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                            THE ULTIMATE RAPE

When one thinks of a rape one usually thinks of a sexual act forced upon
an unwilling subject. If one was to use the term in a religious sense
without sexual overtones what would you think of? Would you not think of
views forced upon oneself to conform to a certain viewpoint that one
thought as repulsive, unethical, against all common sense and virtue?
This is a brief account of my life with the organization called Jehovah's
Witnesses. This story could and has been repeated many times over, but
with just different names, addresses, towns and city's. One thing they all
share, that one time they belonged to one of the most mind controlled
religions on the face of the earth. But be warned, don't think it couldn't
happen to you, IT COULD! Many have fallen into it's subtle influence to
conform to it's way's. One's who considered themselves beyond mind
control, beyond the "it happens to everyone else, but it won't happen to
me attitude." This story is not done with anger or vengeance but with hurt
and sorrow. Hurt, for the years that I devoted to a cause with my sweat
and resources, and sorrow, for those still in the organization functioning
as empty shells not knowing how to get out from the strong armed grip of
this organization. An organization that would stop at nothing to slander,
malign and defame all those who oppose either mentally or physically the
"Mother" organization, The Watchtower.
Another title that I could have named this story is "Sex, lies and audio
tape" and as I go on you'll see what I mean, but that will come later.
I was born Joseph Rizoli September 9, 1952 a twin. I was raised up in the
Catholic church and for all intense purposes was a good Catholic. While
other kids were having fun, I was I made sure that I didn't miss Mass and
commit a mortal sin, so you can see, I was at an early age enslaved by
another organization that totally controlled my mind, this time with
images, pomp, rituals and silly medals to bring me in line with it's form
of mind control. When I got out of high school I was called on by
Jehovah's Witnesses. This man Bob Cunnard, seemed like a very sincere man
and I was impressed how he knew the material that he presented to me. He
could go to a page at will and tell me about it. This ability though
trivial to some, impressed me, thinking within, "this man is sincere and
knows his stuff." So needless to say, I took the magazines.
Some time later he called back and placed the little blue book The Truth
That Leads To Eternal Life or the TRUTH BOOK as it was to be known later.
 I really never knew about Jehovah's Witnesses, so I tried to judge the
religion by this mans name, Bob Cunnard. Since the name sounded protestant
I was weary of it. Bob moved away and was replaced with a man named Don
C. This man proved to be a double edged sword for me. He took me and
helped me in the JW'S philosophy and to be honest with you I appreciated
it. He was kind and loving, yet firm in his treatment of me. I looked to
this man as almost a wonder man for all his knowledge and wisdom. Yet
after 20 yrs in the WATCHTOWER organization I found him to be the most
corrupt Jehovah's Witnesses that I have EVER met, or a man with severe
mental problems. Don was what we call "a company man." Enough said I could
go on for hours!!

When I came to the Witness organization I devoured everything I could get
my hands on. In fact, for book knowledge I was ahead of quite a number old
timers in the Watchtower organization. Of Course now I see the true
meaning of:
[nwt  Ecclesiastes]
12:12 As regards anything besides these, my son, take a warning: To the
making of many BOOKS there is no end, and much devotion to them is
wearisome to the flesh.
When one comes to any knew philosophy or system of beliefs he goes through
a whole new mental process that has to erase old viewpoints with "new"
outlooks. To say that didn't happen would be a lie. But the biggest thing
that happened would be the total putting of trust into an organization
believing that it had your life in their hands. Almost like a baby
learning how to walk, the baby has to put the ultimate trust that the
parent is going to be there in case the child stumbles, so it is with
JW's, they get to that point and once they do, all trust is put with the
Watchtower on ALL matters, even ones dealing with life and death. Of
course, little did I know that when situations happened where one would
question the " authority of the Watchtower" he would be cast off as
"rebellious" to the organization and severely chastised, and if that didn't
work disfellowshiped.
 I was always one who helped the disadvantaged and I always tried helping
out those that needed it. The event that started me thinking that
something was wrong with this organization had to do with tapes. I started
recording talks at Circuit assemblies, District assemblies, and regular
Sunday and Thursday meetings at the Kingdom hall. This eventually turned into
quite an expensive hobby, I started buying double deck cassette recorders
and anything that would help me make the tapes available to the friends
without a big expense to them. I called my self Kingdom Cassette Library.
I eventually accumulated hundreds of tapes and quite a following of people
wanting and trading Bible talks giving at the JW's meetings. I also with
the help of my friend Bill, put the official magazine of JW's, The
Watchtower on audio tape for ones who were blind or had trouble reading.
Both of us used our own funds to do this. What finally happened was I
started getting flack from the elders, saying that I was "selling tapes"
and that it wasn't right. I asked one dollar for the tapes and two dollars
for the C-120's I didn't think I was making a killing here do you? My
answer to this was more or less:
 [nwt  1 Thessalonians] 4:11
 ..and to make it YOUR aim to live quietly and to MIND YOUR own business
and work with YOUR hands, just as we ordered YOU; But like the saying "all
good things come to an end" the viewpoint was anything not sanctioned by
headquarters is not to be done. As a  result I was hauled to countless
elders meetings trying to resolve this " problem". I remained resolved
that what I was doing wasn't wrong and I eventually was la bled a trouble
maker. This was a perfect example of church Kingdom "hallitics". It was
totally absurd. To get back at me the elders took away my recording
privileges at the meetings and gave it to a person more "nazi" to the
organizations way of doing things. It was after this that I started  to
see the JW's organization as nothing but a bunch of "yes" men and cowards
with few standing up for issues that but head with the elders or
Watchtower organization. It was also after this that I saw the total mind
control that this organization had over me and others. I also saw who were
really my friends and those who were " Nazi's" willing to betray mother,
father or son and daughter. It wasn't until fully out of the Watchtower
that I was "free" to read " prohibited" literature that I found the
Watchtower to be an organization so un Christlike, so evil that I
wonder how I didn't see it years earlier.

