped going to meetings. She was terminally ill and was getting the meetings over the phone and never missed one. She's now passed away and he told my aunts thats why he stopped coming around and wasn't there when she was on her death bed. Just A mere assumption and they mark you.
Its terrible!
Oh, that is so disgusting!!!
@kasiavu4629 he never bothered to call or stop by to see her either.. dang shame….that’s real love for family & friends…SMH!
@@symone3113 the Watchtower literally warps people’s minds!!!
@@symone3113 It's not that he didn't 'bother', it's that yu're taught that even speaking to them is a spiritual risk. It's shocking no one had contact with him to say she was terminally ill and she never reached out to him herself though.
Makes me wonder if the family was already severely fragmented from the religion or other circumstances.
That's very sad though.
Assuming that's the only side to the story your uncle is a POS. There's a very real chance this is revenge for childhood trauma, that being his mom, what kind of things did she do to him or threaten him with when he didn't go to meetings as a kid?
That series should be called “How to be a manipulative parent”
or, The Chronicles of the Manson Family
Or "How to turn your kids into serial killers".
@@funkyweapon1981 13 reasons why we put you in a home
How to be part of a cultist religion
@niccage6375 Would johova like that?
I can't help but see the reality of how this would go. When she asked the little boy, "Do you really want to play with a toy that Jehovah hates?" The kid would be thinking, "Yes I want to play with it, but I can already see where this is going and you are going to take the toy away from me, so I might as well go along with you so that you don't go on about it for hours." Then the child that really did want to play with that toy and have an imagination, is forced into lying to placate the parent. All they have done is make their kid unhappy and a liar.
Why can't they just help their kids understand what is fantasy and what is real? After all the whole religion is about a fairy tale that that is so wholesome that these people just can't wait for a magical moment when God will commit the biggest genocide ever known and then they can everyones stuff too. They can not even see how evil that sounds when it's broken down.
Yeah, when I was still in, having been raised-in, I remember some jws openly saying, whilst we were going from door to door, the houses, cars, etc. that they were coming for after god cleanses the earth during Armageddon!
They were already calling dibs on their preferred toys, properties. I wonder if they were creaming their underwear anticipating the great payout… 😂!
Indeed i did the same when my mom told me i couldn't have a He-man action figure because it was about magic and sorcery. I ended up playing with a self-made He-man figure out of Playmobil!!!
@@greyberet1 sounds downright covetous of them, yet another reason to not waste money on a nice, expensive car- in the unlikely event of the Jehovah's Witness Armageddon, they will remember your house and come back to take your car.
They are very superstitious (although they'll deny it), so they think even playing with an idea can 'let the devil in'. So in that sense, there is no difference between reality and fantasy; it's not a worthwhile risk if playing with a wizard doll could get an evil spirit attached to you or could put you at spiritual risk in some unspecified way.
"If you take my toy away I'll tell the blue man you touched my no no"
That’s a heartbreaking story Wally. Can’t even imagine. May the Magic of Sparlock give you comfort.
🧙🏽♂️🪄🔮
All hail Sparlock!
Fun fact: the Mormons have a Sofia cartoon as well and she's about the same age. The similarities are cult-level creepy.
Cult-wars. When cults try to out-cult each other 🥴
Wow! Out cult each other…😂😂
@@symone3113 That's why I like the Cult of Cthulhu.
😮+😡(Imagine those two faces meshed/fused together) WTF? Growing up (but not being strong) in the Mormon church and just learning about this made me mad.
Exactly, my Mormon mom used to give Jehovas Witnesses Mormon pamphlets so they would stop annoying her
@@morigaena333 I remember when Mormons called on our door and we told them we were Jehovah's Wittnesses. You had this really strange mutual moment of sort of respect for a religion that seemed to prioritise door to door knocking to save souls, but both sides were obviously thinking 'your heart is in the right place; shame you're in a cult though'.
We all had our cult plastic smiles on (probably all thinking we were genuinely happy) but I even question if the mutual 'respect' was even genuine respect if we probably found each other pitiful at the same time.
In any case, it was kinda a nice moment. They knew we wouldn't abuse them because we were used to door knocking abuse too, so no need for lies or dramatic displays. Just a simple 'haha I'm taken~' lol
This cult destroyed my childhood and family, women and children suffer most of all without a voice, channels like yours help, thank you.
When I’m president the GB will be marched up to the gallows but not before I shut down bethel, take away all the literature and close all Kingdom Halls. Regular JW’s will not be harmed or arrested.
Jehovah hates magic. Uh, huh. This is the same god that had two magical trees in the Garden of Eden, made a voice come out of a burning bush, turned sticks into snakes, made a donkey talk, made water come out of a rock, sent himself to the earth to die, then resurrected himself back to heaven, and more magical parlor tricks.
He had a magical talking donkey
Jesus had the magic power to revive the dead
According to the Bible and stories
What was the second magic tree in the Garden of Eden? One is the tree of Knowledge, can't think of another one?
@@katiestevenson7742
The Tree of Life...which was right next to the Bush of Bullsh*t...which was next to the Garden of Gullibility.
