Is the Bible from God?

I think a lot of people wonder if the Bible is a valid book from God or inspired by God and if they are His words as a lesson and guidance for all mankind. There are many incidents and stories in the Bible that are quite disturbing, with how women were treated or when God ordered the killing of innocent persons in genocidal madness. There are many books considered holy that come from God with the source being many different persons throughout history that actually interpreted the words of God as conveyed through inspirational thoughts or dreams and come from varied belief systems. In Western culture we think of ourselves as Christian, though many people take issue with Christianity and how many people are judged badly through that filter.

In the footer of this blog I have suggested YouTube channels to help you in your journey away from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) and one of them is by Gordon Smith-Duran. He was the number one person that helped me transition out of the JW belief system and opened up my world to many other beliefs and opened up my own imagination. He helped me drop the fear of picking up other books that were not published by the JWs.

I had brief communication with Gordon several years ago via email. He is extremely accessible and willing to help. I am not sure if he still accepts clients as he is a professional hypnotherapist with a successful business and also works with his wife as language coaches and teachers. Gordon is easily reached via the comments section of his new series of videos where he explores the other realms of reality. In my opinion, he explains how the Bible and other holy books that claim inspiration by God, should be viewed. Everything in this world is through the human filter. I believe that we cannot say anything is directly from God except perhaps the sun that rises everyday, the moon we see at night; God is in nature and that is a truth we can see, feel, hear, touch, or taste in our own human form. God cannot communicate with us directly, it has to be through a filter of us in our human bodies via how we see things, how we perceive thoughts, and so forth. How I perceive a thought coming from God or from some other inspiration will be interpreted differently if another person receives the same thought or message. It can be as simple as someone saying to eat mushrooms everyday because they are so good for you to me [who hates mushrooms] saying to avoid them.

The link below will take you to one of Gordon's recent videos. If you click on his channel, you can access his other videos and we hope there are more to come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX9odx_-mPk

Allowing new information into your mind will free up some of those brain cells frozen by the Watchtower Society. Fear is the first thing you need to overcome. No demons will enter your home or your mind. So many people I hear on YouTube or on the Six Screens of the Watchtower weekly conference call, think they have freed themselves from the Society when all they do is carry over the same superstitions and fears they learned from the Watchtower. You need to recognize that in yourself right now.

For example, are you terrified of looking at a Tarot deck of cards? Did you know these were simple parlor games of women hundreds of years ago to entertain themselves while the men smoke and drank in other rooms discussing high level business deals or chit-chatting about their mistresses? The tarot decks are mere cards, paper, ink, they have no power, evil or good, unless you place your intention there. Stop listening to fearful and ignorant people with their stories of the Devil, possession, books that couldn't be burned - etc - when it's all [excuse my language] bullshit. If some people are experiencing bad dreams, hearing voices, or face demons in their homes, they need to seek professional help. If you feel bad thoughts entering your mind, simply send them away and invite love and light into your life. Yes, certain people have certain gifts, but don't confuse it with someone facing demons and seeing UFOs and talking with gremlins that pop up in their pathway. Use your discretion. Don't entertain people who constantly feed you negativity. They may be either manipulating you or are truly seeing and hearing bad things; avoid them. I am a spiritual person, I love to talk about spirit guides, angels, or however you define the spirit world, but it's one of positivity and a way to dream and explore options that I never thought could be possible. No, I don't see angels or demons here, only the effects of them when people do good or bad things to other people.

Get out of yourself, as they say, stop thinking you are all important. We are all humans now having a human experience. Don't get an ego and think God cares if you leave the Watchtower, or if any demons care. They don't. The only ones caring that you leave a controlling hate-filled religion are the top wealthy bastards who are running the show getting rich off of your fear of the afterlife. No one knows what happens when we die. Face it. So you need to explore what makes you feel good, what uplifts you, and not think a group of humans on earth have the power to control you after death. No human decides if you go to a heaven or hell.

Drop the fear now and see what opportunities open up for you. The world is an amazing place with countless belief systems, countless opportunities for personal growth. Take advantage of positive reading material, YouTubers with a positive message that want to help and not just tell you to constantly click "like" and "subscribe" and "send me money to keep doing videos that cost me zero to produce since I sit home all day while my wife and JW family support me because I am a lazy bastard that refuses to work for a living". You get the message of what I'm saying here.

Take advantage of the YouTube links I have in the footer of this blog and on my website. It's a good place to start your journey to freedom from the Watchtower and from shills of the Society that only want your dough and nothing else. Don't fear knowledge. This world is not black and white and any spirit realm that exists is filled with colors we've never even seen before. Stop the fear now.

#jehovahswitnesses#jworg#society#watchtower#gordonsmithduran#inspiration#inspirational

Who Are You Supporting?

