I grew up a JW. All my early years were filled with stories about famous JWs. They had some or all of the following attributes:
super strong
intelligent
funny
wise
Sound familiar?
Stories about famous JWs
by cultswatter 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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The world famous "Big Eye" paintings had their beginning in San Francisco over 50 years ago, by the artist Margaret Keane. In time they also became known and referred to as "Waifs," "Keane," "Sad Eyes," and many other titles, all depicting the unique styles of this very creative woman. You may be surprised to hear the artist is a woman. You see, for many years she was married to a man who claimed credit for what she painted. To prove she was in fact the artist and not her former husband, she painted in court before a Federal Judge and jury, an original oil on canvas painting. When her ex-husband was asked to paint by the judge, his reply was: "I can't today, because I have a sore shoulder." Needless to say Margaret won the case and she continues to paint those Big Eyes we have come to love so dearly.
After divorcing her husband, Margaret moved to Hawaii and lived there for almost 27 years. While there her style of painting changed in the sense that the paintings became brighter in color. And, after becoming one of Jehovah's Witnesses, the paintings became happier, since this changed her outlook on life. Though still painting with tears, they are most often tears of joy and not sadness. Presently, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I truly hope you will get much enjoyment from viewing this site as it is developed in the coming months. In time you will see my offerings of Original Oil and Mixed-Media Paintings, Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Prints, Sculptures, Posters, Dolls, Jewelry and Garments.
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Venus and Serena Williams
Williams sisters are Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs), and JWs are not supposed to sing anthems, pledge allegiance to the flag, or have a nationalistic bone in their bodies. The Olympics are considered by the Watchtower Society (the JW's equivalent of the Pope) to be a nationalistic event, and therefore to be avoided. Carrying the flag is considered to be an act of idolatry. Singing the anthem, or giving a standing ovation, for that matter, is tantamount to offering prayer to another god. This isn't just a minor thing like the Catholic "prohibition" against eating meat on Fridays. It is a very big deal.
Personally, I don't care if either of the Williams sisters carry the flag, yodel out the anthem, or receive stars-and-stripes enemas. There are, however, numerous repurcussions bouncing about amongst the JW and ex-JW communities. This tempest in a tennis court is similar to the Michael Jackson Thriller scandal of the 1980s. Once upon a time, Michael Jackson was considered a JW in good standing. Then he started a solo career. JW children everywhere were clamouring for Michael posters and trendy but oh-so-tacky leather jackets.
At public assemblies of JWs, elders (JW priests) gave cautionary lectures on why we shouldn't give adulation to lowly people, but only to God. "After all," they said, "we don't have posters of our elders hanging on our bedroom walls, do we? So why should we have posters of some other JW, or even worse, a worldly person (JW-speak for a non-JW)?"
http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/Venus_and_Serena_Williams.html
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Seems to me they all just memorize the same few scriptures and use that to cover every argument. It is certainly not from a well rounded Bible reading. Just my 2cents.
Source:: Interview with Crime Time (a British-based magazine about mystery, crime and detective fiction), 06 August 2001
URL: http://www.crimetime.co.uk/interviews/mickeyspillane.htmlQ. You were raised a Catholic, right?
Spillane: No I wasn't raised either one (Catholic or Protestant). I'm one of the Jehovahs Witnesses.
Q. You joined in the fifties?
Spillane: You don't join that, you have to be a witness. Witnessing is an active word.
Q. The word apocalyptic keeps coming up in criticism of your work. Do you believe in the second coming?
Spillane: The word coming is a misnomer. The word used is parousia in Greek, and it means 'presence'. Take President Clinton. Do you know him? No. But you feel his presence, all the taxes he lays on you. We feel his presence because we have to live under his direction. So when these things were asked of Jesus they asked 'what will be the sign of your presence, and the end of the system of things...now that was translated in the King James Bible as the end of the world. Now the word 'world' and the word 'earth' are two different things...the Bible says the earth abides forever. It's the simplicity of it, religion has turned everything inside out! Someone says how'd you like to be able to live forever? You say, oh boy would I liketa live forever, there's so many things I'd like to do, I used to be able to pass a football with either hand, now I can't throw from here to the wall...there's so many things...I think the best time for me was around 35... but if you're not a wise guy you can put up with those things...I know too many guys my age, they walk around, like they're crippled. I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink...I'll have a beer once in a while. People say,' you have a beer, you're a Jehovah's Witness...but the Bible doesn't proclaim against drinking, it proclaims against drunkenness...anyway, someone says how'd you like to live forever...we know what death is, you can kick a dead dog, it won't bite you...but Jesus makes the greatest remark I think it's so funny nobody pays any attention, he says 'this means everlasting life', and they say what, 'you gotta stand on your head, you gotta pay knowledge, what', and he says it's taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and that's so easy...I get so excited about this, I'll keep talking to you like this if you don't say that's enough, but this is why people think you're a nut, they say, don't people turn you down, I say 'they don't turn me down, they turn God down'. That's why people can't stop drinking, do drugs, that's why the world's the way it is...do you know a stable country in the world?
Other source:
The guy who brought broads and blood to the reading masses is a Jehovah's Witness, a fundamentalist [group] that preaches the imminent end of the world.
"There's nothing phony about them. Everything they say is true," says Spillane, a one-time "nominal" Protestant converted years ago by a Jehovah's Witness who knocked on his door.
http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Mickey_Spillane.html
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