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I don't remember ever asking my parents to be an unbaptized publisher they just told me I was going to become one one day.
100% correct.
Me either. I never ASKED to do it! I was FORCED!
Yep.100%
Same. My dad just started filling out that little piece of paper and put the same hours for me that he had.
Same. I just dragged my little ones along with me because I had no babysitter. People at the doors loved them. In that way, I hate to admit it, but the kids acted as the delectable bait to hook the homesteader. The kids, stuffed into suits and frilly dresses, one on a stroller, sometimes fighting each other, sometimes crying-oh my! Let’s get out the cookies and Bibles! I am so ashamed! I’d rather they be atheists than ever repeat that horrible WT “Truth” crap. 😮
The most disturbing thing about this series is how well and accurately they portray the children in distress from what they are subjected to, meaning they know what they are doing.
Man, that's what I was thinking. It's so eerie. I think the creators of this are so brainwashed that they believe this is what children should experience as well
It's sad
the more of these i watch, the more hopeful i get that the animators are secretly anti-JW and are putting in subconscious messages into their animated shorts. They literally depict the life of a JW child as miserable in almost every video I've seen, with the thing that makes it all okay being the love of jehovah
edit: the "learning to drive a car" metaphor/joke only backs up my theory because he is CLEARLY shown to be too small (aka too young) to learn how to drive a car, therefore implying that he is ALSO too small/young to be getting baptized or becoming an unbaptized publisher and spreading the message of the religion before he fully understands it. The only thing is that he then acts all sad that he is too young so that the propaganda can continue, but the point still stands
I think they show the children in distress because they want to *normalize* the distress. If the kids think it's normal to be scared and distressed, they won't question why they're scared and distressed all the time.
I agree, and too bad the animation and lighting is actually getting pretty nice :/
Oh yes the most powerful being in the universe cares if little caleb eats a fucking cup cake.....
'jehovah doesn't love you if you don't
clean your shoes properly....and you'll
die....' said my lunatic mother when I was
8 years old.... fuck jehovah....
"And thus the lord said 'and if that little bitch Caleb eats a cupcake I'm sending Michael to beat his ass seven ways to Sunday'." - Shiticus 12:69
every time a kid gets frosting on the nose, the all powerful god of time and space and creator of life cries
@@morayeelenthusiast damn bro just has depression
Every cup cake eaten by a small child, the great lord of the universe inches closer to destroying all of life on earth
This is child abuse
I agree!
Evil God belief
*Facts…*
Totally
God would be against these people
"It's like getting a license to drive a car"
"because i need to be 16 years?"
"shut the fuck up caleb"
So if I get the license but do something my driving school teacher dislikes, I shall be shunned by all car drivers of the world?
18 here where I live
@@Tabascofanatikerin
Shunning is a myth. The governing body said so 😁
@@adamantiumbullet9215 Oh okay, then it just doesn't happen. Praise the Governing Body! 🙏
@@Tabascofanatikerin
You're not very bright, are you? It was sarcasm.
I was born into a 3rd Generation JW family. And I was Baptized at age 14 which is rather old for this Cult. I remember being told that as long as I was not Baptized I couldn't have a Driver's license, Go on dates, Participate in JW responsibilities...ie, passing the mike...what a waste of youth with these Old crapheads!!
Yes me the same
So much for Jesus saying "Go forth and make disciples of all nations"
My Gm was lured in in her late 30s and my dad and his siblings were teenagers/pre-pubescent. My dad left, had me, tried out parenting for 9 years, and then sent me back to the same religion he left😮 basically used me as a 'sacrifice' to stay in good favor with my Gm
What a gm?
@@smashedmelon3156 I guess it's short for Gramma
I was raised in an atheist family but became friends with a boy who was a JW. He was about the kindest person I had even met in my childhood, he was really a great person. But he did not believe the things he was being taught and he was afraid his parents would find out. Because of how deep into the beliefs they were, he knew they most likely would’ve kicked him out of the house or smth if he was caught “not believing.” I hope he is doing okay.
I'm catholic but I can kind of understand him. as a kid I was scared since I was 6 till I was 13 about my dad finding out I don't believe in Jesus. right now I know he is a crazy conservative detached from reality (considered a weirdo even in my conservative part of family) but back then I didn't know that. it was a game of pretend my whole childhood
@@respectthefish4992I am so sorry
Man.. i wish my family was athiest.
This contract is worse than the marriage contract when you get married. When you brake the contract of the watchtower your whole family disown you like your dead.
I agree!
Sounds like scientology and their “SPs”
I left JWs 28 years ago, but I'm glad channels like this exist. There's still people who are going through different phases of dealing with them. Keep up the good work, these people need you. Best wishes everyone 👍
I left around the same time. I still keep up with it because my mom is a JW and has never shunned me. I'm hoping the recent changed viewpoint on df'd people getting a chance to change their minds during the tribulation makes her feel better about me. But there's hardly anything I agree with JWs on, and it's insane to me that they think only they have the truth about the universe and existence itself.
I was a jw till I was 17 life and school was hell im 60 now so it was very different when I was in school, weekly groups of students beat me and no help from the teachers or parents mother said it was my own fault because I didn't try to educate the other kids and the kids at the kingdom hall they hated me because there parents hated my mother, yeah life was hell
@terriejohnson5543 Wow, same for me, They beat me up on St Patrick's Day for not having anything Green on. We are about the same age and I left at Age 19 when I moved out .