If you may be thinking about leaving the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) you may turn to YouTube to find out the history of the Society or just to hear people relate their stories of being in the organization and how they have left and turned to, well, atheism. This is exactly what the Society wants you to do. They do not want you going off and giving monetary support to another religion, they want you sitting home doubting the existence of a God or Gods who created heaven and earth. They want you sitting home doing nothing but maybe indulge in self-pity and not do much else to move on with your life.

I work full-time and support myself and have a great group of friends that never were JWs. We love our weekend shopping trips and choosing new travel destinations each year. I like to express myself via this blog. It's a way to vent and hopefully help someone who leaves the Society not feel so alone and I always try and encourage readers to seek their own life path, and become spiritual, not necessarily religious or turn to another religious group. Open up to many belief systems and start reading many books on various subjects to discover new interests or pursue hobbies or sports that you never could when you were a JW.

However, let's revisit 2017 and the self-proclaimed leader of the ex-JWs, a person who was barely an Elder before being forcibly evicted from the position and faced disfellowshipping or he could simply quit and move out of his home congregation. He did the second part, he got out of the country and lives off his wife and his JW in-laws while doing what? Well, he joined a marketing cult of Scientologists who showed him how to set up a survey as a marketing tool on his blog as a way to gain interest in his articles about his experiences with the JWs and growing up in a JW family and see just how far he could take his marketing cult. It gave him a picture of how many clicks he had on the site and people interested in his stories. He could later gauge how he could harvest those people into dollars. 

Everyone knows now he is affiliated with a Scientologist who was very high up the corporate ladder who was forcibly evicted from that group. There you have a match made in ex-heaven. It is no secret the Scientologists use a survey as a part of their problem solving techniques and in their training courses. It's a part of their corporate structure and they train people how to use surveys to boost their market reach and sales in their businesses.

Many years ago, this YouTuber was contacted by a group from the bloodline of the original Bible Students that was started by C.T. Russell. The descendants of that original group of Bible students became shareholders in what was later to become the Watch Tower Society. One of these persons is a patron of this YouTuber and escorted him into the JW Society headquarters at Warwick, NY, in 2017. You see, no one can gain entrance unless you work there or have business to conduct, or are affiliated with a JW congregation and are a part of a scheduled tour group that charter a bus to take a tour of the facility.

This was not the case with this YouTuber because his escort was one of the family ancestors of the original Bible Students; one of the overlapping generations of Bible Students. They both even dressed off the street as scruffy tourists and gained easy access due to his ancestral blood ties. It's common knowledge that when JWs or anyone who gains access to Warwick as a part of a scheduled tour, dresses in business casual clothing. If you are a JW, normally the women all wear dresses when touring the facility; again, a scheduled tour, not just showing up at the gates and immediately being allowed entrance and being allowed to film the entire thing for what? Oh, the ex-JW reluctant apostate's YouTube channel, of course!!! Are you getting it yet?

This same ex-Bible Student who escorted the YouTuber around Warwick was the one who made his own video in 2017 bragging about phoning the local police that a large group of dangerous ex-JWs were going to protest at the Warwick facility. Some people may have heard of the Six Screens of the Watchtower website and they host a live show every Saturday evening and every other Sunday afternoon. Rick Fearon is one of the founders of the Six Screens and he participated in a peaceful protest at Warwick, holding up signs and such and broadcast live from the event for his listeners.

Are these Bible Students or JWs? Hard to tell. Peter Bonacci did a video in 2017 that he later
deleted, bragging about how he called the cops on Rick Fearon and the other protesters
who showed up at Warwick, holding up signs and Rick did a livestream from the
peaceful gathering of only about 20 or so people. Bonacci told police that thousands were
showing up and were violent. I guess he had to exaggerate or the police would have ignored him as a nut caller.
Bonacci made sure to tell the brothers at Warwick how he was related to almost everyone in a group
photo of the original Bible Students either by blood or marriage, that was a part of an exhibit at Warwick
showing the history of the Watch Tower Society.

Here is a link to a YouTube video about the Warwick protest that has not yet been deleted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhr9onBDRk

I met this reluctant apostate YouTuber on his big book tour of the United States where he revealed that he sides with Watch Tower, that 1975 as being talked about as the time of the end and when Armageddon would occur, was from the disgruntled membership having nothing to do with the Governing Body. It was made up by the JW rank and file. Yeah, me and a few people walked out after that little gem. Time to go home and be glad we met this guy in person; a Watch Tower cloned drone.

Wake up to the fact you were taken by the Watch Tower corporation. They took your youth, your money, and denied you an education and a secure future in this world. Do not be taken again by a marketing cult. They scout for a certain age group, start producing the same canned videos, and there you go, they take your time and your money while you have nothing to show for it. 

