ExJw. Mental health matters. 🌈 It’s time to remove automatic charity status for religions. Apology in advance for irreverence and Twitter over sharing.
I just found my phone and logged into Twitter. OMG I am shocked. Thank you all so so much. I’m also so embarrassed. What an amazing loving community. Thank you also for help with the police. They told me they had received calls from all over the world and were rather astounded.
1/2 All choir videos showing Nicolas King have been removed from JW website.
A now well known NY cabaret performer, he appeared in a number of videos. He is been openly gay in the last few years on social media.
They had to remove 10 videos to scrub his existence from the choir.
Super angry at
#JehovahsWitnesses
promoting mental health. I politely asked them to examine the Norway judgement on shunning & effect on mental health + CSA with the ARC. Suicide, depression, chronic fatigue, Pyrolles, IBS, Fibromyalgia all stress related & JW congs full of them
Phil’s video on Anthony Morris reveals he was provided with a house by JWs free to live in until he dies. So many have been made to leave Bethel - and in good standing - and yet received nothing. Is this to keep him quiet as he knows just way too much?
Anyone else feeling triggered and angry after
#JWvsNorway
?
Shunning hit me more this wknd. Also hit me how cheap life is to Watchtower. Besides blood deaths, life is tossed aside in shunning by families and suicides hidden. It’s evil. They don’t deserve to win that court case.
Found a card my daughter gave me five years ago when I got out of hospital from trying to take my own life. As I am no longer a
#JehovahsWitnesses
she shuns me. This religion has a lot to answer for in breaking up families & messing with the mental health of believers and exjws!
Jehovahs witnesses discussed in Japanese parliament yesterday - a couple of screenshots attached and link to video. Looks like big change coming for Watchtower in Japan very soon. Well done Japanese EXJWs and lawyers.
Friday am
#Jehovahswitnesses
Conv talk. What is about Lett hating kids? 38min in and babies are enemies of God. No wonder we all had inferiority complexes.
I am safe, groggy, but on the mend.
Mental health as an exjw really takes a beating doesn’t it?
I hope I can return the support one day also. Please take care.
The August JW Broadcasting is packed full of gaslighting 🤦and so sad to see JWs with lives ruined by JW doctrine being told to suck it up and just hang in there.
To JWs lurking asking “Where do you go once you leave?”
It’s ok to not have answers. JWs appeal as the claim to have answers. In reality they don’t exist - and it’s ok.
Would you stay in an abusive relationship just as you were not sure where to go next?
New morning worship video reminding JWs that you have to be loyal and keep away from family who doesn’t serve Watchtower. This must be stressful for JWs who think the end is imminent because of the Russian invasion.
Happy Birthday Nicolas King. Good to see this Ex JW celebrating his first birthday out of the cult publicly. You may recognise him from JW videos and the choir. Way to go Nic.
The sadness of shunning is the accumulation of those small intimate times that are not shared and will never be repeated with those who once loved you.
New study Watchtower contradiction. Jesus said preaching wouldn’t be completed … yet only a few pages over …preaching is urgent as good news needs to be preached in all inhabited earth before end comes! Great example of how they cherry-pick scriptures to suit current argument.
#JWvsNorway
From Vårt Land (machine translated by Google)
A paradigm shift in the Religious Communities Act
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses is a good example of the paradigm shift that the Religious Communities Act has undergone: Before, the religious
More shunning fun from family coming up in Sep. Reference quote shows they are more worried about ‘corrupting influence’ of exjws. With meeting number down they are running scared.
When a doomsday cult’s predictions don’t come true
‘Exercise patience’ is a telling convention name. Maybe it should be ‘Expectation postponed is making the heart grow weary’?
The
@4corners
Escaping Jehovah's Witnesses documentary has gone over 2million views on YouTube. Plus over 1million in Australia. Media outlets there is an audience please support this cause.
He still appears in the drama video “These Words … Must Be on Your Heart” (ironically as a character questioning what is wrong gay lifestyle at one point).