Can I ask you all in this discussion a question? When you guys left how did you all reintegrate socially? Was it easy to be more involved and engaged with other social communities? Were you all only allowed to be friends with other JWs like the religion says?
I remember it well, Growing up as the only JW kid in a small rural school. Going straight to school and straight home, stress ulcers in grade school, self isolation, and generally hating life. It was awesome. One thing it did teach me was that most "worldly" people (teachers, parents and even school kids) will do everything they can when they see a young kid in a f*cked up situation. So maybe it was worth it to see the general goodness of humanity.
I was 1 of 3 Jehovah's witness children in my school. The other 2 were both in my year. We were allowed to sit out of school assembly because our school made us sing Church Of England hymns. But only one of us would sit out every day (brother Benjamin) while me and Brother Richard would sit in and happily sing the hymns like normal kids, much to Brother Benjamins disgust. 😂
Both Richard and Ben are now elders but I left the Watch Tower Society decades agos. (I still worship Jehovah with all my heart but I have no respect for the organisation).
You’re the only one that had enough intuition to get out of that organization! Your insight served you well. Because it is, in fact, a “satanic organization“. “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.”
I went through the same but the school kids teachers hated me because I was a jw
I honestly knew nothing about this religion until now, only that it dissallowed some holiday celebrations. Looking back now, I had a close friend in primary school who was a JW, then said she 'left the religion' I grade six. All I could think was: 'oh boy! Lets do secret santa to celebrate your first Christmas!' ...Now I'm looking back at that with a lot of contemplation 😶 but regardless, I still see her sometimes and we're friends. She's such a tiny, happy ball of energy so I guess I never questioned why she'd want to leave her religion. Now that I've heard the horror stories, I'm glad she left as soon as she did.
Side note: Although she was the only JW in the year group, she wasn't the only one isolated when we had activities she couldn't join in on. I believe we had three Muslim students (one being a person in the friend group) so I kinda envied them when they didn't have to rehearse Christmas carols every year. It's funny how your brain processes things as a kid, isn't it? How you don't pick up on students being isolated from the group- because of their parents choices- as a bad thing.
@@dantheman4838 Good on you. It's weird to see people talk about how there's an evil, spiteful force out there that just wants to fuck shit up out of bitterness, and then believe in this figure that loathes joy and wants to ensnare everyone into a web of fear and trauma that becomes self-perpetuating, and not even consider if they might be the same person.
Why is it that 'UNICEF' is not taking action against this. This is pure child abuse.
Like any organization really cares⁉️. They've all gone down the 🚽.
Outrage by these various organizations is for show. Secretly, they all approve of it because they're all in the same big club.
At some level, it is. Unfortunately, in America, far to much tolerance is provided in our laws for religious freedom. The authors of the constitution couldn't even image just how bad religions can be, esp. cults!
I agree. This organization needs to be banned.
What religion preaches that children are born Evil ?
So Magic comes from Satan... Well how did Satan get that power.... Oh yeah God gave it to him.....
Don’t forget Moses did some awesome tricks 🐍 and parting rivers etc.
@@ERNIE555
Yeah, but Jehovah's magic is good, Satan's magic is bad.
So Jehovah likes magic then?
@@monihasnone6137 God has granted what people would call "Magic" in several situations. But he doesn't have a chosen people nor the need to prove and keep the line to Jesus anymore. So anything people seek at this time would be fake or from Satan so it would be rejecting god. Who knows what will happen after this is over and Jesus makes all things new.
To be fair, god probably gave that power while Lucifer was an angel. That is to say, Satan was once an angel named Lucifer who was probably given magic back then before challenging god and getting his ass kicked, thus becoming Satan.
It’s truly sad how swiftly parental figures break down their children’s individuality and childhood for the sake of their fable cult.
Then let's do something bout it.
The dad said the elders need to approve of the boy to become a publisher.
Not gaining the approval of God, but Mens approval? And if not approved they cant preach?
So you have to gain an elders approval which are a bunch of men And in the Bible it says man cannot Direct his own steps😅
@@berniereay4055 That's the TROOPH!
Things must have changed since I was young and raised a JW. We did not have to be babtized to be a publisher. I was forced to go door to door when I was a little girl and had to turn in "my time". The "end" was imminent. We were raised in fear. I dropped out at 18. Then,the 1974 scare started. I got paranoid ( what if Im wrong?). I was disfellowshipped at the time for living with the young man who would soon be my husband. To make a long story short, I dropped out again and never looked back. What a weight lifted off me and my husband. Here it is,2023 and JW s are still waiting for " the end." I have finally excepted that one day I will die.
Though I am Muslim I ask how is one spppoused to gain the approval of God? It seems logical to get approval from "elders" who seem more versed in this religion or branch of the Bible (I am not sure)
@@sherryfish7067
We all die, but at least you die with people who love and care for you like your husband. You did the right thing and you should be proud of the fact you left and have a better life.
I think the sparlok toy thing could be explained without breaking the continuity.
I think the mom was aware of it, but she probably forgot about it for years. Which does happen. So when she saw Caleb with the toy, she probably remembered what it was and decided to try pretend to be interested in it just enough and then tell him that it’s bad.
