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Western society is inundated with political, religious, and commercial entities vying for control of our thoughts. We know we are being manipulated. But do we know the extent? Faithful Slave offers an entertaining ride with a mix of memoir, self-help, and thesis elements. It not only tells a story but provides a mechanism for empowerment. Personal experiences are blended with meticulous research while focusing on belief systems. We learn how those systems are developed and how they are strategically altered. Using Jehovah's Witnesses as a paradigm for authoritarian organizations we quickly learn the value in that model. It is the smallest religion in your community, yet it is in every community. They out-perform Scientology in efforts to appear most wholesome. They out-preach Mormons in door-to-door ministries. They out-publish Times, Forbes, and Reader's Digest with their magazines. They are just like every other religion. Only more so. The religion embodies and often amplifies the rough edges of Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions. By shining a light on those rough edges, we're furthermore offered insight into draconian government and powerful, oppressive corporations - a window to the minds of both slaves and their masters. Conspiracy-pushers, partisan politicians, spurious cults, and abusive partners seem to develop extraordinary skills for enticement and coercion. How can we help our otherwise intelligent friends recognize the hooks which draw them in? To assist in such an endeavor, this book compiles reams of academic data, sorts through the most relevant and helpful, and polishes the collection with emotional narration only a once-heartfelt-believer could deliver. You will also find fresh and fascinating theories on the origins of the Bible. Religious dissidents face a difficult path. Being labelled disloyal and deserving of death combines with numerous biblical concepts to create self-loathing and self-destructive internal programming. This book effectively disarms that programming. It illuminates the source of persistent thoughts of disapproval, and allows the reader an opportunity to see them for what they are.

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"""A Project Manager by trade, a fire fighter when younger, a minister when i was eager, and an apostate when I learned to value truth.""Daniel was born and raised in the small town of Clearwater in British Columbia's mountainous interior. Always interested in building start-up companies, he was managing his own contracting business shortly after high school. At odds with his career and social life, the religion he inherited captured his heart and his beliefs. Daniel was raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses and as such he took to studying the Bible rather obsessively. He found his passion deliver public talks on the biblical subjects. Daniel was ordained as a minister in his early 20s as many active JWs are. Though he struggled with the rigid structure and found himself on the outside looking in on several occasions, he spent most his life faithfully adhering to JW doctrine. He accepted an appointment to an extremely rare and distinguished religious class known in the JW organization as The Anointed. Having his knowledge limited by JW brass and prevented from implementing his abilities, he began to research outside the confines of Jehovah's Witness tenets. A trespass that allowed him to awaken to many deceptions which propped up his belief structure. He renounced the Watchtower publishing company's governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses, thereby disassociating himself from the religion in 2016.Always reading. Always writing. Always obsessing over his interests in attempts to understand their whole, Daniel made it a mission to understand the magnitude of his own dogmatic misalignment and what would help others avoid the same fate. Or at least find an easier path out.His entrepreneurial spirit has kept his researching and writing skills sharp. He has written manuals and reports as a consultant and numerous articles about beliefs. He found success by asking why? The method which doomed his religious prospects is the very same which gives him the gift of accurate story telling. Daniel gained notoriety in 2021 after writing an article critical of the local government's handling of wildfires -- a subject within his expertise when he was a contractor. The article was viewed over 500k times."

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