I woke up last year 2023. Jesus pulled me out. I now know what it means to be born again. Jesus has lead me to just "being" for a season. Not overly striving for approval. Or following any religious regiment. It's a relationship with your God that counts for everything.
I just walked away. I never tried to “wake people up” because I’ve experienced just what you have. The Witnesses I know are grown and making their own choices, they have these rehearsed, unreasoning answers to everything, and they will run me in circles when I feel like I’m supposed to just be living my life and trying to do some good in the world. A lot of the folks I care about left on their own when they got sufficiently tired of the nonsense. I appreciate those who do feel called to have public platforms, because they will give courage to those who are uncomfortable and reconsidering to just leave. You let people know in a much broader way than I can by individual example, that there is absolutely life on the other side of WT.
Amen! That last part so hit home! My husband’s whole family are jws I’ve been praying for years for them to wake up. It’s Gods work not my strength. Needed to hear this .
Happy Birthday to your mom! Great video and thanks for sharing. Sad isn't it? Jw motto is "Ignorance is bless". They don't care about truth, theyre happy in the Matrix. Smh.
You do a great job. Was a little discouraged this morning for much of the same reasons you brought up. You perked me up! Thank you for reminding me of the grace Jesus gives❤
I agree with you and can relate. Happy birthday to your mom and i wish you well with your journey to the REAL truth though Jesus Christ not the organization. We were once blind and now we can see!
Hello Ali, it's such a pleasure to listen to you😄 Great points. I love this artificial laboratory made steak example👍 wish your mom very happy birthday and staying in awesome health🎂🥂🍾🎉🎉
Great choice in movie clip there. As I see it, there are two very powerful forces at work in the minds of the JWs, which hijacks their will: 1. Willful blindness, which is "willful" primarily due to 2. undue influence. Cypher, in this clip speaks volumes when he said, "Ignorance is bliss." The pain of knowing oftentimes is too much to bear. This is the fear I spoke about in my third installment in my apostate series. The JWs understand, if even at a level below the liminal space, that the pain of knowing the real truth about the cherished Faith can have profound implications. Most are not ready for that level of pain. But, speaking from my own experience - if I could go through it again, knowing the pain that I would experience after arriving at the truth, I would still make the same decision again. Knowing the truth with lucidity is better than blissful ignorance, in the long run.
I so understand. My cousin (a JW tells me “she’s never been happier in her Life” 😟🤢) my instant thought was “ what bondage” there isn’t a day goes by I don’t pray for her AND all the JWs. Open their eyes my Lord. Happy birthday Mom, May the Lord bring you joy, peace, healing from what ever ails you, ( fake steak) and strength for another day. I hope to see you here, there, or in the air! 😅. I’ve missed your videos Ali. Our Lord is at work into the hearts of those deceived.
There's much to talk about and to get it out there. Sometimes we all get anxious, and we can't believe what's been said and done. We can't help but ask what is fake and what is the real truth?
It’s lovely to see you here. Good point you mention about no human being able to wake Saul up. I know that there are many in WT who don’t see the truth about the org, but we know that Jehovah’s grace will save many of those honest hearted ones at Armageddon. I personally feel thankful to WT for some of the basic doctrines. I do feel they are on the right side concerning: Jehovah’s name and identifying him, who Jesus is, the blood issue (I personally feel the scriptures are very clear on this and the significance of blood and the immuno-compatibility issues connected, point to blood not being designed for human to human transmission), Armageddon (though not the generation teaching or 1914 - forgetting those- they make no sense), celebrating of Xmas, birthdays etc (Jews and Muslims never celebrated birthdays because they knew, back then, of the horrible connections they had to paganism, but also, Jesus must have felt pain when Jehovah’s prophets were murderer on those birthdays. I know many ex-JWs say “there’s no connection between my birthday and the significance of those past birthdays.” However, If something hurt our father, like a painful memory, practising things that honour the pain is cruel. Jehovah and Jesus, also feel pain. I respect that and personally don’t want to practice things that bring energy to that pain.) Anyhow, those are my imperfect musings. We all live in God’s grace and have so much to thank him for as our impact thoughts and reasonings are often so far removed from his, sadly. I hope you and your mother keep well. Sorry to hear about your mother’s health issues. Praying she gets over them. Much love to you both❤
Neither the "blue" nor the "red pill" are of grace. (They are just two extremes.) Choose the "violett" one. Then you're on track. Ali you've understood the "violett pill". This pill includes everyone's free will. 💖🙂
@sherylalismom285 Although Sheryl, there are so many biblical references in this movie. It’s been said that the media misleads us but that movies have truthful messages. Anyway, I’m sure Ali can explain The Matrixes plot to you.
