Time to Topple the Emperor with no Clothes

Even though the thought of James Lloyd Evans without clothes is repulsive, it's time this Emperor is exposed in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses and those who have left.

As many know, Lloyd Evans used to be known as John Cedars and now has gained popularity on YouTube and goes by the name of Lloyd Evans even though James is his real first name but sometimes in the Welsh culture, they are given three names but use only the middle and last. I have no idea about Evans' ethnicity and it's not relevant anyway.

His own family, meaning primarily his own father and sister, have completely separated from Evans when he was outed in their own Kingdom Hall many years ago in England. Reports that came out of his hometown were that Evans was sexting girls and women in the Kingdom Hall. He allegedly sent photos of his private parts to women in the Kingdom Hall when he was serving as an Elder and married. Later it was alleged, he met up with another sister in the Hall and had sex, while Evans was a married Elder in the congregation.

The Elders had to oust the pervert and kick him out as an Elder. Then Evans cried that he was shunned, his wife went back to her home in Croatia and Evans followed her and avoided a Judicial Committee meeting to disfellowship him in his Kingdom Hall back home in England.

Then Evans gets on YouTube to cry victim and the Elders in the Croatian Hall were going to disfellowship him but he wrote a disassociation letter and left the organization before he could be fired, in a sense.

Now, the perverted deviant has done it again with him being outed on the Internet, on Reddit, on YouTube as cheating on his wife once again and Evans admits it but says he needed to go to Thailand because he apparently needed a break and was suicidal and allegedly banged some whores in Thailand over the Christmas and New Year's holiday sans the wife and kids [obviously].

Here are some excerpts from the Goodreads.com website of comments from real people who have purchased his 50 lbs book of nothing, filled with plagiarized information that he downloaded from the Internet about the history of the Watchtower and slapped his name on it as the author.

KM Marie YouTube channel has shared a video from the Fateful Slave YouTube Channel that expertly provides an opinion of the latest Evans scandal with the hookers in Thailand and how we should be concerned about this as Evans is the self-proclaimed leader of the ex-JW community when he's a fake. It's time to fire the Thailand Tom Cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfI1n8n3x5A

Following are excerpts from real comments taken from Goodreads.com as commentary on Lloyd's book, "The Reluctant Apostate" when it should have been titled, "The Grifting Apostate."

When is Lloyd going to return the donations he collected for a Spanish version of his book? When is he going to return the donations he collected for a lawsuit he would be filing against some persons in the ex-JW community? He's a fake, folks.

You don't need a narcissist to help you leave a narcissistic organization. You can leave the Watchtower on your own and I invite you to continue to read this blog and access the KM Marie YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzlCpxOBB8174YTPTx1ZqTQ/videos

#relunctantapostate #jameslloydevans #lloydevans #johncedars

#fraud #thailandtomcat #quietactivism #kmmarie #youtube #blogger

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Sometimes we all have to leave the little kid behind and move forward in life. Becoming an adult, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally, is difficult. 

Breaking up is hard to do, breaking up with the past, breaking up with a false person or belief system, but it is important that we do break up with the past when it no longer serves us and to break up with that kid inside of us that is holding us back and keeping us stuck in the past.

Whenever we feel triggered by life's events, it means there is something our inner child did not get satisfied; some need that was never fulfilled by our parents or caregivers when we were growing into adulthood. If, for example, you hear some conversation about a politician and you feel the need to jump in and be a "White Knight" for that politician who is a total stranger to you, it could mean that you were ignored by your parents as a child. It means that when you spoke up and screamed and yelled for attention or that a need was not being met, you were told to sit down and be quiet. Another example is that if you have left the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) belief system, or some other religious dogmatic belief system and still feel angry when someone brings it up, then you need to do some inner work. You need to ask yourself a few questions, such as, okay, why does this upset me when someone talks about religion? As an adult, you realize that everyone is entitled to their own opinions and beliefs and everyone is on a different level in their own personal life path. You can say "I hear what you're saying," which does not mean you agree or disagree with their statements whether they are positive or negative against the JWs or some other belief system. Hit that neutral button to get a grasp on the reality of the situation and then you can calmly share your own beliefs at your current level of your own personal life path.

