Jehovah's Witnesses Are Told to Avoid Nostalgia and the Past!

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  • @joachimgoethe7864
    @joachimgoethe7864 Місяць тому +39

    Stacy, I'm 63 years old. My best days are behind me. Nostalgia is all I have left. My life today is a shadow of what it once was. And I'm fine with that. I had my day in the sun. My memories are my most cherished things. When I turn on the radio and hear a song I haven't heard in 40 years. . . Well, you know the feeling. Despite what watchtower says, my memories are golden.

    • @kevinhahn3286
      @kevinhahn3286 Місяць тому +7

      Same here I feel you i bless you lost my wife 2 years ago and not one person from hall showed up fir mebi was not df she was . It showed me all I needed to know

    • @Digidab
      @Digidab Місяць тому +5

      @@kevinhahn3286
      Dear Brother
      It' s sad for You that 's nobody is showing up from the Hall .
      It' s not easy , but I hope that your good memories can give you straight to go forward .
      How many years did You Spend together !
      I wish You the best and the love of Jezus and his Father

    • @murlepeterson6028
      @murlepeterson6028 Місяць тому +5

      63 here too. Feel same as you are speaking of . I still count anniversaries, even though once my health changed, was tossed by the hubby lol as if broken ! I appreciated getting to be a bonus mom, working, travel, helping him with his dreams of his own business. On & on. My family, with the elders passed on, just a , well,nothing as it was as all too busy to do a simple basic Sunday meal, holidays, forget it. Even a picnic in summer. Life has changed so much for so many, then fractures of family break ups. The cell phones seem to be the only way to communicate by texting not even to hear a voice, see a face. I feel as if I'm physically in the way of my bonus kids, nephews & niece. Plus hardly know their kids or spouses, well called partners these days. Totally understand what your saying. I'm not a JW but my dad did follow as they came to the door back in the 60--70's selling their books, paper booklets. They sold or traded for soup other canned foods in the project we lived in. They too were poor out walking with the entire family. I live in a cluster of elderly JWs and for them to drop their find memories of their JW happenings, attended with their families & what few friends, other JWs IDK what this will do to them cuz some as it is are on the edge

    • @murlepeterson6028
      @murlepeterson6028 Місяць тому +4

      ​@@kevinhahn3286sending hugs to you. Beautiful to hear of the love you shared. You will always have her in your heart. What a blessed couple that you had each other , uñtil you are called home to her, hold those cherished memories. No, I'm not a JW but as a kid my dad followed them, and I live in a small town of 1880 people where many of thelders are JWs. I worry more about them now having their memories taken e

    • @murlepeterson6028
      @murlepeterson6028 Місяць тому +3

      ​@@Digidabwhat a beautiful note . May you always be blessed

  • @virginialecroy7729
    @virginialecroy7729 Місяць тому +17

    My mother is coming to visit. She is 89yrs. has been in this organization since 1968. Given her heart and soul. I am going to show her love and bite my tongue! Love your commentary you are the best!

    • @grannymabel
      @grannymabel Місяць тому +5

      Yes my mums same age and been in since 1961 I was 4 .I gave up awhile ago .

    • @bevmeier5747
      @bevmeier5747 Місяць тому +2

      ❤Here from Australia born.in left 2020 at 80 yrs old it can happen. Happy to be free still have my faith. Many older ones are leaving. ❤

    • @Biff-c5h
      @Biff-c5h Місяць тому

      You're wicked - off to the winepress you go or hell. Have a nice day!

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      You're too kind....so glad your mother is visiting!!!!!

