Mormon Stories #1085: What It's Like to be a Jehovah's Witness - Lloyd Evans

Continuing our interview with Lloyd Evans, we focus this portion of the interview on Lloyd’s experience living as a Jehovah’s Witness—drawing occasional parallels between those living life as Mormons and those who are Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Lloyd is the founder and senior editor of JWsurvey.org—a website that promotes freeness of thought among Jehovah’s Witnesses. He is also author of “The Reluctant Apostate,” a book that chronicles his experiences growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness and his journey to freedom from Watchtower indoctrination. His wildly popular Youtube channel “John Cedars” hosts a range of videos aimed at dissecting the various teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as well as new developments in the religion.

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Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction, contemporary JW life
03:52 Main events for a JW, organization, publishers, elders, etc.
15:14 Finances, congregations, circuits. Annual meeting.
20:00 Events in the life of a child. Baptism. Ministerial servant. Pioneer.
24:07 Missionary work and evangelism by going door to door. Studying not the bible, but a book about the bible
27:25 Missionary work
28:50 Evangelism. Statistics: hours, placements.
40:00 Teachings in JW. Paradise Earth, Heaven. Parallels with LDS
46:15 Jehovah and Jesus in JW and LDS
56:30 Armageddon for non-JW's. Expectation of Armageddon
1:00:27 Steps getting to Armageddon, chronology after Armageddon. Parallels with LDS
1:20:07 JW's and LDS missionaries and members reacting to each other and views about each other
1:23:47 Teachings. Hypocrisy in JW leaders. Waht you do know and what you don't know while in. Racism in teachings
1:27:40 Persecution
1:29:06 Influence of internet on JW. Mechanisms to prevent JW becoming educated. No higher education
1:31:44 Life decisions such as marriage, having children. Professions and doctrine.
1:37:09 No higher education, and does JW leadership believe their own doctrine? Parallel with LDS
1:39:12 Celebs who are or were JW
1:45:02 Closing

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