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"Writing my Jehovah's Witness memoir made me feel ill" - A conversation with Ali Millar 

Lloyd Evans
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In her gripping memoir "The Last Days" Ali Millar details her experience of a constricting Jehovah's Witness upbringing and the ostracism that follows from breaking free, but writing it has taken a personal toll.
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@Joeandfran
@Joeandfran Год назад
My husband and I were in for 36 years and raised our 4 Children as Jehovah’s Witness. We left at 70 years old and our 4 grown children and their mates are shunning us. We are actively speaking against the shunning and Child Sexual Abuse. Our children are caring, loving adults but have been indoctrinated by this organization and are the victims just like Ali’s mother is. We all need to speak out against the abuses, high control and loses we have experienced. We all have a voice and need to use it. Thank you Ali for having the courage to write your book. We have ordered one and it’s on it’s way. Can’t wait to read it and share it with others.
@guenter1104
@guenter1104 Год назад
Your children have been indoctrinated like you for 36 years.
@dennisconstantine624
@dennisconstantine624 Год назад
THE LAST DAYS, Watchtowers must have used this term more than any other in its history and amazingly their followers never get tired of it.
@paulhill360
@paulhill360 Год назад
the term "in the truth" is disgusting and why many cant wake up, I grew to hate that term
@jakelynbrook
@jakelynbrook Год назад
All they do is lie! 19:48
@sarahm2776
@sarahm2776 Год назад
Im so excited this has just popped up on my feed! Alis book is fantastic, so relatable in so many ways. I read it last summer, shortly after reading your book Lloyd and it gave me the push I needed to start writing my own, Im about halfway through at the moment and its such hard work. Some chapters are so difficult to write. Im actually writing this comment before Ive even watched the video to say how awesome I know its going to be, my 2 favourite ex JW authors together at last, thanks so much for making this! 😃😃
@lindaturner5929
@lindaturner5929 Год назад
Looking forward to reading yours, Sarah!
@dianesicgala4310
@dianesicgala4310 Год назад
Great video.
@SunnyDays1914
@SunnyDays1914 Год назад
Loved this book! Highly recommend!
@neverperching1554
@neverperching1554 Год назад
Read this book twice. I am so looking forward to this interview.
@laurennunez
@laurennunez Год назад
Great interview!! I can totally relate to having a visceral reaction to JW memories. When I share my story with friends, sometimes they ask what was it about the religion that I didn’t like? I try to be vague and say it was certain extreme doctrines and practices that I didn’t agree with. When they ask me to explain an example in detail, I get overwhelmed, headachy, and nauseated. It’s hard to regurgitate the things that traumatized us, that we buried as a defense mechanism.
@marwatson7408
@marwatson7408 Год назад
I used to be a witness everything about this organization made me feel ill you are not alone.
@mlove.1376
@mlove.1376 Год назад
I can totally relate to having to shower to wash it off. I was in disbelief when Ali said that that is what she did.
@mlove.1376
@mlove.1376 Год назад
Just seeing some members triggers something where I want to go shower. I couldn't believe that someone else had that experience.
@sarahm2776
@sarahm2776 Год назад
Just finished watching. Thankyou so much for making this, its made my day. Particularly enjoyed the advice about writing at around the 30 minute mark, that was just what I needed to hear. Keep up the good work both of you!
@dackjanielz
@dackjanielz Год назад
Great interview. Looking forward to reading Ali's book!
@timothypfalzgraf7758
@timothypfalzgraf7758 Год назад
My dad has said this all my life. At eighty years old, he's still saying it. It's a very pessimistic outlook to inherit. As a child, I was very different from the other kids. Holidays were the worst. I might have been better off if I were Jewish or Muslim. I was a Jehova's Witness kid.
@nadinefigueroabey5240
@nadinefigueroabey5240 Год назад
Excellent interview so many have experienced the very same. Good for everyone who moves on. May everyone be free to be themselves
@beautyRest1
@beautyRest1 Год назад
I have not heard of this book before, but will definitely consider purchasing it! Thank you Lloyd!
@Aardeiswritingagain
@Aardeiswritingagain Год назад
Don’t consider- just do.
