Was Nelson Eddy a Jehovah's Witness or did he become one before his death?
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I don't believe he was one before OR after his death.
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If you want ACCURATE and DEPENDABLE information about them and their beliefs, do not check any sources other than theirs directly. You may wish to look them up in your local phone book under "CHURCHES - JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES", or you could check out their official website, www.watchtower.org. \n\nPlaces like wikipedia and any other online source that isn't connected with them officially is more inclined to offer you distortions on their beliefs and teachings, usually tinted with prejudice and bias. You don't want to get caught up in that.
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A Jehovah's Witness who uses Yahoo Answers is sitting in front of a computer.\n\nPersonal fellowship has an important role in true worship, but the internet is certainly *NOT* the place for true Christians to find good association.\n\n(Hebrews 10:24,25) And let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as you behold the day drawing near.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20000608/diagram_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050922/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20041208a/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050522a/article_01.htm
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(John 6:67-68) Jesus said to the twelve: “You do not want to go also, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, whom shall we go away to?\n\n\nThese facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.\n\n1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.\n\n2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.\n\n3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.\n\n4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.\n\n5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.\n\n6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.\n\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/article_07.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/who.htm\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
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Hi Tom,\nI met the Eric_F once, a few weekends ago. I was walking to the corner market for a loaf of bread when I had to pass by a neighborhood church. I was somewhat acquainted with the structure as it was always mentioned in the newspaper's community section. Known as "The loft," folks would gather there on Thursday evenings for poetry readings.\nHowever, this day happened to be a Saturday afternoon and a pair of gentlemen greeted me as I walked by. They invited me inside to sample an hour of their presentation. Ok, I went inside and found myself to be a prospective new recruit for their brand of religion.\n\nMost of the pews were filled with hooded monks chanting a haunting rhythm. There were others who like me, were wearing their regular denims. The service began like most others that church-goers would be familiar with. A grand master of ceremonies led the group through some songs and gave a sermon. Near the end of the hour it was time for their ritual of "laying on of the hands." Some of the parishioners would come forward and ask for prayers for their ailments or for a sick grand mum who fell down in the tub. All the hooded dudes whose faces could not readily be seen would all place a hand on the person and their combined energies were presumed to have a strength and expedite a solution to the problem.\n\nOK now, there was another new guy in the pews who was watching eagerly. I recognized Eric_F from a wanted poster viewed earlier at the post office. When he saw a chance, he approached the ring of conspirators and described how he was always moving around and never able to settle down. The hooded goons closed in upon him, all to make a physical connection. The master of ceremonies began a prayer, a dogmatic mix of logic and pure hocus-pocus. I immediately saw the effects of the procedure as the tension went out of Eric_F's body. When the beseeching was near an end, the master asked, "Are the brothers ready?"\n\nA suspenseful few moments passed until he almost shouted, "NOW!"\n\nOn that cue, the brothers began to pummel their hapless victim. Continually delivering blows over head and to the solar plexus until Eric_F was down on the floor getting stomped. After another minute, the grand Pooh-Bah decided the treatment administered was sufficient to induce a relaxing calm that would assuage the nervousness of Eric_F for a long, long time.\n\nI can't say for certain if Eric_F got the comeuppance he deserved as I had a loaf of bread to buy and some other errands to do that day. I hope for you Tom, that you do find a sense of closure to this difficult episode of life.\n\nAdam
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Jehovah's Witnesses do not keep a central list of all Jehovah's Witnesses, but they are well known for the family-like unity.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm
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MIGHT BE NELSON EDDIE
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I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Jehovah's Witnesses 'try to get others to join' because they are commanded to do so by Jesus himself. Any personal eventuality or preference is far less important than that command.\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you
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Not me, maybe someone else, No, not me, not me.\nSadly this cult thing is very real. I had a nephew that got taken in and it took a lot of professional help to get him back. A year latter he died in a white water raft excision. Witness say he waved goodbye before giving up.
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in the army i worked for a major who started out an agnostic. he later became an atheist. as an adult he was a christian chaplain. John Wayne was an agnostic until the week before he died, sometimes it takes longer for some people.
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Hard to tell really, if it has ANYTHING to do with this particular Religion and Spirituality forum.\n\nThe closest, best-guess I can come up with is something about "1914" though... wasn't that when the leader/s of JW predicted the 'end of the World' the first time around and nothing happened?? And then there were two or three other later dates for the same cataclysmic event, but neither one of them panned out either?? LOL. I dunno! I don't see the connection between that and "wheat"...\n\nI give up. What's the Miracle Wheat Scandal of 1913??
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Persecution for preaching has never equaled that visited upon Jehovah’s Witnesses. Many hundreds of them were executed in Nazi concentration camps. To this day Jehovah’s Witnesses are under ban in some places, and in others they are arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. This is all part of the sign Jesus gave.\n\nAs foretold at Revelation 11:18, ‘the nations have become wrathful’ against Jehovah’s faithful Witnesses, and this indicates that Jehovah’s “own wrath” will be expressed against those nations.
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I am one of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses.  We are more familiarly known as Jehovah's witnesses, but we are Christian as we believe in what Jesus said. Jehovah is God's name.  The Tetragrammaton (There is no font to write the actual 4 lettered name) appears in the original bible text more than 7000 times but has been removed from most translations as it is supersticiously thought to be too holy to utter.  Jesus is God's first and only begotten angelic son, created untold ages before man.\n\nWe believe that man's home, the Earth, is where we were meant to be all along.  The free gift we recieve if we want it is everlasting life on Earth, not in heaven - although some do go there to rule with Jesus as kings and priests.  There are many other things we believe - it's from the Bible, ask one of us for more information.
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Eddy Cantor was a vaudeville actor. His father was a Jewish Rabbi and hated that his son went into vaudeville. He used to put on a minstrel show.  Minstrel shows were usually all black performers but he did it with black men playing banjos in crazy outfits and he did do it black face.  He put black grease paint on his face and sang songs.  I believe years later black face was not allowed.
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Jehovah Witness is in fact a cult. Several ex followers have spoke out about them and there is a ton of anti sites and articles on them. \n\n I personally don't have any respect for cults period.
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It is true that Jehovah's Witnesses are not loved by everyone.\nhttp://jw-media.org/newsroom/human_rights.htm\nSome people are rude to Jehovah's Witnesses out of ignorance, or over some misunderstanding. A few may have had a bad personal experience with an individual who claimed to be a Jehovah's Witness, and prejudicially extended their animus to this entire Christian religion.\n\nHowever, it seems that the majority of anti-Witness hatred is motivated by religious intolerance and bigotry. A few may even be motivated against their Christian worship by the unseen 'god of this system of things', Satan the Devil.\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers\n\nInterestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:\n\n(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.\n\n(Luke 6:22) Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.\n\n(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.\n\n(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.\n\nIt seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/4/1/article_01.htm