As a JW kid I was told part of the reason we couldn’t celebrate Christmas was because of the dirty lie about Santa bringing kids gifts. Pretty rich from a publishing corporation with 140+ years of printed conjecture, failed prophecies & lies - misleading people of all ages. Copyrighted for all to see! And the damage is real. Religious trauma costs folks their time, their money and in some instances, their lives.
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
You know what Santa Claus is a Chirstian because his real name is said to be St.Nicolas so he was a saint the love to see children be saved and love Chirst . Celebrate Christmas it's fun enjoying beats thinking about goats
@TarquinMelnyk3 жыл бұрын
@@marycurlee2163 I like to Chirst Goats too! 🐐
@blackalien68733 жыл бұрын
Umm....Santa ALWAYS brought us presents and he always drank the milk and ate the cookies we left out! Santa is extremely dependable! Much more so than Jehovah.
@fredroufi32513 жыл бұрын
What makes them think celestial judgement is modelled after human courts?
@user-py3gh6bc2x3 жыл бұрын
Oh Boy Fred Roufi, my thought precisely! How dare they presume that Divine Holiness must be patterned after the U.S. American Justice System, after all who created whom? It's hubris. It only matters if you believe it!
@Lithillia3 жыл бұрын
I was about to write this. Isn't it the satans system?
@halleluyah7573 жыл бұрын
NOthing New under the Sun; everything came into eXistence through him!
@TayTay-ik5gk2 күн бұрын
Human courts are modeled after God's court system. Not the other way around.
@barbwire5313 жыл бұрын
Its changed so much since I was disfellowshipped 20+ years ago that I'm seriously confused about what I was taught from when I was a born in...I don't know who is more confused...them or me....
@barbwire5313 жыл бұрын
@TwistedEDGE tell me about it...😆 🤣 😂
@UltraSaltyDomer17763 жыл бұрын
It’s hard to keep track of lies
@davidburroughs22443 жыл бұрын
I hear that. Went through the same feelings of confusion, betrayal and the dawning understanding these folks just aren't right.
@ArturoHernandez-cb6fr3 жыл бұрын
Yes this bugs me so much, I want to reply to my parents to tell them the stuff that I was taught is a lie but at this point I don’t even know what they teach anymore. Although I know I can use that as a argument as well.
@shanghaiberti41423 жыл бұрын
The Bible says God never changes....... But the jws do
@hikingviking8593 жыл бұрын
Yes, it’s coming soon. I’ve heard that for 50 years. Glad I know better now
@okhuibutala16403 жыл бұрын
Keep saying but again mistakes because governing body is not inspired by God . Jesus Christ - elected them governing body 8 men - No Jesus Christ did elected them Apostles
@paulschlachter43133 жыл бұрын
And you are only part of one of 100 generations that was told so by bible believers.
@user-py3gh6bc2x3 жыл бұрын
@@nathancooper1 That is so funny ... I'm still laughing!
@kevink25933 жыл бұрын
"New Light" = we changed our minds.
@jewell923 жыл бұрын
So many times that they have no minds left.
@dianacryder75233 жыл бұрын
@@jewell92 Made me, LOL! :D
@xlortiz3 жыл бұрын
If placed in a time machine JWs from 1990 would consider JWs today apostates!
@alanross27903 жыл бұрын
Great point .
@gsiems55833 жыл бұрын
I was going to say the same thing .. great point !!
@whyistheskyblue55153 жыл бұрын
Finally figured out THEY were the apostates!
@ishma21003 жыл бұрын
This should get more thumbs up 🤣
@xlortiz3 жыл бұрын
@@ishma2100 truth
@ashleyhunter91403 жыл бұрын
As a child, I used to envision myself, with great anxiety, walking up to Jesus on the throne after the Great Tribulation and wondering if I would be worthy enough to be on the “sheep side”. That haunted me. I never wanted to do anything to be on the goat side, but it seemed so impossible to remain a sheep. AND THEN the possibility that I wouldn’t be one even if I tried so hard... I wish I could show my past-self this video. Religious abuse is real. This is unacceptable by any organization that claims to be led by ANY higher power.
@darinblomquist4223 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the great herd of goats my friend!😍😍😍
@alyssawoodman3 жыл бұрын
I can't get over the fact that they tell children everyday the world is going to end. I remember being a kid and thinking there wasn't a point to anything.
