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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
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Ariel Anderssen's journey from a childhood within the Jehovah's Witnesses cult to becoming an adult content model highlights a significant transformation and exploration of identity and personal choices. Growing up in a restrictive and insular environment like a cult can have a profound impact on an individual's later life and decisions. #JehovahsWitness #CultChildhood #LifeChoices
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Chapters:
00:00 My Weird Upbringing
6:45 Realising I'm in a cult
10:26 How the cult GOT my parents
14:15 What I thought of YOU guys
19:19 How I Escaped
25:50 What happened to my sexuality
29:05 Armageddon
34:34 What JWs DID to me
40:35 Paradise on earth
45:20 My Sister's HUGE Secret
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Edited by: Gonzalo Kaplanski
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You are self indulgent from a cancer survivor 😢
Andrew, I keep trying to join locals . I keep getting refused, because it says my email is not valid ? I have been using it for years. What can I do to join Locals ? I watch you every day on UA-cam. Allison
not a cult. these people that leave are over emotional sick individuals. there's no trouble leaving. no secrecy at all
I was also born into it and escaped in my mid twenties. Thankful I never needed a blood transfusion as I would have been denied it and left to die. That happened to a six year old little boy in our congregation who died as a consequence. No birthdays, Christmas or Easter. Boring meetings, it was misery. So glad this young lady is out of it
Watched a 26 year old die...
she fell off a pushbike and broken bone nicked an artery.
Parents wanted her to have blood, but church elders came in a stymied her parents wishes
(they too were JW !)....
dreadful situation...
Elders came to hospital to have crisis talks....
So, i asked elder, if Eve came from rib of Adam...and blood cells are produced from the bone marrow, why was church so against transfusion.....?
ELDER WAS CAUGHT OUT AND COULDNT RESPOND!
Thou shalt not take the blood of another refers to MURDER....
not a blood transfusion...
Elders walked out after my very succinct question! because i challenged their belief on the book of jehovah and who told them to interpret ancient words against current medical life saving assistance...
No come back!
Oh my gosh Irene, that sounds incredibly traumatic, I have so many questions, this woman was unable to get a blood transfusion because of church elders? Was she unconscious and unable to make healthcare decisions, wouldn’t the hospital listen to her parents over church elders?
@@shermac246
She was awake and talking.
Her parents tried to convince her she needed whole blood transfusion (which she desperately did, she was low in oxygen, and her main artery leakjng so not thinking "clearly")
Her parents were Witnesses but not deeply invested in the church.
She requested church elders come in to represent her...!..
The Church, as her "guardians" made the decision...
NO BLOOD PRODUCTS AT ALL....
Hospital couldnt get emergency injunction status because she died while it was being put before the courts....
It was so SAD.....
ICU team were devastated...
And because not long previously a 6 year old JW was made a ward of the hospital...again, blood required...it enforced an emergency meeting...
We had ICU team, Ethics Committee, couple of Ministers from other churches, Anglican and Catholic i think... and about 4 senior reps from the JW Church...
They could NOT RESPOND TO THE ADAM AND EVE analogy.....
where i showed GOD SAID BLOOD PRODUCTS ARE OK...
BECAUSE SOME OF YOUR BLOOD CELLS ARE MADE IN YOUR MARROW....
that silenced them....
Nowadays, because of the horrific Middle Eastern Wars, the Military developed life saving fluids...that can be used instead of blood products...and in conjunction with blood products...thats how many injured Veterans are saved at the scene.....their medics are really well trained in trauma management......
Hope that helps answer your question....💞✌️🙏
I'm so sorry to hear that, and very glad that you escaped too. Am very happy to be out!
@@ArielsTwilightYears What advice do you have about those in Ukraine who are trying to escape the 'cult'? Join the army?
My 3rd grade teacher was a JW and he tried to prevent us from having a Halloween party. Until my mom got involved. 😂
Satan's big day
@@Lisa-x3n5x It's just as amazing how many Jehovah's Witnesses aren't stuck with student loan debts as millions of jobs are being eliminated due to AI taking over
Three cheers for Mom!
Had an uncle that was a JW…. Used to try to stuff those leaflets all around our house and in the glovebox of the car when we gave him a ride. Also tried to pull us kids aside and “talk” to us… mom “handled” him, too. Told him if she caught him doing any of that again, she’d bounce his ass right out of our house and he would not be coming back. She wasn’t taking any crap. Needless to say, he stopped.
@@turdfurgusonx believe what you want, but not cool to use your power to try to force your beliefs on others-especially children. Someone should have “checked” that. Surely there were other adults around that were aware of that and they should have gotten involved.
