I really enjoyed this video, Sven. Recently found your channel and I like the topics you choose. I left 15 years ago as a 3rd generation but my mindset is still very much stuck and I doubt myself. I’ve found it hard to move on and although I have taken a couple of college courses, sticking with getting a degree has been difficult for many reasons. Thanks for the extra push and reminder to obtain knowledge. Psalms tells us to obtain knowledge and wisdom. Great video!
You nailed it! I could relate to every word and can confirm that what you expressed is so! My husband and I both left after 30 yrs in. Woke up during the pandemic. My husband was an elder and I, a pioneer. Whew! Its been a journey but we are so ecstatic to be out and free from all this craziness. We are still shaking our heads though! Id tell any one to run , run like heck!
Thanks for sharing the facts! My witness parents are in the same situation. I had a conversation with my dad recently and his acceptance of death in this "system" was because Jehovah's time is different to mans perception of time. Funny how his younger self was blinded by the misguided so called "bible truth" of never growing old and been in paradise that the watchtower perpetuates.. So sad that millions of peoples lives have been shaped by this toxic belief system. Fantastic video Sven!
So true that many are mentally ill because of the unfulfillment of promises and constant living in fear. I left in January and this is the first year since 1996 that I haven't felt suicidal. Felt like chains falling off me when i gave the congregation secretary my letter of resignation 🎉
Keep going as things get much better as time goes by. The first few months are hard as you break free from the dogma and brainwashing of the JWs. Eventually life becomes such a blessing and every day a joy to be alive. Stay strong.
@@HerefortheLove divorce is a good word as being in that (dis)organization was like an abusive relationship. I like to think I, disfellowshipped, Them!
Great video. All true. The elders book has many rules us regular people don’t even imagine. My husband was an elder for over 20 years & confirms this. He disassociated after no longer able to support the way the CSA is handled and the hurt shunning did to some ex members. I faded and we’ve lost friends of over 35 years but the freedoms we now have is priceless🌷
I read your comments and don't understand why some JWs feel they have to blame the people they are supposed to love for their own problems and lack of understanding. As Christians we are supposed to be following Jesus Christ not the elders, not the GB not anyone. We all have a bible and know how to read it. All it takes is God's spirit to know what the bible teaches and follow it. We cannot blame God or individuals for our personal problems or mental challenges. We all suffer as a result of living in a wicked world. There is nothing we can do about it. Who is the ruler? Satan the devil. Blame him!!
“People who believe false things can’t be around honest people. If you believe things that are false, you can’t have freethinking people who are skeptical and curious and who care about you enough to tell you the truth and free you from the foggy, narcissistic death grip of error and falsehood and delusion. Who is content to let you live in a delusion?? …..People who share those delusions and who don’t care about you. Delusion, fantasy, falsehoods and propaganda are solitary confinement. The reason propaganda is so dangerous is because it isolates people. And through isolation people go crazy. If you are isolated and you know it you experience a peculiar type of agony that will motivate you to do whatever it takes to get contact with people. If you are isolated and you don’t know it because you’re only surrounded by people who share your same delusions (cults) …..you are isolated because the only thing you have in common with the people around you is shared delusion. Collective madness is not emotional intimacy. The isolation that separates us from each other when we get wrapped in falsehoods is the worst thing of all because it is without obvious symptom…. Yes, you become unstable, defensive, inoculated against any truth teller and will attack anybody that tells the truth in your environment, but you can’t love, you can’t be loved, you can’t relax. You are always on guard for whatever might puncture your delusions which provokes rage which drives good people away and anybody might rescue you from delusion will be driven away and you are left alone in the foggy devil ribbed cage bosom of falsehood… That which is not real, that which is not true, that which is not proven, that which is the opposite of truth. You are full of peculiar hatreds, instability, vanity… because anybody who just repeats lies and only listens to lies is vain because they won’t submit themselves to reason and evidence. So, the vanity, the narcissism, the isolation the peculiar hatreds…. to be falling without even knowing that you’re falling, to be ill with no symptoms….. is the most dangerous thing of all. And to be lonely in a crowd of thousands of people cheering all the same falsehoods, to be certain, pompous, to be vain, to be full of rage at anybody