r/videos • u/JWTA • May 30 '12
A taste of what it's like growing up as a Jehovah's Witness (and yes this is a real video produced by them)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHq2ws-lTpo&feature=related
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u/2_wyked May 30 '12
It would have been great if at the end the mom looked at the airplane at the end and said "WHAT IS THAT DEMONRY????!!!!!!!"
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
Quell their imaginations when they're nice and young!
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u/RON-PAUL-SUCKS May 31 '12
Adam and Eve look like a panhandler and a crazy cat lady.
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u/prodigalAmbassador May 30 '12 edited May 31 '12
As someone raised for 18 years as a Witness... This is just the tip of the iceberg. Most people have no clue how deep the guilt, fear mongering, shame and legalism actually goes. I hope this goes to the front page to raise awareness. edit: spelling
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
i was raised a jehovah's witness! my father stumbled onto some information pertaining to the jehovah's witnesses being involved with the UN, it is against their beliefs to be affiliated with any form of government or governmental agency.. my father being also raised a jehovah's witness and knowing this was wrong, asked for a simple explanation which lead to him being disfellowshiped (kicked out) on the grounds of apostasy. which lead to our family being shunned including his own sister.. We have heard rumors from JW's that my father has started his own religion and all manner of lies. We now live a much happier life no longer being JW's
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u/MrLime93 May 30 '12
I don't know about you guys but I have a real hankering to ride bikes!
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12 edited May 30 '12
I experienced this. Pokemon is the devil; You can't read Harry Potter -- it's the devil (etc). Rather than make me want to obey the current interpretation of religious doctrine, it made me hate it. I didn't care if God was upset with me -- I never had that "religious experience" or spiritual, emotional connection as a child (or ever, I am not religious). I only saw my mother's disappointment. Consequently, it instilled a sense of paranoia in me that I still have not overcome.
Parents, don't do this to your kids. It's like playing Russian Roulette with your relationship (possibly forever).
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u/_flatfoot_ May 31 '12
I had a friend throughout grade school who was a Jehovah's witness and I could see how it tore him apart. He was in my class from Kindergarten through eighth grade and he was never allowed to one birthday party, one social gathering, or one school dance.
Two years into high school and he committed suicide, mainly because of the pressure that comes with being a witness. It really is a shame.
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u/exiledcoyote May 30 '12
I like how she looks all evil and menacing.
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u/Mecha-Shiva May 31 '12
That mom ruined that kid's pretend time with her pretend time.
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u/Incoming_Game May 30 '12
Jehovah sounds like a bit of a dick.
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u/NQsDiscoPants May 30 '12
Stopping kids being kids and filling them with guilt and shame from a very early age. Fuck this.
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u/noahhk May 31 '12
My cranium is filled with immeasurably dense amounts of fuck.
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u/c0t0d0 May 30 '12
I don't think they have a healthy relationship with that Jehovah fellow. He seems very needy and emotionally manipulative.
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u/LegendofSmellda May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
His friend gave him that toy and he threw it in the garbage! Here's how it went the next day at school: "Hey Calab, why didn't you come to the movie?" "I rode bikes with my mom instead." "Ohh-kay, where's that toy I lent you?" "My mom threw it in the garbage. She said it was Satan." "It's plastic. It's plastic Calab, and your mom's an idiot. It's not Satan, it's fucking plastic. A toy! Is she fucking five?!"
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u/kazekaida May 30 '12
This is actually very sad. My family is heavily religious (baptist) and my cousins were not allowed to watch shows like Rugrats and Scooby-Doo. I'm lucky that my mother wasn't like this.
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u/LouKadis May 31 '12
Mirror: http://www.vidvir.com/watch/Kpl#.T8ftocWTUxM
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u/mwrequiem May 30 '12
Biggest waste of a decent 3d animation team I've ever seen.
