Asking For a Friend

About Asking For a Friend

A show for people within high control groups who have genuine questions about the tenets they are being asked to accept on faith. This is a safe forum to respectfully investigate people's questions about the group they are in.

Publisher

Louise Harper, Adam Czarnobaj

Category

education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Nov 2024

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   S02 E13 The Ten Year Plan

   Does the Watchtower Society have a PR designed 10 year plan? Rumbling leaks indicate that many of the recent changes are part of a bigger strategy to prevent organisational collapse. Louise, Adam and Steph discuss each point of the rumoured Ten Year Plan and how this might save the organisation from haemorrhaging members and money.

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   S02 E12 Blood Doctrine Reversal

   Adam, Steph and Louise talk to Simon Endeacott who has done some research on the shocking reversal of the strict prohibition on Jehovah's Witnesses taking a blood transfusion. While JWs still claim to refuse 'whole blood' we discuss what this actually means and you may be surprised to learn that there are hardly ever any times when whole blood is given, and that this claim is essentially a smoke screen for the fact that what are accepted as blood transfusions are in fact a transfusion of one of the fractions now permitted.

3. 

   20 Sept 2026

   S02 E11 The Semantics of Shame

   Steph, Adam, Jessie May and Louise discuss how loaded language is used to shame and guilt adherents. Words and concepts shape thoughts and actions in a way that trap people subtly but powerfully. We discuss some of the language used to control people.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

3.0 / 5

2 ratings

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