It is time to become an adult in our lives, something the JWs never want to happen. They want to keep you as children and instruct their adult membership to listen, obey, and be blessed, but by what? The JW leadership can give you nothing and can't take anything from you either. Yes, there are the JW Body of Elders that enforce the strict rules and policies, yet have no authority over what is already found in the Scriptures. Move past that inner child now, say good-bye and begin a life path as an adult with newfound confidence. If you are in therapy due to past childhood trauma, that is your choice to stay there. Your therapist needs to work with you on how to move past dependency on them. If you can rectify the past, do so, as in appropriate legal or civil actions and then, move on. Don't stay stuck in that vortex or you will never grow to be the incredible person you were born to be.

Just because you leave behind the JWs or some other religious belief system, does not mean you must leave God behind, or find a greater, more encompassing Higher Being that only wants what is best for you. You can be humble and realize some great being(s) created the heavens and earth where we live. You can believe you are God, knowing good and bad when a definition doesn't exist. It's relative to your own belief system, your culture, and your environment.

I invite you to take advantage of some of the creative journal exercises at the Etsy store link provided on this blog sidebar. I will be creating more journal inspirations for PDF download in the near future. They are designed to help you decipher your own thoughts and actions to level up in your personal life path and not be dependent on the mood swings of any society or from religious leaders that are feeding off your fears about the future and beyond.

Start thinking about what needs to be broken off in your life and cut off forever so new branches can grow and flourish into new opportunities.

#watchtower #jehovahswitnesses

#awake #spirituality #spiritual

#god #jehovah #jesus #activism

#religion #selfhelp #manifestation

#manifesting #trees #life

#shelter #home #etsyshop

JW Worldwide Liquor Run

Regular viewers of various ex-Jehovah's Witness (JW) YouTube videos will most likely have seen the video taken by an anon of Governing Body Member Anthony "Tony" Morris purchasing about $900 dollars worth of liquor. 

Tony Morris is the one I guess assigned to make the liquor run for the rest of the Governing Body members who are headquartered at Warwick, New York, to lead the way in their so-called worldwide preaching work but I guess they need some liquid courage before they can undertake such a global feat. What a joke.

I thought the Kim/Mikey commentary was the best video on this Tony Morris video showing him purchasing multiples bottles of liquor, on a Sunday no less, and they spliced in excerpts of Tony giving a public talk. In my opinion on several occasions Tony appears allegedly drunk while giving public talks. He slurs his speech and then rants against the ex-JWs in an alleged drunken barrage of fire and brimstone hurled at us ex-JWs and can't wait until we burn like hot dogs at the time of the end at Armageddon when their God Jehovah destroys all non-JWs, but especially us so-called apostates, a word the JWs love to use against us who dare leave their organization. They are just a man-made religion with ever changing policies concocted by a group of narcissistic men bent on world power. The Governing Body's egos are through the roof at this point and a lot of the membership have that same ego along with a thin veil over their eyes since they refuse to face facts. The JW religion is on its way out. People are waking up to it being a faux Christian religion.

"Don't be bogged down by these apostates!" Right, Tony, since you have no defense against us. The Bible does not teach what the JWs teach. You are the apostate, buddy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq4K47OEY2o

I hope the JWs realize where their donations are going. Apparently, they are going straight to a liquor store. We know that donations and careful investments over the past 100 years have kept afloat this religious movement and the Governing Body allegedly receive no salaries. Normally they are given a certain amount for personal expenses and I guess Tony heads straight for the liquor store. Okay, fine, that is what he wants to do with his money but it looks like the guy has a serious problem or maybe he is the one doing the liquor run this month for the rest of the group as they prepare to memorialize the death of Jesus Christ on April 19. That must be some memorial.

