From Star Trek to Watchtower

Those of us who are former members of the Jehovah's Witness (JW) organization and who are like me, born and raised in it and had no choice but be indoctrinated into its bizarre tenets, we might feel we have to take what's presented to us in the press or on the Internet regarding this organization and feel pressured into gobbling up every news item like a bunch of morons.

I have no interest in watching some of the latest TV shows attempting to expose the JW organization. It's all publicity-grabbing headlines for ratings. I feel no pressure to watch these shows about the JWs because I have lived it. If someone out there benefits from this type of sensational news reporting, fine, it's an individual choice, but no one should be pressured into promoting these TV shows or watching them only to see some ex-JW on there like James Lloyd Evans, a.k.a., John Cedars, who was ousted for allegedly sexting girls and women in his congregations and having a porn addiction and having an uncontrolled masturbation fetish that he brags about in his book and blames the JW Society for it.  Uh, no thanks, I will skip these TV shows with these bogus ex-JW champions for a cause they have no clue about. How do you leave the JWs? Hey, how about sexting the girls and women in your Kingdom Hall and in a few neighboring Halls? That might do it. What a joke the so-called ex-JW community has become.

Some may say there is no organized group of people that can speak on behalf of us ex-JWs, which is true, yet some are pushed forward into the public eye and for some reason, we all have to praise them as our messiah to free us from the slavery we ourselves have already been freed from. We have either walked out of those Kingdom Halls on our own and vowed to never return like I did, and then there is the group that was ousted, driven off, disfellowshipped or shunned and pined away to return and then gave up the fight and decided to find their own salvation in another religious group. Whatever the case, it's an individual choice. Did you see that? Choice.

Another case in point is Trey Bundy, a reporter from the San Francisco Bay Area who was at the bottom of his profession reporting on Star Trek conventions. He was not very skilled and did nothing to set himself apart from any other reporter given routine assignments or working freelance. Now he has turned his attention to the JW organization attempting to make a name for himself and works for another company of so-called reporters who all beg for donations and your cash dollars to do whatever they want and call themselves investigative reporters.

Bundy turned to the JWs for the easy fame he craved

or it was back to the Star Trek conventions:

It is always good when the JWs are being exposed for protecting child abusers within the congregations. I have been privy to this information because my father was an Elder for almost my entire life while I remained a JW until I left about 10 yrs ago. I knew of a few cases that came up in judicial committee hearings and, yes, the abusers were ignored and left alone and the gossip group of sisters in the Kingdom Hall went to work and the abusers moved on to other congregations. It would be something the new congregations would have to find out on their own and deal with it themselves.

Hopefully a few "worldly" people seeing some of these TV broadcasts will think twice before accepting a Bible Study or enter a Kingdom Hall wanting to become a member of the organization. It might be a "buyer beware" type of thing Trey Bundy is doing but other than that, I see no reason to wave that flag of victory that the Watchtower corporation(s) are going down anytime soon.

I had the courage to walk out on my own. It took me a long time and I faded away and no one tracked me down since single women in the congregation hardly matter, especially those like me who left when I was past the shelf life of being of interest to any single or divorced brother in the congregation. They like them young, oh, yes they do, ask Lloyd Evans, the guy who was an Elder for a brief time in his congregation in England whose wife ran away from him because the entire congregation knew what was going on so she moved back to her home country to live with her JW family. Evans followed her because he had no clue how to work for a living and would've been homeless if his JW inlaws didn't let him live in their yet unfinished basement where he resides to this day doing YouTube videos about the JWs since that's all he knows how to do. 

Fine, but I don't have to listen. Evans does nothing for the so-called ex-JW community. Ask him about abusing his position as an Elder. He fled to his new congregation to join his wife who now lived with mommy and daddy JW but the allegations followed him there where he was officially ousted as an Elder. No such big judicial committee meeting took place as he opines on his YouTube channel. That's why he never recorded his meeting. It was take it or leave it, meaning, step down as an Elder or we're removing you. Evans elected to not return to the Kingdom Hall and the rest is his story. 

Now, Trey Bundy has partnered with Evans because they are both scrambling for publicity and a free ride off the backs of us hard working ex-JWs who don't spend hours on end rehashing the same rhetoric about the JWs and their policies. We are the strong group of ex-JWs who no longer support that organization with our money or by being present at the meetings. We no longer obsess over the JW Broadcasting videos or hang on to every dumb expression coming out of the mouths of the Governing Body of JWs. We have moved on with our lives and hope others will have the courage to do the same. 

If you got kicked out the JW organization, it may have been deserved as in the case of Lloyd Evans and his alleged sexting of girls and women in the congregations and his admitted porn addiction. Trey Bundy looks like someone who needs rehab and not proclaim he is any savior of JW abuse victims. He is a guy working for a buck and this is easy wages and headlines for him. Fine, but I don't need to see his TV reports or follow him down his useless path leading to nothing.