Why was this YouTuber so loudly protesting against the Russian ban of the JWs? Because the Scientologists are terrified of religions being banned. Reportedly, the JWs were the model used by the Scientologists to get tax exempt status. Scientologists have a hard time in other countries being accepted as a religion, just like the JWs. It's been alleged that this YouTuber is working on a paid position as a Watch Tower liaison to move towards a newly formed religion modeled after Scientology where you can do all of your study and courses online as well as access lectures and public talks online. They want a fully functioning JW network where you can speak with an instructor on the phone, email or Skype and you pay for the service via monetary donations depending on your level and working through the programs offered. It's been talked about that the JWs will retain some meeting halls for conventions since those are money-makers and may retain some local small Kingdom Halls as a resource center and get people enrolled in the online courses, and so forth. 

Notice JW.org is already set up online to take automatic donations from your credit card. It will evolve into the Scientology model, that's the goal. Maximum dollars - oh, and you will be asked for donations for all that literature and videos they provide, much like this YouTuber does who sits around in his in-laws basement all day making useless videos about the Watch Tower and demands you pay him to keep doing it to keep his shareholders happy. How many people are in that marketing cult of his? Who knows but a lot are getting a piece of that pie.

You woke up from the JW fog, now's the time to wake up from the ex-JW community fog. I have said it before on this blog. You are strong enough to leave the Society on your own. You are strong enough to focus on yourself, your education, your job, and your family. If you left family in the Watch Tower, do not look back, save yourself and hopefully they will learn from you and they will take notice how you are thriving outside of the organization. You are not disheveled stuffing yourself into jeans that are two sizes too small since you rarely move off the couch with no motivation to wash that greasy hair, wasting your life away in front of a video camera doing useless commentary about some boring Watch Tower convention talk.

You are better than that. Think about where you are right now and where you want to be this time next year. Is it with a better job? Maybe actually meeting new people face to face and not via Facebook with fake names and fake profiles. Invest in yourself and you will find that life is meaningful again, and you can be a spiritual person without attaching yourself to any religious group or theology. Depression comes when you do not feel a connection with your own infinity. You are an infinite being, and this life is worth living now and who knows what amazing things are in store for us. Don't let anyone take God from you; it's your choice, your life, don't be afraid to live it now.

#ex-JWactivism #jehovahswitnesses

#scientology  #marketingcults

#warwick #jworg  #society

Are You a Victim?

In a sense, we are all victims on this planet Earth. In fact, we are born victims. We have the chance of our birth that may be good or bad depending on what type of family we were born into. The fact we were born at all is a mystery and a combination and product of our ancestors who came before us. Some of us are the end of a family line and many families die out each century.

The dictionary definition of a victim is someone who is harmed, injured, killed, or a living creature killed as a religious sacrifice or someone who was duped or tricked. So the word has several meanings.

Were you duped into the Jehovah's Witnesses' (JWs) belief system? Many were and are, down to this day, even in our modern era. Christianity is viewed by some as a cult in itself as it has many strict rules and you will be ostracized if you disobey the God-given 10 commandments and other rules of the Scriptures.

When you finally wake up and realize that the JWs are just another type of cult, you may feel very angry and confused. You may want to dump every type of Christian belief system and stop believing in God altogether. These people become very distraught and that alternative lifestyle offers no hope for the future or for an afterlife. I do believe in God or a group of Gods that formed this planet and the solar systems beyond our own. Our world and life itself is too complicated and exact to not be the product of a creator(s). I feel any person who doubts the existence that some great power in this universe created life, is fooling themselves and hopes to feel better about being duped by the JWs. As if, well, everything is fake, life has no meaning, nothing matters when it's just a cop-out, a way to deny we are responsible for how we behave.

If another Christian belief system brings you peace of mind, then you should pursue it. If you have very strict beliefs of your own and do not want to accept another person's culture, preferences, and beliefs, then you need to think about why you feel that way. No, you don't have to accept everything another person does, but stop the judgment mentality that most Christians teach you to adopt. As I have stated before, I am not a licensed health care professional nor a counselor. I offer my own opinions and life stories here on this blog and in my upcoming revised book where I share my journey with you and offer real life practical advice on dealing with the JW who may be in your life right now and causing you heartache.

I finally realized the JWs' beliefs were not only wrong, but a twisting of Bible verses, plus, they don't practice what they preach. They say they are a loving organization when the opposite is true based on my own experience being born and raised in the religious cult. The JWs' have their own unique take on life and many of their tenets mimic the ancient teachings of the illuminated ones dating back to when animals were sacrificed to false gods, one being, Jehovah. Yes, he is a god like all the others who wanted exclusive devotion and a temple built in their honor. The other gods, you know, Apollo the sun god or the sun or the son of God. There are countless deities that want exclusive devotion and many are dead and gone from human consciousness.

