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Michael Jackson, Pop Star and ex-Jehovah’s Witness, dies of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles

michael-jackson-jehovahPop star and ex-Jehovah’s Witness Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home on June 25 2009. Michael was rushed to UCLA Medical Centre in a coma but doctors were unable to revive him. He was just weeks away from beginning his comeback tour in London.

On Watchtower Information Service articles about Michael Jackson were always very popular. Especially that Michael reportedly became a Muslim was greeted with applause by visitors from the Islamic world (see the comments in previous articles on Watchtower Information Service).

Michael Jackson and the Jehovah’s Witnesses
In an interview Michael gave in the year 2000 he was speaking quite positive about his Jehovah’s Witnesses past:

“As we grew older, [visiting the Kingdom Hall] became difficult, and my remarkable and truly saintly mother would sometimes end up there on her own. When circumstances made it increasingly complex for me to attend, I was comforted by the belief that God exists in my heart, and in music and in beauty, not only in a building. But I still miss the sense of community that I felt there – I miss the friends and the people who treated me like I was simply one of them.”

But this doesn’t mean that the Watchtower Society always appreciated Michael’s music.  In 1984 the Awake! Magazine featured an article with the title “I Would Never Do It Again!”:

“In another popular video, Thriller, the performer is seen to transform first into a “cat person,” then a dancing “monster.” Evidently not wanting viewers to conclude that it promoted spiritism, the film begins with the disclaimer: “Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.—Michael Jackson.” Nevertheless, it was so realistic that some who saw it admitted that they were horrified at first. What was this short film intended to convey? And how does the performer, Michael Jackson, feel about it in looking back?

“I would never do it again!” says Jackson. “I just intended to do a good, fun short film, not to purposely bring to the screen something to scare people or to do anything bad. I want to do what’s right. I would never do anything like that again.” Why not? “Because a lot of people were offended by it,” explains Jackson. “That makes me feel bad. I don’t want them to feel that way. I realize now that it wasn’t a good idea. I’ll never do a video like that again!” He continues: “In fact, I have blocked further distribution of the film over which I have control, including its release in some other countries. There’s all kinds of promotional stuff being proposed on Thriller. But I tell them, ‘No, no, no. I don’t want to do anything on Thriller. No more Thriller.’”” (May 22, 1984 Awake! Magazine (pg. 18-20)

In the spring of 1987 Michael disassociated himself and was shunned by his former Jehovah’s Witness friends.

Michael’s music lives on…

Categories: Stories & Biographies
  1. otto marconi
    March 12th, 2010 at 05:45 | #1

    @Juan ya another dumbfuck jehovordure. i rest my case. confirming all the HOLY WORDS i’ve always written on this blessed forum.

  2. Juan
    March 12th, 2010 at 03:11 | #2

    I really love being a j.w I enjoy it very much hopefully one day everyone knows the truth about jehova thank you for reading and have a beutifuull day:)

  3. otto marconi
    February 18th, 2010 at 02:32 | #3

    @girlznguitarz MJ was killed (not murdered, he wasn’t a human being but only a SHITTY child rapist) by his friends and family to get his money. ALL OTHER GUESSWORK IS BULLSHIT, SO CUT THE CRAP WITH YOUR TRYING TO GUESS, ASSHOLIC PIECES OF SHIT.

  4. girlznguitarz
    February 17th, 2010 at 22:51 | #4

    @Believer in Christ
    MJ was murdered by his doctor, not for the reason you stated, or are you God the judge now? Dosn`t that put you in the same catagory of MJ, by your standards it does.

  5. Believer in Christ
    February 14th, 2010 at 18:10 | #5

    Micheal Jackson died because of he is a BLASPHEMER!

    “This is it, here I stand
    I’m the light of the world, I feel grand
    Got this love I can feel
    And I know yes for sure it is real”

    Blasphemy is irreverence toward holy personages and beliefs. One verse from the Bible that directly concerns the sin reads as follows:

    “ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (Exodus 20:7 KJV) ”

    In addition, it is spoken of in the Luke 12:10, where blaspheming the Holy Spirit is spoken of as unforgivable – the eternal sin.

    Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12)

  6. otto marconi
    January 8th, 2010 at 02:31 | #6

    @Mark Yes he was disfellowshipped by those who murdered him to get his money and to do a good turn to humankind. enough with jacko-the-childo-ass-o-grabber!!!! HE WAS A MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!!!