Happy birthday to your Mum! 🎈 🎂 🎉 I took the red pill - blue pill option, that’s why I stopped eating steak, or any animal product, for that matter. There’s no humane way to kill sentient beings, and a long time before they’d die naturally. Once you see, you can’t unsee. Thanks for sharing this experience. It’s really disturbing to think that some JWs KNOW they’re living in a fake reality - and prefer that state to facing reality.
@@uwekonnigsstaddt524 Meat eating, according to the Bible, was a consequence of our sinfulness. And: temple sacrifice was abolished with the destruction of the second temple. And for Christians: Jesus is the final sacrifice, no need to sacrifice anyone else, be it humans or animals.
@@uwekonnigsstaddt524 God's animals were offered to point forward to that the most dearest to God was to be tortured and killed to atone for mankind's sin. You on the other hand, are not offering or sacrificing anything that is dear to you when you sacrifice animals to please your taste buds! Unlike God, who eventually sacrificed Himself by sacrificing His own Son, instead of the animals, you wouldn't sacrifice you kid, yourself or anyone dear to you instead of the animals, and that makes you a Hedonistic Hypocrite!!
Thanks, was a really moving video, your thoughts were some of the same things I feel, I believe a person has wake themselves up because the side effects of waking up can be sadness, frustration and anger but never shove someone into these feelings but I believe you and your videos are helping others who need assistance in overcoming this JW brainwashing. Great job in expressing your thoughts.
9:52 Yup, just live your life and vengeance belongs to God. So what do we do? Just be ready when one of JW’s wake up and has questions for you. Also, the greatest witness is Christ having his way with our life, and people will see Christ in action. Here is a quote from our departed brother Oswald Chambers that I found...um...profound and so true. "The only thing that will enable me to enjoy adversity is the acute sense of eagerness of allowing the life of the Son of God to evidence itself in me. No matter how difficult something may be, I must say, '"Lord, I am delighted to obey you in this.”’
@@last7509 They absolutely do. I don't know that the Matrix is one of them, 'cause I watched it. But there are things you are absolutely not allowed to watch. Anything with witchcraft, Christmas, demons, etc. There was even part of the Princess Bride that I didn't see until I was an adult because I we were made to fast forward through a character's prayer.
Yep, I watched it and loved every ❤ minute of it. Also watched avatar and heard at next circuit assembly that we shouldn't watch it. They used the excuse that Cameron was of another religion, well isnt everybody?? If we use that we can't watch anything. Have they investigated the lives of news reporters lol. Besides I loved avatar and the promise. Would love to be able to experience what that soldier did. Would be great to try that.
Maybe not physically if your old enough not to beat. But the guilt trip they lay on you is usually pretty bad. Depending also on the zealot level in ones family.
Solomon did not limit his thinking in his search of Wisdom , Angel's superior to that King tripped over the beauty of women . It's the heart that determines outcome .
I always remember a defense "I would be more concerned if it was a common thing talked about on the news." Well guess what. All this so called "misinformation" is now common knowledge.