who threatens these delusions…. to be told that the pursuit of truth is the acceptance of evil… to be isolated and thereby easily manipulated. People who pursue delusion and end up wrapped in delusion are saying… I can’t be loved, all I can do is pretend to merge. I can’t be loved for who I am so I will hide in a room full of photocopied people with photocopied opinions and pretend that I’m part of something. I will dissolve my individuality, I will shred and eviscerate any original thought I might possibly have, any curiosity, any skepticism I might possibly have so that I can dissolve into the nothing of the photocopies around me. I can’t have love, but I can self abase and self erase into proximity. I can nod, smile, agree, and praise who everyone praises and hate who everyone hates… I can be a shadow cast by the tombstone of my mind. I can’t exist, I can’t excite, I can’t be unique, but I can blend. I can submit I can conform and then I will have physical proximity combined with unbelievable isolation. I can’t approach the truth so I will just burrow into empty people. We can only ever meet in reality itself. We cannot meet in fantasy we cannot meet in lies we cannot meet in propaganda. We can only meet in the truth. When you are with the truth, you can do without people because you are with yourself and with the facts and reality. When you don’t have the truth you have a bottomless desperate need for people that you could never connect with. If all you have in common with others, with those around you is a mutual agreement to slash your mind into ribbons and accept whatever lies come rolling down the conveyor belt, you’re not with anyone, and you will never feel loved. The price of conformity is the absence of love. The price of conformity is terror of solitude. Truth tellers can handle the journey from the town of the dead to the outposts of the living and the thinking. It’s a long journey across that desert. The ghosts can’t make it. You can’t love a character in a video game because they are programmed. You can’t love people who don’t think for themselves because there is no one to love, thought is the only individuating characteristic that we have. The only thing that we have that is uniquely our own is our capacity to think for ourselves, and that is the only passageway through which the light of love can reach. They suffer in the worst possible way which is to not even know what they are missing… Avoid it if you can at all possible costs.”
Agreed. It took me a while to come to the conclusion that any god, from Zeus to Jehovah is just a man-made idea. A sky-father. It doesn't rule out that life goes on in some shape or form. I still believe in an afterlife, but not heaven or hell or a paradise. Live life be happy spread love ❤ my motto
@@shiftyourmindset2 its true satan is blinding the minds of the unbelievers but your statement is laughable. God is a spirit higher form than a human 😂😂
I was disfellowshipped as a teen .when i left the JW organisation in my 20s i went through a divorce did some deep breathing exercise turns out it was SPIRITISM. The reason i know this is the TRUTH when i came back to the organization in my late 20s because i got involved with spiritism ( unknowingly) SATAN AN HIS DEMONS WERE MAD AT ME. Jehovah was the one who helped me . YOUNG ONES NEVER LEAVE JEHOVAH YOU WILL REGRET IT LIKE ME ❤ Jehovah has blessed me with the love of my life been married for 22 yrs i am in my forties
@@misterauctor7353 well when I was disfellowshipped i used to have multiiple sex partners with the ladies and even practiced spiritism which i did not know was SPIRITISM. Came back stopped fornicating an as you say came back to the cult. When i came back satan an his demons were MAD even though i fornicated an did everything they wanted. Jehovah through the elders praying for me i can be myself again. PLS LISTEN THE CULT IS THE TRUTH ♥️♥️
@@misterauctor7353 its just logical to know its the truth. When i left fornicated an unknowingly practiced SPIRITISM. Came back to the JW organisation satan an demons were MAD at me.JEHOVAH I OWE MY LIFE♥️
I really enjoyed this video, Sven. Recently found your channel and I like the topics you choose. I left 15 years ago as a 3rd generation but my mindset is still very much stuck and I doubt myself. I’ve found it hard to move on and although I have taken a couple of college courses, sticking with getting a degree has been difficult for many reasons. Thanks for the extra push and reminder to obtain knowledge. Psalms tells us to obtain knowledge and wisdom. Great video!
@@HerefortheLove knowledge is not only studying in college but mostly about life, your purpose etc
@@shiftyourmindset2Isaiah 8:10.
You nailed it!
I could relate to every word and can confirm that what you expressed is so! My husband and I both left after 30 yrs in. Woke up during the pandemic. My husband was an elder and I, a pioneer.
Whew! Its been a journey but we are so ecstatic to be out and free from all this craziness. We are still shaking our heads though!
Id tell any one to run , run like heck!
Right on! I loved to play tennis and figure skate. My potential to develop my passions were sqashed by the wt violence against children too.
