My Sister - Childhood, Cult-Survival & Writing

[@IsaBella-p6s2b]

I am currently reading your book and it is so amazing to see you both in this conversation. I am not a native english speaker so it takes me some time to read the book, but I enjoy every single page so much. You have a wonderful style to tell and write.

[@johnmcnairn6822]

What an excellent conversation.....many thanks for sharing 🙂

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Thank you so much!

[@eriksmith6097]

Hi Ariel. I've enjoyed your work for years and I wanted to say thank you. I bought your book and devoured it in one sitting (I love it when a book grabs me that hard). It was nice to see your sister and I've bought one of her books as well.

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Oh thank you so much, I really appreciate that and am very happy you liked my book!

[@tcpip9999]

Just a quick note to say thank you!...I was a supporter so have an epub.. the book is great - it's funny and direct and obviously from a natural writer ... and very nice to meet Immie who is so central to the first chapters. I hope you get some interesting reviews in the mainstream press .

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Oh thank you so much and I'm delighted that you're enjoying my book. Am REALLY hoping for reviews, cos it sounds like most authors don't manage to get them and that they're terribly valuable x

[@knightinus]

Now another reason to look forward to your book coming out. Great chat with insights to real people growing up as adults.

[@latexrope1358]

This is a really interesting interview. So glad you have each other! It's also quite amazing how similar your voices are!

[@tom_1991]

Ahhhhhh it was such delight and a treat to watch and listen to you talk about your shared upbringings, experiences but also your different perspectives on all of those things! I found all of it really interesting, particularly what you said about not wanting people to feel sorry for you about the things you didn't have in your upbringing (like TV and popular music), but rather you choose to look at the positives in such things and how your lack of access to the entertainment of the time drove you and Immi to engage and develop your creativity, both to tremendously successful degrees which have stood you both in good stead in your adult and professional lives. I find it really endearing and heart-warming how, even now, there are things that perhaps most people would take for granted - such as wearing clothes that show your knees and wearing whatever clothes you like - which you both absolutely do not take for granted at all, so much so that you would both do everything in your power to ensure that your (hypothetical) children and Immi's (real) children could wear whatever they wanted to and could fit in, and would not be subjected to the same othering upbringing that you both endured. The bond that you two have and support for one another you provide is so wonderful, and it's testament to both your characters and persons that you not only survived the JW, but that you came out of it as the two caring, intelligent and wonderful people that you are. I cannot wait to read the book and learn more about your upbringings. Immi was an outstanding interviewee, I loved her and very much hope she'll make more appearances here in the future!

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Thank you so much for your kind words lovely Tom! I hope you'll get to meet her IRL in the future! xx

[@tom_1991]

I hope I get to meet her too! Xx

[@sterling19]

Ahh, lovely papillon! 🦋

[@mikeembe1261]

What a nice chat, thanks .. ;-) .. mb

[@TheGreatApostate]

Was raised a JW too, god knows how you were recommended to me. Very interesting listen and as another writer "The Great Apostate" I hope your book sells well.

[@j.g.p.jr.6497]

Ariel, you and your sister look good! ❤️❤️❤️

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

THank you!

[@interqward1]

LOLOL, that's so cool - 'look, CS Lewis!' ...After all. Hahahahahaha. Fell off my chair. This is the British inner soul speaking in its typical 'spiritual' voice.

[@SimonPollardHypnotherapy]

Excellent video

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Thank you so much!

[@madvorakCZ]

I love the comparison of semicolon with em dash.

[@bennyboogenheimer4553]

It's just past 9 pm on a Friday night here on the east coast, and what a perfect way to end my week. What a wonderfull sister you have, to have emulated. I love how freedom from the JW's, meant she could see her own knees in public, and still does as much as possible. I loled when she mentioned Dorothy Perkins, as I had a gf in the 80's who's Grandmother lived in England, and bought her DP "ladies wear". It is always so sweet to see sisters who survived a cult, with a shared the pain, can now laugh about things looking back. Some day you have to tell us why you chewed your dolls foot off? lol! Thank you both, for this evening's smile on my face. You're both wonderfull women. See you soon, I'm sure on Twitter. XOXO Yours, Walt

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Thank you so much for your kind and detailed reply. The chewed-off foot story is in my book 😂

[@notredamedeimmaculeeecoule6565]

i'm only 7 minutes in and if I hear either of these two women use the name "Paul Tillich" i'm gonna break my computer in half. i might even tear my beard. i mean in.

[@andrea22213]

Hmm, interesting and lovely to see the loving relationship you have together. But it leads me to wonder how much guilt your parents now carry. Which would obviously not be your responsibility.

[@notredamedeimmaculeeecoule6565]

imo, there's not a more powerful right-foot on youtube right now than the Lady Andersens.

[@shirasenderling4272]

"PromoSM"

[@karlkey1541]

Why do you employ affectation? It vanishes when conversing with your sister. On other occasions, it resembles an audition for a Renaissance play.

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Cos I'm a literal Shakespearean actress. It's my brand 🤣

[@Westhamsterdam]

What does the JW, make of Freemasons? They come to my house sometimes, they state do you want to talk about religion, I say OK then I ask them about Freemasonry, the Jesuits. They don´t appear to want to chat. Being a self confessed actress, Ariel are you a Freemason? Do you need to go to a certain drama school if you wish to participate in a porno film?

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

Hi, I'm sorry to say that while you don't have to go to drama school in order to succeed in porn, it's certainly a challenging field and most people who try it don't succeed, but best of luck in any case. Many people are surprised to discover that interpersonal skills are actually very important to success in porn (or almost any area of entertainment). So working on being likeable is always useful.

[@TheGreatSteve]

I'm surprised you can escape one religion just to be captured by another.

[@jkbrown5496]

Everyone has a religion of one sort or the other, even if it is not a "textbook" one. "Whenever a man knows enough to distinguish the outside world from himself, and tries to act in accordance with this knowledge, he begins to be religious. "The first element, therefore, in religion is the recognition of the existence of a power not ourselves pervading the universe. And another is the endeavor to put ourselves in harmonious relation with this power. Of course the feeling or affective element is presupposed as coming in between the other two. For without it the endeavor would lack a motive, and could therefore have no existence whatsoever. Every sane man believes, at least, that he is only a fraction of the sum-total of things. He also feels some dependence upon this sum-total, and he is obliged to put himself in some sort of accord with it. This is what [Edward] Caird has condensed into the statement, "A man's religion is the expression of his ultimate attitude to the universe" ("Evolution of Religion," Vol. I, p.30)."

[@ArielsTwilightYears]

I think it's more a question of escaping one religion and *choosing* another. Personally, my experience in the JWs made me want to be an atheist but clearly that's not a path that everyone would want to take. I've come to the conclusion that religion is of value to some people, and not to others. For me it is not of value, but I can respect people for whom it is. If I felt evangelical about atheism, I'd never really have escaped religious thinking at all.