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Renee Cordeschi: A Jehovah's Witness Survivor

My personal story of growing up in, and then escaping the Jehovah's Witness religion

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Renee Cordeschi- JW Survivor

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I am not sure how I missed it, but three months ago this happened.... (Credit to JM Wynne in Twitter for info). #exjw #jworg #jwlife #xjw #judge #angusstewart #angus #stewart #angusstewartqc #qc #australia #arc #royalcommission #australianroyalcommission

After leaving my Father, Mum was now free to be a Jehovah’s Witness, as she pleased, without restrictions. After setting us up in our home in Dudley Avenue, in a northern suburb of Adelaide, Mum really threw herself into the lifestyle. She was convinced Jehovah had delivered her back to this wonderful country, with a house ready for her, and now she would pay him back by dedicating all her life to serving him. She began by becoming a pioneer, devoting sixty hours a month to Witnessing, in as many months as she could manage. She devoted her time to find people she could talk to about Jehovah and start Bible studies with them. “We are the only ones serving the only true God, Jehovah,” she would tell me. “You think about it. Who else uses the name Jehovah? “ Her eyes would would get a special glow when she told us about serving Jehovah with all her heart. Mum really treasured the Society and all the books and magazines they provided. She called it “Our Spiritual Food.” As soon as she could, she again invested in all the past articles of the Watchtower and Awake!. This worked out well, because this time they would be in English. She couldn’t afford to buy the whole set at once. I remember she used to go to the book counter at the back of the hall after several meetings, and order just one year at a time. When it arrived, it was a whole year’s set of Watchtowers and Awake! Magazines bound in one complete brown volume, hard copy, with gold gilded writing of the year on the spine, and complete with an index on every topic that was covered. You could research any question you wanted. I remember her excitement as her library grew and grew each purchase. It felt that Jehovah’s blessings and wisdom was gradually staking more and more presence in our house. Apart from the magazines, we also purchased the books we would study in the meetings on Tuesday and Thursday nights. “And by buying the books we are supporting the Kingdom work,” Mum would be proud of the support she was giving the Society, even her, of “little means.” #exjw #xjw #exjehovahswitnesses

It just doesn’t seem to add up.🧐 I want you to think what natural disasters there were in 2018 that could have caused so much cost. In 2010: was Haiti with 200,000+ dead. In 2014: was the typhoons in Philippines with 4,000,000 affected. In 2018: Indonesian tsunami killed 430 people. Not much happened in 2018 with respects to disasters (not like the other years). Yet why is this brother saying there is $33 million in disasters that need covering with no explanation why? YouTube link in bio. (Credit to John Cedars channel for part of video.) #exjw #jworg #jw #xjw

Shelly Braieoux who testified in the Australian Royal Commission under the anonymous pseudonym ‘BCG’ has been formally admitted as a lawyer. After surviving years of sexual abuse by her Jehovah’s Witness Ministerial Servant and father, and after being silenced by Elders in the congregation in order not to “Bring reproach on Jehovah’s name” Shelly has become part of justice system. She also works within the police prosecutions office. Ms Braieoux was awarded a high distinction for her thesis, which drew on the different practices within the Jehovah's Witnesses church and how it applied to the law. Mr Swanwick said she was "very bright, very intelligent, and very, very determined". "Life has come full circle. From assisting her as a victim, I'm now facilitating her entry into a career in law," he said. Watch her on the Australian ABC news here. #exjw #xjw #jw #jworg #jwlife #arc #csa #cults #cult #lloydevans #johncedars #escapejw #exjehovahswitness #exjehovahswitnesses #jehovahswitnesses #jehovahwitness #jehovah

With phones everywhere, it was bound to happen. Head over to John Cedars channel for footage. #exjw #jw #jworg #jwlife #exjehovahswitness #exjehovahswitnesses #tonymorris #governingbody #cults #xjw #bestlifeever #alcoholic

Jehovah’s Witnesses keep excellent records. Along with child sexual abuse records, there would be an extensive list of names of people who died as a result of refusing a blood transfusion. Estimates say as high as 1200 a year. Since the first known celebrated martyr, Samuel Muscariello, in 1947, this ignorant policy has caused over 30,000 deaths (based on conservative estimates). [“Under pressure, I went to his bedside and said, ‘Sam, they want to give you blood,’” his brother Blosco is quoted in a Watchtower account of the incident. “Half drugged, half conscious, he tried to get out of bed [to avoid receiving blood, which never was administered to him] . . . our family, though saddened, was strengthened by Sam’s clear thinking and integrity to Jehovah even until death.” By 1949 and the death of Samuel Muscariello, the pattern was set. Jehovah’s Witnesses who refused blood transfusions were not only glorifying God, they were held up by the Watchtower as martyrs to a beatific cause.”] These records need to be ceased. #exjw #ajwrb #cults #deathcults #jamestown #jw #jworg #jwlife #bestlifeever #escapejw #xjw #jehovah #jehovahswitness #jehovahswitnesses #exjehovahswitness #mormon #exmormon #highcontrolgroup #highcontrolgroups

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