@jakelynbrook
@jakelynbrook Год назад
Great job on this broadcast for you both! Just keep looking ahead and going forward!✔️✅👍👌😉 50:40 17:20 hours 15 February 2023.
@trevanon7450
@trevanon7450 Год назад
I think both Mike Rinder (ex scientology) and Marc Headley (also ex scientology) have explained how they stopped having dreams and nightmares about the subject after having written their respective books. So I hope this lady also gets to have a similar experience.
@Aardeiswritingagain
@Aardeiswritingagain Год назад
Read it and it was excellent. It’s bizarre how some of us have the EXACT SAME experiences. I’m a third generation (X-JW) in a blended family with 9 kids. Many, many, many, stories to tell. I constantly read memoirs and gobbled this one up in a second. I’m also currently writing mine and I think the more stories that come out, the more correlations are found, the more accountability will be demanded.
@gavinritchie649
@gavinritchie649 4 месяца назад
Great interview. I loved The Last Days and also Ali Millar's Ava Anna Ada, which is a phenomenal work of fiction. The relationship between a girl and 'a' mother seems to work through or from the heart-rending end of The Last Days. And Millar writes beautiful prose, as anyone who's read The Last Days will know.
@jeanniejewel2272
@jeanniejewel2272 Год назад
Thank you, Ali, for sharing your story and thank you lloyd for your platform exposing this horrible JW cult.
@noahkling4018
@noahkling4018 Год назад
Writing my book was liberating and it freed me.
@cindirose3390
@cindirose3390 Год назад
Did you ever have down feeling days at all while writing it?
@noahkling4018
@noahkling4018 Год назад
@@cindirose3390 i anticipated that it might happen so I booked a flight to Scotland. For three weeks I wrote for two hours and walked it off. In the process I purged all of my bad feelings. I let go of my family. I let go of my friends. I let go of my past. I never looked back. I refuse to let the people in my past control my happiness.
@howtoitall76
@howtoitall76 Год назад
14:10 I was cut off by a voicemail when he knew I was at work and couldn’t answer the phone. Fortunately, my mother had already passed away and was spared his cruelty. I honestly believe that my father rejoiced in cutting me off from my only family still alive.
@dancingnature
@dancingnature Год назад
This cult practices narcissistic abuse!
@kimcol1800
@kimcol1800 Год назад
I'm trying to write a book about losing my brother to the witnesses. The things he did to my family is unbelievable. So being young and not understanding what was happening and now thanks to you and your channel. I can see clearly now and everything he's done makes sense now Thank you so much.
@MidnightAndLuna
@MidnightAndLuna Год назад
I’m very sorry to hear about your brother being sucked in. If you ever write your book, I would love to read it
@sarahm2776
@sarahm2776 Год назад
So sorry for your loss. I hope the book writing goes well and I'd also love to read it.
@Lovealwayswins1
@Lovealwayswins1 Год назад
Thank you Ali. You help me feel not alone. You are so courageous. Wishing you healing and happiness. Especially enjoyed the part about compassion for them because we once were manipulated too.
@archie2.8
@archie2.8 Год назад
I grow up in jw-cult and been there most of my life, wasted best young years for "preaching" and "serving". Just wanna say thank you to everyone who open up about their jw-experience. You literally saving peoples from losing time of their lives, nerves, and get emotional traumas. Greeting from Ukraine.
@Pinoantinatalista
@Pinoantinatalista Год назад
i miss the sushis... And still waiting for the ken's Cook rant on LGBT to be commented by you... I was just thinking about It One minute before this video came out: "maybe today at 9 o clock italian time (as im italian) it Will be out". Almost at the same time this video was published
@matthewbaker5084
@matthewbaker5084 Год назад
I like these interviews! Humanizing
@cindirose3390
@cindirose3390 Год назад
Right, after such dehumanizing experiences it must feel good to have a voice
@strangelitgirl
@strangelitgirl Год назад
I am not a ex-JW but ex-fundamentalist Christian and this was a wonderful interview thank you 🙏🏻
@timpgpilot2530
@timpgpilot2530 Год назад
I know this will offend many, but I mean no offense to those reading this next sentence. God bless you both, and all those hurt by the cult.
@jadedstar7442
@jadedstar7442 Год назад
That should never be an offense statement. There is a creator.
