Everything You Need to Know About Jehovah's Witnesses in 5 Minutes

If you happen to be a Jehovah's Witness watching this and you wish to defend your beliefs publicly, or contest any of the points I have raised, feel free to contact me by voicemail (speakpipe.com/cedars) and I will happily arrange to interview you over Skype so that my viewers can hear your side of the argument.

My mom was a Jehovah's Witness, and my dad is an atheist. For the longest time I've had this urge to knock on people's doors for absolutely no reason.

I had a buddy that was a JW. He was a super good dude. He disappeared after high school and I think about him from time to time. I hope he’s well.

Who’s here after Chris Stuckmann put out his video?

Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets"

"Adults join because they are vulnerable and need the sense of community." He hit it right on the head there. It's how many cults gain membership, I've talked to a few people who experienced this exact thing happening

One thing I don't get. If somebody falsely prophesies the return of Christ, how are you going to listen to them a second time?

I’m an ex mormon and my best friend is an ex JW. We both share very similar experiences while growing up in those religions. Mormons are really good at manipulating their members and hiding the truth of their organization. Listening to this video sounds exactly like my experience with Mormonism. I’m glad my best friend and I could escape and start healing from the traumatic experiences of our ex religions

to anyone who thinks he is exaggerating his points to sound more dramatic, hes not. this is really what they practice and believe. im 16 and trapped in a jehovahs witness household and its so, so bad. like i fear for my safety sometimes bc of the crazy shit they say

I wish there was an ex jw support group. It's a very mentally traumatic experience my sisters and I still struggle with it alot and some of us haven't been to the kingdom hall in years.

So having bad reputation during life is unforgivable But pedophilia is forgivable? Seems a little bit funny dont ya think they have a like in it XD

I was born as a JW, the abuse is very real. The two witness rule allowed my abuser to do awful things to me. If you are thinking of studying with witnesses please research them more, protect your children

i’ve been a jehovas witness since i was a kid, and only until recently have i started to see these videos and learn the truth. it was only a little difficult to forget being a jehovas witness because i really didn’t know what to think. I didn’t want to think that death is final and that nothing comes after it. I have now just accepted that as the truth, and am a lot more happy because i don’t have to worry about going to meetings and setting time to study in false beliefs. My mom and grandfather are still very pro jehova witness, and i know for a fact that if i contfront them about this, they will chalk it down to satans influence.

My parents joined the JWs in 1978 when I was just 7 years old. I can remember my mom and dad coming to me and telling me we were going to be a part of a new religion, and that we wouldn't be celebrating Christmas any more, nor would I be getting any more birthday gifts. But not to worry, they said, I would have an occasional "Happy Day" when I would get a present for whatever reason. I didn't really understand any of it at the time. I was 7, for crying out loud! For a decade I went door-to-door preaching their word of God and handing out the Watchtower and Awake magazines. I also attended their meetings on Thursday nights and Sunday mornings, and went to other Witnesses homes for weekly bible study groups. I also attended the quarterly Circuit Conventions, where thousands of JWs would show up for a two or three day (all day!) worship session, AND the annual District Conventions where those numbers increased to tens of thousands over four full days. When I was 17, an elder came to our home and told my parents that they had two young members* that had confessed to smoking marijuana, and had named me as another sinner. My parents and I went to the local Kingdom Hall, where I was grilled by three elders for over an hour about what I had done, and who I had done it with. I remember I had told my dad before going into the interview room that I was going to "Take my punishment like a man", and that I wasn't going to break down and cry. My dad said he was disappointed that I had smoked weed, but was glad I was being a man about it. As it turned out, by not crying, the elders interpreted that as me not being remorseful for the sin that I had committed in their eyes. As a result, I was "Disassociated" from the Witnesses. I could not be "Dis-fellowshiped" because I was not yet baptized, but it was basically the exact same thing. No one would speak to me, no one would look at me, I could only enter the Hall after the services had begun and I had to leave before they were over. Only an ordained elder was allowed to talk to me at the Kingdom Hall. One elder even told my parents that after I finished high school, if I wasn't back in the good graces of the JWs, they would be required to kick me out of their home...under the guise of "saving their own souls". That was all my mom could take. She quit and never went back. My dad continued to attended occasional meetings, but he didn't go as often as he had before this incident. * - Interesting footnote to the pot smoking ordeal...as it turned out, those elders did NOT have two young members that had confessed at all. When my dad demanded the right to confront my accusers, all the elders had was a letter written by another JW member who had seen me smoking pot with her non-Witness husband and her younger brother (a former Witness associate), who happened to be my best friend. In other words, the elders blatantly LIED to my parent's faces in order to get me to confess, as well as implicating two other young Witness associates who weren't even named in the flimsy letter! That was 30 years ago, and I have not returned to their hypocritical organization.

“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - Matthew 7:15 (NASB)

My mother is an ex-JW and when she was a teenager she had serious depression. So many people suffer and it’s just sad that JW’s don’t teach the basis of love in the family. And it is so devastating to so many innocent people. Glad she left the cult when she met my father. Here we are today, separated from these kinds of wrongful practices.

This is the worst thing it does: it drains your dreams. You become a voiceless tool, afraid to give a bad image so you wouldn't save people. You disappear.

Yup, I was disfellowshiped on Feb 21 2019 and my family and JW friends (who told me they'd still talk to me, and haven't at all!) haven't spoken to me since! But oh well!

So if you leave you become shunned by family and friends. Sounds like Scientology

Out of everyone I know it has to be MY Mom. My family hasn't been the same anymore (less harmony, less family time, etc.) since my mom suddenly became a JW.