Interview With Ex-Jehovah's Witness Jennifer on Women In Religion, Psychedelics and Healing 🍄

Jennifer was a Jehovah's Witness for over 20 years and is speaking out against the organization after leaving. Her focus is on women’s experiences and healing after leaving high control patriarchal religion. We will be discussing psychedelics as well.
Jennifer's channel: / @notyourvessel
Jennifer's Twitter: / notyourvessel
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[@ComboBreakerHD]

This is amazing, two of my favourite people, from polar opposite cultures, coming together to show that in fact similarities do exist in the dogma and oppressive tendencies to keep followers locked in. @notyourvessel is 100% worth following on Twitter.

[@theconservativeoutlet3581]

As a Christian, I would love to have a conversation with Sameer!

[@AbdullahSameerVideos]

Email me at [e-mail].

[@worshipperofallah1]

@@AbdullahSameerVideos. Tell your Best Friend Buddy Apostate Prophet to unblock me on Twitter.

[@stefan3779]

I was raised halfway in that crap and then hopped to Islam as an adult. At this point I am pretty agnostic safe to say

[@Marina-gz2xv]

Thank you for this thought- provoking interview 👍

[@Sixtra]

Interesting to see how you are doing interviews with people who come from different religions 👍 Especially since the USA have the most extreme branches of Christianity in the world(in my opinion).

[@tool1gt]

I studied the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses but could not move to become baptized. I am agnostic but I now use some of that knowledge to poke holes into theological concepts such as the Trinity.

[@bandygamy5898]

The JWs have their own translation which intentionally switches the names for Jesus to Jehovah in the Epistles. Look at any other English translation other than the JW one and you see that Jesus is literally called God several times. Look at the process of translating the Koine Greek in NT. The divinity of Christ is explicit all over the place. So I would take JW refutations of the Trinity with a grain of salt..

[@bandygamy5898]

When the NT is describing Jesus as God, JW changed it to be about "Jehovah".

[@tool1gt]

​@@bandygamy5898 I disagree. You may not have done your research well enough to make such a statement. It is a well-established fact that Jehovah is God's name in both the Old and New Testament. Wherever you see the words LORD and GOD in uppercase, that is where the name YHWH appears in the original texts. The Tetragrammaton appears over 6000 times in the Hebrew scriptures alone, more than any other name (although no one knows the correct pronunciation, Jehovah/Yahovah/Yehovah). Don't take my word for it, feel free to google and consult non-JW sources. What Jehovah's Witnesses attempted to do was to restore the name by replacing LORD and GOD with Jehovah in their translation. Many translations have retained LORD and GOD in uppercase, others not. Oh and I don't ever use their translation when putting forward any arguments against the concept of the Trinity ✌

[@thedave9749]

Harm full what does it mean

[@patricia93567]

JW in pandemic times are now calling randomly. One keep calling for me saying that want make a bible study with me. I don't want sound rude, so I keep listening her.

[@AbdullahSameerVideos]

lol

[@patricia93567]

@Esben M I realize for the voice that it's a old lady. It's funny that she compared Jehovah witnesses with the Noah. She said:" Everybody mocked Noah, but nobody listened to them. But look what happened with them". I need to say to her that I would never convert because of the blood transfusion. My mom had leukemia and I almost lost her. 3 blood transfusions were very important in her recovery.

[@ambassadorkees]

It's OK to listen to different views, to be informed. But it isn't rude to choose whether you want to be indoctrinated or not.

[@worshipperofallah1]

@@AbdullahSameerVideos. Tell your Friend Ridvan Aydemir to unblock me on Twitter.

[@faithreasons3041]

@Patricia: If you are not interested then just politely say so. If you show interest and consent for this person to contact you, well of course they will call back. You consented by giving this person your number. JW are well known for carrying out the Great Commission. They continue to reach out to their communities at this difficult time. During pandemic JWs are not calling at people’s homes. So no one should be getting a home visit from a JW unless it is to render some aid to a person in urgent need.

[@Unpopular0pinion]

I was raised as JW and taught the "weaker vessel" term refers to the fact women generally aren't as physically strong as men.

[@NotYourVessel]

That is implied in the scripture but when you add further context of the man being the head because women aren’t qualified to have their own autonomy or any real voice or authority in the church it colors in the lines of the layers of indoctrination for me.

[@allahisoneministry83]

Scientifically speaking, thats true.

[@Unpopular0pinion]

@@allahisoneministry83 I know it's true, which is it why it might be a bit perplexing for people who read the title "Not the Weaker Vessel" because it seems like a bit of fact/science denial. But as Jennifer said above, she's applied her own additional interpretation of the term, and that's what she's arguing against when she says women are "not the weaker vessel". I'm not exactly sure, but I think "strawman" is the correct name for that kind of argument since that exact phrase actually isn't referring to morality at all.

