Jehovah's Witnesses.. A Dangerous Cult for Children! (Must See) 

You guys have great discussions and you bounce off each other well. No interrupting and respecting each other and I love that.

I was born in,extremely sheltered and I have no social skills whatsoever but I have come to enjoy my solitude 🌸💐🌺

My dad wanted to play basketball and was very good at it. I have heard so many stories from several people saying he was good enough to go to the NBA. My grandma was begged to let him play and she vetoed it because of worries of worldly influence. I feel bad for him because he truly loves the game and I’m sure he thinks about where he could have been 😞

The Sooner Someone Leaves - The Better. Stop Wasting Time And Get Your Life Back.

I’m worldly, JW wife gave the kid to her family to keep it safe. When they allow us to hang with kid . The kid (5yo) is all screwed up.. nightmares of the world ending and paradise..

I joined in 1973. They said the end would come in 1975. it didn’t happen. I left after two years. I wasn't falling for the scam.😥

I recently discovered your channel and I wanted to compliment you both for seeing the light before it was too late. I was never a JW( thank goodness), but I recently “encountered” one with a child. Everything you both expressed about the danger of this cult on children is spot on. Her father is a “minister” and from my experience with him showed me all I needed to know, from his hypocrisy( double life), abnormal need for validation disguised as arrogance and extreme control issues. I’m so afraid for his child and I hope she doesn’t become as damaged as he is.

So glad you too are living your lives and out of this destructive Cult. 😭😂🤣😀the kids that I saw in this organization looked miserable and weren’t allowed to do anything to other kids were allowed to do.

I grew up as a witness and I was homeschooled from second grade all the way up to my senior year! Now at 27 I still feel underdeveloped in all areas in my life. I left the organization at 23 … and I’m still picking up the pieces of my own life.

That shit hindered the fuck out of me, I'm 40 and still trying to figure this thing out. I had it going on and knew what I wanted as a child. Between acting, modeling, playing football, and businessman. I feel worthless at most times now. Since I couldn't tap into my creative side, I chose alcohol, and illegal substance, marijuana, opioids, and cigarettes. On the outside of me you wouldn't tell, but my insides say different.

I never got baptised and I’m so glad I didn’t. It was awful as a child growing up in the organization. Many of us end up with very little or no social skills, low self esteem and countless untold issues because of how we were brought up. I’m pretty near 60 now and I’m still so angry when I think about it. 😩

Being born in , couldn’t express those feelings that still surface from time to time , in better words than you two have and do 💪🏾💯

We grew up in a cult!

Hi Awaken Truths. Thanks for being honest about all the hypocrisy that goes on in that fake cult. I wish now I would've never met any of those totally insane liars. Thankfully, I'm not depressed like so many of them claim to be. If they'd leave, they we wouldn't be depressed. Love yall's channel & always look forward to your uploads. Peace✌️🚘 yall guys🆒️💎😎 & 🆒️💄💍🚙⌚️💋dolls, Janine Smiley 🙂 🪆🆒️♏️☕️🧁

Yes, the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization have the kids listening to talks about some things they shouldn’t be exposed to. Little children shouldn’t be hearing elders give talks containing sexual matters or other adult content.

@ 27:47 - I did not come up as a JW. But I Hated, Hated, Hate,Hate, HATED, H.A.T.E.D field service & knocking on neighbors doors!! When I did show up for field service meeting I would say I had to take care of some business and then I'd meet the group in the territory. I went right to the house, undressed and watched Wrestling and afternoon movies. At the end of the month I'd hand in 30 hours! 🤣

I left jw in the late 80's... and you are extremely correct... the children.. especially the girls.. bought up in that religion... were absolutely so innocent... especially the teenagers... desperately looking for husband's..fond memories... but that is what makes you exactly right! they were being brought up...too innocent for this world.. the perfect environment for child predators.... Jehovah's own haven... your personal nightmare... the kingdoms nightmare..crush my heart now... make this pain go away... I see now..most elders are simpletons to worldly manipulators...if another Israel has fallen..then it's claim of birthright and heir is false...of this I am content.. but now I must be this witness.. that I can't bear that childs pain... but can end it's cause. apologies if too sentimental, but it really does hurt.

I was born in and baptized a month after turning 11. I lost all my family and friends because of a decision I made as a 10 year old (was still 10 when going over the "baptism questions"). I thought I was doing the right thing to make Jehovah, my family and congregation proud of me. What a joke. 🙄😖

Great video! Everything you talk about is what I have seen some family members go through over the last 40 years. Some of it is so similar it is scary😕

This one single sister when I was going all of a sudden you hear a thump and what happened is she slugged one of her boys right on his back and of course others would be pinching their children to stay awake and pay attention very very sick I'm glad I got away from those crazy people

the worst was the single sisters get married to "these brothers" who are violent and they end up in Domestic Violence situations. I always said the brothers at the hall were the worst to date. Take a better chance with a non witness person was my experience. All the brothers I dated were horrible.