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      @@grannymabel :( I'm so sorry

  • @adamantiumbullet9215
    @adamantiumbullet9215 Місяць тому +22

    “When every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the -State- Watchtower is always right.” -George Orwell, '1984'
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

  • @MiddleClassCitizen
    @MiddleClassCitizen Місяць тому +4

    Fantasy and nostalgia is part of my happiness. That's why me and our high school-mates still have this facebook groupchat these days and I am 58 years old. And while we know that we are already considered old, this association makes ageing a lot easier to deal with. And quite unusual for a former JW that Christmas carols bring a lot of nostalgia in me. And it is also amusing that while bicycling earlier during the day, I was actually thinking about the old days - some 10 years back - the better days when my wife who is now blind still had his sight and that we were more active those days - and I was singing the song "For the Good Times" in my mind.

  • @EL-IZ-At-BETH-sarim
    @EL-IZ-At-BETH-sarim Місяць тому +47

    Yep! Forget everything, the better times but also the bad ones...forget that we made awful shunning videos...(now all deleted from their website! Even the infamous Sonia Ericsson one from 2016)
    "We never instructed our members to shun..."normal family relationships continue"...😖😖😖😖😖
    Currently reading:
    Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future...by Jason Stanley
    Eerie....

    • @ryancampbell1145
      @ryancampbell1145 Місяць тому +7

      Summed up perfectly

    • @Womanmad1
      @Womanmad1 Місяць тому +6

      Exactly!! but also forget about disfellowshipping it’s now removal, the “loving provision from Jehovah”. 🙄

    • @adamantiumbullet9215
      @adamantiumbullet9215 Місяць тому +5

      @@Womanmad1
      "Removed", not by a Judicial Committee, but by a "committee of elders".
      Different labels, same B.S.

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +3

      It might be their worst example of gaslighting the planet. They continue to claim they don't do it....even as they do it

  • @munch670
    @munch670 Місяць тому +19

    Awwww Yeeaaahhh 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Great Show Stacey wish I could remember it, but it's in the PAST 😂

  • @SonjaStroud-mu6vi
    @SonjaStroud-mu6vi Місяць тому +16

    So clever of GB to talk about nostalgia and the past because they know many JW'S can't cope with all the changes and are ASKING QUESTIONS .

    • @Biff-c5h
      @Biff-c5h Місяць тому

      You're wicked - off to the winepress you go or hell. Have a nice day!

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      Exactly..... they're trying to control all of it

    • @jeffreyl5151
      @jeffreyl5151 Місяць тому

      This was the first thing that came to my mind. It's funny how it becomes so obvious what tricks they pull after a while.

  • @reineresser4276
    @reineresser4276 Місяць тому +7

    This was one of your best. You had me laughing all the way. Great entertainment courtesy of the Governing Body.

  • @sgt.v7237
    @sgt.v7237 Місяць тому +10

    Whoa! Those closing words were so powerful Stacey. You nailed it. My thought is that in the near future they may start to discipline up to and including disfellowshipping the older persons that bring up the contrast of the past vs present teachings. At the very least those ones will be marked and soft shunned. They're becoming more outrageous as each day passes.

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +2

      Thank you! It must be SO difficult for the older ones who are watching all of this.....and to discipline them? Infuriating

  • @adamantiumbullet9215
    @adamantiumbullet9215 Місяць тому +15

    Watchtower isn't just discouraging JWs from thinking about the past. Watchtower is discouraging JWs from doing ANY thinking at all.

  • @GubberWubber
    @GubberWubber Місяць тому +16

    I'm always looking forward to your podcasts Stacey, they are the best part of me and my husband's pre Mondays 😂

  • @siggimad1219
    @siggimad1219 Місяць тому +7

    Good morning from Germany.
    Looking forward for the show of true wisdom and humorous comedy with an actually very sad background.

  • @abductor12
    @abductor12 Місяць тому +8

    Another excellent video Stacy. This should help all those still stuck in this organization…

  • @knowthyself8233
    @knowthyself8233 Місяць тому +10

    My favorite podcast on Monday morning.👌🏿

  • @DY2784
    @DY2784 Місяць тому +3

    👋Thanks, Stacey. Really enjoy your accurate perspective. ❤️👍

  • @sunstrikedancesportjymcole
    @sunstrikedancesportjymcole Місяць тому +11

    Failure to learn from the past dooms you to repeat it.

