2021-08-10

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Knowing Better

Jehovah's Witnesses are often disregarded as a doomsday cult on the extreme fringe, but their beliefs are actually more mainstream than we'd like to think.

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-Books-

Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses, Third Edition (2015) by M. James Penton

https://amzn.to/3wokPs6

'Knock Knock' Who's There?: 'The Truth' About Jehovah's Witnesses (2016) by Anthony James

https://amzn.to/3hj4q43

Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life (2019) by Amber Scorah

https://amzn.to/3AvX18S

How to Escape from Jehovah's Witnesses (2018) by Lloyd Evans

https://amzn.to/3hBX7Dh

-Podcasts-

Awake! and Unafraid: Support for JW's and ex JW's, and Aid Moving Forward (2020)

https://open.spotify.com/show/1sWduCb4jjP63O3mds79xk

-Documentaries-

Witnesses of Jehovah (1986) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791688/

Independent Lens (2007) S8E25 "Knocking" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1428223/

Cults and Extreme Belief (2018) S1E2 "Jehovah's Witnesses" - https://amzn.to/3yvChMX

The Witnesses (2020) - https://www.oxygen.com/the-witnesses/season-1/the-watchtower

Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath (2018) Season 3 Special "The Jehovah's Witnesses" - https://amzn.to/3xkQcFn

-Youtube Channels and Videos-

Lloyd Evans - https://www.youtube.com/c/LloydEvans

https://youtu.be/A51lFpNLmko

https://youtu.be/Yc3GaW8BvhA

https://youtu.be/NlAn1n0bZxw

https://youtu.be/3zA_UfHhQPw

https://youtu.be/GNRTXsdiIzc

https://youtu.be/HQurwG_gEAU

Telltale - https://www.youtube.com/c/TelltaleAtheist

https://youtu.be/tpMjgarN7VQ

https://youtu.be/XK13ZJOOAc4

https://youtu.be/uJjmIcm94GY

https://youtu.be/Hm2INWMyv7A

https://youtu.be/bASgP_SDU9g

https://youtu.be/m7T2fliH8go

https://youtu.be/Y0Bav86HSto

https://youtu.be/IuiKbn1m6sc

https://youtu.be/YSTmGN4ND2w

Ex-Jehovah's Witness Visits JW World Headquarters - https://youtu.be/3305c_CF6IM

How I Left the Jehovah’s Witnesses to Pursue Filmmaking - https://youtu.be/tpMjgarN7VQ

becoming fools | a visit from some JWs [cc] - https://youtu.be/EWeHB4qM1Hg

Why I Left Jehovah's Witnesses - Former Elder / Pioneer - https://youtu.be/r7tNNo8EzfQ

-Movies-

Apostasy (2018) - https://amzn.to/3ytn3YS

The Children Act (2018) - https://amzn.to/3hywn6K

La Ragazza del Mondo / Worldly Girl (2016) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5917958/

-Websites-

https://www.jwfacts.com/

https://www.anointedjw.org/ma-who-should-partake

http://jw-branchoffices.blogspot.com/p/jehovahs-witnesses-warwick-tuxedo.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/ct-ecn-ecc-holocaust-exhibit-st-1101-20191031-ohfstvka75gx3egv2b5bsg4wey-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-07-me-1060-story.html

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1N4j4e0Id2n-4iPW9adznwOiZGTY&ll=44.67416902869636%2C-88.25177424534392&z=4

https://web.archive.org/web/20160130062242/http://www.wheaton.edu/ISAE/Defining-Evangelicalism/How-Many-Are-There

https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php#L6

https://ad1914.com/2018/05/29/history-of-the-change-of-606-to-607-b-c-in-watchtower-chronology/

https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/celebrations.php

https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/generation.php#2010

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1970123#h=26

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101990083

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Photo and Video Credits

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Produced with the Assistance of Rozarah

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Researched with the assistance of JessPSettle

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Intro/Outro and Background Music by Michael Cotten/Nomad

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