I lost both parents to this cult because they wouldn’t have a blood transfusion. Such a waste. 😢
So sorry for your loss
So sorry 🩷🌸
Oh dearest....
@@susanfifi285 Thank you 🙏 it was very sad because I was 8 months pregnant when my mother needed a transfusion after a heart bypass. We were all told she wld die without one. We tried to get a court order to overrule it but the hospital was afraid of being sued. My husband was a barrister and knew the way around the court system to no avail. The trauma brought the baby on 4 weeks early but he was fine fortunately. They have a lot to answer for.
Oh I'm really sorry for your loss. Sorry to hear that 😢
I used to work with a Jehovah’s witnes. They don’t celebrate Christmas but she was the first to book her holidays for those two weeks every year and wouldn’t let any of us (who had children) swap with her
Recovered Evangelical Christian here. It's absolutely true what she is saying about your peer group and even family in many cases. When I was a young woman in the 80's I belonged to a developing mega church. A person's 20's is when they typically make their friends groups which in most cases lasts for life. When I decided to leave the churches that I had invested my life in, my "friends" turned their backs on me; the unequally yoked thing and "how can two walk together if they don't agree" adage. Consequently the friends group I cultivated as a young woman dissipated. Luckily I have one friend from middle school, one from high school and one from college. It's a small group but at this stage I'm fine with it as I have close family relationships.
As a younger person, the fallout was hard to take but I knew I had to get away from spiritual manipulation and become an emotional adult. I have zero regrets because the guys I dated and those friends are now religious right extremists. I see it as dodging a major bullet.
I was raised jw and had the exact same epiphany when I was young...how lucky was I to be born into the only group that would be saved....I count it as the start of waking up
Oooo I was born in as a JW and left at age 25. I’ve been out for 8 years now. Looking back at my childhood is so weird.
I'm so glad you got out; I hope your life will be full of happiness and adventures
When I had to have open heart surgery @53 I had absolutely NO FEAR about death.
I had come to the reality there’s no point stressing about anything I can’t control.
I’m 58 & about to have another open heart surgery.
Ya just gotta roll with the punches & go with the flow…or die young of stress!
Good luck with your surgery. ❤❤
I see now that getting Jehovahs witness magazines helped make it easier for Scientology to get to me. They really messed with my mind, especially because I was still young.
Just had a peek at the other site. It’s about time we can be treated like grown ups! Good luck with it.
I started telling JWs at my door that I was a catholic. Then they'd say oh Catholics are our biggest converts. Then when they'd start on the whole "only JWs are going to be saved", I used to say really that's not what my tarot cards said this morning.
They just about ran back to my gate.
Lol 😂
Thank you for the advice. 😊
@@snowwhite2524 anytime 😊
Which Catholics are being saved in Ukraine? Who's protecting Ukrainian Catholics from being slaughtered by the Russian Catholics?
Yes just tell them you're a very happy pagan 😂
"It's easy to imagine living forever in your own body." 😂😂😂 Spoken by a young person!!
LOL, yes. I was a a young person when I thought that 😂
@@ArielsTwilightYears You're hilarious. You still are! 😊 Warm wishes.
Yes bingo. Now that I’m 63 it’s not so inviting this living forever thing. Lol
I'm glad she only had 13 years of brain washing an still has part of her family! My experience was almost 40 years in with many of those years wanting to be out but afraid of the consequences if I left. They control the members through fear an isolation to the point of some choosing suicide to escape as my husband did.
I am really sorry for the loss of your husband, I really hope you are getting the comfort and support that is needed and that you are healing if not completely.
I agree, I can't imagine what 40 years would do to you. And I'm so sorry to hear about your husband. x
I’m so sorry about your husband.
My husband also died by suicide as a JW. JWs have a high rate of suicide and it's important that people know this, so thank you for sharing.
I wish people who are feeling suicidal would just go and do something exciting, like paragliding or paddle boarding. The problem is that they are clinically depressed ie nothing but nothing makes them feel alive. All their likes are dulled, they cannot be persuaded to go for a walk or watch a movie or eat favourite food, there is no motivation. They need to be taken by the hand and given something to do that requires complete brain power, like balance or sequence or both, to hopefully feel that spark again before takling the real problems. Something that is scary and dangerous enough to grab their attention. Then again I'm saying this as a non depressed person and the reality when your depressed is very different.
In my husband's case it was bipolar or what used to be called manic depression. The JWs will deter you from seeking medical attention and downplay the seriousness of suicidal feelings, all in the name of Jehovah just like they do CSA.