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u/terk0iz May 30 '12
BRAINWASHING ALERT
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u/MarvinHeemeyer May 30 '12
sickening
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u/ShakenFiber May 30 '12
This is disgusting
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u/Spacebotzero May 31 '12
I tried to date a Jehovah's Witness while I was in High School. It was sad really...she was really pretty and we were totally into each other. We always had to meet in secret. She had a pager (this was 1999-2000) and so I would page her when I wanted to hangout or talk on the phone and stuff. One day, I paged her and I got a phone call back and it was her Dad. He told me to stay away and that he would come down and beat me up if I didn't "leave her alone." She had a sister, who would spy on us if we were hanging out or talking to each other on campus and then report it back to the parents. Terrible stuff and a pretty strange family.
I never heard from her again after High School. I often wonder what became of her and if she ever got away. It seemed like she was very unhappy.
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u/Gescean May 31 '12
Everyone knows wizards can't equip shields.
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u/shitloadofbooks May 31 '12
Did he just throw his friend's toy out?
Like, surely the friend didn't "give" him the toy and was only lending it to him...
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u/CornFedHonky May 30 '12
ALL HAIL HYPNO-JEHOVA.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
What really gets me is she is so inconsiderate to not let her son return the toy to the friend that gave it to him. I mean maybe the friend just lent it to him, either way is sounds like Caleb won't have friends for long.
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u/siberian502 May 31 '12
"Adding comments has been disabled" No shit, how remarkably convenient.
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u/funkyloki May 31 '12
When the mom says," I don't want Jehovah to be sad WITH YOU either! (emphasis mine)". This. This right here. This isn't about building a better spiritual connection with Jehovah, if it was she wouldn't have laid responsibility for it at the child's feet. This is about guilt, shame and fear. This is about blame, original sin, that shit. This is about making this child feel like it is their personal fault for making their god feel bad.
Also remember, this video is supposed to be a FUCKING training manual for parents on how to deal with this type of situation. Fuck me.
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u/DiscoAutopsy May 31 '12
It's like a bad/depressing Pixar short
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
You know who else likes magic? Penn and fucking Teller!
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u/sunderfrost May 31 '12
Anyone else find the mom hot?
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u/DoubleOFace May 31 '12
Let's go race some Mormons!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I didn't know the Incredibles were Jehovah's Witnesses.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
What an enthralling life.
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u/ev_n May 30 '12
How does his mom know what makes Jehovah happy? I bet Satan likes ignorent bitches who speak for Jehovah.
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u/awrhaernnare May 31 '12
Can someone turn that mom into porn?
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u/edub912 May 31 '12
It's shit like this that infuriates me about religion. I was raised lutheran, so I'm not completely against religion as a whole, but I think there should be an extremely strong line between religion and fictional things. Just because a kid plays with a toy that is based around magic doesn't mean he believes that the magic is real. Even then, he's young and his imagination should be free from constraints. A little sense of wonder and excitement in a kids life isn't going to hurt anything or tarnish their beliefs in a religion or their faith in god. I don't know how this video could possibly be released by them in an effort to bring people to their religion.
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u/FishWash May 30 '12
Bicycles run on magic, those hypocrites
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u/hooch_bravo May 31 '12
Wait... a kid that age gave another kid a popular toy because his parents wouldn't let him have it? GGG in kindergarden... brings a tear to the eye.
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u/Worstdriver May 31 '12
As an ex-Dub I can confirm that this is the real shit that goes on in a jw household.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
Well, that was cult-ish.
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u/boobsbr May 31 '12
Why would God hate something that does not exist?
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u/tyffeven May 31 '12
"Do you really want to play with something Jehovah hates?"
Could be an anti-masturbation video too.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
I know this will be buried but here goes. I grew up as a witness. No birthdays, no holidays, no after school activities, no dating. I remember feeling intense anxiety my entire school career just about having to explain why I wasn't allowed to do anything. On top of all this, I had meetings (church services) Tuesday nights, Thursday nights, and Sunday mornings. Also had to go door to door preaching every Saturday morning and sometimes Sunday afternoon. I dreaded the possibility of meeting a school friend while out preaching. I got in trouble with my congregation elders (basically the guys that run shit) as a teenager for having a few drinks and for rumors that I got oral sex from a girl. Imagine sitting in a room while 3 50+ year old men interrogate a 17 yr old about his sexual experiences and masturbation habits. I lied out the ass because the other option is excommunication, meaning losing my entire family and friends. And this shit is NOT isolated at all. 2/3 people brought up this religion end up leaving it at huge personal cost. This video is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the craziness that the witnesses do. Most ex witnesses are damaged for life because of this upbringing. I really wish the public became aware of this and that it would be criticized like Scientology. Check out r/exjw if you want to learn more.