Hello Ali Thank you for sharing your thoughts, it’s always interesting to hear other people’s thoughts and reasoning processes. My wife and I have been out now for 6 years, and it’s surprising how similar it is when waking up as how it was hearing the “truth” for the first time. When I got baptized back in 1990 I was thrilled and wanted to tell everyone, and couldn’t understand when people didn’t want to know. I was just as surprised when I woke up and tried telling a few brothers what I learned, they didn’t want to know either. It’s weird how some people respond to the truth about the truth and others simply don’t want to know. Then I also thought about how the majority of people who saw Jesus’ miracles weren’t moved either. If Jesus came to earth today and went on global TV and raised people from the dead - the ultimate miracle, which even the best magicians can’t do - most would probably not be moved enough to follow him, so what chance do we have? When Jesus talked to the Pharisees he condemned them publicly and didn’t mince his words. It was the ordinary folk he had empathy for, what we would call the rank and file JW’s. So I guess we shouldn’t give up trying if and when the opportunity presents itself. Very often it’s not what we say but how we act, our attitude, demeanour etc. Personally, I believe that if we have genuine joy in Christ and display a genuine Christlike personality as opposed to the fake joy JW’s show, that in itself is a powerful witness. BTW I love your analogy of the Pharaoh attitude! It’s so true. Have a great day and I look forward to seeing more videos. BTW, my wife and I are from Wales in the UK, what part of the world are you from? With Christian love Steve. 🇬🇧🏴
Ali, the worst mistake of my life was getting involved with the JW cult in 1961. The best thing that ever happened to me was getting out of this cult in 2018!
Bless my mother, she is 85, and going no where at this point. Back in the early 70s, when there were more door to door salesmen, my mother was an easy sell. We had kirby vaccuums, encyclopedias, Charles Chips deliveries, AND she became a witness. Still is to this day. Cant speak any sense to her. At this point, all action is futile.
A business does not apologise for legal reasons. Money is more important than principle. All religions are trained by the Jesuit order and the word of God is revealed to us individually. Jesus will reveal himself to the honest truth seekers. God manifested himself in Jesus and Jesus reveals himself to his people. God can now manifest himself in us through the man Jesus. Praise the Lord.
All that blue sky above you. The Bible says something about that in the first chapter of Genesis. There it says that God separated the water with a VOID. Water above the void and water below the void. Some Bibles call it a firmament, a vault, or an expense but it all means the same as void. To the water below the void he gathered to its places so that dry land would appear in its midst- land and sea. He called the void HEAVEN. He then created two great lights, one by day and one by night, and also the stars and he placed them IN THE VOID. He also created birds to fly across the void. So when you go outside on a clear day and look up and see all that blue, keep in mind that is the water above the sun, moon, stars, and birds. Psalm 148:4
Love is everything. Without it we are nothing. Who cares if you don't get your scriptural understand 100% right, if you have love that is more important. 1 cor. 13:1, 2.
beautifully said. i left at 18 and over 6 decades my uber righteous jw family keep telling me i am 'doing the wrong thing'..... by being happy and having a fulfilled life...instead i should be sacrificing my happiness to be a jw and stand by a cart., because (they say) your happiness and salvation depends on watchtower....so depriving your life now means you can do it all in paradise. i say .. that's your adult choice, my choice is my life is now not some 'hope' of a future event.
Saved by Grace is the Truth that sets us free. We former JWS that have entered into a real relationship with Christ are so blessed, along with all our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Love your video! Totally agree with you,. If someone is blessed with the gift of waking up from an evil cult, that person should embrace the truth, and go. Be grateful and compassionate. The people that stay in the CULT are there because they are already mentally damaged. They pretend that they don’t know how immoral, misleading and abusive their leaders are, but their reality is… THEY KNOW. So my goal is to be a better Christian, continue supporting financially my family and continue helping others to save them from joining such an EVIL and ABUSiVE CORPORATION.
So well said. I’m off to see Ghosts movie “Rite Here Rite Now” on the weekend, it’s is all about living the wonderful life you’ve been given in love and peace, putting away religious dogma and evil.
When I was waking up, I was explaining the falsehood of 1914 and the elder said to me 'that even if it's not all true, I would stay in, as its the best place for my family'. I knew then it was not true and believe he also knew this, but just kept blindly going along with it for his family.
