Speaking to the safety of children in the door to door work…I spent 40 years going door to door. I saw naked adults, had guns pulled on me, had dogs sent after me, I’ve been bit by every animal known to man, etc…all of that before I hit 20. Is the door to door safe for children? I give that a healthy HELL NO.
I was like 16 and it was my turn to speak and this super hot girl just in a towel answered. I said "I'm Jason, this is Mike and we can see YOU'RE BUSY so we'll go" and she said no wait what did you want? So we said we were Watchtower slaves that can't be around great looking girls that aren't in our church and she said oh ok well bye then.
supposedly they stopped door to door and use the cart method. But I think differ congregations do differ methods. Plus with the CSA problem on their back door.....going door to door is bad idea maybe upcoming legal mess
I had sprinklers turned on, oeiple come to the door naked, guns pulled on me, dogs sicked on me and was once chased down the street with electric hedge clippers all before I was 10. Also sending your kids to their classmates houses early on a Saturday to tell them they should give up birthdays and Christmas is an excellent way to ensure they are ostracized and beaten up.
Parents "in the truth" always yell at kids to "Stay safe, don't talk to strangers !!" but then take them out to random peoples doors to 'preach' knowing about guns, dogs, criminals, etc etc
@@ibroplatin4915 Yesssss I was raised in by my JW parents and they'd always tell me to not talk to strangers while letting me go to doors (sometimes ALONE TOO??) to preach
It took me many years to realize this but going door to door as a young kid is the reason I have bad anxiety, especially worrying about what others think of me. Gettings doors slammed in my face as a young kid, people telling me to f*** off, it really affected me mentally.
@@sarahthomas8670 Also, so if you make the mistake of opening the door with your kid, they can sic their children on yours to "play". That will successfully keep you from disengaging and leave your kid vulnerable to indoctrination. And it will be really difficult to say that no, your kids cannot play with one another.
Bruh yeah when I was younger my parents would bring me along to preach with them and they even told me I was "their special tool" cuz usually when i dont come along they get yelled at 💀
I'm an old man. I went through that preaching shit as a child instead of playing football. I still resent it, and can only pity the young generations experiencing the same bleak, joyless conditioning since.
Someone mentioned psychological trauma. Psychological religious trauma to be sure! I am 57. My husband and I left about 17 years ago with our two daughters . Even after all this time, I still become enraged when I think about my lack of childhood. Seeing pictures of my father-in-law wearing a beard now, after shunning my husband (his son) for growing one infuriates me! I have to remind myself that they have missed out on their grandchildren’s lives and now great grandchildren.
I’ve always been able to track my anxiety to my childhood, but just realized at 49 that most of my disturbing memories all involve a component of JW. Now I’m re-reading My Book of Bible Stories since it was the source material.
I don't know if that helps, but you can in some ways relive your childhood. We live in times where adults doing things that usually children do, like going to the theatre for pixar movies, or going to disney land ect. are more wildly acceptable. You can watch these tv shows you couldn't as a child, you can buy yourself toys you were never allowed to have and many other stuff. Do it if it will make you feel at least a little bit happier. You deserve to have child like fun, even if you think you're to old for that 🙂
Fun is way overrated....said no one ever! Raised up in a JW family. It was so miserable as a kid. When I was finally able to break free, it felt like a giant weight had been lifted off of me. I feel sorry for all the kids being brought up in this cult today.
I think it’s quite clear, they don’t give an eff about kids and their mental health. I’m still haunted by things that happened to me preaching as a kid. We never had a debriefing but when I spoke about it, the general response was as it always is “Satan’s world”, “those people serve Satan”, “We should expect this because we have the tooth, and Satan hates us” etc. I still chose to be a pioneer in my late teens! My life was just an eff up and I’m still affected but at the age of 50, I’m only starting to heal now, after 15 years completely out.
I feel so bad i cant help you in anyway. Im only a kid now but with the help of technology i was able to see through christianity. Whilst it isnt JW i experienced similar things, everybody else was "a devil worshipper", "lost soul", "fool" etc. and we had to be wary of the big bad outside satanic world. Until just this year, i always felt like i was being held back by chains, i didnt understand at first because it was taught "Jesus is the key free us from the "worldly" chains of the flesh." After deconstructing, i started to realize it was actually my RELIGION that held me back, there was always a rule, always a threat, always shame, always doubt. How could i have developed into a real person if im being told "how to live my life" what was being taught is a hivemind for indoctrination. Theres plenty more i have to share but atleast now i feel free to experience life.
Witness kid here. My parents have forced me to be around people who have made me uncomfortable or sad just because they’re witnesses and ‘we need to support THEM in THEIR hard times’. I’ve been forced to hang out with a girl who let me nearly get SA’d by a boy at a water park. I’ve been forced to hang out with a girl who put me down and made me feel horrible about myself, while also actively putting strains on relationships I actually like. Why did they do this? Because they’re both JW’s, and their happiness is more important than the victim’s. Everyday I live in fear of my secrets (being queer, my beliefs, etc) coming out to my parents in some sort of way. I can’t take a breather until I know it’s all hidden. I put my phone on Do Not Disturb every time my parents need it. I hide my sketch books and panic whenever they’re even slightly in a different position. I have plans to leave at 18 for college, and this time they won’t stop me.
I do Horrorcore rap under the pseudonym Jukklez D. Jestah, and my "obligatory inspirational track" has a line that I think fits here: "There's a light that you can see Reach it, and you will be free." Your 18th birthday is that light for you. If you get shunned before then, there are multiple options to aid your day-to-day. Stay strong, fam! 🤡🖤
Even though I didn’t have any children when I was in I saw the craziness that these poor kids went through not allowed to have any friends outside of the organization. Hearing about kids being picked on in school they looked miserable when they went out in service they didn’t have a life. Studied with a woman who had three kids recently reconnected with her daughter on Facebook and found out she and her two siblings are no longer witnesses and she raising her children the polar opposite of how she was raised she celebrated Birthdays and the Holidays. She lets her daughter do the things she never got to do as a kid.
Such depressing cartoons! Every time Caleb finds some happiness in his life his Mum finds a way to crush it. No wonder depression rates in the org are so high.
Those were horrible days growing up and having to preach and sitting at the KH. UGH! I started saying no @ the age of 8. Was forced and punished; horrible childhood!
Reading your experience touched my heart. I was painfully shy as a child, and it was about age 8 for me as well that I started to decline "taking doors" out in service. I was guilted, threatened, given the cold shoulder, and punished by my Uber zealous pioneer mother for it. ❤ We didn't deserve that.
The innocence of childhood I will never get back. Always praised for being ‘mature behind my years’ - I wore this like a badge of honour until I realised the sacrifice I paid and childhood I lost being raised a JW. 40 years of age, and still undoing years of indoctrination. The work to free oneself, is never over.
Worse when you have Family members who’s still in the WT Cult…. Can’t erase the past or future because WT organization destroys Thousands of families due to the practice of Shunning 😤
Yeah I can relate being a Born in JW… I’d wonder what it would’ve been hadn’t me and my siblings were not JW’s definitely our lives would be different never having to deal with Fear and Conditional Love from the WT organization…☹️
As a non-denominational Christian and raised as such … never in my childhood did I ever think that magic was real. My parents taught me that magic isn’t real. These are just fun stories. And as such I always thought of them as FUN stories with underlying messages of love, compassion, overcoming obstacles, etc. Good grief. JWs must think their kids are stupid and can’t grasp basic concepts of fiction versus reality 🤦🏻♀️
How do you think God created the universe and heals people and raises the dead with his power/Magic. Magic does exist the bible warns about being careful about it. The bible isn't just stories they are real event. The parables Jesus told were used for teaching and examples yes. Revelation 9:21 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. Exodus 7:11 11 Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: plenty of examples of it through history Only Gods magic is good. Everything else not blessed by God is wrong and evil.
@@dracophoenixttv you completely misunderstand what I was saying. Read it again. I’m not talking about the miracles of God, creation, etc. I’m talking about fiction. Things that are NOT real. God is very real. Miracles are very real. Satan’s power to manipulate men into performing wondrous acts is real. Magic is not.
@@dudemanbroguy3464 and calling someone stupid while simultaneously saying something that has nothing to do with what was said is stupid. It’s not hard to share an opinion without name calling. Children call people names when they have nothing logical or kind to say.
When the few JW's I knew asked why we left, and i mentioned that it was because i didnt want to have my young kids in there anymore i was blown away by the total lack of concern or interest in the specifics. They didn't care at all. They didnt ask what happened. Nothing. They moved on to "well are you DF'ed or disassociating, etc?" And that was the last time I heard from any of them
Wally, once, several years ago I was at a door out in field service with another sister and her young son when we knocked on a door of which we thought no one was home. As we started to walk away, the door suddenly opened and a man yelled "Git 'em Satan!" As he let this big dog out. We barely made it back to the car at the curb when the dog just missed grabbing hold of the boy's pant leg! Where was Jehovah's angels that are supposed to accompany his servants to the door??? Did he fall asleep on the job and forgot to send out his posse angels?