@onesunnyday56993 жыл бұрын
I was an adult when I finally gave in to my dad's pleas & studied to baptism. Not really understanding what true love & trust was, leaving an abusive relationship with an infant (that I eventually returned to, having another child, because I thought I was worthless to anyone else "soiled goods" hoping he would change & I would have 1 of those beautiful spiritual outcomes. It was the exact opposite for another 5 yrs), coming out of a bad home life jumping from the frying pan into the fire. I too thought Jesus wouldn't love me, I couldn't do enough to make myself 'worthy' in part due to these kinds of talks. Love bombing combined with self loathing to keep everyone off balance & clinging desperately to this organization for salvation.
@ruthieboots43253 жыл бұрын
I was a very anxious person, from childhood in the organisation. It's so much harder to be in this cult when you're not understood and criticised or looked down upon for not answering in watchtower studies, because just the thought of it is traumatising. Knocking on doors for me was a whole other kind of hell.
@falexmendez3 жыл бұрын
If God was directing their understanding they could not have deviated from an "accurate" understanding in the first place.
@carolneustaedter76243 жыл бұрын
So glad I woke up. I wish my family would. So grateful for your work Lloyd and I'm happy to see you back in the bunker and your family is safe.
@keirongillespie69133 жыл бұрын
Kinda seems a little pointless to judge people's actions over a long period of time when you can just read their hearts and know whether they would accept it or not.
@kandykayne15613 жыл бұрын
“Man made , made up none sense “ Very accurate statement !
@Kat-zj1tc3 жыл бұрын
It's almost comical how they just make this stuff up as they go.
@dantoinettetaylor16633 жыл бұрын
So sad too
@formerjw38743 жыл бұрын
Aww, give them a break. Gotta be hard to keep your game face on after crying wolf for over a hundred years.
@barrygibbons28033 жыл бұрын
@@rasklaat2 yes thats right.
@phoenixchick50883 жыл бұрын
Lloyd light is the best light 💡❣️
@evsalas33 жыл бұрын
Just read the Bible WITHOUT Watchtower magazine, there will be no "new light, old light" WT never gets tired of flip-floppin' 🤥
@ooklathemok73223 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Well said
@okhuibutala16403 жыл бұрын
Jesus is same as before yesterday and today and tomorrow Jesus is the light He told what is happening
@paulschlachter43133 жыл бұрын
@@okhuibutala1640 Jesus is same as before yesterday and today and tomorrow - dead. Happens to the best of us apes. And btw, light is a form of electormagnetic radiation - to equate that to a person is nonsense.
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
@@paulschlachter4313 yup dead but in the heaven don't get twisted.Give some credit where due if none of the Bibles been written me being a black woman our ancestor who was slaves that's all they had was Jesus.
@paulschlachter43133 жыл бұрын
@@marycurlee2163 True. The British even had a special version called the slave bible or "Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands." (full title), where all references to freedom and escape from slavery excised, while passages encouraging obedience and submission were emphasized. Passages like Ephesians 6:5, "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ," don't read well through modern eyes and have certainly been used to justify this atrocity.
@fLUKEYdNb3 жыл бұрын
My goodness, the GB have no idea what Jesus is doing right now. The gospel (good news) is actually simple, not complex with millions of rules. Why can’t they just say that they don’t know? Instead of making interpretations and dogma willy nilly.
@gustavscholten5973 жыл бұрын
@@tammyg8031 the carrot AND the stick .... it’s worked for a hundred years !
@TheC.O.-VISIT3 жыл бұрын
The problem is their mistakes are law until they enforce the next mistake. Ironically they've come back around to what Revelation actually says. Those who come out of the tribulation are already saved, thus there is no post-tribulation judgement.
@davidburroughs22443 жыл бұрын
Modality speaking, the final judgement is issued and executed (carried out) at a certain time. Trouble is, would God, Jesus or what ever form of trinity or non-trinity one believes, the god or god head would or would not already know what their final judgment is going to be - it's obviously a lesson for us a final cutting off point is reached and that we do not know and should not jump to our own judgments for "we" can not read the heart. All that being said, I'm an athiest I do not believe in any of this. The rush to "we have to have an understanding and a policy on this!" cracks me up.
@RandolphTheWhite13 жыл бұрын
@David Burroughs - I'm not able to make sense of anything you just said.
@qbasicmichael3 жыл бұрын
Revelation 20 has the judgement after the 1000 years.
@anthonyhilz3 жыл бұрын
Hello, I just wanted to say I really appreciate your videos ... I don't consider myself a witness anymore.... I was never officially dissflowshiped I just have been inactive for maybe 5 / 6 years now.... I don't know what I believe I live my life now just not beeing a dick ... thankfully I still have some family that still talk to me them not beeing active or never being baptized... It has been hard ... losing almost every single friend but now I realize that I am not alone many ex witness are there . This is the 1st time I'm commenting because .. not very much people understand ... beeing raised as a witness as a elder son... your robbed a lot ... robbed from a childhood ... robbed from being encouraged to continue school.. anyway this is all rambling.. I just wanted to thank you and I am happy that you are safe and back home
@clarity24783 жыл бұрын
Glad your mind cleared enough to realize wt is not a healthy place to be. Keep researching until you find the answers for yourself. Wishing you all the best!
