Temporary Residents in this World | Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses are often disregarded as a doomsday cult on the extreme fringe, but their beliefs are actually more mainstream than we'd like to think.
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Books
Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses, Third Edition (2015) by M. James Penton
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'Knock Knock' Who's There?: 'The Truth' About Jehovah's Witnesses (2016) by Anthony James
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Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life (2019) by Amber Scorah
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How to Escape from Jehovah's Witnesses (2018) by Lloyd Evans
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Podcasts
Awake! and Unafraid: Support for JW's and ex JW's, and Aid Moving Forward (2020)
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Documentaries
Witnesses of Jehovah (1986) - www.imdb.com/title/tt1791688/
Independent Lens (2007) S8E25 "Knocking" - www.imdb.com/title/tt1428223/
Cults and Extreme Belief (2018) S1E2 "Jehovah's Witnesses" - amzn.to/3yvChMX
The Witnesses (2020) - www.oxygen.com/the-witnesses/...
Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath (2018) Season 3 Special "The Jehovah's Witnesses" - amzn.to/3xkQcFn
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[@KnowingBetter]

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[@thejesuschrist]

wow, just when you thought you knew all the weird things about one of your favorite fan-fiction clubs. thanks for this fascinating and informative video, as always.

[@andrewxjw]

I'm an ex Jehovah's Witness, which is the theme of my KZbin channel. This video was highly accurate. Most Witnesses don't know half of this information and would denounce you. Thank you for holding other religions under the same scrutiny as well. Although I've found Watchtower to be especially harmful in my life, I realize there's always a danger in placing faith above critical thinking, reason, and empathy.

[@itmetetri611]

This is fanstastic. I was born in to the JW "religion" and leaving left me without family, friends or a career path. 5 years later, I couldn't be happier.

[@gspendlove]

I had a buddy in grade school whose parents were JW. From what I can remember, they really discouraged him from having any fun. When the two of us were laughing together, they were frowning. His dad took us to see

[@nigraavis310]

I love how this guy doesn't make epic atheist making fun of religion content, but instead interesting, informative videos. I really enjoy them.

[@isaacweaver2765]

I’m an Exjw and this video was actually the very first video that helped me wake up and deconstruct JW indoctrination. It’s been several months since I left the religion and I’m grateful for videos like this

[@BrooklynBeTheBoro]

Got baptized when I was 13, and disfellowshipped when I was 21. I'm 43 right now, and I haven't seen or spoken to anyone of my blood relatives since the day before I was disfellowshipped. I was born into the organization, the youngest of 7, and the only one to get baptized as a teenager. I knew that I didn't believe in any of the stuff that I was being taught but I was terrified of admitting that to my parents. I only got baptized because I thought it would make them happy. After a year I decided that I would disassociate myself when I had enough money to move out on my own. I haven't been back since. I suffered through loneliness, and abandonment for years, even contemplating suicide on more than one occasion. But I didn't give in to despair. I decided to let my family members go. I have 27 nieces and nephews that I've never met, and my children have no idea that they have family apart from their mother's side of the family. And I'm okay with that. I promised myself that I would never expose my children to the harm I experienced within the organization, and I will stand by that decision until my last breath.

[@sophiabartolomeo6899]

the early Jehovah's witness being an MLM is incredibly accurate and as a bonus is also hilarious

[@RWords-fq1wv]

Ex witness here 🙋🏽‍♀️ I have a chronic blood disease called sickle cell anemia and blood transfusions are a major treatment for the disease. Unfortunately, I grew up a witness and have several traumatic references in my childhood where I was sick and had to refuse blood transfusions. Shit was wild.

[@mikelitorous5570]

My granda always pretends to be a vulnerable old man when they come to the door and speaks to them for a good 5 mins. Then he hits them with the what would you do if your child needed a blood transfusion? Then waits for them to answer and goes. Thank you but I don’t want to be a part of your cult and shuts the door hahaha

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

"Adam failed to read the Apple's Terms and Conditions"

[@snowleopardlady1560]

I recently was disfellowshiped a few weeks ago. This is after being a born-in witness stuck as a silent non-believer for almost 10 years (gaining internet access almost certainly gave me my crisis of conscious). I'm still hurting over not being able to be around my family, at least in the familial aspect, but I'm learning how to have a family that chooses me for who I am instead of my religion

[@DStecks]

It's absolutely incredible that the guy's response to "couldn't you just CTRL-F for real bad stuff to find the child abuse?" was "yeah, but it would be mixed in with loads of other bad stuff we knew about too!"

[@charmyzard]

The Bible: No man can predict the end times.

[@conoroneill8067]

General Public: "These JW's are annoying. Let's ban doorknocking."

[@thinknblue2295]

As a witness that’s currently PIMO (physically in mentally out)…holy shit. I can’t describe how kind blowing this is. I’m currently 23 and was raised a witness my whole life. None of what this guy said about their beliefs is a lie and hearing more about how insane Russel and Rutherford were is wild. We literally praised those 2 guys for how strong in the faith they were and revolutionary. I’ve been going through a rabbit hole of the dirty sides of the religion the last few weeks. The religion doesn’t allow us to actually look at outside info. I’ve never head about the child abuse scandals. I’ve never heard about the letter to hitler or any of it. They’ve always told me it’s the one religion you can’t find dirt on which they can keep saying because like I said we aren’t allowed to look anywhere. I can’t tell anyone about this without being labeled an apostate and kicked out. You might say well it’s easy to find the info but when you’re raised in it for so long the second you hear about outside sources and info your gates come down and you instantly stop listening. I was like this for years and just started to actually listen. The mental damage the religion has done to me and others is indescribable. If anyone has questions I’d be glad to answer. For anyone reading this that’s PIMO like myself…I wish the best for you. I understand the weight on your shoulders juggling freedom and happiness with not being able to ever see your family and the friends you were raised with ever again

[@vowgallant4049]

"The Watchtower Society" literally sounds like the name of an evil organization from a YA Dystopian novel.

[@DeadBaron]

Oh boy. I was raised a JW. This will be hard for me to watch, when I turned 18 I got away as far as I could. My mother is still in and she doesn't listen. It's scary seeing not only the indoctrination, and how they bleed money from members and straight into leadership's pockets, but how much they twist the Word to guilt people into those donations. Then there's the disfellowships. My sister married someone from outside the congregation, so now our own mother feels like talking to her is a sin. It's insane.

[@Guarddog33]

This video is old so this will likely go forever unseen, but I'm happy you mentioned the blood transfusions. My grandmother was a witness, and died over the transfusions. She had cancer, and it got to the point where she had multiple tumors in her chest. She underwent surgery to remove the tumors, but denied transfusions in any event, and as such she bled to death on the operation table. This religion took my grandmother from me, and I've never forgiven them