I wrote this to a friend who didn’t understand what you were saying. So I wrote; …I can understand that some people don’t understand what you’re talking about. You were was brave enough to look out side of what the “congregation” told you to think and do. But all of the loyal JWs ignore what ( non-JWs ) say and blissfully eat what they ( the WT) tells them to think. I pray for my cousin every day. It burdens my heart so much. DEEPLY! The lies lies lies she believes is mind blowing to me. Yet she knows The Lord gave us free will, yet she CHOOSES, ( blissfully)to listen and believe. And says she’s never been happier in her life ( eating the steak) It’s mind control and is so real. It’s the battle I’m in right now. The people who believe what a person says other than what His word says. The fake steak is an analogy that correlates with that movie. It’s mind control. The Jw takes in what “spell” they are under and shows allegiance to the watchtower because they tell them what to think. ( they MUST read the Watch tower magazine along with any Bible teaching they listen to every day) So the guy in the movie knows that what he is eating isn’t really what it appears to be ( if you’ve watched any of the Matrex movies) but his last words said ignorance is bliss! so he’s totally enjoying this ignorance and feeling happy within it. Not giving any thought to what is reaI . I know that it is kind of deep deep thinking. But I guess it’s also a burden we ( Those who chose to care about the hearts of those under the WT and JW spell of mind control ) to take on and continually pray for them ( especially since it’s my cousin whom I love) I don’t want to see her lost) 2peter 3:9 and 2cor 4:4 and there’s more scriptures that align with my burden for them. I’m trying to fight the good fight. ( just as some are so burdened for the people of Israel and the innocent of the other side) there are so many lost. Stand up soldier and put on your armor for those who are under the bondage of Satan
Lovely Ali, thank you. It's very pretty and you have a lovely dog. As to Nicodemus, maybe he was a closet disciple. He's the one who told the Sanhedrin that the law did not allow them to pass judgment until they had heard the defence. (John 7:50) It seems he also brought spices to Jesus' grave. (John 20:39) I suppose it's better to be a secret disciple than nothing. A lot of JWs have to be secret about their real beliefs or face the consequences. Many thanks, dear, with love and God bless.
Mark Twain 1835 to 1910 the famous writer and Atheist wrote ,,I,m not afraid of being dead , I was dead for billions upon billions of years before I was born and I never suffered the slightest inconvenience from it,, as long as people are afraid of death there will always be religion,,
Yes, we are saved by grace through faith, not of works, BUT works are important. We are to go out and talk to people and tell them about Jesus. As Jesus said "not you will fish for men" If we were to be saved by faith, then we may as well go back to our old ways after as we all THINK, we are saved because of knowing Jesus is Lord. We still have to do the work.
Waking up for most ex-JW's usually means a realization that you have been lied to on a grand scale and a desire to find out what the real truth is. For a ex-JW to become a true Christian means the unraveling of all of those twisting and pharisaical nonsenses that they have dumped on them. One thing that helped me, because I still believed that Gods word was the Bible, was to only except exactly what it said and if there seemed to be contradictions I would assemble all the scriptures that had bearing on the thought and let it, the scriptures, tell me what it was saying, along with prayer and a request for the Holy Spirit. So, when I see an inference about something from the scriptures I try to tactfully and lovingly point out what may, and I do mean may, be off center or a wrong conclusion. That would be about the Apostle Paul and his possible understanding about Jesus and his pre-cross history. Paul was from Tarsus and did not live in 1st. century Israel. So there is no record or even inference that he had direct eyewitness evidence of what miracles Jesus performed. What he would have heard is the view that his fellow pharisee's had about Jesus and what they were saying about him and his works. That he was another false prophet with a bunch of ignorant rabble followers that were spreading lies about his accomplishments. If Paul had first hand knowledge and saw the works of Jesus and then lied about it, he would receive the same comdemnation that Jesus gave to his fellow pharisee's. All indications are that Paul was deceived and had his eyes opened by Christ himself and turned the zeal he had in persecuting first century Christians into a fiery zeal to serve his masters interests. That is the lesson we can take from Pauls life as a Christian. Once we know the real truth about the Christ nothing else matters but putting forth Christ and his Kingdom interests.
the pills option is a catch 22. you can't know what's on the other side until you choose and there's no going back to sleep. they lied to cypher about putting him back in ...
