My roommate in college my sophomore year was a Mormon. She was very devoted to her religion and her congregation. she ended up pregnant and got excommunicated, and the only way she could come back was to give her child up for adoption… It was the saddest thing to watch because she was so invested in her religion and had no where to turn for support. It’s been almost 14 years and this experience still saddens me.
I remember when I was a nurse, a woman need a transfusion and her husband refused. Her kids were trying to get her to have the transfusion and she was sticking with her husband's "No." At the last minute she said yes, and got the transfusion, her husband came in with her suitcase and said she had to get out of his life, the sons followed him. It was heartbreaking but the daughters stuck beside their Mother. A family ripped apart in less than a week due to their JW beliefs.
My sister’s best friend died because of that belief. All the parents turned her into a martyr, we felt differently. They spoke horribly of her when she was alive because she no longer came to the meetings (she was not baptized). Her abusive boyfriend stabbed her. She would have lived if she got the transfusion. She was 23 years old. Her brothers were never the same after that. My sister either. Your upbringing is very similar to mine. When I turned 16. I made the decision it wasn’t for me. Love your videos Ashley!
@@SweetPaisleysWorld omg I lost two friends too suicide in this stupid azz religion! One of them was 14 the other was a teen too. This religion should be banned of any practice. My family is so brain washed it's insane especially my grandparents. It's so sad too see.
Stop. That can happen in any religion. Do you live in a time capsule? Prime example. Bob Marley died because he refused medical treatment in the name of Rastafarianism. A lot of people deny certain medical treatment due to religious beliefs ranging from Christianity to Islam to Judaism to Hinduism. Not only that, you are a nurse in the ER so I'm sure you have seen worse than that!
There was this guy in the band with me in high school that was a witness. He could practice with us, but he could not get on the field and perform with us. In my head I’m like all that practicing for nothing.
I am COGIC, growing up my best friend was JW. Her mother passed during child birth, she needed a transfusion and denied it the baby survived. My friend stopped going to the Kingdom Hall at 15 never looked back. Her dad ended up marrying another lady from the Kingdom Hall. I started watching your channel when your locks where very short, and look at them now. I enjoy your videos continue doing a good job. I will continue watching. God Bless
I love you so much Ashley I’ve been watching you since you was in school in college in 2013 when I was only sophomore in high school I’m now 26 years old college graduate myself. I also am born into the Jehovah witness religion as well I honestly don’t know why about the birthday thing but that didn’t stop me lol 😂& my mom was the same as yours raising me but she wasn’t that strict it was more so my aunt and uncles my grandparents wasn’t that bad they had they moments I just remember watching Harry Potter as a kid and they shut that shit down . But I want to thank you so much you probably don’t remember but I inbox you about how to come out to my mother and you encourage me and I did it and I’m so happy my mom still loved me she also was a huge fan of yours she recently passed from Covid. I honestly feel like you’re my big sister sending you love and blessings 🫶🏽
My grandmother was also a witness. She made me go door to door, to the convention's and memorials. Those 3 day conventions were torture!!! When I turned 16 she stopped making me go and I haven't been to a kingdom hall since. It's just wasn't for me. But my granny was awesome. Even though she wasn't supposed to be celebrating birthdays, holidays ect.. she would wait until a couple of days after said event then give us gifts for it. Even though my friends were considered “worldly” she always made them feel welcomed. I remember they always said she reminded them of the witness from the beginning of “Friday“, Half dead mutha….. lol, I miss her so much.
Thank you for making this video!!!!! My grandma converted to JW during the pandemic. She has become a whole different person since. Constantly throwing her religion in my face, trying to convert my children. It’s awful!
As a ex Christian my grandma always throws religion in my my face my dad’s face because we don’t go to church but don’t throw it in my auntie and her daughter face im tired of her doing it
I used to babysit a little girl who's maternal parents were JW's. She never tried to convert me, she didn't let the kids celebrate any of the holidays. After I stopped babysitting her daughter, she is more involved back I her church but still never tried to convert me.
I have an aunt who married and converted to Jehovah Witness after growing up Baptist and I remember that she refused to enter the church where my uncle's funeral was held, which was the church their family attended growing up in Kentucky, strange thing is her husband and children did attend while she sat in the limo. I also remember attending her daughters wedding at the Kingdom hall and my family drove from Kentucky to Cincinnati Ohio for the wedding and afterwards when it was time to greet the couple the members of the Hall rose first to greet them and our family had to wait over an hour to see them including our family matriarch who had not traveled in over 10 years. We weren't even acknowledged and ended up leaving early, some of us not even getting to speak to our cousin.
@@eve3363 I know that they can attend funerals, I just recall my father and other family members being upset that my aunt refused to enter the church but her family did.
Hey Ashley! Ex-witness here! My mama (she's active) told me the reason behind not celebrating birthdays is because it's a form of worship. I feel the same way you do though.. like a celebration of self. I was born Catholic and my mama converted when I was in 2nd grade so I've been in both worlds.. love your videos!
Thanks I needed this, I grew up a JW and as a gay black male who isn't close to hardly any of my family due to the religion and the trauma I've been thru since being outted by my step mother and no close relationship to my own biological older brother it has really messed me up mentally, I'm pretty much a loner and socially awkward, struggling mentally trying to get by day to day and definitely suffer from depression and feelings of not wanting to be here anymore. It's just been very hard lately and yet my family still to this day tries to push the religion on to me versus letting me make my own decisions, it's just a lot.
Sending you much positivity and peaceful vibes. Keep pushing each day that God blesses you with because no matter what anyone says you deserve love and your life is worth living. I hope you keep in mind that God put you here for a purpose. I’m not a religious person so I’m not trying to preach just wanted to make you smile 😊
Praying for your strength and healing. Jehovah God (Psalm 83:18) loves you. I know life is hard, but keep in the fight for life. There are people who can relate. Family isn't always blood related.
I always felt bad for people getting disfellowshiped. Because if all your friends and family are in the religion they can’t associate with you . I left the religion. I saw young people suffer from depression because of that 😢
Girrrrlllll, Hawthorn stadium was a time! Those hoagies and Sara Lee danishes were hittin! I too stopped going once I left for college which I planned to in middle school. When my mom pushed that “Questions Young People Ask” book on me and I read that they don’t want you to experience teenage rights of passage or higher education I was mentally out. I grew up in Gary, IN and college was my out and religion was not stopping that. Luckily my dad was not a JW so we got to celebrate holidays. Between me and my sister we have stories. It is very culty.
Your sense of humor kept me watching every bit of this video. I was raised in the Baptist church but don’t go anymore because of the hypocrisy and dishonesty. It’s ok for the pastor to smoke, drink, curse and cheat on his wife, but it’s not ok for me to go to the club Saturday night and come to church Sunday morning??? Truth be told, the only thing I liked about the service was the choir. The message in the music is all I need.