Arguably, it makes it so much worse because it’s much more subtle than immediately scolding Caleb for even bringing the “evil” toy into the house in the first place.
I had a feeling she knew exactly what it was
She just wanted to see what he would say
That's a tactic used for JW teaching
What if he had a beauty and the beast DVD?
Would he still have to throw it away?
@@cheneethompson5756 JW doesn't like Disney. They have truckloads of magic.
@nevaehhamilton3493 are you sure? My mom's a JW
And she enjoys disney films!
Yet, harry potter is a problem with her
I understood the image with the toy and their mom as a kid being a produkt of Sophias imagination, which would not break continuity either. Like they are telling her things and she's imagining it. And we see what sophia is imagining. Ya get me?
The mom was using a certain tone to get her point across
Children aren’t even allowed to enter a 5 yr long loan contract with a bank. So why should they be allowed to enter a LIFE long contract with someone or something that may or may not exist. Atleast you know the bank exists.
RIGHT! 👍💯
Because Freedom of Religion. Except the freedom to not follow your religion to the letter or else.
Well kids cam change their gender and sex so
@tiffanywyatt5137 Yes. Because gender identity is an innate trait, and we have overwhelming evidence that accepting trans kids massively increases their quality of life.
@@thelivingdrawing2262 a 5 year old doesn't know what it want. Leave kids alone instead of screwing with their normal biology
I bet you the mom did know what the toy was, and asked in a rhetorical way to make a lesson out of it, or recognized it without knowing the lore of it and still used it as a lesson
So, you're saying she played dumb - I was actually thinking the same thing, but who knows. The writers and creators of WTS media are notorious for forgetting what they previously said.
@@joepublisher166 effectively, yes
Ironic thing is that jehovah loves magic LOL it was his favorite method of revealing himself all over the bible.
@@Hero_Of_Time94 they’re ok with magic so long as it’s from God/Jehovah
Her tone when she was like "a warrior wizard!" made me believe she knew exactly what it was!
Bro I feel bad for people born into this 😭
imagine the people who aren’t but still get sucked in…i mean, how?!
Hey, i was raised evangelical and telling kids to evangelize adults is predatory. I remember the pressure i felt as like a 12 year old to strike up conversations with random adults to save them from hell. Its appalling how some religious people would be ok with this, as though the evangelism is more important than setting boundaires between vulnerable minors and adults.
Yea, sometimes I feel like telling kids to preach on the streets could be dangerous in a lot of ways. Especially with people hurting street preachers. I do online preaching one in a while, but other than that i feel like that could be physically dangerous for kids.
I go to a United Reformed Church, and we never pressure kids to feel as they have to evangelize.
i once saw an evangelical kid get ripped to shreds by a man's dog, it was my brother, the kid was my brother, oh how i laughed and laughed, i was in so much shock i entered into temporary psycosis, had to stay in quarantine for a week, too bad my brother died, but why grief? i hated him, and now my family forces me to talk about the bible but instead i preach about violence and insanity because while insane, all i felt was F R E E D O M, and i am nihilistic and i am constantly traumatizing my family about how all this time we have been preaching the wrong guy all along... and i don't regret it, my vision of this world is KILL or be KILLED, and after seeing so much gore, a 5 y old having its spine split in half, its organs spilling, his cheeky scared pale face being torn off that ugly deformed skull, and a baby being eaten by insects on he sidewalk, i have become numb.
damn that is scary 😨
I remember the magical toy- my grandson was 4 at the time and he had a stuffed Mickey Mouse wizard that he loved so much- he even slept with it. At the time, we were all in so when he watch the video which was one of the first videos, he went to his bedroom and came down to the livingroom and said: Jehovah doesn’t like magic toys so he did like cakes- threw it away. We were so proud of him, we congratulated him!
Yeas have passed and now we are 7 out of 9 fam members out. And we got him a new Mickey Mouse wizard- he is almost a teenager. And he is such a good kid!
He likes Star Wars and even mythology!
Congratulations glad your family is doing well 🎉
I didn't even notice how they demasculated the dad! Lol 😂😂😂 VERY realistic! No time to go to the gym...only time for preaching, so they gotta take the guy's muscle away.
And Balls
Caleb's dad = Beta male. The perfect Elder.
@@adamantiumbullet9215 💯
@@adamantiumbullet9215Nah, the perfect elder would make sure to keep the congregation predators around the kids, because they're enemies of Jehovah anyway 👍
he needs to et to the gym and et some gains bro
My home was called on once by a set of parents and a girl who could be no more than 7 or 8 years old, clearly in tears, her face buried in her mother's skirt. The whole family looked so upset that at first, I thought they might have been involved in an accident and were going to ask for help. Instead, the father asked me whether I still think Jesus has a place in the modern world, and my heart sank. I still think about that poor little girl.
A comment for timestamp 1:23- as a former jw, asides from being accompanied by our parents, we were also acompanied by other members of the organization. Thinking back to it now I am fortunate to never have had any issues, but I have heard of a few friends that were made uncomfortable spending time alone with another brother or sister. Specially in groups that do preaching by car. Knowing now that these people could have been S-Offenders and was never made aware to the congregation is DEEPLY disturbing.
