The Quiet Activist

The Quiet Activist

Monday, June 26, 2017

Summer Deprogramming

Summertime is a good time to think about starting your journey on deprogramming from the Jehovah's Witness (JW) culture and mindset.

Summer is a relaxed and easy season when we have a break, when people are planning vacations and if you have children, they will be out of school. What started me on my journey from deprogramming from the JW culture, was just reading on my own with no outside help or encouragement. 

When I finally made that decision that I needed to break free from the Watchtower Society because it was made up of their own false teachings and misinterpretations of scripture, I began my fading routine inside of what would be my last congregation. First, I searched out the Internet and found a message board which is still in existence: 


I was very afraid when I made my first comments on that message board under an assumed name, and took on a male name since I thought a woman would not be taken as seriously which was just more of my JW programming, where women are basically silent in public unless they have a male lead telling them what to do. The fear comes out of a lifetime of indoctrination of being told what to think, feel, say or do. You will soon realize you have been living under a thick cloud of massive, mostly useless information. Message boards help you vent your frustrations and you quickly realize you have a lot in common with other people trying to wake up from their life long indoctrination and worship of a book publishing company, with its Governing Body spouting any rhetoric they think will work to keep their membership in fear of some impending doom and destruction. 

The JW message board can help with sharing opinions and get some questions answered about JW doctrine. The Watchtower society has been holding your family hostage forever, especially if you lost someone because they were denied a potentially life-saving blood transfusion or killed themselves for this misguided belief system. If you want to see that loved one again, well, you are held hostage inside the organization because you have to follow all of their man-made rules if you want in that fantasy new system of things to see them resurrected in an earthly paradise. All made up stories and scary fairy tales coming from the Watchtower Society and their fear-mongering tactics.

No person can constantly live for a future time that may or may not happen. We've got to live in the here and now and make solid plans for whatever we want to accomplish in the coming years. It's okay to change your plans, but it's important to be on an upward curve of learning and increasing your knowledge and enhancing your personality, to learn how to deal with the world, both the good and the bad. The JWs never learn this. They quite literally sit and wait for some god Jehovah to suddenly wipe out the bad people and present them with a perfect paradise where everyone just wanders around reading JW literature and not much else but praise Jehovah.

A few books that are a good start on your journey to deprogram are pictured below. It helps to see that you were not alone in how your parents raised you to be JW recruiters and not much else. It's also a good idea to know the inside workings of not only the congregational activities but obtain insider information from a member of the top ruling class called the Governing Body, Raymond Franz. His book is very detailed and he wrote many of the Watchtower books and magazines and his image and interviews also appear to this day on YouTube.  Don't be shy about picking up any one of these books or other types of these kinds of books that relate personal experiences of people born and raised inside the JW society. 



You must realize you have been indoctrinated into a huge money-making scheme of a publishing company with endless, useless religious material not based on the Bible, but is just the JW's own interpretation of their own Bible. The JWs have amassed great wealth via real estate and it is no secret they just sold off billions of dollars worth of real estate in the Brooklyn Heights area of New York and moved further upstate into brand new posh buildings and condos.

A person has to come to realize these facts on their own about the god they worship and the organization they are devoting their entire lives to and subjecting their children to. It is a torturous life for a child since I was that child, and had a life of loneliness, punishment, strict religious routines, and now have been in a very long recovery process that has taken me years to just realize that I had been damaged mentally, emotionally and sometimes physically by my indoctrinated JW parents with reinforcement from the Elders of the congregation [my father was one of those appointed Elders].

I hope you take some time for yourself this summer and think about where you are now and where you would like to see yourself next year at this same time, or in a few years from now. Don't waste it on a billion dollar book publishing company and real estate moguls. Withdraw your monetary support now and start putting that money into a savings account for yourself or your children. Pick up a few books to read on how to exit a mind controlled religious group, seek out friends or people at work who are non-religious. All these things are a start to your waking up and deprogramming from the JW culture which is essential for your future health and happiness.

Waking up is difficult. I have good days and bad days but I am moving forward and seeing reality, facing the facts of our mortal lives here on earth now and thinking about what I want to do with my future. It may mean simply doing better at work, exploring more travel destinations, reading more books, I don't know, but all those things I am working on now and am happy to be on a journey of discovery.

Artwork by Nicola McLean



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Sunday, June 4, 2017

Don't Give Up

The Jehovah's Witnesses leadership
offer little hope to its aging
membership who realize they have
wasted their lives inside a
doomsday cult.
The theme for this year's Jehovah's Witness (JW) summer convention is "Don't Give Up" just as my childhood friend and cousin commits suicide on the opening weekend of the first regional convention in my area. He was like me, born in and raised a JW with devout, strict JW parents and the kid of an Elder in the congregation. 

The Elder Body are made up of the fully indoctrinated and trained members assigned to each congregation, some live in the area where they are assigned to lead the flock of JW rank and file members. They enforce the rules, doctrines and polices of the JW leadership called the Governing Body and its fleet of soldiers all headquartered in the New York area.

