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  JW ORIGIN LAID BARE todays newspaper

  by DannyHaszard in

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  2. beliefs

  predictions about the end of the world are older than christianity ...

  arkansas democrat-gazette (subscription), ar - 1 hour ago.

  ... charles taze russell, whose followers would eventually become the jehovahs witnesses, pegged 1874 as the year of christs return and armageddon.

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  Hi Danny
  
  I watched the three and a half minute clip of Roger Mudd's documentary of The MIllerites. Do you offer the entire video for purchase?
  
  If so, let me know here or drop me a line at [email protected] with the details. Thanks!
  
  Nate
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  MY CHALLENGE TO FUNDAMENTALISTS/LITERALISTS

  by Nate Merit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for the fundamentalist christians reading this post who do not like my hermeneutics (principles of biblical interpretation), i challenge you to look up all the passages of the old testament that are quoted in the new testament.

  read the surrounding context of each quotation as it appears in the old testament.

  you will be shocked to discover that the context of the verses in the old testament almost never correspond to the way the verses are actually used in the new testament.

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  yes, wasn't it george orwell who wrote: "those who control the past, control the future."? i think this is why they are a high control group. if they lost control, there would we no religion left.

  TS
  
  When I write about Jehovah's Witnesses (and occasionally lecture) 'Orwellian' is quite often how I describe their little world. I read "1984" when I was a JW (a high school Lit assignment), and was struck even the similarities.
  
  To vaying degrees, all organized religion is about control. Power, control, money. The WTBTS Holy Trinity.
  
  Nate
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  MY CHALLENGE TO FUNDAMENTALISTS/LITERALISTS

  by Nate Merit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for the fundamentalist christians reading this post who do not like my hermeneutics (principles of biblical interpretation), i challenge you to look up all the passages of the old testament that are quoted in the new testament.

  read the surrounding context of each quotation as it appears in the old testament.

  you will be shocked to discover that the context of the verses in the old testament almost never correspond to the way the verses are actually used in the new testament.

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  A tradition the JW's proudly continue today!
  
  Hello AlmostAtheist!
  
  I laughed out loud because by golly thats true, and I hadn't really thought of the WTBTS in that way. Most details have escaped me, but I recall some astonishingly oddball interpretations of the OT as some sort of Types of the WTBTS and Jehovah's Witnesses. I was quite confusing and 'squirrelly' seeming even then.
  
  Nate
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  "Jehovah Unmasked!"

  by sf in

  1. social
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  http://people.lulu.com/users/index.php?fhomepage=225208

  http://www.lulu.com/content/167431

  the author, nathaniel j. merritt, has been hitchhiking his way to enlightenment since he was a teen.

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  Nate Merit

  THANK YOU Flying High!
  
  You're most welcome.
  
  You, and those fortunate enough to share a heart as warm as yours, give me reason to be glad that I wrote Jehovah Unmasked. I am so very pleased that it's helped you.
  
  I am working on a second edition of the book even though it has only been available for a few weeks as a printed book. Please feel free to send me questions, comments, objections, and suggestions. This will help me in improving and expanding the book.
  
  [email protected]
  
  Divine blessings to you Flying High!
  Nate
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  "Jehovah Unmasked!"

  by sf in

  1. social
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  http://people.lulu.com/users/index.php?fhomepage=225208

  http://www.lulu.com/content/167431

  the author, nathaniel j. merritt, has been hitchhiking his way to enlightenment since he was a teen.

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  Nate Merit

  Hello Angharad!
  
  Thank you for the welcome, and an extra "thank you!" for deleting the other screen names. Everything is working properly now, and I'm pleased.
  
  I'm enjoying getting to know fellow former JW's here. It's been a long time, 33 years, since I was "in the Truth," but I still have an interest in the doings of the WTBTS.
  
  Before signing onto this message board, I frequented the main website to see what was going on in the Watchtower World.
  
  Thank you again
  Nate
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  "Jehovah Unmasked!"

  by sf in

  1. social
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  http://people.lulu.com/users/index.php?fhomepage=225208

  http://www.lulu.com/content/167431

  the author, nathaniel j. merritt, has been hitchhiking his way to enlightenment since he was a teen.

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  Hi Sherry!
  
  Thank you for the welcome. You have a very intelligent and pretty face.
  
  Nate
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  Rutherford's 1930 interview

  by Fatfreek in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  check out your old issues of time.

  you may be surprised.

  fats.. religion.

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  I have actually SEEN Beth Sarim with MY OWN TWO EYES! Praise YAH! I live about two hours from San Diego and travle there often for one reason or another.
  
  Posts such as this are wonderful reminders that I am so very fortunate to have a mind that is not under the sway of petty despots that sren't playing with a full deck. No just Da Judge, but Comet Cult nutballs, Popes, etc etc etc.
  
  Nate
  "Pineapple pizza is the Meaning of Life" -The Invisible Pink Unicorn http://www.palmyra.demon.co.uk/humour/ipu.htm
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  MY CHALLENGE TO FUNDAMENTALISTS/BIBLICAL LITERALISTS

  by Nate Merit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for the fundamentalist christians reading this post who do not like my hermeneutics (principles of biblical interpretation), i challenge you to look up all the passages of the old testament that are quoted in the new testament.

  read the surrounding context of each quotation as it appears in the old testament.

  you will be shocked to discover that the context of the verses in the old testament almost never correspond to the way the verses are actually used in the new testament.

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  Nate Merit

  Got it mate.
  

  Nate
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  MY CHALLENGE TO FUNDAMENTALISTS/LITERALISTS

  by Nate Merit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for the fundamentalist christians reading this post who do not like my hermeneutics (principles of biblical interpretation), i challenge you to look up all the passages of the old testament that are quoted in the new testament.

  read the surrounding context of each quotation as it appears in the old testament.

  you will be shocked to discover that the context of the verses in the old testament almost never correspond to the way the verses are actually used in the new testament.

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  nice one nate! my quote of the day: lifeless husk and in everyday useage? oh i don't know. let's say: "I toss my lifeless husk of faith in your general direction, Jehovah."

  or "Joshua the lifeless husk of genocidal despotism at your service, Jesus!"

  TS
  
  LOL TS! Try some Louisiana hot sauce on them there lifeless husks! Oops....Louisiana..DONT HURT ME JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES! I"M SORRY!
  
  My late demented (paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur) mother-in-law was a former JW who never quite got over the experience. Whenever she would cuss, she'd look around herself in terror and apologize to the Jehovah's Witnesses! Not Joe Hovah mind you, but his Witlesses.
  
  Finally, after 33 years, writing my memoirs concerning my experiences as a Watchtower Drone. I entangled myself in the Org at age 15, and was involved off and on for 4 years. This was back during the 1975 Armageddon Madness. Speaking of which, it's amazing so few Witnesses are even aware of this failed prophecy. It ruined my life...for awhile. Drove my young impressionable mind right over the edge.
  
  I'm not a Theist, by the way.
  
  It's been very interesting reading posts here. The biggest surprise however is just how few people post here, considering the probably several million or so former JayDubs in America.
  
  Nate "Pineapple Pizza is the Meaning of Life" -the Invisible Pink Unicorn
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  Back after quite awhile away .. thought I'd say hello and give an update :)

  by somebodylovesme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i doubt anyone remembers me, but i used to be around these boards i bit.

  i think my last post was in the summer of 2004. as a refresher, my husband is an inactive jw.

  we've been married for two and a half years now, and we're living hundreds of miles from where he grew up and attended meetings.

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