How My Life Has Improved Since I Left The Jehovah's Witnesses 

After leaving it just gets better & better! I've been out 25 years now. So many blessings & answered prayers have come my way. It took years to deprogram & really feel free of it .. even as bad as the shunning is, it's been a blessing in hindsight. It has kept my family from sucking me back in & given me time to reevaluate everything. I was able to make a great new life on my terms. I now know who "I am" & not just reiterate what the GB tells me!! I have to say Karl, you truly look happy ! Thanks for helping the newly exited JW's know that it is great outside the org!! Happy travels! 👍✈️🛳

So true, you can't be yourself in this cult. The fake smiles, fake concern, just a fake life.

Thanks for sharing your story. I can totally relate to what you have said. I am now happier than I was as a JW, and like you.....love to travel. I was just there in London btw this past December (I live in Los Angeles). Keep enjoying your freedom!

Great to see you! They labeled me ((mental)) also...yeah life is good, my favorite is Sunday morning breakfast, no meeting, hehe It is true there is true freedom in Christ John 8:32 So glad you have been blessed! Stay well

Thank you so so very much for your videos Karl! It is so good to listen to you, knowing what I know now, and having been brought up in this evil cult as well. I am fortunate enough to report that both my parents and also my brother eventually woke up, which I never in a million years thought could ever happen. We are all atheists and apostates now and can have normal, natural relationships again, and that is truly priceless. Your videos are so therapeutic and your positivity is truly inspiring. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and feel free to reach out to me. I have been away from this cult for around 23 years now and it has truly been a blessing to no longer be under the manipulation of this religion.

Karl, I absolutely love your videos!!! Thank you for taking the time to share your life's journey with us. I'm so happy you are free and living life to the fullest! You have encouraged me to get more involved and maybe I'll make my own video. Carry on Karl!

Preach on, brother!! I've been out 3 three years and it's been great. The first couple of years were rough, because my family was in. Since, December of 2016, they are all out. My wife had some inner issues with the org I had no clue about.as you know, if you have doubts or issues with the WT, you can't question, especially vocally. She said the catalyst was the "no beard" rule and it snowballed from there. So my growing a beard made her ask the elders questions and they couldn't back it up with scriptures. Also, I've, since leaving, started doing more stuff with family and we are now closer. I went on a bit of an apology tour and they told me that there was no need to apologize. Great video. Your life looks great.

I wish you immense peace!!! I just left the organization. And i feel free. I wish i did this years ago. Love to see an update video of you now. Take care and best wishes!

Know how you feel Karl, stay strong brother.

Wow - Karl SO TRUE about traveling in meeting people and now taking an interest in them...Talking to them...getting to know them as people and not just viewing them as "worldly" now that I am awake!!!

Hello Karl. My story is very much like yours. Except I never got baptised thank goodness. I've been awake for about 1 year and away from this horrible cult for nearly 2 years. Much happier just being my self. JB.

Am so glad you had mental break down lol and got out of this cult , I was one for 10 years and my mental health was uncontrollable but since leaving this cult am doing much better, am so glad you also have a great relationship with your mam and brother, I also tried to ignore my mam but I never got the chance to make my relationship with her great again as my mum passed away and now it kills me inside but am making g it right with the rest of my family, thank u for your videos xx

Thank you for your story

I too always hated the Jehovah's Witness lifestyle.

This video will make me smile all day! Really great to hear of all the wonderful stuff you have been doing. K x

I am so happy for you! Your life is truly beautiful and wonderful. Isn't great to travel without worrying about attending a meeting? I find it fantastic to be able to meet different people learn and experience them without the restrictions of the Watchtower. Keep enjoying life and God Bless!

I can totally relate to your story brother. we have so much in common.

glad to see you are doing well and have true freedom

19:15 min. mark through the 21:25 min. mark is pure absolute GOLD - total Truth

Excellent upload Carl. It's so very true that the real life is the one outside Watchtower! So much joy in everything and only with the crap times and events do we appreciate the good. And hey a world without Morrisey is incomplete! 😁

I am a born-in and abused. I found a family out of people I met ... Worldly people are wonderful ! Not all of them ; but, way more than in jw cult. I have to say that I live in "paradise" now....British-Colombia / Canada !