Former Bethelite worker Barbara Anderson got the ball rolling over 20 years ago with her exposing of the JWs and their secret list of alleged child abusers. What became of that? Just about nothing. Individual abuse victims should not give up or go away, yet they don't need any ex-JW telling them what to do and none of us can be their saviors. Abuse victims should be encouraged by their own support circle to seek sound advice from a legal team, health care professionals, and licensed counselors, and not from a bunch of lazy YouTubers or a former Star Trek Convention reporter. 

Will the JW organization ever go away? That depends on the governments in charge, not on anything else. No matter what crimes the Catholic Church has been accused of and found guilty, they still exist and always will. You see, they are the top of the pyramid. All other major religious bodies exist because of them. Their wealth cannot be quantified, it is too great of an amount. The governments use religion to control various sectors of Society who think they are worshiping God. Once the JWs entered the billionaire boys club, they became a made religion. If they are going down, it will be up to the Jesuits, the top ruling classes of our society, who have allowed the Watchtower into the fold. Selling off their massive real estate holdings in New York was the turning point. Now they are sequestered and safe in the forests of upstate New York where they can expand their global operations. They are building a media center much like what the Scientologists already have with their Scientology TV and, like the Scientologists, they are so wealthy from living off investments and various stocks and funds, they could not care less if they are slammed in the media or if new recruits are slow in coming. Evans and Bundy can continue begging at the table of the JWs, hoping to be a liaison for change, when the Watchtower leadership is laughing all the way to their tables, feasting off dead and dying JWs who are too terrified to disobey them for fear God will kill them.

What can you do? Walk out of those Kingdom Halls and never return. Start your own personal journey to freedom. If you're still relatively young, then get an education, get a job, plan a career, start traveling, open up your small world and see what's outside. Work on supporting yourself and start accessing self-help videos having nothing to do with religion. If you are a religious person, that's okay, there is tons of stuff on YouTube for FREE that you can access with no one living in a basement badgering you for money while they refuse to get a job.

The world is changing, but religion, my dear reader, is here to stay because it serves a purpose. It's time you start living for your own purpose, your own self, and your personal success will be an inspiration to any wife, husband, or kids you may leave behind inside the JW organization.

Valentine's Day is almost here. Love yourself first and

then see who is deserving of your love after that.

#evans #cedars #lazy #grifter #jehovahswitnesses #bundy #opportunist 

Philadelphia Freedom

The Philadelphia Inquirer is interested in freedom, freedom for people to talk about the growing concern of the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) archaic culture of silencing people who are abused by the people inside their respective Kingdom Halls, yes, Halls not churches since this is not a Christian religion. They place Jesus on a phallic symbol stuck in the ground instead of a cross which repels them and they push him off to one side as their leadership take front and center in this organization. Have you seen the vampire movies? Dracula is repelled by the cross much like the JWs. 

When I was a small child, my Catholic grandmother sent me a gold cross necklace which I cherished, but not for long. Once I finally removed it from around my neck and placed it carefully on my nightstand, by morning it was gone. My devout JW mother and father were perplexed. Hmm, where did it go? I searched for it for many days and nights until my mother finally told me she took it because "we" don't want the sign of the cross in our house, it was demonic. I never brought it up again. We were JWs and that was the rule and the JWs are far from being Christian or Christlike.

The leadership of the JWs are a star chamber of men called the Governing Body who live in the New York area after selling off their massive Brooklyn buildings for over one billion dollars, yes, you read right. It is public record they are now billionaires and, not so public is that they are finally in the billionaire boys club and have reached that coveted 33 degree level of the top Masonic elite group of men of the nation. Yes, I keep saying men since the top elite of this world are men with women as basically property and used to further their lineage. To work your way through the Masonic secret society and reach the top levels, it takes money. We are not talking about the local lodges where moms and dads meet to discuss some charity drive, we are talking about the top leadership, same with the Watch Tower corporation. We are not talking about the sheep inside those Kingdom Halls who just do the bidding of the Governing Body by doing the slow death walk into those Halls every single week, trolling around neighborhoods pushing their literature onto householders or publicizing the official JW website, they are the worker drones and seem to be truly blinded and foggy about the truth about their organization.

But finally, the JWs are getting negative press exposing their inner workings. I have blogged about this a few times before but it is worth repeating this and exposing how secretive the JW organization is and continues to be.

Please reference the full article from "The Inquirer" from Philadephia:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-sexual-abuse-children-beliefs-rules.html

The article talks about a four year old girl who was molested inside a Kingdom Hall by a teenage boy while people were meeting for field service, which means, they were pairing off and talking about what territories in the neighborhood they would "work" by knocking on doors and trying to recruit people into their religion. The incident happened about 10 years ago but the article relates other stories about abuses inside the JW organization and nothing is done by the congregational Elders. The article goes on to relate a police detective's experience in dealing with the Elders of a congregation regarding abuse allegations, and how they refused to cooperate. Typical of this religion, they do not cooperate with anyone, they shut down, close ranks and protect the holy Governing Body who to this day, go unchallenged as to their authority over the membership of sheep worldwide. It is quite disturbing that this religious group that only worships the God of this system of things can still thrive, but hey, they are serving the New World Order of men who use God when it suits them while their real God is whomever you want to call him/it, the Devil, Lucifer, Fallen Wicked Angels, but that is what the JWs are, they thrive on this earthly system of things and are hardly spiritual.