I almost became a JW once cos I worked with a lady who I liked very much and who had just converted . So I had the weekly visits from two lovely ladies who taught me a lot about the Bible (although at the time I didn't know they change some scriptures). But one day I went with another friend (who was also considering converting) to the big Kingdom Hall near where we lived . My friend and I almost immediately whispered to each other that all the women in the congregation were behaving like Stepford wives! Neither of us could see ourselves fitting into that kind of expectation, so I ceased the visits/Bible study as did my friend . It was very different and cultish when we saw the whole congregation together and all seemed to be very controlling as far as we could tell as visiting outsiders. I must stress that the individuals I spoke to within the organisation seemed very nice, but there was just something that didn't sit well with me as an organisation
I know someone who already was sworn in to join the military but left to become a Jehovah's Witness. Now the US is preparing to go to war with China.
It’s so interesting because as someone who has left the Mormon faith I completely understand what she is saying. We were always taught that the JW were not a Christian religion. 6:46
I love listening to Shaun's channel. I read his book when I was in prison and I contacted him about some stories I had. Surprisingly, he responded and accepted a few of them.
Ariel has an amazing eloquent way of speaking .
Thank you, that's very kind
This reminds me very much of when I became involved with the Revolutionary Communist Party many years ago. I'd escaped an extremely strict Roman Catholic ideology, only to replace it with an extremely orthodox Marxist ideology. And although there were many Marxist groups àll around, only WE were the TRUE Marxists. It was very cultish in that, only total commitment to the cause - 7 days a week! - was acceptable. Only having friends in the RCP was considered acceptible. After eventually plucking up the courage I got out in the dead of night 🤦
Amazing story. Sound horrifying
I wasn’t in a cult, but I was Very sheltered until dad left when I was a teen. I was born in 71, but didn’t experience the secular world until 84 lol. Alienating, yes.
in a dream once a girl explained to me how lots of people could benefit from de-programming from their family's influence, the "accepted beliefs" & habits imprinted on them, etc.
Dated a JW. Well, he wasn't, but his family was.... they were SO kind & welcoming, BUT I did spend *days at the hospital- as one of them died from lack of blood transfusion. It was the saddest, longest few hours. Everything she is saying is accurate. Well spoken, intelligent guest. You're a pro, Andrew Gold. 🥇
We haven't been taught the true science... We've been taught strict ideals and scientism
So that means.... What? All we've been taught can NOT be trusted. We must do our own critical thinking & study, which is another thing we've never been taught to do.
Exactly correct
it's always interesting to me how I find myself relating to folks like Ariel. I didn't grow up in a cult, .... but I did grow up deeply steeped in a southern baptist church. We seem to have had similar ideology, which is why I find cults so fascinating. I was very much afraid of being possessed by demons. Believed I was haunted by them, circling me, waiting to possess and control me. I never told my parents or anyone for a long time when this was happening, for a number of reasons. Fear of being crazy, and simultaneously fear of it being true. I have mostly grown out of this, thru therapy and more insight into my childhood, but it still lingers sometimes.
I’m 47 and just coming to terms with how I was raised it was def a perfect storm of a traumatic/abusive upbringing to then being raised as a JW. Like all religions it’s not the individuals themselves it’s those that use their trust for their own gain … so I have been dealing with not just an existential crisis but also trying to navigate or reconcile the isolation imposed on me due to my ‘wayward’ behavior and that of trauma recovery
It’s terrible, sad, lonely and lately quite infuriating. All these years as the ‘bad seed’
Wow, you are the same age as the guest.
Try to have a great relationship with Jesus 😊 🙏 Cleave to Abba God and he will have a relationship with you. There are many people who love the lord and have been called to come out of the organized religions. I have a great community of like minded Christians who obey the lord. I practice the Sabbath on Saturday like the Hebrews and I observe God's feast and festivals that I have learned. I love Yom Kippur which is coming next month. I try to follow what Yeshewa and his disciples follow.
Can relate to so much of what you said - apart from it being a different religion for me.
Worked with JWs and when asked if we the staff could exchange Xmas presents, put up a tree, the answer was NO. But he would go to other company’s Xmas parties and get a gift from them 😡
Such an interesting conversation!!! Love it!! I do find it so dumb of UA-cam to sensor soo much!
I vaguely remember a conversation i had with an older woman, who was the Aunt of a friend of mine, and she had talked about how she told the elders about something she had done (i can't remember if it was something that didn't seem like you should be in trouble for it or it was something I'd wondered why she would talk about something like that with them) and they made her, and her family as well who had nothing to do with it, sit in a see through but closed off section in the back of the church during service so that everyone knew she'd done wrong and could shun her and her family. The whole thing was just so strange to me. I really felt for her and her family bc it just seemed wrong. I felt like, if they had really done something so wrong, where was the helping correct the mistake like parents would maybe or their understanding that we all make mistakes and should lift each other up. Quite sad.