A mental breakdown is a mental breakthrough

Karl, I Just loved this video, probably because I can relate to it so much. I am so much more happier since leaving for some of the reasons you have mentioned. Really happy to see you loving life. All the best to you :-)

Karl thanks for giving us an update...It is so wonderful to hear of your progress and happiness!! You are such a great example proving there is life after WT!!. 💯❤

Carl Rogers concept of self or just self concept, the greater the distance between the real self and the fake self the more unhappy the person will be. I have never been a witness but you are inspiring.

Love hearing from you Karl, you're AWESOME !!❤ Anticipating your next video... Take Care😉

Thank you for sharing these videos with us!!

Thank you for sharing!!

Nice one Karl. My life also as improved since leaving 11 years ago. Peace and happiness to you.

"How can they see the love in our eyes And still they don't believe us And after all this time They don't want to believe us"

Thank you so much for sharing it Karl. I'm from São Paulo, Brazil and I'm an ex JW too... disassociated last month.

Wonderful, good for you.

Oh, yes. The good old days...... "I was looking for faith, and then I found WatchTower and heaven knows I'm miserable now"

I'm glad that you have improved your life since leaving the witnesses x

It's great to hear just how happy people can be once they leave jws mind controlling ways. They will tell their members any old tosh to make you look bad for leaving and that's because they usually believe it. I hope you continue to have a long and very happy breakdown!

So pleased for you having grown so much since leaving. I would disagree the Watchtower is a 'cult-like' org as it really ticks all the boxes of being an actual cult (see Steven Hassan and Bonnie Zieman). It's great to see you flourishing. Your family must be so happy to have you back and close - you all deserve that. It seems so typical of JW marriages that when one person wakes up the marriage is over, but it's good to hear both yourself and your ex-wife have moved on to happiness. PS: Alan Partridge is great. My favourite period was when he was living in the motel; that was genius!

I can listen to your accent all day lol. Hi from York, N Yorks. I’ve recently woken up too....well to be honest I was kicked out for knowing about an embarrassing scandal committed by elders. Then I went solo, then I realised they had been lying and misquoting etc. and now a have no trust in them whatsoever.....nice garden by the way.

Great video. Love ya man.Best wishes from t'other side of the ball 😎

My life got so much better, so great

good for u mate, really happy for u and also ur new girl in ur life, very similar to me, enjoy ur freedom and make ur life work for u, and u also work for ur life , don't work for WT. fantastic to see that u are happy and doing well.

Top man Karl, keep rocking, looking good

What wonderful adventures you are having with your newfound freedom. I remember doing the same... jumping on the plane at the drop of a hat and not worrying about anything. Its been a number of years now since I left and I met a 'worldly' person I fell in love with. We would have these deep conversations and once we talked about the purpose of life and he said.. it was just to make memories...good, bad or indifferent was our choice. I always remember that. We only have this life, make it a good one. :) PS. I stopped calling it "Jehovah's organization" since the person of Jehovah is a myth. I just call it the Watchtower.

It was great seeing you in Lloyd's recent video! 👍🏾👏🏾

Thanks Karl

good 4 you...have a happy life

Check out this charming man! And to the Borganizaation... let me whisper my last good bye, I know it's serious.

Fantastic video!

I Could not help but notice how nice your skin is.. OH yes being free is awsome. Live live live!!!!

Looking great as well!

Very interesting video. Glad to hear you've found happiness outside the JW's.

