July 7, 2025 • 56 mins
I have explained my stance about why I chose to NOT be a Jehovah's Witness any longer. In this episode I go a little deeper as to why. Hopefully I can wake a few more JW's up so they flee that cult!
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Thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (00:35):
Welcome to my second vlog or video vlog.
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I'm trying to get all high-techon you all.
But I wanted this one.
I'm going to start doing theseregularly because it seems like
I am.
I get more traction, especiallyon like YouTube.
With the longer format videos,so.
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You know, I try to do what youall.
Want like what you ask for so.
Yeah, I figured today I wouldspeak about.
I get asked a lot.
Why am I doing it?
Why are you speaking out?
And sometimes I'm asked nicely,sometimes it's rudely.
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Most of the time, I would sayrudely 98% of the time by active
Jehovah's Witnesses.
So, you know, at first I wasvery, very upset about it, but
I've kind of tempered myselfdown to...
I respond kindly, especially if,okay, if they show me respect
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and if they're kind, I do thesame thing.
I talk to a few indirectmessages, you know, in depth.
They want to know why it is I dowhat I'm doing.
Why aren't you happy?
You know, I go back to Jehovahand I just try to explain to
them, you know, it's my right,first of all, free will.
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Something we've always been, youknow, it's pounded in our head,
free will.
And so, yeah, I figured I wouldmake a video to kind of answer
that because sometimes thecomments are just way out in the
left field.
I tell you, witnesses are aweird, interesting bunch.
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You know, I got bullied a lot.
In the organization.
And then when it carries over.
Out.
To the world I'm in now.
To where I'm free.
And I'm away from that cult.
And I don't.
Have to go by the rules.
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I don't have to wait till.
A governing body member.
Pops up and.
You know in a broadcast tellingme.
I have permission to wear abeard.
I have permission.
To.
toast if
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I
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want to
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like
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it's so much about control and man made rules a lot
which are like outdated theymade them way back in the day
but it's still what we do I'msorry what they do as an
organization and you know everyonce in a while they'll change
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something me and a lot of myfriends, we're still saying
they're making all these changesbecause they're losing members
and they're trying to make itlook more appealing.
They're trying to keep moremembers because at the end of
the day, it's all about that,the money.
And so empty seats, you know,means no money in the long run.
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So, you know, I have thempopping up, making these ugly
comments, um, Like I said, it'spretty much bullying.
And for an organization religionto always claim they're the one
chosen religion and they haveGod's favor and we show so much
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love and unity.
Like the comments that myselfand other friends of mine that
are ex-Jehovah's Witnesses get,far from loving.
You know, It's either bashing meabout my weight, telling me they
can't wait until I'm destroyedat Armageddon.
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They'll be laughing.
They'll be smiling when Goddestroys me and all those who
oppose him.
Stop whining.
Stop crying.
Which, if you took time to lookat my videos, I'm not one of
them.
Am I whining or complaining,especially about a person?
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I'm voicing my opinions, mythoughts, my feelings, excuse
me, as to why I chose to leave.
But that's what witnesses aregood at.
They're good at deflecting.
They're good at temper tantrums.
They're good at not being ableto hold a calm, reasonable
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conversation.
Without them losing their shit.
And then just start spewinghatred and things they can't
wait to see.
It's just ugly, rude behavior.
And I'm not saying this to allwitnesses, because like I said,
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I'm talking to a few.
And when they genuinely ask me,I have a conversation with them.
I was speaking with a lady inthe comment section yesterday.
She says she's not a witness,but her family is, and she
thinks they get a bad rap.
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They're really good people, andshe hates to see them picked on.
And I let her know, first, howlong I've been in it.
I let her know that I'm actuallyempathetic with those that are
still in there.
But I also...
tell people, what I do is not todrag you away from it.
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It's to get you to think.
It's to plant seeds so that youcan just use your brain.
That's what I'm doing.
And I've said on numerousvideos, if you choose to have
that belief system and you wantto be an active Jehovah's
Witness, that's your life.
I'm not faulting you.
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I know for me, myself, Therewere things that I needed to
step away for.
And so, yeah, I can have areasonable conversation.
So I've started blocking theones who just come on saying
rude, vile things, which isstupid because they're not even
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supposed to be engaging with us.
The apostate world, theex-Jehovah's Witnesses, they're
not even, their masters tellthem, masters aka the governing
body tell them to stay away fromus don't talk to us don't listen
to anything verbally or anythingthey say on social media I've
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heard they had a lot of thingson there and I've seen an actual
video from the convention thissummer about apostates and
they're talking about pureworship and apostates that's one
thing that messes with pureworship and so I get being in
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that organization slash cult andall the things they feed to you
and just drilling your head andso yeah you get these
overzealous active Jehovah'sWitnesses that come and pop up
on our accounts and they thinkthey're doing good for that cult
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they think that they're a lot ofthem sadly think they're going
to change my mind.
And, you know, I let them knowthat, you know, I appreciate
what you're saying.
Like I told the lady yesterday,I'm not going to change my
stance.
And I have different reasons.
The new light, as they call it,the changing on the teachings,
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the constant gas lighting, youknow, Inside the congregation,
there's so much hypocrisy.
The way that I've seen peopledealt with or I've seen how
people are treated.
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And it's based off of thingsthat witnesses should not be
basing them off of if they weresupposed to be a religion so
full of love, peace, and unity.
And I've seen, witnessed, heardhow certain ones are treated in
the congregation.
All the gossip and the talkingbehind someone's back to
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influence the way they'retreated in the congregation.
That's not right.
And I've just always been one tocall out bullshit when I see it.
And if an active witness reallywant to pop up and say that
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that's whining or crying, thatshows that they're one of the
individuals that I'm referringto.
If they see nothing wrong withthat, and you want to lash out
at someone who's saying whatthey have seen, what they've
witnessed, how other people arebeing treated if you aren't in a
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certain clique, or you're not ina certain income bracket, you
know, yeah, because that goes ontoo in that organization.
Some people treat youaccordingly in their mind to
whatever income bracket you'rein.
They'll tell you to their boo inthe face that it's not like
that, but it's like that.
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And you can ask a lot of us inthe ex-Jehovah's Witness
community.
And also, you know, get the onesthat say we were probably
disciplined and why don't youjust go away and shut up.
You've been dealt with.
Why do you have to keep talkingabout it?
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And again, it's our right.
Witnesses are the first ones whotalk about free will and
people's rights.
If they feel like they're avictim and they're being
persecuted, they are the firstones to throw out, we have
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rights.
But as soon as you speak up, Oryou question things.
Or you're saying, what I'msaying isn't right.
It's not lining up to what I'mbeing taught from the Bible.
As soon as you do that, thenthey throw up all this
deflection towards you.
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It's ridiculous.
And so what I always ask them todo is if you want to start
throwing out accusations, go andlook at my videos.
Start from the bottom.
Work your way up.
You'll find out exactly why Ileft.
It's not a big secret.
But a lot of active witnessesdon't like to do research.
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The governing body spoon feaststhem whatever they want them to
believe.
And, you know, it works.
So I asked them to go look at myvideos, get an understanding.
If you've done it, like, let'shave a logical home.
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adult conversation.
I challenge them to that.
They don't do it.
I also challenge them.
My main reason is because of theCSA, the abuse that goes on
within an organization worldwidewhere the predators of some
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horrendous crimes againstchildren, those predators are
Most of them are goingunpunished.
The organization has a databaseof who they are, what
congregations they're in.
They receive this informationfrom congregation elders, and
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they keep it hidden.
And there are, like in theUnited States and other
governments, there are courtstrying to get them to give up
that information.
Give the names.
But they won't.
They are saying like.
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If something was confessed tothem.
And because of religion.
They won't give up those names.
It's like they confess to us.
That's private.
So we're not going to give itup.
Mind you.
The monsters.
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that are doing these crimes arestill mingling within the
congregation the majority of thecongregation don't know like who
these people are what they'vedone and a lot of them what they
are still doing and that's mybiggest reason that I just
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couldn't you know something anorganization that I've gave my
life to For over five decades.