  7. Mark
    January 7th, 2010 at 16:57 | #7

    but michael jackson was disasociato??????????????????

  8. otto marconi
    December 24th, 2009 at 06:55 | #8

    @petra Dear petra JEHOWHORE, ya don’t wanna talk to me cos ye can’t stand the blasting glare of the truth shoved up onto your christopiggish snout.
    You and your life are totally worthless cos ya need the mass-murderer and child rapists of the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger to guide,lead and RULE your pitiful and miserable and shameful masochist crawly existence.
    With me ya got the only chanche of recovering some dignity and sanity, but to no avail it seems cos you were born to be spiritually and physically buggered by the drooling jerkySwines of the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger and the Governing-bloody-Body the ultimate mass-murderer, genocide advocates, child grabbers and bloodthirsty whackos, SHAME ON ALL OF YOU JE-SHIT-HOVA WITLESES

  9. December 24th, 2009 at 01:50 | #9

    @otto
    is good if my son can be like me much more like the father cause he is much spiritual than i am. and you ottomora you dont enjoy day and night you spent your day and night craving for witnesses unlike a bat like you, you will not succeed cause there were better might poeple who try to be like you never succeeded. jehovas poeple are here to stay.. like them or not we are here not for short period but for internal…and i dont want to talk to you anymore cause is a wast of my preciouse time.

  10. otto marconi
    December 23rd, 2009 at 11:26 | #10

    @petra dear Petra JEHOVORDURE, like the mother like the son. Own it hypocrite that you had to look it up what troglodyte/petra means.
    As for me, i enjoy both night and day, whilst you lead a crawly travesty of existence waiting for new understandings and new light form the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger.
    And the fact that you let a bunch of scum in New York to bugger you spiritually, mentally and intellectually means that your overwhelming masochism makes you a potential candidate for physical and actual sodomy.
    Of which you already are involved when your cuckolded “hub” drains his filthy jehovordure beastlike libido into your body.
    Look dear petra you don’t know how many jehowhore witlesses like you i knew in the congro, endless of them, and now ya tell me your a saint??? get outta here!!!
    You are no less a harlot than the next jehovordure she-swine, imbued with all the Tower of All Terrors blood-thirsty ideologies, bloodbath glorification, terrorism, WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACTS SOCIETY-SPONSORED PAEDOPHILIA ETC ETC ETC: SHAME, SHAME SHAME ON YOU FILTHY BROOD BITCH.
    you LOVE a mobster society that have their hands drenched in the blood of innocent babies, children and minors, destroyers of families, hope and principles. YOU LOVE A SOCIETY THAT PUSH CHILD RAPE VIA SHIELDING THE MONSTERS THAT RAPE CHILDREN, MONSTERS IN YOUR RELIGION THE RELIGION OF Y-CRXP H-SHXT W-EXREXXXXENT H-SEWXR.
    HOW CAN YOU LOOK AT YOUR SNOUT ION THE MIRROR, YOU MONSTER?

  11. December 23rd, 2009 at 06:13 | #11

    @otto
    i dont need english classes i speak six laquage which i consider as a gift.and i quess im not the only one need itt, troglodite is spelled like troglodyte where ugly bat like you stays cause they are scared to be seen by other creature. ………..i enjoy preaching work and inviting poeple to my house includ visitors from other country…. while you hide in your cave waitint for the fall of the sun so that you go look for food to eat… my son sayd i must tell you something but i think you are not worth of it.

  12. otto marconi
    December 23rd, 2009 at 01:35 | #12

    @petra Dear Petra JEHOVORDURE, do you mean psychologist when you say “sciecology”? well, i am a psychologist useless dumbfuck…why don’t ya try to get some english classes insted of pushing watchtowerian literatrash/used toilet paper?
    Also the fact that in your family there have been few or no break-ups don’t mean nothing. you and your pathetic and cheap family are just another hapless, sad , miserable and hopeless travesty of an establishment once known as ‘family’.
    Ya know nothing about family by living in the troglodite environment of yours.
    Jesus the christo NEVER existed, he’s just an asshole invented by the popes in Rome, Italy, to fool&fuck the whole world and the entire human race and they have managed so!
    If jesus the fuxxxxng asshole christo had really existed they did very very very well do execute him (NOT kill/Murder).
    But they invented a runs-squirt no-man prancy faggot and made a martyr outta him via bullshit crucifixion…well and the rest of the cheap deceit we all know.