Once you start letting those blinders fall off your eyes, you can see many situations as they really are. Don't let a faux Christian religion mislead you anymore. Start reading about spirituality, discover and explore other organizations that are non-denominational. You can read the Bible on your own, there are many translations that use modern wording if you don't like the old style of the King James Bible.

Is it important to get out of the JWs? So many are unaffected by any articles or news reports exposing the JWs for being a secret society that harbors alleged abusers, I say alleged since we don't know. The authorities are never called when a victim or the family of a victim notifies JW Elders of abuse. They handle it internally which means they do nothing and the victim either keeps quiet or moves out of the area away from their abuser. Nothing is done, it is a secret society. Have I said that enough? I know. I was born and raised in it and there are so many things about the JWs that mimic Freemasons. My grandfather was a Freemason, his daughters [one being my mother] were Job's Daughters [sort of a girl's version of the Freemasons]. As I have related on this blog and provide more detail in my book, my mother and her sisters when they were in their 20's, transitioned to becoming JWs. The JWs prey on the innocent and stupid, duping people into thinking their God Jehovah is bringing about an end to this system of things when their God is only a God of War and Destruction.

It is never too late to start your own research. So much now is online and readily available to you. You don't need to travel to the Watch Tower Headquarters in Warwick, New York, and see a bunch of old black and white photos of the founders of this religious group since those photos are already on the Internet. Big deal, right? Some ex-JWs even travel to Warwick to see a bunch of old Bibles and rusty typewriters or a bunch of old literature behind glass, which is just bizarre, and gush over it as if it means anything. It doesn't. Gee, why don't they show you the basement of occult material and their Masonic books of ritualistic practices? You know, the secret cabal of the truly anointed by Jehovah who partake of the bread and wine depicting Jesus' body and blood and then throwing the glasses in the fireplace and chanting to their God Molech. Hmmm, a mystery, right?

Jehovah's Witnesses sacrifice their children to Molech masquerading
as their God Jehovah. The children are sacrificed by their parents
 on operating tables because they purposefully refuse potentially
life-saving blood transfusions.

You also don't need to purchase any voluminous book on the history of the JWs, it is all available for free on the Internet and you can read it at your leisure and print out anything you wish and stick it in a folder for future reference. You do not need the entire huge history of JWs sitting on a bookshelf. We are beyond those days, thank God.

I envy you if you are just starting to wake up and have the courage to start your own research. I still remember when I was waking up and started going on the Internet, it was around 1999 and it was an exciting time for me. Your own discovery and research will be exciting for you too. And yes, you can do it on your own. You are strong, you really do not need anyone to lead you out of the organization. If you are an adult, you can open that Kingdom Hall door to the outside world and never look back.

#jehovahswitnesses

#JWs   #watchtower

#abuse  #twowitnessrule

#molech

Who Controls You?

If you are still an active Jehovah's Witness (JW), then you must honestly answer that you are not in control of your own thoughts, actions, or beliefs. You may feel secure in the fact that you are not in control and can't move right or left, but must face forward and be focused only on the JW organization. You may like to simply sit back and zone out and listen to the instructions from the JW literature and from the weekly public talks and the regional conventions that are held throughout the year at various locations only to find out that you are stagnate in life, having no real friends, a job instead of a career that you actually enjoy, and maybe a family that is only with you because of the ties within the congregation.

Other persons are literally starting to wake up to the reality that the Watch Tower Corporation knows little about how to guide you in this life, to prosper physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. You may think I am wrong in saying this. Well, compare where you were five years ago and where you are today. You are the same, right? Still doing the treadmill of weekly meetings, door-to-door recruitment activities or standing my a JW literature cart thinking this counts as preaching the good news of God's Kingdom to the public when you are just staring down at your phone reading text messages waiting for your mandated hours to be up and you can go home and sit and wait for the next JW meeting at the Kingdom Hall.

Where will you be in five years keeping up this same JW routine? You will be the same. You will be stagnate in life. You may think this is fine, I am still young - uh, right, that is the point. The JW leadership of men at the headquarters compound in the New York area, want to steal your youth and destroy any chance you may have in this life. Once you reach 30, 40, or 50, and see that your life meant nothing but pushing JW literature in peoples' hands, and your own life is stagnate, never growing, learning, prospering financially so you can work towards a safe, bright future, no, the Watch Tower has stolen your dreams from you and now that you have woken up at maybe 30, 40 or 50, you see you can no longer afford to go to college and may not have the strength to go to college. Even if you decide to go back to school and you are past 40 years old, no employer is hiring a college grad at 40, they are hiring that 21 year old or the 25 year old who completed college in a profession they chose.

How do you stop other people from controlling you? How do you start making your own decisions? Obviously, if you still live at home with your parents, you must obey them. However, it doesn't mean you can't start planning now for your future. High School and community colleges offer career counseling. Don't be afraid if your parents threaten you with eviction. Start now and think about forming some solid friendships outside of the JW culture. You can do this by confiding in a friend now, tell them your plans. You need a solid foundation in this life first, then you can explore other options once you are stable in your life.