Ever see the trailer for that game We Happy Few? At the beginning the guy is fazing out of his meds and he's getting pressured to eat the candy they smashed out of a pinata. The other people are gleefully eating it up, only for him to see what is really inside that thing, some kind of rotting meat, I think rat meat. It's very disturbing, and honestly I'm with you, I would rather know if what I'm eating is real or not too.
Try not to worry about how people eat their steaks :) . My spiritual teacher used to say that God has given many possible spiritual paths to suit the individuals as we are all different and hence different things suit us. Some prefer being blind and that is okay. All rivers in the very end will lead to the same ocean. Focus on you, growing your own love, peace and connectiveness. (I think it's been over a year since youtube put you on my recommended list, I hope my message to you is useful).
God's complexity is outside of our ability to even put into any sensible conversation. the stuff He gives us in the Bible is the babiest of baby food. and look how much turmoil people are having trying to understand and use it. look at the turmoil you deal with trying to understand this stuff. the sheep in the hall are being given what they can manage....
Jesus was portrayed in the Bible as the most physically angry over the money changers who set up in the temple selling spiritual offerings like doves and sheep and cattle citing ‘My house shall be a house of prayer.’ Isaiah 56:7. The jw org are similarly claiming to represent the approved arrangement for worship while at the same time allowing things that are unclean to go on and on and on. Instead of being angry and taking action, as Jesus did, they allow it, because these pedophiles say ‘sorry’ or deny and hide behind the misapplied two witness rule from the scriptures. Can you imagine what Jesus would say to these elders who are fiddling around with scripture to fit their mode of operation.Well read what he said to the Pharisees when they asked “is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any sort of reason.’ The Pharisees knew the letter of the scriptures, but they didn’t know the Spirit of the scriptures. They were stuck because it benefited them to stay that way. Same way some jws will just ride it out in the org because it has become their life built around the org teachings.
Being a pharasie is not that bad. But if they put their pride away and see the love and miracles of Jesus was from God and come to Jesus they be better truer worshiper of God.
Great scripture to refute theology. My mother still denied but...... there is no teaching in The Millennium. Hebrews 8:8-11 KJVS For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: [9] Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. [10] For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: [11] And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Jesus is Gods son who had a pre human existence and with with God before anything else. John 3:16. Jesus is who God says he is. Not what you think he is.
Sorry but im so confused over this pill thing and likening it to the matrix? I was a witness for years and sorry but this woman is nuts she makes no sense whatsoever !
So that elder basically admitted that he's a baddie. Because it was the traitor who bemoaned knowing the truth and wanted to go back into the matrix of blissful ignorance. And isn't there a Bible verse that speaks negatively about persons turning away from the truth and acquiring teachers that please their ear. He's basically admitting to this, unwittingly! What a fool this elder is, for he basically admitted to not being a lover of truth!
@uwekonnigsstaddt524 2 Timothy 4:3. Contrast to 2 Thess. 2:10. " They did not accept theLOVE OF THE TRUTH" It's not enough To toss the word truth around. One must LOVE the truth!
@@uwekonnigsstaddt524 Jehovah's Witnesses love the lie of Watchtower exceptionalism. They will deny and hide from any information that threatens to expose their notion of exceptionalism as being a lie.
They act like predators aren’t in every faction from the police department to the elite to day care owners to nurses to doctors, priests and pastors. They also exclude a lot of facts and are hyper focused on one group. Do they care about children in these situations or just trying to own the JDubs.
@hjc5457 David is the most revered king under Jehovah's authority. what did his son Amnon do to his sister? What did David do to one of his own soldiers?
Man this girl spends so much time on the JDubs. So what Church you want folks to go to? Let folks know their alternatives. You got a church you go,to that is the right Church? Should folks go to Catholicism? Islam? Just live your life. You don’t sound like you are happy. You sound like you are bitter and trying too hard. Let them go live their life. You dont sound like you are offering them anything other than venting. Let them live their life vs trying to preach to them.
The girl was indoctrinated her whole life in a religion she now believes to be false so it's natural that she'd want to speak out against it. You see ex-Mormons, ex-Muslims, ex-Christians doing the same. I think all of these folks provide valuable insights into their former faiths: a caution to those considering conversion to them as well as challenging present members.
