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  Who Is An Apostate?

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  maybe you've heard the story of a brother in the watchtower's writing department who was very smart, hard working and a good writer.

  we'll call him charley.

  charley was so good, in fact, that he advanced through the ranks and became a co-editor of the watchtower magazine.

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  The Evils of Aluminum

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  aluminum was an issue that became a real “tempest in a teapot” for the watchtower.

  it influenced their teaching for almost 50 years and, frankly, created an impression among observers that their members were off-the-wall fanatics.

  for all those years, the golden age and other watchtower publications took the position that aluminum cookware and utensils were one of the great health hazards of the 20th century.

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  My Refurbished Web Page

  by NeonMadman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know that many here are no longer believers, but i also know that there are still some participating in this forum who consider themselves christians.

  i recently refurbished my web site extensively, and thought some of you might enjoy browsing it.

  some of my articles are aimed at exposing unbiblical teachings of the watchtower, and my video presentations on "darkness in the watchtower" and "the watchtower's mad science and bad medicine" have been particularly well received.

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  Interesting Wallpaper

  by NeonMadman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife and i live in a small town in northern new jersey.

  there is a building near our house that, many decades ago, used to be the local post office.

  it sat idle for many years, but a couple of years ago, some folks bought it and renovated it into a nice little cafe.

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  The Watchtower Letters

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  several years ago, i put together a compilation of various types of correspondence between me and the watchtower society, that occurred over the 30 years i was a jw.

  some was just administrative stuff, like pioneer appointments and letters.

  but there were also several letters that i wrote regarding doctrinal issues, including some sensitive ones.

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  Are You Doomed?

  by NeonMadman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  back in 1969, we were studying the book babylon the great has fallen - god's kingdom rules!

  in the book study.

  at one point, it commented regarding the "hailstones" that would fall, as described in the book of revelation, that these "hailstones" referred to the hard messages of judgment that we jws would be proclaiming to people after the great tribulation had begun, when there was no further hope of salvation for those who were not already jws.

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  1974 Special Meetings

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as we all know, armageddon was just around the corner in 1974. at the district conventions that year, it was announced that there would be two special meetings during the month of september; one would be for interested people (e.g., bible studies, family members, inactive, etc.

  ), and the other would be for baptized publishers.

  these were to be held in place of the service meetings for the two weeks, iirc.

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  Why Does The RSS feed for this site No Longer Work?

  by NeonMadman in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  i had been following active posts here for a while through the rss feed, first through google reader, then through feedly after google reader shut down.

  but in the last few weeks, the feed seems to have stopped working.

  anybody know why, and how i can get it back?.

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  Memorial Invites from Door to Door?

  by NeonMadman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is this the first year that the jws have been out aggressively handing out memorial invitations from door to door?

  i've been out for about 12 years now, but as i recall, congregations used to receive a relatively limited number of memorial invitations, and they were pretty much reserved for bible studies, good rvs, inactive persons, and others who had some sort of connection to the organization.

  they were not just randomly handed out from house to house - that was what the "special talk" invitations were for.. it occurs to me that this might be an attempt by the wts to pump up the memorial attendance so as to maintain the illusion of continued growth.

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  The Watchtower's "Mad Science" and Bad Medicine

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my presentation at the recent witnesses now for jesus convention.. can't figure out how to actually embed the video from youtube, does anyone know how?.