@jen7834
@jen7834 Год назад
I believe in our Creator too. So so much. Just not man made religion.
@Joeandfran
@Joeandfran Год назад
We also are out and can also accept that blessing. WT could never offer such a humane expression of concern.
@mlove.1376
@mlove.1376 Год назад
Are you sending love and kindness? I think you are. Thank you for your love and kindness. This is a very hard thing to go through and I am grateful for people who want to wish love for anyone who has gone through this. No offense at all taken as far as I'm concerned. 🥰
@timpgpilot2530
@timpgpilot2530 Год назад
@@mlove.1376 Absolutely, Yes!
@murphettex
@murphettex Год назад
Amazing interview. I could relate to so many things including being shunned by my mother. This young lady has inspired me that I should write my own memoir some day too! Best wishes to her!
@slovenkas7733
@slovenkas7733 Год назад
Great interview!
@theresasheridan9621
@theresasheridan9621 Год назад
I'm a slow reader too Lloyd, dont worry. You look great in that shirt!
@deborahd4310
@deborahd4310 Год назад
Your book is on Audible!!! It's not on Audible in the US but I'm hoping it'll be there soon.
@cindyjohnson7883
@cindyjohnson7883 Год назад
Exactly....how DO you grieve your ENTIRE LARGE CLOSE family? 😳 PLEASE send me a copy of the manual on how one does that (hurry I've witnessed 3 generations now)😅😅😅 SMILE, LAUGH & arm yourselves with KNOWLEDGE!
@nancyred7358
@nancyred7358 Год назад
I just finished Ali's book. I related to so much and went thru so many of the same things. Thank you for sharing . It is an excellent read.
@calmerthanyou77
@calmerthanyou77 Год назад
So, relatable. I miss the idea and possibly of my family.
@marie-clairedelongchamp1330
Thank you Ali for sharing your experience! 💜 I will buy your book & add it to my library. I personally thought your viewpoint on the future of the organization was insightful, & I agree with you when you say that more investigative journalists should follow the money trail…to be continued…
@KimberleyBlack
@KimberleyBlack Год назад
The Last Days was an excellent book. It would be great if more exjw women shared their voices by writing books about their experiences. Sharing helps other women. Well done, Ali! 👏
@marie-clairedelongchamp1330
I will most definitely be looking out for your book, Kimberley! 😉 I have always enjoyed & learned a great deal from your RU-vid videos, however to have your words, wisdom, encouragement & resiliency reflected on the written page would be treasured by so many, especially by me! ❤🥹🥰
@mlove.1376
@mlove.1376 Год назад
Thank you Ali and Lloyd. I needed to hear the message it's never too late.
@hiramiamilan4392
@hiramiamilan4392 Год назад
I was raised in Puerto Rico so in the 80s and 90s if you were part of a congregation with younger elders or “open minded” elders that “understood the importance of keeping the youth entertained because the world would grab them if they didn’t”, we would have gatherings in which we were allowed to dance salsa and merengue, and we would have beach outings, pool parties etc. We would celebrate weddings and anniversaries too. In my head, I was a child, I thought it was amazing! Of course that was just the surface. Little did I know….
@symone3113
@symone3113 Год назад
Excellent interview..❤
@Jo-razz
@Jo-razz Год назад
I am only halfway through the interview, & already I know I want a part 2 with Ali Miller. Already also know I am getting her book. If can pull me in, by just so far listening to a part of this interview, I know the book definitely will. 👍✌️
@TheBlimpFruit
@TheBlimpFruit Год назад
I think this was one of your best interviews in a little while
@tonycutty598
@tonycutty598 Год назад
Book read. What a ride; so sorry you had to go through this, Ali. I loved your writing; however I was distinctly uncomfortable reading what the Org did to you. Your writing is so good that the reader is immersed in that dreadful shadowy world. So, congratulations, and 'ouch' ;) Thanks for a great book, and my Amazon review of it should appear soon.
@jasonepos
@jasonepos Год назад
Thank you Ali. I just ordered your book.
@lindaturner5929
@lindaturner5929 Год назад
Me too!