This sounds like a load of rubbish.
Yeah!!! I'm already on Locals, so that's perfect that you're moving over. I'm super excited about this news!😁
My experiences are similar on the social interactions with "wordly" people, missing out the various celebrations. In Finland one stands out at school environment for couple of other reasons that might not be known to most. First, in Finnish school curriculum, religious teaching is part of it, of which JW children are released from and which causes questions amongst the peers, like "Where were you?" and "Why you didn't join the class?". Another thing that makes one stand out is the meal time at school, as meal is free and provided by school. Whenever there was any food that contained blood, the JW children get an alternative meal. It's just some more pressure to the other things they are missing out. And not mentioning the knocking on doors, who knows when you knock on the door of your classmate or school mate.
Ariel Anderssen you are a very strong woman and I have a lot of respect for you
Thank you so much!
My ex husbands tyoe of church had meetings that would show movies to "inform their members" about other regular churches being demon filled . And that being involved with anyone , even in regular life , whos affiliated with (basically) any other church you could get possessed . Oh boy , let ne tell ya, that eventually lead to some extreme behaviors in my then husband.
I always tell JW who come to my door I'm a born again Christian. I'm sure they have "demons live here" noted next to my address.
That’s crazy !
I don’t know what happened in the 80’s because I was too busy raising 3 young children 😅🤪
You are right Andrew, people don't want to talk about death. I watched my mother in her later years, with ill health, face the subject with such fear. She was hampered so much she was unable to enjoy the small joys we learn to look for and really appreciate as we age or face an earlier death from illness or disability. This area is one which as Human Beings, we could use our courage and curiosity to explore our inevitable demise honestly and openly with each other. This might temper the individual's aloneness that accompanies awareness.
So much of this conversation reminded me of my own childhood, being brought up in an Evangelical church (Church of the Nazarene). There was so much that we couldn't take part in - going to movies, dancing, playing any sort of card game...and on and on. We wouldn't be ostracized, if we were 'outed' doing any of them, but shamed mercilessly. (An aside: I was fondled in my teens by our Sunday School Superintendent.)
I had my first anxiety attack in grade school - I came home to find no one there. I KNEW that everyone had been 'raptured', and that I'd been left behind, because I had a crush on one of the boys in my class. In my late teens, I began to realize that there were so many different philosophies, and they all claimed to be 'right/true'. I decided that they were all wrong, and all the mythology was basically just invented out of fear of death, and ways to avoid thinking about it.
In my mid-70s now, I have no fear of dying. I expect oblivion. What could be nicer than that?
Well put xx
I was a cradle Catholic. Catholic gràde school, etc. I remember an incident explicitly. I had a dog that I loved with all my heart. In a religion class I asked "Sister" if dogs go to heaven too? She responded "No". I said, "then I don't want to go there". Her response was that after I died and "saw the face of God" that I wouldn't care about my dog. That was the beginning of the end of Catholicism for me. Although still totally brainwashed as a "lapsed Catholic" (One is never an ex Catholic). I consider myself a born again Baptist Christian. And I am at peace with that.
In the Bible Heaven is full of animals...What you loved here will continue in Heaven...Yes you will see that dog again as I will meet mine...❤️🕊
If our pets aren't there, then it isn't heaven. 😀
Recovering catholic. Got caught up in fundamental religion. Recovering from that too.
Now I’m at peace.
The Nun was WRONG about Church teaching. There is no reason to think we won't see our beloved pets in Heaven 👍♥️
@@johnryan1798 You pathetic idiot...and as for eating meat Jesus ate lamb...all the meats allowed in the Bible...
Andrew you need to talk about what happend to the Wootton affair
All in good time. I'll do something on it this week! But for now, no updates :/
I thought I was the only one that would catch myself thinking like a Jehovah’s Witness, and have to stop and think about it and tell myself it’s OK to do whatever it was that was opposed by the JWs. I can so relate to what she said about that. I think that this is stuck with me forever. I’ve only been out of the cult for approximately a little over two years, so I hope over time that I no longer have that thinking.
🤞
Name me 1 religion where they do not think they are the one true religion/group on this Earth today? I think one of the things that really woke me up and helped me realize I was not in the one true religion was the fact that I had multiple patients in my life (work in healthcare) and all believed they were part of the one true religion. Catholic, Evangelist, Pentecostal, Baptist, Christian, Mormon, Jewish, Jehovah’s Witness. And I realized that they all believed they were one true religion and they had been faithful and when they passed they were going to heaven.