“Don’t study people, we don’t want you to be too smart “😂 that was my first red flag 🚩 before I got baptised many years ago 🤞🏻🤞🏻
@@yozareason1803 mine too. Luckily my parents wanted me to be smart and study
Thanks for sharing the facts!
My witness parents are in the same situation. I had a conversation with my dad recently and his acceptance of death in this "system" was because Jehovah's time is different to mans perception of time. Funny how his younger self was blinded by the misguided so called "bible truth" of never growing old and been in paradise that the watchtower perpetuates.. So sad that millions of peoples lives have been shaped by this toxic belief system.
Fantastic video Sven!
@@Jayrogg jehovah’s time is different. Wow i get a flashback..so true. Yea very sad they give up everything for a maybe paradise
So true that many are mentally ill because of the unfulfillment of promises and constant living in fear. I left in January and this is the first year since 1996 that I haven't felt suicidal. Felt like chains falling off me when i gave the congregation secretary my letter of resignation 🎉
Keep going as things get much better as time goes by. The first few months are hard as you break free from the dogma and brainwashing of the JWs. Eventually life becomes such a blessing and every day a joy to be alive.
Stay strong.
Expectation postponed makes the heart sick -The Bible
I’ve been gone 15 years and I can relate. Maybe that’s what I need. I need to divorce them to make it final in my mind. I am proud of you. 💪
@@HerefortheLove divorce is a good word as being in that (dis)organization was like an abusive relationship. I like to think I, disfellowshipped, Them!
That IS SO GREAT ❗️❗️❗️❗️
Excellent video thank you.
Your Sweatshirt is so cute .I love it.❤
Its so good what you sad . I like your knowlege.
I am from Germany .❤❤❤
I lost my whole life over there....soo sad!!!
on point my guy
Good video. Thanks for sharing 🙏👍
Great video. All true. The elders book has many rules us regular people don’t even imagine. My husband was an elder for over 20 years & confirms this. He disassociated after no longer able to support the way the CSA is handled and the hurt shunning did to some ex members. I faded and we’ve lost friends of over 35 years but the freedoms we now have is priceless🌷
yes i understand that it's hard to remain an elder if you see all the things that happen...
Great Analogy of Mansion but living in 1️⃣ room ❗️❗️❗️
I read your comments and don't understand why some JWs feel they have to blame the people they are supposed to love for their own problems and lack of understanding. As Christians we are supposed to be following Jesus Christ not the elders, not the GB not anyone. We all have a bible and know how to read it. All it takes is God's spirit to know what the bible teaches and follow it. We cannot blame God or individuals for our personal problems or mental challenges. We all suffer as a result of living in a wicked world. There is nothing we can do about it. Who is the ruler? Satan the devil. Blame him!!
“People who believe false things can’t be around honest people. If you believe things that are false, you can’t have freethinking people who are skeptical and curious and who care about you enough to tell you the truth and free you from the foggy, narcissistic death grip of error and falsehood and delusion. Who is content to let you live in a delusion?? …..People who share those delusions and who don’t care about you.
Delusion, fantasy, falsehoods and propaganda are solitary confinement. The reason propaganda is so dangerous is because it isolates people. And through isolation people go crazy. If you are isolated and you know it you experience a peculiar type of agony that will motivate you to do whatever it takes to get contact with people. If you are isolated and you don’t know it because you’re only surrounded by people who share your same delusions (cults) …..you are isolated because the only thing you have in common with the people around you is shared delusion. Collective madness is not emotional intimacy.
The isolation that separates us from each other when we get wrapped in falsehoods is the worst thing of all because it is without obvious symptom…. Yes, you become unstable, defensive, inoculated against any truth teller and will attack anybody that tells the truth in your environment, but you can’t love, you can’t be loved, you can’t relax. You are always on guard for whatever might puncture your delusions which provokes rage which drives good people away and anybody might rescue you from delusion will be driven away and you are left alone in the foggy devil ribbed cage bosom of falsehood…
That which is not real, that which is not true, that which is not proven, that which is the opposite of truth. You are full of peculiar hatreds, instability, vanity… because anybody who just repeats lies and only listens to lies is vain because they won’t submit themselves to reason and evidence. So, the vanity, the narcissism, the isolation the peculiar hatreds…. to be falling without even knowing that you’re falling, to be ill with no symptoms….. is the most dangerous thing of all. And to be lonely in a crowd of thousands of people cheering all the same falsehoods, to be certain, pompous, to be vain, to be full of rage at anybody who threatens these delusions…. to be told that the pursuit of truth is the acceptance of evil… to be isolated and thereby easily manipulated.