@nataliecovers__
@nataliecovers__ Год назад
Most news media have no interest in covering this because these abuses are all too common in other situations outside of religious institutions (emotional manipulation, blackmail etc) Unless it makes them look bad to not cover something important happening. They will not look at 'us' and our situation with the seriousness that it deserves, like I said, until it becomes the popular thing to do or people actually grow more moral backbone as a collective.
@brendadavis8435
@brendadavis8435 Год назад
Wow what an amazing interview. I am going to get her book. Hope it’s on audio. Because like you Lloyd I am a very slow reader. Lol
@masnmis
@masnmis Год назад
Will this book be coming out on Kindle?
@sparklecanada0112
@sparklecanada0112 Год назад
shayd3852. I just saw it available on my Kindle app. Perhaps you can find it there to purchase too. 🤝🏼
@chels5174
@chels5174 Год назад
I have this book on my list to read ! Cant wait !
@tonycutty598
@tonycutty598 Год назад
Just been and bought the book. Thanks for the rec.
@b.w.7588
@b.w.7588 Год назад
This was a great interview.
@mailill
@mailill Год назад
Very interesting interview! 40:36 Really?! Now I want to know, if the GB members are in some sense just "galleon figures" (so to speak), who are the people really running the JW organization? Edit: Or did you mean that the GB members pretend to be old fanatics when on stage, but that they are different behind the scenes?
@anniemoss6085
@anniemoss6085 Год назад
It's all about mind control with them
@sparklecanada0112
@sparklecanada0112 Год назад
anniemoss6085. It's all about Control, in Every aspect, with WT.
@paulathomas5723
@paulathomas5723 Год назад
I remember it was going around at one time that marmite contained an ingredient that had blood in, my mother threw a new large jar away. Fortunately after more research my father said no, it was ok. Phew! (Late 1960s).
@sarahm2776
@sarahm2776 Год назад
My mother went through the entire food cupboard checking for anything containing cochineal a colourant because apparently beetles have to be thoroughly bled before use lol
@RickPzazz
@RickPzazz Год назад
All the while, drinking cow's milk with its millions of white blood cells, lol 🙄
@gabby4382
@gabby4382 Год назад
Think of the Ohio chemical spill disaster , the kingdom Hall's value has dropped and the. witness's are in deep .they may lose everything , job's , homes , health . pets are dying . real hard problems . I live in Canada , I've heard the air smells like chlorine , on the north shore of Lake Eerie .People complaining of head ache's .
@mitchellskurzewski6921
@mitchellskurzewski6921 Год назад
awesome! But am I the only one who thought this was Nita from the JW Jade & Nita series? She looks strikingly similar imo
@hikerliz
@hikerliz Год назад
So funny talking about KH and windows. When I was a kid one of the halls we attended had at one time been a baptist church and it still had the pews.
@sharonwoodward7741
@sharonwoodward7741 Год назад
My local congregations that shared the same kingdom hall which had small windows towards the top so you couldn't see out of them where very Liberal. The elders were cool and didnt seem strict until I saw my ex husbands congregation. They were extremely strict.... I were a top which was never an issue with my elders but upset many in my exs hall. I did end up going to that hall when I married my ex and I became strict too. But that was when I realised that if it was true should there be differences like this.....
@dennisMoRf
@dennisMoRf Год назад
I'm so intrigued about this book now! It would be great to see this organisation collapse but i don't think this is gonna happen anytime soon. I really think tho, that when this last of the last days hype fade, within a decade or so, we' see lots of people leaving. How many times this ''last days'' card will be thrown, especially now in the internet era. I think people will start looking for answers. And the more we talk about it, even just with friends and others, we make people aware. And this may circle back to the people we care about. Oh, and just for the record, none of the kingdom halls i used to go had any windows.
@therealhneal
@therealhneal Год назад
This book just went to the top of my reading list, but super disappointed that I can’t buy it on Audible in the United States 😩
@vanshankguitars
@vanshankguitars Год назад
What movie are you referring to Lloyd, where the dancing scene is mentioned?
@hikerliz
@hikerliz Год назад
Apostasy
@sargentmcawesome4938
@sargentmcawesome4938 Год назад
I’d like to do an interview, where do I sign up?
