Jehovah's Witnesses: How Our Family Faded from the Watchtower

[@leannhelling3060]

Wow 😮I was a born in JW. Woke up left and got my husband out during Covid. I got 5 secular degrees before I left. I finally left in 2015. We married when I was 25, and he was 28. I just did not like the culture in JW. So much hate and not Love. I had four kids and all are out.

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

Woke up to which way between this 2 Mathew 7:13-14????????

[@WJTM88]

You and so many others of us.

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

@@WJTM88 So Jesus christ sent churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses???????????

[@Nica-Ra-Wata]

You are a genius. 💡

[@ianpuddick]

So glad they are free (& that Lady C & JT are free as they make the best videos 👍x)

[@1lebero]

"It's much easier to fool a man than to try and convince a man he's been fooled"- Will Rodgers

[@ready2danceagain]

How true!

[@beautifulbutterflyLove]

💯

[@edgarvazquez4728]

​@@ready2danceagain p

[@darrengreen9273]

I just love these ex JW interviews. One day I’ll probably tell my 5 year stint as a JW. When I left I was a full time pioneer and a ministerial servant.

[@annabizaro-doo-dah]

You should! Especially if you were a convert we don't hear enough convert voices.

[@beautyRest1]

Please do, we want to hear it!!!

[@creativestudio-101]

Would love to hear your experience.

[@bgramirez966]

The one thing I hated when I was a JW is the issue of non privacy if I had a personal issue like a health issue everyone in the congregations had to know about it too, there's no such thing as personal privacy inside it's crazy

[@charrua59]

Yeah but it's not really the organization. It's the people in congregations that attend meetings but don't care to apply what they learn. Cause there been articles about not to gossip regularly in watchtower magazines

[@jbone2345]

💯💯💯

[@beautifulbutterflyLove]

@@charrua59 there used to be articles about love, respect, protecting children, and the narssicistic Watchtower governing body doesn't even follow that, so it is the organization....just sayin'

[@charrua59]

@@beautifulbutterflyLove I agree if members of organisation don't follow biblical teachings, sooner or later whole organisation most be removed

[@watchandjewelryloft4713]

​@@charrua59 They override that with their "loving care" excuse. They'll define gossip when it's convenient for them.

[@gildedingold]

You guys are doing such a great job! I was born in the Org. In the late 50s. I saw how the Witnesses treated my aunt at my grandma's funeral. Her 5 year old daughter was being molested by her husband in the late 70s. She was a regular full time pioneer. She reported this to the elders and they refused to believe her. She was so upset, she wrote a letter asking to be disassociated. They df'd her. I later started fading. I took my 5 year old daughter with me to the Sunday meeting. The Watchtower article was "You will know them by their love". I took a highlighter. Highlighted the heading, circled it, laid it on the seat, leaving it. Grabbed my daughter in the middle of the meeting and left and never went back.

[@hellooutthere8956]

Everybody give a thumbs up.

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

Jesus christ sent churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses?????????

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Thx

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

@@ExJWCriticalThinker Meaning all of you don't know the answers 🤣😂😅, Jesus christ sent churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses??????????

[@JVM-dc6lj]

My wife and I left in 2018. She was a JW since 8 yrs old, I became a witness when I was 33. So, we had two different paths to the organization and thankfully we are on the same path out!

[@pauldaignault7407]

Prior to joining the Witnesses I didn’t really know hate. I had my likes and dislikes, but not hate. All that I heard about with the Witnesses was that we had to have a hate for most things. There was no middle ground. Even for people and things that I had very little personal knowledge I was told that we had to have hate as that is what Witnesses must have. They talk about love, but hate prevails. Thank goodness that is all behind me.

[@beautifulbutterflyLove]

This organization is so cruel it's shameful! Yes thank goodness you are out!

[@LJDavisfamily6]

So true

[@pocahontas4583]

After being away for over a decade and going back to check out some meetings I noticed most of the talks are about how other religions are bad/wrong and how we should reject “the world”. I have kids and almost cringed listening and worried what they thought. It’s like, if you’re so much better than the other religions, teach me about why you’re better. I’m not learning anything just hearing how bad everyone else supposedly is. You don’t realize how bad it sounds when you’re hearing it your whole life since childhood.

[@Peter1Edwards]

I learned from an early age to say 'The meetings were amazing and so nourishing' after I made the mistake of once telling the truth and saying 'It was the same old... nothing new'. Nearly got a whupping for telling the truth.

[@jbone2345]

That is so true about field service. I found out early on nobody cares about bringing in new converts, field service is gossip time!

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Too funny

[@robthames5065]

That and finding the nearest Mickey D’s to spend the last hour and a half of field service before all the pioneers met back at the Hall for afternoon “service.”