And to find out.
And see proof.
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That you know what's happening.
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Like I can't.
I just couldn't.
Be in that organization.
Slash cult anymore.
And so I let people know this.
Like.
These are all my reasons.
But like I said.
I wanted to make this video.
Just to.
I know.
That a lot of people watch.
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the videos, and sometimesthey'll comment, and they make
their little snide remarks.
And so I mainly wanted to makethis, you know, for anyone who
has that question.
You know, there are a lot of usout there.
There are more ex-Jehovah'sWitnesses around the world than
there are current activeJehovah's Witnesses.
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Statistically true.
There's more of us than thereare active witnesses.
Some fall away.
Some get disfellowshipped, orthey call it removed.
A lot disassociate themselves,don't want anything else to do
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with it.
And then there are those thatjust quietly fall away from it,
which is what I did.
In December of 2024, I was justdone.
Left, walked away.
I was not disfellowshipped.
I did not disassociate myself.
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And something else I want toaddress, too, because witnesses,
they're quick to ask you, areyou disfellowshipped?
Did you get disfellowshipped?
Did you disassociate yourself?
My answer is no.
They ask why.
Because, again, that is acontrol tactic.
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Used by that organization.
For punishment.
That disfellowshipping.
Shining.
Removing.
However they try to pretty itup.
Depending on what month you'rein.
It's just a tactic.
That they use for control.
And for a brief period.
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Like in the spring.
I was like.
I wonder should I.
like write a letter to tell themI'm done.
And then I was like, you knowwhat?
F that because like I'm donebeing controlled by them.
What difference would it make?
I'm not going to sit there andanswer their questions and be
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grilled and interview and askthe same damn question 10, 10
times, 15 different ways.
Like I've been through all thatshit before.
So yeah.
I walked away.
So there are more, and a witnesswill try to dispute you about
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this, but there are moreex-witnesses for whatever reason
than there are active witnessesaround the world.
And, you know, a lot of us arejust waking up.
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That
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cult, the way it started, you know, the group of
Bible students and, excuse me,Charles Taze Russell.
And I posted something today onInstagram and TikTok.
But it's from a book, and it's aparagraph that's highlighted.
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And Russell is just like, wehave already entered into the
Lord's day in the last days.
And this is going to lead up towhat we've been waiting for,
which is God's war.
And his war is going to come,and it's going to put an end to
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all these nations on Earth.
And he will come in 1914.
That's when Armageddon is goingto come.
And, you know, of course we'restill here.
It didn't come.
It didn't come in 1975.
It didn't come in the 90s.
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So here we are in 2025, and Iposted that in the first slide
from what Russell is saying.
Second slide from last year,2024, a watchtower, and they're
still trying to clean up thatmess and glaze over it.
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They were like, 1914, he said itwould be like, turmoil and
things happening in 1914, theyglaze over the whole fact that
he said in 1914, Armageddon isgoing to be here.
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God's war.
It's going to put an end to allthese nations on Earth.
And, yeah, they totally glazeover that.
And they tell you, no, that wasjust a turning point.
He meant it was just going to bea turning point.
And look, World War I happened.
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Satan got kicked out of heaven.
He was furious.
It was a world war.
So they still try to glaze over.
They still try to gaslight somany blind cult members.
And there's things like that.
There's things that theybackpedal on.
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You know, you can wear beards.
And you don't have to wear anecktie.
When they were very, veryhard-nosed about that.
Clean shaven.
If a man has sideburns.
And I was laughing about thiswith someone earlier this week.
It depended on where you livedin the country.
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It was all these differentstipulations that different
bodies of elders in differentcongregations had.
And we were laughing about thatbecause When I lived up in
Chicago, the men could havesideburns, but they couldn't go
below the earlobe.
Moved to Texas, someone evensaid something to my father
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about it.
He's an elder.
They didn't want the sideburnscoming below the top of the
ears.
Man-made shit.
Does that have anything to dowith learning about God?
Learning about Jesus.
Or exercising faith in Jesus.
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Ransom sacrifice.
Nothing at all.
Just man made crap.
And so.
You know.
It's just reasons like that.
I can go on and on.
That's what I tell them.
When they ask how much time doyou have.
There are numerous reasons.
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Why I left.
And I'm not hiding them.
They're in my videos.
If people want to have areasonable
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conversation about it, I'd do that too.
You know, but they get
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on and they just feel the hatred.
One idiot was like, oh, you justwant to plate a barbecue.
Like, just stupid shit.
You're always supposed to bethis...
model organization God's chosenpeople and all they can do is
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hurl insults spew hatred sayingthey want to see you dead
someone said go hang yourself awitness they deflect the best
thing witnesses do is playvictim so when I At first, when
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they were coming at me and I waskind of nude, like getting into
social media, I would lash out.
And a witness, they would dowhat a witness does best, play
victim.
How could you say these thingsto me?
When they're the ones who popup, like shoveling out insults.
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So I was like, okay, I'm goingto change my tactic.
And I just go full nice.
with everyone.
It's some that are just dumb andrude and stupid and I don't even
respond.
I just block them.
And I still maintain that thereason the reason active
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Jehovah's Witnesses pop up onthe ex-witnesses pages is
they're curious.
And I tell them I was in theirshoes when I started having
questions and doubts and Youknow, you're curious.
You get these things pop up inyour head, stuff just not
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jiving.
But you're so all in to the cultthat you don't really say
anything.
Then you go on these pagesyou're not supposed to go on,
and you hear what we're saying.
And I think, because it happenedto me, I think a lot of them, it
scares them.
And then they go into that fightor flight mode, and they choose
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fight.
And I think that's what'shappening to a lot of them.
And so I said, I'm just going tobe nice.
Especially me knowing what it'slike being in that cult and the
obligation that you feel,whether it's an obligation to
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God or, excuse me, a lot of us,you know, we were brought in,
born in it and raised in it.
So we have this obligation toour family.
Like, we have to keep it goingbecause of them.
In fact, that's what took me solong to come to this decision
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and to leave.
You know, I'm almost 55, andhere I am still worried about,
like, what will my parents say?
What will my family say?
And,
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yeah,
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I'm just done.
living my truth.
Not trying to conform to howsomeone else wants me to be.
But I still maintain my beliefsin God.
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I still maintain my beliefs inJesus and his ransom.
I don't question those things.
I stepped away and I make itvery clear in my videos, I step
away because of what I'veexplained to you.
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Just the teachings that theybackpedal on, the abuse that
goes on within thesecongregations.
If
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a person stops and stops trying to defend
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the organization so much, Like I said, I get it.
I empathize with you.
I was in your shoes.
I defended that organizationlike crazy.
You have no idea.
I defended it to schoolmates.
I defended religion toworkmates, to relatives.
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I believed in it.
I was all in.
And so I have a lot of empathyfor the ones that pop up on my
posts and that's why I try notto be I try my best not to be
mean or hostile even if they areto me I want people to hear the
message I was telling my buddyyesterday like I'm just going to
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keep doing what I'm doing somedays it's not easy but if I get
one or two people to just
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Stop.
Listen.
Think.
And just meditate on it and use
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the mind you were given.
You know, even if two people didit, like, I'm happy.
But like I said, people arelistening.
People are interacting with me.
And that's what I'm going to dois just get the message out.
I'm not going to stop.
You can ask me in the mean way.
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You can ask me so nice andpolite, but I will not stop
doing what I'm doing, which isjust exposing that evil
organization with the mindcontrol and the hiding of these
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monsters that are sprinkled incongregations around the world.
And like I posted, Because aperson popped up on one of my
posts and his take on it was hedon't like ex-Jehovah's
Witnesses doing what we dobecause we are biased.
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And our bias shows in our postsand our conversation.
And when he said that, it kindof triggered me.
And what I did and what any ofthem can do.
what any of you can do.
I went and I Googled up, um, acase that someone had told me
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about and I hadn't had a chanceto look at it yet.
