They could’ve very easily set up a committee dedicated to helping witnesses in low income areas with housing, utilities, food etc, but they are taking millions to make videos. I’m so happy to be out! My eyes are open
Exactly. Using the “widow’s mite” to expand their real estate, publishing and media empire. Disgusting. And my immediate family, who are still JWs, have been shoving the BS new projects and “new light” in my face like it’s positive or something for them to be proud of since I faded in 2007, then got upset and label me an “apostate” when I finally called out the organization’s hypocrisy last year. So much for worshipping in “spirit and truth.”🙃🤦🏾♂️ #bestlifeever
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS : - When was the last time JW encouraged you to help the less fortunate or start a campaign to help them financially and spiritually ? - Should we dedicate 10% or 50% ( at least or more ) of our preaching hours / or service to help them as the Christians from the first Century did ? - Should the WT dedicate part of the donations profits they get from their events ( Conventions and Assemblies ) to help local poverty programs instead of sending it all to their headquarters ? Exactly !
@@RenaeSmith-hl8dh very true. My elderly JW mother, who has given the WT tens of thousands over the last 30 years, recently ran out of money during Covid and could no longer afford housing. When she asked the elders for help they just handed her a list of government housing websites that the WT had provided the elder body to assist publishers. So to think the WT would ever help their struggling members financially is a pipe dream at best. Unless of course a hurricane or earthquake hits then they are the first in line to brag about their assistance while simultaneously letting everyone know it’s a sign of the end.
My dad is a JW and was excitedly telling me about the sisters that were driving tractors/diggers etc for a recent construction project. I said “oh wow you guys are trusting them to build foundations for the buildings they are prohibited from preaching from the platform in! Such progress”!! 🤦🏻♀️
I’ve never been a JW, but I have some theories about the new production facility. 1) The illusion of growth. “Wow, we must be doing so well if we need a new production studio!” 2) Possible film/tv tax credits from the state. 3) They need more projects to keep people busy for long periods of time. 4) They want to make movies that can slip into “main stream” Christian culture without people knowing they’re JW produced. 5) They DO want these average joe JWs to be celebrities because it gives everyone else something to aspire to. “Maybe if I keep faithful to Jehovah I can have a special assignment like that too!” 6) They want to show that JWs have talent, and that they’re not weird and culty.
@@garryiglesias4074 I watched the video, thought for 2 seconds, and wrote down my thoughts. Not exactly rocket science.
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Great Review Wally!! I am thinking the Governing Body just doesn't like competition when it comes to who the congregations admire, "worship" and give glory to.
Wally, super observations 😅Ramapo... Yes they need it 🙃🙃. Time will come, jw will become online religion, properties will be sold, GB will disappear from the scene and they will use AI to do their broadcasting and jw updates 🤨🫣
Exactly. The similarities between both cults is astonishing. Leah Remini did a two-part series on JWs. Try and catch it. The show was on A&E and called "Scientology and the Aftermath."
LDS also have their own. UCGK ( Universal Church of God's Kingdom ) has their own TV channel and soap operas. Several religions use this as a marketing strategy. Others may use campaigns and pastors promote their own books. I think the whole system is similar to Jesus' time on Matthew 21:12-13
@@Fouroclocklover38 I never thought I'd say this, but Scientology is even worse than JWs. If you're leaving Scientology, their goons will go to your neighbors and workplace and tell lies like, hey, did you know you neighbor is a SCA or a thief, so on and so forth. They're pretty heartless.
Wally, this video reminds me of an incident that took place the summer before I went to bethel in 82! Michael Jackson had arrived at bethel for a tour. Once word spread of Michael's arrival at the factory, many bethelites left their job assignments ( Some worked in the home and other areas at the headquarters in Brooklyn) to hurry to see him and seek his autograph. The next day those bethelites were reprimanded by the governing body and there was a talk given during morning worship on human worshiping. Flash forward to the following year, a governing body member was heading the morning worship and mentioned a special talk he gave along with other members of the governing body. He said that after the talks, the friends came up to them and wanted their autographs in their bibles. He stated they were happy to sign them! So much for the lecture. Nuff said!
This makes absolutely zero sense. How do you tell ppl don't like the attention, but we as the GB are going to put you in that situation and test your humility, basically. 🙄 This has got to be the most ridiculous thing they have ever said/done.
I dont think anyone in their videos has been used enough to be recognized by the r&f. This is a non issue they are making up. You are selected for many reasons first that you can pay your own way. They start with elders, their wife's, pioneers. R&f are truely back burner.
@@lovefaith6285 Bet the members of the gb and other prominent members wouldn’t like their photos posted upon Post Office walls, social media as pariahs, etc. 😂… Just saying.
Wow. They are SO worldly and competitive now. What happened to no attention or acknowledgement of the creature but only to the Creator? So, instead of those people sitting at yet another table selecting-why aren’t they out preaching the Last Days? What happened to Armageddon?
I remember when just being in a local convention drama brought you 15 minutes of fame. So this is definitely an issue of their own making. On a separate note, nice to see the WT strip mining and blasting the raw land for their must-have $100 million movie studio. For an organization that doesn’t grow, they sure do like constructing stuff. The WT Construction and Real Estate and Litigation Society.
It was also a sight to behold the deforestation the Society has committed at the construction site. It all reminds me of the burying of the spent ink barrels from the factory at the Farm into the ground, which was later found to have contaminated the groundwater in the Walkill-Pine Bush area. Yet, the brass is hypocritical enough to think that it would escape the time of which it has Jehovah’s witnesses preach, to wit, the ‘destruction of those who destroy the earth’.-Revelation 11:18.