To your point about not knowing who’s at the door, my brother and I were out one Saturday morning a couple years ago and we got a gun pulled on us. That was the last straw and his last day as a witness. He stopped going to meetings the next week. I wasn’t so fortunate and had to wait a bit longer cause I wasn’t old enough to leave yet but I’m out now going on 3 years and I’m living my life, going to college at 30 to get my masters in business administration and couldn’t be happier.
I'm so happy for the both of you. Isn't it a relief to be out of that toxic atmosphere. Learning about JW has made me more compassion towards them if they come to my door. Also more kindness towards mormon missionaries. They have to pay to be away from their family for over 2 years. 18-20 year Olds so sad.
Good for you! I had to go to university at 30 aswell because of the (my mom refused to help paying for my education and expected me to start working ang going to the KH and out on service right after high school - first forced me to go to an high school of her choice because she didn't want me ending with the family small cleaning business, then refused to support me to get higher education, getting me stuck with shitty jobs for over 10 years of my life!) Study hard and realize your aspirations :) I hope you'll find a fulfilling career :D
That meme 'straight to jail!' Best describes growing up a jw. You want to join a sports team? Straight to jail! Celebrate the day you were born? Straight to jail! Eat a cupcake from someone's b.d. party? Straight to jail! Play with a toy that's magical? Straight to jail! Watch cartoons on Saturday morning? Straight to jail!
15 years I didn't earn a penny towards building a home or retirement because of this broken harmful cult. Out now and earning a wage... I have no words for my anger towards them!
I hear you!!! didn't go to college, didn't learn a skill. Now in my old age struggling to earn a living. Finally had the courage to emigrate( to give my kids a fair shot) but yeah was angry for many years. There was both an Awake and Watchtower covering the struggles and pitfalls of emigrating. Apart from my kids and I my entire family is still stuck in this cult.
I remember my best friend in elementary school was a jehova’s witness… couldn’t even invite him to my birthday parties. The line between religion and cults really is a blurry one
My brother and I could never watch shows like the Brady Bunch or Partridge family - because there was teenage dating!!! But my elder dad could watch Gunsmoke every week! How does that make sense? (Ok now I just aged myself). Great job Wally! Thank you!
That's definitely a double standard. 😳 I loved the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family growing up. The Partridge Family also had stuff about the feminist movement too. Also, wasn't Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke the owner of a saloon?🤔 I hope you got to watch those shows, they're definitely my favorites.😊❤
Eight year old me could never understand why my mum banned me from watching My Little Pony. Apparently the friendship lessons would allow Satan to enter my home because of unicorn magic. I also remember telling my friend that humans are made of dust when we were six years old after misunderstanding a bible teaching… I told that same friend two years later that she would get brutally destroyed by God for lying :(
Lol remember the whole story of kids Smurf toy running around it the Kingdom Hall on fire 🔥 saying blasphemous things about Jehovah during the kingdom songs?? 😅😂
I would not let my children watch them. Just told it was unacceptable and followed along. My kids never forgot that. Neither came into the "truth" I have been in for 45 years. Thank God I can still talk to my children. I am so sad from all I've found out. Not one jw even mentioned the Australian royal commission and they never will. Sadly we are all told everything that is said negative about jw are satanic lies. I still believe Jehovah is real and the bible was preserved for a reason, but the profound depression i feel now is just debilitating.
@@cheneethompson5756sadly apparently that’s common in jw circles apparently every Kingdom Hall has at least one story that involves the smurfs being possessed by demons running around the Kingdom Hall etc it’s crazy as it sounds
Hey Wally 👋🏼 my mother turned jw when I was just 6 years old. I was use to having birthdays and Christmas etc and then it all just stopped and I was dragged to the kh every Sunday and to someone’s jw house every Wednesday. I remember my aunt and uncle (who I might add could not have children) called round to our house with Easter eggs one Easter Sunday for my sister and I and my mother very rudely turned them away. I was so freaking confused. I was given the my book of bible stories to read end to end over and over. I didn’t understand why and the pictures were horrendous. I mean watching on while people were dying?! When I got to high school I was then bullied as everyone knew I was a jw and they would laugh at me- I wanted to be a cool kid, I couldn’t be. Throughout these years my mother was always cold and would hit me for no reason, even in the middle of the night when I was sleeping. And everything was always my Dads fault (he’s never been in the cult, thankfully) she’s now in her 80s and I have zero respect for her and I live a good 140 miles away so I don’t have much contact for her. I really want to let her know about all the csa, false doctrines, stocks and shares etc but I would only be doing it for self satisfaction so I think it’s best not to 🤔
@@astridmiller7938 absolutely 👏🏼 my mother comes across so lovely and love bombs everyone. Clearly hiding behind her cult. She has been truly awful to my Dad all his life. My Dad is the most beautiful man inside and out. So very upsetting.
I hope you've started healing from the trauma. This is heartbreaking. 😢😢😢💔💔 ...And given how deeply indoctrinated she is, your "mother" will most likely NOT listen to what you have to say, so... probably best to tell someone that you wholeheartedly trust. Someone who genuinely cares about you and listens (no, it's not Jehovah).
@@SonicGamerGirl2006 thank you for your kind words 💕 I got pregnant at 18 and looking back I realised that I was craving love in my life as I had none growing up. I was doing ok until I hit my 40s and I now find myself struggling with my past. Watching her love bomb my kids and grandkids eats away at me. She comes and stays at my house at Christmas and celebrates with us. Seeing this just makes my skin crawl and makes my blood boil. I’ve received some counselling over the last few years but I find myself obsessing over this vile cult and I want to scream as it’s so disturbing. I just don’t understand why people think this cult is good for anyone!!
It is a miracle, but there is the is two paths here one is the legal way through Christ, the other is a illegal way what Satan uses, which is witchcraft..drugs, new age stuffs... Psychics are able to "predict the future" because they work with demons and allowed what they tell the person about what is gonna happen to them in the future, the person comes to an agreement to what the demon says therefore it is allowed to mess with them (demons cannot predict but they can watch a person's bad habits and routines closely). God however can really predict the future (he shows his prophets) he doesn't cause fear, and if there is something troubling he leads you a way out of it.
These cartoons look like tutorials on how to perform child mental abuse :( I cannot believe those kids watch these painfully cringy cartoons and are like: "yeah, cool, I'm sold!". I would feel I was being played with and betrayed by my own parents. 9:42 yeah, those loyal friends who will turn their back on you and shun you because some old scrooge overseas said so. If jehova hates magic and magic is bad, why does he use it all the time?
JWs can't even get sparlock right, first off you can't be a paladin and a wizard, Tank and DPS do not mix. Second off I still find it funny how they think sheltering kids from things like this will make life better for them. It turns them into gullable adults.
The best time preaching was when I was 11 and my friend Guy who was 14 were allowed to work together alone, we talked about Dungeons and Dragons the whole time!
I have a theory, I think it's because Magicians learn hypnosis techniques, repetition and subversion. For example the way Steven Lett speaks is unnatural but it draws you in because you try so hard to listen and understand what he's trying to say. They coach them to speak like this. You would begin to notice WT brainwashing and hypnosis, for example in a talk they mention "the truth" 120 times.
The magical new religion of Tadaism has the answer for that. They hate Harry Potter because they know he defied inept tyranny to fight the greater evil and won. Their guy got executed in a brutal way and couldn't save his friends from suffering a similar fate. Anti-magic religious propaganda poisons their perception of The Boy Who Lived Free so he wouldn't Die and causes them not to accept the fullride achoalrship to Hogwarts that his victory over Voldmort grants all of us.
some of these magic practices the pagans did, I think they come so natural and are based on natural movements, as a kid I would make my own language and do repetitive movements because it felt comforting and fun to do so, but my mother told me that was wordly comforting practices, that it aas demonic and instead we should only pray and learn real languages, not make anything up. My mom found my made up language books and toys I made myself to play with and burned them in our fire pit because Harry Potter was coming out and any made up languages were considered like casting spells. Really effected my development. I still struggle today to achieve many things like driving as a woman or being a store manager as a woman because these things were frowned upon.
I remember being out in service with my sister and a man came to the door totally naked with tube socks on. The brothers freaked out! We had no idea what to do
As a born in JW I “ Dreaded” Saturday’s knowing I’d be knocking on my Classmates doors… being Bullied at school was Bad enough then seeing them on the weekends too made me sick 🤮….Yeah growing up as a JW “ SUCKS” !!! 😤😫☹️
I hate that not only do I know all the words to the songs still, but they stir emotions. The org really knows how to trap its followers in every tactic they deploy. No wonder it's so hard to deconstruct and leave. Also Pets to Zeezy!!!