And I looked at it and it's a,from a court in Pennsylvania and
I posted four slides ofscreenshots and I, I said, I'm
going to warn you.
A couple of the slides havethings that may, you know, um,
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cause some triggers in somepeople because I have a lot of
people that have been hurt, beenabused, and been failed by that
damn organization.
I have a lot of them on mydifferent accounts on social
media.
And so I wanted to let themknow, like, you know, a couple
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of these slides have some stuff,have details, and this is from
the court.
the court cases.
You know, it'd have details inthere that might trigger you or
make you go back to when theabuse happened to you.
And, you know, I said toeverybody, someone says that we
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just talk out of bias, biasedinformation.
And I told him, I said, I'mabout to post something.
Four slides from a court systemand from a media outlet in that
state that gave in detail aboutwhat these men were doing, a lot
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of them elders, and that theywere being convicted.
And the congregations andheadquarters knew about them,
but did nothing.
One girl was even
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autistic.
A young girl.
A victim.
Okay?
Um...
I don't want to get tootriggered.
One of the outstanding gentlemenand elder, this
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person was so guilty that when the police went to
arrest him, he ran into abathroom in his home.
and took his own life they knowwhat pieces of shit they are yet
you have active witnessesdeflecting and defending which
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like pisses me the F off thatyou would defend and deflect
predators and I'm like I don'thave any patience with those
that pop up on my page Trying todeflect from CSA.
I have no tolerance for that.
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I'm not going to sugarcoatanything.
I posted these four slides.
It was kind of tough for me.
I explained why I was doing it.
I told that person, I said, Iwelcome you.
I just posted it.
I welcome you to join me on thatpost.
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We talk about facts
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and things that we post are from court systems,
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from governments.
It's not something we're makingup.
These are things you can gothere.
They're public record.
You can look it up for your damnself.
I'm making it easy for your assbecause I know Witnesses don't
like to do too damn much, okay?
I'm making it easy for your ass.
Told him to meet me on thatpost.
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And let's talk about the facts.
Once you see what they're doing,what they're being convicted of,
how many years they're gettingin prison, you let me know if
it's bias.
Didn't show up on that post.
F-ing cowards.
That's what they do.
And so, yeah, I have notolerance for people in that
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organization.
that wants to make excuses forthe evil and darkness that's
going on, especially to youngchildren.
I have no tolerance for that.
They never show up on thoseposts.
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I posted another one that showedsome financial
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shadiness.
This one was kind of like
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You know, it was humorous.
Once I found out, and I think Iwas laughing, so I wouldn't
punch a hole in the wall, butit's like when you go to, like,
they call it Bethel or House ofGod.
And so when you go to Bethel andyou live there or a headquarters
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or a branch office, you takewhat's called a vow of poverty,
right?
And this is saying like you'regoing to forego making any
income, you're pretty much justdevoting your life to kingdom
interest, they call it.
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So whether you're creatingliterature or some other
department, they have so manydifferent departments now
because it started off as a hugepublishing company, but now they
went mainly digital.
And so, you know, whateveryou're doing at headquarters,
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you take this vow of poverty.
So someone said, I want you tolook at something.
And it's from a state in theUnited States.
And, you know, businesses haveto register.
You have to be a registeredbusiness and go through the
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certain legal steps.
To be a.
You know properly runningbusiness.
Right.
So.
First picture they show me.
And it's from.
The secretary of state's office.
And this company is registered.
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And I'm like.
Okay.
You know it's a business thatregistered.
They send me another picture.
And.
It's a.
A website.
And it's like janitorial supply.
And I see that, okay, on thewebsite, the name matches the
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registered name on theregistration with the Secretary
of State.
So I'm still kind of like, okay,where is this going?
Third slide.
And I know this for a factbecause being a ministerial
servant, like the ministerialservants and elders, we could go
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on They call it like JW Hub.
And it's where we went to lookat letters.
And I was an AV, so I would pullmedia from the branch to show at
meetings and all kinds ofthings.
But it was also a part on therefor supplies.
And so if you went on supplies,it was only certain vendors that
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they want Kingdom Halls to orderfrom, right?
So keep that in mind.
Fourth picture they show me.
They blew up the picture, thefirst picture they showed me.
And it showed the board ofdirectors.
And I was
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shocked that one of the board of directors,
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in fact, the top dog on there, was one of the
brothers.
They classify him as a helper.
helper to the governing body,and he's on a lot of broadcasts.
So, just let all of thatmarinate with you.
The vow of poverty.
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Some business in this state, inthe Midwest, in the United
States.
We have JW Hub, where theoperating committee orders
cleaning supplies and othersupplies for the Kingdom Hall.
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And it's a for-profit company.
So before any of the at-homeattorneys pop up, it's a
for-profit business.
And then you have this governingbody helper on top of the board
of directors.
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And I'm like, well, damn.
They're making money all kind ofways.
you know like and that was oneof the things I questioned I was
like so they want us to buy likesupplies through these different
companies like can't we just godown to Walmart or something
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like oh we have to order throughthis like the branch is telling
kingdom halls and operatingcommittees here's a list of
vendors just order from me andthen to see that That's one of
the vendors that this joker ison the board of directors for a
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for-profit company.
And yet another reason why Ifelt I needed to get away.
It's just so much, so much goeson behind people's eyes that you
just don't know about.
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And that's why I keep saying youhave to have an open mind.
I get it.
It's going to shock you atfirst.
I've been away from the cultsince the end of last year.
And each week I'm seeing things.
I'm being sent things.
And I can look it up for myselfto see.
And it floors me.
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And like the people who send mestuff, they'll check with me.
Like after an hour or two.
And I'm like hey.
Just checking in on you.
You okay?
SPEAKER_01 (40:11):
Like how you feel about that?
And I'm like.
That was a lot.
And you have no idea.
That is happening.
SPEAKER_00 (40:21):
Or what's going on.
Another thing I'm looking into.
Like I said I can keep me.
And people ask me why.
And I'm like how much time doyou have?
And so another thing that wasran past me and I'm like, I'm
looking more and more into it.
SPEAKER_01 (40:43):
Remember during COVID, the pandemic, and
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the government started coming out saying we
have some companies, somepharmaceutical companies that
are going to be making vaccines.
I was very unsure about it, andI was quite open with it.
You know, I would tell my wife,like, I don't know.
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It's weird that they did pop upand come up with the vaccine
that quickly.
I'm not totally against it.
It's just scary.
So that was my stance.
And, you know, we're meetingfrom home over Zoom.
And then, you know.
They're just bombarding youwith.
(41:34):
like media, the news, you know,you need to get the vaccine,
this and that.
And then remember they, youknow, the governing bodies
started saying, it's probablywise that we get it.
We could even speed up the timewe meet together in the future
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again.
Why we have so many And theygave like a percentage, and it
was a high percentage in thehigh 90s, of how many at
headquarters in Bethel weregetting the vaccine.
And so, you know, they always,you know, it's up to each
Christian what you want to do,but they would always kind of
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like nudge you.
Like, hey, we're doing it.
We're getting it.
It would be advantageous if yougot it too.
So that's what they werepushing.
And then a couple weeks ago, Ifind out that not only are they
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the organization, not only arethey a huge publishing company
that kind of nosedive with thedigital world, but they are huge
into real estate.
They have so much property thatthey're selling.
They started taking overownership Of these kingdom halls
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and assembly halls.
And they're just selling themoff.
Getting that money.
And so.
They also.
Put.
Sorry about that noise.
It was like an airplane goingoverhead.
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They also.
Buy stock.
And so I heard.
And they're.
someone is still sending meinformation, but that they
bought stock into one of thesehuge pharmaceutical companies,
right?
And then they started pushingfor us to get the vaccine.
And I'm like, if that's true,they are just like cold,
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heartless, manipulative.
And like, I'm hearing it frommore and more people and it's,
It's things like this.
It just doesn't stop.
And that's why I'm still justtelling active witnesses, stop
fighting.
Stop deflecting.