Jesus was his son, NOT him, just a small correction. He had a big piece of his power in Jesus, but he is Jesus as much as he is ALL of us.
I was raised a witness, and i remeber not even being allowed to watch star wars at my grandparents house because of the force. Absolutely ridiculous these people are.
I grew up in a Christian family and they love Star Wars, at least before Disney got a hold of it. It just goes to show how cult-like and twisted JW truly is.
@@apocalypseofplushwhat not liking Disney?
@@skootergirl22 They enjoyed Mandalorian before it went to crap during Season 3 (I think it was). That's because they like substance and good storytelling, none of which Disney's Star Wars had from what I've heard. And it's not because they're misogynistic racist freaks, either. Heck, I'm autistic and my family is perfectly accepting of me.
I think it’s funny to this day my grandma(JW of 40+years) will watch magical/sci-fi movies and videos and when I say to her “I thought you couldn’t watch stuff like that.” She says “Oh, we’ll it’s up to my conscience.”😂
What do they mean Jehovah hates magic? He let forth the plagues upon Egypt, breathed life into a figure of clay, and caused a donkey to speak.
Sparlock is like fairy godparents, that's why the mom "remembers rejecting" sparlock, she def went on adventure with sparlock but when she became an adult, she lost all of her memories of sparlock and believed she had denied him. That's my conspiracy, and I'm sticking to it.
They didn't like the Smurfs either.
@@freespirit3891 As a witness during the Smurfs era I never once heard that.
@@georgeporgy7568 There's a story about a possessed Smurf jumping off a kids lap and stomping down the walk way of the meeting, swearing and cursing. lol It's circulated both in the US and in the UK (Not sure wherelse) and we don't know where it came from.
But that's what they're referring to. It did make some parents anxious to buy them or have the shows on. Same way some songs would be claimed to have backwards messages or the more recent HP and Lord of the Rings supersticion.
I kinda like the smurf myth though because it's so ridiculous.
I love the bald faced manipulation in the caleb and sophia video. She asks her son, while holding out a picture of a wrinkled adam and eve "how did that make god feel" Caleb: "sad" Scripture: they ate fruit, and so he got angry and cursed them (but not like magic) to have painful pregnancy, shitty crops, and oh yea, DIE. Mom: "You don't want to make Jehovah sad, do you?" THAT is the message. Not "Do you want have a god as your friend" it's actually "Do you want to die, or failing that, become someone your father and I treat as dead?"
Now men are cursed with an apple slice in their throats and women to have painful menstruation and births
Papa Sparlock was the best thing in my childhood. His wise words of warrior wizardry were always on my mind
Sadly Watchtower LIES and Hypocrisy have Destroyed so many lives
I ran into my sister at a Walmart once and she walked by me like I didn’t exist… I don’t know which one is worse, but I am so sorry Wally. All we can do is hope that the work we are doing now will reach our nephews and nieces and we will get to make up for lost time down the road ❤
It's a tragedy that you've gone through with someone that just disowned you like that.
But she made her choice, and in the future, she'll have to deal with the consequences that she did to you.
Yeah, they certainly do push. My parents pushed me, constantly during my teen years. They'd try to shame me, if a younger kid got baptized and I hadn't. I eventually gave in, to prevent being kicked out at 18, because I wasn't ready to be homeless
I feel for you, and I hope that you’re long since out of this cult of crap!
@@greyberet1 Yes. I left in 2003. Thank you. Hugs
@@cmckinney380
My wife and I left, just walked away with no repercussions, in the’80s…
Cheers from canada 😆!
This video solidifies the decision Norway rightfully made!
If only America does the same thing Norway did.
Hetalia was prophetic, Norway really is the wizard! 🤯
As a JW, we couldn't even play with the Magic 8 ball. We had to throw out our Smurfs - someone said they heard a person saw them dancing around on their own. 🙄
Oh God…I remember the Smurfs KH urban legend. My little sister’s nursery was Smurf themed and my mom took that shit down real quick once the “evil smurfs” rumors started flying around the hall.
Such an awful story about what happened to you in the grocery store.
When I faded, there was a short period when I was still in touch with the congregation though not going to meetings. Someone needed something and I offered mine. When I went to drop it off, the 9 year old child looked at me and gasped wide-eyed in fear. Seriously: this kid, who I saw grow up, was terrified of me BECAUSE I HADN'T BEEN TO MEETINGS RECENTLY. While I'm there to help them out. It's so messed up what they do to their little minds. (BTW, the kid got baptized a year later. ☹️)
Imo, the mom is the one who looks evil, talk about creepy facial expressions; also, like you I shared a Caleb and Sophia video (a different one, I think) with a never-JW in a group I attend and he later said he couldn't watch the whole thing because the way they are treating children was making him so mad; omg Wally, just got to your story, that's horrible, I'm so sorry-I Hate Watchtower
The mom acts evil, but the dad is implied to be evil, like when we see the aftermath of how he disciplines Caleb.
