11 Ways Jehovah's Witnesses Use Manipulation

At the request of my patrons, I explore 11 techniques brazenly deployed by Jehovah's Witness leaders to control and manipulate as demonstrated in their own video propaganda material.

Timestamps:
1) Feigning personal interest 0:42
2) Preying on insecurity & emotional instability 6:58
3) Withholding information 13:40
4) Infantilization 25:22
5) Us vs them thinking; shutting down of criticism 29:30
6) Your best is never good enough 33:26
7) Using appeals to emotion 37:27
8) Misrepresenting/misquoting experts 42:34
9) Recalibrating social dependency 57:27
10) Gaslighting 1:03:20
11) Threats of destruction 1:12:50

Resources:
Berkley Barb article on divorce quote-mined by Awake writers: https://voices.revealdigital.org/?a=d...
Articles on the Rama Singh misquote:
https://jwwatch.org/cedars-blog/jw-or...
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2...
Alan Feuerbacher document on misquotes in the Creation book:
http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/pa...

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