If you are an adult and decide to think for yourself, it can be very scary. Seek out non-JW online self-help videos and websites. Seek out friends at work who may or may not be religious. Religion really has nothing to do with this. You can be a spiritual person and realize that a Grand Creator or Godlike Being made this earth and all life without joining any religious group.

Are you constantly watching the official JW Broadcasting videos? Have you noticed the large blue screen behind the speaker? It has wavy lines going through the constantly moving image that can cause a hypnotic effect upon the viewer as you listen to the speaker's rehearsed and scripted lines that are meant to draw in the viewer to start agreeing with the statements made. They show a video of someone crying to get the viewer to cry or show you a sad lonely person who needs JW literature crammed on bookshelves in order to be happy. They may show you a vision of their manufactured scene of the "new system", a future world they think they can promise will happen, but they can't. No human has power over your life or your death. No human can give you everlasting life on any paradise in heaven or on earth. Yet, this is what they are selling to you. Click off the JW channel and you will slowly start to think more rationally.

The blue colors, spheres, and images are commonly used by the U.S. Government,
the United Nations, and by the Freemasons, as well as in their logos as do the JWs.
That video screen behind the speaker is constantly in motion.
Image is from JW.ORG

The monthly JW broadcasting videos are designed to funnel you into a specific direction:

1) Calm, slow way of speaking.
2) Hypnotic background.
3) May include an experience from a third-world country to make you embarrassed about how much you have in the U.S. and in Western societies.
4) Get you to feel sad and start to cry over some poor JW in another part of the world having to walk barefoot for miles to a Kingdom Hall.
5) Then, their vision of everlasting life on an earthly paradise.
6) Finally, donate to their world-wide work.

Hey, I don't listen to those JW videos! I watch only commentary on them by an alleged ex-JW who views himself as an expert on the JW religion! Wrong. Turn off the commentary videos and websites too. They are designed to sucker you into their own world of mind control techniques, getting you hooked on their YouTube channels, clicking on their ads, and getting you hooked on every word that comes from the JW headquarters and somehow, making you feel you need to know what they are doing or saying at every moment. Trust me, you don't. You need to turn away from these types of YouTube channels and start focusing on that one person that needs to get moving and get on with their life, that being you, dear reader.

The JW organization never changes. They come up with new schemes, new videos, new gimmicks, all designed to make you think they are moving forward, when they are moving in circles, desperate to come up with more cash grab schemes from recycled gimmicks that worked decades ago and they update them for today's membership. They want you sitting home and afraid of the outside world unless you have JW literature in your hand or pushing a JW literature cart around a mall. Same with the constant ex-JW YouTube commentary videos that seem to get longer and longer in length, making you sit there for 2 hours or more listening to their opinions or simply insulting the Governing Body and their monthly broadcasts creating frustration inside of the viewer. Turn off these useless videos and start looking towards something that will bring you away from the mind controlling techniques used by Watch Tower and those who feel they have left yet are still obsessed with their every move. The JW leadership fuel ignorance and so do some ex-JW YouTubers, as if you can't think for yourself. 

Start a journal and get your thoughts on paper. Spend time with yourself away from interruptions for at least an hour per day. Ask yourself these questions. They may help sort things out for you and provide you with new clarity in your life:

1) What are you attracted to that you take for granted?

2) What repels you?

3) Where did your reactions to these questions come from in the first place? Where did your opinions come from? A mental barrier goes up with certain words with a negative association. Ask yourself why you react in a certain way to words, thoughts, or impressions. Not just related to the JW organization, but to life. Where did your world view come from?

4) Are you not open to other beliefs or opinions? Why can't men cry? Why do women have to be cooks and housewives? You get the message here.

5) How can you change your response to the paradym?

6) How does it affect your health and energy?

7) What is the path to greater awareness or to your own self-destruction?

Get to the root of why you feel a certain way. Is it taken for granted, something good or bad? Have a fresh perspective on things and form no opinions at first. Explore new things in your life away from hearing someone else give their own opinions, whether it's critical or not of the Watch Tower teachings. Don't let other people give you an opinion, start with looking objectively at an issue or policy of the Watch Tower organization. 

Don't keep looking for validation for what you choose to believe or not. Take things one step at a time, there is no rush to leave the JWs, but you can start distancing yourself by missing meetings, stop going out in their preaching working, take a step back and tell people you need to sort things out for yourself and take a sabbatical. Do not let threats of death and destruction sway your decision to leave the JWs, but again, there is no hurry. Work at your own pace.

The Bible and many belief systems are freely available to anyone. Fear is the first thing to set aside, including, being on your own. I was on my own when I first left the Watch Tower Society. I made my own way and continue to express myself in this blog and seek out new interests and read many books all the time. I have suggested YouTube channels in the footer of this blog from ex-JWs and non-JWs alike. I sometimes link to a good video from an ex-JW in my blog entries that I think are helpful.