Are you a victim? Only you can answer that question. I suggest you put down the electronics for at least one hour per day and ponder that question. I know, there are countless YouTube videos done by a certain age group that spout they were harmed by the JW Society, but most are part of a marketing cult. I think you can spot them easily if you familiarize yourself with the actual teachings of the JWs if you were never one yourself or were only entrapped very briefly and have no deep knowledge of the secret Society. Many on YouTube simply mimic those who left the organization and devise their own story to portray themselves as victims when it's all fake and all they want are views, clicks and likes since they have no job and don't want one.

Many in the YouTube community join the Scientology network and some join the so-called ex-Scientology marketing network where they conduct meaningless surveys and pretend they were somehow damaged by the JWs. You see, the Scientologists and JWs are in bed together. Sources have alleged that the Scientologists used the JWs as an example and business model to gain followers and coerce the government into getting tax-free status. Both have high-ranking supporters that benefit financially from the existence of these secret societies. Same with the ex-communities of these cults. I have said it before, sometime the JWs get it right by throwing out aberrant members who were caught doing illegal or horrendous things and preyed on the membership.

Am I a victim? Yes, a victim of circumstances because I was born and raised in the JW world and a victim of self-pity when I left the organization. My life did not turn out the way I thought. I should be in Jehovah's earthly paradise right now. But since I was duped and believed the lie, I now suffer the economic consequences from that. College was a sin, pursuing job promotions meant you were worldly and deserved to be marked by the congregation, all that, and yes I have had to cope and continue to cope and seek out a new life path that brings me peace of mind. I now enjoy reading many different books about all kinds of subjects and getting outdoors more, taking long walks in the woods, while I still love shopping and watching classic television and movies. I like catching up on things I missed in the past, pursuing areas of study that interest me, and I like drawing, painting and thinking about my next travel destination.

Turn off the juice folks, step away from the outlet, pull the plug. Step into the natural light of a new day. This is a new day and age we are living in. We don't have to accept everything that is thrown at us. 

Care to take a dare? How about expanding your reach beyond the ex-JW YouTube channels and take a different path? Only a suggestion - here is one that may be of interest to the curious and open-minded. Don't worry. No evil spirits can or will enter your mind or body. God gave us free will. Why? To experiment life and enjoy the beauty around us. To find our own path and share our experiences to assist others along their journey. You may find peace of mind and find you are an infinite soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Los7NHtRLEA

#thunderwizard #christianity

#JW  #society  #shaman

#truth  #findyourpath

#thrive  

Connections

We all need connections in our lives to move forward and to feel motivated, especially for those who may be fearful of leaving the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, a book publishing and religious marketing company who now seem to be real estate moguls. All of the buying and selling of their Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls just pad their already huge bank accounts, all built using our money. 

Yes, if you were ever a fully indoctrinated and devout Jehovah's Witness (JW), you did indeed donate tons of cash over many years to that organization and you will never see a return on that investment. What happens is, you watch that investment being sold off and the Watch Tower corporation is the one benefiting financially while you sit there with your same job, same economic situation, and wonder what happened. 

Well, like me, you may have been born and raised as a JW and knew no better about what to do with your life, you never learn goal-setting unless it was to further the interests of the Watch Tower corporation [not even realizing they are made up of multiple corporations, all designed to make tons of money for the corporations]. If you are struggling with connecting with someone following your major decision of exiting the Watch Tower, you are invited to connect with me at any time, either via the comments section of this blog or on my website www.exjwquietactivism.com. My website offers a lot of free information and downloads along with a fun section on health and wellness as suggestions only. I am not a licensed therapist, counselor, nor a life coach. Just sharing information with you based on my personal experiences and personal suggestions. The website is not meant to replace any advice from a licensed health care professional.

My suggestion to you is that if you have suffered trauma inside the JW organization, no matter if it is physical, sexual, or emotional, to seek out a licensed health care professional, NOT a life coach or someone who took an online course and have deemed themselves healers.  Life coaches are like career counselors that may guide you into a vocation, like carpenter or mathematician, not healing trauma suffered at the hands of abusers either inside your family or the JW organization.

I have suggested YouTube sites in the footer of this blog that do contain life coaching, however, they assist you with moving on from the JW structured lifestyle, not healing deep emotional scars from being physically or sexually abused. Please seek out a licensed physician, psychiatrist, or counselor to help you heal. Then think about looking into where you want to go in life, what occupation would be suited for you, maybe think about going back to school and furthering your education.

No one should feel alone in this world, but especially to those who were damaged by the Watch Tower, whose tower(s) seem to be falling all around us what with Kingdom Hall closures all over the nation, the Society eliminating a lot of print copies of their publications, and they seem to want everything done via your electronic device, with only human contact being in the Kingdom Hall with phony people sprinkled around gabbing about nothing and accomplishing nothing in their lives with no goals for the future but sitting and waiting for God.