As someone who was raised as a Jehovah witness this is actually true i have alot of expirence of waking up early as hell as a child wearing a suit being presentable goong to neighbor to neighbor with my parents to recruit and not even celebrating anything not even my birthday (until i was 13 and my parents divorced for other reasons)
To this day I still have clear memories of meeting weird people at the doors during preaching. Conspiracy theorists, devout Christians, creeps checking you out (if you're a female and they a male) and, the worst in my opinion, the people who scream and yell obscenities at you, even after you're walking away from their property, and following you. As an adult those are traumatic or dangerous people to come across, let alone putting a child in those situations. I once heard from someone in the same car group as us telling how a child approached a door for preaching, and someone opened the door with a gun pointed at them. Thankfully no one was harmed in that situation, but it could have ended in tragedy.
I find myself still missing the Saturday morning cartoons of years ago. George of the Jungle, etc. At least those cartoons held their value.....A space ship for service......I don't think so....... Ever go out for a couple hours and not talk with anyone? Were the angels there then? I don't think so, they could see that no one was home.
It's one of THE most illogical things I've heard from this cult. I can imagine how much this doctrine psychologically hurts many innocent children raised as JW's. 😞😓
When i was 8 in 1984, I wore my favourite jumper, a Ghostbusters sweatshirt, to the bible study group and the elder tore my poor mother to shreds over it, she was crying and I couldn't understand why. Furious thinking about it now, It stuck with me that did. Still.... Great movie.
Growing up with a JW mother she would always tell me it's not good to have fun while in this system of things. She said the fun will begin once God's new system of things begins in paradise.
@@echocrashcraft Now that I'm older and know better I'm realizing mother was very narcissistic and many things she used to teach me when I was growing up were all lies.
@@KG-ly5fu I hope your life gets better and you get to stay away from your mother. Don't ever put yourself into that situation, live on for your happiness and for the bettering of your life and others
I am glad you brought up strangers being a threat, especially when kids and adult JWs answer the door. I remember thinking how I was putting myself in harm's way, harassing people to go to church as a 12-14 years old Southern Baptist kid. I also gave up being a pastor because girls and women can't be that, which got my sister mad at me. She's four years younger than me, so her seeing her older sister just giving up so easily on that. Just because, some male pastor said so, well i guess it was among many things that deterred from that church. I kinda fell away from Christianity as i got older, i also got baptized at 13. I only knocked on people's doors and made an ass out of myself because I was constantly hearing the adults, preachers, Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron and other televangelists saying how "Anyone could go to Hell at any moment and if you didn't tell them about Jesus, you had blood on your hands." Kirk Cameron even read a poem that went like: "My friend, I stand in judgemental now. And feel that you are to blame some how. On earth, I walked with you both night and day, and never did you show the way. You knew the Lord, full in glory, but never did you tell His story. Now, I stand in judgemental now, because His story you did not tell." I also had the constant guilt of always having my salvation taken from me because if I was relunctant or thought I was making an idiot out of myself, I would be a hypocrite. I did have those same adults saying how I needed to grow as a Christian before preaching, but if I waited, someone would end up in Hell because of me. It didn't help that my youth pastor at the time told a story about how he was supposed to tell some guy that was at death's door from being in a motorcycle accident about God. My youth pastor just refused to and he said he heard God berating him, because now that guy was in Hell because he didn't "share the gospel".
The last time a JW knocked on our door I told them yesterday when someone knocked on this door it was to tell us my mother in law died. Friends and family know to knock on the back door if we are awake we will come front near our bed is emergency only.
Grateful I was raised in a sect of Christianity that didn't fuss about magic. We also didn't go door to door handing out pamphlets, we collected supplies for a womens' shelter.
Even with how bright and cheerful they clearly tried to make the animation, it still came out looking like they fully acknowledge at some level that their life is just a prison and they're damning younger minds into never leaving it.
I definitely still struggle about my lack of childhood. I didn't get away from it until I was old enough to drink. So, yeah, my life sucked before that. Every time my husband talks about anything he did as I kid, I have to remind him about how sheltered I was. How I wasn't allowed to have my own thoughts or wants or plan for my actual future. It's infuriating. And my mother still tries to brainwash my kids. Knowing damn well that I would never sacrifice my kid to her death God. No thank you. My kids will be happy as long as they are able.
Such irony! I learned a lot more about the truth of how religious belief affects a family from Moral Orel than any religion-produced media. The episode where Orel learns to meditate always leaves me SOBBING
Wally, another great one. It’s so maddeningly clear how manipulative the dialogue and heart-tugging music is when one is outside looking back in. The media professionals leading the media experience are highly skilled and must have learned these skills elsewhere. Almost certainly are not JWs, they just work for them. With Their stratospheric salaries too.
My partner was raised JW but not baptised. The elders attacked our relationship. We are still Together 25 years láter. We do not practice religion. We still speak to his parents.
"Evil people trying to force their religion on others!" That's the thing about insane religious types. They think their religion is the righteous one. So they believe they are justified in forcing their beliefs on others. It's been that way ever since religion became a thing.
Once I was a child and my mother asked in the bookshop for „a book without magic, without crime, without drugs, without violence and without sex“ I just giggle now 😂
The kid sounds so done with her shit when he says "Satan" like he was thinking "I just wanted to go to the movies instead of getting told to go fuck myself by strangers every couple of doors"
@truelove11.11 that's something I don't get When I studied with a witness family, I would often visit them for the study And, I was shocked they were watching the wizard of oz one day So, that's OK, but those same people don't like harry potter Because of all the magic! Oz and harry potter are both wizards Double standards, much?
Few years ago, witnesses started to appear at my doorstep (usually at the time when I was alone at home) and tried to "salvate" me. Yes, you guessed it, salvation only costs 25 bucks EVERY MONTH. At first, I just drove them away, because I have my own religion (I'm a shintoist) and I obviously won't spend 25 dollars monthly on something I think is bullsh*t. After like 2 weeks, I thought "you know what? If they come again, I'll mess with them a bit"... and so they came. After they introduced themselves, I interrupted them and started talking about MY religion, than tried to convince them to join. I could see the confusion on thier faces. I didn't let them say a single word, I tried to talk about it for as long as I could. Than they got kinda angry, told me that I will burn in thier definition of hell and I'm going to suffer. I was like "how nice of your totally not egoistic god to punish everyone who isn't an idiot to belive your irrational and absurd tales about being mentally potato and giving half your sallary to people you don't even know because they said that god said so." after that, they literally threatened me saying "you will regeret this", so I told them "I won't burn in hell, hell will burn in me if I see you around again." than they left. They didn't came for like half a year. after the started showing again, I literally hang a sign on my door that says "God is dead, and I killed them." they are a rare sight at my doorstep nowdays.
I am normally very nice to Jehovis Witnesses when they come to my door but the last group had a kid and they were pushier then normal because they wanted to help this kid convert someone and my normal "I'm sorry I'm very devout in my current religion and I am not looking to convert at this time" didnt work. They then made the kid cry by blaming him for me not converting me. Havent seen any of those people since and I hope that kid grows up okay.
I remember the night where my friend came to visit me and brought Harry Potter secretly. Well I told her to do it secretly. My father caught us and made a scene. My mum was fine with it but it was so embarrassing. My parents were fighting and the whole evening was ruined …. Because of a movie 😢
I could see the arguements that forcing a child to grow up strictly under any religion being a form of abuse, but there's something particularly nasty about forcing a kid to grow up as a Witness that gets under my skin
I didn't grow up as a JW, but I had a friend in elementary school who's family was part of the religion. I always found it odd and sad how she couldn't celebrate any holiday, and not even her own birthday! But i'll always remember that day during lunchtime when she suddenly told me if the apocalypse were to happen the next day, everyone except JWs would die. As you can imagine, as a kid it traumatized me. And then in highschool, two men from the JW in a black car literally came to me as I was waiting alone for my school bus! When I saw the black car pull up near me, I was frozen with fear because I thought I was going to get kidnapped! So yeah, I never had good experiences with the JW and I wanted to share them.
The notion that we're the only intelligent life in the universe isn't necessarily pushed by the organization. Most Jehovah's Witnesses do believe that we're the only intelligent life in the universe, though. It's like marrying young. It's actually discouraged in the publications. To avoid "getting into trouble' folks do get married at 18 and 19. Regarding magic, opinions differ on what constitutes magic. A lot of witnesses watch Toy Story Shrek and other fantasy based films. A lot of witnesses love Marvel films. Others compare people having powers to the Nephelim in the Bible. So far nothing has been said explicitly by the organization. Honestly, some things are cultural.
Shouldn't each person have their own questions? I started wondering where they get these questions as a result of many years of listening to talks. I now know these are called leading questions designed to lead to a predetermined conclusion. A talk or article would often start with "The question is". In reality each person gets to ask their own questions about any subject
I once opened the door for some Mormon 19 year old fellas…. On this day in particular it was a super hot summer day. I wasn’t expecting anyone except my partner to come over so I opened the door, I was wearing a spaghetti strap (skin tight) top and equally tight yoga shorts. They were very short. One of them could not keep their eyes off my chest and the other kept stuttering. I am not a knock out 10. But I do have curves and chubby, it also may have been the first amount of boba they’ve ever seen along with bare feet and legs. People answer the door that way, it was awkward for me, I’m not sure how awkward for them. They never came back, I may have gotten my house black listed. Just a fun thing to share about answering the door for JW’s
JW childhood does suck!! And when the parents get divorce cause one mate decides to fade the JW fake religion then encouraged divorce. Things have changed & another way to tear up kid s life and families!! I had miserable childhood like all other JW children.I use to think why can t I still have childhood friends,,,,but nope JW had big clique at KH and not allowed to be friends with worldly children or even my blood cousins. Ugh! Thank you Wally!