A link to a very good NON-JW video to watch on this subject of mind control is below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQaFtYEz58

Once you stop being afraid to separate yourself from the JW mindset, you will find your life path starts to reveal itself to you. You will not regret it as you free yourself from the mind controlling effects of the JWs.

#mindcontrol  #matrix
#control   #freedom
#freedomfromwatchtower

Lord's Evening Meal

On Saturday, March 31, the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) will have their annual celebration and memorial of the death of Jesus Christ. They give a special talk on that night and pass around emblems representing Jesus' body and blood. As many may know, only a select few of "anointed" ones are allowed to partake of the emblems. There are no written rules on who may be deemed anointed by God to partake of the emblems but it is a secret society of men who will determine this. Mostly, it is based on those from long ago who are now dead, who were prophets and disciples of Christ and in recent years, only a select clique are truly considered anointed. 

Yes, it is a vague arrangement, as an honest and sincere JW may believe they are anointed by God and Christ and go ahead and partake of the emblems passed around the Kingdom Hall that memorial night. You may or may not be given a pass on this. Generally speaking, if you are under the age of 60 [excluding Governing Body member Mark Sanderson who is the youngest and believed to not yet be 50 years old], you most likely will not be considered anointed and may face a JW Judicial Committee to determine your state of mind. If they deem you as unstable, they may let it pass and just put up with you, but in some cases you will be disfellowshipped and expelled from the congregation for not following the lead of the Elder Body.

Most, if not all, Bible translations state that all must partake of the body and blood of the Christ if they want to be saved, and Jesus is the bread of life and it's available to all, not just a select few. But really, it is up to the individual to make that choice for themselves. God doesn't want you to partake as a matter of obligation or without feeling or understanding of the sacrifice Jesus made for all of us. He made that sacrifice so all persons may be saved from inherited sin and everlasting death and destruction. However, the JWs believe that only their anointed membership who are still on this earth, the remnant, are slated for heaven and can partake of the emblems while everyone else is slated for everlasting life on earth and cannot partake of the emblems. However, the Bible really doesn't state this, that there are two groups of "saved" people.

The facts of the Scriptures are really lost on indoctrinated JWs and they will most likely glaze over if you try and point out that all may partake of the emblems of the body and blood of Christ, it is a personal choice.

JWs also believe it is a sin to pass over their passover celebration, ha. So if you decide to not attend one of their bizarre rituals of simply passing the bread and wine to each person in attendance with just about no one partaking, you will be marked for destruction when God kills you at Armageddon. Again, this is not a Bible-based belief. If you decide to go to the JW memorial celebration, you will see a lot of disgruntled people forced to be there, whether it's an unbelieving mate or a "worldly" relative. They are slumped in their seat and forced to touch that glass of wine and plate of unleavened bread and pass it along to the person beside them, down each row, and getting everyone to touch the glass and plate, even babies, so they will all be saved at the time of the end in which we are living.

Some religions do this passover celebration every Sunday so as to get everyone in attendance to be involved and acknowledge the sacrifice of the Christ. Since many people don't regularly attend church or may show up one time to see what's it's about, or maybe are traveling and just don't have knowledge of the original passover meal instituted by Christ, they hold the memorial each Sunday and anyone there can participate if they want to, and partake of the emblems. I don't see the harm in this but the JWs get all upset that the "worldly" religions do this memorial celebration wrong. Well, they are wrong in their belief that only a select few can partake of the emblems.

This year's JW memorial invitation features very bizarre artwork and they even feature a Masonic handshake this year. It seems this religious sect is getting more open about their Masonic roots, and nothing much has changed. Some of the Masonic sects and rituals involve tricking Christians into thinking they follow the Christ when they follow Lucifer. The JWs trick you the same way, their memorial death mass has little to do with Jesus, but a lot to do with hailing their God Jehovah and doing a sales pitch to get people to agree to a home Bible study consisting of studying only JW literature, with the Bible as a symbol only, pushed aside with random, unrelated scriptures cited now and then in their publications.

These images are of the official 2018 JW Memorial Invitation obtained from their official website, JW.org:

This is the Masonic handshake, where you curve and press your thumb into the hand of the other person.

Some people have suggested that the overly-long thumb cupped in the
other man's hand at the angle depicted, is another lewd image placed
there by the Watchtower artists.

Example of a Masonic handshake:

Some people suggest that there are hidden Masonic and lewd symbols and images in Watchtower literature, both past and present. Many examples are available with a quick Google search and may be worth your time to check it out. Here is one strange part of the painting from the JW Memorial Invitation:

Whatever you decide to do on Saturday is your choice. But I would skip the JW death mass where they give Christ a brief mention once a year and then proceed to honor Jehovah and try and guilt-trip you into attending all of their meetings and have you become a fully indoctrinated drone of the organization. Seek your own path in life and you won't go wrong.