I got selected in 2022 to do audition for a movie i accepted, they do provide a script for you to read and you have record yourself and take photos of yourself professionally done its definitely a process i must admit any i faded in 2023 December so it doesn't matter 😂
Even when I left in 2008, the dubs then would have looked at me crazy and been appalled if I said soon the governing body will have a broadcasting channel, cartoons, music videos, etc...
Exactly. I faded in 2007. I was in my mid-20s, newly married and an MS. My immediate family are JWs and my father has been an elder since shortly after we became JWs in the early 90s. I didn’t have strong (negative) feelings about the religion other than my own faith issues regarding the inconsistencies in the teachings and organization that eventually caused me to stop going to the Hall. Then my family started sending me JW Broadcasting videos in 2014/2015. I was blown away after hearing them talk crazy about televangelism since I was a kid. They’re literally documenting their own hypocrisy and the changes in doctrine in real time. When I finally mentioned it (and the ARC) to my family and asked them to stop sending me the videos last year, they labeled me an “apostate.”🤦🏾♂️ Stockholm Syndrome is real.
@@ThinkTankEntertainment And I’m sure that your family would refuse to watch any videos, including Jackson’s testimony before the ARC, since it clearly shows his and the wt’s hypocrisy…they’d find some twisted logic to label it “taken out of context”, or just fabricated by AI, or something… Just saying.
So much so that, at the Society’s international assemblies, Sam Herd starts dancing through the crowd at the stadium as though he’s on the “Soul Train” Line.
Your question 9:59: “How they’re going to justify spending …?” Justify to who??? They’re the Governing Freaking Body!!! Who has the cojones to challenge them??? They just allowed their “men” to grow facial hair. 🤷♂️ IJS
Even if you do, they're untouchable. Think anyone could possibly get an unscripted sit down interview? They would never agree to such a thing. Even from a real PIMI.
Hey Wally. Watchtower don't want 'commoners/sheep' sharing stardom with them. On Ramapo, I believe that after a couple of years, they would say it too expensive to upkeep & it's going to be sold or leased out. Hope you stay safe & continue to enjoy the holiday festivities!❤
Every time I watch their broadcasts I have to laugh. They won't display the cross because of their belief of the torture stake and because it's pagan. Meanwhile, a perfectly framed JW logo in the background. 🙄😂
Problem=reaction=solution. GB cause the PROBLEM which gave them a REACTION which, in turn THEY come up with a SOLUTION ie ‘let’s beat the rank and file down to have more control’ so they will in turn give the GB more praise for giving them direction at the ‘proper time.’ 🤦♀️
Years ago Tony Morris came to my circuit assembly, and in his talk he spoke about how people shouldn’t praise him, that he’s just a servant of Jehovah “just like you!” Then when his talk ended and he said his closing words, he stepped back from the podium and everyone stood up, clapped for 5 straight minutes for him while he stood there, and then he proudly waved to everyone as he walked off the stage. Even my 13 year old mind recognized the bs
I would like to know, once Ramapo is up and running and Armageddon comes. Who is going to maintain the internet, power grid, fiber optic lines etc. So that JWs can receive the videos made there?
Easy answer to that: the energy to power all this will come from wind powered turbines, clean and renewable energy from the sun, of course, and all with the “blessing” of jehooovah 😂… There, fixed it for you 😂… Just saying. Besides, they’ll need energy sources to power the camera equipment so that they can take live action videos of Armageddon, yes? Isn’t jehooovah great 😂?! Almost forgot, the gb will need to find a Charlton Heston type character, maybe with a voice like Sam Elliot, to narrate the whole extravaganza, at least this time the electronic tablets carrying the “new scrolls” won’t be as heavy/cumbersome as Moses had to deal with 😂… as for the laser guns with which to stun/kill those who transgress, Captain Kirk’s phasors, or whatever, were mere toys by comparison…
A witness answer to this question would be that after Armageddon "jehovah will satisfy the desire of every living thing" that means the continuation of sevices at rammypooh too lmao
It’s so sad that people get caught up and are born into this cult. I pray for JWs daily that they understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ and call upon Him.
They are being prepared in case one of their high visibility actors later becomes embroiled in some kind of legal matters (CSA Hint! Hint!) or worse yet for them, becomes an apostate. I actually have insider information that they record more than one version of the same video story to maintain continuity in the series, in case it has to be replaced. 🤷♂️ IJS
26:38 They don't want anything to be enjoyable. Enjoyment is haram. JW culture is very much about being joyless and dour all the time. Even things you're allowed to be happy about you're only allowed to be happy within specific limits. Being TOO happy or having joy in anything that's not free work for Watchtower is absolutely scorned.
Ramapu... I was disgusted by the lack of respect for nature at the tree-felling stage. Now they are blasting? I feel sick. They do not need all that space for a studio but a residential area and fully equipped bunker might. Some area is going to be built as a hotel and conference centre, I bet .. and it will be sold.. to a JW- owned company. With Watchtower going Mormon, nothing surprises me.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Wally! Much love and mad respect to you and thumbs up and shared as always. Those damn crazy witnesses. Sheesh..lol
The Watchtower Real Estate Investment Corporation continues in their downward spiral .. Bizarre .. And who gives AF about the actors in their low budget videos .. The GB is not likeing sharing the spotlight with lesser ones ... Give me a break ..