They have been using this type of control for decades. My manipulation tool was the my book of bible stories and the drama cassettes. Remember those? The yellowish and white tapes. Manipulation comes in many forms, and it shows with these new products that will keep children under their thumb. A friend of mines niece was offered a full collage degree and declined the offer to become a full time pioneer. This is the governing bodies plan for the future.
The amount of time I rolled my eyes at these cartoons, my eyeballs almost rolled out of my head. I was disfellowshipped 10 years ago at the age of 18. I came to 'the truth' at 11 and was baptized at 13. No matter how much you give, it's never enough. This is fearmongering at its best.
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Our Providing overseer put on Christmas movie when our family came over for dinner once. We were so confused. Why is The Wizard of Oz okay but Harry Potter was wrong. So many rules.
The magic thing reminds me of the bit in family guy Star Wars when Princess Leia/Lois said that obi wan kenobi was probably going to hell because Christians don’t look very kindly on the force
Don't look at me, wherever we went, my family since well back to my grandmother, and probably before, have always had an antagonistic relationship with the local Kingdom Hall, even when we haven't tried to, a war always results.
I never knew of this channel but it does my heart good to see you tell people the truth of what this religion does. I grew up as a JW and it wasn't a good childhood. Unfortunately I was the only child of my congregation and not being allowed to have friends outside of it I obviously was very isolated as a child. I had no friends and the only thing that got me through was the internet. I was able to talk to other people which led to dangers but also led me to some good people. That and TV gave me a view of how families and children were suppose to be. I fought every step of the way through my childhood. I eventually was left in a broken home and had to live with the parent that was a full blown JW and very strict. When puberty hit it was treated as a curse more than a natural occurrence and when it was time to get a job, I wasn't allowed a car so my only choice was to work at a restaurant as a waitress across the street. Mean while i had to balance school work, go out in service, and do my parts at meetings. Finally, graduation came, and I was able to make my own decisions. I cut all ties with the JW parent (who still tries to reach out and recruit me back btw) and started collecting friends and rekindling a lost relationship with the other parent. I am finally on the right path and happy with life, but it was a challenge getting here. 0/10 would not suggest.
I have never been a JW but lost my parter of 13 years to it. His personality got completely anihilated and he was talking to me about crazy stuff. There was no reason for me to stay with him. Idk why I keep seeking for info about that cult more than 2 years after breaking up. I just like your videos, the way you explain things and it comforts me that I made the good choice. Also, the cat is adorable :3
My mom was a Jehova's witness and she would tell stories about her time in it, she spent around 16 years on there and had tole me how depressing it had been. She couldn't do ANYTHING, not even date people outside the jehova's witness people which honestly, that's really stupid to do. you'd get no freedom & no fun. Also if you left the religion. everyone would stop talking to you entirely and you would be considered like you'd gone the wrong way, basically just exile you from the community in the worse possible way. she eventually left due to thinking about how her kids would live if she stayed, hadn't been for that, I would've been stuck in there too. She also went through all the teen phases at her 20's because she had never had the chance. Honestly children should have the freedom to choose if they want to join and participate in things like this. Honestly jehova's witness religion feels like it's a shameless cult under the guidance of god. but I have no right to judge, as I was never in it and never plan to join... I'm just glad my mom left it for the sake of not taking the fun out of our childhood.
Speaking to the safety of children in the door to door work…I spent 40 years going door to door. I saw naked adults, had guns pulled on me, had dogs sent after me, I’ve been bit by every animal known to man, etc…all of that before I hit 20. Is the door to door safe for children? I give that a healthy HELL NO.
I was like 16 and it was my turn to speak and this super hot girl just in a towel answered. I said "I'm Jason, this is Mike and we can see YOU'RE BUSY so we'll go" and she said no wait what did you want? So we said we were Watchtower slaves that can't be around great looking girls that aren't in our church and she said oh ok well bye then.
supposedly they stopped door to door and use the cart method. But I think differ congregations do differ methods. Plus with the CSA problem on their back door.....going door to door is bad idea maybe upcoming legal mess
I had two loaded rifles pulled on the porch, pointed at my face before 9 years old.
Ex jw love to ya. It's sad. ❤
I had sprinklers turned on, oeiple come to the door naked, guns pulled on me, dogs sicked on me and was once chased down the street with electric hedge clippers all before I was 10. Also sending your kids to their classmates houses early on a Saturday to tell them they should give up birthdays and Christmas is an excellent way to ensure they are ostracized and beaten up.
Same
Parents "in the truth" always yell at kids to "Stay safe, don't talk to strangers !!" but then take them out to random peoples doors to 'preach' knowing about guns, dogs, criminals, etc etc
Ok that's specific?
Did that happen to you or did you experience it
@@ibroplatin4915 Yesssss I was raised in by my JW parents and they'd always tell me to not talk to strangers while letting me go to doors (sometimes ALONE TOO??) to preach
@Kickbackwithacomeback Definitely the most hypocritical thing they did. 🙄😒😒
This is the confusion we grow up in, it leaves deep scars but it did helped me see more and more of the hypocrisy this cult practices!
@@ibroplatin4915 tons do experience it and you can see in this very comment section
It took me many years to realize this but going door to door as a young kid is the reason I have bad anxiety, especially worrying about what others think of me. Gettings doors slammed in my face as a young kid, people telling me to f*** off, it really affected me mentally.
Hugs... No child should have to go through this, especially not in a religious setting. 💙🫂
@jool7793 are you now in sales by chance? Haha
Same here.
I'm sorry about what happened to you it there's something bizarrely funny about telling someone at your door to fvck themselves and slam it at them 😭
@jool7793the last door to door sales man in existence
I think one of the reasons they bring kids with them is the hope that if a child is there you wont yell ~ "FUCK OFF"
That’s exactly why they do it
@@sarahthomas8670 Also, so if you make the mistake of opening the door with your kid, they can sic their children on yours to "play". That will successfully keep you from disengaging and leave your kid vulnerable to indoctrination. And it will be really difficult to say that no, your kids cannot play with one another.
Bruh yeah when I was younger my parents would bring me along to preach with them and they even told me I was "their special tool" cuz usually when i dont come along they get yelled at 💀
Because (most) people won't yell when a small child is around
@@certifiedautist5387 Wtf man like literally
I'm an old man. I went through that preaching shit as a child instead of playing football. I still resent it, and can only pity the young generations experiencing the same bleak, joyless conditioning since.
Someone mentioned psychological trauma. Psychological religious trauma to be sure! I am 57. My husband and I left about 17 years ago with our two daughters . Even after all this time, I still become enraged when I think about my lack of childhood. Seeing pictures of my father-in-law wearing a beard now, after shunning my husband (his son) for growing one infuriates me! I have to remind myself that they have missed out on their grandchildren’s lives and now great grandchildren.
That is terrible to hear. Because of your decision your children and their children will have better lives. Indoctrination is a hideous thing.
Religion ruins (and takes) more lives than anything else.
I’ve always been able to track my anxiety to my childhood, but just realized at 49 that most of my disturbing memories all involve a component of JW. Now I’m re-reading My Book of Bible Stories since it was the source material.
I don't know if that helps, but you can in some ways relive your childhood. We live in times where adults doing things that usually children do, like going to the theatre for pixar movies, or going to disney land ect. are more wildly acceptable. You can watch these tv shows you couldn't as a child, you can buy yourself toys you were never allowed to have and many other stuff. Do it if it will make you feel at least a little bit happier. You deserve to have child like fun, even if you think you're to old for that 🙂
Fun is way overrated....said no one ever! Raised up in a JW family. It was so miserable as a kid. When I was finally able to break free, it felt like a giant weight had been lifted off of me. I feel sorry for all the kids being brought up in this cult today.
I think it’s quite clear, they don’t give an eff about kids and their mental health. I’m still haunted by things that happened to me preaching as a kid. We never had a debriefing but when I spoke about it, the general response was as it always is “Satan’s world”, “those people serve Satan”, “We should expect this because we have the tooth, and Satan hates us” etc. I still chose to be a pioneer in my late teens! My life was just an eff up and I’m still affected but at the age of 50, I’m only starting to heal now, after 15 years completely out.