[@ashapttc6500]

I could say SO MUCH…but to summarize, I was born in, I’m 31 now…my mom told me I would cry every time I came in as a baby…I realized at age 19-20 from my boyfriend at the time who came with us to a convention (who wasn’t approved of by my father and stepmom) from a simple question that made me really think…he asked “if this is a Bible, why doesn’t it say Bible on it”…that was the start of my journey…even though I ALWAYS had a feeling it wasn’t right…I remembered asking my dad (around age 10) why is it only jehovahs witnesses that will make it in the end? even if someone reads their Bible daily and practices everything they can, just like us, they won’t make it just because they’re not a Jehovah’s Witness?…he didn’t have an answer for me…also him and my stepmom were shunned at one point…it was traumatizing..it never made sense how their longtime friends could do that to them for 1 mistake and also to us as his children…even though I’m thankful I never practiced and gotten used to the pagan holidays, I always knew SOMETHING was wrong with JWs…

[@mattmurdock2868]

Here is something you won't learn at Watchtower...this will never be "new light." Christ has set us free from religious superstition. "So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths," Col.2:16 This includes birthdays and cake, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving... And all the festive food and drink that accompany. Freedom in Christ. Bondage in Watchtower.

[@shaesmith9940]

Was a born in also. Never baptised, @ 12, missed some of the baptismal ?'s & too embarrassed to try again. Thot I 'd try again but statement added about giving society dibs that thru them I give Sovereign worship to them as well.... that was Las straw Didn't like the cliques. Didn't like how scriptures were used for their twisted talk interpretations At 15 Asked how can mere man know when the end would come when Jesus stated even He didn't know? That was it for me. I want to be around humble, kind people who have a healthy fear of Jehovah.

[@pocahontas4583]

I remember my mom saying someone they studied with asked the same question and another sister told her yes they’ll be destroyed if they’re not JW and the lady stopped studying. My mom wasn’t perfect but even she didn’t agree with that and said many times JWs are NOT the only ones that will be saved. I’ve always felt that too. I think there’s good and bad in every church and religion including JWs. If there’s saving to be done, I think it’s going to be tied to that individual, their heart condition and good or bad works throughout their life and not what religious group they claim. I’ve met more loving “worldly” people than JWs in my lifetime.

[@DianePantig]

Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate Christmas and Easter because these practices come from pagan nations.However they celebrate weddings.wedding showers and baby showers.All of these also come from pagan customs.Their leaders pick and choose what they can and cannot do and then change their minds as the years go by.

[@broncosbest6441]

There was a “pioneer sister” who every few months used to comment in the watchtower about her friend saying she didn’t care if it’s the truth or not it’s the best life. She made the same comment at least 3 times a year. The motive that drive a lot of JWs are the social relationships not belief in their teachings. That’s why shunning is so important to the org they are fully aware that if those social relationships were preserved only 20% of JWs would be left. So many great points in this fantastic interview!

[@broncosbest6441]

@@JustDeannaJune All the best to you and your family from the U.K. 🇬🇧

[@robertgrey6101]

@Broncos Best So true !! Association is they key. Shunning would be so embarrassing for a lot of devout worshippers of this mob.

[@catballou5384]

This just opened up a whole new avenue of conversation.

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Glad to hear

[@deejay1216]

Yes, so true! I love this approach!!👍

[@pacificnw5394]

I loved Jared's closing remarks about making a new life after JW. There ARE a lot of wonderful people in the world. I was pimo all my life, but started extracating myself in my 20s and I made wonderful, lifelong friends during that time. Primarily I really started making friends at work and then went from there, although I always got along well with "worldly" people. In my mid to late 30s, I decided that I wanted to explore the possibility of having a specific faith, based on my own choices. I started going to church (and I am a much happier person now) and then I really learned how many lies I was told about "false religion" or the people that attend other religious services. Now I'm almost 50 and I'm very comfortable with who I am as a person. I will say that people I grew up with that are just now coming out I often see go from one extreme to the next and its understandable but try not to do that, like Jared said. I recently had contact with a newly out of the organization person who was really trying to push her newfound life choices on me, which I've already been through some of those choices and have moved on from them, I told her "You can take the girl out of the JW......." It was hard for me too because she had previously been very judgemental toward me, but now that SHE'S figured out it's a cult, it's officially ok to be out, and she blasts her family on social media for shunning her. If I'm being honest, I am really happy she's out, but I struggle to be sympathetic to the shunning situation.

[@CollinZaffke]

"As you move up the chain you have to keep convincing yourself it's the truth" damn JT, that's the most truth I've ever heard 🤯

[@annafarago6527]

Great interview. Jared and June are so fortunate to have woken up as a family. Wishing you all a wonderful new life with new found friends.

[@toomyconne768]

I starting waking up before covid but when covid hit and they cancelled in person meetings that was the best thing ever! Never went back lol

[@deejay1216]

We didn’t go back either!! 😂😂 Covid was a blessing in disguise👍!

[@reneesmith8488]

Yes , Covid really helped me stop giving af lol. I no longer felt guilty for fading and it's the best feeling ever!!

[@JoelPierce-q4x]

Same here lol 😆 I quit when covid hit and it's been almost 4 and a half years now 😅

[@ladyangi100]

Wonderful interview. Such common situations. Thank you Jared & June. Thank you JT & Lady C

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@SunguchMan20]

Thank you June and Jared for sharing your story. And thank you Critical Thinkers for providing this space. Hopefully one day we're as brave to tell you out stories. I strongly believe these life stories are waking people up every day. Keep it up!💪🏾😃

[@jtopdawg6]

What a beautiful story, and one that needed to be shared!