I remember getting counseled for wearing a Jonas Brothers concert tee because their faces were on it and apparently some in the congregation were offended that I was practicing “idolatry.”
@@neonpenguin95 Your post reminds me of certain primitive peoples who believed that having their photo taken would trap their souls inside the camera, or some such nonsense… By the way, would anyone reading this please alert the appropriate authorities that I’m trapped inside someone’s cellphone… thanks and hurry I think that cellphone battery is about to be completely dead…
I was approached for wearing a shiny green tie.. he said military clothing isn't proper here.. I said the Danish army uses black ties and looked at his tie 👀
This update is crazy because I remember Stephen Lett was a guest speaker at our 2019 assembly in NC. At the end of it they literally made the announcement that if we wanted to take a photo with him, we had to get in line 😂😂
@@ashjacinda clearly the GB don’t like other “regular” JWs stealing their limelight. I’m pretty sure Jade and Neeta and all the others love the attention from within. It’s only the GB that has an issue.
These guys are so full of shit their eyes are brown! I admit I have a difficult time even listening to their gaslighting bull! Your podcast is one of the few I even bother listening to anymore. It's just televangelist in a different way. Even though they say their maintaining proper perspectives 😮 which is a continuous lie they tell!
This is just outright strange! I VIVIDLY remember after the dramas on Sundays at the conventions witnesses would make a bee line for the stage area to take pictures with the cast members of the drama in their drama garments. I’m quite sure my family and I happened to get a few snapshots ourselves with those folks! So where is this crap even coming from?? Ya know what? I work with the elderly for my job and I gotta tell ya these dudes are starting to sound like they have onset dementia.
I can only assume this has come off the back of some videos by ex JW activists that were made some years back in 2019 during the series of international conventions and how the GB were dancing and prancing about and having their photos taken with people, like celebrities or royalty. But instead of the GB coming on and admitting that perhaps this wasn’t appropriate or sent out wrong messages, they’ve twisted it and pinned it in on rank and file JW’s that need to be careful about getting too big for their boots.. Indeed this is clearly delusional as you said. This video really cracked me up Wally. Thanks
17:07 Another important reason they don't hire actors: Professional actors in the United States are unionized via SAG-AFTRA. Hollywood still gets away with mistreatment of smaller actors but the union guarantees them a bare minimum of rights and necessities; something which i doubt the Watchtower is willing to provide.
@@cindyjohnson7883 George Carlin’s standup routine (available on YT) on the top of god and religion in general is hilarious and also very much on point 😂… I recommend it for a good laugh! Just saying.
I wonder how many J W's that sign to many autographs, will get dis fellowshiped. These people are already being let down by having to travel, and pay their own way, while the organization is worth billions. What a racket. Scientology anyone?
We have to remember what it was like being in the organization. We NEVER thought this way when we were baptized and attending meetings regularly. When you're in the thick, you're not thinking about things like "who made them famous"? All you're thinking about is how I need to conform my brain to whatever I'm being told. Saying that people in the organization are scratching their heads is like saying Trumpers scratch their heads when Trump says things like "they're eating the dogs". A Trumper isn't scratching their head, actually quite the opposite. They are thinking "OMG they are eating the dogs".
I believe this is also why they stopped the dramas at the convention and assembly's because people had more of a celebrity status. Even when they simply had a 5-minute part in the convention or assemblies. But especially the drama parts.
There was a situation where they stayed in costume and walked around in them and people were taking pictures with them. Then they made an announcement that they can’t do that anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong they moved dramas to after lunch
They don't like the followers posting on social media because the comments and attention could raise their self-esteem and cause them to potentially decide to leave the cult. I didn't start engaging in social media until I was, like, eighteen or nineteen, because I was discouraged from using it by WT.
Yes I agree too much video time for the governing body and their point of view, back to the old days of when no one even knew who was on the governing body (1950’s to 1990’s)
Can't get my head around this multi-million dollar studio when, at the same time, the end of the world is right around the corner 😮 Damn, I feel bad when I took a selfie of me and the camel acting in the last one 😢 Don't want to boost his ego, he might eat more straw 😅
Them making a movie studio and justifying it for use in teaching in the new world is akin to Rutherford building his mansion in for the ancient prophets to live in .. funny how he chose a beautiful climate for them ...
I don't imagine they'd actually cover travel, possibly not even lodging. They don't cover travel for new bethelites, or people in the international construction work. Why would they help these folks out?
does it disturb anyone that WT now ranks 3rd behind LDS and the catholic church, in monetary value? it is clear that this organization is preparing for the long haul. same thing occurred in 1925 and 1975 and 1941 and 2000. they continued to buy property while preaching the end. it is clear that the urgency of the great tribulation is delayed, if they ever believed it at all, and yet they continue to beg for money for members who don't even own their kingdom halls, even if the members paid for them. and, can someone explain to me why the governing body now consists of 10 white men and 1 black man. are the majority from the united states? as to famous personalities, is it not true that WT encourages children and others to have pictures taken with c a l e b and s o p h i a. did not the governing body sign bibles for special donors in the 1990's? what about prince, the w i l l i a m sisters, and the j a c k s o n family? is there a double standard here?
For the love of all the idiotic things to be afraid of, this is the best. And it would have been wonderful if you could have inserted the video of S. Herd acting like a superhero walking through the airport being cheered on. Now who's acting like a celebrity? 😂 Isn't there a verse that says not to seek the prominent place? Another outstanding video for eternity, and are they going to have the so-called actors sign a NDA or something else to keep them from posting anything?😂 It's a volunteer gig, not a paid one.