Among the many books that helped me in my quest for truth was the
following book. Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan.
The purpose to review some parts of this book would be to warn others that
no matter what our religious persuasion there is a possibility that we may
be involved in some kind of mind control ourselves without even noticing
it.
Like the old timers way to boil a frog, you just don't throw it into
boiling water. No, but you SLOWLY bring the water to boil with the frog in
it and before the frog knows it he's a meal! So it is with religions that
use mind control on it's members, before you know it the damage has been
done and the victim may be worse off that before he came into the group.
Compare this scripture:
[nwt  Luke]
11:26 Then it goes its way and takes along seven different spirits more
wicked than itself, and, after getting inside, they dwell there; and the
final circumstances of that man become WORSE than the first."
Please keep in mind for those within the organization Jehovah's Witnesses,
this book is not on you forbidden to read list, it's highly recommended!!

From the cover flap:
                 " Combating Cult Mind Control unmask the methods employed
by destructive cults to recruit and control their members....mind control
techniques practiced by destructive cults can seriously interfere with an
individuals ability to think for himself...For those who are merely
curious about mind control, who may even be untouched by it's threat, this
book will be a shocking eye-opener....."

First what is the definition of a cult?  pp.37..."A usually small or
narrow circle of persons united by devotion or allegiance to some artistic
or intellectual program, tendency or figure..."
Does what YOU belong to fit this description?

Is YOUR interpretation of the Bible upheld as "THE TRUTH"?
Then you are not alone or unique because others call their viewpoint
 "THE TRUTH" See pp. 89.

Do you believe that  group is the ONLY people living as "TRUE CHRISTIANS"?
THEN SEE PAGE 88 AND PAGE 133, You are not alone in that opinion.

"One of the most obvious signs of a person in a mind control group is a
lack of independent decision making abilities" p.102
For JW's, does this sound familiar? See the Watchtower 1/15/83 pp.22.
"Avoid independent thinking"... # 20.

Let's get intimate:
                  Some groups go so far as to control all social
relationships telling members not only whom they can date, but also whom
they can't marry.

Some of the more EXTREME groups actually regulate sexuality, telling
members when they can have sex and what positions for lovemaking are
acceptable..pp. 103.....sound extreme? See what JW's said in the February 15,
1974 Watchtower where oral sex was grounds for disfellowshiping. In all
fairness, this extreme point of view was reversed in the March 15, 1983
Watchtower but, as indicated by that article on the footnote about the
change, it indicates some DID divorce on those grounds. What I would like
to know is how many marriages broke up because of this mistake that was
accepted as from God? Some may have even remarried, can you see the
seriousness of this decision? These individuals violated the Word of God
because it was told to them it was O.K to do it. This is what I call the
AHITHOPHEL syndrome. And what's that?
In the book of 2 Samuel Ahithophel was King Davids trusted counselor, and
as the scripture say's: [nwt  2 Samuel]
16:23 And the counsel of AHITHOPHEL, with which he counseled in those
days, was just as when a man would inquire of the word of the true God.
That was the way all the counsel of AHITHOPHEL was both to David and to
Absalom.
What potential of abuse could happen here? When people trust some one like
they view God this could happen:
[nwt  2 Samuel]
16:20 Later Absalom said to AHITHOPHEL: "You men, give counsel on your
part. What shall we do?"
16:21 Then AHITHOPHEL said to Absalom: "Have relations with the
concubines of your father, whom he left behind to take care of the house.
And all Israel will certainly hear that you have made yourself
foul-smelling to your father, and the hands of all those who are with you
will certainly become strong."
Do you see the point here? Persons or ORGANIZATIONS such as the Watchtower
which has opinions as from God can get persons to do anything, even sin
as in this case have immoral relations with others. The Watchtower mind set
is just the same and the potential of doing  ANYTHING commanded by the
Watchtower is truly mind bending. Why?  Because from the Watchtower member
to disobey would be to go against God Himself and those he was using.
So to obey is the only logical thing to do from their thinking.
What happened here was these individuals let others become their morality,
their conscience, they lost the freedom of individual choice, What a
shame!!