[@graciehart1001]

Fabulous video I love seeing families get out together 💗 I have 3kids still in they think I am but recently told my oldest boy who I thought May listen but he told the other two. I’m right in the thick of it today with an elder a family friend the kids have told him and I’m in the middle of a conversation with him now about csa. Great and timely advise to not bombard so I’m sticking with this one subject. The elder wanted me to meet up but with another brother I just said no I’m happy to chat with him that’s it. I was getting riled up, he has just threatened me with the loss of support from family and friends. It has taken me 3 years since my breakdown to get the courage to say anything and now I face being shunned but I knew that could and most likely would happen and it is. My daughter is sick with the stress of losing her mum I have reassured my kids that I still love and trust Jehovah ( 1John 4:8 god is love 💗 in my mind but their language is Jehovah so I use that name) just not men. I leave in two weeks I have my absolute dream job travelling around australia in my small camper van working in mental health with art for a year. My 1st stop was my daughter ( a 23hr drive) but she now doesn’t want me to come down 😢 I’ve prepared myself for this since I started waking up 10 years ago it’s only the last 3 years I’m truly awake almost a Pomo. This trip is all about healing I will be learning so much about healing myself and others id love to share my journey one day as my coworker and I will be recording journaling this journey. Thanks to your channel and many others for all your hard work 🫶🏼✌🏼💫💗 4 healing.h.arts keep an eye out for us 💗

[@mikedraper138]

@Graciepimo.. My heart goes out to you and your situation with family. All the best to you in your journey to total freedom!

[@akatheheretic3014]

Press those thumbnails folks ! 😊 👍(Like)

[@vusimngomezulu2500]

Jesus christ sent churches including exjws apostate to preach about the Jehovah's witnesses?????????

[@tamraholmes3082]

Excellent interview!!! Their story is relatable. There is life after this cult.

[@clarkgrayhame1250]

Wonderful interview. I left back in 2013 and stayed out for 5 years. My wife and kids would go hit and miss. I wound up coming back for the sake of my kids in 2018. I couldn't handle it anymore and used the pandemic to do it. I have been out for two years again but my wife and kids remain very active. I cannot discuss anything around them about it. I just have to leave it alone. I do wish for this family peace and that they continue to have peace.

[@dianekrstulovich2777]

Jack grey teaches patience is the key. See his book:. From fear to freedom Best wishes

[@SherylSheryl-b3z]

Clark Grayhame Even when my mother-in-law forced me to study to keep the family peace, she was telling me about a Sister, just about once a month that she knew, or who was in another congregation who had a nervous breakdown. I thought "What kind of a cockamamie group is this?" Even the first talk I didn't think this was group was that intelligent. Even the so called Elder businessmen. They would have immediately firgured out that Watchtower was a real estate free money, free labor, free cleaning and landscape maintenance business just using the "rank and file" as slaves.

[@SherylSheryl-b3z]

Clark Grayhame a bit of trivia. I was researching the musical group "The 5th Dimension" and one of their singers, Ron Townsend, it said became a Jehovah's Witness because his wife was one, and he did it to keep the family peace. He died of kidney failure in Las Vegas Nevada, which suggests to keep his mind, he may have drank the whole time.

[@reveyen4343]

I woke up and disassociated myself in 2019 but still believed in the future paradise then in 2020 during Covid I woke up a second time and I left religion alone.The truth is not easy to swallow. And once you’re awake you cannot go back to sleep. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have the second experience.

[@Mro-5]

What second experience did you have?

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Priceless quote I must use You can't go back to sleep Lol

[@Nica-Ra-Wata]

Relax, be brave. All is a huge lie in this plan the net or planet. All. Welcome to the rabbit HOLE. Israel is ISIS AMUNRA ELOHIM Egyptians wrote the bible or helios byblos or codex inscryptus and India Brahma is abraham Abrir is to open in latin and Spanish Abra ca da bra A,B,C,D April You pay taxes in April Open your glands Popeye is the penial gland Jacob saw god and named that place penial as in the penial gland or 3rd eye...DMT poped eye or popeye

[@reveyen4343]

@@Mro-5 Even though I was non longer a JW I did not believe in their doctrine anymore but I was still a true believer in the gospel. I had my second experience while reading the Bible. My plan was to read the entire Bible with an open mind… by the time I get to the story of David killing 200 men plus what he did to them afterwards…,it was over for me. It was not the first time I read that story but this time it was different…so I basically lost faith in the Bible while reading the Bible.

[@TierraLynn]

@@reveyen4343The same thing happened to me but my spidey senses started going off in the book of Genesis when God was WALKING

[@brucejones8047]

JT & Lady C: you're a class act. So are you June & Jared. Several steps above other interviewers/interviewees. No cursing and foul attitudes. Excellent! Excellent!

[@Hermwash1]

I certainly agree with that ❤

[@beautifulbutterflyLove]

Great episode Lady Cee and JT. Thanks June and Jared for sharing your family's experiences while being in the organization and after leaving. It's wonderful to see more proof that life after Watchtower can be amazing.

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@morgansams589]

June, you made a statement that made me call my sister immediately. I went from having all kinds of friends, to only a few who didn’t get me. We don’t need 150 real friends. Transitioning was difficult.