@KG-wi6ks
@KG-wi6ks Год назад
Get this type of info/subject to the Breakfast Club Power 105
@mac63
@mac63 Год назад
I help wake my mother up at 90, and my wife, we all woke up together, she's 92 now and I'm her caregiver. She lives with me and my wife. And they are so much happier, do to obligations free. But we still believe and have faith in God the father and son and holy spirit. And the Bible.
@jaflenbond7854
@jaflenbond7854 Год назад
ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, and RELIGIONS ARE OPPOSE and AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, TEACHINGS, and COMMANDMENTS of the CREATOR and HIS CHRIST QUESTION - Who are insulting and degrading the Creator as worthless, useless and undeserving to be honored and respected as the Most High and Sovereign God? ANSWER - The arrogant, cruel, and merciless Satan the Devil and his loyal worshippers, the great, powerful, and superior Atheists and Agnostics QUESTION - Who are insulting and degrading the authority and teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever in their own lives and existence? ANSWER - The liars and anti-Christs Pastors and Leaders of the Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, all Religions and the loyal spreaders and preachers of their lies and falsehoods about "Armageddon", "hellfire", "Trinity", "rapture", and "reincarnation". The CREATOR and HIS CHRIST ARE OPPOSE and AGAINST THE LIES, DECEPTIONS, HYPOCRISIES, and CRUELTIES OF RELIGIONS, ATHEISTS, and AGNOSTICS QUESTION - Who is the Most High and Sovereign God? ANSWER - The Creator is the Most High and Sovereign God who authorized and sent his Christ from heaven to earth to preach and teach the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" to imperfect, suffering, and dying human beings. QUESTION - What is the "Kingdom of God"? ANSWER - The Kingdom of God is the Creator's Rulership through his Christ that will destroy and put an end to all the Satanic arrogance, lies, deceptions, hypocrisies, and cruelties of religions, atheists, and agnostics to their co-human beings and ensures planet earth is safe, secure, and peaceful for loving, kind, and respectful human beings who will be rewarded and honored by the Creator with ETERNAL LIFE and existence without sufferings, griefs, pains, sickness, and deaths on a safe, secure, and peaceful earth without arrogant, cruel, and merciless persons, without liars, slanderers, deceivers, terrorists, criminals, and murderers. QUESTION - What is the "Resurrection of the Dead" for? ANSWER - The teaching of Jesus Christ about the Resurrection of the Dead is the Creator's guarantee that loving, kind, respectful, and submissive human beings will not remain as worthless and useless dusts on earth forever after their deaths, instead in his own right time, he will let his Christ resurrect them back to life together with loving, kind, respectful, and submissive human beings who died even thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, King David, the Christ's believers, and many others so they can live and exist again on a safe and peaceful earth as submissive and obedient subjects of the "Kingdom of God" or "His Kingdom" and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving rulership, guidance, and protection of his Anointed King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth, his Christ.
@mac63
@mac63 Год назад
@@jaflenbond7854 I understand your enthusiasm, but I not interested, so please don't reply to me again, no disrespect, and wish you well.
@jaflenbond7854
@jaflenbond7854 Год назад
@@mac63 I am not enthusiastic about anything.....and I'm not preaching to you or to JWs, Catholics, Born Agains, Atheists, Agnostics, etc. You just mentioned that you and your family still believe and have faith in God the father and son and holy spirit and the Bible. In that case, here is the TRUTH about the BIBLE - According to the Bible - 1. The Creator is the Most High and the loving, kind, and merciful God and Heavenly Father of Jesus Christ and all his disciples 2. Jesus Christ is the One given by the Creator all authority in heaven and on earth 3. the teachings of Jesus Christ that can be found written in only one book in the world, the Bible are - a) the Kingdom of God b) Resurrection of the Dead 4. Satan the Devil is the Father of Lies and Murderer of human beings who deceived Eve to mock, defy, and oppose the Creator's Sovereignty and commandments According to Atheists and Agnostics - the Creator is worthless, useless, and undeserving to be honored and respected as the Most High and Sovereign God According to JWs, Catholics, Born Agains, SDAs, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons, Baptists, Pentecostals, all religions - Jesus Christ is worthless, useless, and undeserving to be honored and respected as the One given by the Creator all authority in heaven and on earth. The TRUTH about ETERNAL DEATH - The Satanic arrogance and foolishness of Atheists, Agnostics, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, all religions in mocking, defying, and opposing the authorities, teachings, and commandments of the Creator and his Christ will definitely result in their own disgrace, dishonor, downfall, shameful and ETERNAL DEATHS, just worthless and useless dusts on earth forever. The TRUTH about ETERNAL LIFE - Loving, kind, and respectful human beings who submit to the authority of Jesus Christ as the One given by the Creator all authority in heaven and on earth and believe his teachings about the Kingdom of God and Resurrection of the Dead will be favored, honored, and rewarded by the Creator with ETERNAL LIFE and existence without sufferings, griefs, pains, sickness, and deaths on a safe, peaceful and secure earth without atheists, agnostics, and fanatics of religions, without liars, slanderers, deceivers, hypocrites, arrogant, cruel, and merciless persons.