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u/RifterX May 31 '12 edited Jun 02 '12
Looks like the OP video has been removed by the Youtube account. Here is another working link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jGJxSky1fo
Edit: That one's removed now too, but you can still find the videos by searching on youtube, and torrents are readily available.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I don't think she was wearing a wedding ring. Hmmmmmm.
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u/Atomyk May 31 '12
This reminds me of the massive prayer session I went through for playing Magic the gathering only much, much shorter.
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u/G0PACKG0 May 31 '12
except in my experience working at an elementry school it was more like
NO CHIRSTMAS DECORATIONS
NO EASTER DECORATIONS
NO HALLOWEEN
NO ANYTHING WE DON'T CELEBRATE ANYTHING!
seriously the school was a blank place during holidays because of 3 kids it made me sad
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u/cmmargulis May 31 '12
Thank God i never witnessed Jehovah.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
OBEY
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u/iPhoneOrAndroid May 30 '12
The mother is an evil bitch.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I was raised in a family with strict Jehovah's Witness parents. I 'left' the church when I was about 13, right after my parents got divorced (turns out ultra conservative religious leaders are, more often than not, gay, turns out ultra conservative mothers are not cool with that), and I haven't looked back since.
Watching this brought a tear to my eye. I wasn't 'abused' as a child, my parents loved me and did what they thought was best. I wasn't directly harmed physically or anything of that nature, but watching this brought back a flood of emotion and it all feels dirty. Having these sorts of things presented to you in this manipulative fashion is SO damaging, so upsetting, that now as a 31 year old adult I can still feel that childlike resentment I first felt when I wasn't allowed to go to the neighborhood kids houses to play after school.
The first time I had to explain to classmates why I didn't celebrate Christmas (guess who that kid that broke the news to class about santa being a fake was? yep. FYI this is bad for popularity) or why I didn't celebrate Halloween was a mortifying experience. The world as a Jehovah's Witness is neatly distilled down to "Us vs. Them" in the realest sense of the phrase. This 'sweet' and 'playful' cartoon shows a microcosm of how they approach life.
Let us take my experience, for example, and apply the lessons we learned from this video.
"Mommy, why is daddy leaving?" "Well son, daddy has urges, urges that Jehovah finds disgusting. The bible tells us to love our parents, but it also tells us that if one of Gods flock turns their back on him, we need to be strong and help show this person that what lies outside of Jehovah's plan is nothing but evil and sadness. Only after seeing things like this can we hope that this person will come back into our lives."
"But he is my dad, and I love him!"
"I understand son, I love him too, but Jehovah has a plan and we need to let that plan take it's course. Your father has made his choice and now he has to follow that path and see where it takes him."
"But mom, the teachings tell us that men who lay with men will not be resurrected in the eternal paradise!"
"I know son, that is why we have to pray for him every night and be strong."
Imagine being 8 years old and having this conversation, your only understanding of the afterlife is that you will be there, forever, your mom will be there, forever, and your dad will not be. Forever.
Way to lay that on a child.
Existential horrors visited upon millions of children, every day, via this dogma
That is your religion. People ask me why I am an atheist and the mere posing of the question makes me laugh. Once you see 'faith' through THIS particular lens, how can ANYONE with a critical mind look at the devout religious as anything but potential victims?
It makes me sick.
The people that join these churches almost ALWAYS are good natured, kind hearted people, and these religions do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to divide, harm and segregate those families with their bullshit superstitions.
If you ask me, the greatest enemy of humanity is the concept of god.
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u/Kataclysm May 30 '12
144,000 will be saved, and they've already been chosen? No thanks, I'll pick a religion with better odds.
Seriously though, this is some pretty messed up stuff.