I feel so bad i cant help you in anyway. Im only a kid now but with the help of technology i was able to see through christianity. Whilst it isnt JW i experienced similar things, everybody else was "a devil worshipper", "lost soul", "fool" etc. and we had to be wary of the big bad outside satanic world. Until just this year, i always felt like i was being held back by chains, i didnt understand at first because it was taught "Jesus is the key free us from the "worldly" chains of the flesh." After deconstructing, i started to realize it was actually my RELIGION that held me back, there was always a rule, always a threat, always shame, always doubt. How could i have developed into a real person if im being told "how to live my life" what was being taught is a hivemind for indoctrination. Theres plenty more i have to share but atleast now i feel free to experience life.
Witness kid here. My parents have forced me to be around people who have made me uncomfortable or sad just because they’re witnesses and ‘we need to support THEM in THEIR hard times’. I’ve been forced to hang out with a girl who let me nearly get SA’d by a boy at a water park. I’ve been forced to hang out with a girl who put me down and made me feel horrible about myself, while also actively putting strains on relationships I actually like. Why did they do this? Because they’re both JW’s, and their happiness is more important than the victim’s. Everyday I live in fear of my secrets (being queer, my beliefs, etc) coming out to my parents in some sort of way. I can’t take a breather until I know it’s all hidden. I put my phone on Do Not Disturb every time my parents need it. I hide my sketch books and panic whenever they’re even slightly in a different position. I have plans to leave at 18 for college, and this time they won’t stop me.
I wish you from the bottom of my heart, all the luck and power you will need until you can finally leave that fd up place behind
I do Horrorcore rap under the pseudonym Jukklez D. Jestah, and my "obligatory inspirational track" has a line that I think fits here:
"There's a light that you can see
Reach it, and you will be free."
Your 18th birthday is that light for you. If you get shunned before then, there are multiple options to aid your day-to-day.
Stay strong, fam!
🤡🖤
@@AllTheWeirdestProject why the clown emoji in the end 😭🤚
@@UnkownWonders Clown Love.
I hope you get your freedom soon!!! No one should he subject to that culty crap and put in horrible predicaments all for someone else's delusions ❤
Even though I didn’t have any children when I was in I saw the craziness that these poor kids went through not allowed to have any friends outside of the organization. Hearing about kids being picked on in school they looked miserable when they went out in service they didn’t have a life. Studied with a woman who had three kids recently reconnected with her daughter on Facebook and found out she and her two siblings are no longer witnesses and she raising her children the polar opposite of how she was raised she celebrated Birthdays and the Holidays. She lets her daughter do the things she never got to do as a kid.
Such depressing cartoons! Every time Caleb finds some happiness in his life his Mum finds a way to crush it.
No wonder depression rates in the org are so high.
Well the whole organization hates anything fun
If Caleb is a real person then he'd probably be an alcoholic
That's why most religions don't work:
They use an extremally outdated sense of "fun" and think that kids are small adults.
Those were horrible days growing up and having to preach and sitting at the KH. UGH! I started saying no @ the age of 8. Was forced and punished; horrible childhood!
My heart. No one should have to go through religious trauma. Period. You deserve much better than this. 💙🫂
@SonicGamerGirl2006 Thank you so much. Feel so much for the ones that dont get out. At least I did and had a chance to make readjustments.
Reading your experience touched my heart. I was painfully shy as a child, and it was about age 8 for me as well that I started to decline "taking doors" out in service. I was guilted, threatened, given the cold shoulder, and punished by my Uber zealous pioneer mother for it. ❤ We didn't deserve that.
I'm sorry you deserved more. My wishes to you is to be happy
The innocence of childhood I will never get back. Always praised for being ‘mature behind my years’ - I wore this like a badge of honour until I realised the sacrifice I paid and childhood I lost being raised a JW. 40 years of age, and still undoing years of indoctrination. The work to free oneself, is never over.
Same, it's a process
It is lifelong dark cloud that we must push through. I'm 42 now. 9 years out and it's still haunting
Worse when you have Family members who’s still in the WT Cult…. Can’t erase the past or future because WT organization destroys Thousands of families due to the practice of Shunning 😤
Yeah I can relate being a Born in JW… I’d wonder what it would’ve been hadn’t me and my siblings were not JW’s definitely our lives would be different never having to deal with Fear and Conditional Love from the WT organization…☹️
As a non-denominational Christian and raised as such … never in my childhood did I ever think that magic was real. My parents taught me that magic isn’t real. These are just fun stories. And as such I always thought of them as FUN stories with underlying messages of love, compassion, overcoming obstacles, etc. Good grief. JWs must think their kids are stupid and can’t grasp basic concepts of fiction versus reality 🤦🏻♀️
How do you think God created the universe and heals people and raises the dead with his power/Magic. Magic does exist the bible warns about being careful about it. The bible isn't just stories they are real event. The parables Jesus told were used for teaching and examples yes. Revelation 9:21
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. Exodus 7:11
11 Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: plenty of examples of it through history Only Gods magic is good. Everything else not blessed by God is wrong and evil.
@@dracophoenixttv you completely misunderstand what I was saying. Read it again. I’m not talking about the miracles of God, creation, etc. I’m talking about fiction. Things that are NOT real. God is very real. Miracles are very real. Satan’s power to manipulate men into performing wondrous acts is real. Magic is not.
Because most adults seeking religion to solve their problems Are stupid
@@dudemanbroguy3464 and calling someone stupid while simultaneously saying something that has nothing to do with what was said is stupid. It’s not hard to share an opinion without name calling. Children call people names when they have nothing logical or kind to say.
@@dracophoenixttv Wow, gotta learn the magic then
When the few JW's I knew asked why we left, and i mentioned that it was because i didnt want to have my young kids in there anymore i was blown away by the total lack of concern or interest in the specifics. They didn't care at all. They didnt ask what happened. Nothing. They moved on to "well are you DF'ed or disassociating, etc?" And that was the last time I heard from any of them
Wally, once, several years ago I was at a door out in field service with another sister and her young son when we knocked on a door of which we thought no one was home. As we started to walk away, the door suddenly opened and a man yelled "Git 'em Satan!" As he let this big dog out. We barely made it back to the car at the curb when the dog just missed grabbing hold of the boy's pant leg! Where was Jehovah's angels that are supposed to accompany his servants to the door??? Did he fall asleep on the job and forgot to send out his posse angels?
Gods exist only in some people’s minds.
Nope, he was takin’ a piss.
Ba’al.
Oh wow 😬. My mum had big dogs set on her once whilst out in the ministry (this would have been some time in the 80s) but luckily they didn't get her
He made it safety into the car - on Chaws time, not human 🙄
That's exactly the reasoning they'd use.
😂😂
To your point about not knowing who’s at the door, my brother and I were out one Saturday morning a couple years ago and we got a gun pulled on us. That was the last straw and his last day as a witness. He stopped going to meetings the next week. I wasn’t so fortunate and had to wait a bit longer cause I wasn’t old enough to leave yet but I’m out now going on 3 years and I’m living my life, going to college at 30 to get my masters in business administration and couldn’t be happier.
U go girl.
I've been out 9 years strong.
Just now getting my bachelor's at 42 and my Master's will start fall '25
Amazing, both of you 👏👏👏. I'm 31 and have been feeling down about being so behind in life. I guess it's not too late to catch up
I'm so happy for the both of you. Isn't it a relief to be out of that toxic atmosphere. Learning about JW has made me more compassion towards them if they come to my door. Also more kindness towards mormon missionaries. They have to pay to be away from their family for over 2 years. 18-20 year Olds so sad.
Good for you! I had to go to university at 30 aswell because of the (my mom refused to help paying for my education and expected me to start working ang going to the KH and out on service right after high school - first forced me to go to an high school of her choice because she didn't want me ending with the family small cleaning business, then refused to support me to get higher education, getting me stuck with shitty jobs for over 10 years of my life!) Study hard and realize your aspirations :) I hope you'll find a fulfilling career :D
Unlike Jehovah’s Witness parenting, normal parenting is not fear based.
That meme 'straight to jail!' Best describes growing up a jw. You want to join a sports team? Straight to jail! Celebrate the day you were born? Straight to jail! Eat a cupcake from someone's b.d. party? Straight to jail! Play with a toy that's magical? Straight to jail! Watch cartoons on Saturday morning? Straight to jail!
Having fun? Straight to jail
Breathing slightly wrong? Straight to jail.
Not thinking the same as your parents? Straight to jail!
The worst part is being lectured while in jail !!! 🤨
Politicians need to be made aware of all these cartoons.
15 years I didn't earn a penny towards building a home or retirement because of this broken harmful cult. Out now and earning a wage... I have no words for my anger towards them!
I hear you!!! didn't go to college, didn't learn a skill.
Now in my old age struggling to earn a living.
Finally had the courage to emigrate( to give my kids a fair shot) but yeah was angry for many years.
There was both an Awake and Watchtower covering the struggles and pitfalls of emigrating.
Apart from my kids and I my entire family is still stuck in this cult.
All religions are cults. They just operate in different forms.
I remember my best friend in elementary school was a jehova’s witness… couldn’t even invite him to my birthday parties. The line between religion and cults really is a blurry one
Jehovah's Witnesses: where being a normal fun loving child is sin.