Very disturbing….I had an old dude bring me some cucumbers from his garden…I won’t say what this disgusting old prick said to me…..but how thoughtful 😂😂😂😂😂
An elder groomed me from 12 to 18.he came to my work n tried to kiss me passionately.the shock threw me backwards so l hit him.shock.l was being groomed the entire time.😢
I was around the cult at a young age, but not to the level of some. Got baptized later at 20 but never saw this BS going on or was just oblivious to it. There were some clues though. Really had my head buried in the sand. Wish I had seen it sooner.
We had to throw away our Smurfs, Magic 8 ball, the Mickey Mouse magic book thing... Its not like we BELIEVED they were magic. 🙄
I came home from school one day to my both my game consoles and all my games sitting out in grocery bags on the curb in the rain because my mother said they were satanic and gave her a nightmare.
@@SemiSubconsciousSaboteurdo they still work?
@@FireFoxie1345 I had to replace a few of them :/
Glad I'm a Reformed Christian and not a JW... I was allowed to read anything as long as it wasn't inappropriate.
And it wasnt personally handmade and got the approval stamp by satan. I think he couldnt care less. Maybe hes busy torturing predators and child murderers
She called the baptism process "so cool" imagine she gets baptized over spring break, and when she returns she an deer classmates are tasked to talk about what they did over the break.
All her classmates talked about going on fun trips with their family, on real life there's a good chance she'd realize how boring her life is.
I wish there was a video about that!
Oh my goodness, I feel that so much. I was catholic (baptized late) and not a JW, but it kind of sucked when the only thing I could say about my break was that I got confirmed, or that over the weekend I got baptized.
Someone needs to make a animation with these two children finally realizing that they’re being used and that everything doesn’t make sense. It can also be when they’re teenagers..
Also I must say, I give a huge hug to all the people who are going through the trauma or went through the trauma of being a JW or a XJW.
There are some out there in CZcams. They are not the greatest animation but worth a watch.
Might I ask what to search on YT?@@m_d1905
Name??
@@m_d1905What are they called?
@@m_d1905NAMES PLEASE
As a Christian (angelican) jw kids have my heart, religion should make you happy and not guilt you 🙁
If this were me, I’d just fake my death, change my identity and move on with my life.
Same 💀
The Sparlock being shown in the mom's photo gives her reaction to the toy a whole new meaning than it had before. She knew what it was. She was asking because she wanted to hear Caleb say it. I've heard that tone before from adults growing up. They want to direct you to the "right" decision by playing dumb and leading you with questions.
Yeah! I could tell by her tone she knew exactly what it was
It’s a manipulation tactic.
5:38 Funny story, this is the Jehovah's witness rule that started my journey to atheism somewhere around the ages 9-10.
I thought long and hard about why God would care about me giving or receiving birthday gifts and I came up with 3 possible answers:
1) God doesn't actually care about that kind of stuff, it's just some stuff adults made up.
2) God doesn't exist so I don't have to follow that rule.
3) God DOES exist but I would never follow a God who cares so much about such meaningless things.
My grandfather studied to be a Catholic priest and he used to invite Jehovah’s Witnesses in and convert them to Catholicism.
Who else had their Pokemon thrown away as a child. Thank you Jehovah for removing my future financial gains 🙏 so stupid to demonize fictional characters. That's like legitimately hating someone like Malfoy from HP lol Great video ❤
My mom, who's a JW, has a slew of JW friends who love beauty and the beast
So, that's okay, but harry potter isn't?
My friend had that happen to her. She wasn’t JW.
I did too but not by pressure, to was my own opinion. But maybe looking back it was just because my friend got rid of hers lol. My mom never pressured though, she reassured me, and asked me if it was the right decision. Love my mom ❤
My mom is hiding my fnaf figures and fnaf books because shes convinced their "evil"
I’m so sorry. Stories like that make me realize how lucky I am that my parents were relaxed (Catholic, not JW). My brother and I used to bond over watching Pokémon, and we had a huge collection of cards. Doing Pokémon battles and trading cards with our neighbors was basically the only way we got along for a while.
What if 3 elders decide one way but Jehovah diagrees with the elders?
The 3/4 majority wins! 🎉😂
This reminds me of a story my mom told me once. Apparently, when she was a kid, there would be people (who sound like JWs) that would go to her house (my grandma’s house) and try to get her family to convert to their religion. Of course, my grandma (her mom) would just start teaching them about Jesus (from Classic Christianity). It’s kind of a funny story but it’s also sad what JWs are forced into doing for a deceptive organization
Also I’m pretty sure God loves everyone greatly and equally, even those who don’t believe in Him
He was probably also told: "You will never die."
I was only ever an unbaptized publisher cuz I couldn't pull the trigger on dedicating myself to the cult, but my family still essentially shuns me.
Wow the boy took a cupcake! OMG. Look at that vision in the sky Caleb sees of clapping holy creatures! I am so sad for the children. I remember my own little son not being able to have a class party cupcake. This stuff is so heartbreaking. I am so thankful my children grew up finally “in the world”, and are all successful adults after a normal human development after I was kicked out (I’m so proud I was kicked out) of the WT. Hey, Panda, we should do a magazine called: “Awaken!”