#Jehovahswitnesses #memorial

#christ #jehovah  #jesus

The Truth In Four Parts

The Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) have what they call a scriptural reason for demanding that there be at least two witnesses to any wrongdoing to convict one of their brothers [or sisters], and one of those scriptures is found in Deuteronomy 19:15. However, what the JWs refuse to acknowledge, is that even if there are two witnesses to such an abhorrent crime as sexual abuse of a minor, no conviction will be sought against the perpetrator, even if that person confesses. This is the sneaky way the Watch Tower leadership avoid their own so-called Scriptural policy. The Watch Tower corporation's goal is to protect themselves from having their corporation's name smeared in the press, in the court systems, in the congregations, and protect their belief they have a clean religious order that was chosen by God himself about one hundred years ago.

As you may be aware, a small group of ex-JWs participated in their own form of activism at the JW headquarters in Warwick, New York. A quick YouTube search will bring up many of their own video diaries on that event that happened last November. What many may not be aware of, was that a Canadian news team followed them around and documented what happened on their quest to awaken people in the township of Warwick, and finally approached the Warwick headquarters and asked to speak to a member of the Governing Body [the top religious rulers of the JWs]. Of course, when they approached the guards at the compound gates, the police were summoned and the ex-JWs holding up signs and banners, had to congregate on the opposite side of the street from the actual compound because a guard at the gate stated that it was "private property".

The Canadian news team has released their four-part video series exposing the JWs for allegedly having a long history of covering up sexual abuse against minors and revealed the truth behind those Watch Tower walls at Warwick, that they are simply hiding behind a few scriptures so they don't have to deal with sexual predators within the congregations worldwide. If they are forced into the court system, the Watch Tower attorneys have a history of simply paying victims to go away and placing a gag order on all parties in the case, so nothing can be revealed in the press about the details of the matter.

As many of us who were born and raised in the JW organization, we know first hand that they throw the burden upon the members themselves, upon the victims, when dealing with any abuse and must suffer in silence. They tell victims to read a few benign Watchtower-published materials, or face being evicted and labeled as a trouble maker if you speak up and go to the Elders in the congregation and reveal what happened. Many victims are often forced to leave not only their own congregation, but the religious movement, since the alleged perpetrators rarely if ever are removed from the congregation. The victims have to run and hide and feel ashamed, while the alleged perpetrator can continue to be welcomed in the congregation. Sometimes, a perpetrator may confess, so what, they may be on what's called restriction for a short time, not able to engage in the door-to-door ministry work, or have duties within the congregation. All this is temporary, and they can be restored to having all their privileges back while the victim is there suffering in silence, and this is especially dangerous when the victim is their own child. The abuse will never stop.

There is no justice for the children inside the walls of the Kingdom Halls, masonic halls of injustice, non-Christian halls of stoic men and women who have their personalities and basic human emotions stripped from them as their God Jehovah demands that they be silent when facing crimes against minors. Even adult victims of abuse must suffer in silence, never taking that abuser to court unless the victim wants to be shunned and ousted from their congregation, and even from the religion itself.

I hope you take the time to click on the link below and watch this incredible broadcast from Canada about the JWs and their two-witness rule.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/sex-abuse-survivors-allege-coverup-by-jehovah-s-witnesses-for-failing-to-report-assaults-1.3854274

To see the series as one video without commercials, you may access it here at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjatriVR0aQ

If you have suffered inside those Kingdom Halls and were abused, no matter if it was yesterday or 50 years ago, talk with a trusted non-JW friend, a non-JW relative, a counselor, your teacher, a supervisor at work, look online at various associations in your city and talk with someone. Many therapists offer low cost counseling services and it helps to just talk about it. No one is forcing you to speak publicly. You don't have to do a YouTube video, nothing is required. It is just helpful to talk to a licensed therapist, a physician, and perhaps when you are ready, you can take that next step and seek legal advice on how to proceed with bringing to justice the person(s) who victimized you. It is never to late to be happy. Your life is yours to live and you cannot be afraid of some God called Jehovah. No loving God will destroy you for seeking truth, justice, wisdom, and love. I hope that you can and will find the courage to take one small step and reach out and share your story with a friend, and perhaps it can lead you to finding lasting personal peace and happiness.

#jehovahswitnesses  #jw.org

#twowitnesses

#watchtower

JW Community Podcast

I have just become aware of a podcast called the JW Community Podcast and it is very informative and I thought I would share a link here. It was a link from a Facebook group by Alexandra James, who also has a website called JWvictims.org.

https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraAllTheJames

https://simplecast.com/s/672a9b35

All of us have a voice now, whether you are still a Jehovah's Witness (JW) or are trying to escape from its controlling clutches and move on with your own life path. However, please do not feel you need to do any one specific thing once you decide to walk away from the JWs. My outlet is blogging and I enjoy it. I also put my words into a book and provide personal information to those curious about what it's like being raised as a JW and features talking points on dealing with that JW who may be in your life.

I believe that expressing yourself in some way can greatly help you transition away from the JW organization and I have provided many suggestions here on this blog. How about writing a journal or keeping a diary of your exit process from the JWs? Write down your feelings, your thoughts, and even think about what help you may need. Do not feel ashamed to consult a licensed therapist or psychiatrist to help you with your exit journey. Think about joining an exercise group, maybe taking a course in nutrition, or think about how you can focus on your career goals to help to ensure you have a solid foundation in order to successfully build a life outside of the JW community.

