Yes, I did read that. But all the evidence seems to point to the opposite. Even if is true that he wasn't actually one himself, he did have Freemason friends and would have been heavily influenced by them wouldn't he?
tornapart
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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Cantleave.. if you look at 4:22 on the video, it was at a Convention in 1913, in a discourse called 'The Temple of God'.
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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For many years I did go along with it all because I did actually believe it had God's backing and believed all the things that were wrong would get sorted. Some things did .. and it was an 'I knew it was wrong and I was right' moment. But then some things changed for the worse. It wasn't until I got Ray Franz's books and read them that everything fell into place and my mind became completely liberated. Now I answer to God alone and no one else.
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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@InterestedOne.. I'm a born-in, been baptised almost 40 years. I've always been interested in history and the JW history was no exception. I love to read and am probably one of the few that read the Proclaimers book from cover to cover and it threw up more questions than answers. So learning all the real history has been an eye opener to me. Having always had a rather independent streak against self imposed authority I had no qualms about finding out about it and I'm glad I did, even though it has been traumatic. Do I feel disloyal.. absolutely not!
@reslight. I'm sure Russell was a very sincere man in his beliefs. That doesn't make them right. He was clearly a FreeMason, he said so in his own words, the literature was covered with FreeMason symbols, he was buried in a FreeMason cemetry and many of his beliefs were those of FreeMasons. I cannot hold with this. He started the Watchtower Society and even though he was dead against religious organisation, this is what it has ended up as. I can't see it has God's backing.
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IS GOD REAL? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
by still thinking inthis is an honest question on my part.
someone on this board asked me 'how do you know' a while ago and i really struggled with it.
in fact, it was a turning point for me.
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I haven't read other posts yet as I don't want to be influenced by what others have said. This is my own personal feeling. I can't look at the night sky and not be awed by it, to listen to birds sing, the colour of flowers, to enjoy music, to laugh and to love, to have a desire to worship something/someone. To me personally it all adds up to there being a God who loves and who cares, not just an intelligemnt designer but more than that. Even I never had the bible I'd still feel this way and all the science books and evolutionary reasonings will ever take this away from me. I felt it as a child and I feel it now.
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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Sweep it all under the carpet and maybe they won't notice.....and if they do notice they'll never understand because their minds are under complete control....
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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sorry, I'll make it clickable..
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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Do the R&F really know where the WT came from?
by tornapart inthis is eye opening!
no wonder they want to keep the history of the wts a secret!!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcijm2cquk&feature.
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Looking at it with all those Masonic influences has really shaken me up, I knew all about the pyramidology which was bad enough but even the left over WT symbol comes from Enochian Magic!
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Solving Its Generation Doctrine
by Marvin Shilmer insolving its generation doctrine .
today i added a new article to my blog.
many have wondered how watchtowers governing body went about making the change it did to its generation doctrine.
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I'd accepted over the many years all the changes as being 'new light' as we'd always been led to believe but it was the sheer absurdity of this 'overlapping generation' that made me finally realise it was just a cover up... so what else was being covered up? If it was truth why would they need to cover anything up? How far can the 'truth' be stretched?!