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Advice From a “Dead” Father—Jehovah’s Witnesses and Shunning

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MY 16-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IS A JEHOVAH’S WITNESS. I’ve not seen her since my marriage to her mother broke up when she was thirteen. After I was forced to leave the family home and subsequently disfellowshipped by Jehovah’s Witnesses, my daughter

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“The Change to a Pure Language”—A Letter to the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses

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THE FOLLOWING IS A LETTER I SENT TO THE GOVERNING BODY IN 2005. This time I was suggesting that “the change to a pure language” in Zephaniah 3:9 had not occurred and that it was a future event, post-Armageddon. Less

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“The First Resurrection”—A Letter to the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses

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IN JUNE 2005, I WROTE A LETTER TO THE GOVERNING BODY OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES. At the time, I viewed myself as an “anointed” Christian and, according to the official teaching of the Watch Tower, I believed I was one of

Shunning

How Trauma Causes Reclusiveness

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FOR ANYONE FOLLOWING MY STORY, you’ll know that my JW daughters are now living with their maternal grandparents, also Jehovah’s Witnesses, and I’ve had absolutely no say in the matter. When I was disfellowshipped in 2019, my wife forced me

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The Mandela Effect and the Queen’s Death

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THE MANDELA EFFECT refers to a situation in which large masses of people believe an event occurred when it simply didn’t. This is a really weird one! The term “Mandela Effect” was first coined in 2009 by a paranormal researcher

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If You Love Them Let Them Go

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IF YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING MY PODCAST, you will know that I was disfellowshipped from Jehovah’s Witnesses back in 2019 when I left my abusive marriage. It’s a long story, but my JW wife was pissed with me for leaving her

Who do I think I am?

Who Do I Think I Am?

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 069 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 69 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host, Daniel Torridon and today I’m going to be answering the question everyone’s been asking—well, at least everyone I used to know as

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Declared Righteous “for Life”—Is it New Light?

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 067 HELLO AND WELCOME TO EPISODE 67 OF ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host, Daniel Torridon. Okay, so there has been some excitement in the ex-JW Twitter community today regarding what one of the speakers at

Thinking

How to Stop Thinking Like a Jehovah’s Witness — Part 2

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 065 HELLO AND WELCOME TO ONIONUNLIMITED—THE PODCAST. I’m your host, Daniel Torridon. In the first part of this podcast, we looked at two types of thinking in detail, conscious and subconscious thinking. To recap: 1. Conscious

Why I Can't Be a Jehovah's Witness

Why I Can’t Be a Jehovah’s Witness

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AM I WRONG? Am I so far gone I can no longer see? Has Satan blinded me? (2 Corinthians 4:4) What if Jehovah’s Witnesses really are “the truth”? What if by rejecting Jehovah’s Witnesses I have rejected a very real

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Source and the Human Experience

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AS A JEHOVAH’S WITNESS, I used to believe in a fairly standard version of “God”, at least to begin with. God was a “he”, the “ancient of days”, an old guy with a white beard sitting on a throne, a

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Why Jehovah’s Witnesses are not “The Truth”

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Transcript of OnionUnlimited podcast episode 054 THE FOUNDATION OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES’ claim to being the only true religion on Earth is their teaching that 1914 was a special year in Bible prophecy. 1914 is the bedrock upon which their entire