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I posted a little while ago about the little boy who couldn’t see a future for himself outside of the JWs. All Jehovah’s Witness children grow up this way.
Watch this short new video to get a sense of the kind of message that all JWs - even children - hear ad nauseum. Notice the way [...]

I often get notified of media mentions of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Watchtower Society via fellow ex-Jehovah’s Witness contacts on the web. The truly driven Danny Haszard sent me this one (thanks, Danny).
San Antonio’s media home on the net has a feature called “Through kids’ eyes” in which children write a little about their [...]

A Jehovah’s Witness pedophile elder (called an “evil monster” by his own sister) was spared prison today.
Michael Porter, 38, of Barnet, north London, admitted to abusing his position of trust, and was convicted of 24 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency on children, including one on an 18-month-old baby.
“He abused dozens of children and [...]

A brave Jehovah’s Witness has engaged with me in the comments of the Following the Christ post.
Snowhoney expresses the usual views in the usual ways, so it’s a good example of the trained mindflow of a practicing Jehovah’s Witness. Sometimes JW comments are so emotive or hateful that I hesitate to claim that they [...]

It is possible that internal discussion about Watchtower policies has begun, at least among some Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Internal discussion or debate is very rare - those who attempt to initiate such are quickly disfellowshipped so that their “unsheep-like” attitude does not “infect” the congregation. The Watchtower Bible and Tract publishing empire/religious group is totalitarian [...]

OH….my….GOD. Oh, sweet lord in heaven.. (string of expletives following, unsuitable for blog publication).
I can’t believe it. Brenda Lee has done what I’ve fantasized about doing since I was 12. I’ve spent a fair bit of time trying not to think about it, for fear that I might actually do it.
A mildly disrespectful, gum-snapping [...]

When my friend Janet sent me a link to this piece from a very recent talk (given by James Rayford at a Kingdom Hall in Houston Texas), I actually forced myself to listen to it. I’m going to comment below, so that you can begin to understand what happens to the self-identified “Great Crowd” (who [...]