[@anonymousprofessor8866]

@@ExJWCriticalThinker JT & Lady C Breaking News about Norway if you're not aware SPREAD THE NEWS!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJ7VYnWnrKaNrdU No more Disfellowshipping in Norway?! by Goatlike Personality My thoughts below forgive me as its a little long. "This is actually huge because if Watchtower does indeed end the shunning policy in Norway, effective 2023. The question will be what about other countries with JWs around the world and it's impact? How can an organization have one set of policy in one country and another set of policy in another? This does not seem very harmonious per JWs claim of a harmonious world wide organization. Will Watchtower produce future alternative publications, talks and lessons in reference of shunning for Norway exclusive to the territory? If other countries are to keep the shunning policy. How will Watchtower move forward to hide Watchtower's comply with Norway's legislation? Can this spark the beginning of the end for Watchtower as they may have to globally change their shunning policy? Lastly, I detect inevitable New Light Coming! But is it from Jehovah God or The Norwegian Government?" Can you imagine arguing with JWs about what came 1st New Light from Jehovah (GB) or Norway

[@ShirleyShirley-t5f]

Twenty years in friendly community various halls, then moved, chose the nearness of meetings, but couldn’t fit in. Faded out. No one noticed two years ago. Freedom. Love it. 11:37

[@anthonywilks5695]

This is a great story. Thank you Jared, June. And of course, Lady Cee and JT. I have a nice that's in that horrible organization. I tried to talk to her, but she has been brainwashed. She said that Kingdom Hall brings Comfort to her. I never felt that type of comfort when I was there. I talked with a friend that's a Jehovah's Witness. And I told him all the great things that have been learning from Lady Cee & JT, concerning the truth behind the truth. He is not speaking to me now, but I don't care. The Kingdom Hall teaches about Babylon the Great, World Empire of false religion, but that's what the Kingdom Hall represent, is Babylon the great world Empire of false religion. That is a terrible place. It is really horrible. It's mine controlling, and Lowdown, rotten, and very evil. I thank God for Lady Cee and JT. If anyone should ever watch their program on KZbin, then their eyes will finally be open. I am free at last. Once again, I like to thank Lady Cee and JT, for their excellent, fabulous, and amazing program. Please never stop.

[@Goonapachamoothoo]

Mind controlling ? Are you not being controle by those fellow now ,youshould be happy to havebeing controled by the organisation of Jehovah s people cult .time will tell of your present marching marching.

[@MrAllstate2011]

Lady Cee and JT, thank you so much. You guys literally saved my life.

[@ladyhollman9534]

Excellent how they remained focused as a family.

[@angelatabbs2567]

Another amazing interview. Thank you all!!

[@lynnwilson6893]

I knew this was going to be a great interview. Thanks for posting this!!!

[@K-Fred]

Excellent guests Jared and June. Thanks Lady Cee and JT.

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Thx

[@richardlee2642]

If you have a chance, watch their videos! June (Just June) interviews her family members.

[@ckelly5141]

Really interesting interview. Love the dialogue. Can relate to some of what Jared went through. So glad you said that about being a total believer June(my wife is very much the same as you were). I left in 2020 by myself. I’m really hoping that my wife and kids will wake up sometime in the future. Time will tell. Jared and June; you are a lovely couple.

[@ckelly5141]

@@JustDeannaJune Welcome J.

[@wolfie8012]

Thank you for sharing your story, June and Jared! Very inspiring and great points about avoiding “dumping” on people one wishes to wake up from this awful cult.

[@outtadarkness1970]

Excellent interview, Lady Cee and JT! 🥰❤️🌻 Thank you, June and Jared! ❤️🌻

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Very powerful story We wanted to share

[@melissalacour918]

I love watching these videos. You do get people to thinking logically and rationally so they can come to their own conclusions. I left the organization shortly after turning 18 and this was all I knew from birth. I was a follower at a time but came to realize that this was not for me. Thank you

[@JVM-dc6lj]

It’s really encouraging to hear these accounts. It makes you realize that you are not alone which is what JW want you to feel. Like you are not only an outcast because you left but they want you to feel like you don’t belong to the world either in the hope that you go back to the religion because you feel that you have nowhere else to go. I heard that from witnesses all the time and it is sad. They say, “ Where else am I going to go?”

[@cr-17-f1_l3wx.7]

Ya where else will you go because “we have been working on trapping your whole life here and if you leave or ask questions, we will shut your life down, cut you off from blood family… you will beg for us to let you back in.”

[@jiriovecka350]

This and "Have you found something better?"😅 They dont get the idea that you can stand on your own. You must belong to a group.

[@melissalacour918]

Right on the money!!

[@SherylSheryl-b3z]

JVM!341 That's exactly it. Shunning is a diluted term for "gangstalking a person into isolation" so that they may have no choice but to return. It also encompasses recruitment by proxy, to get people to go against you, when they don't announce from the platform, what you have done. It could merely be pointing out discrepancies in their own writing and in old literature.