Some people enjoy oral communication or social media, that's fine, but never feel pressured you have to do anything publicly. Go inside yourself first and find out who you are. The Watch Tower corporation has kept that secret person inside of you suppressed as if it is something bad. Your heartfelt desires are not inherently bad or wrong, but should be delved into to see the person you are inside. Did you love art, painting, or athletics? Are you confused about religion? How about taking a course at your local college or delving into various non-JW sites to start your research, not only about the JW religion, but religion in general. How about your spiritual journey?  Think about how religion and spirituality are two different things. How about your work? Are you doing what makes you content and can help you prosper in life? Think about these questions and remember, there is no rush in all this. Recover at your own pace and do not always look for someone else to lead you away from the Watch Tower, you can do it yourself and hopefully a few of us ex-JWs can help you along your journey.

#donotlookforfaithingroups

#beyourownsavior

It's Sad When They Leave

Yes, very sad, but leave what? The Truth? That is the term indoctrinated Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) say when people leave their religion for good, and never wish to return. Such is apparently the case with a recent murder/suicide that is in the press right now, about a woman and her family who were former JWs and tried to start a life away from that Truth. The JW Truth is that God will bring about an earthly paradise before the generation of 1914 have died. That is, the people who were of a certain age to understand the teachings of the JWs around that 1914 date, so yes, those people are long dead and no Kingdom of God has been established here on earth.

The JW organization has no power to bring about any Godly Kingdom on earth and no power to either take your hope of an eternal life or grant you eternal life, yet that is the lofty position their leadership place themselves. It is a fantasy they sell and it is all about selling and marketing their unique belief system while pushing their agenda of gaining massive wealth and working with world leaders to keep that wealth. You see, you cannot store up treasures here on earth, only the JW leadership are allowed to do that. 

I have not researched how many JW-related suicides there have been since it is too sad for me to do that. I really don't want to know. As readers of this blog may remember, my cousin committed suicide last May on the opening day of his regional convention while his JW wife was in attendance only to come home to find him laying on the floor having taken his own life. Oh well, tsk, tsk. She was told that it is up to Jehovah whether or not he will be resurrected in that JW paradise on earth. Suddenly, a life sacrificed to that bloodthirsty God Jehovah might get him a free ticket into that paradise. It is a warped viewpoint the JWs have, and some get caught up in that thinking and can't free themselves.

Reference the blog entry:
  http://exjwquietactivism.blogspot.com/2017/06/dont-give-up.html

My cousin was born and raised in the JW Society like I was and we were very close as kids. My Aunt and Uncle had a beautiful sprawling ranch house and huge garden and I spent most of my summers with them. I have only good memories of my cousin. He was outgoing, funny, and was artistic, and even had a book published many years ago which was part of the reason I wanted my book published. I wanted my story told since the JWs keep us silent for so many years while inside the organization. I wanted to share my experiences with people who probably have no clue what the JWs are really like, and what a torturous existence it is for us kids growing up as a JW. It warps your world view and perhaps we never fully recover since it's all we knew since birth, just the teachings and constant badgering rhetoric from the JW published literature we were to read and recite back its words at all the meetings each week.

My cousin spent several years at the Watchtower farms in New York as part of his voluntary Bethel service and at its headquarters in Brooklyn. When he came back home, he was appointed as an Elder in his congregation. He married and had no children. I had no idea until after he committed suicide, that he began waking up the same time I did and was struggling to leave "The Truth". I wish I had not lost contact with him as I think maybe we could have helped each other. He was eventually deleted as an Elder and became inactive and depressed, and well, decided somehow that taking his own life was an answer to a question that only he knew.

If you are struggling to leave the JW organization, do not hesitate to reach out to a non-JW friend at work, maybe a non-JW relative, or even seek out a licensed counselor or therapist and describe how you are feeling.

I started with the self-help route and sought out an ex-JW on YouTube named Gordon Smith-Duran. His video link is in the footer of this blog. He not only helps people leaving the JWs, but he is an excellent example of someone who has successfully moved on from the organization, and moved on from obsessing about its ever-changing doctrines and policies, and developed a life free from Watchtower. He is a hypnotherapist, English and Spanish teacher, tutor, and his wife [who has never been a JW] have both formed a successful business in Spain. 

It's easy to say but difficult to do, but you can do it - what? Move away from the JWs. Stop following their every move or watching all of their videos that are shown at their regional conventions. You know whatever they have to say, is the same old rhetoric designed to instill fear and loathing of the world and be afraid of everything with only the JW Governing Body having power over life and death. They are just mortal men getting rich off of your fear and wanting to watch their every move. Nope, you can move on from that. You are stronger than you think you are.