Even as a well seasoned pioneer of 15 years. .. when this was played at the convention, and my 5 yr old looked up at me and asked me if Gandalf was bad .. I said absolutely not .. and you can still love Souron 😝😝
Anyway that’s the month I started to fade and decided not to raise my son making him feel bad for loving innocent things that bring even me joy. Among many other things I started having issues with …..
@Marta-tw2min…Bravo!!! ❤
Sauron. Not Souron.
@@funkyweapon1981 his name may be Sauron, but you’re definitely getting your SOUR-on for a simple typo! :D BADUM-tssssss (i regret nothing)
@@MadNinjaGirl Lmfao, not you being the comment section Dad :P
That is so sad to hear how not only how your family has rejected you, but hoe they have indoctrinated their little children to reject you as well. Give it time, 20 years from that grocery store incident, I'd bet one or more of those nieces/nephews will be looking you up as they find themselves getting the same "you're dead to me" treatment from their family for one reason or another.
Were that to happen, Wally would be within his rights to act as if they didn’t exist and just walk away in dignity, without yelling at them or even acknowledging their existence…
I know that’s what I’d do in Wally’s place…
@@greyberet1 Why would you do that? We are talking about little kids who only know what that parents tell them. Why would you punish them when they are adults and realize how they were lied to as children by their parents? Legally we wouldn't charge a 3rd year old with murder, but you would punish the 3 year old 20 years later for yelling "bad man" which is just mimicking what his parents told him?Sure, Wally would be within his rights to ignore them, but from everything I know about Wally he would never do that. He would help them in the same way he helps other JW's who realize they were lied to.
@@thelogicaldanger
According to the jws, and other “christian” religions, the offspring of the “original” pair of humans are just as guilty as their forebears of the sin that condemned their ancestors to death, right? That’s what the sacrifice of christ’s life was about…even making up for the sins of yet UNBORN children!
Although I’ve long since stopped believing in any invisible deity, the entire train of so-called logic leads to the treatment of any human of ANY age equally, right?
Remember that the great jehooovah is going to annihilate the entire human population, ALL ages at Armageddon…except for his precious witnesses 😂.
The whole idea is moot, it’s all make-belief…
In 1982 a child turned his back on me in the school playground. I had disassociated myself. I had looked after him and his brothers for years. And this video is seriously disgusting. When I left it was very difficult. We had no Vast Apostate Army to inform us. I relied on the Watchtower's own publications. And an ancient library with a very clued up Librarian. If only I had an iPad in those days!
Hello Suzanne Doran, I’m commenting only because my wife’s maiden name is also Doran, we met in Montreal when we were still both jws, I was raised-in, she came in as an adult.
We’ve been together for almost 45 years, walked away from this cult over 40 years ago…
Cheers from canada!
'the steps for baptism, yay, let's go look at them! Which book of the Bible are they in, Dad?'
It truly is sad how the 'Organization' has still not given free thinking 'outside the box'. Witness children are not allowed to have a thought of their own. When you gave that experience about you and your family in public I was so sad for you and the kids. Magic is everywhere and may the magical force of happy thoughts surround you!!!
It is downright freekish what some JW parents must say to their children about ex JWs or worldly people.
"Is this toy magical?"
"No its plastic."
So so sad to hear about your niece/nephew being brainwashed that way. So sorry to hear.😢
The Caleb & Sophia videos are the worst kind of propaganda because they target children. When the mom emphasizes the "magic" part of the doll, she makes it sound like "magic" is real, but there's no such thing as "magic." It is a play on a person's psyche & fears, just like how the bible is also a play on a person's psyche & fears. Thank you again Wally for another great video! So sorry that you have to go through the shunning. Hopefully one day some of your relatives & immediate family will wake up. Thank you, Wally for sharing your story.
And the way she says Satan..
No fun because johova hates fun
Wally I am so sorry for the grocery store incident that must have really hurt.
He returned from the trash can! Lmao!!
Just like Jesus. ;)
The “good magic bad magic” argument always cracked me up as well. We had a Bethelite speaker denounce the Walking Dead show by name at an assembly talk and that Sunday when my mother wagged her finger at me for turning it on I promptly took her to Ezekiel 37 where there was a LITERAL ZOMBIE ARMY. WHICH mind you is basically all the resurrection really was at the end of the day. HA! CHECK MATE
Still, The Walking Dead is not good anymore. Also, the comics did a lot of things for shock value
Who could forget the Young Wizards Ask article when Sparlock's father encouraged his young son to avoid college
I'm looking forward to the series. Next,
Young Wizards Ask:
Will I go blind if I 'massage' my magic wand?
@@adamantiumbullet9215 oh dayum 😅🤣😅
Questions Young Wizards Ask - Answers That Work (like magic).
19:57 Woooooow... You can only imagine what they were telling their kids, probably more than a couple of times.
Omg sparklock is back for more action and is very sad how jw org. Had caused a lot of mental damage to people and even to myself
I'm so sorry that your family hurt you like that. Absolutely nothing Christlike in shunning and judging people like that. 😢Someday, your Neices and Nephews will look you up.
