Humanist Skeptics Live

27/10/2021

She cleared his a*z 😅👏🏾

04/04/2021

Come chat with us live on Easter Sunday!

As former Christians or as former Jehovah's Witnesses, etc do you celebrate this day?

19/03/2021

Since many of the women's suffrage centennial celebrations originally scheduled for 2020 were curtailed, the National Women's History Alliance is extending the annual theme for 2021 to "Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.

19/03/2021

Raz B's petition : https://www.change.org/.../netflix-cancel-marques-houston...
Raz B's Go fund me : https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-razb

Episode with Interview with Raz B : https://youtu.be/Evdjbpf45Hw

Join us live in the comments on Facebook, Periscope, Twitter and YouTube.

https://streamerlinks.com/GoodbyeJehovah

17/03/2021

Join us as we interview Apostate Jerky Boy and therapists after the bombshell revelation that Rich Fearon , "allegedly" has been profiting off the pain of other ex- Jehovah's witness . He is also accused of playing pre recorded tapes that ultimately trigger s*x abuse survivors .

You can join us in the comments !

15/03/2021

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01/03/2021

Join us for a chat on the last day of Black History Month!

We take a journey with Soléil McCants as she shares her her personal journey . As apiring author an activist shares her voice and provides commentary about the issues facing Black Trans People. In this clip she challenges the Black Lives Matter movement be very intentional about including the voices and struggles of black q***r and trans people – because those are the struggles of black people too.

01/03/2021

Join Spencer Tyler and Molly Moldván on the last day of Black History Month!

We take a journey with Soléil McCants as she shares her her personal journey . As apiring author an activist shares her voice and provides commentary about the issues facing Black Trans People. She challenges the Black Lives Matter movement be very intentional about including the voices and struggles of black q***r and trans people – because those are the struggles of black people too.

24/02/2021

Self Care and Wellness within the Jehovah's Witnesses (is not encouraged . It is can often be seen as being self centered or selfish .

Self-care and focusing on wellness isn’t selfish or self-indulgent and it is necessary after leaving a high control group.

Listen in our chat and join us on the stream or in the comments about your experiences and recommendations

23/02/2021

Thank you for the Bday Wishes XJayDubbers !
Amy Maria joins the stream and we talk about ...everything exjw!

Join the stream

https://streamyard.com/xqvur3x5rv

21/02/2021

Join us as we talk about black history month .

We talk about our experiences with race as Jehovah's Witnesses VS. as Former Jehovah's Witnesses.

We talk about the history of the Jehovah's Witnesses on race relations and the backlash from some in the EX Jehovah's Witness community .

18/02/2021

Hello Fellow XJayDubbers!☕

Its me. Spencer Tyler :)

It takes incredible amount of strength to leave the Jehovah’s Witness religion . Especially if you were born into in because you have no friends or connections on the outside world.
It is the strict policy of the organization that we are ostracized by friends and relatives remaining within the organization. Others who haven’t resigned or been kicked out have been harassed by the leaders.

Adjustment to the outside world is difficult. Many of us suffer from PTSD, and finding employment outside the religion, when you might have no formal qualifications or experience makes you extremely vulnerable.

In spite of all this many of us have gone on to write books, launched awesome YouTube channels , poured ourselves into activism to help other Jehovah’s witnesses and former Jehovah’s witnesses, found adequate employment, made new friends , enrolled in college, started families and so much more! We are doing things that weren’t possible before and reshaping our futures and the futures of our children and impacting future generations 🌻

If you are leaving or have recently left I have found a few tips that are helping me cope.

☕Don’t suppress your sadness or your memories. It helps to talk about the past with trusted friends or even channel your grief and memories into other things. For me, I write and read alot of books .

☕ I wish someone would have told me this next one but – but try not to “rebound” towards a new belief system right away to fill the gap. It is ok to give yourself time to re-evaluate your wants and needs. You are now open to thinking new thoughts and doing new things. It is very liberating! 🌻

☕Share your feelings with who will understand your disillusionment and doubts and not impose their own beliefs on you. There are many Ex-Jehovahs Witness recovery groups on Facebook where you can share your experiences, vent , and sort through your feelings.

☕ There are many books by former Jehovah’s witnesses that are therapeutic . Also, if you have access consider therapy after leaving.