  • @glorialeach7301
    @glorialeach7301 Місяць тому +7

    I would have loved listening to your talks because you have a listening voice. 🤣 That always helped especially at assemblies. I lived through’Stay alive till 75’!! So much BS and I thought I was BAD because I now know I knew that but at the time it just caused me a lot of problems. It is so crazy!!

  • @noonespecial5517
    @noonespecial5517 Місяць тому +5

    Nostalgia is one of the best parts of life

  • @kdrazalotg-usa6345
    @kdrazalotg-usa6345 Місяць тому +2

    Oh wow! Thanks for doing a podcast on this! I saw what was going on with it: They want them to stop noticing changes and everything! Talk about CONTROLLING THEIR THINKING! I bet if I said anything about that talk to my JW mother, she’d agree with THEM, not me…parroting them as usual!! But I was SICK hearing that talk!!! Thanks AGAIN for saying what I was THINKING!! 👍👍👍

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you!!! YES, they want to control the entire narrative....and everyone's thoughts!

  • @stanleywhite-pj5pc
    @stanleywhite-pj5pc Місяць тому +6

    Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.

  • @jemz4555
    @jemz4555 Місяць тому +5

    They say not to look back to past memories, but also have videos where they tell you to go back and remember and reminisce on what drew you into "the Truth." All they do is cause confusion and frustration, narcissistic tactics to control

  • @britofamilyfun
    @britofamilyfun Місяць тому +7

    Wait a minute, I thought that the GB has told us that these are the last days and worst days ahead . Now they tell us not to look back and look forward to better days. Which is it

  • @RebeccadeWinter-t1c
    @RebeccadeWinter-t1c Місяць тому +5

    Always did the bare minimum and even that I regret!

  • @andrewchristou2857
    @andrewchristou2857 Місяць тому +4

    Love it and totally relate to sentiments, eloquently stated and expressed 💯👏👏👏

  • @bygeorgehemayberite8385
    @bygeorgehemayberite8385 Місяць тому +4

    Outstanding podcast, w/ an outstanding exposure of hypocrisy

  • @astello8893
    @astello8893 Місяць тому +3

    I grew up in the 90s so we were also blessed to have witnessed the age before cellphones, social media and streaming services. We were all more connected and everyone was present. Great episode Stacey! I will always reflect, appreciate and learn from the past no matter what the 11 Kings in New York say. 😂

  • @Digidab
    @Digidab Місяць тому +4

    Top Show and I like it Stacey !

  • @tzoppgaming4074
    @tzoppgaming4074 Місяць тому +5

  • @michelleallen4585
    @michelleallen4585 Місяць тому +3

    👏👏 Great Show Stacey, I listen to this talk as well and all I could say was 😮 Does this Brother, Giving this talk even Question, The Words coming out of his Mouth??? Unbelievable!! Remember, but Don't Remember

  • @margo.3466
    @margo.3466 Місяць тому +6

    If a man lives in the past, he robs the present but if he ignores the past, he robs the future.

  • @rdhawk929
    @rdhawk929 Місяць тому +1

    Listening on Tuesday. Good day for this subject! Been humming that Little River Band song all week though! 🕺🤗🥰

  • @smy74
    @smy74 Місяць тому +2

    Great podcast as always Stacey!
    Reminds me of a recent quote:🤔The [non]signifance of the passage of time, right? Cackle cackle cackle

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      LOL.....hmmmm, who could that be.....are you unburdened? LOL

    • @smy74
      @smy74 Місяць тому

      @@survivingparadisepodcast
      🤣Hopefully on Nov 5th we will all be unburdened by the cackling hen

  • @jackijax505
    @jackijax505 Місяць тому +9

    WHOOP, WHOOP.
    Let’s get this party started friends.
    Grab that warm blankie, fluff that pillow and put on those warm fuzzy socks. It’s go time.
    💪🏼🍿
    Let’s see how he will sneak in Noah this week 😂😂.

