I think the time for me to make a video
for people who are considering
conversion to Jehovah's Witnesses is
long past overdue I'm going to break
this video into multiple sections the
first section is voices from people who
have been victimized by Jehovah's
Witnesses the second section will be
about how Jehovah's Witnesses get things
wrong so can't possibly be God's true
religion
the third section will be about how they
treat people and the fourth section will
be about why they're considered a cult
I've been on YouTube for about a year
and a half now and throughout this whole
time I've had a lot of personal messages
sent to me by ex witnesses or by people
have saved from becoming witnesses here
are a few messages from people quote hi
I just found your channel I was raised
in a seventh-day adventists cult it was
horrible I remember feeling so alone and
scared I was so scared all the time
as an adult I suffer from anxiety and
depression
I still feel unsure if leaving was the
right thing to do the JW's have been
studying with me for about a year at
first the JW ladies seemed so loving and
caring and happy I thought I had made
some great friends I accepted a lot of
their beliefs without any questions it
was so easy to slip back into a cult
lifestyle and after all it was all I had
known my whole life it felt so familiar
it wasn't until I started going to the
Kingdom Hall that I started to get
sinking gut reaction that things were
very wrong when I learned about shunning
it made me sick I have a three year old
who is my life I would die before I let
some elders tell me I can't see my child
or my family ever again I started to
research to have his witnesses and found
channels like yours I truly believed
that your courage to speak honestly
about your own experiences have saved me
and my baby girl from a lifetime of fear
sadness isolation pain and heartache
thank you from the bottom of my heart I
wish you a wonderful day unquote it
isn't her fault that she got pulled into
it the human brain is a fragile and
easily manipulated thing and cults have
been around since the dawn of time
they've had plenty of time to practice
and perfect their subtle manipulation it
seemed familiar to seventh-day
adventists because all cults work in
similar way
with things like love-bombing where they
seem excessively nice and interested in
you when you do something that they want
you to do
that's a manipulation tactic that is
them programming you it's their first
and sometimes most powerful attack it
isn't until later when you realize that
it works both ways
if you do something they don't like they
will throw you out and everybody you
ever knew or loved will mourn for you as
though you were dead your whole social
structure will come crumbling down
here's another message quote these
videos mean a lot to me I left on my
birthday April 29th at 12 a.m. and drove
to my mom's house I have no contact with
my dad or brother or aunt or uncle I
tried to show them I still care but they
want nothing to do with me no one came
to my graduation except my dad and he
told me that I made a mistake
and that I was a mistake end quote my
response well it was the best decision
you made it sucks being without family
members but you're in a better place and
you would have been if you'd stayed in
those aren't unique stories I hear these
all the time I personally went through
something very similar it's depressing
and heartbreaking and it's all cults
have to offer they seem happy on the
outside because they learn how to put on
a fake happy persona when the
programming is unplugged
it's called waking up people start to
see the world very differently they
start to see reality even going to a
single meeting will mean subjecting
yourself to manipulation tactics even if
it's just in the form of love bombing
later I'll analyze a Jehovah's Witness
talk and point out the manipulation
tactics they use while speaking
here's another message from a watchtower
society victim quote I had the opposite
happen grew up in an atheist family
Jehovah's Witnesses started calling on
one of my sister's love bombed her until
she was baptized cut her off from the
rest of my family I have a pathological
hatred towards Jehovah's Witnesses for
killing our family as the Jehovah's
Witnesses tried to get other members
via the sister they succeeded with
another sister I was forbidden to see my
niece for ages she left the cult when
she turned 18 and lived with me for five
years this is serious [ __ ]
not to mention the disgusting record of
child's sexual abuse in Jehovah's
Witnesses there are at least 23,000
pedophiles whose names have gone
unreported to the police the society
even kept a database of the names for
some reason and are now being court
ordered to release the names of the
pedophiles they're still refusing every
day they go without releasing the names
the fines build up it started on June
23rd 2016 at $4,000 a day so far they're
up to over 1.6 million all right that's
all I got for now guys
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