I have come to the realization that some people need to be cut off from your life or simply nudged off to one side of your road to personal freedom. Don't feel guilty, don't become mean or bitter, just start clearing a path for yourself where you are the focus, not an organization that just wants your youth, time, and money. As I have said on this blog more than once, you are stronger than you think you are. You don't need some YouTuber to yell orders at you about what to do, think or feel. You don't need some YouTuber hoarding money in some international locale telling you to dump Christianity or to stop believing in a God while they plagiarize information from the Internet or other published sources and slap their name on it claiming it's their work product.

What do you need? To turn inward and start getting in touch with that inner child. What did you like to do as a kid? Were you allowed to do anything that did not involve pushing Watch Tower literature into someone's hands? Turn off the electronics for at least an hour a day and meditate on what goals you want for yourself. Take out that journal and reacquaint yourself with a pen and write down your thoughts, letting them flow freely, brainstorming some ideas that involve independence from Watch Tower.

Yes, it may be difficult, but as some say, the first step is always the hardest. Don't give up on yourself or on your spirituality.

#jehovahswitnesses  #youtube

#christianity  #spirituality 

#keanureeves 

Chinks in the Armor

Here we are in a new year while many Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) are having a crisis over saying Happy New Year to someone who wishes them the same thing as this is the kind of nonsense the Watchtower corporation has its membership obsessed with. 

When I was a JW, I would fret over someone wishing me a happy holiday and new year, gosh, would God strike me dead if I wished the same happy greeting to a worldly person? But, maybe it will open a door for me to preach to them and try and snag them into a religion with no exit door. 

That was how we were forced to think around the stressful holidays. Stressful not because we were caught up in the excitement of the season or searching for a nice gift for a loved one. No, it was because we had to remain separate from the world or die at the battle of Armageddon that would happen any day now, even though many religious people believe that is a spiritual war and that we are saved by the Grace of God and the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

So many YouTube channels have popped up by those claiming to be ex-JWs when it is obvious they are following an easy script and dialogue since many were only barely affiliated with the JW religion, if at all. One prominent YouTuber found a way to personal freedom via his Scientology affiliations and was featured in a Leah Remini/Mike Rinder cable TV show about cults. He used a survey format for his blog which is a common tactic of the Scientologists. They practically invented that marketing ploy. This is called a chink in the armor. Not all people are what they claim to be.  

Watchtower has a chink in their armor too. They claim to not celebrate any worldly holidays since they are based in paganism, and have roots in worshiping Lucifer. Even Christmas lights outside of a home is to beckon Lucifer to your home. In the old days before electricity, people would have candles burning in their windows for the Yuletide festival from December 21 - January 1. 

Watchtower bans anything relating to the worship of Lucifer yet demand a blood sacrifice from their membership on an altar [a hospital bed or operating table] by denying blood transfusions for medical reasons to save a life. Watchtower demands you have no contact with anyone who was a baptized JW and decides to leave. You may say that is really not a chink in their armor, but think about it, they view you as a follower of Satan the Devil, Lucifer, if you leave the Watchtower corporation. Is that a warped view of matters? Yes, in most cases, unless you were ousted from the JWs because you were a crook or preyed upon the congregation abusing your position as a Elder via sexting the girls and women in your Hall looking to hook up while married. I know, sometimes Watchtower gets it right.

The confusion with the JWs comes with their teaching to shun the Devil and anyone who leaves the organization [since they are now following the Devil just by their leaving], they shun all pagan holidays yet demand a blood sacrifice. Even their annual death mass to remember the death of Jesus Christ is a chink in their armor. Only those anointed by God can partake of the emblems when the Bible says anyone can, it depends on their heart condition at the time. The JWs also do not celebrate the resurrection of the Christ, only remember his death because they worship Jehovah and Christ is pushed off to one side.

I hope this year brings more clarity into your life as you take a second look at who you are following on YouTube who claim to be ex-JWs or who claim prominence as an authority when they were kicked out at about 25 years old and pretended to turn in their resignation letter to the Body of Elders since they thought it would make good copy for their online survey site or their YouTube channel. 

I hope you gain clarity with the fact that you can leave the Watchtower corporation and you can begin a life for yourself no matter what your age or economic status. Do not simply turn on the TV and expect salvation. Do not simply tune in to the Internet and expect salvation. It starts with you. Think about where you are right now and where you want to be by the end of 2019. How will this year read for you? Did you take that class you wanted to at the community college? Did you decide to take that job in another town or country? Did you decide to devote more time to personal development, picking up books about spirituality?