I honestly think watchtower will rent out their studio to outside companies to use if needed like porn, Hollywood and make do a contract with walt Disneyland because trust watchtower isn't making any money from friends it's business so I'm just thinking business minded
It’s odd because Tyler Perry put a pause on his 800 million studio due to AI concerns. Imagine if JW make it and flip it cuz the free labor. Like “oops” we don’t need it but idk if they have the capabilities to do that forward thinking.
The “sister” who played the woman that married the guy that was raised as a witness but never got baptized. Well there are a couple in real life and she’s in an MLM so not only is she benefitting on social media but also financially so…exactly like a celebrity
This is too good to be true. I see a Watchtower last stand at another grand commercial realestate venture. JW activism is in for a big win, with Watchtowers help. This scheme is going to unravel and expose Watchtower for the false religious cult they are.
I think its possible that all these building they are putting up, when things hit the fan, perhaps they will tell their followers to come to these places for protection, and wait to be delivered, just a thought
Of the construction project that is mentioned, the society will hold on it for a few years, then sell it, knowing that it they will get over because they didn’t have to pay for labor and at times the materials. I have been in construction of buildings for 32 years, and based on the society past behavior this is the plan.
I do remember asking my now ex husband when the BC first started, isnt this exactly like the tv evangelists? But of chorus the generic response is but we have the truth that's the difference!! I was so blind😢
They could’ve very easily set up a committee dedicated to helping witnesses in low income areas with housing, utilities, food etc, but they are taking millions to make videos. I’m so happy to be out! My eyes are open
Exactly. Using the “widow’s mite” to expand their real estate, publishing and media empire. Disgusting. And my immediate family, who are still JWs, have been shoving the BS new projects and “new light” in my face like it’s positive or something for them to be proud of since I faded in 2007, then got upset and label me an “apostate” when I finally called out the organization’s hypocrisy last year. So much for worshipping in “spirit and truth.”🙃🤦🏾♂️ #bestlifeever
Facts! Good observation 👍
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS :
- When was the last time JW encouraged you to help the less fortunate or start a campaign to help them financially and spiritually ?
- Should we dedicate 10% or 50% ( at least or more ) of our preaching hours / or service to help them as the Christians from the first Century did ?
- Should the WT dedicate part of the donations profits they get from their events ( Conventions and Assemblies ) to help local poverty programs instead of sending it all to their headquarters ?
Exactly !
@@RenaeSmith-hl8dh very true. My elderly JW mother, who has given the WT tens of thousands over the last 30 years, recently ran out of money during Covid and could no longer afford housing. When she asked the elders for help they just handed her a list of government housing websites that the WT had provided the elder body to assist publishers. So to think the WT would ever help their struggling members financially is a pipe dream at best. Unless of course a hurricane or earthquake hits then they are the first in line to brag about their assistance while simultaneously letting everyone know it’s a sign of the end.
@@bigboithe8thAnd to get the insurance money 💰
My dad is a JW and was excitedly telling me about the sisters that were driving tractors/diggers etc for a recent construction project.
I said “oh wow you guys are trusting them to build foundations for the buildings they are prohibited from preaching from the platform in! Such progress”!! 🤦🏻♀️
Shows they really dont believe the end is so close to the end
Right. In the final part of the last of the last of the last days.
@@ericbulman1752 They’ll probably plan on livestreaming the end with their new equipment
Maybe the governing bodies want to make sure they are the only ones treated as "celebrities" Lol 😆
I’ve never been a JW, but I have some theories about the new production facility.
1) The illusion of growth. “Wow, we must be doing so well if we need a new production studio!”
2) Possible film/tv tax credits from the state.
3) They need more projects to keep people busy for long periods of time.
4) They want to make movies that can slip into “main stream” Christian culture without people knowing they’re JW produced.
5) They DO want these average joe JWs to be celebrities because it gives everyone else something to aspire to. “Maybe if I keep faithful to Jehovah I can have a special assignment like that too!”
6) They want to show that JWs have talent, and that they’re not weird and culty.
Are you sure you were never a jw because you hit the nail on the head 😂
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Awesome evaluation! 👍 You have them pegged! 💯
So what's your link with "Ze Org" ? Why are you wasting your time to even think about them ?
@@garryiglesias4074 I watched the video, thought for 2 seconds, and wrote down my thoughts. Not exactly rocket science.
Great Review Wally!! I am thinking the Governing Body just doesn't like competition when it comes to who the congregations admire, "worship" and give glory to.
Wally, super observations 😅Ramapo... Yes they need it 🙃🙃. Time will come, jw will become online religion, properties will be sold, GB will disappear from the scene and they will use AI to do their broadcasting and jw updates 🤨🫣
Reminds me of how Scientology has their production studio and actors
Exactly. The similarities between both cults is astonishing. Leah Remini did a two-part series on JWs. Try and catch it. The show was on A&E and called "Scientology and the Aftermath."
LDS also have their own. UCGK ( Universal Church of God's Kingdom ) has their own TV channel and soap operas. Several religions use this as a marketing strategy. Others may use campaigns and pastors promote their own books. I think the whole system is similar to Jesus' time on Matthew 21:12-13
@lmb1962 I saw the Episode with Leah about JWs too.