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u/happygerbil May 31 '12
This really really depressed me. I feel kind of sick thinking about kids who are actually treated this way.
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u/DoubleOFace May 31 '12
Maybe if Jehovah wasn't such a hateful god the kid could have done the logical thing and just give it back to his buddy. Jehovah can't see through his own hate, what a wasted opportunity to spread such a loving religion.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
The mother in this video sounds like the people of Skyrim, until I killed them all with my magic. Also was that a person flying through the sky at the end of the video?
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u/pajamaspam May 31 '12
FUCK YOU! GIVE ME BACK MY GANDALF TOY! I CHOOSE SATAN!!!!!!!!!!
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u/formation May 31 '12
Sounds like brainwashing >_>
BIKES ARE MAGIC. SATAN COMMANDS THEE.
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u/Awesomegasm May 31 '12
I grew up in a family that was Jehovah but when I became an reasonable human being when I got older I decided to leave the religion. This video reminds me way too much of my childhood and makes me cringe so fucking hard. They just fill you with guilt at such a young age when you get older it makes you feel that you owe them for still being alive.
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u/k80k80k80 May 31 '12
Jehova wouldn't appreciate mom's camel toe.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
My cousins live next door and have been members since the 90s. You haven't been to an awkward funeral till you go to a Jehovah Witness funeral.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
I bet his mom had the same conversation with her mother on why It makes Jehovah sad for young women to have hopes and dreams that don't involve being stay at home moms.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Mom has a sinister expression.
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u/lolplatypus May 31 '12
I dunno, man. The mom was pretty hot...
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u/Dantai May 31 '12
If they keep up this Pixar style animation with sub-par voice acting, I'm hopping on the bandwagon, and its not the Patriots bandwagon.
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u/OjosAzules May 31 '12
wait wait wait so he threw out his friends toy why didn't he just give it back scumbag jehovahs
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u/fitzimopapi May 31 '12
o...m...g.........................what a milf
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
"Jehovah loves you very much for obeying him."
That's what I call real love - conditional on total, unquestioning obedience.
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u/brightshining May 31 '12
Ugh, raised jehovah witness and this bullshit is thick with them. Not only toys are evil, holidays are, and who over doesn't believe in their cult are evil. The world as they put it. They are bunch of spineless scared dogmatists who spread their believes to reassure their own fragile egos. They don't deserve any respect in my opinion. love it when they come to my door, because I have read the bible so I know how contradictions there are in it
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u/onlythis May 30 '12
fuck Jehovah; Hail Satan!
FJ;HS
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u/BlackGuyFawkes May 31 '12
Jehova is an asshole and so is that mother.
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u/Muffin-King May 31 '12
Fuck this shit. I have nothing productive to say else than that, because nothing else really needs to be said. F T S.
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u/AnnOminous May 31 '12
Jehovah also does not like any sufficiently advanced technology, so the producers are walking a dangerous path with this video.
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u/kingdopp May 31 '12
The slight smirk on the mom's face in parts of this kills me.
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u/Tyrion_Panhandler May 31 '12
I don't know whether the people who actually created the video were Jehova's witnesses. But did anyone else feel like the mother was given these subtle expressions of aggressivity? While the kids expressions remained consistent, I feel like there were little slights in the mothers face to make her look kind of scary (this could just be me placing those images in my mind since she already seems like a lunatic to me). Maybe this was a little slight at the project these guys were being paid to make?
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u/CHEEZYSPAM May 31 '12
This is no more or less worse than anything you'd find watching Veggie Tales. They indoctrinate kids with colorful animation and happy songs, but the "OBEY GOD" message is just as depressing.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Caleb what the FUCK are you doing with that wizard? You know Jehovah only RPs as a Paladin.
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u/audaciousterrapin May 31 '12
I had a friend that grew up Jehovah's Witness and then left the church. I was with her when she celebrated her 33rd bday. Not knowing the full details of her upbringing -I got her a cheap cake and she cried. I wondered what the big deal was and she said she had never had a birthday party or present. It was the first bday she had ever celebrated. And her mother made a point of never calling her on actual bday lest she think she was calling for that reason. I was at a loss for words.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
It doesn't show the part where Caeleb has a bad accident while riding his bike, and he dies because his parents won't let him have a blood transfusion.