So funny about one ex-JW woman who frequently phones into a weekly Saturday Internet livestream program dealing with leaving the Watchtower. She claims to not care that her elderly JW mom is leaving millions of dollars of her estate to the Watchtower corporation; oh, it's not about the money! Just that she wished her mom would not be so devoted to a corporation that is all about the money and thinking you can pay for your eternal salvation.

Come to find out this was a deception, a chink in this self-righteous ex-JW's armor. She revealed on another online YouTube channel, that she called Social Services to report elder abuse by her JW brother-in-law that is married to her sister, and they are taking care of this million dollar mom. Social Services denied her claim. The brother-in-law stands to inherit a chunk of that money, with a portion going to the Watchtower corporation. This woman also stated that her siblings are JWs and she is not, so they all want her to come up with a legal loophole to get the money away from mom before she dies, or to contest the will. 

Watch out who you are following on YouTube, on the Internet, on any site where they claim to not care about the money. Oh, it's about wanting people out of the Watchtower corporation. No it's not. It really is all about the money. This same woman who frequently cries online about how Watchtower treated her, she was an adult when joining and an adult when leaving. She was not born in and raised in this cult like me and so many others were, who had no choice and our minds warped with the JW mindset and world view.

This same woman claims that the second this online weekly show begins talking about God, she slams down her phone. Yes, I know, it's because many who leave the Watchtower become Luciferian. They cannot stand anyone bringing up the Bible, God or Christ, it is a physical reaction and one I find extremely bizarre. I can talk about most subjects unless they are particularly gross or low class, but I can entertain discussions on the Bible, atheism, spirituality, mythology, and all other kinds of topics. I do not fear any discussions and it doesn't turn my stomach to bring up mainstream religion or talk about God or Christ. Again, this is a chink is someone's armor. It is a red flag.

Eventually you find out you no longer need to constantly obsess over other people's stories. You start to focus on your own life story and slowly you will see your own path unfolding before your eyes. Stop looking for external help. You can help yourself but it must start with a thought, a feeling, inside of you to better yourself. Now is the time to turn off the television, turn off other people's conversations, and take pen to paper and start a plan for 2019. You will never regret focusing on yourself for a change. Something the Watchtower corporation fears you will do. They love the constant YouTube chatter with everyone obsessing over their every move with the endless dumb commentary about their monthly videos that are on JW.org. 

Nope, that is not you this year. Do you want the Watchtower to crumble? Turn away from it and turn away from the phonies who pretend to want the JW religion to come to an end. It means the end of themselves too since they have built nothing since leaving the Watchtower. They have nothing, are empty inside, but this is not you. Start now searching for your own spiritual path.

#survey #scientology

#youtube

Not Everyone Escapes

You may remember the story about the ex-Jehovah's Witness (JW) named Lauren Stuart and her family, who were all JWs and had left the organization but Lauren never seemed to mentally leave the JWs. 

I blogged about her earlier this year and the link is here:

https://exjwquietactivism.blogspot.com/2018/02/its-sad-when-they-leave.html

I found through the YouTube Channel of Kim/Mikey, video dated November 19, 2018, that the TV show called Investigation Discovery actually covered Lauren's story and provided a reenactment of how the police and detectives believed the murder/suicide unfolded. In case there was any doubt at the time about the reason for Lauren killing her family, her dog, and then turning the gun on herself, is detailed in that TV show. Yes, she started having doubts about leaving the JWs and essentially believed they were right about the end times, that the Great Tribulation and Armageddon were right at her doorstep and about to happen at any time. She felt that the only way out of their predicament of being ousted from the JW organization was to take the lives of her family and herself, since then [according to JW rules], her family would have a chance for everlasting life. Her fate would be in the hands of their God Jehovah who most likely would take pity on her for what she had done. However, this is up in the air with the JWs since they leave that up to Jehovah but would not conduct any type of memorial service for that person who committed suicide, even if they were still an active member of the congregation.

The link to the YT channel is below where Lauren is talked about and a link to the TV program that covered her story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=641nA_HVvFw

https://vimeo.com/301515222

As we are now in the holiday season, many persons deal with depression and assessing their lives as we close out another year and move into the new year. Even active JWs suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts and many carry that out, my own cousin being one such victim of suicide as I have blogged about here before. He was born and raised a JW, went on to serve at Watchtower headquarters in New York called Bethel, where he had various positions until finally being assigned to the former Brooklyn headquarters as a tour guide. He came back to his home state, married, became an Elder and served for years before I found out much later that he suffered from depression and was deleted as an Elder. In 2017 he committed suicide and there was no JW memorial, nothing, he didn't exist in their eyes and I only found out about his suicide weeks after it happened. Since I am no longer a JW, I was not invited to his gravesite service just held by family members, no official memorial was held by his congregation.

