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From the Watchtower to the Minaret

February 2nd, 2002 7 comments

Raphael Narbaez, Jr.

 

A forty-two-year-old Latino, Raphael is a Los Anodes-based comic and lecturer. He was born in Texas, where he attended his first Jehovah’s Witness meeting at age six, gave his first Bible sermon at eight, tended his own congregation at twenty, and was headed for a position of leadership among the 904,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United States. Read more…

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John. H. Paton -Forgotten Co-Founder of a Sect

January 12th, 2002 2 comments

(From: Investigator No. 18 1991 May)

John H Paton (1843-1922) was one of five men who were significant in helping Charles T Russell (1852-1916) start the Watchtower movement now represented mainly by the Jehovah’s Witness sect. Read more…

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The Story of Frank Russo -a door to door Muscleman

January 12th, 2002 2 comments

Frank Russo a local weightlifting champion became a Jehovah’s Witness in 1970, left the Witnesses in 1985 and rejoined in 1988. He has a Watchtower home library worth $50,000. Frank considers the JW meetings to be boring and doesn’t often attend although he still does some preaching work. Read more…

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The Story of Daniel S. Dykstra

January 12th, 2002 1 comment

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

(From: Investigator No. 39 1994 November)

Daniel S Dykstra

Having been one of Jehovah’s Witnesses officially for over twenty nine years and having come out of that organization, I found it necessary to almost reevaluate everything I believed to be scripturally true. Read more…

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Joseph Booth an African Legend

January 12th, 2002 1 comment

In Scotland in 1906, Booth discovered Russellism. and introduced it into Central Africa via mail and travelling workers. Read more…

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Russell -JW Prophet

January 12th, 2002 3 comments

(From: Investigator No. 4 1989 January)

[The following, anonymously contributed, article was originally
an essay for the Australian College of Theology.—Ed.]

YOUNG CHARLES


Charles Taze Russell was born February 16 1852 of Presbyterian parents. He was educated in public schools and by private tutors. His parents taught him from the Catechism. Read more…

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Jehovah's Witness becomes Porn Star

October 13th, 2000 46 comments

By Rado Vleugel

Kim HollandAfter ceasing their association with Jehovah’s Witnesses people take different roads. Some of them ’see Jesus’ and become born again Christians. Others ’see the irrationality and hypocrisy of faith and religion’ and become convinced atheists. A great number becomes ex-Witnesses because they ‘walk after the flesh’ and find it difficult to obey the high moral standards as preached by the Watchtower Society. In spite of this it is highly exceptional that these fleshly desires will transform a Jehovah’s Witness into a porn star. One of these exceptions is Kim Holland from the Netherlands. Read more…

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Rado Vleugel's Story [webmaster of this site]

November 11th, 1999 59 comments

rado-vleugelMy name is Rado Vleugel. I am the webmaster of this site.

I was born in Amsterdam on January the 1st 1973 while fire crackers were making a lot of noise. After my birth more pregnancies followed. I am the oldest child of a large family; I have six sisters and one brother. Read more…