I remember back in 3rd grade,which was many moons ago.this girl in my class was a jw,which I didn't know nothing about at that time.i seen her a few years ago and she's Crazy as bessy big.😢

Yupp, there was this creepy ahh old man in my aunts congregation. The way her hall was set up there was a front room where the meetings took place & this random back room with a table. Right after the meetings he would go back there and have all the kids lined up waiting for their candy… and you know how all the adults would chatter for an hour after the meeting so the kids would be in there unsupervised. My aunt would tell us to never take candy from him and don’t go back there. One day we did and she whooped our tails for it. I thought it was cause she didn’t want us to have candy, but I thought about it for years and was like wow, he was a lil creepy slug old man… lol. Cause why are the adults all “congregating” & you so worried about hanging with the kids giving them candy 🤢

I recalled sitting through talks that bashed other religions for relocating priests who were alleged to have molested children.

I was born in 1960 born in it got spanked for falling asleep it sucked the life of living away i was girl we did nothing like being in oppression n punished every perceived wrong by imperfect humans i hate the org but i love the creator …..im old now whattta waste of trying to survive stay strong lovely sisters n brothers

Great topic, Awaken Truths. Some cults have leadership that likes attention even if the audience is miserable. What those children are learning is to dissociate.

Yall were allowed to go out and have friends? I wasn't at ALL. I have such poor social skills now that i can't even make friends as an adult.

The saddest part of it ALL is, everything about “Jehovah,” is circumstantial, the entire Bible is circumstantial. Yet they victimize their children, mentally damaging them! It’s not just the organization, Religion in its entirety is a fallacy!

You guys are awesome! You hit all the fine points of this cult. As for the sports issue, JWs don’t say you can’t play sports, they say you shouldn’t want to play sports ( competitively). When you do play competitively, they counsel you on playing sports when they don’t ban it in the first place. Totally f’ed up policy’s.

As a child witness, I thought it was terrible that Christmas and birthdays are banned. Watching worldly people celebrate Christmas and having family reunions made me feel left out of a harmless social event. My impression is that Christmas comes right out of the bible, the birth of Jesus and the wise men giving gifts. Regarding the word pagan…..pagans never celebrated Christmas. Most people today celebrate Dec 24th not about Jesus but simply celebrate to participate in a great holiday. Non Christian’s are tired of Christian’s trying to this and that about Christmas. This is why now for many people Christmas is not about Jesus but just to have a happy holiday. this is why we no longer say merry Christmas but happy holidays. The point is what ever you believe Christmas is a wonderful holiday and should be celebrated what ever it means to you. For some it just means a holiday for fun. I feel sorry for all of us who missed out on Christmas and Easter. Jehovah’s Witnesses have NO RIGHT to remove the celebration of the birth and death of Christ. Yes, I think this is one of the many things JW’s deprive their children from celebrating. It’s about family reunions, gifts and taking a few days out of the year and show some love for each other. Forget the word pagan……we all love Christmas trees, presents and family reunions. As you can see I wish I had celebrated Christmas growing up. Lol. This has been a fun video. I saw your Christmas video and wish you do a thanksgiving and Christmas video. You are like an extended family to me and your viewers. There is no other ex JW channel like yours. When I watch your videos I feel like you are so real and right in my living room giving good advice. Other channels are some what distant and not so personal like y’all. Thank you

I grew up during the 70's and I remember my mother would pinche and my sister if we went to sleep at the hall. So did however apologize to us when we became adults

The only place I could not make friends was at the Kingdom Hall. All my friends knew I was a Jw, and I even preached to them. When I went to the community college close to my home I made a lot of friends that were no Jws, but I didn’t click with the Jws I met there. I think since I never really clicked with Jws , when I left it didn’t really hurt because I left with my family and didn’t leave good friends.

A boy at my grandma congregation got disfellowshipped..he was 18. He Is no longer with us soon after he was disfellowshipped. His whole world was the organization and when that was taken away he had nothing left.

I spoke to my mum about this today. How i grew up in fear and had daily nightmares. I was born in. My parents joined when they were older. She said she never thought about that and she understands now why i left.

I really appreciate this. Especially the development part & not fitting in. I might have to watch this again & do more research on these topics too.

Oh my... I cringe looking back now. My poor kids on the platform commenting on those cringe Sofia and Caleb manipulative videos ... smh!