@@BobBuckethead-ol5cw😅
O problema é que eram cupcakes de uma festa de aniversário, que é pecado pras JW.Assim o vídeo que trata esse ocorrido do cupcake mostra que as crianças não devem de FORMA ALGUMA se envolver com festas de aniversário .
I am currently 15 years old, I'm not baptized nor a publisher, I'm currently suffering from family expectations, one of my family members told me if I wanted to be a non-baptized publisher, when I told them 'I don't feel ready' they got serious and left, when we met again they told me how disappointed he was with me, and how sad I'm making Jehovah. I just can't take this anymore, my family members keep insisting for me to get baptized like my cousins .
I also am facing with problems on my sexual orientation, I remembered I was eating with my family and I was thinking about some girl in my class, she was really funny. And I remember one of my aunts teased me that if I was thinking about a guy, and I got a embarrassed (allegedly red faced) and one of my aunts joined in and said 'I'm glad you are thinking about a boy and not a girl' and I just felt so awkward.
I'm just hoping that soon when I get my own place to stay I'll leave, I just cannot stand this pressure anymore..
I'm so sorry. I was a never-baptized queer kid who was raised around it on my mother's side while my father's family is some other christain denomination, here. My once very worldly, very educated, very successful, very LGBT-friendly mom leaned into it aggressively after my father died and tried to pull me in with her. I was a little younger than you at the time so the switch was really a shock to the system (lol).
Their disappointment with you not being ready is so hypocritical. Unless it's changed in the past 20 years, JWs always criticized other sects' practice of baptizing babies and children withouth their consent and stressed the importance of making sure the baptism candidate is sure that it's something they fully understand and desire. My own bible study 'teacher,' I discovered later on, had been talking about how baffled she was that I hadn't gotten baptized after 2 years of regular (see: arm-twisted. Like you, I also zoned out and often thought about my ♂️♀️ crushes at the time so it was a pretty big waste of time).
The homophobia was (is) very damaging and it seems like they go out of their way to make some random disparaging comment about queer people in conversations that have nothing to do about gender/orientation. My mother would get weirdly nasty whenever I would talk about my bosses at the time after she found out they were a lesbian couple. I got sick of her say shit unprovoked and finally gathered the courage to ask her why when they'd been nothing but kind to me. That set off a conversation that ended up with me cowering on the stairs and her looming over me demanding to know why I was defending them and asking if there was anything I needed to tell her about myself. I was so terrified by it that even the thought of trying to date anyone was something I wouldn't entertain for many years... I admire zoomers/alpha because you guys seem to recognize and *loudly* callout status quo bullshit early on, but if you haven't already, I hope you realize being queer doesn't make you bad or some anomaly unworthy of love. And please know that you don't owe your family any explanations; I've still never officially had that talk with my immediate family and don't plan to.
I didn't put my foot down until I turned 24 and I'm still dealing with the damage in my 30s. While I absolutely hope you'll get away much sooner than that, please make sure you're financially independent of your family. I'm guessing your family doesn't support the concept of sending their kid away to college like mine did (they never flat out told me no, but they were passive aggressively discouraging indifferent ways). If you want to go the college route and you haven't already started, I would suggest that you consider taking some post secondary classes to count towards prereqs so that you'll be that much closer to your degree. I only did spent years at community college, but my AAS landed me a very in-demand healthcare job that supports me and my pets comfortably. School also gives you access to guidance counselors, various resources, and clubs for LGBT people if you're not getting that support right now.
I know you didn't solicit me and I totally didn't intend to write a novella just now, but I HATE hearing about people, especially ones already dealing with the crap that normally comes during this part of your formative years, go through the same unneccessarily soul-crushing experience. Please consider finding finding a trauma-informed therapist, if you can. It took me a while to recognize the scenarios that we dealt with do, in fact, count as traumatic and the sooner you address it, the better. I truly wish you the best and hope you're in a healthier situation, soon ❤
@@SemiSubconsciousSaboteur I-.. I'm the loss of words.. I can't tell you how happy I am to just feel comforted by my own problems, you are a wonderful person, I hope everything good happens to you in the future, thanks a ton for the advice, I'm currently making a separate bank account to save money, and also currently wanting to make a small job as an artist! Soon in some years I'll be in medical school!, but it's a very good public school so paying isn't a very huge deal !
And I have no words to say! And well I really appreciate for someone to understand me, feeling safe that I'm not alone, that there are more people like me out there, but I thank my brother to be the one to gain courage and stand up for my family and live with my father.
You have no idea how much those words do to me, and I really like someone being this supportive ; Even more supportive than my own family combined, no one had shown this type of compassion for me, and me being part of the LGBT community makes my heart melt with such beautiful words.... I love you so much/p, And I hope you get all the best things in life. 💖❤
Bless your heart! 🤗💕
I am in a similar situation where I'm in a Jw family and am queer so I understand what you're going through. I just wanted to say I'm so sorry and I hope things get better for you
Good luck on getting outta there!
Hopping from one cult to another 😂😂
It's honestly an sad life for them, they don't even have freedom to grow up figure what they want to do and if they don't follow Jw they'll be kicked out the house or if there to young they wont kick you them out but just Ignore them. It's so hostile and toxic to there brain developments and being shun to be kicked out with no knowledge of the outside world.