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Stop making excuses.
Just listen.
Look at what we're saying.
Look at the proof that we'reposting.
If you still want to be in thatcult, after that, fine.
I'm not begging people to stop.
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All I'm doing is trying to showpeople and plant that seed as to
why me and so many othersstopped going.
And we're no longer in thatcult.
And that's all I do.
I'm not trying to strong armanyone.
I just ask people to stop,breathe, listen, think,
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meditate.
And I've had some say, yeah, oh,yeah, that don't seem right.
But they always follow up with,but.
And, you know, they make excusesfor the organization on whatever
point we're talking about.
And, like I said, I get it.
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Like, I was you.
And I tell them that I was youfor so many years.
So I get it.
But if more people would just...
And that's why the governingbody and so many things they
print and things in the meetingthat they go over, that's why
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they are so afraid of theirpeople talking with us.
Because they know, man, if someof these people start waking up,
it's going to be verydetrimental.
So it's working.
People are waking up, they'relosing numbers.
Someone in the ex-Joseph'sWitness community, I can't
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believe she did this, but sheactually went to a convention
over the weekend.
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And I don't even, I'm not
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sure where it's at, but it was in an arena.
The amount of empty seats atthat convention.
And like from my years going toconventions, like when they were
four days, um, remember Thursdaywas like a half day started in
the afternoon.
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They gave people time to get intown.
Friday, uh, good old fieldservice.
Friday was more people, youknow, and then Saturday and
Sunday usually were like the bigones, the big attendance makers.
And so this was, one of theweekend days Saturday or Sunday
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so many empty seats and you knowI was telling my daughter about
it and I was like I can reallysee that people are starting to
slow up going like people arewaking up the CEO of the
governing body they don't wantpeople to listen to us that's
(47:22):
why they tell them to stay awayfrom us uh, don't engage with us
on social media because the morethey see, the more they hear,
you know, the brain is like asponge and it's just soaking it
all in.
And like, they're going to startthinking and that's why they
don't want them talking to us.
But like they, there are so manyreasons that I saw that I
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personally chose to just breakaway.
And so, uh, Like I always do inmy videos and my audio podcasts,
if you are one that's studyingor thinking about studying, by
no means am I going to say stop.
Because if it's for you, it'sfor you.
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I'm just going to say just lookclosely and look at facts and
see if that's If thatorganization is something you
want to align your life with,because they're going to have a
lot of control over your life.
And, you know, just askyourself, honestly, is this
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something that I want to alignmy life and my mind up with?
And then there are those thatlisten to me.
They call them a PIMO, P-I-M-O,physically in, mentally out.
So these are ones, for whateverreason, they still have to
attend meetings.
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and be in the religion.
But they've checked out up here.
Mentally, they're done.
They're finished.
But like I said, for whateverreason I have to go, I've talked
to about three elders that haveconfided in me.
And one even told me all hisresponsibilities in the
congregation.
And I was like, damn.
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He was like me, just in it deepwith everything that he's doing
and his responsibilities.
And Yeah, I'm talking to threeelders and they are PIMO, but
they can't leave because offamily or they feel bad because
of obligation.
And like I've told all of them,I understand why you're still in
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me personally.
Like I was tired of being inthat situation and I was just
tired of not being true tomyself.
And the more facts that I foundout, it made the decision that
much easier.
And so.
I tell them also to just think,I know your situation is
different.
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I know you can't just get up andleave, but, you know, just
think.
I was talking to another lady onmy Reddit account, and it's a
huge ex-Jehovah's Witnesscommunity, over 110,000.
And so she said her husbandpassed in the spring.
She's trying to decide if she'sstill going to go.
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She said she's always consideredherself a diet JW.
Like she never did all that shecould do.
And so she was like, I don'tknow if I should stay in.
I feel like I should, but I'vealready gotten two tattoos.
I want more tats.
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My heart's not in it.
And I'm just like, look, juststop.
Stop going.
You already said you've gottentwo tattoos.
You already said my heart isn'tin it.
You already said I was a diet,JW.
Never did enough.
And I'm just like, stop.
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Stop going.
Stop trying.
You're not happy.
You're not obligated to anyone.
You know, gave her mycondolences for her husband.
passing away and I said youdon't have to feel that
obligation you had with him anylonger like just stop and free
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yourself from the torture thatthat obligational torture you
know that we all went throughand like I just want everyone
you know the categories I justlisted just think be true to
yourself I know Some can't getout.
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But, you know, stay strong.
And fortunately, even if you'rea PMO, fortunately, you have a
huge community of ex-Jehovah'sWitnesses.
And, you know, that brings me tomy point here.
So if you want to find mydifferent social media outlets
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that I'm on, Like one of theeasiest ways, and I also post my
audio podcast on here too.
I have a link tree.
SPEAKER_01 (52:30):
Put it
SPEAKER_00 (52:35):
over there.
Okay, sorry.
Well, I have a link tree thatlists different social media and
also my audio podcast.
I put the links on there.
Click a button.
You can hear my audio podcast.
But it's Linktree slashMitchXJDub.
So M-I-T-C-H-E-X-J-D-U-B.
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And on TikTok and Instagram, youcan find those accounts on, it's
the same thing, XJDub,E-X-J-D-U-B.
Out of all my social media,TikTok is the one that's going
crazy.
I started a few weeks ago, and Ihave about 1,100, almost 1,100
(53:27):
followers now.
YouTube is really picking up alot.
I'll post this video on YouTube,but YouTube is Mitch-EX.com.
reddit is the u slash vxjdub andtwitter xjdub with the number
(53:58):
one so look me up especially ontiktok I think I'm most active
and I even post you can postlonger videos on tiktok so I
would urge you to look me upthere especially.
(54:18):
First, look me up on Facebooktoo if you want to.
The Mitch Wright.
But yeah, I would say TikTok ifyou want just daily video.
I post pictures.
I try to keep it light.
And then I have my series postwhere I'm really...
(54:41):
I wrote a poem.
I like writing poetry, so Iwrote a poem the other day, just
how it is growing up, being achild and a teenager.
Growing up as a Jehovah'sWitness, I wrote a poem about
that, and I'm getting a lot ofpositive response and people
(55:03):
saying, you wrote exactly how Ifelt and how I feel.
So that felt good.
So it's like a community of us,and we support each other.
The organization will tell youthat we're all drunk and
shooting dope and smoking weedand living under a bridge and
(55:28):
fornicating and adulterating,but that's not the case.
You just have people that justwant to live, be happy, and
thrive, and that's what we'reall doing.
I urge you to join me on mysocial media accounts.
I hope you enjoy this video.
Leave me a comment.
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If you're going to be rude,mean, like I've heard about
everything, so if you feel likeyou're going to leave one of
those comments, just hit theback button and go about your
life.
Leave me the hell alone.
You're negative because you'rehurting and you're sad and
you're lost, but you won't admitthat yet.
(56:10):
When you come to thatrealization, come back and we'll
talk.
I'll show you how to be happy.
But until then, everyone, pleaseenjoy your day.
Have a great week.
And I will talk to you soon.
Thank you.
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Welcome to my second vlog or video vlog.
(00:58):
I'm trying to get all high-techon you all.
But I wanted this one.
I'm going to start doing theseregularly because it seems like
I am.
I get more traction, especiallyon like YouTube.
With the longer format videos,so.
(01:21):
You know, I try to do what youall.
Want like what you ask for so.
Yeah, I figured today I wouldspeak about.
I get asked a lot.
Why am I doing it?
Why are you speaking out?
And sometimes I'm asked nicely,sometimes it's rudely.
(01:46):
Most of the time, I would sayrudely 98% of the time by active
Jehovah's Witnesses.
So, you know, at first I wasvery, very upset about it, but
I've kind of tempered myselfdown to...
I respond kindly, especially if,okay, if they show me respect
(02:12):
and if they're kind, I do thesame thing.
I talk to a few indirectmessages, you know, in depth.
They want to know why it is I dowhat I'm doing.
