What’s New?
Experiences, Strategies, Beliefs, and everything in between.
Emotional Assistance
Articles for those stuck in the organisation, currently leaving, or even looking for understanding years after having left. Look here for help dealing with depression, trauma, and links to support groups.
Coping with Fear of Armageddon
From childhood, Jehovah’s Witnesses are subjected to graphic imagery of humans dying at Armageddon. This terrifying image of death is presented as about to occur at any moment. Image courtesy of Watchtower publication Enjoy life on Earth Forever p.28 These images...
LGBTQ+ Support
It is critical you look after your mental well being. The following information is confronting and may cause distress. If you are depressed or suicidal, seek help immediately. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, you may not yet have any trusted friends you can be open with...
Strategy
Articles to assist and develop strategies for dealing with parents. Get help planning for the future outside of the religion as well as advice on building a new community.
Meeting With Elders
It is never a good thing to receive a request to meet with Elders. The best that can happen is the status quo; that is, things just stay the same as they are. All other outcomes will be worse, ranging from being marked to being disfellowshipped. The advice in this...
How to Make Friends
Key to a plan to fade away from Jehovah’s Witnesses is a support group; friends that are not Jehovah’s Witnesses, but Jehovah’s Witnesses face the hurdle to making new friends of not having things in common with people. Find out how to go about making new friends.
Experiences
Articles and videos of teens going through the same issues, and older people that were in the same situation as teens, recounting how they coped, eventually left and have moved on to happy lives.
Some experiences can recount the difficulties and maybe tragedies that occur based on leaving without the right support.
Jenna on the consequences of being raised Jehovah’s Witness
37 minute video. Jenna discusses the heartbreaking experiences, guilt, relationships, consequences and multiple disfellowshippings she endured as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. https://youtu.be/SnIDoTKYl6o
Monika – Disfellowshipped as a Believer for Something I didn’t do
Embedded 25 minute video experience. Monika was a 21 year old regular pioneer that wholeheartedly believed Jehovah's Witnesses, the religion she had been raised in, was the truth. Out of the blue, her parents reported her to the elders on the suspicion that she...
Beliefs
Find articles that detail the flaws in Watchtower doctrine, exposing chequered history; encouraging you to be confident that Watchtower does not teach “the Truth”.
Is a Religious Organization neccesary?
The word “organization” never appears in the Bible, yet over 20,000 times in Watchtower publications, where the claim is made that Jehovah has always used an organization to direct his followers and belonging to the Watchtower organization is vital for salvation.
Is Disfellowshipping Scriptural?
Jehovah's Witnesses disfellowship “unrepentant wrongdoers,” for diverse reasons ranging from apostasy to smoking. Disfellowshipped members are to be shunned by all family and friends, often for life, causing incalculable suffering. Is this practice Scriptural?...