Comments on: Celebrities who are (or were) JWs – Part 5 http://ex-jw.com/celebrities-who-are-or-were-jws-part-5#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Internet based resources for current and former Jehovah's Witnesses Tue, 22 May 2012 20:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Truth http://ex-jw.com/celebrities-who-are-or-were-jws-part-5/comment-page-1#comment-714 Truth Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:45:33 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1335#comment-714 <a href='#comment-609' rel="nofollow">@brian foster</a> - wrong Dwight Eisenhower was never a JW, it was his mother.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('714','Truth'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> @brian foster – wrong Dwight Eisenhower was never a JW, it was his mother.
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]]> By: felix felicis http://ex-jw.com/celebrities-who-are-or-were-jws-part-5/comment-page-1#comment-612 felix felicis Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:32:13 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1335#comment-612 One must be baptized in order to be called a JW. Being raised as one or associated with one doesn't make you a JW. An ex-JW means that you were disfellowed from and is currently not associated with the group. Eisenhower is NOT a JW simply because Jehovah's Witnesses don't mingle with politics.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('612','felix felicis'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> One must be baptized in order to be called a JW. Being raised as one or associated with one doesn’t make you a JW. An ex-JW means that you were disfellowed from and is currently not associated with the group. Eisenhower is NOT a JW simply because Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t mingle with politics.
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]]> By: brian foster http://ex-jw.com/celebrities-who-are-or-were-jws-part-5/comment-page-1#comment-609 brian foster Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:02:50 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1335#comment-609 Dwight D. Esenhower was a JW. Watchtower Bible at his inauguration. He certainly changed the course of history. If someone was brought up in a religion or spent a significant time associating with that religion. Then it's okay for them to receive this label. It is a definition defining what culture they experienced. It helps us to understand the individual better. This has been laid down by a Judge by the way. In a law suit brought on by JW's. They got fed up of all manner of pond life being referred to in that way. It was damaging an already damaged rputation.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('609','brian foster'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Dwight D. Esenhower was a JW. Watchtower Bible at his inauguration. He certainly changed the course of history. If someone was brought up in a religion or spent a significant time associating with that religion. Then it’s okay for them to receive this label. It is a definition defining what culture they experienced. It helps us to understand the individual better. This has been laid down by a Judge by the way. In a law suit brought on by JW’s. They got fed up of all manner of pond life being referred to in that way. It was damaging an already damaged rputation.
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]]> By: Ashley http://ex-jw.com/celebrities-who-are-or-were-jws-part-5/comment-page-1#comment-498 Ashley Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:53:32 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1335#comment-498 I always have mixed feelings about these lists. First, it can be so difficult to define a Witness -- for example, does merely studying for a time count, or only attending as a child but never seeking privileges? Second, anyone who achieves celebrity is almost by definition not living as a Witness and is therefore not a good representative. And third, all of us ex-JWs know full well that being baptized does not a Witness make -- I mean, do you realize think Prince is living in full accordance with their teachings? In a way, it's almost harmful to think of people who gained fame as Witnesses as "real" Witnesses, because it suggests that the average Witness could have achieved what they did and therefore gives people the wrong impressions about the likelihood of fully breaking out. (People who were famous and then abandoned fame when they converted are, of course, a separate group.) So I appreciate you at least saying "people associate with" and not "people who are" or "people who were." Also, does anyone else find it interesting that Evelyn Mandela said "we" voted, and that she made a political statement at all?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('498','Ashley'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I always have mixed feelings about these lists. First, it can be so difficult to define a Witness — for example, does merely studying for a time count, or only attending as a child but never seeking privileges? Second, anyone who achieves celebrity is almost by definition not living as a Witness and is therefore not a good representative. And third, all of us ex-JWs know full well that being baptized does not a Witness make — I mean, do you realize think Prince is living in full accordance with their teachings? In a way, it’s almost harmful to think of people who gained fame as Witnesses as “real” Witnesses, because it suggests that the average Witness could have achieved what they did and therefore gives people the wrong impressions about the likelihood of fully breaking out. (People who were famous and then abandoned fame when they converted are, of course, a separate group.) So I appreciate you at least saying “people associate with” and not “people who are” or “people who were.”

Also, does anyone else find it interesting that Evelyn Mandela said “we” voted, and that she made a political statement at all?

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