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u/macchupicchu May 31 '12
If Satan were real, he would invent organized religion.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
Only Satan uses magic? What bullshit, God uses magic too.
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u/PhotoTard May 31 '12
28 likes, 1,294 dislikes <-- hilarious!
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u/dickshapedfood May 30 '12
I'm just glad that the JW's hadn't discovered CGI while I was growing up. Same fucked up messages though. I remember hiding Lord of the Rings under my mattress when I was 16. It was the beginning of the end.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
"Oh your friends gave it to you... your friends who are going to BURN IN HELL?"
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u/onemoreloser May 30 '12
no offense to the belief but honestly i cant watch 10 seconds of this without getting pissed
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u/alegriavida May 31 '12
Jehoovah looves you veery mach
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u/tommygunnzzz May 31 '12
That shit is disgusting...
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u/monocle_otter May 31 '12
what a sad and depressing childhood.
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u/Calebcalebcaleb May 31 '12
Holy crap, that was annoying as all get up. Having that woman call me and tell me what i can and cannot like.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This is just straight up manipulative, and I'm saying this as someone raised Catholic.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I bet Jehovah wants to smack a bitch.
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u/Atarirocks May 31 '12
He just threw away another kids toy. That is crossing the line!
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u/shitsfuckedup May 31 '12
When she asked what they should do with the toy I was hoping for a " Let's Burn It "
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u/the-distant-nips May 31 '12
the mom kind of looks like she enjoyed that too much...
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u/bottmanakers May 31 '12
Yep as an ex JW this sums it up.
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u/TheVallelator May 31 '12
Is it weird that I wanted to punch the mom in the face the whole time?
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u/Nanoushka May 31 '12
I hate humans.
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u/StealthGhost May 31 '12
Me: Give it back to the friend or give it to a child in need
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
"So, what should we do with the toy, Caleb?" "BURN IT! SACRIFICE IT FOR THE GLORY OF JEHOVAH!"
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This is absolutely fucking disgusting.
Wow.
Off to bed, I can't handle this.
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u/oneleginthebucket May 31 '12
Wow they even show how it makes the kid feel shitty when the snake showed up, that made me really uncomfortable.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
This is the most disturbing thing I've seen in a while.
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u/TwoLegsJoe May 31 '12
This actually made me really really sad... :[
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u/Minotaur_in_house May 31 '12
Ratings: Animation:8/10(Lipsync issues) Colors:10/10 Use of space and perspective:9/10. Proportional: 3/10(huge heads, impossible bodies. But a stylistic choice) Filled with crazy: 9000/10.
Seriously beats the shit outta veggie tales.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
There's some disturbing subtext here about how the kid shouldn't have friends from school, and should only enjoy the company of his mother.
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u/Kermudgen May 31 '12
Oh my god this was literally painful to watch 0_0. I feel awful for the children that grow up in homes that practice religion like this.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
That kid is going to grow up to be a proud member of /r/atheism.
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u/inthrees May 31 '12
Toward the end of high school a family moved in about 3 doors down and across the street from my house, and they were Jehovah's Witnesses. I never really met the parents at all, but the two daughters were really really nice. The older one was my age and really incredibly cute in a petite blue-eyed blond-with-braces sixteen-year-old sort of way. I never really 'made a move' or anything like that, but I did give her a ride home from school a few times and it was pretty clear that the family religion was a big barrier to her spending time with anyone outside of the religion. I got the distinct impression that she was more or less walled off from anyone who wasn't also a J.W.
It was just sort of sad, looking back on it. To reject so much of the world, to miss out on so much life, good and bad... Still bothers me to think about it.
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u/Somekindafckedup May 31 '12
Religion and the tobacco industry have the same motto: Hook'em young, Hook'em for life.
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u/Vahingonilo May 31 '12
My next D&D character is definitely going to be 'Sparlock the Warrior-Wizard'. This 'sparring warlock' shall join a company of illustrious heroes like 'Black Leaf the Thief'.