Another example was the Watchtowers view of organ transplants, which once
were considered cannibalism!! See WT 11/15/67 pp.702-4, Awake 6/8/68 p.21
Now these viewpoints are not held, Yet, what about the hundreds that put
absolute trust in their "mother" to know what is right or not and as a
result died forgoing these life saving procedures. The worse part of it
was if you disagreed with the current teaching at the time you would be
disfellowshiped. So instead of the threat of disfellowshiping some chose
DEATH as the alternative than go against the " Ahithophel" organization.

Notice what Combating Cult Mind Control say's on P. 102:
" Destructive cults cannot tolerate opposition of any kind. Either people
agree with them...or they are the enemy"

"Every person in a cult has been programed to stop all "negative" thoughts
about the leader, the doctrine, or the ORGANIZATION..and he also has been
indoctrinated to believe that this group is superior to all other groups
and different from all other groups"..p.165
This viewpoint was also backed up many times by the viewpoint that "you
could not read any critical literature of the group" pp. 110,120,126,161
My question is WHY??? Why are JW's told not to talk to ex-members or read
their literature??  Could it be that TRUTH IS NEVER GREETED WITH OPEN ARMS
BY THOSE WITH DIRTY HANDS??

In another book, Roman Catholicism by Lorraine Boettner, pub 1962 p.418,
notice this statement " The intolerance of the Roman Catholic Church even
towards it's own people is perhaps seen most clearly in this restriction
which FORBIDS THEM TO READ anything that others write about it's history
or doctrines...they commit MORTAL SIN if they so much as read what others
say about them....although they claim to have the truth, and even to be
the only true church, they do not dare risk a comparison of that truth
with the supposed error which they oppose.."
On page 451 it goes on to say.." Not one Roman Catholic in a hundred,
priest or layman knows the story of his own church..They are forbidden to
read the truth..
My question is: Do we see a pattern here? JW's want others to read their
literature but they are told NOT to read other peoples literature, does
that seem fair? Is the Watchtower afraid that it's members are not
qualified to rebut negative viewpoints thrust up against them? Are they
afraid that some "dirty laundry" may get hung out by any open discussion
of it's policies or decisions in the past? Ask JW's about Olyn Moyle and
why he sued the Watchtower and it's board of directors..and WON!!  Find
out why. Find out what happened to Ray Franz, why he was disfellowshiped
and HOW it was done...
Is the love of the organization that you belong to one sided? Notice, in
talking about the Moonies, Steven Hassan states...p.173.."I realized
after I left they didn't care about me personally at all. If they had, they
would have tried to contact me to try to find out why I had left. Instead
I was automatically labeled "satanic" and a "traitor.."
Are there former members of your group that have left the confines of "THE
TRUTH"  and you have not even dared ask them what has happened to them? Or
is your information gossip and hearsay from ones who possibly never liked
the person any way and now are using the situation to silently vent a
secret hatred that was always there, but leaving the group made those
feelings "legal" towards that person? Is that compatible with the
teachings of Jesus Christ or like the viewpoint on cannibalism
something being forced on your conscience at this time because it's the
way the policy is for the time being? Remember on p. 73 on CCMC book.."In
a mind control environment freedom of choice is the first thing that one
looses" Is that with the group your with? Page 193 goes on to say.."Many
cult members cannot read what they please, speak freely, choose their own
jobs, or in some cases, even choose whom they may marry"

