Today we are launching Freeminds2.org. This is stage 3 of a three part project spanning over 30 years since I left Watchtower headquarters in 1980 and gave the 18 members of the then-Governing Body, including President Nathan Knorr and Vice-President Frederick W. Franz.
The new site will be more blog/news oriented (and updated more often with articles, blogs and videos almost daily).
All of our previous sites, such as Armageddonokies.com and WatchtowerWorld.org, randytv.com, exjws.net, and others will be incorporated into the previous Freeminds site, which is currently being revised and converted from it’s Joomla-based format to this WordPress format. I am sure you will find it much easier to search for words, people, articles, and subject very easy. Gone will be the excessively long URLs as well.
You can read my story of pre-Bethel life, adventures during my six years as a press operator, a floor overseer in charge of printing their millions of Bibles, being a press mechanic, new technology testing, and finally the operator of the $1.6m Wood-Hoe press that was intended to print 100,000 small 192-page books in one 8 hour shift, starting out fully automated with an elevator that went upstairs to the 7th floor and trimmed, glued, and the paper cover attached, (supposedly) without human intervention. The “minor side effect” was that the sheer centrifugal force of three HUGE cylinders spinning in the same rotational direction, run by a 100 HP motor, was enough to sway the entire concrete building and shut down the machine shop lathes on the floor right below because it was like a continual mild earthquake!
This press had never before been built by the Wood-Hoe company, but President Knorr ordered it during the 1975 end-of-the-world expectation, as the final shipload of trash to push onto the public. You can see more pictures and most of the story behind this albatross at: http://www.randallwatters.org/randypt2.htm. Especially comical is the MAD Magazine version at: http://www.randallwatters.org/Bethel/toons/cabeen.htm.
Start visiting freeminds2.org from now on, as it will be updated more often than freeminds.org. This final stage of my ministry is to train and equip those who either grew up in the Watchtower and are facing bankruptcy or severe depression or isolation, and at the same time offer them an opportunity and HOPE to develop skills to get a real job in the REAL world (using PRIVATE forums). “Posers” w ill not be tolerated, but deleted without warning.
We will also have a forum for Jehovah’s Witnesses who want to get out completely but due to family or other circumstances, may not be able to, if ever. Yet they don’t even believe the doctrines. We love you, too, and know how hard the WT can make your life with their damnable shunning doctrine. For you, freeminds2.org is the place to visit often and start actively changing your life. You may find that in less than six months all your fears are gone, and you are ready to live an entirely new, happy life and never even THINK about that lame religion ever again. Exciting prospect?
The original freeminds.org is designed to convince you through verifiable, factual information that the Watchtower BLATANTLY LIES about Church history, origins of doctrine, practices of the early church before Constantine, and much more, simply because they want you to:
(1) feel special as if you know something few others know, and
(2) to keep you under their spell of guilt and fear. What’s in it for them? A sense of supernatural “power” over others.
BREAK the spell.
DESTROY the mine field in your head.
LAUGH without a trace of guilt or fear of God at the silliness of a 19th century carnival religion, but without a cynical attitude, just true hilarity.
The most powerful tool you can ever use to remove the WT’s control over YOUR life is to get to the point, through a little study, so that you can clearly see you have been DUPED. Then you will never take them seriously again, guaranteed.
REINVENT YOURSELF
Then, reinvent yourself!
THAT is the entire purpose of the new freeminds2.org. We leave all the religious discussions for freeminds.org, so the two websites will contain very different things. A LOT of videos, new articles, and a compassion for training and encouraging the lost… preferably through knowing the person of Christ better, but religion will rarely be discussed. You can go visit freeminds.org first to get all the false teachings out of your head.