@mac63
@mac63 Год назад
@@jaflenbond7854 are you a stalker, no disrespect, no disrespect, but I said I'm not interested, so please respect my wishes, and stop replying to me.
@jaflenbond7854
@jaflenbond7854 Год назад
@@mac63 I'm not stalking you... don't reply too, Just face the TRUTH about yourself, about the lives and existence of arrogant, cruel, and merciless atheists, agnostics, and Religions on planet earth. Just face the TRUTH that the Creator is the loving, kind, and merciful God and Father of Jesus Christ and all loving, kind, and respectful human beings on earth who also honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving kind, and merciful Heavenly Master and King. Again, I am not preaching to you, you are free to live and exist on earth wherever, whatever, and however you want to live and exist.
@colingibson8930
@colingibson8930 Год назад
Great book title ☺️
@a_l_l_i_s_o_n__
@a_l_l_i_s_o_n__ Год назад
I just ordered the book off Amazon!
@jakelynbrook
@jakelynbrook Год назад
Is her book on sale here in the States? 50:40
@Aardeiswritingagain
@Aardeiswritingagain Год назад
I ordered it from the UK and it was like $30 to Seattle
@windyacres1193
@windyacres1193 Год назад
It's on Amazon
@jakelynbrook
@jakelynbrook Год назад
@@windyacres1193 Thanks 😊
@stasacab
@stasacab Год назад
This made me think about my relationship with the JWs. I summarize my hate towards the Organization: they strain a gnat, yet swallow a camel. I was that gnat and the camel is the cover-up of child sexual abuse. I was disfellowshipped for a really obscure reason (lying to myself), where CSA continues to be unreported to the authorities.
@b.w.7588
@b.w.7588 Год назад
I hope that Ali Millar was able to experience a bit of healing while writing her book. It can't be easy to write about something so personal and then have it released into the world. Like Ali and Lloyd both said, the media is so wishy-washy was it comes to religious issues. They're taught to not offend religious people by not asking tough questions. It's basically like saying, "Shh! Shh! Nothing to see here, so move on" when it comes to religious controversies. They help enable religiously based abuse if anything, too many of them anyway. They're afraid of challenging the sensibilities of religious people. Aren't journalists supposed to get paid to challenge the narratives that they're covering? It's no wonder and isn't at all surprising in the slightest that professional journalism is losing more and more credibility in the eyes of the general public.
