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| Acknowledgments | p. 11 |
| Author's Preface: Alien Landscapes, Secret Societies | p. 13 |
| We Are Not Everyday People: Hatred of the "Satanic" World | p. 23 |
| Strict Obedience to Jehovah: Avoiding "Evil Spirits" and Everybody Else | p. 32 |
| Conversion and the Destructive Transformation of Personality Dismantling | p. 43 |
| Satan, Satan Everywhere: A Devil of a Story | p. 49 |
| A One of a Kind Religion: Beliefs Designed to Make JWs Feel Special | p. 58 |
| You and Me Against the World | p. 64 |
| Through Thick and Thin: Lemmings United | p. 71 |
| Duplicity and Double-talk: The "Truth" Made Unclear | p. 80 |
| False Prophecies of the End and the Explusion of High Quality People | p. 90 |
| Where is the Love? | p. 100 |
| Escape from Freedom: God's Government and the Desperate Longing for the End of Civilization | p. 108 |
| The Elder Catastrophe: A Spiritual Hurricane | p. 121 |
| Clash with Reality: "Study" and the Subculture | p. 130 |
| Why Is Studying the Bible A Sin? | p. 138 |
| Dogmatism and Fluctuation: Walking a Perilous Tightrope | p. 143 |
| Misfits, Mediocrity, and Madmen: Inmates Running the Asylum | p. 150 |
| Mental Turmoils and Stroms: On the Imitation of Jehovah | p. 159 |
| Keeping the Mask On: Impressing Others at All Costs | p. 166 |
| The Conversion of the World or the Mass-Slaughter of Humanity: Between a Rock and A Hard Place | p. 177 |
| The "Kingdom of God" and the Old Men in Brooklyn | p. 184 |
| Under My Thumb: The Clergy of JW's | p. 190 |
| Can the System be Changed? | p. 199 |
| "Education" and "Unity," JW Style | p. 203 |
| A House Divided: Dissidents and Dissonance | p. 209 |
| "We Know Their Secrets": The "Threat" of Ex-Members | p. 218 |
| "Up In Smoke: Denial of the Pursuit of Liberty" | p. 223 |
| Epilogue | |
| Thanks A Lot: How JW's Have Enriched My Life | p. 231 |
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