Was shocked how close the 3 are!! Saw her doc
@@Fouroclocklover38 I never thought I'd say this, but Scientology is even worse than JWs. If you're leaving Scientology, their goons will go to your neighbors and workplace and tell lies like, hey, did you know you neighbor is a SCA or a thief, so on and so forth. They're pretty heartless.
Wally, this video reminds me of an incident that took place the summer before I went to bethel in 82! Michael Jackson had arrived at bethel for a tour. Once word spread of Michael's arrival at the factory, many bethelites left their job assignments ( Some worked in the home and other areas at the headquarters in Brooklyn) to hurry to see him and seek his autograph. The next day those bethelites were reprimanded by the governing body and there was a talk given during morning worship on human worshiping. Flash forward to the following year, a governing body member was heading the morning worship and mentioned a special talk he gave along with other members of the governing body. He said that after the talks, the friends came up to them and wanted their autographs in their bibles. He stated they were happy to sign them! So much for the lecture. Nuff said!
Wth!! 😀
Hypocrisy at it's best
This makes absolutely zero sense. How do you tell ppl don't like the attention, but we as the GB are going to put you in that situation and test your humility, basically. 🙄 This has got to be the most ridiculous thing they have ever said/done.
I dont think anyone in their videos has been used enough to be recognized by the r&f. This is a non issue they are making up. You are selected for many reasons first that you can pay your own way. They start with elders, their wife's, pioneers. R&f are truely back burner.
The GB certainly are ok with members taking photos with them and posting it on social media. So happy I never got baptized and left this looney cult.
@@lovefaith6285
Bet the members of the gb and other prominent members wouldn’t like their photos posted upon Post Office walls, social media as pariahs, etc. 😂…
Just saying.
So happy I left before all this new goofy sh!t started…back when the GB was a faceless group of mystery mystical beings in New York 😆
Same here. I got put on reproof literally a few months before I was due to be baptized. Was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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In my day it was called being reproved, not being put on reproof, I guess everything changes, huh 😂…?
Wish someone would headline a major video for a convention, then disassociate and go full apostate just as convention season starts.😂
Yes, and then they’d have to refilm the whole thing! 😂
😅😂😂😂😂😂
I was in a brochure when I was younger. I've since disassociated, it's no longer in print, not sure if there's a connection.
Wow. They are SO worldly and competitive now. What happened to no attention or acknowledgement of the creature but only to the Creator? So, instead of those people sitting at yet another table selecting-why aren’t they out preaching the Last Days? What happened to Armageddon?
I remember when just being in a local convention drama brought you 15 minutes of fame. So this is definitely an issue of their own making. On a separate note, nice to see the WT strip mining and blasting the raw land for their must-have $100 million movie studio. For an organization that doesn’t grow, they sure do like constructing stuff. The WT Construction and Real Estate and Litigation Society.
It was also a sight to behold the deforestation the Society has committed at the construction site. It all reminds me of the burying of the spent ink barrels from the factory at the Farm into the ground, which was later found to have contaminated the groundwater in the Walkill-Pine Bush area. Yet, the brass is hypocritical enough to think that it would escape the time of which it has Jehovah’s witnesses preach, to wit, the ‘destruction of those who destroy the earth’.-Revelation 11:18.
I got selected in 2022 to do audition for a movie i accepted, they do provide a script for you to read and you have record yourself and take photos of yourself professionally done its definitely a process i must admit any i faded in 2023 December so it doesn't matter 😂
Hi Wally! Maybe they should cast apostates for the evil roles!!!!😂😂😂
SIs.... You're a genius ! 🤣
@ the would be iconic!!!! They won’t ever have to call us actors because we know all that we know😂😂😂
@@TracyLeaBeauty Such feature films would have too many blooper reels and deleted scenes...
Even when I left in 2008, the dubs then would have looked at me crazy and been appalled if I said soon the governing body will have a broadcasting channel, cartoons, music videos, etc...
Exactly. I faded in 2007. I was in my mid-20s, newly married and an MS. My immediate family are JWs and my father has been an elder since shortly after we became JWs in the early 90s. I didn’t have strong (negative) feelings about the religion other than my own faith issues regarding the inconsistencies in the teachings and organization that eventually caused me to stop going to the Hall. Then my family started sending me JW Broadcasting videos in 2014/2015. I was blown away after hearing them talk crazy about televangelism since I was a kid. They’re literally documenting their own hypocrisy and the changes in doctrine in real time. When I finally mentioned it (and the ARC) to my family and asked them to stop sending me the videos last year, they labeled me an “apostate.”🤦🏾♂️ Stockholm Syndrome is real.
@@ThinkTankEntertainment
And I’m sure that your family would refuse to watch any videos, including Jackson’s testimony before the ARC, since it clearly shows his and the wt’s hypocrisy…they’d find some twisted logic to label it “taken out of context”, or just fabricated by AI, or something…
Just saying.
Stockholm Symdrome is exactly what it is ! @@ThinkTankEntertainment
Very true. Glad I got to see some of this. I left in 2017. Best decision of my Life.
The governing body strut around like celebrities soooooo ?
So much so that, at the Society’s international assemblies, Sam Herd starts dancing through the crowd at the stadium as though he’s on the “Soul Train” Line.
@@thomash.schwed3662 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
More like 12 popes!
@thomash.schwed3662 You know what's embarrassing? Admitting that, I used to believe this load of bs.
@@thomash.schwed3662 🤣🤣😂😂
They will rent the studios to rake in money
Your question 9:59: “How they’re going to justify spending …?”