Why aren't you happy?
You know, I go back to Jehovahand I just try to explain to
them, you know, it's my right,first of all, free will.
(02:36):
Something we've always been, youknow, it's pounded in our head,
free will.
And so, yeah, I figured I wouldmake a video to kind of answer
that because sometimes thecomments are just way out in the
left field.
I tell you, witnesses are aweird, interesting bunch.
(03:01):
You know, I got bullied a lot.
In the organization.
And then when it carries over.
Out.
To the world I'm in now.
To where I'm free.
And I'm away from that cult.
And I don't.
Have to go by the rules.
(03:22):
I don't have to wait till.
A governing body member.
Pops up and.
You know in a broadcast tellingme.
I have permission to wear abeard.
I have permission.
To.
toast if
SPEAKER_01 (03:36):
I
SPEAKER_00 (03:37):
want to
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like
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it's so much about control and man made rules a lot
which are like outdated theymade them way back in the day
but it's still what we do I'msorry what they do as an
organization and you know everyonce in a while they'll change
(04:03):
something me and a lot of myfriends, we're still saying
they're making all these changesbecause they're losing members
and they're trying to make itlook more appealing.
They're trying to keep moremembers because at the end of
the day, it's all about that,the money.
And so empty seats, you know,means no money in the long run.
(04:26):
So, you know, I have thempopping up, making these ugly
comments, um, Like I said, it'spretty much bullying.
And for an organization religionto always claim they're the one
chosen religion and they haveGod's favor and we show so much
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love and unity.
Like the comments that myselfand other friends of mine that
are ex-Jehovah's Witnesses get,far from loving.
You know, It's either bashing meabout my weight, telling me they
can't wait until I'm destroyedat Armageddon.
(05:10):
They'll be laughing.
They'll be smiling when Goddestroys me and all those who
oppose him.
Stop whining.
Stop crying.
Which, if you took time to lookat my videos, I'm not one of
them.
Am I whining or complaining,especially about a person?
(05:34):
I'm voicing my opinions, mythoughts, my feelings, excuse
me, as to why I chose to leave.
But that's what witnesses aregood at.
They're good at deflecting.
They're good at temper tantrums.
They're good at not being ableto hold a calm, reasonable
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conversation.
Without them losing their shit.
And then just start spewinghatred and things they can't
wait to see.
It's just ugly, rude behavior.
And I'm not saying this to allwitnesses, because like I said,
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I'm talking to a few.
And when they genuinely ask me,I have a conversation with them.
I was speaking with a lady inthe comment section yesterday.
She says she's not a witness,but her family is, and she
thinks they get a bad rap.
(06:42):
They're really good people, andshe hates to see them picked on.
And I let her know, first, howlong I've been in it.
I let her know that I'm actuallyempathetic with those that are
still in there.
But I also...
tell people, what I do is not todrag you away from it.
(07:04):
It's to get you to think.
It's to plant seeds so that youcan just use your brain.
That's what I'm doing.
And I've said on numerousvideos, if you choose to have
that belief system and you wantto be an active Jehovah's
Witness, that's your life.
I'm not faulting you.
(07:25):
I know for me, myself, Therewere things that I needed to
step away for.
And so, yeah, I can have areasonable conversation.
So I've started blocking theones who just come on saying
rude, vile things, which isstupid because they're not even
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supposed to be engaging with us.
The apostate world, theex-Jehovah's Witnesses, they're
not even, their masters tellthem, masters aka the governing
body tell them to stay away fromus don't talk to us don't listen
to anything verbally or anythingthey say on social media I've
(08:10):
heard they had a lot of thingson there and I've seen an actual
video from the convention thissummer about apostates and
they're talking about pureworship and apostates that's one
thing that messes with pureworship and so I get being in
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that organization slash cult andall the things they feed to you
and just drilling your head andso yeah you get these
overzealous active Jehovah'sWitnesses that come and pop up
on our accounts and they thinkthey're doing good for that cult
(08:56):
they think that they're a lot ofthem sadly think they're going
to change my mind.
And, you know, I let them knowthat, you know, I appreciate
what you're saying.
Like I told the lady yesterday,I'm not going to change my
stance.
And I have different reasons.
The new light, as they call it,the changing on the teachings,
(09:20):
the constant gas lighting, youknow, Inside the congregation,
there's so much hypocrisy.
The way that I've seen peopledealt with or I've seen how
people are treated.
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And it's based off of thingsthat witnesses should not be
basing them off of if they weresupposed to be a religion so
full of love, peace, and unity.
And I've seen, witnessed, heardhow certain ones are treated in
the congregation.
All the gossip and the talkingbehind someone's back to
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influence the way they'retreated in the congregation.
That's not right.
And I've just always been one tocall out bullshit when I see it.
And if an active witness reallywant to pop up and say that
(10:26):
that's whining or crying, thatshows that they're one of the
individuals that I'm referringto.
If they see nothing wrong withthat, and you want to lash out
at someone who's saying whatthey have seen, what they've
witnessed, how other people arebeing treated if you aren't in a
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certain clique, or you're not ina certain income bracket, you
know, yeah, because that goes ontoo in that organization.
Some people treat youaccordingly in their mind to
whatever income bracket you'rein.
They'll tell you to their boo inthe face that it's not like
that, but it's like that.
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And you can ask a lot of us inthe ex-Jehovah's Witness
community.
And also, you know, get the onesthat say we were probably
disciplined and why don't youjust go away and shut up.
You've been dealt with.
Why do you have to keep talkingabout it?
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And again, it's our right.
Witnesses are the first ones whotalk about free will and
people's rights.
If they feel like they're avictim and they're being
persecuted, they are the firstones to throw out, we have
(11:49):
rights.
But as soon as you speak up, Oryou question things.
Or you're saying, what I'msaying isn't right.
It's not lining up to what I'mbeing taught from the Bible.
As soon as you do that, thenthey throw up all this
deflection towards you.
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It's ridiculous.
And so what I always ask them todo is if you want to start
throwing out accusations, go andlook at my videos.
Start from the bottom.
Work your way up.
You'll find out exactly why Ileft.
It's not a big secret.
But a lot of active witnessesdon't like to do research.
(12:33):
The governing body spoon feaststhem whatever they want them to
believe.
And, you know, it works.
So I asked them to go look at myvideos, get an understanding.
If you've done it, like, let'shave a logical home.
(12:55):
adult conversation.
I challenge them to that.
They don't do it.
I also challenge them.
My main reason is because of theCSA, the abuse that goes on
within an organization worldwidewhere the predators of some
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horrendous crimes againstchildren, those predators are
Most of them are goingunpunished.
The organization has a databaseof who they are, what
congregations they're in.
They receive this informationfrom congregation elders, and
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they keep it hidden.
And there are, like in theUnited States and other
governments, there are courtstrying to get them to give up
that information.
Give the names.
But they won't.
They are saying like.
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If something was confessed tothem.
And because of religion.
They won't give up those names.
It's like they confess to us.
That's private.
So we're not going to give itup.
Mind you.
The monsters.
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that are doing these crimes arestill mingling within the
congregation the majority of thecongregation don't know like who
these people are what they'vedone and a lot of them what they
are still doing and that's mybiggest reason that I just
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couldn't you know something anorganization that I've gave my
life to For over five decades.
And to find out.
And see proof.
SPEAKER_01 (14:53):
That you know what's happening.
SPEAKER_00 (14:57):
Like I can't.
I just couldn't.
Be in that organization.
Slash cult anymore.
And so I let people know this.
Like.
These are all my reasons.
But like I said.
I wanted to make this video.
Just to.
I know.
That a lot of people watch.
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the videos, and sometimesthey'll comment, and they make
their little snide remarks.
And so I mainly wanted to makethis, you know, for anyone who
has that question.
You know, there are a lot of usout there.
There are more ex-Jehovah'sWitnesses around the world than
there are current activeJehovah's Witnesses.
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Statistically true.
There's more of us than thereare active witnesses.
Some fall away.