Happening to me right now I am not invited to my Jw daughters sons marriage ,,thankyou for sharing ,,

I thought the same thing as you. I remember sitting at the meetings thinking if the Bible says "the truth will set you free" why do I feel so in chains? Good to see you've done some travelling. I went to Rome on my own just before I was supposed to be getting baptized and I had the elders quizzing me about why I wanted to do that. I said I wanted to see the history and the art work and after all, what could sway me in my faith if they had the truth? I was looking mainly at the ancient city, but I did also see the Vatican. It was the year 2000 and I didn't know that the Pope had opened the Holy Door as it was the jubilee year. Those who walked through it were supposed to get their sins forgiven and people were kissing it and crying and I didn't know why until I started going through. I took a photo of the beautiful ceiling above as I walked through and got in trouble. Realizing I had sinned in their eyes, what was I to do now, queue back up and go through again. And did I need to hide anything from the elders? I got counselled for taking my kids to mother and toddler group which took place in a church hall, so I asked them why didn't they have one of their own. Like why would they need that? Paranoia! I am free now to do as much research as I want and to go and drink cups of tea and play with the babies at whichever toddler groups I want. The kids are thriving at university too.

More short films. You’re a talent

Karl!!! Congrats for getting out of the cult of Jehovah's Witnesses!!! Now lets go catch a Morrissey show and hope he plays some Smiths and Viva Hate songs!

That episode you speak of where you pull over in your car because you're so desperately unhappy... I can relate. I actually left the JW's over 20 years ago because trying to live the life (I was a pioneer etc) made me suicidal. I had a young child and I realised I just couldn't put her through the jw experience. I just got on with living. It wasn't until fairly recently that I started to find out TTATT, so I've kind of had to revisit a part of my life I'd rather have left behind. Of course I tried to tell my father who is still in about all the shocking info I found out - he's gone from soft shunning to full on shunning now. I feel very torn. Anyway, I hope you will do some more videos if it suits you. All the very best to you.

Would love another update on life after leaving the witness organisation, like how are you doing regarding old congregation members you still live around, family relationships etc. Are you planning to do any more?

well done

Fantastic Karl, I can certainly see how being loved by your family has been great for you I remember in your previous video you were saying you had Bursts of anger whilst you were under the influence of the Cult . I can see it myself many marriages are so unhappy because basically the JWs teach men to be unreasonable and very demanding because so much un necessary pressure for conformity is put upon them. This in turn results in very unhappy wives who have got the pressure of putting on this perfect persona so that her husbands position is upheld. You I can see have gone back to the light hearted , fun easy going guy and this is fantastic . For many of ex witnesses they are being shunned by all the family and this I can see leaves some very unhappy people who are doing videos in response to this awful treatment dictated by the Governing Body. I suppose that is why i try to look with pity at people that I used to know because they are I can see very unhappy people being told , “ Happy in the Truth” when it is just not true.

peace karl

ha ha ha great story, it is contagious . Me too . thanx

My grandmother was the same as your mother. She was poor she was so poor that poor people felt rich around her😂😂😂. But she entertained Circuit Overseers Elders , Witness children and every witness child in our congregation came to her house after school and she would give them something to eat. She was never a Witness but the best person I ever knew. Amazing she died because she refused blood.

I like what they are doing with this year convention : love never fails....???? LOVE NEVER SHUN ! I was in Vancouver last year for the "be courageous" See Kevin Mc Free lego video ..etc...

Did you have a watchtower caused mental breakdown? Maybe not- We are so used to being mentally controlled by arbitrary man made rules but most likely it could have been a flash of mental clarity, because the Borganization is in your past. Cheers mate, it's good to have you in the vast Apostate worldwide army. Hi from Canada!

It's great to hear that you're having a great life, it's the best reply to the watchtower nonsense.

Excellent. Everything is better since leaving and waking up from this Doomsday cult.

Seems to be a really hot summer there in Britain :D

Love the comment "How many people actually come because of getting a tract"....Also I have as well wondered 'How do they get in without a badge'?

I love Morrissey too

Seek Jesus. God bless you!

Your welcome :) It must be awful feeling for the witnesses that are in and still love a certain entertainer or artist. But same time believing there going to be killed for not being a JW lol! It's absolutely crazy stuff! See you on next video mate:)

G Money I love your comment special. You Welcome This crazy guy to the Vast Apostate World!! 😂😁😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I became an unbaptised publisher 6 months ago. Regret it now.