[@jaall7280]

Amazing live!!!

[@kunalgupta6402]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZzHZ5R4g8ecj9U

[@allahisoneministry83]

@@kunalgupta6402 What's with the link?

[@ambassadorkees]

"Evangelicals" preaching hell because of listening to certain music? They lost the Evangelon, the Gospel! That's not how I live, teach or was taught as an evangelical.

[@NotYourVessel]

That’s great. The thing about christians in general is they all believe different things and interpret things different. You certainly still believe everyone not saved by will burn in hell. My pregnancy outside of wedlock would have qualified.

[@ambassadorkees]

@@NotYourVessel Jesus said to the adulteress: I will not judge you. The only sin that might see you wind up in hell is unbelief. Wedlock, murder, theft, greed... All can be forgiven and covered by the blood of Jesus. Sorry that you've been treated so unlovingly.

[@NotYourVessel]

@@ambassadorkees unbelief is punishable by hell. Wow. Sounds so just and loving given the fact that the only proof is faith and you get a leg up if you happen to be raised with indoctrinated parents.

[@ambassadorkees]

@@NotYourVessel I see the other perspective. Don't concentrate on hell but on Jesus. I'm not looking for the punishment, but for the relation & salvation. And that includes salvation from my own egoistic nature. With your experience in JW and whatever church you frequented, I understand that you focus on the negative. So sorry.

[@allahisoneministry83]

@@NotYourVessel Ignore him, you go to hell only if you don't believe in Islam.

[@bandygamy5898]

The Ahmadiyyans are like the Mormons of Islam. The JWs would be like a new movement of Qur'anists who have reinterpret Mohammed to be the Angel Michael disguised as a human and that Allah is the wrong name for God.

[@lj6754]

God didn't give us our tendency. Sin has created the people we are

[@bombazine2]

Sounds like she has filling her religious shaped hole with a new religion, wokeism

[@AbdullahSameerVideos]

How is that? What did she say that was so woke?

[@allahisoneministry83]

True.

[@bombazine2]

@@AbdullahSameerVideos 7:16 identity politics, where everything is seen through the lens of power and oppression and no one has any personal responsibility.

[@dis_appointed8626]

@@bombazine2 but isnt it true, that black people are quite sometimes wrongfully racially profiled. ex the floyd case?

[@bombazine2]

@@dis_appointed8626 yes it is true. I never said racism doesn't exist. Also using George Floyd as an example of "wrongful racial profiling" was a bad example as he was a multiple convicted criminal.

[@rajivverma377]

There is some thing mentioned by one person osho on christianity---> What exists in the name of Christianity I have always called Crossianity. It is the worship of the cross, not of Christ. It is fear of death, not love of life. Just take a few things out of the life of Jesus and Christianity disappears. If he is not crucified can there be a Christianity? Jesus is not important; what is important is crucifixion.” Osho

[@fvillag1]

You are so wrong.

[@grahamashe9715]

Most Muslims worldwide take the daily prayers seriously. Maybe the liberal Western ones don’t but there’s no confusion in Islam about the prayers being unquestionably compulsory. No discussion. No debate. It’s crystal clear. Anyone claiming to be a Muslim but not doing the prayers is knowingly committing grave sins.

[@alfredagreen336]

Child abuse happens in all religions? Evil happens no matter what religions you are? Respectfully!

[@freyast2213]

War & being politically neutral has nothing to do with why JW’s aren’t Christian. This girl doesn’t seem to understand or maybe later she’s going to confirm. The main reason is the trinity, JW’s don’t believe in it.

[@ji7953]

Straw-manning WT positions is tasteless.

[@alfredagreen336]

God gives us a choice, just like we have a choice to get fat by using a fork or spoon to overeat....blaming God for the ;gun analysis; ain't smart...

[@John-qo6fs]

Though I respect Jennifer and her choice about his life style but there was nothing to complain against JW because each group of association has its own standards and reservations to keep their community out of trouble and healthy.

[@mittwochxiv.9770]

There is lots to complain about. Most JWs are baptized as kids, when they're not in a position to decide if they want to be in that religion for their whole life. Maybe they do it to please their parents. If they change their outlook on life, their own parents have to stop association with them. How is that harmless and a valid way to structure a society?