Sadly, the only way family will ever make contact with him will be if they leave the truth. They would also be shunned as there is no way to leave without this happening 😢😢😢 I speak with experience, having been in the organisation for 65 years I am also being shunned The only sin I have committed is I have faded I have also lost family and friends everyone
Mainstream Christians do it too.
Great Job Wally Blessed
I wasn't JW so I find Caleb and Sophia fascinating (was raised in a similar group). They've clearly shown the mom to have an interest and talent for art, which of course she can't persue as a good JW. Maybe she's an animator self insert.
In the fifties when I was growing up a strict bound-for-hell Catholic little child, we grew up with the Three Stooges! No one was as violent as the Three Stooges and yet none of us kids who used to play outside at those times, ever went around yielding hammers or poking our fingers into eyes! We PLAYED!!! As strict as Catholicism was with crucifixion facts and hell for eating a hunk of hotdog on a Friday, none of us were prevented from free play from Cowboys and Indians to dinosaurs of the past to Army guys to the Three Stooges and the Rifleman! We played the magic of Tinkerbell too! Shit, if we were going to go to hell for not putting our allowances in the Pope’s Poor Envelopes, we might as well play-act as if there was no tomorrow! Oh adults, adults. Think what you’re doing to the next generation. Cryin’ out loud. Grow up, people.
Thanks for sharing this Wally, The video about the supposedly magical wizard toy really hits home when i was a kid wanting a He-man action figure and my mom didn't want me to have one because of the same reason...
The fact that Caleb's mom thinks that magic is real is preposterous enough... it's just a damn toy!!!
Something to point out about the fantasy genre, many Christians didn't like it for containing magic, made an acception for Narnia (mainly cause there was christian symbolism).
"You look just like your mom!"
As Ford Prefect theorized in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, "Humans talk so much because when their mouths stop moving, their brains start working."
I look like my Mom and hers!
Oh, Wally. I'm so sorry, what a terrible thing to happen. Hang in there, your nephews and nieces will grow up and maybe see your videos and be with you again. Xx
I'm so sorry about your nieces/nephews. That must have hurt.
Having also been a Jehovas Witnesses if the mom had addressed Jesus's magic she probably would have denied it was called magic and called it miracles.
A couple of years ago two JWs called and the subject of these videos came up and they were enthusing over them. I realised then that WT has done a very good job infantalising the average publisher. They have been talked down to for so long that it has become the norm. For that reason,the passive acceptance of the simplistic,,unquestioning belief,that logic ,reasoned argument,makes no headway at all.We may watch these videos in disbelief but to the faithful they reflect true life
So Sparlock is a bear in the new cartoon? In the old cartoon he just looked like a standard human wizard with a white beard. Did the animators misunderstand their old animation, or can Sparlock transform himself into a bear? If that's the case, then there's some interesting lore going on behind the scenes. A warrior wizard that can turn himself into a bear sounds badass, even if it is for kids. Can we get a real, legit Sparlock movie going?
He did always have a bear/dog nose, though.
Part of me loves sparlock...
But the other part of me is infuriated with watchtower.
Sparlock the warrior wizard??? He is spar lock, he is clearly a warrior warlock.
Why does she pronounce it sa'an instead of say-tan? Is she so afraid of naming he-who-must-not-be-named that she has to skip letters? Is she afraid because she hasn't accepted sparlock into her heart? You'll notice Caleb says it right, because he knows he will be safe, because his lord and savior, sparlock, will protect him. The mom on the other hand... 🌟 🪄 ✨
Was watching this and when the original video came on and the snake is offering Sparlock to the little boy my daughter looked at me, "Um, this child is schizophrenic mom."
Your daughter is not wrong, yeah the little boy most likely has Schizophrenia if he’s seeing snakes that aren’t actually there.
My respect for your daughter 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈
The snake is symbolic
Not allowed to watch:
Harry Potter 1-8 (Wands, spells, potions, ghosts/spirits, shape-shifting, magical creatures, enchantments, fortune telling, mind reading, curses )
Princess and the Frog (Voodoo, curses, spirits, shape-shifting)
Brave (Spirits, shape-shifting, potions)
Smurfs (Haven't watched the movie so can't say what type of magic system is used other than potions)
Twilight [All of them] (Haven't watched any, but I count werewolves and vampires as fantasy creatures, shape-shifting)
Allowed to watch:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Potions, enchantments).
Pinnochio (Teleportation, spells, wands, possession, shape-shifting)
Peter Pan 1,2 (Magical creatures, levitation)
Sleeping Beauty (Curses, teleportation, wands, spells, shape-shifting)
Sword in the Stone (Spells, wands, shape-shifting, enchantments )
Cinderella 1,2,3 (Teleportation, wands, spells, shape-shifting)
Little Mermaid 1,2 (Magical creatures, shape-shifting, spells, I'll count Trident's trident as a wand)
Lion King (Spiritism/ghosts)
Mulan 1,2 (Spiritism, posession)
Beauty and the Beast 1,2 (Possession, shape-shifting, curses)
Pocahontas 1,2 (Posession)
Hercules (Fantasy creatures, posession)
Aladdin 1,2,3 (Spells, shape-shifting, enchantments/posession, spirits, I'll count Jaffar's staff as a wand, fantasy creatures)
Emperor's New Groove (Potions, shape-shifting)
Brother Bear (Spiritism, ghosts, shape-shifting)
Enchanted (Spells, shape-shifting)
Tangled (Not sure if there's a name for reversing the aging process, maybe just go with "immortality." Either way, it's supernatural)
Frozen 1,2 (Spells, posession, fantasy creatures.)