My brother and I could never watch shows like the Brady Bunch or Partridge family - because there was teenage dating!!! But my elder dad could watch Gunsmoke every week! How does that make sense? (Ok now I just aged myself). Great job Wally! Thank you!
I had to look up what two of those shows were (The Brady Bunch being the one I knew about, probably has a stronger legacy between those three)
That's definitely a double standard. 😳
I loved the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family growing up. The Partridge Family also had stuff about the feminist movement too. Also, wasn't Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke the owner of a saloon?🤔
I hope you got to watch those shows, they're definitely my favorites.😊❤
Geez, if shows from the 60’s (which couldn’t do much) were too spicy for them, then what the hell did these people like?
"Is this toy magical?"
"No, its plastic."
Eight year old me could never understand why my mum banned me from watching My Little Pony. Apparently the friendship lessons would allow Satan to enter my home because of unicorn magic. I also remember telling my friend that humans are made of dust when we were six years old after misunderstanding a bible teaching… I told that same friend two years later that she would get brutally destroyed by God for lying :(
I couldn't watch the Smurfs because they were representations of Satan's demons. Watching The Smurfs was equal to inviting demons into your house.
Lol remember the whole story of kids Smurf toy running around it the Kingdom Hall on fire 🔥 saying blasphemous things about Jehovah during the kingdom songs?? 😅😂
I would not let my children watch them. Just told it was unacceptable and followed along. My kids never forgot that. Neither came into the "truth" I have been in for 45 years. Thank God I can still talk to my children. I am so sad from all I've found out. Not one jw even mentioned the Australian royal commission and they never will. Sadly we are all told everything that is said negative about jw are satanic lies. I still believe Jehovah is real and the bible was preserved for a reason, but the profound depression i feel now is just debilitating.
@@muslimsocialist9310 wtf??
The only satanic children's show is Caillou
@@cheneethompson5756sadly apparently that’s common in jw circles apparently every Kingdom Hall has at least one story that involves the smurfs being possessed by demons running around the Kingdom Hall etc it’s crazy as it sounds
Hey Wally 👋🏼 my mother turned jw when I was just 6 years old. I was use to having birthdays and Christmas etc and then it all just stopped and I was dragged to the kh every Sunday and to someone’s jw house every Wednesday. I remember my aunt and uncle (who I might add could not have children) called round to our house with Easter eggs one Easter Sunday for my sister and I and my mother very rudely turned them away. I was so freaking confused. I was given the my book of bible stories to read end to end over and over. I didn’t understand why and the pictures were horrendous. I mean watching on while people were dying?! When I got to high school I was then bullied as everyone knew I was a jw and they would laugh at me- I wanted to be a cool kid, I couldn’t be. Throughout these years my mother was always cold and would hit me for no reason, even in the middle of the night when I was sleeping. And everything was always my Dads fault (he’s never been in the cult, thankfully) she’s now in her 80s and I have zero respect for her and I live a good 140 miles away so I don’t have much contact for her. I really want to let her know about all the csa, false doctrines, stocks and shares etc but I would only be doing it for self satisfaction so I think it’s best not to 🤔
i hear you, these fanatics spoil fun and are bullies and they think there doing it for god....what a horrible god to expect that behaviour
@@astridmiller7938 absolutely 👏🏼 my mother comes across so lovely and love bombs everyone. Clearly hiding behind her cult. She has been truly awful to my Dad all his life. My Dad is the most beautiful man inside and out. So very upsetting.
I hope you've started healing from the trauma. This is heartbreaking. 😢😢😢💔💔
...And given how deeply indoctrinated she is, your "mother" will most likely NOT listen to what you have to say, so... probably best to tell someone that you wholeheartedly trust. Someone who genuinely cares about you and listens (no, it's not Jehovah).
@@SonicGamerGirl2006 thank you for your kind words 💕
I got pregnant at 18 and looking back I realised that I was craving love in my life as I had none growing up. I was doing ok until I hit my 40s and I now find myself struggling with my past. Watching her love bomb my kids and grandkids eats away at me. She comes and stays at my house at Christmas and celebrates with us. Seeing this just makes my skin crawl and makes my blood boil. I’ve received some counselling over the last few years but I find myself obsessing over this vile cult and I want to scream as it’s so disturbing. I just don’t understand why people think this cult is good for anyone!!
what stocks and shares?
Wasn't it magic when Jesus turned water into wine or when he walked on water? Maybe it's called a miracle or magic depending on who's doing it.
It's still magic, either way. Gosh, there's LITERALLY NO logic in this teaching. 😞😓
It is a miracle, but there is the is two paths here one is the legal way through Christ, the other is a illegal way what Satan uses, which is witchcraft..drugs, new age stuffs... Psychics are able to "predict the future" because they work with demons and allowed what they tell the person about what is gonna happen to them in the future, the person comes to an agreement to what the demon says therefore it is allowed to mess with them (demons cannot predict but they can watch a person's bad habits and routines closely).
God however can really predict the future (he shows his prophets) he doesn't cause fear, and if there is something troubling he leads you a way out of it.
Jesus magic is miracles. Devil magic is just magic.
It's like the difference between divine spells and arcane spells in Dungeons and Dragons.
These cartoons look like tutorials on how to perform child mental abuse :(
I cannot believe those kids watch these painfully cringy cartoons and are like: "yeah, cool, I'm sold!". I would feel I was being played with and betrayed by my own parents.
9:42 yeah, those loyal friends who will turn their back on you and shun you because some old scrooge overseas said so.
If jehova hates magic and magic is bad, why does he use it all the time?
Because god gets jealous if his creations get powers a Karen of a god if you will
We need them to stop disfellowshipping and to stop shunning people as it causes suicides and it causes trauma and it is psychological abuse
JWs can't even get sparlock right, first off you can't be a paladin and a wizard, Tank and DPS do not mix. Second off I still find it funny how they think sheltering kids from things like this will make life better for them. It turns them into gullable adults.
Is that a FF14 fan i spy?
The best time preaching was when I was 11 and my friend Guy who was 14 were allowed to work together alone, we talked about Dungeons and Dragons the whole time!
They never explain WHY magic is intrinsically bad...
yeah it's bizzare
Maybe in your case.
I have a theory, I think it's because Magicians learn hypnosis techniques, repetition and subversion.
For example the way Steven Lett speaks is unnatural but it draws you in because you try so hard to listen and understand what he's trying to say. They coach them to speak like this.
You would begin to notice WT brainwashing and hypnosis, for example in a talk they mention "the truth" 120 times.
I always got told because it "imitates jesus or gods power". Dumb bullshit.
The magical new religion of Tadaism has the answer for that. They hate Harry Potter because they know he defied inept tyranny to fight the greater evil and won. Their guy got executed in a brutal way and couldn't save his friends from suffering a similar fate. Anti-magic religious propaganda poisons their perception of The Boy Who Lived Free so he wouldn't Die and causes them not to accept the fullride achoalrship to Hogwarts that his victory over Voldmort grants all of us.
some of these magic practices the pagans did, I think they come so natural and are based on natural movements, as a kid I would make my own language and do repetitive movements because it felt comforting and fun to do so, but my mother told me that was wordly comforting practices, that it aas demonic and instead we should only pray and learn real languages, not make anything up. My mom found my made up language books and toys I made myself to play with and burned them in our fire pit because Harry Potter was coming out and any made up languages were considered like casting spells. Really effected my development. I still struggle today to achieve many things like driving as a woman or being a store manager as a woman because these things were frowned upon.
My mother is so cult mind controlled, that the Disney film 'Mary Poppins' was off limits, because she's a "witch"....My childhood just flew by😢😩
I'm sorry! 😂😂🤣
I see what u did there lololol 👀
okay i'll give it up! that was pretty good
A sister told my wife not to watch the movie "Matilda" because she's a witch 😂
Im sorry my friend my child hood if you can call it that was a nightmare I wouldn't wish upon anyone
I remember being out in service with my sister and a man came to the door totally naked with tube socks on. The brothers freaked out! We had no idea what to do
As a born in JW I “ Dreaded” Saturday’s knowing I’d be knocking on my Classmates doors… being Bullied at school was Bad enough then seeing them on the weekends too made me sick 🤮….Yeah growing up as a JW “ SUCKS” !!! 😤😫☹️
Hi Wally and Zeezy 🐈⬛ I remember Caleb was flying away in a spaceship. Something about not being a part of this world 🚀😂
lol yeah he was dreaming of getting out of here!
@@exjehovahswitnessJesus Christ sent all of you to preach about the Jw's or satan the devil sent all of you to preach about the Jw's???????
@@vusimngomezulu2500 are you having a stroke?
I hate that not only do I know all the words to the songs still, but they stir emotions. The org really knows how to trap its followers in every tactic they deploy. No wonder it's so hard to deconstruct and leave. Also Pets to Zeezy!!!
yeah true the melody is just a vehicle for the emotion
Yah the original songs really get to me sometimes. It definitely bothers me.
All religions do that.
Is just that the org chooses stating fear instead of actually trying to help the ppl.