[@jazzminejackson9181]

Thanks for sharing your story June and Jared

[@totallyawakeexjw]

Excellent interview! 💕

[@CStink]

I'm trans and was raised a JW. I've been out for 7 years (25 now). It crushes me watching my parents continue to be active in something they don't fully support but have been in so long they don't feel like they can leave or turn anywhere else. It also has driven a huge wedge between us. I can't feel happy talking about transitioning and all the progress I've made. I also tend to dress more netral around them too which hasn't been good for my mental health. They can't talk to me about anything non witness related without wincing a bit. It sucks but at least I got a set of parents that are trying a little and didn't do the normal thing of acting like I don't exist

[@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078]

I really enjoyed this conversation. I always enjoy your content and interviews. But there’s something about this one that really hit home with me. As an aside, I would love if you could include into these conversations how individuals view religion/God currently. I’ve always wondered the ratio of how many people leave the organization and go to another religion or are completely turned off to religion. Thank you for what y’all do ♥️

[@joshuaryan1946]

June is a star! A great, courageous person!

[@TracyLeaBeauty]

I love hearing how people make their way out! If you want to hear our story, let us know! We’d be happy to tell you!!!! Congratulations on making it out, with your family! I got out with my 2 kids! The kids got me out!!!! Congratulations on your sobriety June! That’s amazing!!! I went with my daughter to AA meetings ! June you look really familiar to me! When my kids and I left, the only ones left were my mother & older & unbaptized older sister. Last thing my mom said to me was, you’re going to die with my kids! I told her that’s fine because we will be together & dead & wont care!!!! They had 42 years!!! I was the 4th generation, my kids the 5th! No more! We stopped the cycle!!!!! Jared, you did to me what my son did to me! He started in about the child sex abuse and my son kept telling that and I told him, stop saying that! They would never do that. That’s what got me. I lost any of the fake friends, I thought were friends. My mother died in 2020 & she shunned and I know her and I knew she wouldn’t listen to any proof I could show her, she was in her early 70’s when I left. My sister was alone, living 5 minutes from my house and she told me to come over & we talked & talked and us sis’s were together again! My mother told my sister when she was dying that she needed to stick with the witnesses, they’ll take care of you!!!! We both laughed at that! She’s lucky she didn’t give in to pressure to get baptized!!! She was 55 so I knew she wasn’t baptized I would check with people. I knew as soon as our mother died, I waited a few months , quarantine was at its peak and no one bothered with her & she has a bad heart problems! The only person who bothered with her. She found out that she was talking to me and gave my sister an ultimatum, if she doesn’t call and tell her service coordinator that she was talking to me, she would have to narc on her. My sister said go right ahead. And she did call an elder!!!! He called my sister and just told her he had a call that we were back together. She said yep she taking care of all my health. The brother said, ok. Don’t forget the congregation! That’s it! That was almost 3 years ago! Oh and I live across the street from the Kingdom Hall . No brothers come by, no sisters trying to find someone to call on, none of them even came by either! I’m not even df’d!!!!!🌺🌺🌺

[@melissalacour918]

That's crazy but I know exactly what you are talking about. My experience was simular to yours. Glad yall got out!! Stay 💪

[@SherylSheryl-b3z]

Tracy Lea Beauty The easiest way to fade, is to move away from the congregation's jurisdiction, see who is at your door, with a camera, and tell any Elders who call "You have the wrong number." And don't tell them you are moving, just be jup and gone. If they say, "Well we had no idea you were moving, say, well you get the picture!"

[@TracyLeaBeauty]

@@SherylSheryl-b3z I faded over 10 years ago and I still live across from the Kingdom Hall!!!!🤣 I never answer my door. They’ve never even have ever come by. I have a ring cam. I’m just glad I got out after 42 years!!! It will be 11 years since I’ve been to the Kingdom Hall. Both my kids got df’d young and I think they used that as an excuse to stay away. The funny thing is, I always had plans to go back but was just feeling down about my kids being df’d. Then, my best friend, who I would be with in field service almost everyday , never even called me!!! She lived 5 doors down, her husband was the COBE. I’m sure he told her to leave me alone! I’ve never talked to her again and they have since moved! My own mother & sister both shunned me for 8 years until my mother died! I waited a few months and reached out to my sister a few months later! I was able to get her out too! So we are back to being sisters and I’ve showed her the proof of all I learned, she couldn’t believe it, just how I was when I found out!!! My mother told her before she died to “stick with the witnesses, they’ll take care of you” she found out real fast that that wasn’t true!!! She was never baptized so I knew she wasn’t a believer! She was going for our mother but she’s just as happy as I am not going in service or to the Kingdom Hall!!! LOL

[@SherylSheryl-b3z]

@@TracyLeaBeauty Kim and Mike Brooks have followed and tracked Watchtower's Kingdom Hall and assembly hall sales, all over the U.S. and Europe. It is staggering the amount of money they have made, Watchtower is a billion dollar corporation that does nothing for anyone. If anyone helps you, it is because they reached into their own pocket to do so, that is individual members.

[@SherylSheryl-b3z]

@@TracyLeaBeauty I would drive by a Kingdom Hall inbetween North Olmstead Ohio, and North Ridgeville. It was sold to become the sleazy windowless bar "The Zodiac Tavern" for $250,000.00. and that was decades ago. Kim and Mikey have also tracked what some of these Kingdom Halls were turned in to. One was a crystal new age shop. It is all a game. They count the time, and you have a charity deduction on your head, but it isn't really a charity.