Some get disfellowshipped, orthey call it removed.
A lot disassociate themselves,don't want anything else to do
(16:02):
with it.
And then there are those thatjust quietly fall away from it,
which is what I did.
In December of 2024, I was justdone.
Left, walked away.
I was not disfellowshipped.
I did not disassociate myself.
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And something else I want toaddress, too, because witnesses,
they're quick to ask you, areyou disfellowshipped?
Did you get disfellowshipped?
Did you disassociate yourself?
My answer is no.
They ask why.
Because, again, that is acontrol tactic.
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Used by that organization.
For punishment.
That disfellowshipping.
Shining.
Removing.
However they try to pretty itup.
Depending on what month you'rein.
It's just a tactic.
That they use for control.
And for a brief period.
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Like in the spring.
I was like.
I wonder should I.
like write a letter to tell themI'm done.
And then I was like, you knowwhat?
F that because like I'm donebeing controlled by them.
What difference would it make?
I'm not going to sit there andanswer their questions and be
(17:33):
grilled and interview and askthe same damn question 10, 10
times, 15 different ways.
Like I've been through all thatshit before.
So yeah.
I walked away.
So there are more, and a witnesswill try to dispute you about
(17:53):
this, but there are moreex-witnesses for whatever reason
than there are active witnessesaround the world.
And, you know, a lot of us arejust waking up.
SPEAKER_01 (18:09):
That
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cult, the way it started, you know, the group of
Bible students and, excuse me,Charles Taze Russell.
And I posted something today onInstagram and TikTok.
But it's from a book, and it's aparagraph that's highlighted.
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And Russell is just like, wehave already entered into the
Lord's day in the last days.
And this is going to lead up towhat we've been waiting for,
which is God's war.
And his war is going to come,and it's going to put an end to
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all these nations on Earth.
And he will come in 1914.
That's when Armageddon is goingto come.
And, you know, of course we'restill here.
It didn't come.
It didn't come in 1975.
It didn't come in the 90s.
(19:15):
So here we are in 2025, and Iposted that in the first slide
from what Russell is saying.
Second slide from last year,2024, a watchtower, and they're
still trying to clean up thatmess and glaze over it.
(19:36):
They were like, 1914, he said itwould be like, turmoil and
things happening in 1914, theyglaze over the whole fact that
he said in 1914, Armageddon isgoing to be here.
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God's war.
It's going to put an end to allthese nations on Earth.
And, yeah, they totally glazeover that.
And they tell you, no, that wasjust a turning point.
He meant it was just going to bea turning point.
And look, World War I happened.
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Satan got kicked out of heaven.
He was furious.
It was a world war.
So they still try to glaze over.
They still try to gaslight somany blind cult members.
And there's things like that.
There's things that theybackpedal on.
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You know, you can wear beards.
And you don't have to wear anecktie.
When they were very, veryhard-nosed about that.
Clean shaven.
If a man has sideburns.
And I was laughing about thiswith someone earlier this week.
It depended on where you livedin the country.
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It was all these differentstipulations that different
bodies of elders in differentcongregations had.
And we were laughing about thatbecause When I lived up in
Chicago, the men could havesideburns, but they couldn't go
below the earlobe.
Moved to Texas, someone evensaid something to my father
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about it.
He's an elder.
They didn't want the sideburnscoming below the top of the
ears.
Man-made shit.
Does that have anything to dowith learning about God?
Learning about Jesus.
Or exercising faith in Jesus.
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Ransom sacrifice.
Nothing at all.
Just man made crap.
And so.
You know.
It's just reasons like that.
I can go on and on.
That's what I tell them.
When they ask how much time doyou have.
There are numerous reasons.
(22:03):
Why I left.
And I'm not hiding them.
They're in my videos.
If people want to have areasonable
SPEAKER_01 (22:09):
conversation about it, I'd do that too.
You know, but they get
SPEAKER_00 (22:21):
on and they just feel the hatred.
One idiot was like, oh, you justwant to plate a barbecue.
Like, just stupid shit.
You're always supposed to bethis...
model organization God's chosenpeople and all they can do is
(22:45):
hurl insults spew hatred sayingthey want to see you dead
someone said go hang yourself awitness they deflect the best
thing witnesses do is playvictim so when I At first, when
(23:08):
they were coming at me and I waskind of nude, like getting into
social media, I would lash out.
And a witness, they would dowhat a witness does best, play
victim.
How could you say these thingsto me?
When they're the ones who popup, like shoveling out insults.
(23:31):
So I was like, okay, I'm goingto change my tactic.
And I just go full nice.
with everyone.
It's some that are just dumb andrude and stupid and I don't even
respond.
I just block them.
And I still maintain that thereason the reason active
(23:54):
Jehovah's Witnesses pop up onthe ex-witnesses pages is
they're curious.
And I tell them I was in theirshoes when I started having
questions and doubts and Youknow, you're curious.
You get these things pop up inyour head, stuff just not
(24:15):
jiving.
But you're so all in to the cultthat you don't really say
anything.
Then you go on these pagesyou're not supposed to go on,
and you hear what we're saying.
And I think, because it happenedto me, I think a lot of them, it
scares them.
And then they go into that fightor flight mode, and they choose
(24:37):
fight.
And I think that's what'shappening to a lot of them.
And so I said, I'm just going tobe nice.
Especially me knowing what it'slike being in that cult and the
obligation that you feel,whether it's an obligation to
(24:59):
God or, excuse me, a lot of us,you know, we were brought in,
born in it and raised in it.
So we have this obligation toour family.
Like, we have to keep it goingbecause of them.
In fact, that's what took me solong to come to this decision
(25:20):
and to leave.
You know, I'm almost 55, andhere I am still worried about,
like, what will my parents say?
What will my family say?
And,
SPEAKER_01 (25:32):
yeah,
SPEAKER_00 (25:33):
I'm just done.
living my truth.
Not trying to conform to howsomeone else wants me to be.
But I still maintain my beliefsin God.
(25:54):
I still maintain my beliefs inJesus and his ransom.
I don't question those things.
I stepped away and I make itvery clear in my videos, I step
away because of what I'veexplained to you.
(26:16):
Just the teachings that theybackpedal on, the abuse that
goes on within thesecongregations.
If
SPEAKER_01 (26:27):
a person stops and stops trying to defend
SPEAKER_00 (26:35):
the organization so much, Like I said, I get it.
I empathize with you.
I was in your shoes.
I defended that organizationlike crazy.
You have no idea.
I defended it to schoolmates.
I defended religion toworkmates, to relatives.
(27:00):
I believed in it.
I was all in.
And so I have a lot of empathyfor the ones that pop up on my
posts and that's why I try notto be I try my best not to be
mean or hostile even if they areto me I want people to hear the
message I was telling my buddyyesterday like I'm just going to
(27:25):
keep doing what I'm doing somedays it's not easy but if I get
one or two people to just
SPEAKER_01 (27:36):
Stop.
Listen.
Think.
And just meditate on it and use
SPEAKER_00 (27:47):
the mind you were given.
You know, even if two people didit, like, I'm happy.
But like I said, people arelistening.
People are interacting with me.
And that's what I'm going to dois just get the message out.
I'm not going to stop.
You can ask me in the mean way.
(28:09):
You can ask me so nice andpolite, but I will not stop
doing what I'm doing, which isjust exposing that evil
organization with the mindcontrol and the hiding of these
(28:29):
monsters that are sprinkled incongregations around the world.
And like I posted, Because aperson popped up on one of my
posts and his take on it was hedon't like ex-Jehovah's
Witnesses doing what we dobecause we are biased.
(28:54):
And our bias shows in our postsand our conversation.
And when he said that, it kindof triggered me.
And what I did and what any ofthem can do.
what any of you can do.
I went and I Googled up, um, acase that someone had told me
(29:16):
about and I hadn't had a chanceto look at it yet.
And I looked at it and it's a,from a court in Pennsylvania and
I posted four slides ofscreenshots and I, I said, I'm
going to warn you.