Sometimes physically changing where you live is a major help in leaving the JWs. Literally figuring out where you want to go next will help clear your mind of the JWs' useless teachings, and start fresh in a new town, new country, learn a new language, anything you want to do is open to you now. You do not need to provide any explanation to any JW about why you left. Wait until you are ready to express yourself. You can simply say that it was no longer your Truth, that life is an open ended question, and having new, positive experiences is how we grow into reliable and healthy human beings, mentally, spiritually, and physically. Don't be afraid of religion. Don't think you have to dump God or be afraid to walk into any church. On the other hand, don't think you have to join anything, there are no rules when it comes to what you want to research about this life and if there is an afterlife beyond the grave. Many ex-JWs become atheist because that is their JW programming. JWs' believe that this life is all there is, that when you die, you are gone forever, that is, if you are not a baptized and active recruiter for the JW organization. So many fall into atheism since they think there is no hope for them when they leave the Watchtower corporation and they basically hate all religion and hate God.

Becoming a spiritual person is not anything to look down on. Spirituality and religion are two different things. Maybe that is a place you can start on your journey to free yourself from JW indoctrination. Never give up on your quest for knowledge, that is the key to happiness and it is available to all of us.

#freeyourself  #beyourownhealer #healyourself
#LaurenStuart  #shunning #JW 

Speaking Out

Some ex-Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) might be feeling pressured to speak out publicly against the JW religion, whether they were evicted via disfellowshipping or walked away from the organization after becoming inactive in their congregation and are known as a "fader". 

May I suggest that you distance yourself from people who are pressuring you into any one direction. Sometimes when you initially decide to never return to the JW organization, you feel very emotional and may want to lash out at someone and feel you need to take some sort of public action. Please know that you do not owe anyone anything, you do not even owe anyone an explanation as to your personal reasons for leaving the JW organization. If you were disfellowshipped for committing some action that was deemed a crime by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, you do not have to share that with anyone. Once you are disfellowshipped or you walked away never to return, that ended your baptismal contract with the organization. Yes, some choose to return because they want to have contact with JW friends and family and that is a personal decision. However, by staying in the organization, a person would have to face the fact they are still supporting their edicts, policies, and tenets, many of which involve letting loved ones die for refusing potentially life-saving medical procedures involving blood or blood products. Many of the JWs' policies support alleged perpetrators of abuse, whether it be against a spouse or a child and place the blame and responsibility on victims to either keep silent, or leave the organization and seek help from law enforcement and other governmental authorities deemed as coming from "Satan's world". However, again, these are personal choices. I could not stay and support a religion that has these abhorrent policies. Just by sitting in a Kingdom Hall, you are showing your support for this destructive religion even if you stopped supporting them monetarily, you are still supporting them by your presence which is something each person needs to think about.

If you are like me and faded from your JW congregation and have decided to never return, I was silent with everyone including my own family members. I simply said it is no longer my truth and left it at that. No JW Elders hunted me down or wanted a firm decision so they could mark me as an "apostate" or to force me into writing a disassociation letter, I wasn't important to the congregation being a single woman, we are at the lowest level of the pyramid. I simply left and never returned and eventually moved out of the area of my congregation and never reconnected with the congregation in my new town. I am here to encourage ex-JWs to not do anything rash when you first leave the organization. After some time, you may want to engage in some sort of anti-JW activism, whether that is talking to people at work, your relatives who may or may not be active JWs, or blogging about your own personal experiences as a JW to help others to see what the religion is really all about. If you feel like setting up a YouTube channel, you must deal with the repercussions of going into the public arena and may face criticism. But again, do not feel pressured to do any sort of public anti-JW activism.

The most important step is to first think about your own recovery from the damaging mind-controlled JW religious group and then think about if you want to engage in any sort of activism. It can be therapeutic for yourself, to share your experiences with like-minded people. But don't be forced into anything or feel inferior simply because you choose to stay quiet. 

Facing the fact that the Watch Tower corporation isn't going anywhere anytime soon with or without us so-called "activists" whether we are quiet or very loud about expressing our opinions, can help you in your decision on whether or not you want to engage in anti-JW activism. I don't say this to discourage anyone, but you've got to face reality. Even the richest people on this earth suffer heartache, loss, depression and setbacks and you are no different whether you were born in the JW organization or not, or whether you joined later and have now left. Think about healing and recovery before you go out and face the dragon, perhaps alone and unarmed.

At the end of the day, you've
got to look in that mirror and
be okay with where you are in life.

It is your personal journey to freedom that is important. Start looking at paving your own way in this life. Your happiness comes first but not at the cost of berating others, even current and active JWs have a right to stay in the religion. Turning your focus forward and not looking back at the JW religion or the people who choose to stay, is what will eventually reduce the power and influence of the JW organization. The more people who have the courage to walk out of those Kingdom Halls and never return, are the ones that have a strong impact on those still sitting there who wonder if they are in the right place after all. Your simply walking away might be that one action that will wake people up in your congregation.

Any activism you choose is to benefit yourself and your healing process. Do not think the Watch Tower corporation is going away for good, they are too wealthy for that. Even if their entire membership left today, they can survive on mountains of cash carefully invested in various banks around the globe. They will not suffer, but you will if you don't start planning your escape and think about making a life for yourself and your family right now.

#exjw  #jehovahswitnesses
#jwactivism #freedomfromwatchtower