[@philliphawkins3062]

Just June has a great channel! It's good that you guys got to link up. Great video as usual

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Yes! Thank you!

[@richardlee2642]

June is a natural when it comes to interviewing.

[@Blueskies445]

Thank you June and Jared! God bless you and your family.

[@MrsMouse09]

I was born and raised as a Jehovah witness and had a major awakening in 2008 where I dove I n to the history found out about the UN etc. would love to share my story for one of your episodes:)

[@sherylalismom285]

This was an excellent interview. Jared and June were articulate and personable. Lady Cee and J T inserted just the right questions to move the narrative right along. So many important points . This should help a lot of people.

[@chesterfrancis7699]

My feelings exactly!

[@SherylSheryl-b3z]

Hi Ali's mom, other Sheryl! I cancelled my channel for a month, then just came back on. The problem is, I think all of the prior comments were automatically deleted. So if I post something worthwhile to help people get out of this cult, they remembered it.

[@Estee.Ar.6869]

Thank you. That was a great interview!

[@grammargoddessNYC]

This was such an excellent conversation!! June & Jared have so many relatable experiences! I could say SO MUCH but I will just say the suggestions on how to deal with family and friends still sucked in and on how to make new friends is SPOT ON 🎯🎯🎯 - Thank you so much Jared & June for sharing your powerful story and thank you JT & Lady Cee!! You have all knocked it out the park with this one once again!!! Wonderful interview!! 🥰

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Thanks! 🥰

[@LJDavisfamily6]

Great interview! Haven’t been on for awhile but awesome welcome back.

[@katrinasmith2843]

Thank you ❤️ So happy they were able to come out as a family, eventually...

[@mkultra7940]

My family all left together in 2020. We were always a family which tended to be in the "worldly" side, meaning we always did things our way, were sketchy with meeting attendance, dressed flashy, low service hours. All our friends who grew up with us in the cult drank a lot more Kool aid than we did. They leveled up in the cult. All our friends had a variety of elder/ms/pioneer titles in their families, so we skirted around the edges of the clique; our popularity was marginal, but most of our friends seemed to chase the popularity train. These people would come hang out with us in intimate groups, knowing that we were not uberdubs, but they would always say that we were the most genuine people we know. Now we're out and we see them slagging through their lives, grinding away at their monotonous jw life, sticking to it 'cause popularity. It's so good to be free and I wish freedom on them as well. They don't understand that they will not miss the fake friendships that they had when they see it for what it really is.

[@pocahontas4583]

I’m sorry the wording of this just made me chuckle “flashy with low service hours” 😂

[@thehannahregina]

I love June …such a nice family

[@Mary777-dr6jb]

Thank you! I am so happy that many more are realizing that there’s not any real truth in JW, but lies and more lies. Many of us have been hurt pretty bad. ❤️❤️

[@kelliwilliams9996]

Excellent story Jared & June. Thanks so much for sharing. Lady Cee & JT, y'all are awesome!!!

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Hey Kelli, you’re next. Thanks!!!

[@kelliwilliams9996]

@ExJW Critical Thinker yesss, absolutely. I'm about ready. I'll shoot you a text.

[@mattjames7272]

Great interview with June and Jared. Love your work, JT and Lady Cee. Appreciate you!

[@rmayerCPA]

Great story, June and Jared. My very best to you as you pursue the next phase of your career.

[@robthames5065]

“Hit up a laundromat.” 😂 That’s a lot more than I did my last few years. I wouldn’t go out in service at all and just put down however many hours I thought I could get away with without anybody noticing, plus I would put down that I placed a few mags and a couple RV’s every month and nobody ever caught on.

[@jan75643]

😆

[@201stars]

I did the same. Had all this imaginary personal territory about people at school or at work wanting to study the Bible with me.

[@ready2danceagain]

​@@JustDeannaJune I love that one!

[@Marie-ml1pr]

Great interview. Glad you got out as a family

[@futureofhealthforlife]

Another great one, keep them coming.

[@SuperFoodParents]

🎂 When they started their son's video saying he ate every birthday cake & cupcake that was offered to him at school, I had to laugh & think to myself *"He was PIMO as a kid"* 😂

[@Deepthoughts4ever]

Hilarious! Me too. I wasn’t gonna turn down a cupcake!

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

😂

[@pacificnw5394]

I was pimo at age 5. I privately made the decision that some day I would do the flag salute, lol... I think I just hated being different from my classmates.

[@Peter1Edwards]

What a great and touching interview

[@nde-mt2yc]

Great Interview, Outstanding Information...

[@symone3113]

Great interview. You are right June it’s harder to make new friends outside the cult… you can go to meet up groups, volunteer to feed the homeless. There are many opportunities to make friends…

[@johnny4048reads]

This is a beautiful interview.

[@markkrispin6944]

Excellent information and interview JT and Lady Cee.

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@maryloumata4904]

Thank you for sharing, I support your bravery! I only felt love in that religion when I was part of the treadmill membership gathering machine, seeking education, friends, and family outside of the religion was considered a worldly way. Said goodbye many years ago and never regretted it! This religion is very manipulative.