I’ve realized that all religions believe pretty much the same thing.
Mark Twain said, "religion was invented when the first conman met the first sucker." 😅😖
ahh yes the sexual suppression is soo damaging. My daughter identifies as A sexual, but therapy is encouraging her to examine the possibility of if the JWs influence damaged her development.
If you think sexual repression is damaging, you might want to get in contact with Lloyd Evans. He has ways of handling his sexual repression. After all, he did put out a whole video of how his life improved in Thailand after spending patrons money on "girls". Remember that video? That's the one where he states that he has no control over his penis.
@@johnryan1798 yes I have seen that video. I just hope therapy helps my daughter work things through. I have parent guilt too thinking about things. Watchtower has a lot to answer for.
@@helfyre6115 Parents have a lot to answer for too. It's their responsibility to train a child as to what's best for them.
Having a cat litter box in your bathroom so your child can use it because she identifies a furry is something that parents will have to answer for. Same as if you allow your son to wear women's clothing when the scriptures clearly forbids it, or have your son using the girls lockeroom and terrifying the girls demanding it's his right because he identifies as one...that's going to be on your head too.
The way the world is heading with technology and AI monitoring every aspect of our lives, it won't be too much longer before we all answer to the 'new' world government that's preparing to take over.
@@helfyre6115if your daughter is asexual that's fine, it doesn't mean she won't or can't have relationships if she wants to. Just let her know that you accept her.
@@powderandpaint14 100% agree.
I think your are right as far back as I can remember I was into the same thing as you. I wasn't exposed to thoes thing but it was there
My uncle was a JW. I went to a meeting with him once.. NEVER AGAIN. It was awful, boring to a 20 something year old. I just could not understand the appeal.
Fear-based religions, and the JW's are but one of those, stress damnation. Those in such cults fall in line because they're afraid of damnation. I survived a different one and escaped at 15.
Wait for the real apocalypse,coming soon to a theatre near you
My teenage meighbor took her own life a year ago because J W father said she could go live a boy whom she liked ( but had not had sex) or live under his rule as long as she lived with family. The 12 y.o. girls is miserable. In the US, CPS would remove her .
Christine Mcvie died from Fleetwood Mac not the other band mates like Stevie Nick’s or Lindsey Buckingham…
Oh my goodness, I used to know this lovely lady. Her story is so interesting and intriguing. I had no idea!
Oh, my God, again, I can so relate about living forever. I thought it would be boring as hell, and I told my dad that and he gave me heck. It would be boring. No thanks 🙈
That woman is very articulate and highly intelligent astute kind and beautiful and strong no victimhood here wow I can’t believe she survived all that
I’ve got this playing on my ps and tv but have to comment via phone
Great channel I’m subscribed now.
"Leadership" messes things up...like a song said, " he can't even run his own life I'll be d@mned if he'll run mine." 😅
I was initiated into been a Jehovah’s Witness when they came to the back door when I was a nanny working in Marbella Spain they said that I could live anywhere in the World and produce this glossy brochure with beautiful mansions and said I could choose which one I wanted to live in alarm bells rang it was more fantastic then any holiday brochure alarm bells rang from the get go and I did not want to give up been my position as a nanny but so I decided it was not for me even though I studied the cult when I came back to England ten years passed by and I met Marc who had been raised a Jehovah Witness and was the loveliest guy ever but it really messed with his mind and I’ve met others and they were the most messed up people ever mentally they think like they are superior to others a bit like most religions especially one that I will not mention on you tube they think they are so right but the one I won’t mention why do they think that they are superior if u choose to believe in the lord that’s great I say grace speak to the lord direct and do not go to Church because i have terrible insomnia I have read some of the bible alot of the Koran been into Buddhism been a born again Christian and studied Wicca now I have my own belief system and my religion is LOVE I am a gangster of LOVE religion always made me feel guilty for something I had never done I’ve always been a lovely person and I’ve helped hundreds and hundreds of people financially mentally and physically and I am nearly sixty been compassionate as I am because I chose to be a really good person has put my life in danger so many times so be careful people who u give your compassion to assess the most deserving just one more point all religions judge and yet it says in the bible that you should never judge and when ever I got passionate about religion I was always attacked by paranormal happenings which was terrifying so when I meet my maker I feel we are going to get on just fine I was regressed once into three lifetimes and that was fascinating and I did not make that stuff up thank you if u read my long posts and thank you Andy u r so eloquent ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤love to every body .
One of the longest sentences ever written.