Man, watching this stuff makes me realize how fortunate I was to just being raised as an open minded christian.
Agreed, I’m personally catholic and I thought atheism was weird until I found out about this a few hours ago
Oh YES, please review more of these "Become Jehovah's Friend" cartoons, they as well as your reviews and explanations on them are so interesting, more so because their main targets are JW children.
Just a question here: The topic Armaggedon or paradise are never mentioned in the cartoons. No "Just don't waste any time, you wanna be baptized before you go to paradise, right?" or something like that. I get that family or community pressure surely play a huge role, but does Armageddon ever play a role in the lives of JW on their way to baptism? I mean, it is sort of one of the main reasons to join this cult, right?
💯!!! My sister likes to pretend the REWARD has nothing to do with why she's a JW... yet I catch her making comments on her social media about "the RESURRECTION PARTIES they're all going to have "in paradise!" The DELUSION is THICK!! I'd be thinking about HOW to get electricity & WHO will manage it in "paradise" before I'd be "planning parties". 🙄🙄🙄
Voll der coole Name btw
@@ERNIE555 Dankeschön!
They actually did mention paradise in one cartoon that was essentially telling JW kids to bully other kids with gay parents 💀
In the congregation I grew up in, they actively advised anyone AGAINST getting baptized for the reason of being afraid they'll die in Armageddon. They had talks about it. It's not good enough for Jehovah, according to them. You have to sincerely, genuinely, from the bottom of your heart and soul want to dedicate your life and soul to Jehovah and his organization. Nothing else is gonna cut it. You will perish with the rest of the "wordly" people if you don't get baptized for the "right" reason. And fear of dying in a mass genocide isn't good enough. What can ya do 💀
When I was 11/12, my mom made me cancel my subscriptions to Nature and Cosmos magazines cuz they were teaching me "evil, satanic things" like radiocarbo dating and evolutionary biology. Any time I was reading anything that wasn't a WT publication or the NWT Bible, I'd get lectured for how I should be spending all that time doing something for Jehoprah. 🙄
LOL😂 J’Oprah 😅😂❤
I'm actually a southern baptist, and I was baptized approximately 20 years ago, at the age of 10. My pastor asked me if I had accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and savior, and to explain what that meant, and explained that baptism is an act of *obedience* to God, and doesn't save you. He asked me why we get baptized (to publically proclaim our faith before God and his people), and that was the extent of the questioning before I was deemed ready for baptism.
That’s kinda dumb, they see baptism as such a high commitment but allow children to be baptized people who don’t even know what they want to a high degree
every time the budget goes up, the more tighter they make, the dad's pants
@Sam-pd9mp :(
I knew someone who got baptized at 6. He would be in his early 20s now, and last I knew, he was still in. I wanted to get baptized at 12 and 13 but my dad told me no. He wanted me to be older. He finally gave in when I was 14. If I only knew then what I know now. Hindsight is 20/20. I just wish my family would wake up and see it.
I had a Jehovah's witness friend in elementary school for a while, I was in 5th grade and the only thing she taught me was the word "masturbation", kids my age didn't know that word but somehow the Jehovah's witness did 😂
5:42
"Caleb... are you *gay* ?"
LMAO
that was the most real, authentic, hysterical laugh of my entire life, thank you SO MUCH for tat
"Y-Yes Dad..."
"Son, didn't we tell you Jehovah wouldn't allow gay people into his paradise?"
Jw parents: you donthis, and that, and that, and this.
Kids: i cant wait when im 18.
10 years later.
Jw parents: why doesn't our kids come back? Why dont they talk to us anymore?
Because of this bull crap!
“Just imagine a 7 year old getting into a life long contract”
Me, baptized as a Catholic when I was 6 months old: 🧍♀️
same. I managed to tear up the contract later though lol
@@gregsmith8977 is that possible???
@@totallygre yeah. I'm a atheist now. I got lucky though and had family who let me. it could very easily have been different
I was baptized at 3 months 😭😭
The difference is that if you leave Christianity your family probably won’t mind but leaving JWs makes you dead to them
I’m a cradle-Catholic,with a well rooted faith-but THIS freaks me out. I could NEVER break ties with my friends of other religions, religion is never brought up anyway so why does it matter?
YES!!!! Of course I'd want to see more videos of this type from you as time goes forth, ExJW Panda Tower!!! I've just given this one a like and I've even playlisted it!! I so CRAZY-LOVE your commentary!!! :) :) :) :) You, Owen Morgan and Harrison Cother (of The Truth Hurts) are my FAVORITE ex-JWs on CZcams!!! I love ALL of your videos!!! :) :) :) :)
I agree! Panda has content on a regular basis but I have been wondering about Harrison. He hadn’t posted anything in a few months.
I think the funniest part is that Caleb looks like morel orel
That's it, I'm becoming a wizard.
Thank God I grew up Catholic: a religion where challenging beliefs is considered a good thing. Ive arrived at what I believe through personal discernment.
Congrats for 10 k!🎉🎉🎉
These cartoon rebuttals are very insightful - you have an ability to expose the propaganda in these videos that is very shocking - to say the least.