A couple of the slides havethings that may, you know, um,
(29:36):
cause some triggers in somepeople because I have a lot of
people that have been hurt, beenabused, and been failed by that
damn organization.
I have a lot of them on mydifferent accounts on social
media.
And so I wanted to let themknow, like, you know, a couple
(29:58):
of these slides have some stuff,have details, and this is from
the court.
the court cases.
You know, it'd have details inthere that might trigger you or
make you go back to when theabuse happened to you.
And, you know, I said toeverybody, someone says that we
(30:19):
just talk out of bias, biasedinformation.
And I told him, I said, I'mabout to post something.
Four slides from a court systemand from a media outlet in that
state that gave in detail aboutwhat these men were doing, a lot
(30:42):
of them elders, and that theywere being convicted.
And the congregations andheadquarters knew about them,
but did nothing.
One girl was even
SPEAKER_01 (30:55):
autistic.
A young girl.
A victim.
Okay?
Um...
I don't want to get tootriggered.
One of the outstanding gentlemenand elder, this
SPEAKER_00 (31:22):
person was so guilty that when the police went to
arrest him, he ran into abathroom in his home.
and took his own life they knowwhat pieces of shit they are yet
you have active witnessesdeflecting and defending which
(31:48):
like pisses me the F off thatyou would defend and deflect
predators and I'm like I don'thave any patience with those
that pop up on my page Trying todeflect from CSA.
I have no tolerance for that.
(32:13):
I'm not going to sugarcoatanything.
I posted these four slides.
It was kind of tough for me.
I explained why I was doing it.
I told that person, I said, Iwelcome you.
I just posted it.
I welcome you to join me on thatpost.
(32:38):
We talk about facts
SPEAKER_01 (32:39):
and things that we post are from court systems,
SPEAKER_00 (32:48):
from governments.
It's not something we're makingup.
These are things you can gothere.
They're public record.
You can look it up for your damnself.
I'm making it easy for your assbecause I know Witnesses don't
like to do too damn much, okay?
I'm making it easy for your ass.
Told him to meet me on thatpost.
(33:09):
And let's talk about the facts.
Once you see what they're doing,what they're being convicted of,
how many years they're gettingin prison, you let me know if
it's bias.
Didn't show up on that post.
F-ing cowards.
That's what they do.
And so, yeah, I have notolerance for people in that
(33:30):
organization.
that wants to make excuses forthe evil and darkness that's
going on, especially to youngchildren.
I have no tolerance for that.
They never show up on thoseposts.
(33:50):
I posted another one that showedsome financial
SPEAKER_01 (33:53):
shadiness.
This one was kind of like
SPEAKER_00 (34:03):
You know, it was humorous.
Once I found out, and I think Iwas laughing, so I wouldn't
punch a hole in the wall, butit's like when you go to, like,
they call it Bethel or House ofGod.
And so when you go to Bethel andyou live there or a headquarters
(34:24):
or a branch office, you takewhat's called a vow of poverty,
right?
And this is saying like you'regoing to forego making any
income, you're pretty much justdevoting your life to kingdom
interest, they call it.
(34:46):
So whether you're creatingliterature or some other
department, they have so manydifferent departments now
because it started off as a hugepublishing company, but now they
went mainly digital.
And so, you know, whateveryou're doing at headquarters,
(35:10):
you take this vow of poverty.
So someone said, I want you tolook at something.
And it's from a state in theUnited States.
And, you know, businesses haveto register.
You have to be a registeredbusiness and go through the
(35:31):
certain legal steps.
To be a.
You know properly runningbusiness.
Right.
So.
First picture they show me.
And it's from.
The secretary of state's office.
And this company is registered.
(35:52):
And I'm like.
Okay.
You know it's a business thatregistered.
They send me another picture.
And.
It's a.
A website.
And it's like janitorial supply.
And I see that, okay, on thewebsite, the name matches the
(36:13):
registered name on theregistration with the Secretary
of State.
So I'm still kind of like, okay,where is this going?
Third slide.
And I know this for a factbecause being a ministerial
servant, like the ministerialservants and elders, we could go
(36:33):
on They call it like JW Hub.
And it's where we went to lookat letters.
And I was an AV, so I would pullmedia from the branch to show at
meetings and all kinds ofthings.
But it was also a part on therefor supplies.
And so if you went on supplies,it was only certain vendors that
(36:57):
they want Kingdom Halls to orderfrom, right?
So keep that in mind.
Fourth picture they show me.
They blew up the picture, thefirst picture they showed me.
And it showed the board ofdirectors.
And I was
SPEAKER_01 (37:19):
shocked that one of the board of directors,
SPEAKER_00 (37:26):
in fact, the top dog on there, was one of the
brothers.
They classify him as a helper.
helper to the governing body,and he's on a lot of broadcasts.
So, just let all of thatmarinate with you.
The vow of poverty.
(37:48):
Some business in this state, inthe Midwest, in the United
States.
We have JW Hub, where theoperating committee orders
cleaning supplies and othersupplies for the Kingdom Hall.
(38:09):
And it's a for-profit company.
So before any of the at-homeattorneys pop up, it's a
for-profit business.
And then you have this governingbody helper on top of the board
of directors.
(38:29):
And I'm like, well, damn.
They're making money all kind ofways.
you know like and that was oneof the things I questioned I was
like so they want us to buy likesupplies through these different
companies like can't we just godown to Walmart or something
(38:52):
like oh we have to order throughthis like the branch is telling
kingdom halls and operatingcommittees here's a list of
vendors just order from me andthen to see that That's one of
the vendors that this joker ison the board of directors for a
(39:14):
for-profit company.
And yet another reason why Ifelt I needed to get away.
It's just so much, so much goeson behind people's eyes that you
just don't know about.
(39:34):
And that's why I keep saying youhave to have an open mind.
I get it.
It's going to shock you atfirst.
I've been away from the cultsince the end of last year.
And each week I'm seeing things.
I'm being sent things.
And I can look it up for myselfto see.
And it floors me.
(39:57):
And like the people who send mestuff, they'll check with me.
Like after an hour or two.
And I'm like hey.
Just checking in on you.
You okay?
SPEAKER_01 (40:11):
Like how you feel about that?
And I'm like.
That was a lot.
And you have no idea.
That is happening.
SPEAKER_00 (40:21):
Or what's going on.
Another thing I'm looking into.
Like I said I can keep me.
And people ask me why.
And I'm like how much time doyou have?
And so another thing that wasran past me and I'm like, I'm
looking more and more into it.
SPEAKER_01 (40:43):
Remember during COVID, the pandemic, and
SPEAKER_00 (40:49):
the government started coming out saying we
have some companies, somepharmaceutical companies that
are going to be making vaccines.
I was very unsure about it, andI was quite open with it.
You know, I would tell my wife,like, I don't know.
(41:11):
It's weird that they did pop upand come up with the vaccine
that quickly.
I'm not totally against it.
It's just scary.
So that was my stance.
And, you know, we're meetingfrom home over Zoom.
And then, you know.
They're just bombarding youwith.
(41:34):
like media, the news, you know,you need to get the vaccine,
this and that.
And then remember they, youknow, the governing bodies
started saying, it's probablywise that we get it.
We could even speed up the timewe meet together in the future
(41:55):
again.
Why we have so many And theygave like a percentage, and it
was a high percentage in thehigh 90s, of how many at
headquarters in Bethel weregetting the vaccine.
And so, you know, they always,you know, it's up to each
Christian what you want to do,but they would always kind of
(42:17):
like nudge you.
Like, hey, we're doing it.
We're getting it.
It would be advantageous if yougot it too.
So that's what they werepushing.
And then a couple weeks ago, Ifind out that not only are they
(42:38):
the organization, not only arethey a huge publishing company
that kind of nosedive with thedigital world, but they are huge
into real estate.
They have so much property thatthey're selling.
They started taking overownership Of these kingdom halls
(42:59):
and assembly halls.
And they're just selling themoff.
Getting that money.
And so.