Question.....when someone is disfellowshipped do they announce the reason why? Say someone committed adultery do they announce it to the congregation this person committed adultery for all to hear?

Thank you!!!! God bless you....Read Luke 6. JWs won’t ever do what Jesus said.....you’re a good man....

Morrissey

Back of the net!

Great video..and yes I have the same kinda story...but yes life is fantastic!...Live the only life we ever get...Yes if we are not happy we can not make others happy!...PS I started an original Rockabilly band THE MEMPHIS SUNS after my exit!...Checkout my Rockabilly band THE MEMPHIS SUNS on RU-vid!

I'm glad you've broken free from wt corp. Congrats from the US. Sorry about all the cults that have started here (stupid 1st amendment, jk.).Trumpty dumpty is just the newest one. : )

I am sorry to tell you how I see you. Please don't get offended, you are lovely person. Something attention seeking about you....as said that is how I see you.

Dear Karl Ezekiel 13 ... 2 Thessalonians 2 that Gods true people will be shaken from there reason ...The whole point is that the devil will upset the true worshippers ie your self and others ...they will see ..The devil was in Judas when he sat with Jesus ...The instruction comes from top ..its the writers and or gov body reading out what's is put in front of them ...Just stick to scriptures you will get all your answers ..its there ..Problem is no one is reading the raw scriptures to ourselves . Do not put hope in man as there is no salvation ,put them in Jehovah and Jesus they have the light .The whole point is from the devil to remove you away to Jehovah and Jesus..

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JW's are going against scripture. Bible says 'forsake all for CHRIST', not 'forsake all to build a church'. How did they reconcile this to their members?

I wish you well, but remember sugar can turn to s-- - t.

AND BROTHER NOW YOU ALLOUD TO GIVE TO POOR ONES ,SO IT WQAS LIKE THEY FORBID YOU TO FOOD POOR ONES FRU HUMANITARY ORGANISATION!!!!!! JESUS WOULD NEVER TELL YOU DO NOT FOOD POOR ONES,,,JESUS TELLING YOU FOOD POOR ONES GIVE AND YOU GOIING TO RESEVE GODS WORDS ARE FOOD POOR ONE THEY ARE NOT DO NOT FOOD POOR ONES!!!!

if she is not an ex jw you are doomed

of course carl had a mental breakdown. the monotonous, dull, repetitive , unexciting life of a jw can drive anyone out of their freaking mind.

Karl, get on with YOUR LIFE!!!!! Move on!!!!!!!

Its this parody???

*The only way to heaven is to ask the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, there is no other way to enter the kingdom of heaven* *John Chapter 10 Verse 9* *I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.* *John Chapter 3 Verse 15-18* *15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.* *16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.* *17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world; through him might be saved.* *18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.* *Ask for salvation now remember God does not send anyone to hell you do that yourself by not asking for salvation. Jesus died on the cross he took the sins of everyone, but if you don't ask for salvation then you have to pay the price for your sins and that means hell and hell is only a waiting place for the day of judgment and when you are in front of the white throne on the day of judgment you will go to the lake of fire and it's far worse than what hell can give you 1000's of times worse.* *Believe that Jesus is the son of God that God sent his only son to die on the cross for our sins, that he rose the third day and ascended into heaven. Know that you are a sinner. For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans Chapter 3 Verse 23).* *Ask with your heart speak with your lips do this in private* *Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have* *separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away* *from my past sinful life toward you. Please forgive me, and help me* *avoid sinning again.* *I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected* *from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become* *the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day* *forward.* *Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will* *for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.* *Many will call themselves a Christian but have never asked for salvation so are not born again* *Matthew Chapter 24 Verse 11 - 13* *11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.* *12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.* *13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.*

Pity that you don't accept the name of Jehovah then He left you in peace . Satan is looking to devour JW . Read at Revelation 2:-10 Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. Look! The Devil will keep on throwing some of you into prison so that you may be fully put to the test, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Prove yourself faithful even to death, and I will give you the crown of life.