This was an eye opening storytime.Not wanting you to further your education woow! I had a friend who was excommunicated because she chose to marry someone outside the JW. That was very troubling to me. When she joined my former church and her parents came to her children participate in the youth musical. The church wanted to excommunicate them for fellowshiping at our church. Not to offend anyone in the comment section, God isn't that kind of God. We are to draw others to him by showing his love and extending grace and mercy. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
That's a lie. First off, Jehovah's Witnesses don't "excommunicate". That is Catholicism. Finally, you don't get disfellowshipped for marrying someone who isn't a Witness.
Thanks for this video Ashley. I also enjoyed reading the insights from the comments too. I worked with two JWs and both were very sweet women. One was late teenager/early 20s. She left the hall as soon as she graduated and she went to college part time. You have now shed more light to me why separated from the Hall. I loved seeing her developing her own thoughts and actually enjoying life with friends. She had the freedom of someone newly released from prison 😂 The second colleague was older, 50s and a firecracker. 😂I loved working with her and she would always be encouraging us younger ones in the office. She never tried to convert us and neither engaged in church talks.
Thank you for sharing this story. I grew in extreme pentecostalism. Women couldn't wear pants, relax their hair, wear perfume, etc. They now allow women to relax their hair and wear extentions. I left at 22 I was over it. The people that I grew up with don't really talk to me but there was no official ex communication
I really enjoyed this video Ashley. I grew up Methodist but was always curious about the Jehova Witness denomination (if you will) because my oldest brother who is like 15 years older than me dated a girl who was Jehova Witness before he met his wife. I was a little girl so even though she was nice, I thought she was different. The one thing I couldn't understand and still don't was the belief of the number of people that are going to Heaven. But I'm glad that watched this video because you answered so many of my questions.
That set number of heaven caused me to believe that the religion was a scam. If it was true, why are they still recruiting because won't they be statistically increasing the probability of themselves & others not making it in? 😕🤔
This is a great video. My grandmother converted in the 80s but my grandfather did not. My sister and I went to JW Bible studies and things but when my grandpa died, the JW told my grandmother she would go yo hell if she went into a church got his funeral. They scared her so bad that she sat in the car. I was done with JW after that. I will say that I love that book “My Book Of Bible Stories” to this day!
Thanks for this.💜💜💜 You talking about the creepy men reminded me of my childhood. I grew up pentecostal and was molested by the pastor for 4 years until he went to jail for molesting another girl. Religion really seems like a place where that type of person thrives, and I don't think I could ever go back. Also, I haven't heard from my JW converted cousin since 2020 when they got covid really bad and wanted to touch base with us just incase they died. We were surprised to hear from her then.
Hello Ashley! Thx for this video. My Grandfather was a JW and he was a semi professional golfer. They told him he had to choose between the religion or golf. He chose golf. I also have a childhood friend who wasn't raised as a JW, had children, got married and became worldly. When she came out of rehabilitation for drugs, she became a JW. So the life her children had become accustomed to became no more, which I feel is so unfair because she experienced the birtdays, holidays, etc. She's still practicing the religion but we don't talk like we used to but after hearing your video, I'm understanding a little more.
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, you couldn’t help noticing the huge building with the Watchtower sign at the top. It was also known that it was owned by the Jehovah Witnesses. They were very prevalent in Brooklyn. I also remember reading the Watchtower and Awake that we got from the Jehovah Witnesses, when we were outside playing or when they knocked on our door. I read them because I was curious, and the covers of the pamphlets were always interesting. However, some of the topics inside the pamphlets were frightening. For example, it talked about people who were not believers were going to hell and there’d be pictures of people running from fire. Only believers were going to heaven. Image a little kid seeing something like that. I remember feeling like they were more special than other people and I was going to hell.
Grew up a witness a used to pray I didn't run into a friend out in service. I wasn't about that life and was constantly on punishment. Got pregnant at 16, but ended up becoming a black therapist! Everything they didn't want for me. It ruined my family when my mom got disfellowshipped.
This was really enlightening. I attended a private Methodist school but Jehovah’s Witnesses also attended. I was friends with a brother and sister who were Jehovah’s Witnesses and both died within a couple years of each other because they had the same medical condition which required them to have transfusions but they were not allowed.
Im my local community, years ago there was a kid who died from a preventative death similarly. She and her family were JWs and they refused a blood transfusion. It was the first time I heard of religion that had that kinda of power/influence.
I'll never forget the day my step mother found out I was gay and compared me to my older brother who had behavior issues, stole, hung out with the wrong crowd, never graduated high school and got put out the house .. but because I was gay I was WORSE than my brother, mind you I was pretty much told to leave and never come back once I graduated high school 😒
Hi Ashley! I love watching your reviews. I was shocked to see you make a video like this and feel like I relate to you so much more after seeing this! I began my journey with the JWs in my teens shortly after my dad passed away. I felt like they had an answer to everything and found comfort in that. Until I wanted to go to college to study acting. They found a Kingdom Hall for me in the city I moved to for school. At first it was great but then I started to feel spiritually conflicted because the shows I was casted in contradicted with a lot of beliefs practiced by the JWs. I found myself at a crossroad and eventually stopped attending the KH because I felt unsupported and questioned some of their beliefs like animals not having souls, not transferring blood as a donor, or the significance of 1914 (or was it 1912?). 6 years later I find myself in Chicago and recently attended the Memorial at the KH on Mohawk. Here’s where I’m at right now-I miss having a community but refuse to convert because there are still things that I disagree with. I’ve never been baptized but hope to one day feel at peace with my spirituality and relationship with God. At the end of the day, that’s what I think matters most.
Fellow Capricorn boo Thank you so much for this content it was very educational and cool to get a glimpse into your childhood. Shout out to you with the hour and a half video!!!! Got me through prepping and cooking my whole Sunday Dinner... love you like you my sister
This is fascinating info. I have an auntie, uncle and cousin who are the only Jehovah's witnesses in the family and we never really talk, now I know why. I don't believe in organized religion and I'm so glad it was never forced on me through my parents. I personally don't believe in any type of specific religion especially Christianity because I feel like it was forced on my people through the colonizers, so that's always made me feel a way and buck extra hard against it, it feels like a form of control. I'm more spiritual and believe in a higher being/gods/universe and that's enough for me. Thanks so much for sharing your experience and insight Ms ashleh 🥰💗 love n respect from sacramento 🌞
thanks for being so open! It's so interesting to hear about someone else's experiences. especially about such a personal topic. This is what I love about social media. you are a bright star, Ashley.
On the marriage thing, one of my good girlfriend’s parents did not allow her to put their names on the wedding program or invites nor did her parents come to her wedding bc she wasn’t a witness but they otherwise had a normal relationship. I grew up baptist and we used to be in church all the time but I never felt like I belonged. I don’t go now but I do believe in God💜
Thanks Ashley for making this video!!!! It was very informative and this is why your my favorite UA-camr!!! I really like how open honest and transparent you are about your life!!! Plus you always keep it real!!!
