You've nailed it 🎯Monica! While they were using me as a perfect example of a spiritual brother who dropped out of journalism school to pursue kingdom interest, I secretly envied two brothers in my hall who were popular in the media and still normal witnesses, both being MS. Again, rich brothers who dabbled in all sorts of negative business practices were star's of the congregations while the poor who sacrifice their time in the ministry hardly get recognized. This too, I witnessed.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
I hope anyone reading your comment, Laud, can get an image and understanding of just how much this religion takes away from people.
@GRACEFS1
3 ай бұрын
One thing to note is that congregations with wealthy jws operate very different than congratulations in poor areas. The wealthy jws operate like they are in a social club, no hard religious dogma. Their kids do all the activities they want, gymnastics, music, acting whatever. They go to higher education if they want, no discussions. They go on vacations, everything. Field service is a casual affair, the breaks are long, and car discussions are about real estate. This jw corporation is meant to control poor people. The rich people in this religion do whatever they want with no stress.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for illuminating this for us that did not even know. This is such an eye-opener and explains a lot.
@ExjwEmancipation
3 ай бұрын
I agree with you 1000%. Fame and education are leverage, not encouraged but if you happen to be famous and educated then they would claim you. Right on. Wish you can collaborate with my wife in your channel or our channel. Thank you for your work
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for watching ❤️, I would love to collaborate, yes!
@timothydavis7927
3 ай бұрын
You rruly nailed it@@MonicaRaseroka
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you Timothy 🙏🏾💛
@marcieebaby
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for your video. I agree 100% The Watchtower is a business and is full of hypocrisy everywhere you look. Thank you for exposing a topic rarely discussed on other ex JW channels. I also discuss obscure subjects on my KZitem channel. I will continue to watch your content .
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for watching ❤️🙏🏾
@De-Vito..o
3 ай бұрын
Dumela sesi. Greetings from Johannesburg, South Africa. It's good to see apostates coming on to KZitem from my country. You and Robin Jackson. I was baptised in 2004. Woke up officially in 2019. Keep up the good work.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Dumela motho waka 🧡 Thank you so much for watching. Congratulations on your freedom! ✨️
@barnyfife335
3 ай бұрын
I agree with almost everything you said. I will add one more thing, something I noticed when I was at bethel. There is, at least in the USA, an elite class of Jw's. We are told to be humble, eschew higher education, pioneer and be poor. But the higher ups at bethel like to associate with the wealthy JW's, to eat there food and get green handshakes. Once, as a member of a "bethel band", I found myself at a party we called "lifestyles of the rich and spiritual." There were bethel heavies along with a lot of wealthy JW's and a few of us "hired help." I have seen this multiple times. The org clearly wants it both ways. I do however, disagree with you saying that the WT is Zionist. What do you base that on? Things CT russel said a 120 years ago?
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Wow, you just opened my eyes to something we've all seen but never put words to. Charles Taze Russel was a Zionist, Benjamin Netanyahu thanked him for helping Israel be what it is today. Also, the country of Egypt banned JWs because of suspected links to Zionism.
@Estee.Ar.6869
3 ай бұрын
Thank you Monica, great points!
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching Estee ❤️
@RobinJacksonZA
3 ай бұрын
This is a very insightful video Monica.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching Robin 🧡
@TaharkahX
3 ай бұрын
If Prince had gotten that hip replacement surgery even with the high risk of needing a blood transfusion, he wouldn't have needed to take all those painkillers.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
How do you know for sure? I think with such a major surgery, one might need something to help with the pain, maybe.
@whereskevan
3 ай бұрын
Very interesting video. One of friend simply became interested in the religion because prince was her favorite artist.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
That's the power of influence right there. Thank you for watching 🙏🏾💛
@whereskevan
3 ай бұрын
@@MonicaRaseroka of course! I’ve seen your content before and I love it. Thank you for making these videos.
@Chanel8-i1n7n
3 ай бұрын
In recent years prince was not really active in the cult anymore.
@whereskevan
3 ай бұрын
@@Chanel8-i1n7n he died in 2016
@kstevenson3504
3 ай бұрын
Some ppl dont realize that people have free will and. The organization doesnt dictate everyone does.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
But the organisation does dictate people's 'free will'.
@kstevenson3504
3 ай бұрын
@@MonicaRaseroka GREAT POINT!!! Will you give me a HEART :D
@toddhayes3506
3 ай бұрын
Great Job Thanks
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, Todd ❤️
@Niafuerte1828
3 ай бұрын
Glow on, lady! Your skin and hair are on pointe!
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much beautiful 🥹❤️🤗
@mthokozisilanga4497
3 ай бұрын
George Benson was one of the famous JWs, I remember when he was perfoming in the then Bophuthatswana Bantustan’s Sun City, on few ocassion he will be placing magazines when not perfoming.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Wow, I didn't know there was a famous JW in South Africa.
@mthokozisilanga4497
3 ай бұрын
@@MonicaRaseroka He is American one of his famous hit was ‘Give me the Night’
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
I just googled him, I knew of his music but not him 🤭
@HudsonChalmers
3 ай бұрын
Morning Monica
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Morning Hudson 🌄
@lindiwe7800
3 ай бұрын
If you are poor they don't recognize you, only the well-known ones who have things but they preach every meeting we must show love and care. you will not even be invited to their get-together until you meet their standards.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Most JWs don't know what real love is because their love is so conditional. This really proves it.