@gustavscholten5973 жыл бұрын
Keep Reading comments and make comments. You feel free and you won’t feel alone!
@bravom93 жыл бұрын
Omg this is absolutely horrific. My mom died in 2016 and they immediately got my dad. Now he thinks that’s the only way to see my mom again. So he faithfully goes now. He’s very distant from me and my other sister who are not active. He just doesn’t bother. I gave birth and almost died and he was like eh I’ll see you later. Now it makes sense to me that he sees me as a deterrent to paradise
@austinperkins83483 жыл бұрын
Anyone get the feeling the Governing Body are using a 1990's internet connection with God. Lots of lag. Lol
@roberts77373 жыл бұрын
Dial up modem, on a Nintendo 64 kind of truth.
@DeeDubb2473 жыл бұрын
@Austin Perkins Wow, I was about to like this comment cuz it made me lol and saw the name of the author...its been a long time! I wasn't expecting to see a comment from an old JW buddy on here that's for sure!
@austinperkins83483 жыл бұрын
@@DeeDubb247 wow indeed! How have you been?
@DeeDubb2473 жыл бұрын
@@austinperkins8348 doing really well, just bought a new house & getting settled. How's the wife and kiddos? And your dad?! I miss him!
@austinperkins83483 жыл бұрын
@@DeeDubb247 That's such great news, congratulations! We are all doing well. Dad is doing great too. So crazy, of all the chances to see each other on a youtube comment thread, lol
@davidmeyers14343 жыл бұрын
Great vid Lloyd, round and round they go... Hey, I love your set (bunker) here. Photography/lighting is my hobby and your set is perfectly pleasing to the eye.
@liliabenavides40523 жыл бұрын
I always think of the children's fable "The emperor's new robe". What a load of hogwash! Last year in I spent it much outside, somethings were downright EMBARRASING!!!!
@williamsawyer98943 жыл бұрын
Metaphorically, the Governing Body has no cloths. Actually seeing them naked would not be a pretty sight. Will there ever be a Governing Body member who is slender and sinewy? Much of the problem is with their diet of spiritual food.
@guadalupesalgado56043 жыл бұрын
@@williamsawyer9894 yep junk food!
@cuddlez.3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, if you’re a JW dealing with life’s everyday pressures, what the eff difference this make in their life? Judging before, during, or after the great tribulation...who honestly cares. Does the GB really having nothing more important to do besides spew mindless drivel about the stupid sheep and goats parable again? I mean what, are JWs going to suddenly make sweeping life changes because of this new light? Will they suddenly be inspired to regular pioneer? The GB would be doing themselves a favor to let stuff like this be instead of making themselves more foolish than they already are. But we all know they won’t.
@sifisovic73 жыл бұрын
I always hated the way they focused on these things that add no value to anyone’s life.
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
Man!! the end game is money no witnesses no money they a technical publishing company .
@cygnustsp3 жыл бұрын
Great post, you said everything i would have
@Danielle-nz9tn3 жыл бұрын
I do think they are counting on people’s fear that their entrance into Paradise is being judged NOW and so they better DO MORE. And also they better buy those new publications with this “New Light.” $$$$$$$$$$
@gustavscholten5973 жыл бұрын
They changed the name to JW’s in 1931. Its like a virus that became a pandemic........Jehovid 31.
@SidLamar3 жыл бұрын
They talk about false religion as if they are not included in that category. 😄
@watteffer3 жыл бұрын
I watched this talk by Kenneth Cooke with my PIMI parents, I was (and still am) pretty shocked that people genuinely believe what he taught... as if God is comparable to a human judge who takes time, does God need time to make judgements? I told them this and walked out...
@olmeckrav3 жыл бұрын
That’s immediately what I thought. I mean does the almighty need time? What kind of almighty is that? That’s just stupid and that’s just the beginning ....
@TheVelvetteButterfly3 жыл бұрын
Did they have a reply?
@FyourCult3 жыл бұрын
Ken cooke is cookin’ the books
@archervine80643 жыл бұрын
I had a similar thought. Isn’t God supposed to know everything we’ve done, thought, etc already anyway?
@clarity24783 жыл бұрын
watteffer ...keep on walking & researching, you are going in the right direction!