My childhood friend started going to the hall when we became teenagers and basically stopped associating with everyone outside the church including his moma. This young adult we knew from same hall unalived himself and the church refused to bury him. Looking back i think he was confused, lonely and depressed. None of the women in the church would give him the time of day, older folks gossiped he was gay and treated him like an outcast except when it came time to knock on doors pr volunteer for other stuff. Don’t even think his parents showed sadness at his suicide. Needless to say when my friend started going i couldn’t understand how he would join a church that would treat their own, who was raised from infancy like that
Although the reason for disfellowshipping was explained to me, I never understood how the Prodigal son was welcomed with open arms and people who were disfellowshipped weren't.
This was a good video. You were lucky not to be raised in a strict Witness household. I was raised an Elder's daughter. Hated every minute of it. And I totally feel you with the emotional stunting that comes with being raised a Witness.
I was brought up as a witness as well. I think the birthday thing was because of when John the Baptist got beheaded at that birthday party, if I’m not mistaken. No longer active as well.
I studied the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses as an adult. My first interaction with a Jehovah's Witness was in 5th Grade when I found out it was my classmate's birthday and she explained to me why she didn't celebrate her birthday. I always remembered what she said throughout my life. Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because the Bible never discussed Jesus nor the Israelites celebrating their birthdays. Birthday celebrations are a Pagan custom. The two birthday celebrations mentioned in the Bible were both celebrated by Pagan Kings and something bad happened at both of them. One of the most remembered birthday celebrations in the Bible is when the head of John the Baptist was requested.
Hey Ashley, I grew up Jehovah's Witness as well. I was 4 when my Dad joined, I'm currently 41. My father asked me at 17 whether or not I wanted to continue, I told him NO! Lol. My father is currently still in the religion. We currently still talk, so I'm not sure if they changed the rules or he is bending the rules personally, lol. Normally divorce results in being disfellowshipped but my Dad wasn't. I think because my Dad was baptized and my Mother wasn't plus she was the one that filed. The Judge eventually finalized it without him. There are a lot of things I don't agree with. Being disfellowshipped or not being able to communicate with non-witnesses is one of the reasons. I will NEVER turn my back on and/or look my nose down on family or human beings in general for their mistakes or for their beliefs.What are you really teaching by doing that? I've researched the Founder of the religion and GIRL......!!!
Appreciate your share ❤ You were never a baptized witness so your dad can still have a relationship with you. If you were baptized or voluntarily dissociated yourself, then 9/10 he would probably stop talking to you.
Thank you so very much Ashley for sharing your story and experience as a former Jehovah's Witness with us! It's really terrible and messed up families are broken apart and can no longer communicate with each other when some family members are dissociated or excommunicated from the church. Baptists take people off boards or from certain positions and gossip about other church members but aren't excommunicated, depending on the church and what a person does. The church members do lock pastors out though lol and sometimes there may be fights when people might stop talking to each other. Some Christian denominations do have a strict dress code as you said. There is a lot of trauma with suppressing thoughts and feelings that are "not natural" and disassociating from them and other emotions to not feel anything and to cope with difficult situations. Praying and wishing gayness away doesn't work (I tried to once or twice) and God already knows us and doesn't make mistakes so how can it be unnatural when he already knows our hearts and who we are when we're made in His image and He doesn't make mistakes?
Thank you Ashley for sharing. I was born and raised into JW as well. My grandparents and my mother is still active witness and my dad was disfellowoship due to divorcing my mom. If made no sense at the time when I was younger why my father was disfellowed and not my mom but he left us so yeah lol. I’m so happy that me and my mother are best friends because at 18 I decided to leave the truth never baptized. I was always the black sheep in the congregation but the other kids were either getting pregnant, having sex or doing drugs but yet I was the bad influence. I was always told not to go to nursing school because in the new world we won’t need doctors and nurses. She never let others in the church say shit about. I actually blocked my aunt because she said I was living under sin due to me living with my boyfriend and that my mother didn’t raise me right. I always say I have my own relationship with Jehovah and he only knows me. I still keep certain teachings with me.
Hey Ashley, I really enjoyed this video. I went to the hall several times as a kid with a friend of my family and it was not for me. I also worked with a woman that was a witness and she was very open to talk about it. She told me that she had to have a chaperone every time she went on a date with her fiancé. She had to go to the elders to get permission to get married again. And they also had a say in where her kids went to school. 2 of kids were home schooled and one went to Whitney Young. I couldn't believe how much control they had over this grown lady life. I have one question why don't Jehovah Witnesses stand up for the national anthem? I always noticed this as a child in school. Great video!!
Ashley, great and honest video about your JW experiences!!!! This is why I'm glad my family wasn't religious, we could go to church if we wanted but wasn't raised in church!!! I know JW who were disfellowed because they got pregnant & never understood it!!!! I know someone who was raised JW & recently got back into the religion and she's changed!!!
I was raised in this religion from the age of five until 18 years old. I will never go back. It ruined my life. I have graduated college and I am very successful.
I find the irony with sexual abuse within in the church and those people are not excommunicated but someone gets pregnant they are shunned. I don't get it.
I’m commenting as I’m watching and I’m not a Witness but I worked with and even studied a bit and went to the Halls with my neighbor. But to answer your question the reason I was given with the birthdays was that in the Bible the 2 times that Birthdays weee mentioned there was also a death involved.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I also experience a lot of the same issues. I left when I turned 21. Most of the people I grew up with in the Kingdom Hall either left when they were teens or began to ostracized me for their own personal goals. When I was in my 20s it was all about finding a mate. None of the guys were interested in me but only into racially ambiguous women or thin girls. I was neither and felt alone. Because i felt rejected from their social norms it made me seek it outside of the religion. Once I got out into the world, I never came back.
Thanks for sharing Ashley. I was ignorant to the jehovah witness religion. I just know when I was younger I remember them in groups knocking on everyone’s door in my complex to convert.I also knew they didn’t celebrate Christmas. When I heard that as a kid I was like that religion isn’t for me because I was like 11 thinking about all the toys I would miss out on smh. That’s all I knew about them. So thank you for giving me more info and telling your experiences
My mom started studying in the 70’s. I never became baptized, I never understood WHY no other faith would be in heaven or paradise 🤷🏽♀️ I was called a problem. My mother is a witness and I give respect but GOD loves all. Thank you for your channeI, I’m in my 50’s now and I watch you “religiously “
Thank you for this video Ashley! It feels good to know that I’m not alone, coming from a religious family, having to hide my sexuality and being outed before I was ready, being told that if I don’t repent and cleanse my soul of sexual immorality that I’ll be burning in hell… it’s hard. I love GOD. I believe with all my heart that Jesus died on that cross to save me from sin and death. I love you girl and I do pray for you❤
P.S. I know it’s hard to forgive Ashley… and I’m not trying to over step. We must forgive our enemies if we want to be forgiven. I say that with all the love in the world❤
Ashley, i been watching you for a while, we have so much in common. I wanted to jump in so many times during this video. My grandma, aunty, and sister are Jehovah witnesses. My aunty stopped talking to me, when I introduced my girlfriend to the family (my coming out day) and she didn't speak to me again until the relationship ended years later.