Everyone that cares is most likely aware that the JWs memorialize the death of Christ only once per year right before the worldly Easter holiday. They actually deny the Christ and simply pass around the emblems of the bread and wine depicting Jesus' body and blood and no one partakes of the emblems since they are not of the anointed remnant class still here on earth. It is not clear how you are selected to be of the anointed class, you "just know", but even those that know this may be rejected depending on their age, social status, and how much they've got in the bank. Some people are allowed to say they are anointed because they may be the wacky old person in the Kingdom Hall and it does no real harm to let them believe they are of the anointed class while they guzzle that wine at the Kingdom Hall and then wobble home to continue the wino party on their own.

My aunt was one of these anointed remnant and her father [my maternal grandfather] was a Freemason. Some suggest that true anointed JWs must be of a certain bloodline and engage in certain Masonic rituals. My mother and her sisters were one of Job's Daughters, sort of like the Freemasons for young girls since the Masons are all men, the leadership with their rituals. I am sure if you are interested in going deeper, you can do your own Internet search. You know, the Internet, that Tony Morris warns you against since everything you want to research is at your fingertips. Of course not everything is true, but the reader must use discernment. The JWs hate the Internet because it reveals they are Masonic-like in their teachings and practice blood sacrifice rituals when a person is dying and needs a potentially life-saving medical blood transfusion and they are not allowed to have one or they will be forever doomed to nothingness. Obviously, the Bible does not teach this; the JWs do.

The JW history is a murky one, and some believe it has its roots in the wealthiest families on earth since they are always looking to control people. One way they do that is via religion and we know religion is a way to make a lot of money. If you can control masses of people, you can control their very lives and their bank accounts.

Don't be fooled by the world's religions. They are a way to control people while separating you from family and from your inheritance. I am a spiritual person and nothing stops me from researching any Bible topic on the Internet. God is free to anyone who wants to learn about him or learn the Bible or learn about a host of other spiritual beings and pursue all types of spiritual beliefs.

Tony Morris allegedly has a drinking problem. I mean, what a waste of money. Oh right, it's not his money. It's yours. The ones who have donated to the JW worldwide work like me and you if you were ever a JW, you donated, believe me, or you would have been shunned and driven out of the Kingdom Hall.

I hope videos like the Tony Morris video continue to show up on the Internet and hopefully it will wake someone up that the JWs are a man-made religion having nothing to do with any God, except maybe the God of materialism and earthly pursuits. Don't waste your time following some alleged drunk to a liquor store who thinks he can control your every move, control whether you live or die. You are better than that. You can see that these JW Governing Body members are just plain old men with nothing to do but think about how to spend your money that you donated.

Time to wake up from the Watchtower that you have been sitting in and waiting for Armageddon to come. The only Armageddon will be the one the JW leadership will witness which is the end of their own life cycle. Once the money dries up, we hope Tony dries out.

#watchtower #tonymorris

#jehovahswitnesses  #JW

#jworg  #religion #memorial

#jesus  #jehovah

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

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

Waking Hypnosis

I came across this phenomenon on a YouTube channel that I have as a suggested resource for ex-Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) [in the footer of this blog], and then expanded my research on the topic on various sites on the Internet. 

The video was done by Gordon Smith-Duran a few years ago and it may help as an introduction to this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-cZfRfCEc

When we were all JWs, we were strictly banned from engaging in any sort of hypnosis techniques and were banned from watching any type of hypnosis session whether it was something performed on a talk show on television or as a game in a nightclub setting, and obviously were further prohibited from performing any sort of self-hypnosis or meditation and yoga on our own. Why is that do you think? The JWs say it has origins in the occult, that you will let some sort of genuine demonic being enter your body and you will be haunted and driven insane. Okay, stop and think why the JW leadership would put these types of fears into its membership, especially since birth. I have clear memories of being terrified of demons, I suffered from night terrors, and nightmares of the time of the end that is talked about ad nauseam at their public meetings and in their literature.

