Chances are if you’re reading this you are one of the 536,000 (and counting!) people who has already seen a remarkable video by a courageous schoolgirl named Brie.
Brie, a senior at Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, was given an assignment with the rest of her classmates to deliver a “persuasive speech.”
“[The teacher] pointed out that speeches are much more persuasive when you’re using something you value to drive your ideas,” Brie later wrote on the Friendly Atheist blog. “It made me think about what I value in life and what my class needed to know about.”
When Brie gave her emotional speech she made sure one of her friends filmed it for her. She told her classmates of her experience growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, including the negative impact of shunning on her family and the covering up of abuse she has witnessed among her friends.
The resulting video was uploaded less than a week ago, but it has already gone well-and-truly viral – even catching the attention of the UK’s respected Independent newspaper.
We can be thankful to Brie’s teacher, Mr Hansen, for handing Brie an assignment that has turned out to be truly educational, not just for her class, but for the whole world.
This brave 18-year-old girl has seized an opportunity to stand up to Watchtower, a sinister bully that exports misery on a global scale, and has utterly exposed and shamed it in front of over half a million people.
“It is a religion that preaches love and acceptance, but the reality is everything is conditional,” said Brie. “Love and acceptance is only extended as long as members practice absolute obedience and question nothing, ever. This religion destroys lives, destroys families and they do it largely unchecked… because they are really good at silencing the people who leave.”
Probably many ex-Witnesses like me will have felt a twinge of envy while watching these words spoken, simply because we too have been victimized by Watchtower and would have given anything to turn back the clock and take such a bold stand as teenagers.
But not many of us, myself included, were as courageous back then as Brie is now – and that is the crucial difference.
I cannot thank Brie enough for her inspirational words, and for taking such a powerful stand for her generation. Brie has done what any good activist does: she has taken the pain experienced by herself and others and turned it into something positive and productive by using it to raise awareness and thus spare others, not least her classmates, from what she has gone through.
The runaway success of Brie’s video highlights clearly that the Watchtower finds itself in a whole new ball game. The tables have well and truly turned.
Gone are the days when the Governing Body could withhold information from those tenacious and persistent enough to search for it. Gone are the days when they could stifle free thought, and keep young, intelligent people in silence and subjection.
The internet has changed everything. Now everybody has a voice if they will only summon the courage to use it. It is a privilege to see a brave young woman like Brie do just that, and find her voice with such stunning results.
Further reading…
All my life, we called our meetings the hall, and really it was our church. I never referred to the Hall as anything else but…for the outsiders I did say my Church was the
Hall. All the workers and acquaintainces acknowledged
That. It is funny in retrospect how they somehow as
Drunk or as wierd as some of them were, they respected
Our lives, and called us do-rites. If They only knew the
Inner doubts and conlict that was there . If I helped any
One that is a coup. I on the other hand fell straight down
On my face. Always being the martyr. I Am tired. Do
Respect this little tiger for growling at the men we all feared and in so many ways. Bless you all…
Even though the Society wanted us all to think that the word church was a bad word, this is the mean from the Webster’s dictionary for church:
Church as a noun: l: a building for public and esp. Christian worship 2: the clergy or officialdom of a religious body 3: a body or organization of religious believers: as a: the whole body of Christians b: Denomination c: Congregation 4: a public divine worship 5: the clerical profession
Church as an adjective: 1: of or relating to a church 2: of or relating to the established church
The use of “Church” was never used when I was in the Org. However that seems to have changed now. I was called upon recently by a pioneer sister who did not know who I was – she used “Church” several times during her presentation to me, and I am aware that this terminology to describe the KH has been said to others who have been witnessed to.
The Watchtower always used to use the word ‘religion’ in a bad sense but now seems to have softened its stance, or, at least, sees itself as the only true religion.
When my daughter was to be married at the K hall. She
managed to get it announced on national radio, and the
DJ pronounced the venue as the “Ringdom ” Hall.
Which I thought had a nice ring to it, and appropriate for
a wedding.
It crossed my mind at the time, how little was known about
JWs. The WT, articles were proclaiming how the worlds
attention was focussed on us. How we were a thorn in their
flesh and the governments of the world would be angry and
try to annihilate us.
It’s all so silly , how could I ever have believed it? However
even though they are insignificant, compared to their own
estimation, and the world doesn’t give a toss about them.
They are a life destroying cult, many times in a literal way.
So it’s good that more facts are being made known about
them, on sites like this and on You Tube. Brie’s video is a
great contribution to this end.
Hello,
You can get the spanish subtitles for this video in this path:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59436690/Sp-subtitles.rar
El Kato
Great going Bree. It is because of people like you and Cedars we get the hope that our loved ones can be pulled out of this rabid cult. My cousin is trapped in this cult for the past 7 years. Considering this cult is a minuscule percent of my country’s population (India , 35K out of 1 billion) , this site has been immensely helpful in understanding JW’s for someone who is not from Christian background. Hope my cousin learns the truth about the Truth soon.
@Silent Admirer . Nice comment & VALID point about only 35,000 JWs in India with population of 1 Billion . NEVER in a Billion years will those 35,000 give a Witness to everyone SO Jehovah will have to READ HEARTS of over 2 and Half Billion people come Armageddon . So WHY Doesnt Jehovah Bring ARMAGEDDON today & read everyone’s Heart, because IT Would SAVE a LOT OF HEARTBREAK & SUFFERING to All those who are MILLIONS DYING of MALNUTRITION ,WATER BORN DISEASES ,MALARIA,HEART DISEASE ,CANCERS,STROKES,WARS,EARTHQUAKES,TSUNAMIS,ETC !!!
SO WHY DOES JEHOVAH PERPETUATE SUFFERING as HE is GOING TO HAVE to READ HEARTS Anyway ????? SO WHY NOT READ THEM TODAY !! The LAST DAYS Have GONE on LONG ENOUGH !!! UNLESS the 607 bce to 1914 Ce interpretation is WRONG??? We ALL KNOW HUMAN GOVERNMENTS CANT RULE PROPERLY !!!
PERISH the THOUGHT …, COULD the 7 GB in Brooklyn be WRONG???!
If “jehovah” read hearts now, the Watchtower would lose future literature sales.
Cedar,
If you want to add the spanish subtitles you can download the file in:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59436690/Sp-subtitles.rar
El Kato
Just a while ago I heard a clip from a Fritz Springmier
Who did extensive research on the beginnings of the Society. It was mentioned by him that the Rothchilds
Funded Charles and as for the name Kingdom Hall, the
Hall part was from the Freemasons. It is just a thought
That sort of pulls the bloodlines together little by little.
Don’t quote me. I am just the messenger. A very tired one.Ha.
Kingdom hell, hole, whole, hall, church or whatever, don’t worry abt them. I understand some are getting sold. Now that is what I call the good news of the kingdom. Then maybe be we could sale off the Jehovah witness brand. Maybe Tony should fire the rest of the F&DS doesn’t the Bible refer to a single slave? or were they 7? Didn’t the 7 fire the “remnant”? Well, I mean we don’t believe in the Trinity, why believe in a “sevenity”? It is all abt to come to an end.
I think watchtower needs more people like this standing up to them.
Brave girl. Shame I cant help but feel sorry for her. I wonder what happened after the video went viral
WOW! She brought tears to my eyes because I know exactly how she feels… I wish I too had the courage and used my critical thinking to come to the same course of action earlier in life. I too am envious of this… So proud of her!
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