Do not let the JWs steal your life now or your future. If you have finally made that decision to walk away from the JW religion, be proud you made that step to start thinking on your own. If you believe in the Bible, then that is your strength and resource. If you want to explore various spiritual paths, do that now. If you have anxiety around this holiday time of year, let that go now. Calm down and relax, you have no one pushing you to celebrate anything. Do not be intimidated by JW relatives or family that you need to return to Jehovah, but be kind in your responses. Tell them the JWs do not own "the truth", and that truth is found in Scriptures, not in any church of Christendom, which the JWs are a part of. All churches claiming to follow the teachings of Christ are a member of Christendom.

If you feel depression settling in, reach out to trusted non-JW friends, relatives or co-workers. Maybe join a gym, start a daily walk in the park or around your neighborhood and consider adopting a cat or dog to take the focus off of you and onto another living thing that needs your time and focus. Start writing down your feelings and impressions in a private journal that only you know about, maybe carry it in your backpack or keep it in your desk.

This is the time of year to take stock and think about planning a new path for yourself. Don't fall into bitterness or start thinking the JWs are right after all. They have been wrong for over 100 years of existence before they adopted the JW name and changed up the corporation that exists today that is very much involved in this system of things, their so-called Satan's world. Yes, the JWs are profiting off Satan's world and have amassed great fortune while the membership suffer and die, sometimes at their own hand.

If you feel you need to speak with someone, do not be shy about contacting your local suicide prevention center. Sometimes volunteering at a homeless shelter or animal shelter can help you put life in perspective and you will see how lucky you really are right now. You can and will be that person who escapes from the walls of the Watchtower corporation and you will be a success and inspiration to those around you. 

The first step is to detach emotionally from the JWs, then work on the physical and plan your walk out of that Kingdom Hall and never return. They are wrong in their teachings, policies and beliefs. Convince yourself first, then introduce this concept to loved ones. But in the end, we can only save ourselves.

#laurenstuart  #jehovah  #JW

#activism  #society  #a&e #buddha

Leah Remini vs Watchtower

Will you be watching Leah Remini's show this month? Her A&E cable TV show that exposed some of the beliefs and practices of the Scientologists [a church in which she was raised] is now focusing on the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) beliefs as we wonder if the Mormons will be next season since all three religions seem a bit similar.

From what I have seen of the brief promos for the TV show, it will feature a few prominent YouTubers that have a lot of subscribers, one being James Lloyd Evans [John Cedars]. Producers of the show felt that this would ensure a certain amount of viewers for the advertisers that are sponsoring the overly long two-hour episode since the show is all about advertising and sales, and that's it. 

The ex-JW message board has a thread about this that I found interesting since obviously, this type of programming is for the uninformed outsider, who is just curious about these religions that are not considered Christian or mainstream, that being the Scientologists and JWs. It has been suggested that L. Ron Hubbard actually used the business model of the JWs to form his own religion and seek charity status in the U.S. and in other countries. This is because both religions do not follow the teachings of Christ, but have religious human leaders. Christ is shoved aside and used for anecdotal material. Obviously, JWs worship a spirit creature called Jehovah which is up for debate as to actually who that god really is, but I will leave that to you to conduct your own research. 

Here are a few interesting comments from the ex-JW message board thread about Leah Remini's upcoming show. The link to the first page of the thread follows these excerpts from some of the comments in that thread. I have left all typos as originally written in the comments and edited some for space reasons. 

Link to the Reddit reference is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/9gkuym/call_to_action_charity_commission_wants_to_hear/

To view the thread and all of the comments as of the date of this blog entry, access the following link:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5740504332369920/tv-trailer-leah-remini-scientology-aftermath-jehovahs-witnesses-two-hour-special-event-e

So, will I be watching A&E this month? Uh, no. I have had it with a certain self-proclaimed authority on everything Watchtower. A man who was barely an Elder for a year thinks he is an authority on the religion when he was ousted for his allegedly abusing his position as an Elder and being an alleged sexual predator in the organization. He had the nerve to do a YouTube video threatening the Elders who may take judicial action against the JW family who are supporting him financially since any active JW is to not have any disfellowshipped or disassociated JW in their home and support them in any way unless they are minor children. I have met this person and have related my experiences with him already on this blog. I went to a book signing of his with his paid worshippers in tow and got the full picture of how things work in certain [phony] ex-JW circles. 

Will you watch the A&E special this month? That is up to you dear reader as I hope you don't need a show such as this which may be equal to tabloid exploitation and something the Watchtower leadership enjoys and has sought out, with their main sympathizer front and center perched on that couch like a hairy toad absent his golden crown. 

There is plenty of genuine information available to you on the Internet, in books, documentaries, historical information, all at your fingertips. If you are curious about the JWs, go to their official website JW.org, and check out the podcasts, videos, and literature yourself. No need for any mediator between you and the JWs. You can go directly to the source and start formulating your own belief system knowing that nothing is permanent. You can change your beliefs, you can believe in God, Christ, the Scriptures, or become a more spiritual person in general, whatever that may mean for you.