Moana (Shape-shifting, spiritism/ghosts)
Tinker Bell [All of them] (Fantasy creatures)
How to Train Your Dragon 1,2,3 (Fantasy creatures)
Shrek 1,2,3,4 (Fantasy creatures, enchantments/posession, wands, spells, curses, potions, levitation, shape-shifting)
Sindbad (Spiritism, posession, fantasy creatures)
Freaky Friday (Curses)
Toy Story 1,2,3,4 (You could technically argue posession)
Gnomeo and Juliet (Could technically argue posession)
Barbie franchise (Too many movies and elements to list here)
Grey area:
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (I didn't know any other witness kids watch this one, so I didn't know where to put it. Enchantments, spells, possession)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Curses, immortality, fantasy creates, necromancy, voodoo, spirits/ghosts)
Chronicles of Narnia 1,2,3 (Fantasy creatures, curses, shape-shifting, spells, spirits)
Lord of the Rings 1,2,3 (Fantasy creates, spells, telepathy, spirits/ghosts, posession, I'll count the wizards' staffs as wands)
The Hobbit (Fantasy creatures, spells, wands)
Golden compass (Fantasy creatures)
Monster House (Posession)
There are probably more that I missed, but these were the ones I could think off on the top of my head. Just look at all the magical elements JW kids are allowed to consume as long as it's depicted with bright colours and not depicting realistic looking humans, but suddenly when the cinematography is darker and real humans are filmed, then all of a sudden, it's evil. I remember about a decade ago, when I was between 11 and 13, an elder was trying to make some or other point and as part of it said, "I mean, we just have to look at Harry Potter. We know that's full of all sorts of demons." Even at that time I thought to myself, "Do we? No one here has ever watched the movies. We only know what we've heard from others; who probably haven't watched the films either." After finally watching the films earlier this year, I couldn't find a single new magical element that I haven't already seen in a Disney movie.
Disney's MO is magic
So, I'm surprised witnesses are allowed to watch them!
What about video games?
My response to the Adam and Eve bit, would be to hold up a picture of Moses, explain who he was and all the magic tricks he performed in front of Pharaoh and the Israelites, including actual curses. Seems like more of an apt comparison.
"You can be young, like your mother." I actually facepalmed at that. That was a very Captain Obvious moment.
The thing about the toy is actually legit pissing me off. I think the thought process is that magic is miracles without God and that is blasphemy. Only god has such power and to suggest otherwise is blasphemy. It does piss me off since I grew up into a lot of things they would consider such blasphemy. (He-Man for starters) I’m also watching a kid basically be manipulated and guilt tripped into liking a toy which peeves me off
True. I love Harry Potter and my room is literally FILLED with Harry Potter items (Even the SHIRT I’m wearing is a Harry Potter character!) and I can already imagine them yelling “Evil”, “Demonic”, and “Satanic” at me.
The way the video phrases it for children, Jehovah comes off as an extremely petty individual who will get personally unhappy with you over a difference in taste.
"We can't be friends anymore, because you like Sparlock. I don't like Sparlock, so neither can my friends!"
This is MAN'S INTERPRETATION PLUS PERSONAL THOUGHTS, LIKES, AND DISLIKES! The now-leadership of this cultporation wants the membership to think the way they want them to think and follow the thoughts and OPINIONS they want them to follow. IMPHO, this is again from HUMANS, NOT FROM THE TRUE ALMIGHTY GOD AND HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST!
Honestly, the improvement in animation!!! I feel like the mother actually has been replaced by another woman entirely. The others are very similar to their original model just improved. The mother had a head transplant or something.
The mother to which you’re referring should have had a brain (mind) transplant 😂…
Keep in mind, this is JW propaganda. the reason the mom doesn't know about the wizard warrior is because once she rejected it, she rejected ALL KNOWLEDGE of it. That is what they're trying to say.
Sparlock could be Moses. Moses was basically a wizard.
The Moses of the buybull most probably never even existed, as did not many other things spoken of in this piece of shit “holy book” 😂!
Agree the mother’s parenting is so cringe. Nothing screams ‘indoctrinate your children’ methodology than what she does and says. Be great if these videos are shown as evidence of their machinations and manipulative tactics one day in a courtroom, sooner than later. Sorry you were treated so badly by your family members. Teaching kids to label other people as “bad” is so hateful, twisted and sick. Wish I could give you a mom hug rn! 🫂
Watchtower is so stupid. They will deny that they do something, then make a video showing how they do it!