Justify to who???
They’re the Governing Freaking Body!!!
Who has the cojones to challenge them???
They just allowed their “men” to grow facial hair.
🤷♂️ IJS
Oh un francophone...
Even if you do, they're untouchable. Think anyone could possibly get an unscripted sit down interview? They would never agree to such a thing. Even from a real PIMI.
@@garryiglesias4074 Non. J’ai un Android.
🤷♂️ IJS
Hey Wally. Watchtower don't want 'commoners/sheep' sharing stardom with them. On Ramapo, I believe that after a couple of years, they would say it too expensive to upkeep & it's going to be sold or leased out. Hope you stay safe & continue to enjoy the holiday festivities!❤
I'm sure they plan to lease it to legit movie studios when they aren't using it so they make money from it.
For an organization that claims to be God's representatives, they sure love to show off their construction projects, all provided by free labor
And then "thank the Governing Body" for it! The NERVE!!! 🤢🤮
Every time I watch their broadcasts I have to laugh. They won't display the cross because of their belief of the torture stake and because it's pagan. Meanwhile, a perfectly framed JW logo in the background. 🙄😂
@@paleonard1979 good point
I see them either selling the studio, or leasing it out to big studios, to make more money.
Sounds like they are becoming worldly
Why don't the Governing instead use the money to get the Witnesses released?
I do not recall the GB ever having an issue with they, themselves being treated like royalty. But others?!!! That has to be stopped!
I think Sofia is complaining she wants her cut 💵 to buy booze and hang out with morris 😂😂😂😂
I get your point. But, actually, Sophia wants the Society to give her back the ice cream money she put into the contribution box.
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They want to be the only celebrities.
The GB don't complain when they themselves are showered with a VIP welcome on tour....
Problem=reaction=solution. GB cause the PROBLEM which gave them a REACTION which, in turn THEY come up with a SOLUTION ie ‘let’s beat the rank and file down to have more control’ so they will in turn give the GB more praise for giving them direction at the ‘proper time.’ 🤦♀️
Years ago Tony Morris came to my circuit assembly, and in his talk he spoke about how people shouldn’t praise him, that he’s just a servant of Jehovah “just like you!” Then when his talk ended and he said his closing words, he stepped back from the podium and everyone stood up, clapped for 5 straight minutes for him while he stood there, and then he proudly waved to everyone as he walked off the stage. Even my 13 year old mind recognized the bs
I would like to know, once Ramapo is up and running and Armageddon comes. Who is going to maintain the internet, power grid, fiber optic lines etc. So that JWs can receive the videos made there?
That's what I was thinking.
Easy answer to that: the energy to power all this will come from wind powered turbines, clean and renewable energy from the sun, of course, and all with the “blessing” of jehooovah 😂…
There, fixed it for you 😂…
Just saying.
Besides, they’ll need energy sources to power the camera equipment so that they can take live action videos of Armageddon, yes?
Isn’t jehooovah great 😂?!
Almost forgot, the gb will need to find a Charlton Heston type character, maybe with a voice like Sam Elliot, to narrate the whole extravaganza, at least this time the electronic tablets carrying the “new scrolls” won’t be as heavy/cumbersome as Moses had to deal with 😂… as for the laser guns with which to stun/kill those who transgress, Captain Kirk’s phasors, or whatever, were mere toys by comparison…
😂😂ok
@@greyberet1 AI will have new meaning = "Angel Internet"
A witness answer to this question would be that after Armageddon "jehovah will satisfy the desire of every living thing" that means the continuation of sevices at rammypooh too lmao
We're so close to the end, the last day of the end of the end...But we need to build larger storehouses!
I bet they don't want people to find out that some of the actors leave the organization and even come out as gay🤷🏻♀️
Many who appear in these videos leave the organization. It's not unusual.
The governing body are infamous.
Its all about CONTROL ..watchtower act like abusive narcissistic parents.They will use them,but also cut them down to keep them in their box.
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It’s so sad that people get caught up and are born into this cult. I pray for JWs daily that they understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ and call upon Him.
Nobody is allowed to sign autographs or take selfies except the governing body. Because Jehovah wants it that way.
As long as the celebrities give lots of money to the "organization", the governing body will turn a blind eye.
They are being prepared in case one of their high visibility actors later becomes embroiled in some kind of legal matters (CSA Hint! Hint!) or worse yet for them, becomes an apostate.
I actually have insider information that they record more than one version of the same video story to maintain continuity in the series, in case it has to be replaced.
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The GB ARE stupid tho. They're just front-men. Other people are doing everything, not them.
26:38 They don't want anything to be enjoyable. Enjoyment is haram. JW culture is very much about being joyless and dour all the time. Even things you're allowed to be happy about you're only allowed to be happy within specific limits. Being TOO happy or having joy in anything that's not free work for Watchtower is absolutely scorned.
What a waste of their followers money.
How are they able to find actors ? That was an extracurricular activity we wernt alloud to participate in .
What's ironic about that is that he org, in some cases, are paying for their actors to take acting classes. 🙄
thanks for the updates man!
Hi, Wally! Love your videos so much, and your fun sense of humour! Thanks for all your work! 😀❤⭐
But it’s perfectly fine for GB members to make public appearances and autograph Bibles.
Ramapu... I was disgusted by the lack of respect for nature at the tree-felling stage. Now they are blasting? I feel sick. They do not need all that space for a studio but a residential area and fully equipped bunker might.
