Rebuilding

Healing and Rebuilding After Leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 010 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 10 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host, Daniel Torridon. Leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses, healing, and then rebuilding a new life is not easy. It may be the hardest thing you

Game over

Game Over—How I Finally Walked Away from Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 009 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 9 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host, Daniel Torridon. In April 2021, despite no longer believing Jehovah’s Witnesses to be “the truth” I thought I might just be happier

End of the world

The End of the World—As I Knew It

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 008 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 8 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host Daniel Torridon. Just to recap on my story so far. I was born in 1969 to my parents who were Jehovah’s WItnesses.

Cognitive dissonance

10 Years of Cognitive Dissonance—My Last Stand as a Jehovah’s Witness

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 007 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 7 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host, Daniel Torridon. Last time I told you how in 2005 I ended up partaking of the memorial emblems as one of the “anointed”,

Beth Sarim

Rutherford’s Bones and the Generation That Would By No Means Pass Away—But Did

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 005 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 5 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host, Daniel Torridon. Last time we looked at Watch Tower’s most ridiculous prediction ever—Rutherford’s prophecy that the Old Testament characters such as Abraham, Moses

Seven Thunders

The Return of the “Faithful Worthies”

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 004 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 4 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host Daniel Torridon. Last time we looked at Russell’s chronology and his big prediction, presented as “God’s date”, for Armageddon to occur in 1914. It

Charles Taze Russel Watch Tower

Dates, Dates, and More Dates—Was Russell a False Prophet?

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 003 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 3 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host Daniel Torridon and this time I try to get to grips with Russell’s failed predictions and answer the question “Was Charles Taze Russell

Buzz words

What Watchtower Wrote—Buzz Words

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ITEM T3 OF THE BITE MODEL observes that cults and high control groups tend to use loaded language and clichés to constrict knowledge, stop critical thinking, and reduce complexities into platitudinous buzz words. Here are some words that Jehovah’s Witnesses

Pac-Man

What Watchtower Wrote—Recreation & Vacations

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“Well, consider the kind of games that are played. Some are based on sports, but most are not. ‘The ultimate object of virtually all video games,’ says the magazine Natural History, ‘is survival. In the space games you must shoot

Dependency

What Watchtower Wrote—Organisational Dependency

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“Beware of ‘organisation’. It is wholly unnecessary.” — Watchtower September 15, 1895 p.1866 “If he… goes to the Bible alone… within two years he goes into darkness. On the other hand… if he had merely read the [Watch Tower publications]…

Thought control

What Watchtower Wrote—Thought Control & Obedience

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Q. Unity at all costs? A. Unity at all costs… Q. And unity based on an enforced acceptance of false prophecy? A. That is conceded to be true. Q. And [the disfellowshipped person…] would be worthy of death? A. I

Brainwashing

What Watchtower Wrote—Cults & Brainwashing

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“[They] seek to fill our minds with the thoughts and promises of men… [they] brainwash everyone into conformity… rinsing from the mind any thoughts that contradict their message. If they can deluge the mind continually other thoughts… will be crowded