5:02 On that note, comparing this to another, vastly superior religious cartoon- when Veggietales *did* feature scarier moments form the Bible, it was always in a way that was able to convey the scariness and intensity of the situation without *actually* scaring the kids. Goliath was a giant pickle. We never actually see the lions that Daniel is thrown to. We don't see Shadrach, Meshack, and Abendego actually freaking out at the realization that they may be burned alive in the furnace. It's done in a way that gets the message across without being traumatizing.
THe mom ( Does she have a name?) was just using Socratic method to lead Caleb to the "correct" answer. Obviously Sparlock was big in the 80s and then did a nostalgia resurface that got all the kids excited.
Love and hugs Wally. So sorry you had to deal with that.
I don't know about you, but every time I say "lore", I subconsciously push my glasses up.
Its worthy to remind oneself that the GB leaders of the JWS are trying to coerce, manipulate and lure others to become their loyal subservient servants, that's why when getting baptized as a JWS you have to make a vow of loyalty to them.
..........which isn't in the bible by the way.
I still can't get over the shot of Adam and Eve being white. But even Enoch used the magic of Greek fire water to burn some kind of sacrifice, then claimed it was from God! Yeah Sparlock used his magical powers and was rescued from the eternal dumpster 😂
Actually, I don’t think that the Society included a continuity error between the two episodes. Remember that in the earlier episode, the mother was asking leading questions. If we combine that with the immersion episode, she knew what Caleb was holding in his hand. Consequently, she was feigning ignorance as to the identity of the character in an effort to get Caleb to accept the Society’s party line on the matter.
As a side matter, what is that moustache on the grandfather’s face about? I’ll just say that it looks like something associated with a certain part of the film industry-a part which even the Society has been known to condemn on occasion. It says more about him and how the Society handles certain matters than it does about anything else. It also reveals a degree of tone deafness and lack of self-awareness beyond what I thought even the Society could muster.
this is still to this day so triggering that i'm 35 now and it still hurts to hear this obnoxious pep talks, absolutely insane, this alone should be considered enough to shut the whole organization down, i can't even get past half of this video as i remember as it was yesterday that i would get talked to like this, it's just infuriating.
I want action Figures of biblical Caracters! Samson with his bloody Donkey bone. Or the 3 strong men who brought David Water. There may be a lot of weapon Props coming along with
I love that Sparlock is an anthro bear wizard who may sometimes wear a mech suit (based on the original cartoon). He's just missing the anime and superhero flourishes.
It's still shocking to me how the Watchtower cartoons shamelessly depict blatant, unfiltered emotional manipulation and gaslighting, and are like THIS RIGHT HERE IS QUALITY PARENTING! I'd also argue that it's actually pretty sexist, because the Mom is consistently portrayed as sly and scheming, while the Dad is depicted as wise, commanding, and calm.
Agreed! Don’t know how such a chill dude like the dad could be married to such a Karen!
Im so sorry that happend to you Wally...you have so many people who know you are GOOD and worthy of love. You didnt deserve that at all.
Is it just me or have we seen way less of the GB since the September voice of strangers spiel and Tony saying they won't change their policies before his disappearance?
I swear Jehova’s Witnesses should have their own chain of toy stores carrying only Jehovah friendly toys.
OMG!! JW parents not even allowing their children to be children. The legal age for baptism should be 18 and kids should be informed of what will happen should they ever decide it’s not for them anymore.
Parents should keep their beliefs to themselves and let their kids decide for themselves what faith they choose to follow!
Pimo here. Don't take it hard Wally. I one hundred percent agree with you. When Harry Potter was in its prime I was providing my family while serving in the congregation. I finally got around to watching the Harry Potter movies and I even bought the set on DVD. It had some really cool characters and interesting scenes but all-in-all I agree with you-it was highly overrated. I still like it as a whole, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans. Peace be with you brother
Sparlock bear wizard looks cool.
The anxiety and pressure put on JW kids is so cruel. They have zero chance at a normal carefree childhood.
Also children should not be going to strangers homes to teach them about the bible. So inappropriate 😩 i hated going in service. I barely knew how to properly wipe my ass, yet had the tools for others' salvation somehow?! Make it make sense.
Does anyone else feel in like the 90s and early 2000's we weren't pressured so early to get baptized. I made it to 14 withoit getting baptized and it wasn't like a weird thing. I think I knew one other kid got baptized before we left. It was weird. He went from one the kinda bad kids to being completely goody goody and proud of himself. Everyone was always praising him and he was just like "yes yes"
I remember youthful immersion being more organic at least in the early nineties. I was fourteen as well when I was immersed April 1994. There were others around my age in my congregation and throughout my circuit immersed during that period. But there was never any pressure applied. Of course, I think that, for us, our parents were involved with the Society, if not in the run up to 1975, certainly during the aftermath and backlash. (Incidentally, as I type this, I’m struck with the realization that I’m between only five and seven years younger now than they were in the run up to my immersion. (Dad died January 1994 at fifty (of his third heart attack) and Mom was forty-eight at the time. (She made it to sixty-nine.) I’m currently forty-three.)