Some area is going to be built as a hotel and conference centre, I bet .. and it will be sold.. to a JW- owned company.
With Watchtower going Mormon, nothing surprises me.
They’re gonna make movies in paradise😂
🤣 🤣 🤣 Funny, I didn't read about that in my Bible!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Wally! Much love and mad respect to you and thumbs up and shared as always. Those damn crazy witnesses. Sheesh..lol
The Watchtower Real Estate Investment Corporation continues in their downward spiral .. Bizarre .. And who gives AF about the actors in their low budget videos .. The GB is not likeing sharing the spotlight with lesser ones ... Give me a break ..
I remember getting counseled for wearing a Jonas Brothers concert tee because their faces were on it and apparently some in the congregation were offended that I was practicing “idolatry.”
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Your post reminds me of certain primitive peoples who believed that having their photo taken would trap their souls inside the camera, or some such nonsense…
By the way, would anyone reading this please alert the appropriate authorities that I’m trapped inside someone’s cellphone… thanks and hurry I think that cellphone battery is about to be completely dead…
I was approached for wearing a shiny green tie.. he said military clothing isn't proper here.. I said the Danish army uses black ties and looked at his tie 👀
@@neonpenguin95 I got in trouble for showing too much shoulder because I took my cardigan off… I was 6….
Bruh -SPARLOCK THE WARRIOR WIZARD•
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Ah yes, only 6 years old and already tempting older ones with CSA, how wicked 😂…
Just saying.
This update is crazy because I remember Stephen Lett was a guest speaker at our 2019 assembly in NC. At the end of it they literally made the announcement that if we wanted to take a photo with him, we had to get in line 😂😂
Oh my goodness but why would anyone want to take a photo with that creature
Like he's some special celebrity or something 🤮
I have a autographed poster of him on my wall. I two finger kiss it every time I I leave the house.
@ literally!
@@ashjacinda clearly the GB don’t like other “regular” JWs stealing their limelight. I’m pretty sure Jade and Neeta and all the others love the attention from within. It’s only the GB that has an issue.
"Competing" for a roll yet also not supposed to be competitive. Make that make sense.
I think the Governing Body is jealous of the competition, 😮 28:30
I can see the JAHOLLYWOOD sign on the hill behind the studio now.
I'm ready for my closeup Brother DeMille.
Wonderful job wally, Wow building more kingdom hall production societies ,OMG. Well The prophecy must play out
Only to sell them later for, a bigger pay check. Collect, build. Sell. Then collection again to build. Manipulation manipulate, manipulation
These guys are so full of shit their eyes are brown! I admit I have a difficult time even listening to their gaslighting bull! Your podcast is one of the few I even bother listening to anymore. It's just televangelist in a different way. Even though they say their maintaining proper perspectives 😮 which is a continuous lie they tell!
This is just outright strange! I VIVIDLY remember after the dramas on Sundays at the conventions witnesses would make a bee line for the stage area to take pictures with the cast members of the drama in their drama garments. I’m quite sure my family and I happened to get a few snapshots ourselves with those folks! So where is this crap even coming from?? Ya know what? I work with the elderly for my job and I gotta tell ya these dudes are starting to sound like they have onset dementia.
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Maybe they want to open an TV channel
They’d make bank cult tv
The more damage control watchtower does , to more damage they create
I can only assume this has come off the back of some videos by ex JW activists that were made some years back in 2019 during the series of international conventions and how the GB were dancing and prancing about and having their photos taken with people, like celebrities or royalty. But instead of the GB coming on and admitting that perhaps this wasn’t appropriate or sent out wrong messages, they’ve twisted it and pinned it in on rank and file JW’s that need to be careful about getting too big for their boots.. Indeed this is clearly delusional as you said. This video really cracked me up Wally. Thanks
They consider it a privilege therefore they are damaging their own people. Ear ticklers. Just telling people what they think they want to hear.
17:07 Another important reason they don't hire actors: Professional actors in the United States are unionized via SAG-AFTRA. Hollywood still gets away with mistreatment of smaller actors but the union guarantees them a bare minimum of rights and necessities; something which i doubt the Watchtower is willing to provide.
"He's playing Jesus, but it would be wrong to think of him as Jesus."
Hello Wally 😊!! Thank you!!
Love Carlin!
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George Carlin’s standup routine (available on YT) on the top of god and religion in general is hilarious and also very much on point 😂…
I recommend it for a good laugh! Just saying.
I wonder how many J W's that sign to many autographs, will get dis fellowshiped. These people are already being let down by having to travel, and pay their own way, while the organization is worth billions. What a racket. Scientology anyone?
We should get the actors to sign the back of our bibles
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Or our songbooks.
We have to remember what it was like being in the organization. We NEVER thought this way when we were baptized and attending meetings regularly. When you're in the thick, you're not thinking about things like "who made them famous"? All you're thinking about is how I need to conform my brain to whatever I'm being told. Saying that people in the organization are scratching their heads is like saying Trumpers scratch their heads when Trump says things like "they're eating the dogs". A Trumper isn't scratching their head, actually quite the opposite. They are thinking "OMG they are eating the dogs".
Well as jws " we were all born in middle class families " no head scratch? 😂
I believe this is also why they stopped the dramas at the convention and assembly's because people had more of a celebrity status. Even when they simply had a 5-minute part in the convention or assemblies. But especially the drama parts.