I have a childhood story I am willing to share. In the back room asking inappropriate questions.

Such an important video and topic to cover ❤ very well done

I knew JWs were bullshit when I was a kid 😂

You guys hit every nail on the head! Most embarrassing experience being raised in this nonsense.

My dad Literally beat me before and after the kingdom hall meetings. When he stopped going for 5 years he still forced us to go and the beatings never stopped. He went back and never missed a meeting until he died. Still beat the kids and our mom. This religion NEVER helped up, never helped him to be better. Now I've devoted every day to be the complete opposite of him . Began with leaving this Crazy religion.

4:04 As a pimo, I used to love commenting until I found out they want to use me commenting by reading a scripture all because I was forced into the school to Bible read and everyone said they "love" it but it's just fake kindness through love bombing

worth mentioning: 1- In the meetings people read all kind of topics: death, drugs, sex, sickness, and anything in between, kids get to listen to this like if they were adults. 2- kids get obliged to comment in the meeting and say "Yes" yet, they dont really have comprehension of what they are saying but they have to say it. 3- some of these parents get agressive with their kids when they start crying and they take them to the back... 4- there's a Caleb video where they are telling him not to celebrate birthdays, cause is bad, then another video about not to spend your savings on icecream instead give it to the Hall. the list goes on...smh!

Thank you . Great video. 😊

If I feel asleep at the hall, my mom would make me stand up while the meeting was going on. smh

Good info keep sharing 😊

JWs be saying dont go to to school "youll get influence by the world" Yet There are more horrible stuff going on in KHs more than ever!😂

Great video

Children are taught to fear everything. Especially told that basically everything is bad. It’s hard to break that habit as an adult

He said I could go ahead and live my double life in peace… 🤣🤣🤣

I used to know an Elder who would give his kids the choice to go the meetings OR stay at home*, but if they did stay at home they would get lock down, (these type of doors cannot be opened unless a key). soon the most "rebel" when she turn 18 or something left the house and got shunned for that.

Omg my grandma used to pinch me so hard when I’d dose off! All I could do is cry in silence lol.

I feel so bad for those who are being shunned!

In the Baptist faith, we never force our children to accept our beliefs or get baptized. We teach them about the faith. Whenever they have their own understanding and make the choice to accept Jesus as their Savior and get baptized, then it’s their decision. For our sons personally, they were both young boys when they expressed wanting to be baptized. We made sure that they had a clear understanding of the choice they were making. We didn’t coerce them. When we were satisfied that they understood, we allowed them to be baptized. As a parent of course you want what you feel is best for your children. However, it is ultimately their choice because it’s what they have to live with and what they will be accountable for. Thanks for another honest, informative video 😊.

No kidding I'm 60yrs old and still can't shake off the trama

One thing I havent heard happennig is when the kid is allowed to play with the “worldly” kids but the worldly kids telllimg me their parent/s disallowed them from associating with me at all. I would say becauae of my parenra religion even if im not following it ??? I was told by three different childhood friends they could not associate wirh me be ause of my moms religion. That jist xompoimds it. My soster had a friens with a mom who was concerned for my sister so they actually let her come over more and sleep over be ause they didnt agree with how we were being raised and they knew our dad was abusive. That gorl was not allowed at pur house but my aiater was allowed over there (because they knew my dad had accidentlt almost hot her or yelles at her thinking she was my sister (our dad wa never a Jw he was just really abusive ) .

What did you both have to do to get where you are today?

I would like to have a open dialogue with y’all

Thinking it’s safe, that’s why they’re having so many csa cases.

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But do y’all know how dark and evil these things are?

We had JW neighbors now this people were extra they would follow every single rule and call AOR on each neighbors forbfunny things. This people would oy allowed they're kids to hang out with the Pentecostal charismatic neighbors that's it. Lol

Normal religion? Who is deciding what is normal?

Should children not be concerned about pleasing God?

Are you saying parents are perfect?

No good parent lets their child do as they please

Bad association is bad for kids

Are you saying children should rebel?

Who said that children are not to obey their parents is that what your kids do that to you?

Who said celebrating Christmas and the like is normal?

You saying the world knows more about raising children than God?

So you are saying you are perfect parents?

You want a child to go off on their own?

Who said he had to play sports? Is money more important than eternal life?

I'll put it to you like this you're a child who lives under your parents roof. You live by your parents rules when and while you live under their roof. If you Can’t do that find another place to live

You think you know more about raising kids than God?

Are children trainees or experts?

How damaging to be taught about God and self control

What’s normal y’all want to be worldly so bad

Are you saying because a child wants something they should have it?