In retrospect, I think that our parents realized that, with everything taking place-both within the organization and without-at the time and during the immediate preceding years, my friends and I were already under enough pressure. Why take the approach made infamous in recent years by Tony Morris and bribe and blackmail us into a decision each of us either had made or would make organically? Having left the Society in 2016, I shudder to think that some of my peers, however, may be taking the Morris route with regard to their children. That is a prospect we all would have found unconscionable thirty years ago.
Yes, I agree! It was not so much pushed on us before mid to late teens. My brother was baptised at 12 in the 90's and that was super unusual. He had special permission due to his 'spiritual maturity' LOL.
I was pressured to get baptised but also held back for 2 yrs to 'prove myself more' despite passing the tests, which caused me distressed and made me think they were indicating I was a bad association or something.
That was in the early 2000's. Maybe you just had a more relaxed congregation.
My kid recently heard the Golem story and was really surprised when his own didn't come alive when he prayed "really hard" lol let the kids have fun.... don't ruin the magic of childhood. A few years from now my kid won't even want to make a Golem, hunt for Easter eggs or watch the sky for Santa. Enjoy childhood it's precious.
As an Eclectic Witch, I’m very offended by their blatant Xenophobia - it could even be considered somewhat terrorist? Idk if that’s the word.. like, it’s Hate Speech, I think is the term? Wonder if they can be sued or charged for that?
Wait, how are they xenophobic? Xenophobia means to hate people from foreign countries, and I may have missed that so can you please explain? I’m annoyed at them as well because they act like fictional wizards and witches are Satanic and as a Harry Potter fan it’s like they’re calling ME Satanic for enjoying Harry Potter, but how are they xenophobic? If you can explain that to me, I’d appreciate it, thanks. Not trying to be rude or anything I’m just genuinely confused.
wally i've never commented at you before but i've been watching your stuff and thinking about you a lot lately and also you said something i want to lightly push back on and also i'm a little bit buzzed on cold meds so let's go
1) you're so cute and stylish and i love how you present and carry yourself. i'm really proud of you that you seem to be feeling more sure of yourself about your content and i hope you're proud of yourself too, bc i'm pretty sure the reason you're feeling more confident is because you've been putting in work and seeing rewards in terms of your end products being better and better.
2) i'm not judging you for your hot take about people who say kids look like their parents. but i want to gently push back by giving you another potential perspective. in my experience people who make this observation aren't commenting because they think the person they're speaking to doesn't know any better, but because observing this fact out loud can be a cultural way to pay you and/or your parent a compliment. it's sort of like saying, 'oh, you remind me so much of this person i like and enjoy, so that makes me want to instinctively like you too'. i think it's kind of sweet when you view it that way.
BUT, also, ultimately i think i come down on your side because i don't think people should go around assuming people have a good relationship with their parents and want to be compared to them. to me it's something you say to somebody you know well. so maybe the strength of your feelings is more related to feeling like your boundaries are being crossed than just finding it annoying? not to tell you your business, just some good natured passing speculation
3) the more you find who you are and honor yourself the better i like you tbh. i find your openness really admirable and i think it's great you're out here showing people how fulfilling it can be to just embrace your strengths and enjoy being yourself. i think a lot of people who have left rigidly organized high control groups like jw find ourselves struggling with the lack of structure in our lives, so i think it's specifically important that you're modelling and being transparent with us about ways you're continuing to do things like personal study in a way that actually benefits you, your family (your found family, ykwim) and your community instead of a luxury SUV's worth of real estate moguls.
4) not to be rude but you're really important. even if you were too sick or tired or sad to do all the work you're doing now, even if you had to stop your insider reporting for your mental health, even if you had to stop vids altogether, you would still be really important and worthwhile. you just being here on earth and taking care of yourself and participating in life benefits the people around you. you change the lives of the people you touch in ways you can't see or imagine. we're so connected, in real and material and not just 'spiritual' ways. so please remember that when you're trying to internalize the very true fact that your worth comes from the contents of your mind and metaphorical heart, not from what you can do for people. and that your worth is not something that's affected when people treat you poorly, even though it can feel that way.
5) i hope you're doing something nice for yourself to recover from the convention. stress burns a lot of energy so make sure you're letting yourself have extra food and sleep if you need it.
6) idk if you still need to hear this but our star system is called the solar system bc our sun is named sol. other star systems are just called star systems.
7) i appreciate you!
Every time I come across these videos, I start to realize how lucky I am to have grown up in a catholic home who was super chill about anything
Is Caled the islamic adaptation? The Levant appeal 🤣
New Sparlock looks like he stepped out of Disney's old Gummi Bears cartoon.
Jehovah doesn’t get sad, he gets even 😆
“Jehovah is a God exacting exclusive devotion and taking vengeance; Jehovah is taking vengeance and is disposed to rage. Jehovah is taking vengeance against his adversaries, and he is resentful toward his enemies.”-Nahum 1:2, NW 1984 edition.
This is the deity for whom eight million people, according to the official figures of the Society (but the actual number is far lower), profess to be witnesses. Is it really any surprise, therefore, that the Society counsels those whose marriage mates are similarly “disposed to rage” to remain in such unions? Incidentally, even the Society realized that the phrase “disposed to rage” doesn’t ‘play well in Peoria’, to borrow a political expression. Consequently, in the 2013 edition, it was changed to the less accurate but equally sickening “ready to express his wrath”.