So why fear hypnosis? Why fear meditation and introspection unless you are chanting some verse about Jehovah God or staring at a paragraph out of Watch Tower literature and meditating on the words or in passages of their own Bible translation? Because you will see how easily the human mind is influenced and you will start repeating rhetoric in your day to day life that was placed there by a third-party. They are no longer your own true thoughts or beliefs. If the Watch Tower corporation allows you to engage in hypnosis sessions with a therapist, you will be influenced in a positive direction, an independent direction away from the mind-numbing influences of the Watch Tower corporation. Now I say this with the intention that therapists are well-meaning persons, having your best interests at heart and want you to become an independent self-reliant individual and deal with whatever problems that are holding you back from that goal of achieving your life's purpose.

Watch Tower will tell you that your life's purpose is to serve only them and to have a job to pay your own expenses, yet give a monthly stipend to your local congregation, plus an amount that goes straight to Watch Tower headquarters to keep their "worldwide" work going of amassing real estate and employing unpaid labor to do their bidding. Yes, their permanent residents at their headquarters in New York and other locations around the world at Branch Offices, they do get a monthly stipend, but it is only to cover immediate expenses. When you either decide to leave on your own or are no longer of use and evicted, then you are at ground zero in your life and have to figure out how to support yourself, maybe a spouse, and most just move back home with their parents since they have no other options. We are talking about grown adults moving back home with mom and dad, one man I knew personally was evicted from the Watch Tower headquarters in New York since they were eliminating his job [as well as others] and consolidating. This man was about 35 years old at the time and had zero college since he went straight to work at "Bethel" as the JWs call it, the headquarters in New York, and only worked for them. He was unprepared for the real world and just lives with his mom trying to figure out what to do with his live inside those walls of the Watch Tower.

So what is waking hypnosis? It's what happens at every meeting of the JWs. They lead you down a path. For example:

Speaker: I remember when I was a boy, I used to play outside and my mother never worried about me. Our neighborhood was safe. Television had fun cartoons and good movies were available that supported a strong family unit. Nowadays, you see how everything has changed, even in your own life, right?

Audience nods their heads in agreement. The room is silent save for the humming of the sound equipment, glaring overhead fluorescent lights make you blink a bit more often than usual.

Speaker: Now think about what you see on television news reports. Violence in your own neighborhood. You could never go out as a child now and play on your own, you may be kidnapped, you may suffer being hit by a drunk driver, violence is now a part of our regular life and it frightens us.

Audience nods their heads in agreement.

The speaker eventually leads you to a path that only the JWs can save you from this dilemma. Our world is so violent, we are in danger every day of our lives. We start to feel anxious and confused. The speaker offers you the solution of the Watch Tower as the only way out. Read, study, and speak only of Jehovah God, read only the JW literature, be fearful of reading any other material that may lead you away from the JWs beliefs.

The speaker will then throw in the fear of Satan the Devil. Oh, he is out to get you personally. Do not open yourself up to any type of therapy, instruction, or counseling outside of the JW literature or talking with your Elders in your congregation. You are slowly becoming aware of waking hypnosis. 

In contrast, in most cases you've got to agree with your boss if he/she is a domineering person and one-sided and you've got to hang onto your job. So your boss would say, "ordering updated computers is a really bad idea, RIGHT??" And you would say, right! I agree. That is not waking hypnosis. You are making a conscience decision to agree with your boss since you are in survival mode to keep your job.

Waking hypnosis is when you are led down a path, you hear a long story you can relate to, then the speaker convinces you they have the only one solution. Don't go thinking on your own or searching for answers for yourself, no, stick with Watch Tower, that is your only path to salvation.