@charlesvrana2183 жыл бұрын
Your video editor is doing a excellent job. I like the new look!
@olmeckrav3 жыл бұрын
😂 Jesus using his time like the Supreme Court now??? What an idiotic thing to say.
@jessicafong30433 жыл бұрын
lmao right? Like the Son of God is on the clock... like damn I better geddit' movin'! If I was still a believer I'd likely find this low-key insulting (edited for typos)
@hustonmices39763 жыл бұрын
Exactly!! That’s why I thought too. They tell Jesus how to use the legal system. lol
@ladyB593 жыл бұрын
Ooo can't wait for this !! Grew up with this one as a main stay.
@rogersmith90863 жыл бұрын
Ken Cookey just shared new darkness.
@dantoinettetaylor16633 жыл бұрын
That was funny Lol
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
Like that one demon doctrines it say in their Bible and all other Bible's.
@davidburroughs22443 жыл бұрын
Ken Cookery should be his name
@andrewchristou28573 жыл бұрын
Question is if Abraham & Co are coming back to Beth Sarim will they need to quarantine?? These guys are pure guessers, nothing more, nothing less!
@okhuibutala16403 жыл бұрын
People are stupid Keep following them and listen what governing body saying 🤣
@fourthgirl50283 жыл бұрын
The biggest question is: Where are they going with this new light? Given the GB track record of making adjustments to align with their false prophecies, I smell a fish brewing. They shift the mindset of JWs very slowly with a bigger agenda in mind. Before Cooke, Geoffrey Jackson shared “new light” re: Jesus and Capernaum, there was the Kingdom book, now Ezekiel...setting the stage. They did nit anticipate the ARC, Russia ban, and now the Pandemic, all money suckers. Remember, a few years back, they were on a Warwick shopping spree and most recently their very own movie studio. What happened to storing up treasures in heaven? AND NOW, Oh oh, the monies looking pretty tight, no more multi billions under their pillows. The little piggy is getting skinny from all those CSA lawsuits. If the cookie crumbles, these guys don’t have a leg to stand on (e.g. pension, housing, free cars, health insurance, European vacations, and lots of green handshakes). It always boils down to the narcissistic ideology of supporting Jesus’s anointed, the 8 GB members. And let’s not forget how they self elevated themselves above the other anointed around the world as just common “domestics” who need to partake and shut up. Otherwise, they are mentally unstable and added mediator to their resume. I think they are forced to build a new mindset on the fly in order to legitimize their insatiable need for more money. Or, maybe it’s to hide the GB members among the JW masses (possibly due to future criminal charges)? Could it be they are anticipating a logistical shift from charity status to being deemed by the “worldly institutions” as a secular organization requiring taxation? It’s not just to keep the imminent Great Tribulation at bay. It’s more likely to cover their asses when governments figure out they’re not a charitable religion, but a MLM business. Historically, it has always boiled down to keeping the publishing/real estate business in the black. Rutherford saw the need to keep the rank and file JW in the dark about what is really going on behind the scene (e. g. Board room agenda); Ray Franz confirmed this. They have a pattern of introducing a sequence of new light with bait and switch scriptures, coining a phrase to support a very important doctrine (e. g. governing body, faithful slave, disfellowship, live forever, and so on). Like a skilled magician, they distract so no one sees when they take away/add the “ooo-ah” factor. They are grifters setting up the con. It’s just a matter of time when we see exactly why they are making this new round of “new light” shifts, once again deceiving and continuing to brainwash for personal gain.
@alyssawoodman3 жыл бұрын
Abraham & Co!!! Lol
@DudeinDallas3 жыл бұрын
Kenneth Cooks fingers look like stadium bratwursts. These guys don't miss out on their meals do they?
@justinthyme33963 жыл бұрын
Washed down with lashings of Wisky.
@inu19003 жыл бұрын
Lol I thought he looked like Hank from King of the Hill.
@terridovey76483 жыл бұрын
It's so sad they don't know the Scriptures. 🤔😪 Love always!❤🙂
@zigzagzaag3 жыл бұрын
"When our message change from good news to judgment, he was telling everyone it would cause problems for us, and that he was done." Are they low-key changing their message from good news to judgment? But leave it vague enough to deny it later when inevitably armageddon doesn't happen?
@aprilgriggstatum28083 жыл бұрын
I don’t know... I get the feeling even Cook knows his words are bull...his voice cracks and his face appears a little flushed, because he knows he’s telling foolish lies...The more I watch you Lloyd the better I feel about leaving and ignoring the pressure from family and elders
@jewell923 жыл бұрын
I left 40 years ago. It was the best decision.