Tbh the kids aren’t even dedicating to Jesus, but to a Christianity ripoff
i grew up reformed christian and as a kid i went with pretty much whatever my parents said. i remember one time i asked if my friend if she was christian and she said her parents are atheists. i asked my dad if she could go to heaven and he flat out said no. i was so sad because she was very nice and i asked why not if she’s very kind. he told me that’s not what it takes to go to heaven. i was 8 and terrified because i thought my friend would burn in hell 😭
If being a good person is not good enough to go to heaven then God would just be an asshole
@@piercejones4355as if he wasn’t already an asshole for forcing “Be As PERFECT as humanly possible or BURN ETERNALLY,” onto everyone.
Well, technically eternal damnation is a state of mind, or one of many different places from creepy forests to ice lakes and the Satan’s mouths (varies on variant) but still.
@@piercejones4355 There's no such thing as a good person. We are all born in sin
I think we're more mad at the mom because moms are supposed to be empathetic. The dad promotes all the same bull but we expect dads to require verbal communication while the mom is both pushing and ignoring nonverbal communication
Being asked if his friends are Jehovah's friends I noticed they showed Caleb with his parents and an old man. I guess their congregation doesn't have any kids so Calebs friend is this old man. What the hell did what was being said and the corresponding video clip have to do with each other? It didnt show Caleb surrounded by JW kids.
Suits this pedophile club…..that’s called conditioning
There's another one where Sophia is sad she doesn't have any friends her age and dad tells her "you don't need any, you have the congregation." My dad did pretty much the same thing to me. I went to my ten year high school reunion going around apologizing to everybody for being such a dick.
This is a very random observation, but does anyone else think that the younger version of Sofia's Mum looks NOTHING like her?
Someone said adult mom got an Ariana Grande tan. 😂
My parents to this day would say i got baptized because i wanted to. They literally kept asking me every other day for months when i wanted to get baptized, "look she got baptized and shes only a year older than you why do you want to wait? You arent spiritually weak are you?" It was completely manipulation.
If jahova was a real life friend, there´s too much of a power imbalance, since all the emotional work would be on you. You have to like what your friend likes, you have to hate what they hate.
I had no barbie because barbie had breast can u believe that? Now i have over 100 in my collection of vintage barbie
6:24 Whole heaven when I get out of the bed after scrolling tiktok for 2 hours
lol
Few years ago, JW people came to my house when I was not home. They waited for hours until other neighbors drive by and told them to not comeback and will have them arrested for trespassing. They refused listen what neighbors ordered them to leave immediately but JW won’t leaving so did called police. Police did come real quick in less 5 minutes and arrested them, impounded vehicle. JW got heavier charged, on probation for very long time.
Why do people get baptized? Along with what you mentioned the possibility of getting disfellowshipped and shunned is downplayed. Disfellowshipping is mentioned as someone who would reject God, which no one studying could like imagine doing, or wanting to lead a horrible depraved life. They also say if you do anything bad, you just need to be repentant and you will be fine. No mention of 3 men grilling you in a room possibly asking a lot of far too intimate questions. So of course a bible student will just assume it will never happen to them, only wicked, immoral, depraved sickos get DFd and they obviously deserve it. Then, often in a few years, they find out the real truth. Hanging with a DFd person and thats it? You can be Dfd as well. Informed consent does not play a role before or even after baptism.
if they don't believe in science wouldn't they like think a stove is Magic?
I feel bad for the children who grew up
Watching this 🥲
Last question... how can anybode become jehovass witness if he does not even exist
When humans first gained higher sapience and looked into the night sky, they were overwhelmed with existential terror and cosmic dread. In the omnipresent silence of the dark, their minds grew to play tricks on them, convincing that a bloodthirsty celestial king demanded their utmost obedience and sacrifice
randomly clicked on your video for some classic youtube background noise. I quickly became invested in the video and what you were saying. Im some type of atheist now while my family is catholic for some background. Throughout middle school I had a best friend. Funnily enough her name was also sofia and she was a jehovahs witness. Being young I thought her religion was stupid for not allowing her to participate in "regular" childhood experiences like holidays, but I grew to accept it with time. I often couldnt buy her gifts bc her parents were so strict. I could NEVER hang out with her outside of school bc i wasn't the same religion. she said her parents could never accept me. she was only allowed to hang out with children of the other religion. and often times i found her growing to hate the way she lived and how controlling her parents were over her social life. i was still friends with her in the beginning of high school, and we were choir mates. choir involved A LOT of holiday songs so she always was given alternate things to do. When the winter concerts rolled around, our class needed to compile all the christmas songs towards the end so she had an opportunity to step off the stage and go to her family. But oftentimes, her family wouldn't show up to watch her perform just because christmas was simply involved. i only remember them showing up when our concert was winter themed (no christmas songs). they had only watched her perform once. i felt a lot of negative emotions towards her parents for that reason. but i tried to be understanding. we had all given her(mostly her family) opportunity to depart before anything holiday related had begun. But still, they wouldnt be there. we have grown and graduated now. Watching these videos helps me realize just how much she went through.
When I was growing up, we only had tv when we could afford batteries for it since we lived in a house without electricity, so I was hungry for any readinf material. I read every Watchtower pamphlet left with us. I took them in as fiction like every other book I consumed at that age just with more dramatic illustrations.
"The Elders" sound like they are from hazbin hotel
As a Christian I am officially condemning these cartoons.