  13. December 22nd, 2009 at 05:40 | #13

    @otto
    hi marconi. you got it wrong baby you are full of nagitive thought you should go see a sciecology dear so that you start thinking positive. we dont have so many haert broken in our land like you say…” my grand mother an father died married to each other so is my mother married to father sill my inlaws still married to each other…” why are you so nagative is your familly broken to pieces im sorry dear, you are so digress. but anyway i wish you the best. just tell me one thing do you believe that jesus was born on earth and was killed by poeple. be sensible baby.

  14. otto marconi
    December 18th, 2009 at 05:41 | #14

    @petra
    petra states:
    “i am now and o this saturday im going to do street magazine with my loving hub and our little one three of us dear when we will finish we are going to eat out dear”
    And you do this to punctuate the dreariness of your braindead pesudo-life i guess. Of course you like this mind-deadning routine this way ya can better keep an eye on your cute husband’s weekend whereabouts.
    I understood this when i was myself a jehovordure: for some bxxxches jehovordure wives having their husbands jehovordure themselves is the best of both worlds in terms of tracking their moves.
    But remember, time will come he’s gonna get tired of ALL of you cute girl, and hes gonna cheat on you big time.
    Your children? you are doing the best in order to destroy their psyche.
    You like all jehovordure are in this blaphemous business of paedophilia, paedophile haven, mass murder, blasphemy by worshipping the dungy turdish idol yhwh, cheap literature pushing, fraud, and all sorts of sexual perversion and depravation the direct result of the watchtowerian repression of healthy and natural sex.
    Please do remain a jehovordure whilst ya show off thine ass at your street magazine work pageant

  15. December 17th, 2009 at 02:11 | #15

    @otto MACARONI
    o dear TO MAKE IT SHORT I WAS BORN 16/09/1979.and let me tell you a beat of myself dear ugly otto everybody in my cogregation knows how old iam, and i got marreid when i was 24 and i got one cutebabyboy is the perfect gift i has ever given to my hub. ugly chicken otto macaroni tell me what do you have chick if you got no one in your life you must be uglyasite person i have never meet. chau dear luv ya
    and i love being a jw i enjoy it very much i never been so happy in mylife as i am now and o this saturday im going to do street magazine with my loving hub and our little one three of us dear when we will finish we are going to eat out dear

  16. otto marconi
    December 17th, 2009 at 01:04 | #16

    about faggot child-grabber transvestite, stalker and harasser of infants michael jackson: nobody’s happy that he’s dead but i non happy he was born either. But at least the case of michael jackson confirmed an important and telling issue: the appalling extent of human decadence and motherfuckerness in terms of numbers and depth of degraded and depraved “musical” and lifestyle tastes. i believe there’s no difference between shiteaters and michael jackson’s fans. and do not criticize me for simply blasting the truth in your jacksonian snouts.

  17. otto marconi
    December 17th, 2009 at 00:56 | #17

    @petra
    dear petra, do you realize how MORONIC an answer ya gave me? where ya from? the land of dumbfucks? no wonder ya a jehovordure witless. i mean, nobody has ever asked you how old are you? ya must be really really really ugly. but then, beauty is vanity salomon the whoremonger king of israel would say, wouldn’t he? sure enough the only thing the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger ask you is one requisite: braindedlessness and a vintage masochist bent. If ya wanna know i’m 30.

  18. December 15th, 2009 at 05:38 | #18

    @ otto marconi. im glady you ask me how old iam. but since you are the first one want to know how old iam, do you mind to tell me how old you are first than i will tell you how old iam with a clean concience. to be honest i dont like your comment it looks like you are living in the world of contentiousness.

  19. otto marconi
    December 15th, 2009 at 00:05 | #19

    @petra
    Hi petra by your moronic comment (is that news?) i see you’re a genius. may i ask you how old are you?
    god bless you

  20. November 18th, 2009 at 02:28 | #20

    only jehovah can decide what is going to happen with michael. we are always warned not love the world as it gives birth death. jehovah knows those belongs to him. if a righteous person left the path and do unrighteous jehovah does not take pleasure in that person. but still he is loving, kind, generous, for giving. every soul owes it in his hands.

  21. October 31st, 2009 at 17:35 | #21

    cool, keep on posting! great post by the way.

  22. wendel
    October 27th, 2009 at 02:39 | #22

    its better to serve the god until the rest of your life than famous name in the world because the most important is the relationship in Jehovah god.Even you reach the highest star your life is always miserable.