For those of us who have left what are some things that have helped you in your journey?

https://thexjaydubcafe.com/2019/08/07/the-xjaydub-afterlife/

Hello Fellow XJayDubbers!☕ It takes incredible amount of strength to leave the Jehovah’s Witness religion . Especially if you were born into in because you have no friends or connections on t…

18/02/2021

Hungarian Jehovah's Witnesses didn't have shasta or cheese danishes at the convention???

17/02/2021

Don't miss us!

We recap our experience from the panel interview with Raz B. We give updates on our plans to ask the Jehovah's Witnesses for an investigation . We share stories of survivors and tell you how you can join the cause!

( Hosted by The XJayDub Cafe)

Raz B's petition : https://www.change.org/p/netflix-cancel-marques-houston-and-chris-stokes
Raz B's Go fund me : https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-razb

Episode with Interview with Raz B : https://youtu.be/Evdjbpf45Hw

Join us live in the comments on Facebook, Periscope, Twitter and YouTube.

Saturday March 6, 2021 3pm Eastern Standard Time

16/02/2021

Hello!

We are doing a follow up episode to our Raz B interview concerning Child S*x abuse and the Jehovah's Witnesses in 2 weeks. If you have a personal story that you are willing to share with our platform ,please reach out to us on this post or by private message.

Thank you in advance for trusting our platform to share your story 💚

15/02/2021

13/02/2021

We talk Trumps Impeachment , Justin's apology to Britney and Janet and much more!

Main Topic :
Gatekeeping Atheism

Atheism is not like religion. There is no gatekeeper. We are sometimes asked to defend the beliefs of other atheists .We don’t have to defend them nor will we start.

Join us and we will tell you why and sound off in the comments!

12/02/2021

Hoping and waiting on our lives to change or for things to change in the future is very much apart of the Jehovah’s Witness culture. How many times where we told to wait on “Jehovah” or the organization to see changes in our lives or in our religion? Probably too many times to count. This was the company line when we saw the failures of our leaders, failures in our friendships within the religion , failures in our ability to reach the goals set before us in the religion . I can’t tell you how many times I heard this from well meaning elders when I was nervous of falling short of my hours in the pioneer work or when I was waiting on some change in the organization. Or when I was waiting for the abuse to stop within my family.

When I “woke up” I started to hear this line from family and friends when I challenged the doctrines or practices of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Once someone said that line I knew that it was meant to be a conversation ender . We all know that in the Jehovah’s Witness culture this line, ” Wait on Jehovah “, is used to get out of uncomfortable questions about the organization and meant for the person asking questions to just fall in line.

I heard this all my life as a “Born In” Jehovah’s witness. I was waiting on “Jehovah” to right the injustices I saw in my family, waiting for Jehovah to give me the right job to pursue full time ministry as set forth by the organization . I was waiting on Jehovah to clear up my questions regarding the 1914 and overlapping generation doctrine. But something started to change after researching the efforts of the Jehovah’s witnesses who came before me who had sent countless letters to the headquarters challenging the doctrines and rules of the organization. I started to wonder if I was waiting on a God of the Jehovah’s witness making. (Ironically some of the letters sent back to concerned Jehovah’s witnesses included the line , “Wait on Jehovah”.)

But I still waited on “Jehovah”.

Then one day looking around the kingdom hall I had something like an epiphany. Looking at all the elderly people in my congregation I realized that many of them have been waiting on the promises of the leaders all their lives. So many Jehovah’s Witnesses died without seeing the promises of the leaders or their ever changing expectations of the future. Then it finally dawned on me that I wasn’t waiting on “Jehovah” . I was waiting on a board of faillable men . I begin to recognize that the God of the Jehovah’s Witnesses wasn’t coming to save me or right the “wrongs” within the Jehovah’s Witness religion. There was no future paradise earth filled with Jehovah’s witnesses and pandas in the park as promised by the leaders. There was no “Jehovah’ asking me to fall in line with these leaders or else be burned with fireballs at armageddon.

So I stopped waiting on Jehovah. I started waiting on me. I started investing for the first time in my emotional well being and my thoughts. I began a journey of learning about who I am and learning about the world around me.

It has taken me a while even after leaving the religion to realize that I have all the tools and resources in the earth to pave a way for myself and my family in THIS life. I am responsible for shaping my future and I have the ability to impact future generations , the generations of my children –now. It has been a rocky journey for many of us since leaving the religion and being disowned by family and friends. Knowing our worth, thinking for ourselves and being responsible our choices is the greatest gift that we have been given in this life. We don’t have to wait on “Jehovah ” and hope for things to change. We don’t need permission to think or to make choices from the eight men in New York.