7:04 (I'm not a JW) A lot of people seem to think that believeing makes you reject the theory of evolution, but there are many christians, even hundreds of years before the theory of evolution, that accepted that Genesis was not 100% literal.
Edit:I don't know ere they got the 6000 year old theory, that's super weird.
13:24 thar "Forever" sounds really antagonistic
Yes! It's like "you have no choice! *Evil laugh*"
"jw kids shouldnt play with w!zard toys!!"
me growing up with lord of the rings with not only wizards, but talking trees and ancient demons:
Their ideas are definitely not the ideal, I just admire their animation improvement 😭
The biggest thing about JW, is that salvation is conditional on constant and repititive activities prescribed by an earthly entity. Salvation is not guaranteed.
Christianity is diametrically opposed in this regard.
Why are the kids lowkey better voice actors than the dad
I am a Christian believing that the world is 4.5 billion year ago
As growing up as an atheist one time when I was younger I was walking downtown with one of my friends who is also atheist we were talking about if we actually believed I and do we have the feeling of going to church because everyone around us in our southern town went to church and had been told some mean stuff, when strangers were intentionally listening to our convo and kept saying Jesus loves us, so we were freaking out like what is happening and is this a coincidence when some adult strangers came up to us asking our names and trying to preach things about the Bible we ran away cause we were minors and stranger dance so that scared us so bad cause we thought we were being followed which we definitely were.
I think the funniest part is how people only realise how much indoctrination goes into cartoons when it is extreme example such as this, but about 80% of cartoons out there are trying to cram strange ideas down the throat if children
My biggest question as a jw kid is when did the dinosaurs live
I grew up Christian. And I had the exact same question
It really does seem like all this kid's cartoon wants to do is traumatize the kids watching it deeply. And it's gross.
11:42 don’t worry, I was baptised as a Christian when I was a baby. In my case I wasn’t just too young to agree/disagree, but I was too young to even say “mama”. Thankfully it was only a BS spiritual contract and nothing meaningful, but still really dystopian that I was baptised less than a year after popping out of my mum!
Growing up Catholic, I was so grateful when I’d get a comic book instead of a Bible story at Sunday school. They were gonna shove the religions stuff down my throat anyways, but at least the comics were less boring and made me feel normal.
Growing up Presbyterian my dad used to give me Power Mark comics (It's about a Christian superhero)
WHAT, YOU DON'T GET BAPTIZED BEING LITERALLY A BABY? In my town that is the tradition, they don't even give you the decision of whether to be religious or not.
same. I got born into religion, but I was lucky enough to have (at least one) caring parent who allowed my to leave christianity.
I hot baptized as an infant in an orthodox church. 👍🏻
Its funny how the mom's skin color keeps changing in every cartoon. 😂
Why is nobody pointing out that the dad is built like Metro Man from Megamind 💀💀💀
I have a classmate that is a Jehovah witness and the things their parents make them do, like the can’t hang out outside of school because my friends and I are not jehovah witnesses, they were actually my partner for some time but their parents made us break up
💰JW💵CULT💰
I had an ex who weren't allowed to watch anything with magic, not even anime or Harry Potter. That was 3 or 4 years ago so he is currently 23.
I think the mother's inability to recognize the wizard toy is more due to her not remembering that character. She saw the cardboard cutout one day, thought about picking up one of its associated merchandise, but then rejected it. Since then, she hasn't seen nor heard of the character for years since she's been far too immersed in her bible studies.
No explanation on why the dad lost his muscles though. Why would they ruin him like that?
10k!!!!! Yeah!!!!!
5:34 sent me into hysterics I’m crying
5:47 just threw me down the stairs 😭😭😭😂
I also don't understand why they hate baptism so much when it's really just there to protect kids from hell. It's like a preventative step. Kids aren't considered serious members of the Church until their Confirmation! That takes several extra classes that you take with a sponsor, and then you have the official ceremony. And that takes place at around the same age as their baptism!
Apologies for the misunderstanding. Eye color inheritance follows complex patterns involving multiple genes. If one parent has gray eyes and the other has blue eyes, it's possible for their child to have brown eyes if the genes for brown eyes are present in their genetic makeup, either from other relatives or through previous generations. Eye color isn't solely determined by the parents' eye colors but also by the genetic variations present in their ancestry.
This video explained a lot about a toxic past friend of mine. I’m Muslim and went to a school in a predominantly Muslim area. (I live in America but I live in a very diverse area.) I wasn’t super religious and neither were my parents, we follow the Quran but are apart of a secular minority. This ex friend of mine was Jehovah’s witnesses and he’d constantly drill me on my faith. I was usually never the one to bring it up, but he’d always find a way to try to imply that “my god” was weaker than “his god”. Even when I explained that Allah was not a separate entity but was just the Arabic word for god he’d ignore me. He’d often “jokingly” refer to me as a terroist, drill me for not believing in Jesus (Muslims do believe in Jesus by the way, and I explained this to him multiple times.) he was weirdly pushy on the topic of faith but I’d usually look past it. Now I understand why. JW really is a cult like setting and encourages casually racism and bigotry.
I've come to realize they're just like any other racist, pedo-defending, misogynistic, homophobic conservative christian group sans (overtly) participating in politics.