You were me ! I was never baptized and was told in front of the whole congregation that I was no longer a jehovah witness because I had gotten pregnant and had a child out of wedlock!
OMG! They brought you in front of the entire congregation?!!! That is truly disgusting! That had to be scarring! My sister and I grew up Jehovah's witnesses too, we were never baptized. My sister had a boyfriend and my Dad brought her to the Elders to have a "discussion". She told me that was the most humiliating thing.
I know of other X- tians dominations that publicly embarrass (seems to be women only) when they either had a baby out of wedlock or sex before marriage. To this day, I've never seen nor heard the church take the same form of discipline and apply it to the men. Q
Thank you for making this video Ashley!!! I grew up Jehovah’s Witness too because of my mom and I stopped subscribing to them when I was a teenager. I still respect religious practices, but I just don’t subscribe to them but I still believe in god and I just keep to myself.
I studied the religion years ago and after I seen a documentary on this sex offender who was a JW, I NEVER LOOK AT THE KINGDOM HALL the same. Even after I moved out from my grandparents’ house, I only went to the memorials. My grandparents are JW. My grandmother is really deep into it, BUT she have her moments. And you are so right about them being messy. Some of them are 'worldly' as well. I done seen it all myself. I know when I went to the Kingdom Hall, they always encouraged the young people to finish school, start a business, or go to college. They pretty much want the youth to pursue their goals. They even had gatherings for high schoolers graduating. I love the ‘Dramatizations’ they have at the assemblies. My grandfather was disfellowshipped because of adultery. And it really made it hard for me to go see both of my grandparents because my grandmother couldn’t talk to her husband, but she had to anyway it went. Why did JESUS died for our sins where you still have MANMADE rules in the religion? This still baffles me till this day.
Jesus died for our sins to be at peace with God. He died so that we can have everlasting life. Religion has nothing to do with following Jesus, Jesus rebuked the religious leaders back in his days. Man made rules are condemned by God, the only rules we should apply to our lives are the 10 comandments, and whatever is said in the New Testament. The bible should be our guide, not other people.
I grew up as a JW and I always went to the meetings with my aunt. My dad and mom we’re divorced and both disfellowshiped. I dealt with a lot in that religion from doing bible studies with family and confiding in them only for it to be discussed amongst the family and I was ridiculed. I was always considered the problem child growing up for doing regular life stuff kids do. And experiencing a parent getting disfellowshiped more than once is humiliating. But luckily my mom never went back and I was able to experience the best of being a regular kid in the world
I kind of have a similar story, but mines weren't disfellowshipped after they got divorced, but they did stop showing to the hall and eventually I stopped going as well 🫠
When my mom passed my sister-in-law and my brother we're upset because we were having it in a church. When my Son passed who is ten years younger than my brother he would not even come to his funeral. That hurt me to my heart. Growing up we were raised Baptist my grandfather was a Baptist minister but when my brother met this woman he turned into a different person.
I really enjoyed this video and in response to my comment you read about my dad and his spouse, I believe my dad died to to refusing blood. He was only in his 40s.
I’m a long time subscriber about 5 yrs. EXCELLENT DISCUSSION!! I have some cousins that are witnesses you helped me understand it. I grew up COGIC Pentecostal & it had fuck shit too!
I was a pregnant teenager at the Hall, I never paid attention if they treated my mom differently I always noticed someone looking at me though. It wasn't like I was the first one & definitely wasn't the last...LOL. I never really associated with the kids it was a bit cliquey to me. I used to right after the Hall ask my mom for the keys and go wait in the car. I agree with everything you said about the college thing, and disfellowship. I just could never get with it
Glad u did this, I don't do religion period.. I studied many n been a part of many, n they all have the same premise to me, control. I also had a great teacher, and a devout Jehovah's Witness, loved her hated it, when she told me aids was a punishment, n they had always mixed, but was only separated by a rope, I was like nope 🏃. I loved the no heaven or hell part cuz I still believe that, n she told us the devil isn't scary he was God's angel so he's beautiful, he can't fool u into submission looking like a red horned demon, I was like she has a point there👍🏾. My understanding on the birthdays is the gift giving, its a form of greed.
Can you make a video with your mom 😭 y’all two are so crazy but I feel you . When I call mines she answers the phone like “What” like damn I can’t get a hello. Then when I don’t call her she’s be at my neck 😭
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My roommate in college my sophomore year was a Mormon. She was very devoted to her religion and her congregation. she ended up pregnant and got excommunicated, and the only way she could come back was to give her child up for adoption… It was the saddest thing to watch because she was so invested in her religion and had no where to turn for support. It’s been almost 14 years and this experience still saddens me.
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Wow!! The older I’m getting the more I’m questioning the practices of these “religions”
I remember when I was a nurse, a woman need a transfusion and her husband refused. Her kids were trying to get her to have the transfusion and she was sticking with her husband's "No." At the last minute she said yes, and got the transfusion, her husband came in with her suitcase and said she had to get out of his life, the sons followed him. It was heartbreaking but the daughters stuck beside their Mother. A family ripped apart in less than a week due to their JW beliefs.
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My sister’s best friend died because of that belief. All the parents turned her into a martyr, we felt differently. They spoke horribly of her when she was alive because she no longer came to the meetings (she was not baptized). Her abusive boyfriend stabbed her. She would have lived if she got the transfusion. She was 23 years old. Her brothers were never the same after that. My sister either.
Your upbringing is very similar to mine. When I turned 16. I made the decision it wasn’t for me. Love your videos Ashley!
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@@SweetPaisleysWorld omg I lost two friends too suicide in this stupid azz religion! One of them was 14 the other was a teen too. This religion should be banned of any practice. My family is so brain washed it's insane especially my grandparents. It's so sad too see.
Stop. That can happen in any religion. Do you live in a time capsule? Prime example. Bob Marley died because he refused medical treatment in the name of Rastafarianism. A lot of people deny certain medical treatment due to religious beliefs ranging from Christianity to Islam to Judaism to Hinduism. Not only that, you are a nurse in the ER so I'm sure you have seen worse than that!
There was this guy in the band with me in high school that was a witness. He could practice with us, but he could not get on the field and perform with us. In my head I’m like all that practicing for nothing.