[@John-qo6fs]

@@mittwochxiv.9770 Dear friends you are absolutely right in your case but here is my story and thousands of others. I have three daughters 21, 19 and 10 and the only the baptized is the one who is 19 with her own choice. We never told her to get baptize and never going to force the other two to get baptize until they have their own conviction to do so. Same went to me as I am not a born one of Jehovah's Witness. Though I respect personal choice about life style and beliefs but as a parent it should concern me something we believe is going to harm our children. I am never gonna leave my kids no matter what choice they make but yes I do not have to start following or liking if they chose something goes against our beliefs. Every association or class on this earth has some set of rules approved and consent by the group and so do have Jehovah's witnesses what is wrong with it. Jehovah's Witnesses never threaten or kill their children or siblings if they chose some other life style.

[@mittwochxiv.9770]

@@John-qo6fs I have never been a Jehovas Wittness, I have relatives in the organization. But even if I knew nobody from that background, I would find the act of breaking off communication with your family member after they left the religion highly questionable. There are cases when I'd consider it appalling, if the kid got baptized quite young, but even if it was a conscious decision, regardless of age I don't think it is normal. I would not compare such a thing with murder of apostates, but comparing it to distancing yourself for personal reasons is not fitting either. It is mandated after all. Does not matter who does it - any group mandating the breaking off of all contact with a family member for any reason has lost respect with me.

[@John-qo6fs]

@@mittwochxiv.9770 Dear friend, I am have been a part of this association of Jehovah's Witnesses since 23 years or more but have not heard so far that you have to stop communication with your family member even husband or wife. It is simply an exageration which I think is unfair. You know in our personal life we sometime do not talk with a friend, husband, wife or father for some reason. Originally I am from Pakistan and now living in USA and I do not see any problem. My parents, brother and sisters are not Jehovah's witnesses and I have been supporting them emotionally and financially in every matter and never forced them to join me by changing their beliefs and they are so happy with me and so I am. My in-laws are not Jehovah's Witnesses and believe we do not have any issue.

[@mittwochxiv.9770]

@@John-qo6fs I agree with everything, except that there is no ruling about shunning your relatives. I have a link to a video of a convention talk in 2016 that mentions it clearly. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKe5iX-KdqqDoKc . I have also never heard that husbands and wives had to seperate for shunning reasons, but the video will show you that parent-children relationships are broken up by this policy.

[@Witnessmoo]

Oh o... blue hair indicated crazy

[@AbdullahSameerVideos]

Judging a book by the cover I see

[@dorarie3167]

A young woman with dyed hair is now crazy? You need to open your mind and listen to her, not merely judge her based on her appearance. Personally, I think it’s a good look on her. It makes her happy so why not?

[@allahisoneministry83]

LOL!🤣🤣 So F;$#king true.

[@dis_appointed8626]

when you can't pinpoint objectively what really was crazy, you turn to name calling based on superficial things. what a shame

[@davidcopperfield9081]

@@AbdullahSameerVideos these Jehovah’s Witness used to come to us all the time. I was a Muslim at that time. These guys in suits and ties reminded me of my cousins in Tableeghi jamats. 🤔

[@ambassadorkees]

10:07 "Everyone needs that fear factor to keep people in" Wrong again. Not sure which church you grew up in, but my faith is based upon a POSITIVE relationship with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and my "neighbors", all about a good life now and ever after. It is possible to go for the good without having to concentrate on fear of the opposite. Just think of taking care of your kids. You don't constantly fear what will become of them if you don't take care. You simply do what you do out of love.

[@NotYourVessel]

Great again, but pretending you don’t believe he’ll is an appropriate punishment for anyone outside your religion is dishonest.

[@ak4j247]

@@NotYourVessel im sure that's not what the comment says. So sorry you've had to endure the JW cult for so long. I'd definitely recommend finding REAL Christianity and abandon the horrible experience you've had.

[@ambassadorkees]

@@NotYourVessel Hell or as Jesus depicts it: "outside, where there is weeping and grinding of teeth" I believe to be true, but acc to Genesis not a place that God created: He made heaven and earth. When reading, Jesus doesn't threaten anyone with hell, but mentions it as the place for those that will not listen to him, more or less casual as a simple fact, not a threat. I believe our preaching and upbringing shall concentrate on the bulk: Follow Jesus. I never threatened my kids with hell, never told them "this is forbidden"but did and will point out which choices for a Christian better and which less. Without strictly forbidding.

[@allahisoneministry83]

@@ak4j247 But, it kinda is. I am not saying it is like mainstream Christianity but JW (organisation) has a firm grip on the Bible which is the same book. Ask yourself where did such doctrine get its influence?

[@allahisoneministry83]

@@ambassadorkees Will I go to your hell? I am Muslim