  • @BooBooBugalugs
    @BooBooBugalugs Місяць тому +4

    Should we ignore all the spankings in the back room/toilets, too? The walk of shame back to our seats? Believe me, i'd love to forget it all!

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому

      Ugh, i got a few of those!

    • @barrettleigh5118
      @barrettleigh5118 Місяць тому +1

      My father shamed me from the stage in the early 90’s
      “SON, PAY ATTENTION!” He commanded
      Ewww

    • @BooBooBugalugs
      @BooBooBugalugs Місяць тому

      @@barrettleigh5118 Now that's next level!

  • @Hhiller
    @Hhiller Місяць тому +3

    The recruitment of free labor and lowering ages for it, asking young ones to come serve them, it’s clear they are planning for no end coming anytime soon!!

  • @kalasatwater2224
    @kalasatwater2224 Місяць тому +2

    They're done using the old generation so they're disposing of them, now their only interest is the younger new generation

  • @josiasguiomar2504
    @josiasguiomar2504 Місяць тому +5

    "Between March and October 1933, Nazi supporters all over Germany publically burned books and writings proscribed as “un-German.” One public burning took place on Königsplatz in Munich."

  • @coldboltlighting1237
    @coldboltlighting1237 Місяць тому

    Hey Stacy there are UA-camr eXjws who are listening to your videos live! Man!

  • @murlepeterson6028
    @murlepeterson6028 Місяць тому +2

    Yes!! They are even discouraged from looking into their own family history ! Or visiting graves to figyre out family ties etc. no need to care about the dead. No need to go look up why someone passed, where they worked, came from etc.

  • @3ptCraigHodges
    @3ptCraigHodges Місяць тому +3

    Happy to be POMO.

  • @carlosaparicio4215
    @carlosaparicio4215 Місяць тому +3

    good morning my friend from chicago

  • @sophibrumby9542
    @sophibrumby9542 Місяць тому

    The gaslighting and mindcontrol in this talk is so chilling! Even plumping up the story of wilderness wanderings with Hobab to see if anyone will think to question. Will Hobab be taking up a permanent position next in the JW bible…

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому

      After all the laughs....it truly is chilling. Its sick. They're on a rampage. I'm coming with more attempts at their mind control next week!

  • @johnpociecha1177
    @johnpociecha1177 Місяць тому +5

    is it any wonder i truly hated being a jw as a kid and got out asap so many soul destroying rules

  • @madamecurious
    @madamecurious Місяць тому

    That was a really good podcast. How silly the stories from the Bible are, they are all fairytales with a little bit of history sprinkled in. I was a true believer for many years, but now I’m just shaking my head at such credulity 😅

  • @cultytalk
    @cultytalk Місяць тому +3

    In the New World (Order), all [painful?] memories of the past & of non-JW family members will be erased! ... You'll just need to get the Jehovah Eraser chip first 😂 Ah, can't wait til "Paradise!"

  • @schleprock000
    @schleprock000 Місяць тому +2

    What the hell is wrong with you? Those vanilla puddings were awesome! It sounds like you just went from one cult to another! 😂

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому

      LOL LOL......only if I could dip my cheese danish in it.....otherwise, we were swapping for chocolate!

  • @TheC.O.-VISIT
    @TheC.O.-VISIT Місяць тому +2

    Of course they are. They put out new light, then the talks ensue ordering you to put up or shut up. That's the WT M.O. Stop thinking about all that old light. Stop thinking about your family members that you're still shunning. And it goes on and on. Especially according to that clinical definition of nostalgia, motivation, excitement, creativity, all things the GB does not want you to be. No self expression. No creativity. That is dangerous. Unless your last name is Williams, Graham, or Prince 😂. What a nefast, insidious cult it is!