Another interesting situation that exist with religions that use mind
control is the way in which the group goes out of it's way to establish
it's freedom to preach or worship, yet when it's own members run into
problems WITHIN the group all freedoms are curtailed. P.96. goes on to
say..If a group hiding behind first amendment privileges, daily violates
it's members civil rights as it works to destroy democracy, then freedom
is not served"...Ask Joseph Rizoli, how at a "ecclesiastical tribunal" he
was prohibited to take notes or record the proceedings while the "troika"
elders were able to do so freely, take notes that is. To this day he has
never found out what were the "specifics" of allegations brought against
him.
Another way to judge if a group is a cult is it's viewpoint towards it's
members freedom to leave the group. CCMC book say's..P. 104 "destructive
cults plant phobias into members minds so that they fear ever leaving the
group...in fact, in the eyes of a destructive cult, THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE
REASON FOR A PERSON TO EVER LEAVE THE GROUP"
And as with JW's THERE IS NO HONORABLE WAY TO LEAVE THE ORGANIZATION!!!
YOU CAN GET AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE FROM THE MILITARY TO JOIN JEHOVAH'S
WITNESSES BUT YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE WITNESSES FOR ANY REASON WITHOUT BEING
SLANDERED OR DEFAMED.
The book Roman Catholicism p.24 states, " a sect is a group that shuts
itself in as God's exclusive people and shuts all others out".
In other words they answer only to themselves!! When you are booted from
the Witnesses you are cut off from any information pertaining to you. Some
may say "but how can so many people be wrong?" The answer: When it comes
to justice there was 70 religious leaders that had Jesus life in their
hands and how did they handle themselves? What were they more concerned
with than anything else? Notice:
[nwt  John]
11:48 If we let him alone this way, they will all put faith in him, and
the Romans will come and take away both our place and our NATION."
They weren't concerned for justice but for their "place" and "nation".
And when you search the Scriptures you only see a very few that were for
Jesus, those incidents were:
[nwt  John]
19:38 Now after these things Joseph from ARIMATHEA, who was a disciple of
Jesus but a secret one out of [his] fear of the Jews, requested Pilate
that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him
permission. Therefore he came and took his body away.
19:39 Nicodemus also, the man that came to him in the night the first
time, came bringing a roll of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds [of
it].
So there you have it, out of all those religious men capable of quoting
the Hebrew books by memory only these few sided with truth.
To back up this incompetence and cowardice notice what Ray Franz, former
governing body member say's in his book In Search for Christian Freedom
p.374..He states that...70% of all elders were NOT qualified to serve in a
judicial capacity"...
Most elders out of fear of being rebuked usually "rubber stamp" older
elder viewpoints without any real opinions from themselves.
We should not view everything that happened in cults as negative. The CCMC
states on pp. 130-1..."I always encourage people to remember the good and
take it with them when they decide to leave the group. Still, there is no
question that belonging to a destructive cult changes you forever. You
realize how many things you've taken for granted, friends, education, your
ability to make decisions, your individuality, your belief system. Cult
with drawl affords a unique opportunity to sit"naked" with yourself and
analyze everything you ever knew or believed in. Such a process can be
liberating and also quite terrifying. It is a chance to start your life
over again"

Most people are followers and it takes a special person who would risk all
to speak up and "buck" the system. Jw's who don't tow the line are
systematically approached and told they need to "adjust their thinking."
 Some even threaten with the sudden loss of "friends" if the adjustment
doesn't work. If these scare tactics and coercive actions fail to get
this adjustment the person is finally "disfellowshiped".
The person may not be even living a un-christian life but if he or she
disagrees with the Watchtower on, dates, times, theology, or beliefs in
certain individuals being used by God directly or a rejection of the
"organization" itself, they will be ejected without mercy. The ONLY way a
person can come back is to except their way of thinking. They have taken
the place of Christ who said;
[nwt  John]
14:6 Jesus said to him: "I am the way and the truth and the LIFE. No one
comes to the Father except through me.
Now, I don't want to play stupid here but if the Watchtower places itself
in the path to Christ wouldn't that negate the scripture?