People who pursue delusion and end up wrapped in delusion are saying… I can’t be loved, all I can do is pretend to merge. I can’t be loved for who I am so I will hide in a room full of photocopied people with photocopied opinions and pretend that I’m part of something. I will dissolve my individuality, I will shred and eviscerate any original thought I might possibly have, any curiosity, any skepticism I might possibly have so that I can dissolve into the nothing of the photocopies around me. I can’t have love, but I can self abase and self erase into proximity. I can nod, smile, agree, and praise who everyone praises and hate who everyone hates… I can be a shadow cast by the tombstone of my mind. I can’t exist, I can’t excite, I can’t be unique, but I can blend. I can submit I can conform and then I will have physical proximity combined with unbelievable isolation. I can’t approach the truth so I will just burrow into empty people.
We can only ever meet in reality itself. We cannot meet in fantasy we cannot meet in lies we cannot meet in propaganda. We can only meet in the truth. When you are with the truth, you can do without people because you are with yourself and with the facts and reality. When you don’t have the truth you have a bottomless desperate need for people that you could never connect with. If all you have in common with others, with those around you is a mutual agreement to slash your mind into ribbons and accept whatever lies come rolling down the conveyor belt, you’re not with anyone, and you will never feel loved. The price of conformity is the absence of love. The price of conformity is terror of solitude.
Truth tellers can handle the journey from the town of the dead to the outposts of the living and the thinking. It’s a long journey across that desert. The ghosts can’t make it. You can’t love a character in a video game because they are programmed. You can’t love people who don’t think for themselves because there is no one to love, thought is the only individuating characteristic that we have. The only thing that we have that is uniquely our own is our capacity to think for ourselves, and that is the only passageway through which the light of love can reach. They suffer in the worst possible way which is to not even know what they are missing… Avoid it if you can at all possible costs.”
Knowledge is knowledge. Knowledge plus action is power. Many inside know it’s all Hocus Pocus and have known for many, many years but feel powerless.
Knowledge of the bible is the key. Then you know and understand.
what is God and how did God get there
i am god and god is me, you everyone
Agreed. It took me a while to come to the conclusion that any god, from Zeus to Jehovah is just a man-made idea. A sky-father.
It doesn't rule out that life goes on in some shape or form. I still believe in an afterlife, but not heaven or hell or a paradise. Live life be happy spread love ❤ my motto
Love from the UK ❤ xjw julie
@@shiftyourmindset2 its true satan is blinding the minds of the unbelievers but your statement is laughable. God is a spirit higher form than a human 😂😂
@@shawnmcanthony5724 Satan is blinding you.
I was disfellowshipped as a teen .when i left the JW organisation in my 20s i went through a divorce did some deep breathing exercise turns out it was SPIRITISM. The reason i know this is the TRUTH when i came back to the organization in my late 20s because i got involved with spiritism ( unknowingly) SATAN AN HIS DEMONS WERE MAD AT ME. Jehovah was the one who helped me . YOUNG ONES NEVER LEAVE JEHOVAH YOU WILL REGRET IT LIKE ME ❤ Jehovah has blessed me with the love of my life been married for 22 yrs i am in my forties
@@shawnmcanthony5724 Why did you came back? It's a cult.
@@shawnmcanthony5724 Sounds made up like most JWs claims.
@@misterauctor7353 well when I was disfellowshipped i used to have multiiple sex partners with the ladies and even practiced spiritism which i did not know was SPIRITISM. Came back stopped fornicating an as you say came back to the cult. When i came back satan an his demons were MAD even though i fornicated an did everything they wanted. Jehovah through the elders praying for me i can be myself again. PLS LISTEN THE CULT IS THE TRUTH ♥️♥️
@@misterauctor7353 its just logical to know its the truth. When i left fornicated an unknowingly practiced SPIRITISM. Came back to the JW organisation satan an demons were MAD at me.JEHOVAH I OWE MY LIFE♥️
@@misterauctor7353 YOGA OR TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IS NOT MADE UP. IT IS SPIRITISM