@alyssawoodman3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering about the flushed face too and thought maybe drinking...
@elisenieuwe46493 жыл бұрын
This is ridiculous. A lot of things they teach are. This might be the weirdest merry go around I've seen with them.
@d.o.m.4943 жыл бұрын
That first 70 seconds was pure insanity.
@michaelwinkler78413 жыл бұрын
This judging thing is just so appealing
@UltraSaltyDomer17763 жыл бұрын
It’s awesome how all their “adjustments” lean towards taking more power from their followers and demand more compliance. “Pull my socks up” be ready now. It’s always compliance from the follower without getting something from jw first.
@greatoutdoorsgear75383 жыл бұрын
It's absolutely disgusting how they didn't help with the redress in Australia.. shameful they could have helped
@joegonzalez8423 жыл бұрын
it sound like a marketing plan. once you in can't turn back
@sgangoo84063 жыл бұрын
"The Watchtower helps us to understand." What about the Bible??
@Emp6ft10in3 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine living my life around ancient political, cultural, and religious propaganda from an ancient time long gone by thousands of years. The Emperor Constantine couldn't have imagined the decision he was making to designate Christianity as the primary religion of Rome would have such an impact on the world for so long.
@pansepot14903 жыл бұрын
Actually, if you read the Bible carefully, most of its cultural message is flat out ignored by modern day Christians. They pick what they like and is acceptable to OUR culture and forget what is unacceptable like support for slavery, polygamy, burning witches, stoning disobedient children, etc.
@Emp6ft10in3 жыл бұрын
@@pansepot1490 - I am totally with you on that point too. They like just put their hands over their eyes and pretend they didn't see it or that it couldn't possibly mean what it says even though unlike many parts of the Bible, these stories and laws were not written in parables or metaphors.
@azazelsgoat3 жыл бұрын
15:35 Watchtower is a human institution that JW's run to for survival but has and will ultimately fail them.
@steann13 жыл бұрын
This guy looks like ‘Sam the eagle’ even more that Gerrit Losch.
@formerjw38743 жыл бұрын
Overheard in a GB meeting : ‘Seriously guys, we’re getting a little stale here. Any new light? Tony? Steve? Bueller? Anyone?’
@davidmeyers14343 жыл бұрын
Bueller..... ahhahahahahaha :)
@nadiabishop56503 жыл бұрын
This feels very discriminatory to goats... goats are gorgeous little buggers....
@davidmeyers14343 жыл бұрын
Goats have much better memories then sheep (from my experience, at least). Hmm, I had a point to make but I forgot....... baahahahhhh
@amywhite56573 жыл бұрын
I think Goats are very adorable little creatures too! ❤️
@dianacryder75233 жыл бұрын
Great job, Lloyd! Clear and concise. No rambling. This is some of your best work. As would be expected, you've gotten better at this over time. I'd say you've become the best exJW channel on youtube.
@dennisconstantine6243 жыл бұрын
Its not Watchtower making flip flops, its Jehovahs memory beginning to fade after 2000 years. Thats new light they haven’t thought of yet.
@toomyconne7683 жыл бұрын
Jehovah has faded from that organization
@theocheese67323 жыл бұрын
@@toomyconne768 was never in it lol
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
How long did they stay in their with candle and the big Bible with symbol to come up with that one l felt fear come all over me so image how the JW are feeling so scared to leave I think they found a loop whole. WOW.
@cheryllakin67363 жыл бұрын
Guess as the "big event" keeps getting pushed to a later and later date. Other ideas of theirs has to be adjusted.
@antongrahn14993 жыл бұрын
You would think the ever failing dooms-day predictions would be a fatal flaw in these cults. I dont know why people stay with them.
@barbaramullins42333 жыл бұрын
They seem very well versed in the law...must be all those court cases involving...the unthinkable.
@MattG1713 жыл бұрын
Can you do something on how the watchtower speaks? I am so triggered by the cadence or manner of how they speak, something seems off there. Thank you Lloyd!
@chanelegreene17943 жыл бұрын
And members talk the exact same, almost trance like! It’s very creepy and triggers the hell out of me too
@yvonne39033 жыл бұрын
Yes it's almost monotonous nonsense and as you fall asleep they reach a conclusion and you jolt and wonder eh? They go whole paragraphs full of spurious nonsense
@carolsimpson44223 жыл бұрын
To me, they sound a lot like 100 Huntley St., they just don't draw out each word for quite as long.
@DavidTaylor-ki2ir3 жыл бұрын
As these “adjusted understandings” are shared nonchalantly from the stage, everyone listens and just nods along and says “oh, yes, of course” both when it’s changed and when it’s reversed.