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I am COGIC, growing up my best friend was JW. Her mother passed during child birth, she needed a transfusion and denied it the baby survived. My friend stopped going to the Kingdom Hall at 15 never looked back. Her dad ended up marrying another lady from the Kingdom Hall. I started watching your channel when your locks where very short, and look at them now. I enjoy your videos continue doing a good job. I will continue watching. God Bless
I love you so much Ashley I’ve been watching you since you was in school in college in 2013 when I was only sophomore in high school I’m now 26 years old college graduate myself. I also am born into the Jehovah witness religion as well I honestly don’t know why about the birthday thing but that didn’t stop me lol 😂& my mom was the same as yours raising me but she wasn’t that strict it was more so my aunt and uncles my grandparents wasn’t that bad they had they moments I just remember watching Harry Potter as a kid and they shut that shit down . But I want to thank you so much you probably don’t remember but I inbox you about how to come out to my mother and you encourage me and I did it and I’m so happy my mom still loved me she also was a huge fan of yours she recently passed from Covid. I honestly feel like you’re my big sister sending you love and blessings 🫶🏽
My condolences on losing your mother. I hope you're able to smile at her memory today! 💖
So wholesome ❤. Blessings to you
This is so sweet. My condolences.
My condolences. Sorry to hear about your mom.
Thank you Ashley for sharing your story with us
My grandmother was also a witness. She made me go door to door, to the convention's and memorials. Those 3 day conventions were torture!!! When I turned 16 she stopped making me go and I haven't been to a kingdom hall since. It's just wasn't for me. But my granny was awesome. Even though she wasn't supposed to be celebrating birthdays, holidays ect.. she would wait until a couple of days after said event then give us gifts for it. Even though my friends were considered “worldly” she always made them feel welcomed. I remember they always said she reminded them of the witness from the beginning of “Friday“, Half dead mutha….. lol, I miss her so much.
Thank you for making this video!!!!! My grandma converted to JW during the pandemic. She has become a whole different person since. Constantly throwing her religion in my face, trying to convert my children. It’s awful!
As a ex Christian my grandma always throws religion in my my face my dad’s face because we don’t go to church but don’t throw it in my auntie and her daughter face im tired of her doing it
Im a Christian🙏🏽✝️
I used to babysit a little girl who's maternal parents were JW's. She never tried to convert me, she didn't let the kids celebrate any of the holidays. After I stopped babysitting her daughter, she is more involved back I her church but still never tried to convert me.
Anyone can do that regardless of religion. Look at how political agendas are thrown in your face.
I have an aunt who married and converted to Jehovah Witness after growing up Baptist and I remember that she refused to enter the church where my uncle's funeral was held, which was the church their family attended growing up in Kentucky, strange thing is her husband and children did attend while she sat in the limo. I also remember attending her daughters wedding at the Kingdom hall and my family drove from Kentucky to Cincinnati Ohio for the wedding and afterwards when it was time to greet the couple the members of the Hall rose first to greet them and our family had to wait over an hour to see them including our family matriarch who had not traveled in over 10 years. We weren't even acknowledged and ended up leaving early, some of us not even getting to speak to our cousin.
my grandma passed 3 weeks ago and wasnt a jw and my mother is. her service was held in a church and my mom did not go. that was so crazy to me
I just went to my friend's Catholic baptism. You can attend someone's church, especially if it's for a funeral!
@@eve3363 I know that they can attend funerals, I just recall my father and other family members being upset that my aunt refused to enter the church but her family did.
Hey Ashley! Ex-witness here! My mama (she's active) told me the reason behind not celebrating birthdays is because it's a form of worship. I feel the same way you do though.. like a celebration of self. I was born Catholic and my mama converted when I was in 2nd grade so I've been in both worlds.. love your videos!
Thanks I needed this, I grew up a JW and as a gay black male who isn't close to hardly any of my family due to the religion and the trauma I've been thru since being outted by my step mother and no close relationship to my own biological older brother it has really messed me up mentally, I'm pretty much a loner and socially awkward, struggling mentally trying to get by day to day and definitely suffer from depression and feelings of not wanting to be here anymore. It's just been very hard lately and yet my family still to this day tries to push the religion on to me versus letting me make my own decisions, it's just a lot.
Sending you much positivity and peaceful vibes. Keep pushing each day that God blesses you with because no matter what anyone says you deserve love and your life is worth living. I hope you keep in mind that God put you here for a purpose. I’m not a religious person so I’m not trying to preach just wanted to make you smile 😊
Praying for your strength and healing. Jehovah God (Psalm 83:18) loves you. I know life is hard, but keep in the fight for life. There are people who can relate. Family isn't always blood related.
I always felt bad for people getting disfellowshiped. Because if all your friends and family are in the religion they can’t associate with you . I left the religion. I saw young people suffer from depression because of that 😢
Girrrrlllll, Hawthorn stadium was a time! Those hoagies and Sara Lee danishes were hittin! I too stopped going once I left for college which I planned to in middle school. When my mom pushed that “Questions Young People Ask” book on me and I read that they don’t want you to experience teenage rights of passage or higher education I was mentally out. I grew up in Gary, IN and college was my out and religion was not stopping that. Luckily my dad was not a JW so we got to celebrate holidays. Between me and my sister we have stories. It is very culty.
The cheese danishes were the absolute best!
Your sense of humor kept me watching every bit of this video. I was raised in the Baptist church but don’t go anymore because of the hypocrisy and dishonesty. It’s ok for the pastor to smoke, drink, curse and cheat on his wife, but it’s not ok for me to go to the club Saturday night and come to church Sunday morning??? Truth be told, the only thing I liked about the service was the choir. The message in the music is all I need.
This was an eye opening storytime.Not wanting you to further your education woow! I had a friend who was excommunicated because she chose to marry someone outside the JW. That was very troubling to me. When she joined my former church and her parents came to her children participate in the youth musical. The church wanted to excommunicate them for fellowshiping at our church. Not to offend anyone in the comment section, God isn't that kind of God. We are to draw others to him by showing his love and extending grace and mercy. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
That's a lie. First off, Jehovah's Witnesses don't "excommunicate". That is Catholicism. Finally, you don't get disfellowshipped for marrying someone who isn't a Witness.
Thanks for this video Ashley. I also enjoyed reading the insights from the comments too. I worked with two JWs and both were very sweet women. One was late teenager/early 20s. She left the hall as soon as she graduated and she went to college part time. You have now shed more light to me why separated from the Hall. I loved seeing her developing her own thoughts and actually enjoying life with friends. She had the freedom of someone newly released from prison 😂 The second colleague was older, 50s and a firecracker. 😂I loved working with her and she would always be encouraging us younger ones in the office. She never tried to convert us and neither engaged in church talks.
Thank you for sharing this story. I grew in extreme pentecostalism. Women couldn't wear pants, relax their hair, wear perfume, etc. They now allow women to relax their hair and wear extentions. I left at 22 I was over it. The people that I grew up with don't really talk to me but there was no official ex communication
I really enjoyed this video Ashley. I grew up Methodist but was always curious about the Jehova Witness denomination (if you will) because my oldest brother who is like 15 years older than me dated a girl who was Jehova Witness before he met his wife. I was a little girl so even though she was nice, I thought she was different. The one thing I couldn't understand and still don't was the belief of the number of people that are going to Heaven. But I'm glad that watched this video because you answered so many of my questions.