Most cults have a special weapon to HELP those to leave their groups, what
is it? Their own literature!! How do you disprove the Mormons? Read the
book of Mormon!! It won't take long to find the hundreds of contradictions
that exist within the book itself. Ask questions, challenge authority
figures, find out about their past history. With the Mormons when you
research and get the facts you would see that Joseph Smith even though
wanting religious freedom for himself and other Mormons tried to burn down
a newspaper the NAUVOO EXPOSITOR.
[nwt  John]
3:19 Now this is the basis for judgment, that the LIGHT has come into the
world but men have loved the darkness rather than the LIGHT, for their
works were wicked.
3:20 For he that practices vile things hates the LIGHT and does not come
to the LIGHT, in order that his works may not be reproved.
3:21 But he that does what is true comes to the LIGHT, in order that his
works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God."
The same exist for Jw's, they don't want bad press and to keep up it's
good public image it tries to stop it's own members from reading the older
publications, Why? Because the older publications would prove beyond a
shadow of doubt far out viewpoints or insanity from our  20th century
perspective.
C.T. Russel the founder of Jehovah's Witnesses had a fondness for
Pyramids, Jw's today look at those same pyramids as "demonic" Yet at his
grave site at Rose mount United Cemeteries sits a huge pyramid and hundreds
come by yearly to see this unique headstone. Not bad for a place that was
intended as a burial site for the Bethel workers.
The influence of pyramid ology on the Watchtower teachings is revealed in
the book THY KINGDOM COME, vol3 of the MILLENNIAL DAWN SERIES books.
Prominently featured facing the title page is an illustration showing the
Great Pyramid of Jeezeh. The FINISHED MYSTERY had on its cover a pagan
symbol WINGED SERPENT.
So like Mormons, Jw's of older times, if they still had those viewpoints
and were alive today would be disfellowshiped.
All are in agreement with this statement in Zions Watchtower February 1881 p.3
"If we were following a man undoubtedly it would be different for us;..one
human idea would contradict another and that which was light one or two or
six years ago would be regarded as darkness know: But with God there is no
variableness of darkness, neither shadow of turning, and so it is with the
truth, any knowledge or light coming from God must be like it's author. A
new view of truth never can contradict a former truth.."
Case in point:
The finished Mystery ( 1917 ) P.144 SAY'S.." THOUGH PASTOR RUSSEL HAS
PASSED BEYOND THE VEIL, HE IS STILL MANAGING EVERY FEATURE OF THE HARVEST
WORK"
Comparing the book JEHOVAH by J.F. Rutherford notice this statement:
p.191 "No one of the temple company will be so foolish as to conclude that
some brother...(or brethren) at one time amongst them, and who has died
and gone to heaven, is now instructing the saints on earth and directing
them as to their work. SUCH A CONCLUSION SMACKS OF THE SIN OF SAMARIA...
YET..the newer REVELATION IT'S GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND ( 1988 ) by-passes
Rutherfords opinion and goes back to the OLDER 1917 viewpoint by saying on
p. 125.# 17. "This suggest that the resurrected ones of the 24-elders
group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today.."
Just think, the Catholic Church has it's saints in heaven interceding for
man and Jehovah's Witnesses has it's 24-elder class.!!
Notice what the Watchtower 5/15/76 say's on p. 298:
" It is a serious matter to represent God and Christ in one way, then find
that our understanding of the major teachings and fundamental doctrines of
the scriptures was in error, and then after that go back to the very
doctrines that, by years of study, we had thoroughly determined to be in
error. Christians cannot be vacillating-wish-washy about such fundamental
teachings. What confidence can one put in the sincerity or judgement of
such persons?"
Yes, what confidence can anyone put in organizations such as the Catholic
Church, Mormons, and yes, Jehovah's Witnesses, who say their way is the
ONLY way to God, the ONLY true Christians on earth today? When an
examination of all their teachings is done with the past, serious errors
abound. The problems with JW's they don't believe it!! You could compare
it to a family with an alcoholic parent, the family refuses to see it, and
they will do anything to deny that the situation exist. So it its with
JW's they expose other religions faults yet they refuse to see the rafter
that's in their own eyes. They refuse to see that there was a great
possibility that Judge Rutherford had problems with alcohol.
See W.f. Salter letter to J.F Rutherford April 1, 1937 where Mr Salter
states under direction from Mr Rutherford that orders went through for
cases of brandy and other liquors and untold cases of beer. Also see
Apocalypse Delayed, The story of Jehovah's Witnesses, M. James Penton,
University of Toronto Press 1985. p.72. They would also find that Mr
Rutherford was divorced from his wife, and that he had his own strange
viewpoints, at one point banning singing from the meetings!! See Divine
Purpose book p.215. It's sad that people such as Jehovah's Witnesses allow
themselves to be fooled by such do as I say but not as I do hypocrisy.
An excellent example of this would be what happened to Malcolm X.
Here the Islam religion teaches chastity and yet The head honcho Mr
Mohammed whatever his name was is having sexual relations with woman in the
group. When Malcolm X tried to get to the bottom of it all sorts of excuses
were made for Mr Mohammed pervert man, Scriptures were used about Noah's
mis deeds, Davids sins etc etc.. Of course seeing this hypocrisy lead to
Malcolm X leaving this Muslim group which I believe ultimately lead to his
brutal death as a retribution for his leaving.
When you look to this account of Rutherford banning singing who suffered
from it? Notice what the Divine Purpose say's on p. 215..."The brothers
were happy to sing together again"... In other words they  were not happy
with what he did to them but like sheep HAD to obey this tyrant.
[nwt  Proverbs]
29:2 When the righteous become many, the people rejoice; but when anyone
wicked bears rule, the people SIGH.
[nwt  Exodus]
2:23 And it came about during those many days that the king of Egypt
finally died, but the sons of Israel continued to SIGH because of the
slavery and to cry out in complaint, and their cry for help kept going up
to the [true] God because of the slavery.
Yes, they were in slavery but this modern day Ahithophel Class spoke as
from God:
[nwt  2 Samuel]
16:23 And the counsel of AHITHOPHEL, with which he counseled in those
days, was just as when a man would inquire of the word of the true God.
That was the way all the counsel of AHITHOPHEL was both to David and to
Absalom.
The sheep feared this tyrant but people like Olyn Moyle, Mr Salter, and
others chose expulsion from the group that to be enslaved.
[nwt  Hebrews]
11:37 They were stoned, they were tried, they were sawn asunder, they
died by slaughter with the sword, they went about in sheepskins, in
goatskins, while they were in want, in tribulation, under ill-treatment;
[nwt  Hebrews]
11:38 and the world was not worthy of them. They wandered about in
deserts and mountains and caves and dens of the earth.
11:39 And yet all these, although they had witness borne to them through
their faith, did not get the [fulfillment of the] promise,
11:40 as God foresaw something better for us, in order that they might
not be made perfect apart from us.