@lindaturner59293 жыл бұрын
Sheeplike 🐑
@Chomper7503 жыл бұрын
If anyone is only doing what is right in hopes of saving their own ass, they completely missed the entire point of Job. Job did what was right because it was just that. He didn't do so for handouts from God. But that is the message from JWs.. do this.. save your ass. That is a selfish message, not one of loving God.
@davidburroughs22443 жыл бұрын
A loving God that permitted all of Job's herds to be slaughtered, all of his children to be murdered, and finally to let Job suffer from boils, or what ever. Yeah, ciphertext loving and of course, knowing in advance what the evil plan was, standing to one side, doing nothing and allowing it all to happen - nah, nothing loving here. All it proves is Job, at best, fits in with all of the other true believers who were martyred for their religious beliefs. Unfortunately, that number includes people of the very many different religions - and that's ignoring the fifty some billion human deaths while "god" stood by through all odd human history. What we would do with all those people is another question, but why it is okay is another matter they never deal with.
@Chomper7503 жыл бұрын
@@davidburroughs2244 What is the twisted compulsion of atheists to seek out anything on the internet involving religion so they can just go on rants about what they don't understand? It is almost a mental sickness
@carlisroy66663 жыл бұрын
@@Chomper750 Nice ad-hominen response. You can't defend the story of Job so you try to gaslight David instead. Classic.
@carlisroy66663 жыл бұрын
@@davidburroughs2244 And all this to win a bet with Satan to stroke his own ego. But God is love of course...
@Chomper7503 жыл бұрын
@@carlisroy6666 It is stupid. And it shows that original poster doesn't even have the slightest understanding what Job is about. There are three "wisemen" in the story that are supposed to represent the highest level of thought from the Ancient Near East. The OP is literally taking on the role of one of these three men, using his own reasoning on what is just regarding God and suffering. That is what is laughable about it. He's blinded in seeing he is one of the characters shown to be claiming his own views about what God's justice ought to look like. God answers this by showing how he has a wider perspective on a complex world and what is going on than the limited perspective of an individual. Those like the original poster are not in a position to make accusations about God's justice as they don't have a clue what is going on. Then God goes on showing an example of two wild and dangerous creatures to highlight that while the world has good and beauty, it is not perfect as it is also wild and dangerous. So while the world we live in is amazing, it is not one yet where it is in a stage to prevent suffering. Atheist just love to post their little proof texts , yet display profound ignorance in doing so. They have no clue about what these stories are about and hilariously often mirroring the the ignorance pointed out in these stories.
@eveypea3 жыл бұрын
Does anyone else find it ironic that the GB refer to the justice system being an 'open court' where all the evidence is considered? Have those men ever been on the receiving end of a meeting in the back room of a KH before three elders?
@Ontheroad133 жыл бұрын
Great video Lloyd. The quality is absolutely fantastic with the new videos!
@madmadammin40543 жыл бұрын
On the CDRom and online library, the '95 magazine doesn't have that paragraph. It stops at para 24. Anyone with a physical copy? I think they've been cutting again.
@RG-cs9gg3 жыл бұрын
Never understood the whole "the governing body could finally read this in context" line... We went through the whole Bible every 3 years or so in our weekly meetings... Why couldn't there be context sooner? Guess my indoctrinated brain couldn't add 2 and 2 together at the time.
@davidcarey25533 жыл бұрын
Totally inconsistent for their unfallable perfect God they follow. Inconsistent inconsistent inconsistent for a perfect God.
@Danelius903 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. If God is real he could do much better than JWs
@davidcarey25533 жыл бұрын
@@Danelius90 there is a God sort of in a way it is the universe itself, ourself.
@u.synlig3 жыл бұрын
There they go - putting new wine into an _old_ wineskin! [My poor, faithful JW parents! With every change in the ‘inspired teachings’, another nail is driven into the coffin of judgement: by their own reckoning, _they died while following a false religion._ After all, today’s Governing Body say that God’s true people believe something different _now._ ]
@blitzblutz3 жыл бұрын
I think that cults have to keep coming out with "New Light", New teachings or New whatever, because they have to keep the membership working their minds over nonsense.
@clarity24783 жыл бұрын
The New Light is like a hit of cocaine for jehovah's witnesses! They crave it!
@jamieangel37663 жыл бұрын
It seems like such a tiny and meaningless detail to get stuck on. I believe this is a specific tactic they use to keep the R&F consumed with trying to figure out various obscure puzzle pieces of minutiae, that they never get to zoom out and see that the big picture makes no sense whatsoever
@sgangoo84063 жыл бұрын
Jesus will rendered account from this Governing Body. How they think they are excluded. The untouchables.