Fabulous discussion … thanks for enlightening me
Hearing atheists hoping for meaning within the realm of personal identification 😔😦… i feel ahhh you are scaring yourself, don’t look there 😌… that is not where you lost what you have already…
She does have a hint about death there though. A beautiful piece of something fragmented coming together❤
Great interview
Two of my exs brothers and their families were JW. They never once preached or tried to convert us but they went on missions trips trying to convert people in other countries... ironic.
This was a good interview!!
Know what?.... hearing your talk on why some people join cults, is something that l have never really considered. The simplicity of those reasons. It has altered my view on cult members. Don't like cults but l have a bit more understanding and compassion for most members. Thanks for this 😊
i was a jw for 15 years and have stories that will make a salior bluss. I watched a doctor kill a young woman because of the blood issue.
The JW now say the 144000 who are saved, will be taken up to heaven. The rest of the JW's, above that number, as the numbers grew, will still be saved but just live on earth for eternity. They just changed the belief to suit themselves. They also changed the bible, old as well as new testament. The Revelation, as written by them, is bosh, totally. They also dont have ordained ministers. Just "brothers" who interpret. When the JW's knocked on my door, I just pointed at a sticker in my window saying " This is a Catholic home", and they literally ran away.
I’m not sure if this is covered yet. But I wondered if her family had to stay away from other family members that were not part of the JW? 17:56
I'm so interested in this and pretty much everything you do. However I've had an absolutely lovely JW lady visit me for some time. I've absolutely no intentions of joining this cult but I just can't bring myself to say pis# off. She's the sweetest older lady. I think I need to grow a pair and be real and tell her to stop calling round. I find it really hard being what I consider rude even though I know it's not rude. I guess sadly I'm a people pleaser. I expect some shi# from this comment but hey ho I am who I am and I like the little lady she's very sweet. I guess that's what they do to suck you in. It's actually really sad that that's how they get you they see a vulnerable person and tell them what they want/need to hear.
Some advice from an ex jdub (me) lol..show them some proof of JW CSAbuse, (google it, there’s hundreds) and when they tell you ‘csa is in every religion’ please tell them, ‘that’s why your religion is not the truth. No true God would allow that.’ Then ask them to put you on the ‘do not call’ list, and they’ll leave you alone. Take a firm stand. These people, nice as they seem, kill their children. Good luck 🩵
That's what the point is we are frightened of death. That's why this lady keeps calling I've lost my daughter and she's using that to try suck me in. It's awful 😞
You can still be friends with the lady. Just make religion off topic.
Yes, stay friendly and maybe "wake" her up.
It’s quite upsetting thinking about this as havin been raised as one and struggling to reconcile information and belief based off of what we were told is ‘the truth’ but the things is most parents got to some point i their lives an consciously made the decision to isolate themselves from there family (from Catholicism of which they themselves fled to America to avoid being judged for a Prodistant/Catholic marriage)
So not only did we not form any strong attachments to our family but also was isolated from everyone else except Witnesses and then further compounded by the isolation domestic abuse garners
Makes me so angry that I had a shit life!!!
It's all about faith.... living by faith...we do it everyday...go to sleep at night believing we will wake up in the morning.😊
Still love your vids, small note - Stevie Nicks death was a hoax, she is alive.
Brilliant guest
😊Andrew: THANK YOU FOR THIS🌈💥May G-D BLESS you and your beloved Family🦋🦋Happy ROSH HASHANAH (soon Sep. 15)🌺🌸🌺Shalom ~ Violet (Toronto ~ Australia)🌳🎄🌲🦚🌳🌳🌳
Hello from Switzerland
Grüezi
@@shortfilms5667 Griezi zrugg
Jw watch tower handouts,website etc is very boring .I don’t know how they keep members
The first encountered of me with JW was when they came knocking our door and showed how colourful their bible was. Of course, I begged my mom to switch from this dull Catholic church to JW. 😅
Did you see that doc on flatearthers they went to a desert in the us where you could see so far in the distance you saw the curvature of the earth
A lot of people me for instance it was issues in my fleshly family and I wanted a better life for my kids they are predators preying on people with trauma.
It looks to me that everything is a cult. We all have a choice as to which cult we will be part of. Of course the cult we're part of is the best. Even if we say that we don't belong to any cult then we're part of that cult that does not belong to any cult.
I always wondered if we would get new teeth every other decade if we lived forever, because even when looked after and no sugar they grind down .
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Thanks!
thank you!!
She's very funny and a beautiful lady (saying this as a gay guy). You should get her back on at some point.
I happily watch this channel and never comment on people's views being different to mine. This is not such a comment, rather, it is concerning a complete inaccuracy. The biblical Christian view (as opposed to the cultural Christian view), is that we will have a body.