Now obviously, if you identify as a Christian, you may need to switch up your thinking that the Bible is the path to your salvation, not any group or organization. Research many different Bible versions and start discovering what is right for yourself in this life. If you are non-Christian, then the JWs are not an issue with you, since you would be rejecting all organizations that use the Bible in their teachings. 

Waking hypnosis is what the JWs practice on each other when they learn their new language and jargon. When you are studying with someone to become a JW, you immediately start picking up on their terms, "worldly people", "out in the world", "fear the demons, they want you to turn away from Jehovah", all fear tactics and the JWs start to implant thoughts in your head that never existed and you would not entertain on your own.

Start thinking about your true self. Why were you put on this earth? What do you personally like to do? Becoming introspective is not a bad thing. It will start to clear the fog inside of your brain put there by years of indoctrination as a JW. Fear is a huge factor you have to deal with. Are you afraid of meditating on anything not coming from the Watch Tower corporation? Why? How about listening to calm music and lay down or sit still for 15 minutes and think about what you are afraid of. Who put those fears inside of you?

When JWs start to wake up from their self-hypnotic state, it can be frightening. Like, waking up a child who is sleep walking and you startle them and they run and hide. Why do you think so many ex-JWs on YouTube are posting videos of their protesting against the JWs? It's a break in their programming and we all react differently when we are waking up to our hypnotic state of mind, a state we have been living in for many years.

I am not against any active protesting of the JWs at their conventions or Kingdom Halls since the persons doing the protesting have little control over how they will react to the waking up process. Some prefer to just walk away from the JWs, and that is perfectly fine, you never have to do anything. Don't think you have to jump in front of a YouTube camera and start pouring out your heart to strangers online, trying to get their approval for leaving the Watch Tower corporation. 

You need to heal yourself first, and then take small steps to clear your mind of the thoughts and impressions placed there by the Watch Tower leadership. Again, I have suggested books and websites on this blog site to get you started. I do not suggest you access any sites that specifically target the Watch Tower corporation or obsess over their monthly podcasts. That will not clear your mind of the JWs mindset or beliefs. It will keep you trapped and stagnate. You want to move away from the Watch Tower corporation and seek out ways to improve your own situation right now, and plan a good solid foundation for a future away from all the programming that was placed inside of you by the Watch Tower corporation.

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The Snake's Head

The cable TV channel "A&E" is airing a series called "Cults and Extreme Belief" and the second episode featured Jehovah's Witnesses (JW). It featured a woman named Romy who detailed her personal experiences as being raised in the JW belief system by her mother. Romy was also a victim of a male molester inside her congregation from about 4 to 14 years old. Romy has since posted her segment from A&E on her Facebook site which is public, and I think anyone who has not seen it, should sit down and watch it and truly think about the JW religion, especially if that person is still considered a part of the membership and supports them either by their weekly presence in a Kingdom Hall and/or by their monetary support of their so-called worldwide preaching work.

https://www.facebook.com/romy.maple

I know, we hear that many institutions whether considered Christian or not, have bad seeds inside their organizations. While that may be true, why does it excuse the JWs from their alleged cover-ups of child molesters? It doesn't. You can make all the excuses in the world and it just proves what kind of person you are inside. You do not want to support any organization that hides and protects not only child molesters, but abusers of any kind, even those abusing their own spouse. All these sins and crimes are dealt with by the Body of Elders in each congregation, based on the policies put in writing by the JW Governing Body, the group of men leading the organization through the end times of this system of things that they think is so wicked that their God Jehovah will destroy all non-JWs at Armageddon. Yes, those baptized abusers and molesters inside those Kingdom Halls will get into the JW new earthly or heavenly system of things before you dear reader, if you are not a baptized JW and contribute your money to further their global recruiting mission.