@jaflenbond7854
@jaflenbond7854 Год назад
ATHEISTS and AGNOSTICS KNOW that they are insulting and degrading the Creator as worthless, useless and undeserving to be honored and respected as the Most High and Sovereign God CHRISTIANS, BUDDHISTS, HINDUS, MUSLIMS, fanatics of ALL RELIGIONS KNOW that they insulting and degrading the authority and teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever in their own lives and existence The CREATOR KNOWS that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, and Agnostics who trick and deceive their co-human beings to insult and oppose the authority and teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" and spread throughout the world instead the lies and false teachings of the enemies of Jesus Christ about "Armageddon", "hellfire", "Trinity", "rapture", and "reincarnation" are the cruel, inconsiderate, and merciless human beings on earth who - 1. are enjoying their lives and having fun even if their Satanic arrogance, lies, deceptions, hypocrisies, and cruelties hurt, offend and cause the sufferings, griefs, pains, sickness, and deaths of their co-human beings. 2. don't care even if their mockeries, opposition, and defiance of the authorities, teachings, and commandments of the Creator and his Christ result in their own disgrace, dishonor, downfall and Eternal Deaths, just worthless and useless dusts on earth forever. JESUS CHRIST KNOWS that all loving, kind, respectful, and submissive human beings who submit to his authority and believe his teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" will be favored, honored, and rewarded by the Creator with ETERNAL LIFE and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness and deaths on a safe and peaceful earth without arrogant cruel, and merciless persons, without liars, slanderers, deceivers, hypocrites, criminals, terrorists, and murderers. The CREATOR KNOWS that loving, kind, and respectful human beings will just become worthless and useless dusts on earth after their deaths, but not remain as worthless dusts forever, instead in his own right time, he will let Jesus Christ resurrect them back to life together with loving, kind, respectful, and submissive human beings who died even thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, King David, the Christ's believers, and many others so they can live and exist again on a safe, secure, and peaceful earth as submissive and obedient subjects of the "Kingdom of God" or "His Kingdom" and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving rulership, guidance, and protection of his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth, his Christ.
@zaazzee
@zaazzee Год назад
Zaaaz is not my name, i have not left JW but it's been almost one year since i didn't attended any of the meetings, after around 6 monts when i was attending meetings but not everyday, of coursacourse s you know they try kindly asking you to attend, i stoped the reason is i have to work and i it's hard for me i was part time working and i gave my time, but then everything changes to me when i start to see something different, i dont know to say it's really hard feelings that you gave all your time and power, but when life gets hard on you, you become the wrong person becouse you need to provide for living. there is a lot to say but i don't know where to start.
@richardwilliams9278
@richardwilliams9278 Год назад
Please put your book/ books on audible I listen to books and I know most of my friends do…. I just don’t have time to read….. I run & own a hotel so work nearly everyday we buy a book every other day and there’s only 1 ex JW book that’s audible it’s called when they come knocking….. I would buy all the ex JW’s books if they were on audible xx
@rubicktdo89
@rubicktdo89 Год назад
The end is going to come invisibly.....just like the beginning....
@jadedstar7442
@jadedstar7442 Год назад
Congrats on the book. That's no small task. Harry Potter got rejected 13 times.
@b.w.7588
@b.w.7588 Год назад
Jaded Star, Really? Of course, writing a book about one's own life is going to be more of a personal undertaking. It's probably going to have a bigger impact on you than a work of fiction, even one that is very well-written.
@c.h.ingate5271
@c.h.ingate5271 Год назад
I'm having difficulty understanding the guest. I'm a native U.S. English speaker.
@LloydEvans
@LloydEvans Год назад
You have difficult understanding British people?
@JERRY-mq8xg
@JERRY-mq8xg Год назад
I know here 99% of comments are surly not pro JW however I am an Orthodox Christian who really love and support the JW beliefs secretly. I truly feel they are the one and the only Christians. I hope in the near future I will start studying the Bible with them and be a member of the worldwide holy family.
@SaffronHammer
@SaffronHammer Год назад
All four of the halls I attended had windows. You are both liars , haha Joking.
@jadedstar7442
@jadedstar7442 Год назад
I think a lot of that depends on crime in the area. In the '70s husband went to a KH in a borough in New York. An elder said, "Don't put windows in." They did. During a meeting they bricked them up. 😂 I was in a middle class suburb of a Detroit KH. Someone hated the JWs as we would get jars if paint thrown at ours. This was costly as we had to sandblast it. The microphones 🎤 were stolen too.
@SaffronHammer
@SaffronHammer Год назад
@@jadedstar7442 for sure. I was in a very rural area and I know bricks were thrown through the windows from time to time and spray painted , as well. Insurance premiums go up....I was teasing about the "liar"--riffing off exJWs and JWs who can't handle the complexity of reality.
@jadedstar7442
@jadedstar7442 Год назад
@@SaffronHammer Yeah I know you were being funny. I thought people would get a laugh at the bricks being put in during a meeting. Being as it was in NY the hall probably had several congregations. So it would be used all the time.
@Johnypony210
@Johnypony210 Год назад
I gave up already this cult but my wife wants to Stay what should i Do? We have children and i love her.
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