I used to think the same "how boring" (before I'd experienced God the person), but I came to know, the more I was aware of what scripture actually stated, that we were created to be humans and we will have a body and live on earth. We won't be just spirit, because we were never created to be that. We find living in heaven as spirit alien because that's not out purpose.
The difference is that we will have a body without frailty. We were not created for death and pain. When I think of "me" and who I am, I don't think of my body which has been dying since birth, I think of the internal intangible "me" which will always exist. It existed, differently, in my baby body, my teenage body, my adult body, and eventually my elderly body; and it will still exist when I leave the body.
Also, God will be able to dwell with us on earth because the separation was due to perfection not being able to constantly dwell with imperfection. With the barrier of imperfection (sin) done away with, He will be able to be amongst us in an intimate way.
We will not be living in heaven. For any "Christian" to think and teach otherwise (as I assume was taught, or not explained, in her Baptist church, is to teach error.
In response to the dread of living forever…could that expectation come because we are taking more of a 3d visual? What if we had if we were perfect could harness all our capabilities plus be able to explore other realms outside of our present expected humanist experiences?
Oh Andrew what’s going on today? Let’s find out
Hi !👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
We are not animals, we are human beings.
Speak for yourself. I'm not an animal, I'm a hamster
I'm not human, I'm a potato. A s*xy one.
As much as I enjoy hearing these stories, I can't help but think that they're pointless. The people who would benefit the most from watching this are the people who are actually caught up in the cults and, ironically, due to the nature of cults, as she testifies, are the people most unlikely to see this kind of testimony. Isn't this just preaching to the choir?
The way I see it, if even just one person sees each video like this (like the person yesterday who was watching live and said they were still in) and gets out as a result, that's still a win. And as an ex cult member I must say that I get a huge amount of comfort from watching the experiences of other people on Andrew's channel, even if their experience is different from mine. So for 'survivors' I think stories like this are also very valuable.
I have a neighbour who was raised JW. She’s into kinky bondage stuff too! Interesting, I think there’s a link with the stories you heard from your family about their fears about hell ?
How do I get membership to locals
Know many people have Ben brain washed. The end of the world preaching and never happened it’s a red flag
Hey xx
I stole a giant bag of weed from hari christnars😁
There house had hanging white sheets everywhere and I got lost in the sheets and stumbled upon a bag of buds... yes I'm going to hell.
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I don't think it's clear one way or another about the flat vs globe earth - i also prefer to stay open and curious. Not judge people to be idiots. Both sides have compelling arguments and they both have some fair points!
Cults are Scary Stuff But Religion is not a cult. It's up to each individual if you want to believe in God or Not!!!.
I wonder if she would accept blood transfusions? Or give blood ? Or accept a organ ? Just curious...
Now? Of course. I’m an atheist.
Don't worry, we are all eternal conscious beings having a human experience. When our body dies we go back home, where there pure peace, love and joy. We never die.
Nice way to think
Good Lord!!! This interview is the very embodiment of cognitive dissonance. Confirms my conviction that is each and every one of us has his/her own unique special brand of fuckedupitness. Bravo.
& the mind is obstinate & skillful at not being cured of itself
In Australia, the JWs started back in the 90s, taking their small children around with them. I imagine it's because people are much less likely to tell them where to go. On paper I'm a Catholic. I've been a spiritualist all my life though. My wee Scottish grandma passed the old ways down to me in age appropriate ways from the age of about 4. Officially the Scottish side a Presbyterian, but my grandma taught me that we were actually Celtic Druid. I was the only family member my grandma passed the old ways to. My ancestors were raped and murdered by the Roman Church when they invaded Britain and into Scotland. The rubbish written about Druids eg being burnt to death in the so called Wickermen, it's all rubbish. If people would just stop and think, they'd realise the bullshit that was told. I wish you could do a show on the reality of druids Andrew. I don't mean those druid groups online these days that charge amazingly ridiculous amounts of money to do 'druid workshops' to become a druid. They profess that there are no 'real' druids left except for them reviving it.
I don't think there is any 'religion' in modern times, that aren't in it for what they can get out of it, usually money. Years ago, I stopped donating etc to the Salvos, when I discovered the $$millions they were making floating on the stock market. Then Lifeline were selling their donations for retail price and some above retail price. These 'christian' based shops were always meant to help people doing it hard financially. I find it disgusting. I donate to the smaller places like Endeavour Foundation now.