    • @johnbrock5668
      @johnbrock5668 Місяць тому

      and what kind of god is that .. .As if it likes murder emotonal torturing never satisfied Get s vexed very easily a god of violence who enjoy s killing and tayking revenge on his own image sadistic and masochistically .The image is all of us Humanity. . .

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      YES!!!!! This!! The older JWs are talking too much.....they don't forget!

  • @timothydavis7927
    @timothydavis7927 Місяць тому +3

    All the new changes have to be confused 88 year old mother
    She is waiting for her elder husband(my father) is resurrection. I can't ask her how she's doing with all these new stuff..I'm 70 years old and have been shunned for over 50 years. This is a demonic cult, I lost my parents and wife an 3 adult

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      Your poor mother....I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry for all of your losses. It's evil....really good people being harmed ...huge hugs to you and your family

  • @akingdom4mypeople343
    @akingdom4mypeople343 Місяць тому

    Somebody help me, what's the title of the talk and who's it by? Looks like they may have taken it down already

  • @CoralQuintyne
    @CoralQuintyne Місяць тому +2

    Do you remember local needs? That talk was a LOCAL NEED. Stop looking at the past.

  • @loungersclub
    @loungersclub Місяць тому +1

    OMG / if i go to court and have to step before a judge ill tell him that JEHOAVAH ask they he doesnt look at my past record and that comes straight from the top 🤣🤣🤣

  • @janespitfire9884
    @janespitfire9884 Місяць тому +2

    Thank you !! Wonderful piece on thinking skills of JW & WT goals. AI computing will be their next solution & it will be a big mistake. AI collects wrong & right info. in which need to decipher thru it...they won't.

  • @trilithon108
    @trilithon108 Місяць тому

    "The Governing Body has decided....😮
    Armageddon is just around the corner but don't look back at 1878,1881,1914, 1918, 1925, 1975 - that's all in the past 😢

  • @DY2784
    @DY2784 Місяць тому

    👋Warm greetings from SW Florida. The Mana Biblical story makes me feel, if It exists, God is a major @&�£€!!! 🙄

  • @LeilaVanska-uu9bi
    @LeilaVanska-uu9bi Місяць тому +2

    Maby manna was magic mashroom and they gett Tierd wondering round in The dessert for 40 years. 😊

  • @TheC.O.-VISIT
    @TheC.O.-VISIT Місяць тому +1

    Cheese danishes!!! Yesss!!!!

  • @Biff-c5h
    @Biff-c5h Місяць тому

    If you hate God's name and his people, it means that you are wicked!
    Psalms 37:20
    For the wicked themselves will perish, And the enemies of Jehovah will be like the preciousness of pastures;
    They must come to their end. In smoke they must come to their end.
    (Everyone who is called by my name, And whom I created for my own glory, Whom I have formed and made belong to Jehovah God)
    Isaiah 43:7-12 (Jehovah's name)
    7 Everyone who is called by my name, And whom I created for my own glory, Whom I have formed and made.’ 8  Bring out a people who are blind, though they have eyes, And who are deaf, though they have ears. 9  Let all the nations assemble in one place, And let the peoples be gathered together. Who among them can tell this? Or can they cause us to hear the first things? Let them present their witnesses to prove themselves right, Or let them hear and say, ‘It is the truth!’” 10 “You are my witnesses,” declares Jehovah, “Yes, my servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and have faith in me. And understand that I am the same One Before me no God was formed, And after me there has been none. 11  I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no savior.” 12 “I am the One who declared and saved and made known When there was no foreign god among you. So you are my witnesses,” declares Jehovah, “and I am God.
    2 Chronicles 7:14 (Jehovah's name)
    14 If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (Only the people called by God's name)
    Revelation 1:4,5 ~ Jesus Christ ~ "the Faithful Witness"
    4 John to the seven congregations that are in the [district of] Asia: May YOU have undeserved kindness and peace from “The One who is and who was and who is coming,” and from the seven spirits that are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness,” “The firstborn from the dead,” and “The Ruler of the kings of the earth.” To him that loves us and that loosed us from our sins by means of his own blood.
    Reference:
    According to the Bible, the wicked will be raised from the dead and face God's judgment. They will be turned into hell, cut off, and destroyed. They will be vexed, gnash their teeth, melt away, and perish. Their own iniquities and sins will capture and hold them. The Bible also calls the wicked to repent and turn to God before it is too late.
    As we read through these scriptures, we see that Jesus was also a witness - Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness"
    If you hate God's name and his people, it means that you are wicked.
    Psalms 37:20
    For the wicked themselves will perish, And the enemies of Jehovah will be like the preciousness of pastures;
    They must come to their end. In smoke they must come to their end.
    Your relationship is with Jehovah God, not the elders, ministerial servants, pioneers, governing body, NO. If they are disrespectful leave and find a new Kingdom Hall that is kind and loving. It's that simple.