@Anonymous-ez6cz3 жыл бұрын
Mr. Lloyd mr. Cook is he as a anointed, in Matthew 25 a sheep or goat or is he not being judged? Is he above all this? Or is he in James chapter 3 verse 1?
@dianacryder75233 жыл бұрын
Something occurs to me that you may not be old enough to understand. As a senior who was born into a very devout and active family of JWs with a long history in the org, I tried very hard to keep up with all the changes to JW doctrine. However, doing so became increasingly difficult and I started finding my brain reverting back and becoming confused, asking, "Wait...which is the correct interpretation?" Prior to my own experience, I saw others having difficulty keeping things straight. Before I found myself having difficulty, I was judgmental of others having difficulty. I thought they were just being lazy. But then I learned that our brains don't have a delete button. We can't just erase the past interpretations and replace them with the new ones. Over time and many such changes, I found myself dealing with the same issues until, finally, in 2013, I said, "Fuck it! This is ridiculous!" What occurs to me is that the brains of the governing body members are no less human. They're reverting back because they can't keep all their shit straight, either, lol! The same may be true for that other example you gave about the mistake that was made about Jesus travel and ministry. It's pretty bizarre to see it happen in that context, though. You'd think someone would have caught it before it got out. But maybe they're all becoming confused, tangled in their own web, so to speak.
@rakelmacc53253 жыл бұрын
😂 they know more about legal proceedings than they do about the bible
@Theinfamouskiki4113 жыл бұрын
The new light old light got me so confused!! All this light seems dim to me 🙍.
@jasontempleton24453 жыл бұрын
A jury trial that has been trying to decide on a verdict for thousands of years...what is God waiting for, for things to get really bad!
@johnpoole38713 жыл бұрын
One of the problems with using archaic pastoral metaphors is I have no idea how goats and sheep are different. I think goats have beards though so maybe that is why JWs don't allow beards because that would be goat-like
@dantoinettetaylor16633 жыл бұрын
Goats are capricious and harder to control. They can climb trees and rocks and make it hard for a goatherd to keep a flock of them together. They þ even used in Satanic ritu Sheep are calm by nature, easy to lead and herd together. People are compared to either sheep or goats
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
@@dantoinettetaylor1663 interesting think they used goat in rituals since goat like people will perish.
@jadenyquist25943 жыл бұрын
I really love and appreciate the way you’re separating what Jesus actually says verses the tricks their using. Even while you don’t agree with the Bible , we can at least be honest about what it does or doesn’t say. That really is awesome, and as a believer .... thank u for clearing Jesus name.
@johnprize6443 жыл бұрын
So he's literally admitting that human legal systems often consider all the evidence at hand to come to a fair conclusion when judging. But when it comes to legal cases involving JW, it's no longer fair judgment but persecution. Nice one.
@ShadOband3 жыл бұрын
When cooking lamb you must achieve the proper temperature or you may suffer "The Wrath of the Lamb" after you eat it.
@truthtriumphsevil77293 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@sandibiggin21633 жыл бұрын
A poem for the GB " Ring around the roses a tissue a tissue We All Fall Down!"
@patzee613 жыл бұрын
Most JW s don’t even know who the GB is Here is how i remember them: I Herd Sanderson and Jackson say; “The Morris we Lett Losh Cook up doctrine, the more we need to Splane
@johnjamele3 жыл бұрын
My parents sent us to a Kingdom Hall when we were very young, because they wanted us to experience multiple religions and decide for ourselves which, if any, were "correct." My four siblings include 1 Baptist, 1 Catholic (we were all baptized Catholics) and 2 atheists, and I am also an atheist. I remember kind of liking the JW classes, and I still have a very nice looking Bible I got at the end of the classes. But they didn't get any of us.
@maryannlockwood78063 жыл бұрын
I was raised a JW from the time I was about 3 years old. My husband & I didn’t raise our kids in any religion. One is agnostic & one is atheist. 🤷🏻♀️
@SaffronHammer3 жыл бұрын
That doesn't sound like JW meetings. They aren't don't hand out bibles at the end of classes, as they don't have classes. They had three weekly meetings. And you could get a bible at the literature desk...And your parents left you at the Kingdom Hall but yourselves for 2 hours? Hard to imagine any of this.
@ArizonaRed3 жыл бұрын
Oops! I forgot to "obey the Good News". My bad.
@juschilln49043 жыл бұрын
Be sheep, BE SHEEP! - Kenneth Cook
@jamesnutt46273 жыл бұрын
What what ? My head hurts !