Realizing that has been life changing for so many of us. Taking hold of that realization and moving on has been freeing and really the best thing that could have happened to us. When you think about the obstacles we have overcome to get to this point it is amazing and it is nothing short of a miracle really 🌻

https://thexjaydubcafe.com/2019/08/13/we-are-the-miracle-that-we-have-been-waiting-for/

☕☕☕ Hoping and waiting on our lives to change or for things to change in the future is very much apart of the Jehovah’s Witness culture. How many times where we told to wait on “Jehovah…

08/02/2021

Hey everyone,

What time would be the best for you to catch an hour long live chat about various topics and interviews each week?
Saturday 430 PM Eastern Standard Time

Saturday 530 PM Eastern Standard time

Friday 430 PM Eastern Standard Time

Friday 530 PM Eastern Standard time

Any other time that would be better?

Sound off in the comments so that we can create a good and inclusive experience.

Thank you for your support,

Spencer and Molly 😊

08/02/2021

We chat about the purpose of the new group and new page . We also talk about the Glass Table's Live's name change.

Spencer Tyler https://streamerlinks.com/GoodbyeJehovah
Molly Modivan https://streamerlinks.com/Molly_GlasstablePanel

08/02/2021

Facebook is always bringing up old stuff lol 😆

I guess I'll provide a rebuttal to myself from 2 years ago?

I think that it is a common feeling that a Christian or person of faith experiences in the hills and valleys of trying to serve God. Many have been through unimaginable hurts from the church including s*xual abuse so it is easy to transfer that hurt from the church into your life of worship. As both a Jehovah’s Witness and no- denominational Christian I know all to well the cover-ups by the leaders that often inflict even more harm on the victim. Then some of us are angry at God or the church for other reasons . Maybe you have been looked over and counted out by the members of your church when they were supposed to be there the most. Or in my case the reasons for why I was angry led me on a journey to question why I believed in the first place.

I haven’t been shy about my tumultuous upbringing as a child of two toxic Jehovah’s Witness parents . There was also the rough break up I had with the religion that has been one the most consequential decisions I have made thus far in my life for me and my family. My marriage though strong now has not always been that way and I suffered from many bad decisions that were made by me and my husband . But the one thing that had been a constant and inspiring to others along my journey as a “testimony” was my resilience and unshakable belief in God while practicing either the Jehovah’s Witness religion or versions of mainstream Christianity. I can remember being angry at God for not coming to see about me or my family. I could not reconcile my life with that of a God who actually cared. When Christians attempted to comfort me with the familiar proverbial wait on God trope that I had heard as a Jehovah’s Witness , I decided not to wait on God for the first time in my walk with Christianity. I decided to examine the reasons why both “Christians” of varying religious systems thought that waiting on God was the answer. I was often told that there was something that I wasn’t doing or that I needed to show God something or meet him halfway for him to show up.

However it was a never ending treadmill and when I lost my family over not believing in the doctrines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses I sank into a deep depression. I was angry at God for allowing me to go through some of the things that I had gone through , combine with the never ending cycle of blaming myself so that God maybe glorified in the situation but it did a number on my psychologically as I could not reconcile how I was eternally at fault while God did not share the blame for being a no show in the most heinous situations that an all powerful God could be willing to stop. Then I started to read the bible as a secular book rather than a devotional as I had done all of my life and the magic wore off. I begin to see what I perceived as flaws not only in the text but the humanness of the book for the first time struck me and I began to go on a journey of what I believed about inspiration and the book that contained the God I was chasing after . Once I began to logically reason that my morality didn’t line up with the God of the bible I stopped being angry. You see , if I had the power, the wisdom and ability to help my children I would . I would be willing to do anything to protect them and keep them from harm . I was waiting on a God of human making that will never show up despite the feel good tropes that people of faith tell each other. They tell each other these things to keep each other believing with the dissonance sets in when God does not show up and you are left trying to basically read the” tea leaves” of the bible and guess at what God wants you to do in that moment.

So yes , I started out angry at God . I suppose if I still did believe in God I would be angry and would choose not to serve the God of the bible or the God fashioned in the image of human desire. That God abandoned me , that God sees atrocities everyday and has turned a blind eye to them for thousands of years. That God wants worship above all of our interests and needs and exacts never ending sacrifice . But now it wouldn’t make sense to say that I am angry at a being that I no longer think exists nor would be accurate.

08/02/2021

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