    • @vestland3877
      @vestland3877 15 днів тому

      Its not the KH. It is the whole Org! You simply don’t understand critical thinking!?
      Do you honestly believe that 7 dwarfs and a diversity hire have the monopoly on Bible truth?

  • @lavernethomasbey6822
    @lavernethomasbey6822 Місяць тому +2

    They don't have anything to compare it with. Jehovah good Satan bad, period.

  • @jaybyrd5556
    @jaybyrd5556 Місяць тому +2

    Control alt delete…

  • @madamecurious
    @madamecurious Місяць тому

    Hobab was Moses’ brother in law (or father in law). He was a Midianite from the tribe of Kenite and served as a scout for the Israelites.
    Aha! Moses had friendship with a worldly person 😮 😂

  • @HD7100
    @HD7100 Місяць тому +1

    LOL Oh Stacy-- don't tell us like it is. Give us a little more opium please. I think about my JW sister who several years ago gave me the few things of memorabilia concerning our parents and when we were young. She wanted to be rid of those memories. AND- Oh those awful demonic Thanks Giving and Christmas family gatherings. We don't want to remember those do we. Worse yet those satanic Halloween trick-or-treat nights when she and I went out (at night- cant do that these days) with a pillow case collecting candy that I am certain Satan made in his personal candy factory. The memory she would really like to forget is when she placed the blue "Truth" book in my hands in 1969. WOW we don't want to remember those days when so many sold off their properties to live in rentals so they could pioneer before 1975.

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому

      They are truly counting on the old timers passing away so they can forget their horrific history. All the lies.....all the lost lives. They're leaning into the clock and counting the seconds

  • @nobullzone8394
    @nobullzone8394 Місяць тому

    I was raised as a Jehovah's witness and indoctrinated into this religion without any choice of my own, but now that I'm a critical thinker and I think for myself, I think it's very interesting that we are told to forget about the past but are. Constantly fed about their purple triangle. about their holocaust. Anybody else find that interest? Talk about your indoctrination, one of the main reasons why I will never, ever.
    Be religious again. Religion is nothing more than an imperfect. Man may concept to keep the masses in a vice. They're main victims being women and children. In other words, it's an imperfect man-made cult. Don't let me forget the 2 new members of the government body.That just so happened to be two white men But I should forget about my past my lineage being american descendant of slavery!

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому

      All true inside JWs! I have a past episode on their obsession with the Holocaust. It's tragic.

  • @rosiebohmker5613
    @rosiebohmker5613 Місяць тому +1

    Remember Lot's wife

  • @siggimad1219
    @siggimad1219 Місяць тому +1

    As usual a very perfect presented matter. Thank you for your good work, it is very noticeable that you have also really fun doing this.
    I'm actually currouse if you will handle the matter of the following JW.borg video "How to be a true friend". I thought I was going to puke when I saw this. If yes, I'm looking forward to it.

    • @survivingparadisepodcast
      @survivingparadisepodcast  Місяць тому +1

      I saw that video.....I'm going to comment on that too! Thank you for being here!