After Romy gave most of her life away to the JW organization she stated she wanted to go to the snake's head and actually try and speak with a member of the Governing Body to hand that man her disassociation letter from the organization. She showed up at the compound gates at the JW world headquarters in Warwick, NY, and was met by a guard at the gate who said no one was available to speak with her, yet she could wait inside her car outside of the [prison] gate and he would see if anyone was available to speak with her.

After waiting for several minutes, Romy again approached the guard who stated that no one is available to speak with her. Right, no one. Not any of the hundreds of JWs living there full time at the headquarters compound were willing to step outside and drive to the entrance gates to take Romy's disassociation letter in person. So Romy left it with the guard at the gate and went home.

This is the organization that you have devoted your life to, given of your free time, your own resources, paying for all of the recruitment activities out of your own pocket, aside from paying all of your rent or mortgage, food, gas, clothing, and having a full-time job to support yourself and your family, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society could not care less. They are takers. When you finally wake up to the fact you were taken, they want nothing to do with you, they write you off, shun you, ignore you, and bully you into silence or face further penalties and group shunning by those still in the JW belief system.

It is a reality we have all had to face when we are finally old enough to understand the JW organization that we were born into. A lot are like me, born and raised into this archaic, abusive belief system thinking we have nowhere to go. What we do know is that we can leave. We can put down that Watchtower literature, walk out of that Kingdom Hall for the very last time and never look back. If any of your JW friends or family still want to speak with you, that's fine, but you are walking away with or without them. It means your future health and happiness to walk out.

Where will you go? That is the pleasant adventure that awaits you. Don't jump into any other religious belief system, don't jump into therapy, take a beat, think about your priorities first. Most of us have to work for a living so that is where to start. Are you doing okay at work? Could you think about going back to school? Do not immediately jump on a YouTube channel and sit in front of a camera 24/7 picking apart Watchtower and failing at your own personal life and jeopardizing your future. 

I have suggested this many times on this blog, and that is to start a journal of what is going on with your thoughts as you leave the Watchtower corporation. I have also suggested journal statement starters on my website [see sidebar of this blog]. That is how I started. I now have a several journals that I look back on, to see what I was thinking when I first left the JW belief system. I still write down my thoughts and impressions each week, especially when I start feeling alone or over tired. Start putting words to paper and not always be plugged into electronics which raises the blood pressure and makes you feel rushed or that you have to handle multiple things at once.

There is no rush after you leave the falling towers of false belief. That is where the JWs want you to be, in a corner feeling trapped and alone, anxious of what you will do tomorrow. Do not get caught up in that. You have time to take a step back and think. That's where your true inspirations will come as to what you want your next step in life to be. I have been asked about medicating yourself and no, I do not suggest this nor do I think drinking alcohol is the answer. It can lead to an unwanted addiction and will mask your true thoughts that need to come to the forefront. If you engage in any type of illegal drug activity, remember that many of those drugs merge the conscious and subconscious mind into one which is dangerous and why you hear of some drug addicts jumping off of buildings to their death.

The subconscious mind keeps you safe. For instance, when you hop in that car every morning on your way to work, you never consciously have to think about how to do that. You don't stop and stare at the ignition and deliberately think about how to start your car, you just do it. When you are driving, your subconscious mind already knows the way to work, how to look out for traffic signals, it's all seamless. When you are on some type of drug that removes those barriers, you think you can fly. You will drive as if no one else is on the road and will quickly be in a head-on collision. So there is a reason our conscious and subconscious minds are kept separate. Do not confuse this with dealing with the shadow side of your personality. Our personalities are molded by those around us since birth. It's up to you to discover that person inside of you that was repressed by being a JW all of your life. This can reveal good and bad things about yourself. So don't be afraid to start thinking about that person inside of you, absent the rhetoric you were fed from the Watchtower corporation.

It is an amazing journey you will embark upon, once you decide to back away from the head of the snake and seek out a safe path to your own personal freedom.

Don't run, jump over, or touch the snake to move it
out of your path. It can leap and strike double its length
to your peril. Slowly back away to safety. 

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