They also.
Put.
Sorry about that noise.
It was like an airplane goingoverhead.
(43:22):
They also.
Buy stock.
And so I heard.
And they're.
someone is still sending meinformation, but that they
bought stock into one of thesehuge pharmaceutical companies,
right?
And then they started pushingfor us to get the vaccine.
And I'm like, if that's true,they are just like cold,
(43:46):
heartless, manipulative.
And like, I'm hearing it frommore and more people and it's,
It's things like this.
It just doesn't stop.
And that's why I'm still justtelling active witnesses, stop
fighting.
Stop deflecting.
(44:08):
Stop making excuses.
Just listen.
Look at what we're saying.
Look at the proof that we'reposting.
If you still want to be in thatcult, after that, fine.
I'm not begging people to stop.
(44:28):
All I'm doing is trying to showpeople and plant that seed as to
why me and so many othersstopped going.
And we're no longer in thatcult.
And that's all I do.
I'm not trying to strong armanyone.
I just ask people to stop,breathe, listen, think,
(44:51):
meditate.
And I've had some say, yeah, oh,yeah, that don't seem right.
But they always follow up with,but.
And, you know, they make excusesfor the organization on whatever
point we're talking about.
And, like I said, I get it.
(45:17):
Like, I was you.
And I tell them that I was youfor so many years.
So I get it.
But if more people would just...
And that's why the governingbody and so many things they
print and things in the meetingthat they go over, that's why
(45:38):
they are so afraid of theirpeople talking with us.
Because they know, man, if someof these people start waking up,
it's going to be verydetrimental.
So it's working.
People are waking up, they'relosing numbers.
Someone in the ex-Joseph'sWitness community, I can't
(46:01):
believe she did this, but sheactually went to a convention
over the weekend.
SPEAKER_01 (46:08):
And I don't even, I'm not
SPEAKER_00 (46:15):
sure where it's at, but it was in an arena.
The amount of empty seats atthat convention.
And like from my years going toconventions, like when they were
four days, um, remember Thursdaywas like a half day started in
the afternoon.
(46:35):
They gave people time to get intown.
Friday, uh, good old fieldservice.
Friday was more people, youknow, and then Saturday and
Sunday usually were like the bigones, the big attendance makers.
And so this was, one of theweekend days Saturday or Sunday
(47:01):
so many empty seats and you knowI was telling my daughter about
it and I was like I can reallysee that people are starting to
slow up going like people arewaking up the CEO of the
governing body they don't wantpeople to listen to us that's
(47:22):
why they tell them to stay awayfrom us uh, don't engage with us
on social media because the morethey see, the more they hear,
you know, the brain is like asponge and it's just soaking it
all in.
And like, they're going to startthinking and that's why they
don't want them talking to us.
But like they, there are so manyreasons that I saw that I
(47:47):
personally chose to just breakaway.
And so, uh, Like I always do inmy videos and my audio podcasts,
if you are one that's studyingor thinking about studying, by
no means am I going to say stop.
Because if it's for you, it'sfor you.
(48:08):
I'm just going to say just lookclosely and look at facts and
see if that's If thatorganization is something you
want to align your life with,because they're going to have a
lot of control over your life.
And, you know, just askyourself, honestly, is this
(48:29):
something that I want to alignmy life and my mind up with?
And then there are those thatlisten to me.
They call them a PIMO, P-I-M-O,physically in, mentally out.
So these are ones, for whateverreason, they still have to
attend meetings.
(48:50):
and be in the religion.
But they've checked out up here.
Mentally, they're done.
They're finished.
But like I said, for whateverreason I have to go, I've talked
to about three elders that haveconfided in me.
And one even told me all hisresponsibilities in the
congregation.
And I was like, damn.
(49:13):
He was like me, just in it deepwith everything that he's doing
and his responsibilities.
And Yeah, I'm talking to threeelders and they are PIMO, but
they can't leave because offamily or they feel bad because
of obligation.
And like I've told all of them,I understand why you're still in
(49:34):
me personally.
Like I was tired of being inthat situation and I was just
tired of not being true tomyself.
And the more facts that I foundout, it made the decision that
much easier.
And so.
I tell them also to just think,I know your situation is
different.
(49:56):
I know you can't just get up andleave, but, you know, just
think.
I was talking to another lady onmy Reddit account, and it's a
huge ex-Jehovah's Witnesscommunity, over 110,000.
And so she said her husbandpassed in the spring.
She's trying to decide if she'sstill going to go.
(50:20):
She said she's always consideredherself a diet JW.
Like she never did all that shecould do.
And so she was like, I don'tknow if I should stay in.
I feel like I should, but I'vealready gotten two tattoos.
I want more tats.
(50:41):
My heart's not in it.
And I'm just like, look, juststop.
Stop going.
You already said you've gottentwo tattoos.
You already said my heart isn'tin it.
You already said I was a diet,JW.
Never did enough.
And I'm just like, stop.
(51:02):
Stop going.
Stop trying.
You're not happy.
You're not obligated to anyone.
You know, gave her mycondolences for her husband.
passing away and I said youdon't have to feel that
obligation you had with him anylonger like just stop and free
(51:28):
yourself from the torture thatthat obligational torture you
know that we all went throughand like I just want everyone
you know the categories I justlisted just think be true to
yourself I know Some can't getout.
(51:50):
But, you know, stay strong.
And fortunately, even if you'rea PMO, fortunately, you have a
huge community of ex-Jehovah'sWitnesses.
And, you know, that brings me tomy point here.
So if you want to find mydifferent social media outlets
(52:15):
that I'm on, Like one of theeasiest ways, and I also post my
audio podcast on here too.
I have a link tree.
SPEAKER_01 (52:30):
Put it
SPEAKER_00 (52:35):
over there.
Okay, sorry.
Well, I have a link tree thatlists different social media and
also my audio podcast.
I put the links on there.
Click a button.
You can hear my audio podcast.
But it's Linktree slashMitchXJDub.
So M-I-T-C-H-E-X-J-D-U-B.
(53:03):
And on TikTok and Instagram, youcan find those accounts on, it's
the same thing, XJDub,E-X-J-D-U-B.
Out of all my social media,TikTok is the one that's going
crazy.
I started a few weeks ago, and Ihave about 1,100, almost 1,100
(53:27):
followers now.
YouTube is really picking up alot.
I'll post this video on YouTube,but YouTube is Mitch-EX.com.
reddit is the u slash vxjdub andtwitter xjdub with the number
(53:58):
one so look me up especially ontiktok I think I'm most active
and I even post you can postlonger videos on tiktok so I
would urge you to look me upthere especially.
(54:18):
First, look me up on Facebooktoo if you want to.
The Mitch Wright.
But yeah, I would say TikTok ifyou want just daily video.
I post pictures.
I try to keep it light.
And then I have my series postwhere I'm really...
(54:41):
I wrote a poem.
I like writing poetry, so Iwrote a poem the other day, just
how it is growing up, being achild and a teenager.
Growing up as a Jehovah'sWitness, I wrote a poem about
that, and I'm getting a lot ofpositive response and people
(55:03):
saying, you wrote exactly how Ifelt and how I feel.
So that felt good.
So it's like a community of us,and we support each other.
The organization will tell youthat we're all drunk and
shooting dope and smoking weedand living under a bridge and
(55:28):
fornicating and adulterating,but that's not the case.
You just have people that justwant to live, be happy, and
thrive, and that's what we'reall doing.
I urge you to join me on mysocial media accounts.
I hope you enjoy this video.
Leave me a comment.
(55:49):
If you're going to be rude,mean, like I've heard about
everything, so if you feel likeyou're going to leave one of
those comments, just hit theback button and go about your
life.
Leave me the hell alone.
You're negative because you'rehurting and you're sad and
you're lost, but you won't admitthat yet.
(56:10):
When you come to thatrealization, come back and we'll
talk.
I'll show you how to be happy.
But until then, everyone, pleaseenjoy your day.
Have a great week.
And I will talk to you soon.
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