Nic if you read this - best wishes to you on moving on with your fab new life. And .. we want an interview one day 😉
#JehovahsWitnesses
never forget the times the Governing Body has said “At one time we may ask you to do something that may not appear to be logical, we want you to have trust in us and obey. Building your obedience in us now will help you obey at that time.” S Lett 2015 Melb Conv
Are you dedicating all you have to the cult? If we give you time to have a life you may wake up and not come back so we will guilt you into it. Do more, do more, do more.
Saturday Convention symposium about not being haughty in spirit tells JWs to again trust the GB, even if it doesn't make sense, finishing with this gem. Leave it to the elders no matter what, don't take things into your own hands (ie call the police about CSA)...
The NZ ruling is gold as a legal precedent.
Watchtower’s attempt to provide policies that supposedly forbid an elder meeting a child alone or statements that ‘parents alone have sole responsibility to children’ are simply squashed by the Justice with attached as an example. 1/2
Aus cartoon but this could be written about Jehovah’s Witnesses in Norway who are complaining about losing their gov funding for shunning ex members. Norway is leading the world in making religions account for their actions.
Distressing to see JWs continue to normalise female submission. The cartoon cheesy smiles hide their crap self esteem, lack of opportunity and boredom. So good to see Exjws living their real ‘Best life ever!’.
New JW video ‘The Older Men and the Superior Authorities Standing in Their Proper Place’. Ends with ‘the cong does not shield individuals from secular arrangement’ yet they are concerned with Jahs ‘name and reputation being upheld’. Which is exactly why they do shield offenders.
Notice how the GB no longer feel the need to justify their changes or decisions with scripture? They used to quote scripture and reasoning with new light - now they just announce changes. Why? - because there are no scripture reasons for the changes. They a law until thyselves.
High court win changing statute of limitations for historical CSA cases will be bound to effect Watchtower in Aus. Removing legal barriers for survivors was an ARC recommendation.
August JW broadcasting music video called ‘Two small coins’. Yep give money and your time even if you don’t have much. Emotional manipulation as only a cult can.
@Saberspark
ExJW here. These are made to inculcate kids into staying in the cult. 2/3rds of JWs born in leave. They are made by adults who don’t have kids who are out of touch of reality which shows in lack of emotional understanding of kids needs.
@RitaPanahi
Rowan is right. How can we learn from history if we erase it? How can we move ahead in society if reasoned debate is criminalised as a hate crime? At the same time Sharia law imported through immigration is not discussed so rape and blasphemy killings are shut out of the media.
Listening to
#JWvsNorway
case I thought of the amount of times we are told to obey the GB who teach us through Watchtower literature, as per one eg. It’s NEVER a personal interpretation: in fact we are told we need the GB to interpret scripture and cannot do so ourselves.
The letter shutting down dissent post beard announcement is telling in the need to shut down complaints immediately. So many JWs obviously fed up with being told what to do then direction does a 180 and never a sorry. Running ahead of the chariot means getting run over.
Watchtower still jumping to huge conclusions about Revelation with no explanation. They can’t see how they are just like every other crazy fundamentalist christian religion intertwining politics and the Bible in their own way.
Latest JW broadcasting is a doubling down on core end time fear reminders in an attempt to keep members in. Music video on shelving doubts is as culty as it could be!
@cedarsjwsurvey
Lloyd I initially tried to keep out of this mess as both you and I were struggling with our mental health when this initiated. There comes a time though when individually we need to take responsibility for our actions. This continuing farce of litigation however
I was sitting near some carts today watching how many actually stopped. (Zero except for a beggar). Change of shift two sat behind me. They started talking about barely living from day to day. Having no money and just barely paying bills. So sad. What a waste of life.
February Broadcasting asks JWs to question the motivation of Apostates or others who label Watchtower as deceivers.
What is your motivation for speaking out about what you have learnt about Watchtower?