At brass tacks, is it really any wonder that Yahweh (Jehovah) is rightly considered the most violent, vindictive, unpleasant and disturbed character in all of fiction? Is it any wonder that the Society teaches that the most important doctrine is the vindication of Jehovah’s name?
As an adopted person from a family with a history of adoption, it does often surprise me when people look just like their parents, because my sibs and I don't look anything like each other or the rest of our family. we don't have any shared traits, we were adopted from different bio parents. Still, I get that I'm the exception, I can also see why you'd expect most people to be used to the way people look like their parents
The moms facial expressions in the magic one never fail to piss me off.
There is a family joke that I am the milkman or the mailman's daughter. Out of 7 children I am the only one with Hazel eyes. Not much family resemblance so who knows LOL.
This Snake in the old Video was just the cutest fluffel wuffel
Weird though, they say Jehovah hates magic - but they don’t explain to Caleb why he hates it - clearly Jehovahs Witnesses believe in magic!
They all go watch Star Wars, yet they never think twice about the Force. I've seen JWs twist their tongue trying to explain why Star Wars is OK, but all other "magic" is bad.
Caleb has already been thoroughly indoctrinated with, "Listen, obey and be blessed", so evidence, facts and logic are no longer needed in any explanation to him.
@DocJerky my mom, who's a JW, told me her JW friends watched beauty and the beast
And loved it!
So, that movie is ok to them
But harry potter isn't?
They changed Sparlock's species. And I am also surprised they even remembered and brought up Sparlock since the Anti-JWs/Ex-JWs use him as symbol
Mother is pregnant. Sophia says: I want to be ...pregnant..
i never understood what people meant when they said things like "i feel validated". well, now i feel it thanks Wally I feel validated by your pet peeve about peoples comments about looking like one's parent. I get it ad nauseum from my family and it drives me so insane that I wonder if I am being rational getting so annoyed by it. hearing someone else, you, talk about it makes me feel like im not just losing it
To be fair, the main reason religious folk see magic as evil is basically that magic is basically defined in the bible as "power derived from demons." Meaning that they hear wizard powers being called magic and assume it's the same thing.
It isn't the same though, with the "magic" in most fiction being depicted more like just *power,* energy, or some fancy resource. With its harvesting and manipulation being no different to that of any other resource, such as fossil fuels, wood, or minerals.
I, as a Christian, personally think it shouldn't be called magic, considering the bible version of the word. But I can say with confidence that it is fine in concept.
8:50 Oh yeah, I remember this video. I find it messed up the mom made him throw a toy that he borrowed from a friend. So in my headcanon, the aftermath is that he goes to school, and the kid gets mad and beats up Caleb.
I don’t blame Caleb though. Caleb is obviously brainwashed by his mother. My headcanon would be that the kid asks Caleb what happened to the toy and Caleb explains to his friend that his mom made him throw it away.
@@Gracelivinglife12 Yeah, both endings are possible in our little head anon. We never get to see the kids, so we don't know just other kid's personalities.
Do they still use the bible story book?
The pictures in that book were scary lol....as a kid I knew it back to front lol.
This modern take is so cringe.
I've been shunned from family members for over a decade....funny how they will run away from you in public like a grocery store....but at a funeral they will talk to you like normal....it's hard not to resent them as individuals, since they are following "direction"
Recently found your channel....love your videos and perspective...it's been helpful for me to think about things that I've tried to forget about and block out for years! Jw doctrine really messes with your head.
Thanks Wally!
Hey Wally. Hope you're having a good day. Watchtower mindset is constant. I will be shocked if it's different.
I was watching an ex-mormon describe getting baptized at 8 (the age all mormon kids are baptized). She said, at 8 yrs old, she was still questioning in her mind whether santa claus was real or not. I joined WT as an adult and did not grow up in it, but I can imagine some young JW kids have the "is santa a real?" question somewhere deep in their little minds (never a question to be brought up with anyone they know). They learn at a young age to keep their individual, unapproved thoughts or feelings to themselves, lest they fall prey to "independent thinking". So psychologically damaging.
They defiantly do coerce their children to get baptized , particularly with young teenagers and that is the age most JWS do get baptized. Fear once again get utilized to coerce these impressionable youth. 😳
Armageddon is just around the corner kids so you want to get baptized to show your loyalty to Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ. The only way to do this is make a vow of loyalty to us the GB members of the Watchtower Corporation because we are Jehovah's loyal obedient servants the Faithful Slave. Obeying us is the only way to survive Armageddon, that's why when you get baptized you also make a vow of loyalty to us too. 😳
I was raised JW. My younger cousins were baptized before 15. Everyone in the family continued to ask me, "Why don't you get baptized?" As a 12 Year old I told them,"What happens when I grow up and question the religion?"
My reality was always an issue with them. Oh, by the way my cousins quit the JWS. I was the for real person since 12 years old