Just as a side note, the Salvos, who put themselves out there like the saviours of Australia when we were on fire for 9 months without a break, would only give small amounts of help. They wouldn't go out to the people Andrew, the people had to go to them where the lights and cameras were. These were people who had the clothes on their backs, no vehicles, no food and no money. Please, if you feel you can, do a story on these wealthy church organisations who leach off the people but have 'good' names. You'll find a lot of dirt under their carpets. Organisations don't have to be cults to be leaches.
Do they allow children in Australia to go to random strangers houses unaccompanied by parents to ask for candy? They do it in the United States every year.
@johnryan1798 the Halloween thing?A small pocket of parents tried it with no responses from neighbourhoods. I do know of kids that have dress up parties. We have little decorations in our shops cf the States. The few kids I've ever seen out is in the afternoon and nowhere near dark.
I'm a spiritualist so don't celebrate All Hallows eve, which actually 'pagan' not christian. We celebrate Samhain on the 30th of April/1st of May traditionally.
@johnryan1798 the police issue warnings for that arvo for any who venture to go out in the arvo. As I said, cheap novelty shops have tried to commercialise it but Aussies complain the we have more Americanisation as we'd like.
@@courtneymcgregor3417 The scriptures offer warnings too about completely avoiding any practices associated with the occult.
@johnryan1798 I made it 💯 % perfectly clear, I'm not a christian, never have been, never will be; simply because they don't make sense. I am a spiritualist and strangely enough the beliefs and teachings of 1000s of years of spiritualist teachings, are now being slowly proven by science, while the christian teachings are regularly being dismissed.
It is important to note that all so called christian holidays, were 'stolen' by the church from our Sabbats, when attempting to convert people to christianity. That's a fact.
With all due respect, if you took the time to research, you would know that Jesus was a Druid and had a rather large family, all conceived through good old fashioned sex. He travelled with Joseph to Britain as they traded tin. Jesus's was granted land there and helped build the Druid lodgings in which he called home. While married to Mary Magdalene he travelled to Egypt and studied under the best Egyptian astrologers of the time.
Jesus's had 3 sons, all of which were soldiers, as was Jesus's at the time of the invasion of the Roman church into the country known as Britain.
It was the Roman church who murdered my ancestors, and of course, a lot of others, and raped the women and girls & murdered the men and boys.
History was rewritten to be favourable against the Roman church, and therefore Roman law.
It's all there, in the annals of history, if one chooses to research.
What you believe in, is of no interest to me. Those with tunnel vision, will only look straight into the tunnel waiting for a speck of light at the other end. Those who are willing to actually do some in-depth research, will find all of the windows of light along the way, and find that beliefs are far more greater than those in 'scripture' people have been brainwashed to belief.
It's a quite strong need to be different/ chosen... I also don't get it that grown ups can't grasp those bs stories and are often willing 2 do nasty and even horrible things to others or even loved ones.
The end is neigh... Repent repent...
I also want to be unique/ special, like I guess 8 billion others do too
No! Not UTube now?
so if u agree u dont know things u might have gotten wrong abt flat or round/you sound so proud of yourself/not very humble neither of you
You are not a cult survivor. Your parents joined a religion and then decided they didn't want to be in it any more and so they left. No one stopped them from leaving. They didn't want to follow the moral standards, and that's OK. But there was no escape. No one forced them to join and no one prevented them from leaving. They were and are free to make their own decisions.
It was a cult because like she said, when they left they lost all their friends and everyone they knew that was still in the religion.
@@powderandpaint14 that's not the definition of s cult
@@big.fan.of.justice5754 it is.
I certainly feel as though I could have had much worse luck, in a worse cult. But just from reading through the comments on here, I'm reminded of the harm that the 'no blood transfusion rule' does to JWs. I think that alone qualifies the JWs as a cult. Forcing members to deny themselves and their loved ones potentially life saving medical treatment on pain of being kicked out (and therefore dying in Armageddon) looks pretty damn cultish once you're on the outside looking in. Then there's the making family members limit contact with anyone in their family who leaves. This is not what happens if you leave the baptists, or the Methodists, or the Anglicans. This is the kind of thing that happens specifically when you try to leave a cult. They try to punish you, and break down your familial bonds. It causes enormous long term harm.
Um huh
Salesman. Done now.😢
what
Did she say the Kingdom Hole? Is thst like a Glory Hole?
Hall!
So David Weiss gives you an interview for your channel... earning you money, & you call him an idiot..? It's fine to disagree but name calling is just wrong. Disappointed in you.
He called me an idiot about 100 times! He's a friend, he's fine, we have a rapport where we name call one another. Thicker skin, come on. He called me fucking retarded! I laughed.
Submissive...what... hmm... you’re both British.... so...
See you next Tuesday?
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