Another interesting point to consider, where as the Bible admits it's
inspiration, THE WATCHTOWER DOES NOT!! The Watchtower Dec 15, 1962. p. 762
# 1 say's.."The care of Gods organization is not in the hands of men who
are inspired of God, they can make mistakes"... Also WT 3/1/79 p.23 # 15
"It must be observed that this" faithful and discreet slave" was never
inspired never perfect".. This is an interesting comment because for a
group that does not claim inspiration they can disfellowship you if you do
not agree with their un-inspired teachings as being an apostate and having
the same reward as Judas if you disagree with them!! See Crisis of
Conscience p. 293.. Where just believing something against the Society was
grounds of disfellowshipment. Also see WT 4/1/86 Question from readers:
"Why have Jehovah's Witnesses disfellowshiped for apostasy, some who still
profess belief in God, the Bible, and Jesus Christ? The Answer? "Approved
association with Jw's requires accepting the entire range of the true
teachings of the Bible, including those Scriptural beliefs UNIQUE to
Jehovah's witnesses" And what would be a UNIQUE teaching? The Belief in
1914 as being the end of the Gentile Times and foretold presence of Christ.
Imagine that, you could be disfellowshiped for NOT believing in that 1914
date. Even though we know Jesus said:
[nwt  Matthew]
24:36 "Concerning that DAY and HOUR nobody knows, neither the angels of
the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.
  So your life as a Christian according to Jehovah's Witnesses hinges on
that 1914 date which Jesus said no man knows!!!
It's strange that not believing a date would be used to disfellowship a
person from family, friends, work mates and even spouses despite the fact
that the Watchtower has had a dismal record of predicting dates!!

A person would have a better chance for being forgiven by the ORGANIZATION
for fornication, homosexuality, bestiality and other heinous sins that for
not believing some "date" which would be a doubt of Watchtower authority.
That seems strange since the sins just mentioned are sins against God
where as the sins against the Watchtower viewpoints are just that,
viewpoints of interpretations that can change at the whim of these
un-inspired men. This scripture is applicable;
[nwt  Matthew]
23:18 Also, `If anyone swears by the ALTAR, it is nothing; but if anyone
swears by the gift on it, he is under obligation.'
23:19 Blind ones! Which, in fact, is greater, the gift or the ALTAR that
sanctifies the gift?
 The Watchtowers "gift" or opinions are greater that the "altar" itself.
It's the old Ahithophel syndrome again I guess. Does not this scripture
apply:

[nwt  2 Thessalonians]
2:4 He is set in opposition and lifts himself up over everyone who is
called "god" or an object of reverence, so that he sits down in the
TEMPLE of The God, publicly showing himself to be a god.
 They put their own doctrines ahead of Gods:
[nwt  Matthew]
15:3 In reply he said to them: "Why is it YOU also overstep the
commandment of God because of YOUR TRADITION?
[nwt  Matthew]
15:6 he must not honor his father at all.' And so YOU have made the word
of God invalid because of YOUR TRADITION.
15:7 YOU hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about YOU, when he said,
15:8 `This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far
removed from me.
15:9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach
commands of men as doctrines.'"
Salvation does not come from believing dates but from Jesus Christ:
[nwt  John]
14:6 Jesus said to him: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the FATHER except through me.
[nwt  Acts]
4:12 Furthermore, there is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not
another NAME under heaven that has been given among men by which we must
get saved."
We do not get saved from the Watchtower, Mormons, Boston Church of Christ,
or any other group that gives itself more prominence than God.
[nwt  Acts]
12:21 But on a set day HEROD clothed himself with royal raiment and sat
down upon the judgment seat and began giving them a public address.
12:22 In turn the assembled people began shouting: "A god's voice, and
not a man's!"
12:23 Instantly the angel of Jehovah struck him, because he did not give
the glory to God; and he became eaten up with worms and expired.
 All these groups are in for a big surprise.