Just spoke to an elder and his wife at a JW cart. Some uncomfortable silence when I discussed the latest begging for money video. It’s creating discomfort.
Retuning to halls is going to be a shock budget wise for poor JWs. Since Covid fuel has doubled in price and many are travelling twice the distance with hall closures. Some will frankly not be able to afford to do regularly.
The last Friday Am talk culminates in a homosexuality rant. The video examples of how to discuss with ‘worldly’ people doesn’t of course mention their real view that they deserve to die.
A week after the
#JehovahsWitnesses
documentary “Bearing Witness” has aired. Well over 1 million Australians have watched it and internationally up to 1.2 million and steadily climbing on YouTube. Thanks again to
@4corners
for their fantastic work.
I wonder how many CSA survivors sitting in JW Kingdom Halls will see this and think they have to just shut up and accept what has happened to them? Wait on Jehovah…..
I’m flabbergasted at the new ‘kindness’ article on
#JehovahsWitnesses
website. The hypocrisy to laud kindness when their shunning policy is anything but kind. It kills. Read the article and you cannot but see they practice the opposite.
#shunningkills
Don’t do this. It helps no one leave JWs but it can make some dig in further. Remember we have all been victims of Watchtower and it’s the leadership at fault.
Or don't
Just don't.
This does nothing but scare people and fit the stereotype of crazy angry apostates.
Nothing good comes of doing dumb shit like this
New
#Watchtower
out is a good study in how to turn ‘We were wrong about the dates and didn’t expect to be still here 100 years later.’ into a positive cult spin.
Self righteous postering on the sacredness of marriage yet they never discuss separation Watchtower encourages when one spouse ‘leaves Jehovah’. Elders hid my wife and son when I started being negative against the cult.
Ask any JW if they know a JW who has suicided and most will say yes - some several. Stats on religion and suicide are not kept - he is making a complete lie.
The Aus
#fourcorners
documentary on
#JehovahsWitnesses
has hit 4 million views on YouTube. That’s over 5 million in total! For any media worldwide considering a report on
#watchtower
there is an audience and lot to expose in every country. If not considering please consider. 🙏
Oct Study article on ‘doubts’ a cult attempt to rebrand the word and minimise a scripture that is damning to Watchtower.
The GB is seeking to undermine a scripturally recommended process in 1Thes 5:21 which condones exploring your faith and not self esteem as they imply.
@Lets_B_PIMO
Long gone are the days when a small notice about the GB would appear in a watchtower. However they have sought out fame and are finding it also comes with consequences.
Just need to say out loud as I sit home in a warm house on a cold evening, near 7pm. It’s years since I have left now, but I still Fn LOVE not having to go to any JW meetings.
#Jehovahswitnesses
asking for money never stops. Notice the increase though in pushing poorer looking people - yes 3rd world countries - we want your money too.
It’s as if Watchtower resents someone moving on. JWs are told you leave and end up in the gutter drugged and desperate.
To move on is a victory in dealing with the abuse not that it never existed.
(I will say this again, the fact that someone survives an abuse and heals, is NOT an excuse to keep abusing, or a reason to downplay the abuse.
I'm not talking about just this case her. This applies to lots of stuff. Take notes!)
September broadcasting has 20 minute rant by Lett on Apostates then Jade & Nita (now living together ) return. Jade’s mum try’s to show her apostate stories on her phone …
The uncomfortable truth and an established fact is that the majority of sex workers are vulnerable women who have either been trafficked or are in a form of bonded slavery - even if they are of legal age.
Samuel Fn Herd gave himself away in a very strange morning worship video this week. He started saying he ‘used’ to go door to door then thinking ‘Whoops, we are meant to be pretending the GB goes witnessing’, and so tries to correct with ‘still use that scripture a lot’… 🤔
You claim defamation when you were the source of all information. If defamation is justified you owe it to your Patreons, who are financially supporting this legal case, to provide details.
Your own videos revealed the facts that you have been involved with sex workers.