First things to know
about jw's
My name is Andre. Andre de Sousa Oliveira. I believe in Almighty God, and I am seeking to obey Almighty God in all aspects of my life.
For a certain time, I became a member of the group "Jehovah's Witnesses", but I am no longer part of that group.
Some points that I believe Almighty God helped me understand about this group (Jehovah's Witnesses), I will share here.
I need to say that I am not looking to start a new form of worship - or a cult - and I do not accept worship or a cult centered around me or what I was able to present here, through the help, miracles, and salvation from Almighty God.
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Note: The layout of this website aims to follow the page layout and the “aesthetic” (if it can be called that) — or visual style — of popular newspapers from Rio de Janeiro and the Baixada Fluminense (Brazil) in the 1970s, most notably the "Última Hora" journal (many times, a pure blood-and-guts vehicle of journalism).
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• Cracking the JW's charts code
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Some info added today (on january 17, 2025 - the chart from the 2015 "Jehovah's witnesses" yearbook, page 124) below the section:
"After an analysis, what do the JW charts with possible 'statistical data' reveal?"
Read the full article, with 5 sections including the section:
The lacking chart of the "anointed ones' counting"
I am without a youtube channel at the moment, but I've already received some reactions to the article
"Cracking the JW's charts code 💹📈📉📊🗝️🔓"
and the link to the page with the article about the museum of the future and the ornithopter will be restored soon
On may 14, 2025, some comments were added to this article about the dialogues between a senior-level member of the primitive congregation of disciples (from the first century) and an entry-level member regarding a real estate transaction
– these comments include: #investigation – #prosecution witness – #financial audit – #trial – #sentence – #execution, or: death / fatality.
Featured articles - new article (on february, 23, 2025)
How did the early congregation of first-century disciples manage their finances? And how have the JWs handled them from the 1880s until today? 🧮💍💎💰🪙📱💵💶💳🏛️
Featured articles - new article (on march, 03, 2025)
Were there double standards in the early congregation of first-century disciples?
What could be different between Ananias and Sapphira, Alexander the coppersmith, and individual scattered members of the primitive congregation of disciples in the first century?
On May 2, 2025, some comments were added to this article about the 1,900-year-old papyrus P. Cotton — including details about taxation by the roman empire, tax evasion, and a possible connection with the biblical account of Philemon and Onesimus, and perhaps even with the account of Ananias and Sapphira in the Greek Scriptures — see the 3 to 4-minute reading at the following link: Were there double standards in the early congregation of first-century disciples? - at the section "The translation and publication of the 1,900-year-old papyrus P. Cotton"
Featured articles - new article (on may, 10, 2025)
I watched this video and started thinking — the ex-JW community on YouTube has a lot of videos saying that JW Broadcasting and the programs from district conventions, international conventions, and assemblies — even the turnover of the articles in the publications — keep systematically repeating just a few selected Bible verses, always the same ones.
Can you imagine which verses these people found being constantly repeated in the publications, JW Broadcasting, JW district conventions, international conventions, and assembly programs?
check out this 2-minute video from NBC news about the "slave" - bible.
• Can the members of the "Jehovah's witnesses" sect say that they are "no part of the world"?
And what about the early disciples of the first-century congregation
* new article ?
Today, april 30, 2025, a video of approximately 1 minute in length was added to this article for the purpose of demonstrating one of the activities of a roman jailer in the first century:
stretching using the eculeus (equuleus).
A similar 'procedure' (if it can be called that) is presented — the brazilian "pau de arara" — which can provide a very close idea of what the activities of a roman jailer in the first century were like.
Videos section (4 videos)
💡 I am creating / building a new website, and the first article (along with a video) has already been published.
The name of the article is "a meal from other world"
Check out at:
https://nearandfarfromme.com
Which verses might be the ones that are constantly repeated in the JW publications, on JW Broadcasting, and in the programs from district conventions, international conventions, and assemblies?
Check out this 2-minute video from NBC news about the "slave" - bible.
A brief evaluation about my situation at this moment.
new video today - february, 28, 2025 - click "play" to watch the video below
subtitles (transcript) in english
Excerpt from the interview with the social worker from the Public Prosecutor's Office.
february, 28, 2025 - click "play" to watch the video below
subtitles (transcript) in english
Soon, a link to the section about the Public Prosecutor's Office (a section called "the JWs, the Public Prosecutor's Office, and Me") will be available here.
Featured articles - new article (on january, 27, 2025)
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Recent articles
• The environment and ecosystems of "Jehovah's witnesses"
* new article on january, 16, 2025
added today (January, 18, 2025) the section: <!--
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• A possible fifth ecosystem – or a tailored environment
• Strange personal photos within the 'Jehovah's Witnesses' sect
Added the photo with the instructor of the Ministerial Training School, 'José "Tavsoly,"' and his unusual name (so unusual that in all the internet searches I conducted, I never found any record of at least a similar name).
• Is the JW teaching of the 'spiritual paradise' biblical? link here
Added some information at the end of the article (in the last 7 paragraphs, after presenting the percentage relationships found in the record).
• Military service and the early disciples of the first-century congregation versus the doctrine (and practices) of the JW organization * new article
• Why the leaders of the group called 'Jehovah’s witnesses' (JW) are not anointed (and neither is any other member of this group)
• This is how the JW organization moves forward
Links to the first articles
• Is the JW teaching of the 'spiritual paradise' biblical? link here
• About what this organization ("Jehovah's witnesses") calls "voluntary construction service", what does this mean?
• Can the "Jehovah's witnesses" claim to be the reestablishment of the congregation of disciples (or "christian congregation" as they call it) from the first century?
• What actually happens in a kingdom hall, I mean, in practice, what happens when you become a "Jehovah's witness", or: where does the JW journey end?
• When the JWs - through some close individuals - called the firefighters department to forcibly take me to be "treated" and "medicated" and declared "schizophrenic," (something the "doctor" who "attended" me had already done before)
• Strange personal photos within the 'Jehovah's Witnesses' sect
• The Museum of the Future in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (at the pier harbor)
• Are children — and teenagers — from "Jehovah’s Witness" families — as well as children from "friends of Jehovah’s Witnesses" and interested persons — provided with wide protection and guarantees within the Jehovah’s Witness organization?
• Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses disfellowship? Does the practice of disfellowshipping/shunning by Jehovah’s Witnesses have any basis?
• What are the differences between what members of the "Jehovah's witnesses" sect refer to as "new light" and what the Bible verse Proverbs 4:18 (which they claim is the entire basis for this doctrine, or this term - "new light") actually means?
• What I don’t understand about the primitive congregation of disciples (in the first century) and the organization that calls itself “Jehovah’s Witnesses” (from the 1880s to the present day).