That set number of heaven caused me to believe that the religion was a scam. If it was true, why are they still recruiting because won't they be statistically increasing the probability of themselves & others not making it in? 😕🤔
This is a great video. My grandmother converted in the 80s but my grandfather did not. My sister and I went to JW Bible studies and things but when my grandpa died, the JW told my grandmother she would go yo hell if she went into a church got his funeral. They scared her so bad that she sat in the car. I was done with JW after that. I will say that I love that book “My Book Of Bible Stories” to this day!
Thanks for this.💜💜💜 You talking about the creepy men reminded me of my childhood. I grew up pentecostal and was molested by the pastor for 4 years until he went to jail for molesting another girl. Religion really seems like a place where that type of person thrives, and I don't think I could ever go back. Also, I haven't heard from my JW converted cousin since 2020 when they got covid really bad and wanted to touch base with us just incase they died. We were surprised to hear from her then.
Sorry you went thru that 😢
Hello Ashley! Thx for this video. My Grandfather was a JW and he was a semi professional golfer. They told him he had to choose between the religion or golf. He chose golf. I also have a childhood friend who wasn't raised as a JW, had children, got married and became worldly. When she came out of rehabilitation for drugs, she became a JW. So the life her children had become accustomed to became no more, which I feel is so unfair because she experienced the birtdays, holidays, etc. She's still practicing the religion but we don't talk like we used to but after hearing your video, I'm understanding a little more.
I would have chose golf. ⛳
*@Ashley, thank you so much for answering my question, your commentary was awesome!* 👑
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, you couldn’t help noticing the huge building with the Watchtower sign at the top. It was also known that it was owned by the Jehovah Witnesses. They were very prevalent in Brooklyn. I also remember reading the Watchtower and Awake that we got from the Jehovah Witnesses, when we were outside playing or when they knocked on our door. I read them because I was curious, and the covers of the pamphlets were always interesting. However, some of the topics inside the pamphlets were frightening. For example, it talked about people who were not believers were going to hell and there’d be pictures of people running from fire. Only believers were going to heaven. Image a little kid seeing something like that. I remember feeling like they were more special than other people and I was going to hell.
Baby, idk how many times I’ve watched this but the evangelista gets me every time!!!
Grew up a witness a used to pray I didn't run into a friend out in service. I wasn't about that life and was constantly on punishment. Got pregnant at 16, but ended up becoming a black therapist! Everything they didn't want for me. It ruined my family when my mom got disfellowshipped.
Being the child of this type of situation is difficult
Mama need to come on here with the story time … she doesn’t have to show her face but her voice 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Yes Ashley Mama got all the tea lol 😆
Yes... have Mama on ❤❤
I love your channel Ashley!
thank you
This was really enlightening. I attended a private Methodist school but Jehovah’s Witnesses also attended. I was friends with a brother and sister who were Jehovah’s Witnesses and both died within a couple years of each other because they had the same medical condition which required them to have transfusions but they were not allowed.
Awe that's so sad😢
Im my local community, years ago there was a kid who died from a preventative death similarly. She and her family were JWs and they refused a blood transfusion. It was the first time I heard of religion that had that kinda of power/influence.
Yes, it was really sad. Didn’t even make it to middle school/high school.
Thank you for answering my question. Thank you so much for sharing this part of your life with us!
Thank you, Ashley for sharing your experiences with us ❤
THANK GOODNESS YOU CHOSE FREEDOM ... WE LOVE YOU ... THANK YOU FOR THIS
I'll never forget the day my step mother found out I was gay and compared me to my older brother who had behavior issues, stole, hung out with the wrong crowd, never graduated high school and got put out the house .. but because I was gay I was WORSE than my brother, mind you I was pretty much told to leave and never come back once I graduated high school 😒
Hi Ashley! I love watching your reviews. I was shocked to see you make a video like this and feel like I relate to you so much more after seeing this! I began my journey with the JWs in my teens shortly after my dad passed away. I felt like they had an answer to everything and found comfort in that. Until I wanted to go to college to study acting. They found a Kingdom Hall for me in the city I moved to for school. At first it was great but then I started to feel spiritually conflicted because the shows I was casted in contradicted with a lot of beliefs practiced by the JWs. I found myself at a crossroad and eventually stopped attending the KH because I felt unsupported and questioned some of their beliefs like animals not having souls, not transferring blood as a donor, or the significance of 1914 (or was it 1912?). 6 years later I find myself in Chicago and recently attended the Memorial at the KH on Mohawk. Here’s where I’m at right now-I miss having a community but refuse to convert because there are still things that I disagree with. I’ve never been baptized but hope to one day feel at peace with my spirituality and relationship with God. At the end of the day, that’s what I think matters most.
Oh wow! Thanks for telling your story again and experience. That was the school I was supposed to go to for my college years. ❤❤
Fellow Capricorn boo Thank you so much for this content it was very educational and cool to get a glimpse into your childhood.
Shout out to you with the hour and a half video!!!! Got me through prepping and cooking my whole Sunday Dinner... love you like you my sister
This is fascinating info. I have an auntie, uncle and cousin who are the only Jehovah's witnesses in the family and we never really talk, now I know why. I don't believe in organized religion and I'm so glad it was never forced on me through my parents. I personally don't believe in any type of specific religion especially Christianity because I feel like it was forced on my people through the colonizers, so that's always made me feel a way and buck extra hard against it, it feels like a form of control. I'm more spiritual and believe in a higher being/gods/universe and that's enough for me. Thanks so much for sharing your experience and insight Ms ashleh 🥰💗 love n respect from sacramento 🌞
thanks for being so open! It's so interesting to hear about someone else's experiences. especially about such a personal topic. This is what I love about social media. you are a bright star, Ashley.
Yessss baybeeeee I been WAITING for this tea 😂 lemme get my snacks
On the marriage thing, one of my good girlfriend’s parents did not allow her to put their names on the wedding program or invites nor did her parents come to her wedding bc she wasn’t a witness but they otherwise had a normal relationship. I grew up baptist and we used to be in church all the time but I never felt like I belonged. I don’t go now but I do believe in God💜
Thanks Ashley for making this video!!!! It was very informative and this is why your my favorite UA-camr!!! I really like how open honest and transparent you are about your life!!! Plus you always keep it real!!!
Thank you for this one Ashley, it was very insightful.
Yes, GOD does love you! Great video and yes please see if your momma wants to share some stores too😊. Thankful for your momma😊
I love Ashley she's always transparent with us! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾💯💯
I loved this video! So interesting to hear your experience ❤
The reason they can reject ppl who have their life together is because they only value obedience. They only want mindless followers.
Love this video! Thanks for sharing your insight. I’ve always been curious about your journey growing up JW!
