Topics Started by NeonMadman

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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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2016 Revised bethel visitors 'dress code' pamphlet?
by neat blue dog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does anybody have a digital copy of the revised bethel visitors 'dress code' pamphlet from this year?.

thanks.

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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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New commentary on revelation coming up?
by EdenOne in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i heard through the grapevine about a forthcoming book:.

together through the great tribulation - come to jehovah's mountain.

still awaiting solid confirmation though.
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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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My Free Book About the Serects of Life and Death and Why We Keep Coming Back
by new boy in
1. jw
2. friends
my novel is now free on kindle for the next five days.

albert’s einstein said "reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one!

the buddhist say the same thing.