How do we find who God is using today?
Let's look at:
[nwt  Deuteronomy]
18:20 "`However, the PROPHET who presumes to speak in my name a word that
I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other
gods, that PROPHET must die.
Notice one who PRESUMES to speak in the Name of Jehovah. The Watchtower
has presumed for over a hundred years.
[nwt  Deuteronomy]
18:22 when the PROPHET speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does
not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With
presumptuousness the PROPHET spoke it. You must not get frightened at
him.'
Again notice the result of this arrogant prophet: With presumptuousness the
prophet spoke. The Watchtower has to be one of the most arrogant
presumptuous organizations on this earth!
When God used certain people he made sure they were known:
[nwt  Luke]
3:22 and the holy spirit in bodily shape like a dove came down upon him,
and a VOICE came out of HEAVEN: "You are my Son, the beloved; I have
approved you."
[nwt  Matthew]
3:17 Look! Also, there was a VOICE from the heavens that said: "This is
my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved."
[nwt  Matthew]
17:5 While he was yet speaking, look! A bright cloud overshadowed them,
and, look! A VOICE out of the cloud, saying: "This is my Son, the
beloved, whom I have approved; listen to him."
[nwt  John]
12:28 Father, glorify your name." Therefore a VOICE came out of heaven:
"I both glorified [it] and will glorify [it] again."
12:29 Hence the crowd that stood about and heard it began to say that it
had thundered. Others began to say: "An angel has spoken to him."
12:30 In answer Jesus said: "This VOICE has occurred, not for my sake,
but for YOUR sakes.
 This is an interesting scripture to show how the Watchtower can say
something completely opposite of what Jesus had originally said.
Notice what Jesus said here. THE VOICE HAS OCCURRED NOT FOR MY SAKE BUT
FOR YOUR SAKES"
This is the Watchtowers viewpoint February 15, 1987 Watchtower: p.11
#7..."Apparently this was said for JESUS benefit" See also 1988 Text
2/19/88 Friday...same is said.
Am I missing something here? So what happens? Who's right, The Watchtower
or Jesus OWN words himself?
Other examples of who God uses and how it's done:
[nwt  Numbers]
12:6 And he went on to say: "Hear my words, please. If there came to be a
prophet of YOURS for Jehovah, it would be in a VISION I would make myself
known to him. In a dream I would speak to him.
[nwt  Numbers]
12:7 Not so my servant Moses! He is being entrusted with all my house.
12:8 Mouth to mouth I speak to him, thus showing him, and not by riddles;
and the appearance of Jehovah is what he beholds. Why, then, did YOU not
fear to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
[nwt  Acts]
2:1 Now while the day of the [festival of] Pentecost was in progress they
were all together at the same place,
2:2 and suddenly there occurred from heaven a noise just like that of a
rushing stiff breeze, and it filled the whole house in which they were
sitting.
2:3 And TONGUES as if of fire became visible to them and were distributed
about, and one sat upon each one of them,
2:4 and they all became filled with holy spirit and started to speak with
different TONGUES, just as the spirit was granting them to make
utterance.
 No doubt who God was using here!!
[nwt  Exodus]
4:6 Then Jehovah said to him once more: "Stick your hand, please, into
the upper fold of your garment." So he stuck his hand into the upper fold
of his garment. When he drew it out, why, here his hand was stricken with
LEPROSY like snow!
4:7 After that he said: "Return your hand into the upper fold of your
garment." So he returned his hand into the upper fold of his garment.
When he drew it out of the upper fold of his garment, why, here it was
restored like the rest of his flesh!
4:8 "And it must occur that," to quote him, "if they will not believe you
and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will
certainly believe the voice of the later sign.
4:9 Still, it must occur that, if they will not believe even these two
signs and will not listen to your voice, then you will have to take some
water from the Nile River and pour it out on the dry land; and the water
that you will take from the Nile River will certainly become, yes, it
will indeed become blood on the dry land."
No doubt here!!
These are just a few scriptures showing how God uses those whom HE wants
to do his will. See author article" Where's the Beef?" 30 plus pages of
who God uses Biblically from The Cult Information Network P.O. Box 1632
Framingham, MA 01701-0201
The Watchtower by all investigation is a self appointed prophet who like
all other abusive cults uses, lies, deceit, coercion, and last but not
least FEAR to get it's members in line. Yet what does the scripture tell
us to do when we confront these false prophets?
[nwt  Deuteronomy]
18:22 when the PROPHET speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does
not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With
presumptuousness the PROPHET spoke it. You must not get frightened at
him.'
YOU MUST NOT GET FRIGHTENED BY HIM!!!  Why? Because this false prophet
WILL use it's powers to get it's way. Jw's have to be one of the most
fearful people on this earth. Notice this quote from a Rabbi Solomon
Yitzhaki: " Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.."
WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO CHALLENGE THESE CULTS and to ask for their
"credentials" This is NOT unreasonable notice this account:
[nwt  Judges]
6:36 Then Gideon said to the [true] God: "If you are saving Israel by
means of me, just as you have promised,
6:37 here I am keeping a FLEECE of wool exposed on the threshing floor.
If dew comes to be on the FLEECE alone but on all the earth there is
dryness, then I must know that you will save Israel by means of me, just
as you have promised."
6:38 And it turned out to be that way. When he rose up early the next day
and wrung the FLEECE, he got to drain off enough dew from the FLEECE to
fill a large banquet bowl with water.
6:39 However, Gideon said to the [true] God: "Do not let your anger blaze
against me, but let me speak just once more. Let me, please, make a test
only once more with the FLEECE. Let, please, dryness occur to the FLEECE
alone, and upon all the earth let there come to be dew."
6:40 So God did that way on that night; and dryness came to be on the
FLEECE alone, and upon all the earth dew occurred.
Gideon challenged God Himself we can certainly challenge a human
organization, WITHOUT fear!
Remember, what's the fate of cowards?:
[nwt  Revelation]
21:8 But as for the COWARDS and those without faith and those who are
disgusting in their filth and murderers and fornicators and those
practicing spiritism and idolaters and all the liars, their portion will
be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur. This means the second
death."
We need to stop organization such as the Watchtower that use mind
control on it's members and make Christianity a relationship with God and
his son PERSONALLY.
It won't be easy. Notice the lengths this organization will go to.
Apocalypse Delayed by Penton say's p.248:
"When the Society decides that some one is troublesome, it will actually
CONSPIRE to have such persons cast out in violation of it's own rules"
He then mentions Canadian branch overseer Walter Salter, Olyn Moyle, who
the Watchtower had a personal vendetta for through Rutherfords reign, and
Raymond Franz, who was disfellowshiped after the fact for eating a meal
with his boss Peter Gregerson, the Spy network reported it back to Nazi, I
mean Bethel headquarters. Please Read his book Crises of Conscience!!!
My situation was another perfect example of Kingdom-hallitics.
Remember How I said at the beginning of this about "sex, Lies, and
audio tape?
BRIEFLY, a brother JW in fellowship and friend in the Kingdom hall some
years back tried to "fool" around with my wife ( at that time). She
refused his actions. This "brother" later made it through the JW hierarchy
and put in positions of responsibility. Nobody knew about this except the
parties involved and ONE elder. Since this lust full "brother" know became
an elder himself I questioned years later him about it and found out no
other elders knew about the incident except this one elder who denied my
accusations he kept it hid from these other elders. What eventually
happened was this elder was obviously lying and I was out to prove it.
Even with all proof, tape recordings and irrefutable
testimony things did not happen the way I thought they would.
Instead of seeing justice done the tide was turned on me and the messenger
was shot in spite of the message. I was accused of lying and causing
divisions and I NEVER found out what the accusation for this lie was. This
was a perfect example of elders "conspiring" to disfellowship some one who
they wanted silenced. I wrote to the legal department of Watchtower headquarters
and found this type of example: [nwt  Matthew]
21:27 So in answer to Jesus they said: "We do not know." He, in turn,
said to them: "Neither am I telling YOU by what authority I do these
things.
I saw first hand the corruption of "judicial meetings" or the modern day
"Troikas" I also from talking and reading others disfellowshiped from
this organization saw a pattern of abuse from these "Troikas" or as the
Watchtower legal department calls these "ecclesiastical tribunals."
It was just like I said about the quote from Penton, they will conspire to
disfellowship even violating their own laws.