As someone who was raised as a Jehovah witness this is actually true i have alot of expirence of waking up early as hell as a child wearing a suit being presentable goong to neighbor to neighbor with my parents to recruit and not even celebrating anything not even my birthday (until i was 13 and my parents divorced for other reasons)
To this day I still have clear memories of meeting weird people at the doors during preaching. Conspiracy theorists, devout Christians, creeps checking you out (if you're a female and they a male) and, the worst in my opinion, the people who scream and yell obscenities at you, even after you're walking away from their property, and following you.
As an adult those are traumatic or dangerous people to come across, let alone putting a child in those situations.
I once heard from someone in the same car group as us telling how a child approached a door for preaching, and someone opened the door with a gun pointed at them. Thankfully no one was harmed in that situation, but it could have ended in tragedy.
I find myself still missing the Saturday morning cartoons of years ago. George of the Jungle, etc. At least those cartoons held their value.....A space ship for service......I don't think so.......
Ever go out for a couple hours and not talk with anyone? Were the angels there then? I don't think so, they could see that no one was home.
what is the state of cartoons now?
@@exjehovahswitness at least we have Bob's Burgers, the Simpsons, Big City Greens, etc. Popcorn also helps.
The cat going straight for the mic is both really funny and adorable
I always never understood "Jehovah hates magic", but gurrrl God/Jehovah/Yahweh does magic?
it makes zero sense
@@exjehovahswitness God is allowed magic because reasons. Even when he's using it to hurt people.
It's one of THE most illogical things I've heard from this cult. I can imagine how much this doctrine psychologically hurts many innocent children raised as JW's. 😞😓
Right exactly
That’s why they’re all hypocrites
Sadly, I’ve heard of literal BABIES just walking forced to do this.😢
When i was 8 in 1984, I wore my favourite jumper, a Ghostbusters sweatshirt, to the bible study group and the elder tore my poor mother to shreds over it, she was crying and I couldn't understand why. Furious thinking about it now, It stuck with me that did. Still.... Great movie.
The torture from schoolmates was unbearable.
What a crock of sheet Wally!…I would have left much sooner had they have forced these videos on my children..😂😂
Growing up with a JW mother she would always tell me it's not good to have fun while in this system of things. She said the fun will begin once God's new system of things begins in paradise.
Wow, that's crazy
Fun only begins when you die huh?... What a tragic mind set
@@echocrashcraft Now that I'm older and know better I'm realizing mother was very narcissistic and many things she used to teach me when I was growing up were all lies.
@@KG-ly5fu I hope your life gets better and you get to stay away from your mother. Don't ever put yourself into that situation, live on for your happiness and for the bettering of your life and others
@@echocrashcraft thank you
I am glad you brought up strangers being a threat, especially when kids and adult JWs answer the door. I remember thinking how I was putting myself in harm's way, harassing people to go to church as a 12-14 years old Southern Baptist kid. I also gave up being a pastor because girls and women can't be that, which got my sister mad at me. She's four years younger than me, so her seeing her older sister just giving up so easily on that. Just because, some male pastor said so, well i guess it was among many things that deterred from that church. I kinda fell away from Christianity as i got older, i also got baptized at 13.
I only knocked on people's doors and made an ass out of myself because I was constantly hearing the adults, preachers, Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron and other televangelists saying how "Anyone could go to Hell at any moment and if you didn't tell them about Jesus, you had blood on your hands."
Kirk Cameron even read a poem that went like:
"My friend, I stand in judgemental now. And feel that you are to blame some how. On earth, I walked with you both night and day, and never did you show the way. You knew the Lord, full in glory, but never did you tell His story. Now, I stand in judgemental now, because His story you did not tell."
I also had the constant guilt of always having my salvation taken from me because if I was relunctant or thought I was making an idiot out of myself, I would be a hypocrite.
I did have those same adults saying how I needed to grow as a Christian before preaching, but if I waited, someone would end up in Hell because of me.
It didn't help that my youth pastor at the time told a story about how he was supposed to tell some guy that was at death's door from being in a motorcycle accident about God.
My youth pastor just refused to and he said he heard God berating him, because now that guy was in Hell because he didn't "share the gospel".
The last time a JW knocked on our door I told them yesterday when someone knocked on this door it was to tell us my mother in law died. Friends and family know to knock on the back door if we are awake we will come front near our bed is emergency only.
Grateful I was raised in a sect of Christianity that didn't fuss about magic. We also didn't go door to door handing out pamphlets, we collected supplies for a womens' shelter.
Even with how bright and cheerful they clearly tried to make the animation, it still came out looking like they fully acknowledge at some level that their life is just a prison and they're damning younger minds into never leaving it.
I definitely still struggle about my lack of childhood. I didn't get away from it until I was old enough to drink. So, yeah, my life sucked before that. Every time my husband talks about anything he did as I kid, I have to remind him about how sheltered I was. How I wasn't allowed to have my own thoughts or wants or plan for my actual future. It's infuriating. And my mother still tries to brainwash my kids. Knowing damn well that I would never sacrifice my kid to her death God. No thank you. My kids will be happy as long as they are able.
So glad I haven’t kept up with any of these videos. Oy!
yeah that jingle got stuck in my head!
The elders and such are not kids friends. It's wrong and makes your life absolute hell. I mean seriously...it's so wrong
The beginning of this show sounds EXACTLY like Moral Orel!!!!!!! THE IRONY!!!!!
I've been laughing at that for 20 mins omfg
Such irony! I learned a lot more about the truth of how religious belief affects a family from Moral Orel than any religion-produced media. The episode where Orel learns to meditate always leaves me SOBBING
The worst part about this is feeing guilty all the time when you’re not doing something for the organization
Positive thoughts and Preparation H! 😊
Wally, another great one. It’s so maddeningly clear how manipulative the dialogue and heart-tugging music is when one is outside looking back in. The media professionals leading the media experience are highly skilled and must have learned these skills elsewhere. Almost certainly are not JWs, they just work for them. With Their stratospheric salaries too.
My partner was raised JW but not baptised. The elders attacked our relationship. We are still Together 25 years láter. We do not practice religion. We still speak to his parents.
"Evil people trying to force their religion on others!" That's the thing about insane religious types. They think their religion is the righteous one. So they believe they are justified in forcing their beliefs on others. It's been that way ever since religion became a thing.
I didn't have "poop on you" on my bingo card today. 😮😂😂😂
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Once I was a child and my mother asked in the bookshop for „a book without magic, without crime, without drugs, without violence and without sex“ I just giggle now 😂
It’s so sad how kids grow up in this cult so full of fear. Everything is wrong! So emotionally abusing them!
The kid sounds so done with her shit when he says "Satan" like he was thinking "I just wanted to go to the movies instead of getting told to go fuck myself by strangers every couple of doors"
Why is Disney movies and visiting the most magical place on earth (Disney world, Disneyland etc) okay, but other stories with magic not okay?
Yes! Watchtower congregation elders have arranged trips to Disneyland for their families!
@truelove11.11 that's something I don't get
When I studied with a witness family, I would often visit them for the study
And, I was shocked they were watching the wizard of oz one day
So, that's OK, but those same people don't like harry potter
Because of all the magic!
Oz and harry potter are both wizards
Double standards, much?
@@truelove11.11
Really? That's cool!
@@cheneethompson5756 Why?
@@truelove11.11 Disneyland is awesome! So, I guess magic is ok if it's approved by the elders?
When they said “magic bad” I looked at my jujutsu kaisen prints I have on my wall and I was like “oop!” 😂
Few years ago, witnesses started to appear at my doorstep (usually at the time when I was alone at home) and tried to "salvate" me. Yes, you guessed it, salvation only costs 25 bucks EVERY MONTH.
At first, I just drove them away, because I have my own religion (I'm a shintoist) and I obviously won't spend 25 dollars monthly on something I think is bullsh*t.
After like 2 weeks, I thought "you know what? If they come again, I'll mess with them a bit"... and so they came.
After they introduced themselves, I interrupted them and started talking about MY religion, than tried to convince them to join.
I could see the confusion on thier faces.
I didn't let them say a single word, I tried to talk about it for as long as I could.
Than they got kinda angry, told me that I will burn in thier definition of hell and I'm going to suffer.
I was like "how nice of your totally not egoistic god to punish everyone who isn't an idiot to belive your irrational and absurd tales about being mentally potato and giving half your sallary to people you don't even know because they said that god said so."
after that, they literally threatened me saying "you will regeret this", so I told them "I won't burn in hell, hell will burn in me if I see you around again." than they left.
They didn't came for like half a year. after the started showing again, I literally hang a sign on my door that says "God is dead, and I killed them." they are a rare sight at my doorstep nowdays.
I am normally very nice to Jehovis Witnesses when they come to my door but the last group had a kid and they were pushier then normal because they wanted to help this kid convert someone and my normal "I'm sorry I'm very devout in my current religion and I am not looking to convert at this time" didnt work. They then made the kid cry by blaming him for me not converting me. Havent seen any of those people since and I hope that kid grows up okay.