I’ve never known much about Witnesses so I really appreciate you putting this video out from your perspective Ashley! ❤
Same here
I learned so much. Thank you so much for sharing. Been watching you for years and appreciate your transparency.
My childhood friend started going to the hall when we became teenagers and basically stopped associating with everyone outside the church including his moma.
This young adult we knew from same hall unalived himself and the church refused to bury him. Looking back i think he was confused, lonely and depressed. None of the women in the church would give him the time of day, older folks gossiped he was gay and treated him like an outcast except when it came time to knock on doors pr volunteer for other stuff. Don’t even think his parents showed sadness at his suicide. Needless to say when my friend started going i couldn’t understand how he would join a church that would treat their own, who was raised from infancy like that
That’s truly heartbreaking 💔
May God have mercy on the people who let these horrible things happen.
And may God also have mercy on those abused by them.😢
Although the reason for disfellowshipping was explained to me, I never understood how the Prodigal son was welcomed with open arms and people who were disfellowshipped weren't.
This was a good video. You were lucky not to be raised in a strict Witness household. I was raised an Elder's daughter. Hated every minute of it. And I totally feel you with the emotional stunting that comes with being raised a Witness.
I swear I done watch this 4 times already & it’s only been out a day! 😂😂😂😂😂
I started following you from your Power Reviews. You are definitely a niece in my head. ❤
I was brought up as a witness as well. I think the birthday thing was because of when John the Baptist got beheaded at that birthday party, if I’m not mistaken. No longer active as well.
Thank you for your testimony Ashley!
The storytime at the end 🤣💀
Great video. Thank you for sharing, Ashley.
I studied the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses as an adult. My first interaction with a Jehovah's Witness was in 5th Grade when I found out it was my classmate's birthday and she explained to me why she didn't celebrate her birthday. I always remembered what she said throughout my life.
Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because the Bible never discussed Jesus nor the Israelites celebrating their birthdays.
Birthday celebrations are a Pagan custom. The two birthday celebrations mentioned in the Bible were both celebrated by Pagan Kings and something bad happened at both of them.
One of the most remembered birthday celebrations in the Bible is when the head of John the Baptist was requested.
Hey Ashley, I grew up Jehovah's Witness as well. I was 4 when my Dad joined, I'm currently 41. My father asked me at 17 whether or not I wanted to continue, I told him NO! Lol. My father is currently still in the religion. We currently still talk, so I'm not sure if they changed the rules or he is bending the rules personally, lol. Normally divorce results in being disfellowshipped but my Dad wasn't. I think because my Dad was baptized and my Mother wasn't plus she was the one that filed. The Judge eventually finalized it without him. There are a lot of things I don't agree with. Being disfellowshipped or not being able to communicate with non-witnesses is one of the reasons. I will NEVER turn my back on and/or look my nose down on family or human beings in general for their mistakes or for their beliefs.What are you really teaching by doing that? I've researched the Founder of the religion and GIRL......!!!
Exactly! That part!
Appreciate your share ❤
You were never a baptized witness so your dad can still have a relationship with you. If you were baptized or voluntarily dissociated yourself, then 9/10 he would probably stop talking to you.
Ashley I have to say I love your videos, but if I don’t hear the ambulance i be looking for it 🤣
Thank you so very much Ashley for sharing your story and experience as a former Jehovah's Witness with us! It's really terrible and messed up families are broken apart and can no longer communicate with each other when some family members are dissociated or excommunicated from the church. Baptists take people off boards or from certain positions and gossip about other church members but aren't excommunicated, depending on the church and what a person does. The church members do lock pastors out though lol and sometimes there may be fights when people might stop talking to each other. Some Christian denominations do have a strict dress code as you said. There is a lot of trauma with suppressing thoughts and feelings that are "not natural" and disassociating from them and other emotions to not feel anything and to cope with difficult situations. Praying and wishing gayness away doesn't work (I tried to once or twice) and God already knows us and doesn't make mistakes so how can it be unnatural when he already knows our hearts and who we are when we're made in His image and He doesn't make mistakes?
Scientology has a similar practice called Disconnection.
big difference is you can leave JW whenever
Yessss we went to Hawthorne race track and romeoville! We attended the Dearborn congregation years ago 😅😊
Thank you Ashley for sharing. I was born and raised into JW as well. My grandparents and my mother is still active witness and my dad was disfellowoship due to divorcing my mom. If made no sense at the time when I was younger why my father was disfellowed and not my mom but he left us so yeah lol. I’m so happy that me and my mother are best friends because at 18 I decided to leave the truth never baptized. I was always the black sheep in the congregation but the other kids were either getting pregnant, having sex or doing drugs but yet I was the bad influence. I was always told not to go to nursing school because in the new world we won’t need doctors and nurses. She never let others in the church say shit about. I actually blocked my aunt because she said I was living under sin due to me living with my boyfriend and that my mother didn’t raise me right. I always say I have my own relationship with Jehovah and he only knows me. I still keep certain teachings with me.
Hey Ashley, I really enjoyed this video. I went to the hall several times as a kid with a friend of my family and it was not for me. I also worked with a woman that was a witness and she was very open to talk about it. She told me that she had to have a chaperone every time she went on a date with her fiancé. She had to go to the elders to get permission to get married again. And they also had a say in where her kids went to school. 2 of kids were home schooled and one went to Whitney Young. I couldn't believe how much control they had over this grown lady life. I have one question why don't Jehovah Witnesses stand up for the national anthem? I always noticed this as a child in school. Great video!!
Yay I love story time from Ashley!
I wasn’t raised very religious but was very sheltered & often felt like you say stunted & feel like a late bloomer!!! But we’re doing great now!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ashley, great and honest video about your JW experiences!!!! This is why I'm glad my family wasn't religious, we could go to church if we wanted but wasn't raised in church!!! I know JW who were disfellowed because they got pregnant & never understood it!!!! I know someone who was raised JW & recently got back into the religion and she's changed!!!
I remember Hawthorne race track & I grew up on 29th and State, so I was near White Sox park.
It was a good time
Ashley fake ringing the doorbell is so wholesome!! 😂😂😂
I was raised in this religion from the age of five until 18 years old. I will never go back. It ruined my life. I have graduated college and I am very successful.
Thank you for this video, I learned so much!
I was born a witness and left the “truth” when I was 20, I’m 39 now
Ashley you had me hollering with this video lol
I find the irony with sexual abuse within in the church and those people are not excommunicated but someone gets pregnant they are shunned. I don't get it.
I’m commenting as I’m watching and I’m not a Witness but I worked with and even studied a bit and went to the Halls with my neighbor.
But to answer your question the reason I was given with the birthdays was that in the Bible the 2 times that Birthdays weee mentioned there was also a death involved.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I also experience a lot of the same issues. I left when I turned 21. Most of the people I grew up with in the Kingdom Hall either left when they were teens or began to ostracized me for their own personal goals. When I was in my 20s it was all about finding a mate. None of the guys were interested in me but only into racially ambiguous women or thin girls. I was neither and felt alone. Because i felt rejected from their social norms it made me seek it outside of the religion. Once I got out into the world, I never came back.