 When we look at the JW's so called unity we see that it is actually a
conformity to a system of rules enforced by the use of fear. Fear that the
individual will get disfellowshiped from the group should they deviate
from the groups doctrine. Hitler had a conformity and we know what it did
for him! Who is in the "truth" is not a new fight. A situation arose in
Jesus day amongst disciples at Mark 9:38-40: 9:38 John said to him:
"Teacher, we saw a certain man expelling demons by the use of your name
and we tried to prevent him, because he was not accompanying us."
9:39 But Jesus said: "Do not try to prevent him, for there is no one that
will do a powerful work on the basis of my name that will quickly be able
to revile me;
9:40 for he that is not against us is for us.
The Cultic response would have been that this man needed to be with the
group in order to be in the "truth". What was Jesus response:
"Do not prevent him"
So what was Jesus point? If one is operating under the outline of
scripture through the use of his name, there is a relationship with God
THAT DOES NOT NECESSITATE THE INDIVIDUAL BEING PART OF A SPECIFIC, VISIBLE
TO THE NATURAL EYE, GROUP. Do we see the importance of this statement and
of Jesus own words? With the Watchtower it's either their way or NO way.
Yes, the ULTIMATE RAPE, being forced to except what is wrong ethically,
spiritually and morally. Yet those brave enough to fight back like the
little boy in the Emperors New Clothes just tell the truth. But with that
truth this:
[nwt  John]
3:19 Now this is the basis for judgment, that the LIGHT has come into the
world but men have loved the darkness rather than the LIGHT, for their
works were wicked.
3:20 For he that practices vile things hates the LIGHT and does not come
to the LIGHT, in order that his works may not be reproved.
3:21 But he that does what is true comes to the LIGHT, in order that his
works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God."
 Yes we see before our eyes a modern day fulfillment of George Orwell
1984. An organization that has lost sight of what the original teachings
of Christ were. An organization that has taken the place of Christ and
substituted it's own brand of "Christianity" What will happen to the
Watchtower? The same that happened to all movements where the subjects have
let others  become their consciences, their life, their savior. A
situation that will make Jones town look like a card party.
The sad situation that exist after seeing the thinking of ones in cults is
will another Masada happen? Jones town? Waco? My answer is yes. The mind
set is already there, especially for Jehovah's Witnesses. The question is
not how but when....
The Ultimate Rape will continue unless we as the little boy in the
Emperors New Clothes speak up bravely and expose it. Remember:
A MAN MAY BE A HERETIC IN THE TRUTH, AND IF HE BELIEVES THINGS ONLY
BECAUSE HIS PASTOR SAY'S OR THE ASSEMBLY SO DETERMINES, WITHOUT KNOWING
OTHER REASONS, THOUGH HIS BELIEFS BE TRUE, YET THE VERY TRUTH HE HOLDS
BECOMES HIS HERESY..John Milton ..Areopagitica

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