Do not show up at my door expecting me to watch a damn video on your ipad.
that "magic toy" Caleb and Sophia sequence makes me realize just how much their 3d animation has improved lol
the bean-mouthed Steven Universe chunky calarts angels got me like a jumpscare 💀 the art style has the same glaze as a JW's eyes lol
Zeezy was relaxing until you did your signature clap 😂
"Circumnavigating all personal choice"--very good way of putting it.
I remember the night where my friend came to visit me and brought Harry Potter secretly. Well I told her to do it secretly. My father caught us and made a scene. My mum was fine with it but it was so embarrassing. My parents were fighting and the whole evening was ruined …. Because of a movie 😢
It never was demonstrated how the angels guide us? It was just that whenever something good happened it was attributed to them
I love this channel😂 I like this style of critisizing them. I wish more people would be sane and reasonable like you.
I could see the arguements that forcing a child to grow up strictly under any religion being a form of abuse, but there's something particularly nasty about forcing a kid to grow up as a Witness that gets under my skin
It’s like they say, “Religion doesn’t ask questions”.
I didn't grow up as a JW, but I had a friend in elementary school who's family was part of the religion. I always found it odd and sad how she couldn't celebrate any holiday, and not even her own birthday! But i'll always remember that day during lunchtime when she suddenly told me if the apocalypse were to happen the next day, everyone except JWs would die. As you can imagine, as a kid it traumatized me.
And then in highschool, two men from the JW in a black car literally came to me as I was waiting alone for my school bus! When I saw the black car pull up near me, I was frozen with fear because I thought I was going to get kidnapped!
So yeah, I never had good experiences with the JW and I wanted to share them.
The notion that we're the only intelligent life in the universe isn't necessarily pushed by the organization. Most Jehovah's Witnesses do believe that we're the only intelligent life in the universe, though. It's like marrying young. It's actually discouraged in the publications. To avoid "getting into trouble' folks do get married at 18 and 19. Regarding magic, opinions differ on what constitutes magic. A lot of witnesses watch Toy Story Shrek and other fantasy based films. A lot of witnesses love Marvel films. Others compare people having powers to the Nephelim in the Bible. So far nothing has been said explicitly by the organization. Honestly, some things are cultural.
Someone was jamming out on the flute 🪈
LOL
@@exjehovahswitness
Honestly it was a showy display of one’s talents. Immediate removal from bethel
Home run video Wally give zz a scratch for me 😁
thanks will do!
Shouldn't each person have their own questions? I started wondering where they get these questions as a result of many years of listening to talks. I now know these are called leading questions designed to lead to a predetermined conclusion. A talk or article would often start with "The
question is". In reality each person gets to ask their own questions about any subject
I once opened the door for some Mormon 19 year old fellas…. On this day in particular it was a super hot summer day. I wasn’t expecting anyone except my partner to come over so I opened the door, I was wearing a spaghetti strap (skin tight) top and equally tight yoga shorts. They were very short. One of them could not keep their eyes off my chest and the other kept stuttering. I am not a knock out 10. But I do have curves and chubby, it also may have been the first amount of boba they’ve ever seen along with bare feet and legs. People answer the door that way, it was awkward for me, I’m not sure how awkward for them. They never came back, I may have gotten my house black listed. Just a fun thing to share about answering the door for JW’s
JW childhood does suck!! And when the parents get divorce cause one mate decides to fade the JW fake religion then encouraged divorce. Things have changed & another way to tear up kid s life and families!! I had miserable childhood like all other JW children.I use to think why can t I still have childhood friends,,,,but nope JW had big clique at KH and not allowed to be friends with worldly children or even my blood cousins. Ugh! Thank you Wally!
They have been using this type of control for decades. My manipulation tool was the my book of bible stories and the drama cassettes. Remember those? The yellowish and white tapes. Manipulation comes in many forms, and it shows with these new products that will keep children under their thumb. A friend of mines niece was offered a full collage degree and declined the offer to become a full time pioneer. This is the governing bodies plan for the future.
I think the Babylonian story was featured in Veggie Tales as the one with the Bunny Song.
The amount of time I rolled my eyes at these cartoons, my eyeballs almost rolled out of my head. I was disfellowshipped 10 years ago at the age of 18. I came to 'the truth' at 11 and was baptized at 13. No matter how much you give, it's never enough. This is fearmongering at its best.
What do PIMO, POMI PIMI and POMO mean?
The terms PIMO, POMI, PIMI, and POMO, are abbreviations commonly used within certain communities to describe different states of mind and belief. Here's a breakdown of their meanings:
PIMO: Physically In and Mentally Out. This term is often used by individuals who are physically present within a particular group or organization (such as a religious or ideological group) but mentally have disassociated themselves or no longer believe in the teachings or principles of that group. It can be associated with a state of "waking up" to the inconsistencies or flaws within the group's beliefs.
POMO: Physically Out and Mentally Out. This term refers to individuals who have both physically left the group or organization and mentally disassociated themselves from its beliefs and practices. It signifies a state of freedom, liberty, and happiness from the constraints or control of the group.
PIMI: Physically In and Mentally In. This term is used to describe individuals who are both physically and mentally committed to a particular group or organization. They adhere to its beliefs, practices, and principles, often without questioning or critically evaluating them. It can be associated with a sense of being "enslaved" to the group's ideology or dogma.
POMI: Physically Out but Mentally In. This term refers to individuals who have physically left the group or organization but still hold on to its beliefs or mindset. They may have left due to various reasons but haven't fully let go of the group's teachings or ideology. It can be associated with a state of fanatical adherence or being mentally trapped in the group's influence.
These terms are primarily used within the context of religious or ideological communities and represent different stages of belief and disengagement. They serve as a way for individuals to express and identify their current mindset and relationship with a specific group or organization.
What do PIMO, POMI PIMI and POMO mean?
#PIMO = Physically In and Mentally Out = Wake-up
#POMO = Physically Out and Mentally Out = Freedom / Liberty / Happiness
#PIMI = Physically In and Mentally In = Slavery / Zombification
#POMI = Physically Out but Mentally In= Fanaticism / Slavery
To get your freedom you must change from PIMO to POMO if you do not want to be a POMI.
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Poor children 😢im so happy that I've met them at 55 years old and got out fast, but I feel sad for all these children who are trapped 😢
Our Providing overseer put on Christmas movie when our family came over for dinner once. We were so confused. Why is The Wizard of Oz okay but Harry Potter was wrong. So many rules.
The magic thing reminds me of the bit in family guy Star Wars when Princess Leia/Lois said that obi wan kenobi was probably going to hell because Christians don’t look very kindly on the force
Don't look at me, wherever we went, my family since well back to my grandmother, and probably before, have always had an antagonistic relationship with the local Kingdom Hall, even when we haven't tried to, a war always results.
6:39 Even in this cartoon verse, I worry about the little girls future with this cult.
I never knew of this channel but it does my heart good to see you tell people the truth of what this religion does. I grew up as a JW and it wasn't a good childhood. Unfortunately I was the only child of my congregation and not being allowed to have friends outside of it I obviously was very isolated as a child. I had no friends and the only thing that got me through was the internet. I was able to talk to other people which led to dangers but also led me to some good people. That and TV gave me a view of how families and children were suppose to be. I fought every step of the way through my childhood. I eventually was left in a broken home and had to live with the parent that was a full blown JW and very strict. When puberty hit it was treated as a curse more than a natural occurrence and when it was time to get a job, I wasn't allowed a car so my only choice was to work at a restaurant as a waitress across the street. Mean while i had to balance school work, go out in service, and do my parts at meetings. Finally, graduation came, and I was able to make my own decisions. I cut all ties with the JW parent (who still tries to reach out and recruit me back btw) and started collecting friends and rekindling a lost relationship with the other parent. I am finally on the right path and happy with life, but it was a challenge getting here. 0/10 would not suggest.
I have never been a JW but lost my parter of 13 years to it. His personality got completely anihilated and he was talking to me about crazy stuff. There was no reason for me to stay with him. Idk why I keep seeking for info about that cult more than 2 years after breaking up. I just like your videos, the way you explain things and it comforts me that I made the good choice. Also, the cat is adorable :3
My mom was a Jehova's witness and she would tell stories about her time in it, she spent around 16 years on there and had tole me how depressing it had been. She couldn't do ANYTHING, not even date people outside the jehova's witness people which honestly, that's really stupid to do. you'd get no freedom & no fun.
Also if you left the religion. everyone would stop talking to you entirely and you would be considered like you'd gone the wrong way, basically just exile you from the community in the worse possible way.
she eventually left due to thinking about how her kids would live if she stayed, hadn't been for that, I would've been stuck in there too. She also went through all the teen phases at her 20's because she had never had the chance. Honestly children should have the freedom to choose if they want to join and participate in things like this.
Honestly jehova's witness religion feels like it's a shameless cult under the guidance of god.
but I have no right to judge, as I was never in it and never plan to join...
I'm just glad my mom left it for the sake of not taking the fun out of our childhood.