I RETURNED to the Kingdom Hall after 4 YEARS! Here's what I saw….

Thank you for watching! A new Caleb and Sophia rebuttal is now up for channel members 👀 check it out here: youtube.com/channel/UCDLalBD_PsUrj4ZEeWW7Tig/join

"beard update" The new Jehovah's witnesses patch

Cannot be true, people would have noticed a orange panda being there.

I haven't been in a Kingdom Hall for over 22 years. I wouldn't ever want to go back.

Once your eyes have been opened there’s no going back.

One thing I've learned Fromm watching all of the ex-JW videos is that the Jehovah's Witnesses have got to be the most bland and boring cult ever. It's like a cult for businessmen!

Those Elders heard your reasons and went 'Understandable, have a nice day.'

The annointed thing is what woke me up from this religion like it doesn't make any sense, some random person could just say they're annointed and everyone would believe them because they 'feel it'

It seems like the enthusiasm for being a part of this cult is fading, which is of course a good thing

The beard thing was always dumb. My brother was never baptized, and my dad yelled at my brother for not shaving, and now my dad is so proud of his beard. Haha. Like damn. How silly.

I left about 20 years ago but about a year or two after I left, my brother invited me to a public talk he was giving (he was an elder at the time) and I was touched that he was brave enough to reach out to me, so I went. Yeah, after you haven't been in a Kingdom Hall for a while, it's super weird going back. It gives you an entirely new perspective and I spent the 2 hours just looking around, watching people parrot stuff they just read from the study article and seeing the brainwashing happen in real time. It was so surreal. I couldn't wait to get out of there and I've never been back.

As an exmormon cult cousin, I can relate so much! I went back to a Mormon meeting last summer bc my sister is still active. I found the church to be exactly the same, but I have changed

I'm from Catolic Church and I absolutely agree when it come to mysticism. I remember going to church a year ago for like a special mass, and it was so well done. My church is pretty big and we have upper and lower sections of it, this one was in lower one. It was 7 PM, in winter, snowing and dark outside. Whole church was dark too. Choir singing with hidden organs on the right. It started normaly but after some singing Father Pio kneeled down on a front of the Jesus painting and started to talk to him. Men, he literally had voice cracks while speaking. He was apologising for our sins and praying for forgiveness to all of us. Even tho I don't remember what he was saying exacly, it was so emotional I couldn't stop listenning. I stayed for the whole mass that day and went back home after 2 hours. Even though I'm doubt in my religion now, it was still worth it.

totally watched an entire 22 minute long video 5 minutes after it was released

I had the same experience with elders coming to my house and then not even opening their bibles just going "ok" weirdly the most respectful thing they ever did for me

Wierd to have a memorial for someone that’s not dead

Same circumstances here. If it wasn't for covid I may have not left for a long time still, but because of the pressure they kept putting on us and the guilt to come back to the hall in person, despite my crippling social anxiety, I just stopped going, and I woke up 6 months later.

Very interesting. I thought you were out for a longer period of time. I left in 2011 and never set a foot in a KH since then and I don't plan to ever again. I gave 30 years to this cult and countless hours of preaching as a pioneer (90 hours a month). I will never again give some of my time sitting there listening to the platitudes. I like your channel and listen to the voice of a young, articulated person logically explaining his journey and the reason you're doing this. Frankly, it helps me still today. The mental deconstruction took a long time, but 30 years is a long time, so the undoing is also taking long. Thank you for your channel.

My brother in law would bring the wine and bread home and we'd eat and drink after the memorial to sacrilege.

4:13 Oh definitely. So here's a story. I live in the Philippines and it is not allowed in schools for male students to have long hair even up to some colleges. So the first time I got out of college, I let my hair grow long. I wasn't a fan of it and eventually settled back to my old short hair, but when you're not allowed to have a hairstyle of any kind for so long, you'll just have that desire to try it when you're finally allowed to.