@lh1673
3 ай бұрын
I wonder why the congregations where celebrities JWs attends, the members doesn’t think something is wrong! How can the Elders and zealous Pioneers in those congregations knowing these celebrities has double standard but it’s okay for them to be labeled as same JW with others in that congregation! What is into to these kinda congregations!? How do regular JWs maintain themselves that it’s okay for celebrities JW to be known as same witness with them especially in their KH, while listening to programs this org saying don’t be part of this world and gain fame😅What about in Circuit Visit? The Overseer knowing celebrities are in this so and so congregations but it’s okay, and no counsel!? How does this work!? JWs, do you know?😅
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
I wish I was in a congregation like that 😂, it would have been so interesting to see and experience
@lh1673
3 ай бұрын
I know, I wish someone pimo or current JW in these kinda congregation will tell their experience how it’s like to be in these KH!
@gabrielgarcia-ms8sg
2 ай бұрын
That’s is True 👍
@MonicaRaseroka
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching 🧡
@barnyfife335
3 ай бұрын
Not trying to be a contrarian, but where did Netanyahu make this comment about CT Russel? I would like to see it. I was an elder for more than 10 years and I never saw anything remotely zionist. For me personally, after 50 years plus of WT telling me what to think, with no supporting evidence other than there own words, I like to verify everything. I also think for EXjw's and Pimo's, after being suppressed from having political or social views for so long, need to be careful that as we develop our own opinions, that we really know the facts, and not fall into other ideologies, especially ones that align with our personal feelings, without as much research as we did when we discovered that the WT was a lie.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
I totally hear you, but that's not the case here. I do thorough research for my videos, and I don't just make baseless claims Please check this out: www.academia.edu/108286725/PASTOR_CHARLES_TAZE_RUSSELL_An_Early_American_Christian_Zionist You can also just Google Benjamin Netanyahu thanking Charles Taze Russell
@bevmeier5747
3 ай бұрын
Yes I also saw Netanyahu saying HE THANKED PASTOR RUSSEL also Pastor Russell had a large meeting in New York with Jews . The WATCHTOWER was named ZIONS WATHTOWER. 84 YEARS OLD EXJW IN AUSTRALIA left 2020 .
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
Wow! Congratulations on making it out. I hope you're enjoying your new found freedom ✨️
@bevmeier5747
3 ай бұрын
@@MonicaRaseroka yes also my friend came out and we always say we are free free free. Still have my faith. Was born in so a long time .
@UnassignedTerritory
3 ай бұрын
There is abundant evidence out there. You just have to want to look for it.
@KeithBryantOfficial
3 ай бұрын
8:38 As a pimo jw, the word "normal" i dont know anymore because heard a talk this morning that being "just a normal person isn't pleasing to God and normal people will be destroyed in Armegeddon". Really gives me more anxiety attacks than I had before
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
We are all sending you love and positive energy your way. At this point, it's just a mental game until you're able to leave. I urge you to try and make friends outside of the religion or even just form connections and spend time outside, even if alone. Consume content that resonates with you and that brings you joy during this period. Don't allow them to make you anxious through their false teachings. Because you have woken up, and that doesn't work on you anymore.
@KeithBryantOfficial
3 ай бұрын
@@MonicaRaserokaLike I said, I don't know because the word "friends" I don't know anymore either because of how they kept telling me over and over to "only make friends in the congregation" and all my life I've been isolated from ever talking to normal regular people who isnt them which is another reason why I feel very introverted and insecure about myself and been that way for the past 5 yrs not being the "open and sociable" extrovert I once was
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
I hear you. Being part of this religion takes such a mental toll on people. It even affects your being and how you show up in the world.
@michelejashinsky8409
2 ай бұрын
But famous ppl probably donate 💰 more!
@MonicaRaseroka
2 ай бұрын
Could be and probably why they get special treatment
@israelguy2975
3 ай бұрын
What's wrong with zionism Monica?
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
It upholds values I strongly denounce, especially as a South African.
@barnyfife335
3 ай бұрын
@@MonicaRaseroka How is Zionism in any way related to the subject of the watchtower being a cult? Are the jews oppressing you in South Africa or the Boers, or the elders, or the ANC? We have to maintain our objectivity!
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
1. Charles Taze Russel was a Zionist 2. Benjamin Netanyahu thanked him for assisting Israel to be what it is today 3. Apartheid South Africa and Israel were buddies 4. Jews (+ the white minority in South Africa) are STILL oppressing Africans in South Africa through systematic racism (like how black South Africans still pay higher interest rates vs. white people) 5. Zionist are some of the highest donors to political parties (the DA) who want to continue oppressing us South Africans and excluding us from the economy I could go on and on The ANC is what it is because of white imperialism still having a hold on puppet leaders on the African continent.
@Greatnews4me2
3 ай бұрын
@@barnyfife335 👍🏻💯
@kstevenson3504
3 ай бұрын
You are full of it. If anyone wants to kmow if JWs are racist read this book by a nonJW, "Charles Taze Russell: His Life and Times: The Man, the Millennium and the Message" It demonstrates that for his time Russell was very progressive about race.
@MonicaRaseroka
3 ай бұрын
A Zionist, okay
@UnassignedTerritory
3 ай бұрын
How about what Russell said in his own literature? That black people are the inferior race and will turn white in the new world? Progressive is a stretch, he was trying to grow an organization which he successfully did by including all. Doesn’t change what he published.
@kstevenson3504
3 ай бұрын
Some ppl get a KZitem channel just to make money. This one needs to go broke.
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