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“The reason we are here tonight, is because we have been reached out to many times.” - Leah Remini

Leah Remini on Instagram right now

Leah Remini’s JW episode is a best seller on amazon prime video. Woo hoo!

Depends on who you ask!

Talks to his audience in a condescending, self-righteousness manner.

AND

He is the face of ‘ejaculation’ and ‘what constitutes an orgasm’ in the pillowgate videos.

His whole premise was, "watch out for those tricky apostates and their deceptive ways," but then he makes this defense of the "two witness rule" and conveniently leaves out any mention of child abuse.

What he really is means:

"We will always allow children to be at risk to predators".

Leah Remini says she wants to do more shows on Jehovah's Witnesses

i read a story about a sister at the bethel who committed fornication with someone's husband at bethel and her picture was put in the magazine. They didn't find out on time so her picture was published. so the sister who was cheated explained in her story how she had to sit in the Kingdom Hall and do the watchtower looking at the picture of the women who slept with her husband smh

And another one:

From being in an Awake! to being fully awake. 3 years ago today I was sitting in a makeup chair getting ready to have my picture taken.

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"What great crime have we committed that is to that extent that we aren't even worthy of looking in the eyes?" From Leah Remini's special

There are some things I've noticed in myself, or in others, as well as many things I've come to realize when having conversations with other ExJWs, that many of us seem to struggle with. I thought I would make a brainstorm some of the things I can think of off the top of my head, and see how many of you can relate.

1. Ghosting - We're f***ing pros at this.

2. Cutting people off and never or rarely ever thinking about them again. Sometimes cutting people off for small reasons, other times because of a disagreement that in an otherwise healthy relationship would have been talked out and moved on from.

3. Bonding - I've noticed a lot of us have issues making and maintaining strong connections with others. At first I thought this was just a product of my dysfunctional family, but I think it has more to do with the fact that we had to be ready to end relationships at the drop of a dime, so that there was always a figurative perforated line in whatever bond we had made with other JWs.

4. Coldheartedness - Again, the ghosting and cutting off and lack of bonding issues. But also the fact that we believed worldly people would be killed in Armageddon and many JWs couldn't wait for that day to arrive. Also, having to be willing to cut off your own children, siblings, parents, etc. makes for a fairly stone cold heart.

5. Circular reasoning and conversation - I had to learn to stop doing this, and I still see it in some ExJWs

6. Twisting people's words - That's one I still see at times as well.

7. Foot in mouth syndrome - Lacking tact and making offensive comments because that kind of behavior was normal around JWs, and you didn't realize how weird certain things were until you left.

8. Catastrophic Thinking - Always imagining the worst that could happen. Even when you fantasize it ends negatively because everything was always going to come to an end, and that idea seeped into every other aspect of your life.

9. Having trouble dating out in "the world" because you've always been made to view "worldly" people as inferior and in a subtle way, as dirty.

10. Sexual repression - Feeling like having multiple partners will taint you. Or just have any negative feelings towards sex at all, that are not related to experiences with sexual abuse.

11. Misogyny and believing in male superiority - Sad to say that I think this may be one of the hardest ones to shed, not just for male ExJWs, but for women as well. This is one that wouldn't necessarily feel bad to men, in fact I think many may hold on to this because it is the foundation of their confidence, and without it they may not know how to feel confident, so I can see why some haven't shed this. As for women, being raised to be meek, quiet, agreeable, and to have a poor sense of self and low self esteem, keeps a lot of women from speaking up and standing up to men as well, and it often leads to them dismissing these behaviors and enabling them.

12. Ignoring, and dismissing social issues that do not personally affect them - This one reminds me of how JWs will mail letters to Russia in their own defense, and how the Watchtower only helps their own during natural disasters. I think it is also affected by the fact that so many JWs were taught to ignore the intricacies of social issues. Yes, treat women well, but we won't go into detail as to what that really means. Don't be racist, but we won't dissect all of the little ways that people can be racist. Treat children well, but let's not discuss the fact that we expose children to emotional manipulation, physical abuse and constantly instill fear in them from the time they are born.

13. Redirecting their reverence for and blind loyalty for the GB to ExJW activists, and therefore excusing their abusive behavior as well, because they're doing so much for the cause. Sound familiar?

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973,000 people watched "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath: The Jehovah’s Witnesses" last night

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-tuesday-cable-originals-network-finals-11-13-2018.html

The pain of shunning is shifting from the disfellowshipped to all the aging Jehovah's Witnesses who have been shunning their own children.

What comes around goes around is an apt saying.

oh wait... Aren't JW's living the "Best Life Ever" with their remaining, dwindling family of aging Pharisees? I guess they are starting to see you can't replace grandkids with other people's kids for long.

Eventually you won't have anyone to wipe your but when your old.

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1975 JWs Criticizing 2018 JWs- "A group of ten U.S. religions... have decided to try church collections by credit card."

From Watchtower 1975 11/1 p. 651

Insight on the News

“Pray Now, Pay Later”

The phrase “pray now, pay later” appeared in a headline of the Philadelphia “Inquirer” in reporting on a church experiment due to go into effect shortly. A group of ten U.S. religions, including some major Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist and Baptist denominations, have decided to try church collections by credit card. The experiment, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, will encourage participating church members to authorize credit-card transfers of a specified contribution to their church each month. The idea, a Council spokesman says, is that “this will provide the local church with regular income whether or not the local congregation is in attendance,” especially in “off-seasons,” like summer vacation time. The report on the experiment says that those joining the program will be “giving unto business what belongs to business—a profit.” How so? “Participating banks will charge 65 cents a transaction, and the credit card companies will rake off 3 percent of every donation.” Obviously someone benefits, but how much spiritual benefit is the modern churchgoer getting?

This year we are upping our game to the next level at a cemetery in Brazil:

A JW teen on my IG posted this