@vicroy56033 жыл бұрын
Why is the big confusion? Verse 46 of Matt.25 assigned the "sheep"to everlasting life after Armageddon. However, Watchtower theology says post Armageddon survivors and ressurected ones remain in imperfect state, but still have a good 1000 years to prove themselves qualified for everlasting life! Are these people serious?
@davidbradberry76373 жыл бұрын
KC and the New Light Band!
@watchandjewelryloft47133 жыл бұрын
Take my like. 🤣😂
@alyssawoodman3 жыл бұрын
"Back in 1995 the Watchtower helped us to understand..." Literally everything about this sentence speaks volumes about how this "religion" works.
@dand11863 жыл бұрын
How can that be right, if you die today or tomorrow and you’ve been judged it makes lie of the scripture there will be a resurrection of both the righteous the unrighteous, 🤔
@glennmouritz39243 жыл бұрын
Your 100 percent right about that redress scheme. I made a stand an left the organisation an whenever I speak to a JW or ex JW friend I always bring up there handling of child sexual abuse. Most of them run with there hands covering there ears an call us apostates
@clarity24783 жыл бұрын
OH they sure do hate to hear the truth!
@pentirah52823 жыл бұрын
That point you were talking about (at 18.30 ap) - them saying it would be too late to reform: What about Jesus' parable about (KJ Version) "they gave every man a penny." Jesus apparently saying it doesn't matter how late you accept the good news of the Kingdom, you will receive the same reward? (Matthew 20:9)
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
Tell it!😃
@pentirah52823 жыл бұрын
@@marycurlee2163 You can read it in Matthew chapter 20.
@johnnylavery55123 жыл бұрын
Goats have a lot more fun.
@FyourCult3 жыл бұрын
goats are the greatest of all time
@joegonzalez8423 жыл бұрын
I could see them now running to the watchtower
@marycurlee21633 жыл бұрын
A stampede
@joegonzalez8423 жыл бұрын
@@marycurlee2163 LOL they wish 8 million compare to 8 billion
@HGANGHONY3 жыл бұрын
When you wander around in spiritual darkness, you're constantly looking for new light. The blind leading the blind, the Watchtower will never get it right.
@trudyb48413 жыл бұрын
I can't believe I used to take these men seriously 😂 I am happy to be goat like now
@davidwhitcher19723 жыл бұрын
Now I just want to play on my panpipes I just want to drink me some wine As soon as you're born you start dyin' So you might as well have a good time, oh no
@jamesnutt46273 жыл бұрын
This is either a bad dream or movie ?
@wujeksmietanko3 жыл бұрын
I am only wondering if this is something that can be rationalised as the new light.
@yvonne39033 жыл бұрын
We all have a bit of sheep and goat in us, but for sure by their own words the organisation have condemned themselves
@watchandjewelryloft47133 жыл бұрын
GB: Jehovah doesn't change Also GB: This video. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@kalasatwater22242 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was this way, it didn't made sense he would made the judgement until the great tribulation.
@NilDreams3 жыл бұрын
Ehhh...I want to stay grandfathered in as a goat. I’m ok with that. What if you’re a sweet goat though?
@UltraSaltyDomer17763 жыл бұрын
Remove jw tax exemption. One could argue that how people treat politics they could claim their sides as religious and get tax exempt status.
@FyourCult3 жыл бұрын
wonder how the IRS would feel about Ken telling JWs all those human institutions are as good as dead
@theocheese67323 жыл бұрын
I'm a goat. Greatest Of All Time G.O.A.T
@Broknchainz3 жыл бұрын
They are so sneaky taking 20 minutes to explain how you’ll be destroyed if you don’t support Christ’s brothers now. But they don’t take any time to prove they are Christ’s brothers. They just leave you to assume it’s THEM with NO PROOf...
@UltraSaltyDomer17763 жыл бұрын
Wouldn’t they be able to keep track of their opinions or are they counting on witnesses not to put it together. You did a video of a guy who wanted to discover stuff without looking away from witness documents stuff like this would be perfect examples of how JW has flip flopped on everything. Maybe after discovering these issues it would wake them up enough to be open to listening to ex witnesses (apostate) material
@user-sm3ql3qq2r3 жыл бұрын
More scare tactics to make them feel bad & too scared to ever even utter a single doubt
@nesbo75783 жыл бұрын
So, children of goats will be destroyed despite Deuteronomy 24:16 saying: “Fathers should not be put to death for what their children do, and children should not be put to death for what their fathers do. A person should be put to death only for his own sin.” Doublethink, again.
@clarity24783 жыл бұрын
Great catch........ watchtower plays any old tune ....to suit their purposes!