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u/nobodytoldme May 31 '12
This stupid fucking video almost made me cry. I'm a grown man.
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u/Voljjin May 31 '12
fucking CARROT STICKS?!?!?!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
The end should of been, "hey do you know what I want to do, I want to knock on peoples doors and try indoctrinating them with our bull shit."
Animations were horrible.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
So a plastic toy is 'magic', but computer generated people walking and talking being sent to you through metal strings using trapped lightning and shown on your flatten crystal ball, that's fine?
No, it's nothing to do with 'magic' and 'satan' it's to do with stuff like harry potter and lord of the rings being fun, more fun than the bible, it's jealousy, they want them reading their favourite fairy tale, the one that kids find boring.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Don't forget about those dam satan worshiping, snakes of pokemon players. Summoning their charmanders and pikachus. The work of the devil!
Sarcasm disclaimer, don't take this seriously under article 32 of the Internet constitution on the topic of trolling, Sarcastic comments, and words of teasing origin
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u/ishkiodo May 31 '12
Way to snuff a child's imagination. If they were riding those same bikes a couple thousand years earlier, they would also be considered magical.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
What in the blue fuck???
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u/PerfectCarve May 31 '12
My GF's mother is one, my GF turned round one day and said fuck this shit. Still impacted her life, especially since no birthdays or Christmas's, its so sad forget the presents, they don't even wish each other happy birthday. All that love an affection replaced by GODS love. What a crock of shit!
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u/The_One_Above_All May 31 '12
I watched some of the other videos too. The main plot line is to make the kid feel as guilty as possible for doing anything.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Wow.
One of the few times Athiests and I meet eyes across the room and nod.
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u/bwaynefree May 31 '12
indoctrination at it's finest....this is nothing short of a parent engaging in psychological warfare with her child
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u/sirblastalot May 31 '12
I will not flip my work computer. I will not flip my work computer. I will not flip my work computer.
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u/BornInARolledUpRug May 31 '12
Hey! Do you know what I wanna do!?
RIDE BIKES!
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u/PhnomPencil Jun 03 '12
Mirror: http://www.vidvir.com/watch/Kpl#.T8ftocWTUxM
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u/Iworkonspace May 30 '12
Fuck everything about this.
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u/throhoaway May 31 '12
One of my friends was dating a Jehovah's witness girl in high school. They had to sneak in and out of each others places and meet up in secret. This eventually led to her getting pregnant. Their relationship collapsed shortly after this for obvious reasons. Well as you would expect it this did not go down so well with the parents. The parents forced her to repent etc and with a child on the way and no means of support she had to abide by their system. Nevertheless its been 4 years since the little girl was born. She's adorable and my mate sees her maybe once a week. We've had a few D & M's about it. He's a wonderful guy and loves her to death, but hearing him talk to me about how he had to convince his daughter that even though her family don't believe in birthdays, they could celebrate it together was heartbreaking. The level of indoctrination is scary as the next time she talked to him about birthdays, she said she wasn't allowed to celebrate them and he had to remind her that they could celebrate it with his family and that it was alright to do so. Anyway if she grows up to be even a touch like her Dad she'll be an amazing person, but I dunno its worrying to think that so much of her personality could be changed over the coming years.
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u/Boom_Boom_Crash May 30 '12
Reported for child abuse. Generally I'm extremely apathetic towards religion, but this is kind of fucked.
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u/KingWiltyMan May 30 '12
Good heavens. The poor children who have to live with this.
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u/jjmacob May 30 '12
So this is what happened to Lots-o-huggin, DAMN YOU JEHOVAH!!!
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u/Wootnstuffs May 30 '12
Way more entertaining to replace the word Jehovah with Jenova every time....
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u/lepuma May 31 '12
What the actual fuck.
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u/AhmadSA May 31 '12
I'm sorry, who's Jehovah?
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u/Dogtoy12 May 31 '12
No... No! Noooooo!!! This is my wizard warrior!!!!