Thanks for sharing Ashley. I was ignorant to the jehovah witness religion. I just know when I was younger I remember them in groups knocking on everyone’s door in my complex to convert.I also knew they didn’t celebrate Christmas. When I heard that as a kid I was like that religion isn’t for me because I was like 11 thinking about all the toys I would miss out on smh. That’s all I knew about them. So thank you for giving me more info and telling your experiences
My mom started studying in the 70’s. I never became baptized, I never understood WHY no other faith would be in heaven or paradise 🤷🏽♀️ I was called a problem. My mother is a witness and I give respect but GOD loves all. Thank you for your channeI, I’m in my 50’s now and I watch you “religiously “
Thank you for this video Ashley! It feels good to know that I’m not alone, coming from a religious family, having to hide my sexuality and being outed before I was ready, being told that if I don’t repent and cleanse my soul of sexual immorality that I’ll be burning in hell… it’s hard. I love GOD. I believe with all my heart that Jesus died on that cross to save me from sin and death. I love you girl and I do pray for you❤
P.S. I know it’s hard to forgive Ashley… and I’m not trying to over step. We must forgive our enemies if we want to be forgiven. I say that with all the love in the world❤
Thank you for sharing 😊
My granny is still a jw and she still speaks to her kids that arent jw anymore. As well as grandkids
I like history, documentaries, researching & learning!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Ashley, i been watching you for a while, we have so much in common. I wanted to jump in so many times during this video. My grandma, aunty, and sister are Jehovah witnesses. My aunty stopped talking to me, when I introduced my girlfriend to the family (my coming out day) and she didn't speak to me again until the relationship ended years later.
You were me ! I was never baptized and was told in front of the whole congregation that I was no longer a jehovah witness because I had gotten pregnant and had a child out of wedlock!
OMG! They brought you in front of the entire congregation?!!! That is truly disgusting! That had to be scarring! My sister and I grew up Jehovah's witnesses too, we were never baptized. My sister had a boyfriend and my Dad brought her to the Elders to have a "discussion". She told me that was the most humiliating thing.
@@lashanew.1969 Baptist churches used to the same. Bring the unwed mother before the church so she could ask for forgiveness
I know of other X- tians dominations that publicly embarrass (seems to be women only) when they either had a baby out of wedlock or sex before marriage. To this day, I've never seen nor heard the church take the same form of discipline and apply it to the men. Q
@@lashanew.1969 Reminds me of the scene in Raising Kanan w Juxebox
@@iversonmonie yep they did. I remember a young girl had to come in front of our congregation and I was so uncomfortable I walked out
Thank you for making this video Ashley!!! I grew up Jehovah’s Witness too because of my mom and I stopped subscribing to them when I was a teenager. I still respect religious practices, but I just don’t subscribe to them but I still believe in god and I just keep to myself.
Catching replay ❤
I studied the religion years ago and after I seen a documentary on this sex offender who was a JW, I NEVER LOOK AT THE KINGDOM HALL the same. Even after I moved out from my grandparents’ house, I only went to the memorials. My grandparents are JW. My grandmother is really deep into it, BUT she have her moments. And you are so right about them being messy. Some of them are 'worldly' as well. I done seen it all myself. I know when I went to the Kingdom Hall, they always encouraged the young people to finish school, start a business, or go to college. They pretty much want the youth to pursue their goals. They even had gatherings for high schoolers graduating. I love the ‘Dramatizations’ they have at the assemblies. My grandfather was disfellowshipped because of adultery. And it really made it hard for me to go see both of my grandparents because my grandmother couldn’t talk to her husband, but she had to anyway it went. Why did JESUS died for our sins where you still have MANMADE rules in the religion? This still baffles me till this day.
Jesus died for our sins to be at peace with God. He died so that we can have everlasting life. Religion has nothing to do with following Jesus, Jesus rebuked the religious leaders back in his days. Man made rules are condemned by God, the only rules we should apply to our lives are the 10 comandments, and whatever is said in the New Testament. The bible should be our guide, not other people.
Thanks For The Video I Loved It!💕
Thank u for this…
I grew up as a JW and I always went to the meetings with my aunt. My dad and mom we’re divorced and both disfellowshiped. I dealt with a lot in that religion from doing bible studies with family and confiding in them only for it to be discussed amongst the family and I was ridiculed. I was always considered the problem child growing up for doing regular life stuff kids do. And experiencing a parent getting disfellowshiped more than once is humiliating.
But luckily my mom never went back and I was able to experience the best of being a regular kid in the world
I kind of have a similar story, but mines weren't disfellowshipped after they got divorced, but they did stop showing to the hall and eventually I stopped going as well 🫠
Yes get your mom to tell her experience as well I would love that
When my mom passed my sister-in-law and my brother we're upset because we were having it in a church. When my Son passed who is ten years younger than my brother he would not even come to his funeral. That hurt me to my heart. Growing up we were raised Baptist my grandfather was a Baptist minister but when my brother met this woman he turned into a different person.
I really enjoyed this video and in response to my comment you read about my dad and his spouse, I believe my dad died to to refusing blood. He was only in his 40s.
I’m a long time subscriber about 5 yrs. EXCELLENT DISCUSSION!! I have some cousins that are witnesses you helped me understand it. I grew up COGIC Pentecostal & it had fuck shit too!
I was a pregnant teenager at the Hall, I never paid attention if they treated my mom differently I always noticed someone looking at me though. It wasn't like I was the first one & definitely wasn't the last...LOL. I never really associated with the kids it was a bit cliquey to me. I used to right after the Hall ask my mom for the keys and go wait in the car. I agree with everything you said about the college thing, and disfellowship. I just could never get with it
My MIL is a JW and was going through cancer treatment, yes they still believe in no blood.
When my friend told me that I was shocked af! I didn't even know that was a thing!
Omg the Hawthorne racetrack i ain't gone lie i loved going there 😂😂😂😂
Glad u did this, I don't do religion period.. I studied many n been a part of many, n they all have the same premise to me, control. I also had a great teacher, and a devout Jehovah's Witness, loved her hated it, when she told me aids was a punishment, n they had always mixed, but was only separated by a rope, I was like nope 🏃. I loved the no heaven or hell part cuz I still believe that, n she told us the devil isn't scary he was God's angel so he's beautiful, he can't fool u into submission looking like a red horned demon, I was like she has a point there👍🏾.
My understanding on the birthdays is the gift giving, its a form of greed.
Can you make a video with your mom 😭 y’all two are so crazy but I feel you . When I call mines she answers the phone like “What” like damn I can’t get a hello. Then when I don’t call her she’s be at my neck 😭
I'm going to ask her
Om Ashley I so feel you when you say you felt JW contributed to you being introverted.