#leahremini #A&E #leah #remini

#extremebeliefs  #jehovah  

#jw  #jwactivism #scientology

Bully Activism

Bullies are always a problem, whether it's in the work place or at school, and more people are becoming aware that you stand up to bullying tactics. If you can't personally stop that bully, you get help from a teacher, a co-worker, a boss, even authorities if the bullying becomes life-threatening. Such tactics exist in the ex-Jehovah's Witness (JW) community even though some claim there is no such community.

Everyone has the right to speak out against the religion in which they were born and raised since it was not of our choice. Once we reach adulthood, we have the free choice to walk away, even if that choice costs us our family and maybe even our livelihood. We have a chance now to speak out, whether it's on social media, blogging, websites, or holding up a sign on a public street to express ourselves about the damaging effects of an organization. Of course, I am speaking from the perspective of being born and raised in the JW religion. I have chosen to speak out via this blog and have many stories to share in my upcoming book that also features real-life practical suggestions for exiting the religion based on my own personal experiences.

However, some men inside the organization who I have known personally, simply bullied their way into the leadership position in the Kingdom Hall known as being an Elder. The Elders are the bosses in the Kingdom Halls and implement the rules, regulations, and policies of the Governing Body (GB) of JWs, who now reside at the world headquarters in Warwick, New York. Whatever the GB says, goes, and the Elders are the local enforcers of those rules handed down by the GB either in written letters to the congregations, or via the literature that is studied by the congregations at the meetings each week.

Some in the ex-JW community were former Elders who were forcibly deleted in their congregation, meaning, they were summarily thrown out for conduct unbecoming of a Christian and were forced to disassociate from the organization or face a formal disfellowshipping procedure where the Elder Body kicks you out of the organization and no active JW is allowed to speak with you unless it's your marriage mate or kids.

Bullies are always bullies, and I am sharing an excerpt from an article written by Alexandra James on her Facebook page about one such bully [my term, not hers]. James Lloyd Evans appears to have deemed himself some sort of leader of the ex-JW community who demands an answer ASAP from certain organizations who failed to respond to an article he wrote on his blog site about the Watchtower, December 2018 Study Edition, in which he Tweeted about. As if the entire world is to stop for a blog entry about a Watchtower article. Sorry, but the world is busy with its own problems and hardly takes notice of a Society that is dwindling to nothing save for the lawsuits that make it in the press when a victim of abuse has the courage to take Watchtower to court and in most cases, they slay the beast.

It seems James Lloyd Evans, a.k.a., John Cedars, does not like to be ignored even though he ignored my email inquiries until I finally sent a final email alerting him to the fact that he stole my idea for what would become his second book, that was the only time he took time to respond, yet he used his bullying tactics and I got the verbal smack down from this former Elder who apparently could not handle being ousted from the JW organization he was born into, and thinks he is a self-appointed Elder of the ex-JW community doling out discipline at his proper time. The blog entry where I talk about my experience with Evans can be found here:

https://exjwquietactivism.blogspot.com/2018/02/not-all-people-want-to-help.html

Apparently, Evans had delusions of reaching lofty heights in the organization in his birthplace in England and was summarily shown the door. There have been other ex-JWs who have shared comments on various social media sites claiming the same thing, how Evans ignored them or responded with sharp verbal blows cutting them in half. Evans has gone so far as to charge people a fee for their story to appear in his second book, something that further victimizes the people fleeing the Watch Tower. 

Below is an excerpt with a link provided of the commentary written by Alexandra James on her Facebook site. She also has a website called JWVictims.org. Lloyd Evans can ignore everyone else who contacts him via the published email address on his blog, yet when he contacts organizations who ignore him, he does a countdown and starts his bullying claims, by saying certain organizations are promoting women staying with their abusers by refusing to speak out against a Watchtower article that they are not even aware exists. Even if they are aware of it, what can they do? Nothing, they are busy helping victims of all kinds of abuse no matter what their religious affiliations. I see Evans will not be ignored when he has a warped view of the whole issue. This is called Bully Activism on the part of Lloyd Evans.

The full story is here:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/alexandra-james/so-now-lloyd-is-attacking-domestic-violence-shelters/2145193605731454/

If you are a victim of abuse, do not suffer in silence, do not seek help from any JW or ex-JW on the Internet. Go to a trusted friend's house, a hospital, or a counselor. If you are in immediate peril, phone the police or dial 9-1-1 on any phone if you are in the United States. You probably don't realize how strong you are and can find your own path to freedom, both physical and spiritual.

#cedars  #evans  #watchtower  #jw

#jworg  #society  #religion #exJW

#jehovah  #witness  #JWs #lloyd

#jwsurvey