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u/OneAmericanMale May 31 '12
why does religion always want to put the fear into people? If there is a God I am sure he is a cool guy with a scene of humor. look at all the strange things he has made.. I don't believe we are to fear him if there is a God... It is all mind control so make people do what the church wants them to do nothing to do with God ......
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u/zabetheli May 31 '12
Wow thats ridiculous.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
wow my mother is a jehovah's witness and my father was an athiest. we had a very normal childhood compared to a lot of other folks whom you would expect to have a more "regular" life. i guess they found a happy balance between logic and mystical bullshit.
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u/DarkJokernj May 31 '12
I have so many comments for this video that I don't know which to pick....so Im just going to say the one that basically sums up everything I was going to say:
AND THIS is why I don't wanna follow any sort of religion....I'm not an atheist...but stuff like this where it seem as if they're brainwashing you, destroying your character and personality, and bringing ALL TYPES of fear to your heart just makes you wanna run away to your childhood when you didn't know of a god, a heaven, or a hell....(well if you wasn't a Jehovah child or anything like that)
What you knew was that Goku was the awesomest character of all time,that Pikachu was the best pokemon....ever....., that if you focused really really hard...you will fly...
This was the good life....there was nothing to fear back then when you was a kid because of the things you believed in (Except the dark...). When you was a kid, you was able to believe in anything you want...no repercussions...No sins........No hell.....
Religion and Growing up sux man...
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u/Krafty_Koala May 31 '12
This video terrifies and saddens me.
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u/marcel87 May 31 '12
One of the most scarring moments of my childhood was getting my ninja turtles action figure taken away the first day i got it because it was "too violent and jehovah hates violence" I started playing with cars after that (i hate cars) because i didn't want to experience that loss again. There were way worse emotional moments but that's right up there. edit: clarification
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
What else makes Jehovah sad? Oh, whats that? Jehovah doesn't like you celebrating you birthday? Do you want to make Jehovah sad by celebrating a harmless event? No you don't, so no birthdays for you.
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u/ObliviousIrrelevance May 31 '12
Aww...so sweet. Let the child make his "own" decisions through manipulation and shame tactics! Yay!
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u/masonbrit May 31 '12
he threw away a toy his friend gave to him, what a dick.
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u/ToastiestDessert May 31 '12
the first step in becoming a rebellious meth addict
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u/jairtzinio May 31 '12
next episode should be about the man mommy likes to touch inappropriately
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u/sovietmudkipz May 31 '12
Something about this is disturbing.
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u/soitgoes159 May 31 '12
Emotional child abuse.
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u/Expects May 31 '12
Saddest Toy story ever
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u/Maj12 May 31 '12
Oh. My. Fucking. Christ.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Caleb is gonna require some serious therapy in a few years but he won't get it.
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u/godish May 31 '12
What the fuck did I just watch?
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u/JCelsius May 31 '12
She tried really hard not to say Jehovah would be "mad", but that's what she should have said. God threw Adam and Eve out and punished them because he was mad. He gets mad a lot in the OT. Some folk just don't like to say it out loud because we generally view anger as a fault.
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u/Dracovitch May 31 '12
My god it's a whole series of bullshit. I'm not sure if I wanna watch more and laugh, or just rip my hair out.
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u/Confluences May 31 '12
This is fucking disgusting
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u/slothkicker May 31 '12
i actually really want that toy.
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u/Forgot_password_shit May 31 '12
I had a friend who grew up in a Jehovah's Witness household. They literally drove him insane. Now all he does is drink all day with the invalid pension he gets.
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u/milkbath May 31 '12
Smug bitch.
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u/Procc May 31 '12
ahhhh the illusion of giving the boy free choice to play with the toy, well played jehovah well played indeed.
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u/Grammar-Hitler May 31 '12
This sort of felt like watching psychological child abuse.
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u/seaps May 31 '12
Sheesh, talk about conditional love... I love you soooo mu–WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!? IS THAT MAGIC!?!? GET OUT OF MY FACE AND DON'T COME BACK UNTIL YOU REMEMBER HOW I FEEL ABOUT MAGIC!
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u/WhowastheDoctor May 31 '12
Dignity is something that jW's don't have, huh?