  23. Carey
    October 2nd, 2009 at 14:09 | #23

    “I would never do it again!”

  24. Carey
    October 2nd, 2009 at 14:05 | #24

    I THINK THAT MICHEAL JACKSON SHOULD HAVE ATAYED AS A JEHOVAHS WITNESS NOT ONLY BECAUSE I AM ONE BUT BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUE RELIGION

  25. September 7th, 2009 at 03:14 | #25

    Ya because JW they always tell the truth to their children,and know how to raise them according to Jehova’s will/in the way dat Jehova want to be raised

  26. penny
    September 6th, 2009 at 23:14 | #26

    Is Michael Jacksons mother going to raise Michael’s Kids? I have to say I hope so becasue they will be raised will good morals and values unlike this world who teaches immorality, and lying is ok. I am sure if Michael did not want his kids raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses then he would never left his kids with his mother. After all there are many people that Micheal trusted enough to leave his kids with, but no he left his kids with his mother knowing she is a active Jehovah’s Witness. Michael touched so many people with his music, and he will be missed!!

  27. pabla
    September 5th, 2009 at 20:07 | #27

    A mi me me emociona mucho que Michael nunca se halla olvidado de Jehová, el nunca se refirió a esto, pero por sus canciones, su manera de vida, yo creo que nunca se olvidó. Ojala sus hijos tengan la opotunidad de llegar a conocer a Jehová y quieran vivr de la menra que el dice, por que yo sé que Michael estaría muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuy feliz. Seguiré orando para que la verdad entre en sus corazones.

  28. alfredo
    September 4th, 2009 at 11:37 | #28

    yo quiero saber si el fue testigo bautiazado

  29. James NON-JW
    August 12th, 2009 at 21:03 | #29

    @John
    Greetings John, could you please explain how this site is biased? What is your point of reference to make this conclusion?

  30. a jehovah`s wittness
    August 9th, 2009 at 17:47 | #30

    ok ppl stop think about this it was micheal jackson`s mom who is the jehovah`s wittness but his dad is the one who abused him think about that im barely 13 and im smarter knowing gods name unlike hatters~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  31. John
    July 21st, 2009 at 07:51 | #31

    @Friend

    These sites he has linked are nothing but crap from Jehovah witness haters.
    If you are looking for info that’s not BIASED . Dont visit these sites.

  32. Dee van Cee
    July 10th, 2009 at 20:31 | #32

    Dee van Cee :
    “for the wages sin pays is death” Rom 6:23. Michael has paid the price and will be resurrected. Regardless of how weird he seemed to most, he did have a gentle nature and I think his association with Jehovah’s Witnesses had a lot to do with this kind and gentle manner. His kids, I am sure, will be in good hands with his mother.

    Dee van Cee :
    “for the wages sin pays is death” Rom 6:23. Michael has paid the price and will be resurrected. Regardless of how weird he seemed to most, he did have a gentle nature and I think his association with Jehovah’s Witnesses had a lot to do with this kind and gentle manner. His kids, I am sure, will be in good hands with Michaels mother.

  33. Dee van Cee
    July 10th, 2009 at 20:28 | #33

    “for the wages sin pays is death” Rom 6:23. Michael has paid the price and will be resurrected. Regardless of how weird he seemed to most, he did have a gentle nature and I think his association with Jehovah’s Witnesses had a lot to do with this kind and gentle manner. His kids, I am sure, will be in good hands with Michaels mother.

  34. laura
    July 10th, 2009 at 20:12 | #34

    Let Michael Jackson rest in peace. He has done many good things to this world, not only with his music but all his charities and helping organizations around he world.
    His fame and life to the public eye has been ruined by everybody criticizing everything he did, especially the J.W. to which he always say good things about it. His messages were always about love and unity in the world. Hi was just as human and as imperfect as us so let’s stop pointing the bad things on people and look at ourselves to become better to us and to the eyes of God. Thank you.

  35. Jim
    July 9th, 2009 at 02:19 | #35

    Michael becomes the World and the World so Love him even make him an icon, idol and a demi. Thus, making his miserable at times. A lesson for everyone who wants to be a part of the World.

  36. Friend
    July 7th, 2009 at 13:11 | #36

    There is more information about Jehovah’s Witness/Watchtower religion on http://www.rickross.com and http://www.silentlambs.org

  37. Richard E
    July 4th, 2009 at 13:43 | #37

    I hope Michael will rest in peace and that his children will not be raised in the JW-religion by his mother.

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