[@darrengreen9273]

I’m subscribed to both of you all’s channels!!❤️

[@heathergriggs4463]

Great interview. I'm currently trying to wake my husband up and it is very hard because we are in a very loving genuine congregation. He is an elder so I know it will be even harder than average.

[@mitchmiller7204]

@heathergriggs4463. You might start with "Honey, do you believe that Jesus is your mediator?" See where that takes you. The Watchtower literature (i.e. Insight on the Scriptures, etc.) says that only the anointed class does. The Bible says that Jesus is the mediator for all men (John 14:6 ; I Tim. 2:5). I've read of a few people where that was their starting place.

[@DianePantig]

You are in a loving genuine group because you are part of the group.If you leave the group the friendship and love stops.Conditional love only.

[@melissahollowell7255]

June--I am so proud of how far you and your family have come in the Witness Protection Program in such a short period of time. I remember seeing your first video and bam now you are a celebrity!

[@katb945]

When there was no brothers doing bible studies and a male even child was present we put a tissue on our head when didn't have hat or hankie. Thank you for the interview rings bells they talk about unity and congregations can be so different some are like Jarod and June said I found that myself.

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

My mom had to use so "toilet paper " once when no to showed up 4:33 and she lead the group Lol

[@evaarnold5838]

Awesome interview Lady Cee and JT! Very courageous and brave June and Jared, thank you for sharing for testimony!!! 🥰♥️🥰

[@stephanykaiser7556]

So glad you and your family had the courage to get out. I have been out since 1993. So proud of you

[@sarahshowalter9539]

Thank you for getting out and welcome home.

[@womanofthenang3210]

Such a candid interview, loved every minute. Thank you all xxx

[@connieriley8079]

Love this interview, great to see so many leaving this cult and going forward!

[@TruckerDori]

Witnesses will be the first ones to hate on people. There's no love for others like Jesus wants us to do. Love your neighbors as you love yourselves. I have learned as a born in that I have no empathy for other people like I should. I do have empathy for Animals. But they never taught hate on animals. I have spoke to my pastor and he said, I have a long road to undo my thinking. I'll be talking about that in my future video/podcast. Good Interview cause I have watched Junes videos. She's saying what she said in her videos.

[@chesterfrancis7699]

Great interview with Jared and June . It was enjoyable to hear their story from another perspective. I am subscribed to the just June channel.

[@NANCYDOMSTAD]

exactly. the witness group in ontario canada was like this. as a new single mother with a cutie 18month girl also biracial i was spied on, with people pretending to be family, following me around . i felt and saw all of this and so was very careful what i said that might alert the elders that i no longer was believing what they said. i saw child abuse and abuse of every kind..domestic violence. bullying from children of elders who believed they had special privilege to do what they wanted. one thing i remember so clearly even now was a woman who came to a meeting having black eyes and battered by a husband who was not a member. she was congratulated for suffering for Jehovah, surrounded by women hugging her and smiling. the male elders walked by without any reaction. my daughter who was 3 by that time and me both turned together to stare with horror i relied on the one true God. i spoke with sarah about abuse and that it was never acceptable and not of God. as a former member of another cult, the worldwide church of God, i was being abused by my husband with our 2 sons as well. this was condoned by the leaders. i began to go against orders to speak to the women of the group about abuse. women were coming to me seeking help and there was none within the cult. the minister tried to shut me down but i refused to back down until there were changes. this was the beginning slowly of critical thinking, i already was standing with more strength at home and this was yet another step toward freedom and truth. i was able to break free from my abusive mother, abusive husband and a cult. my children had been damaged despite all my serious efforts to protect them and teach them truth outside of the lies that we needed to break free from. i chose to fade very carefully without telling other members which prepared me to leave that cult and though i joined another one, my stay there was short, not the 19 years of marriage, 17 years in the first cult and 3 years in the very last one. i am in no religion now but have come to the truth that Jesus taught. i am no longer numb and can see with clarity. be of courage all who are breaking free. i chose to fade also and not allow the elders and members to disfellowship me and continuing to control me, keeping me there. those who had been friendly before.false. were no longer speaking to me except to tell me that my daughter now belonged to satan because of me. this confirmed to me once again the wise choice to leave, but carefully and safely, not only for me but for that little girl. she had been telling me at three years old about the things that i had seen also. i moved from that area but once again the witnesses there were after me. i moved with sarah to another city hours away and still they found us. i was very clear that i would never be in another religion again but was a believer and no longer wanted contact with them. end of that so far. sex abuse was a huge problem. i never left sarah in the care of anyone else inside the group or outside. men were not allowed to come into our lives and so she said to me that she had been safe. the damage is there with our short time with the witnesses, imagine a lifetime of such damage. this is spiritual abuse including every other abuse possible. please stop doubting yourself listen to your intuition and face reality, become a questioner. open your heart and trust not in men but the one true God. carry on...

[@anthonycruz2469]

Thank you June and Jared for sharing your story…. It’s so interesting to call to mind the mind of a true believer. So happy you and your family are free! The lady that was “mean” that triggered you… sounds just like Tony morris, we can’t water down Jehovah’s message, if you are not going out preaching… look at your hands?” Probably in her mind she wanted to wake you and your family from falling asleep in a “burning house”. What an awesome interview. Thank you critical thought! Love you guys.

