I made friends OUTSIDE the cult when I was in. I am so glad I did. The friends that I had OUTSIDE the cult were THERE for me when I left the Jehovah's Witness CULT. That's a real friendship.
I was almost 20 when I went into the cult. I wasn't raised in their truth. In addition, my dad was a lifer of 20 yrs in military. You move often and must learn to make friends fast. Being an extrovert helped immensely. During the decades of being in the cult I still maintained 'worldly' friends. That made my departure easier and I had my real friends to turn to.
I was born-in, slowly started fading about 16 years ago, but would still attend the memorial & the occasional meeting or assembly. I was trying to do the “right thing” for my daughter. Since my husband isn’t JW, her “spiritual health” was on MY shoulders. Eventually I became fully inactive (around 9 years ago), but up until a few months ago, I still felt so much guilt for knowing what I “needed to do” and not doing it. It is so crazy what you see about this organization once the veil is lifted. Thank you for your content. You are helping many! Now in place of guilt I feel relief!
I’ve also had the same experience with family who are not JWs. When I joined 20 years ago I put them on the back burner but now have apologized for my behavior and they have showed me an enormous amount of love and acceptance. It helped so much with my healing ❤️❤️❤️
I was never a JW but I was in a high demand fundamentalist religion for over 40 years (Laestadianism). I woke up out of that nonsense a few years ago. Luckily my wife did too shortly after I did. I appreciate what you share on your channel. Lots of similar experiences for people that wake up out of cults. Wishing you all the best ❤️
Bless you both. My family is still firmly inside but I've been out for a couple decades and find it completely surreal in watching this religion devolve into such a blatant cult. Appreciate seeing such a nice family breaking free of the Society's influence and reclaim their lives
Thanks for the video. As a non JW, I always have to view these videos from the other side. I have a lovely family, been married for over 30 years and have two lovely grown-up children. My JW sister (50 years in) barely knows us and has only met my children on a handful of occasions. But why? Because we are atheists and don’t agree with her cult tactics, ‘we don’t respect her beliefs’, code for ‘we don’t go along with everything she wants us to’. Such a shame but hey, it’s her loss, not so much mine.
Great topic, reality is a tuff thing to face, but friends are people who are around for a moment, and then we go our way, we all have our own lifes to live, and the moment could be fun, even family members, everyone has their own life's, and as we get older, time flies bye, and jobs and just everyday life is a very important part of our time's, so when I think about friends or family and, if we aren't either working together or involved in a sport's/or business /or school activities / just to kill some time on the phone or at a pub or restaurant, If we haven't been together for children and grown up together since we were kids, and stayed extremely close friends/ family, And as the world of constant changes, and people always on the go, it's not the same as it used to be, if any, maybe one, maybe two people, if that, the world is not the same, really,
I quit a few years back, I guess my cousins on my Facebook didn't get that message I posted a video from The Truth Hurts and they all unfriended me . How rude lol
The failed predictions were very profitable events for the org. There should be an investigation on how the different subsidiaries made the money through deception, manipulation and outright fraud.
Breaking news the Atheists have just fired missiles into the Agnostics strong hold . Asked what the fighting was all about ?, the Atheists replied ,, In NO God we trust !,, When asked the same question the Agnostics replied, ,, We don't know, ! we just don't know what to believe in and what the fighting is all about,, Justin porter ex jw