There was a situation where they stayed in costume and walked around in them and people were taking pictures with them. Then they made an announcement that they can’t do that anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong they moved dramas to after lunch
@@brianking9424 that literally happened at every convention drama up until i left in 2013
They don't like the followers posting on social media because the comments and attention could raise their self-esteem and cause them to potentially decide to leave the cult. I didn't start engaging in social media until I was, like, eighteen or nineteen, because I was discouraged from using it by WT.
I had a feeling you would have something to talk about this update, Wally.
I had a feeling you wouldn't let this one slide....
Yes I agree too much video time for the governing body and their point of view, back to the old days of when no one even knew who was on the governing body (1950’s to 1990’s)
Can't get my head around this multi-million dollar studio when, at the same time, the end of the world is right around the corner 😮
Damn, I feel bad when I took a selfie of me and the camel acting in the last one 😢
Don't want to boost his ego, he might eat more straw 😅
Them making a movie studio and justifying it for use in teaching in the new world is akin to Rutherford building his mansion in for the ancient prophets to live in .. funny how he chose a beautiful climate for them ...
Mmmm hmmm!!
Mmmmm hmmmm !!
I don't imagine they'd actually cover travel, possibly not even lodging. They don't cover travel for new bethelites, or people in the international construction work. Why would they help these folks out?
does it disturb anyone that WT now ranks 3rd behind LDS and the catholic church, in monetary value? it is clear that this organization is preparing for the long haul. same thing occurred in 1925 and 1975 and 1941 and 2000. they continued to buy property while preaching the end. it is clear that the urgency of the great tribulation is delayed, if they ever believed it at all, and yet they continue to beg for money for members who don't even own their kingdom halls, even if the members paid for them. and, can someone explain to me why the governing body now consists of 10 white men and 1 black man. are the majority from the united states? as to famous personalities, is it not true that WT encourages children and others to have pictures taken with c a l e b and s o p h i a. did not the governing body sign bibles for special donors in the 1990's? what about prince, the w i l l i a m sisters, and the j a c k s o n family? is there a double standard here?
Has anyone seen the houses of the GB members? I’d like to know just how humble they are…..🤔
I think they are on to something. I mean look how well being noticed in public worked out for Tony Morris
They are going to have to shun the acknowledgment of their acting roles
23:24 the sin of “undo attention “. I’ve think I’ve heard it all. Btw, Kenny’s getting his share of “undo attention” too.😂
Where can I find that sin in my Bible, Kenny? 😂
That's because they want all the glory, and for them to be your focus
For the love of all the idiotic things to be afraid of, this is the best. And it would have been wonderful if you could have inserted the video of S. Herd acting like a superhero walking through the airport being cheered on. Now who's acting like a celebrity? 😂 Isn't there a verse that says not to seek the prominent place? Another outstanding video for eternity, and are they going to have the so-called actors sign a NDA or something else to keep them from posting anything?😂 It's a volunteer gig, not a paid one.
Or insert photo of the GB signing BIBLES at an assembly !! 😅 🤯
I want to audition do I have to take off my top😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I honestly think watchtower will rent out their studio to outside companies to use if needed like porn, Hollywood and make do a contract with walt Disneyland because trust watchtower isn't making any money from friends it's business so I'm just thinking business minded
It’s okay they will pass before they go broke (governing body)
The GB's new Kingdom Song: 🎼🎶"Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, when you're per-fect in e'v'ry way!"🎶🤠
It’s odd because Tyler Perry put a pause on his 800 million studio due to AI concerns. Imagine if JW make it and flip it cuz the free labor. Like “oops” we don’t need it but idk if they have the capabilities to do that forward thinking.
☝🏻lil squeeze of dopamine 😂
The “sister” who played the woman that married the guy that was raised as a witness but never got baptized. Well there are a couple in real life and she’s in an MLM so not only is she benefitting on social media but also financially so…exactly like a celebrity
Plain and simple, they are jealous of Jade and Neeta. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Ramapo will become Watchtower Land where you can live your dreams.
What if it becomes a compound like the one in Waco or the ones the FLDS have in Arizona or Utah?
They'll probably have pandas to pet
Their movie ratings are "rotten tomatoes "
This is too good to be true. I see a Watchtower last stand at another grand commercial realestate venture. JW activism is in for a big win, with Watchtowers help. This scheme is going to unravel and expose Watchtower for the false religious cult they are.
Hopefully
Lets see how faithful the governing body are to this talk NOT 1 MORE PHOTO IS TO BE TAKEN BY A WITNESS STANDING NEXT TO A GOVERNING BODY MEMBER.
Land stopped being produced many years ago.
land with permission to have buildings erected on it is very precious 💰
I think its possible that all these building they are putting up, when things hit the fan, perhaps they will tell their followers to come to these places for protection, and wait to be delivered, just a thought
The time division was disgusting. Seconds devoted to Eritrea. And then the rest of it was meaningless drivel. Their inhumanity is showing again.
Great observation
Even before JW broadcasting, there was JW celebrities. The Sunday meetings were packed houses, if one of them came to give a talk.
Of the construction project that is mentioned, the society will hold on it for a few years, then sell it, knowing that it they will get over because they didn’t have to pay for labor and at times the materials. I have been in construction of buildings for 32 years, and based on the society past behavior this is the plan.
They're right. Nicolas King is now my... king 🤴
I do remember asking my now ex husband when the BC first started, isnt this exactly like the tv evangelists? But of chorus the generic response is but we have the truth that's the difference!! I was so blind😢
Sounds like the Watchtower should help them.