[@christinecrowley7132]

Lovely couple, great interview.

[@carlitabell367]

I feel so free leaving the organization,! Yeusha is calling his true followers out of false religion.❤

[@Nica-Ra-Wata]

Zeus is jesus or iesus no letter j until late 1500s Israel is ISIS AMUNRA ELOHIM Anglos constructed so called israel Phoenicians are anglicans Anglo saxon UK...jews or jewelry or stones... All metaphysics

[@robthames5065]

Your post is so refreshing. So many of our fellow ex witnesses become atheists or agnostic. It seems that they let a bad experience cause them to question God’s existence. HE loves us and HE wants the best for us in this life as well as when we leave behind our mortal bodies. Watchtower will be held accountable for their bloodguilt.

[@leadanon127]

Exactly. Yoshua freed us from religion. Pitty, many former JW become atheist since the Organization conquered them.

[@pacificnw5394]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one who isn't an atheist now..... Although I understand why many do

[@cynthiaherah7510]

That is so true ..once you hear it you cannot unhear it. You cannot go out there telling people things you yourself do not believe .

[@freedomparadisechick6564]

Great interview! Wishing the very best to this beautiful couple!! 💕

[@johnnyruins9025]

Thank you great interview.

[@dianekrstulovich1582]

This is my FAVORITE piece you ever posted! Thank you!

[@kratosbecrazy3437]

That’s so true because I was in a congregation with lots of family and friends but I had a lot of doubts but I kept going because and them. Well after the whole moving to a congregation in your territory thing happened I faded quickly. One of my good friends moved to the new congregation with his family too so I had that going for about a year and half. I stopped going and he later stopped going too lol. I’ve done plenty research on the org and realized that it’s an ungodly organization ran by greedy narcissists. I just hope my sister and her family wake up one day from this cult. They ruin lives and claim it’s loving, disgusting

[@henrim9348]

Great couple. Amazing family Have seen your story on your own channel already. Thanks for sharing.

[@hudsonchalmers6504]

I was appointwd as a MS again when I moved to Capetown. I was not happy, finally when the CO visited and we had to go to the meeting. Tea and cake is served, MS were told thanks for coming and the elders would have their meeting. Bye Bye MS. Finally I said this is a Secret Society , count me out in future.

[@yatishascott6203]

Thank you June & Jared for sharing your story as well as JT and Lady Cee. My siblings and I are still trying to convince my mom to do her research and leave this WICKED JW religion/cult.

[@ExJWCriticalThinker]

I remember a few years ago, you asked me to call your mom. And she said what is Tisha up to. 😳 She was like if I leave, where will I go?

[@yatishascott6203]

@@ExJWCriticalThinker I just hope one day she uses critical thinking and just leave. Thanks for keeping us all informed with your knowledge & wisdom and continue to wake folks up from this cult 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@EfrainRiveraJunior]

Great interview.

[@nancia24]

I left this cult religion in January 7 officially and I no longer do bible study with Jw on February 25 of 2023 I left at 18 years old I'm going to be 19 soon and when I left the religion I was going through some many heavy trails in my life God was battling this battle spiritually I felt a relief and I felt free when I started listening to Christian music and started crying in a good way I prayed to God to guide me in this new journey with him God show me the truth and he guide me through all the tough times I face and I'm grateful that I never gave up on building a relationship with God right now I struggle but I know God will give me many good blessings and I should never give up on my faith in God Amen 💪🏽🙏🏽❤️

[@Adventures2024-AD]

Excellent interview and thoroughly enjoyed. I loved the part where Jared & June talked about dumping all the info on relatives etc and then said “that is not the way”. Just finished watching the new episode of the mandalorian entitled Apostate… 🤣🤣 and because he took his helmet off and showed the real him (face) he now is called apostate. But the mandalorian creed says “This is the way…”. 🤣🤣. A mandalorian does not remove his helmet. So in order for him to be reinstated as a Mandalorian he must complete some impossible task and vow to never remove his helmet again. You wonder if an ExJW is one of the writers for this show. Taking the JW helmet off of someone all at once is NOT the way😂. They have to want to take it off themselves… that IS the way

[@touchdaroad688]

Same with me I was given prescription opiates and I became addicted after years I went to the elders and instead of helping they called me a junkie and offered no help smh I was so hurt

[@lilliancruz1756]

My family came out of JWs together as well. My late husband was a MS, and I was a pioneer. We were not born in but were in about 12 years. Our daughter was a year old, our son was born in. I was the first one out, it took a while for my husband, and the kids were young still so they were not that indoctrinated. I am glad we got out when the kids were young.

[@knowthyself8233]

This is amazing 💥

[@rimaktub]

Hi, Even though I have been out for most of my adult life I have never pursued learning the truth about JW. Is there a link/website where I can find more information? Like the information I won’t be able to unsee. Thank you, I’m so proud of us for leaving and doing the work to unlearn and heal from our traumatic experiences with this religion.

[@gigs2riches]

Y'all we need to have an in person Summit event or something ❤