I would post a photo of him here when we were kids but I have none. All photos albums from my childhood are in the possession of my JW parents and I have only a few photos of my very early childhood that were given to me by my non-JW relatives that I spent about the first six years of my life with in New York before my parents moved to the West coast so we could be around the fully indoctrinated JW family of my mother, with my father soon becoming baptized and an Elder for many years before stepping down from that position due to health issues. On my mother's 50th wedding anniversary she stated she wished she had 50 more years. No, not being married to my dad, I knew what she meant. She devoted her life to this doomsday cult, an Armageddon that never happened that she was promised in 1975. Oh yes, in spite of the rhetoric and backtracking you might hear now from the JW movement that no such belief existed except in the minds of a few misled people. 

I have provided on this blog with references and links about the 1975 debacle of the JW Society where they lost thousands of its membership and you can do an easy search on the topic from   http://jwfacts.com/  which is a site that contains all the information you need to start your own journey of discovering what you've been trapped inside of for many years, perhaps since birth. Please do not be another Watchtower Society casualty. Do not fear knowledge and educate yourself on the religious movement you defend so dearly. It means your life.




Both of my parents are still devout JWs who have not given up on their pipe dream of some fantasy new world where some god Jehovah will grant their every wish without having to work for it. Oh, they work for it now, meaning they push their literature onto the public by doing a house to house so-called ministry work or set up booths or carts to do street witnessing which has nothing to do with the Bible, it's just literature produced by the JW Society.

The rank and file membership have to tow the line and pretend everything is fine, that it's great they can't pursue a college education, it's great they can't decide on a profession instead of just a job that pays maybe just above minimum wage and will retire in poverty if they can to afford to retire at all. It's okay that they die on the altar of their god Jehovah by refusing potentially life-saving whole blood transfusions and kill themselves or an unborn baby or child if a medical procedure involves blood or blood products. All this you have to push back into your subconscious and pretend it's okay. Well, it's not okay. 

The rank and file membership are the animals led to slaughter, literally and figuratively. They are the ones dying since they are terrified to disobey the ruling class of JWs, the top echelon of its membership, the Governing Body, their foot soldiers and servants that survive on free labor at their new resort headquarters in upstate New York. The top elite membership who are wealthy, the stockholders, stockbrokers, investors, the lawyers, and the real estate moguls just to name a few that comprise the ruling class. They are not denying themselves any life-saving medical procedures I can assure you of that. You will never read a news item where a wealthy JW socialite killed herself or her baby by refusing a blood transfusion; it won't happen and doesn't happen. It's the rank and file who reside at the bottom of this giant pyramid scheme that are expendable.

Oh but wait, JWs say that committing suicide is a sin yet it's okay to kill yourself by following their rule of refusing a blood transfusion, oh, that is a lofty suicide and sacrifice to their bloodthirsty God Jehovah. They push aside the scriptures that say Jesus was the perfect human sacrifice and nothing else is needed for any person to gain salvation into a paradise. They deny the entire theme of the Bible which is faith in Jesus Christ. They use the common era name of Jehovah, a name that Jesus never used or knew about as "the name" of the most high God. Sorry, but no one knows the name of God and it's believed to be the unpronounceable letters YHWH.

The JW relative who informed me of my cousin's death said he was depressed and stepped down from being an Elder and stopped preaching from door to door. Oh, so that's why he committed suicide, tsk, tsk, tsk. I asked, well then he won't be in your JW new system of things right? That paradise on earth? He won't be resurrected per the rules of the JW Society. How did my relative respond? Did she say "the scriptures say...". Ha, no dear reader. My relative stated "our literature states it is up to Jehovah to determine the person's mental condition at the time they committed suicide". Nothing is Bible based with this religion. Oh, and per JW rules, there is no memorial service for people committing suicide, no obituary, nothing, since he "fell away" as a JW. So you don't exist, you are shunned, thrown aside, and viewed as being dead anyway so this drives many to suicide since they are isolated and can't reach out for help. 

I wish I had not lost contact with my cousin over the many long years and I doubt he knew I left the JW cult 11 years ago and never looked back in longing like Lot's wife of the Bible. She looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt, which is the subject of a convention video this year. I think of it as looking back on the destruction of the filth of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a money making pyramid scheme that thrives on the threat of death to its lowest ranking members. The JWs are a belief system based in fear, not love. The JWs are using that example of Lot's wife as its primary theme this year at their convention since it's okay for only the ruling class of the JWs pyramid scheme to seek wealth and fortune not the rank and file that support and serve the top portion of the pyramid. A mass of people that mean nothing but walking advertisements to recruit new members while giving away their money and wills and estates to the JW leadership.

Oh yes dear reader, please start your research today. Look into the religion you are devoting your life to, that wants your youth and destroys your future. There is happiness and beauty now all around us, no matter what your situation is. Please seek help from someone outside of the cult indoctrination of the JW Society. Seek out trusted friends, maybe someone you knew in school, seek out a relative to talk to and ask them to help you seek a counselor to talk to about your suffering from depression or loneliness. 

It's never too late to think about yourself, your future, and where you are right now. You can and will be happy. Start reading and exploring different belief systems that give you peace and doesn't separate families or mandates that you die on an operating table. Go online and search out videos on guided meditation to alleviate anxiety. I have links on the sidebar to videos, information and books that will start you on your journey of healing yourself, your life and your soul. You are worth it.

Caring for a furry friend is a great way to alleviate
anxiety and loneliness. Consider adopting a shelter
pet today. Caring and loving an animal can shift
focus off of yourself and get you back on your feet
and develop a positive outlook on life.



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