Nick,

I have always enjoyed your forums and postings, except the ones that involve subjects that I know Jehovah God and His Word condemns.  And I know you don't do this deliberately, but out of lack of accurate knowledge, because I believe you have a good heart and I know you like to make people smile!  That's a very good quality of a good man, one that would not purposely oppose God and his teachings.

I want you to understand that I once held the same beliefs and practiced the same traditions that you and your forum followers hold.  Yes, for over 50 years I too did the easter and christmas and halloween things, etc.  As well, until about four years ago, for all my adult life I turned away those pesky Jehovah's Witnesses when they came to my door.  Why won't those people leave us alone, I wondered?  They must be religious fanatics or a cult, as Satan has unfortunately misled many to believe.

But then one day I was very depressed and I decided to listen to what they had to say, which led me to then accept their free Bible-based literature and actually read it, which led me to then accept a free in-home Bible study.  That was the best thing that ever happened in my life!  Actually studying God's word in black and white on the printed page and seeing for oneself what it REALLY teaches instead of just blindly accepting what they have been told all their life from the pulpit is so enlightening that it makes one angry at their former teachers!

I know you don't realize it right now, but removing me from your friend's list and banning me from your forum will not change the truth and is probably the worst thing you could do for yourself, your family, and for your forum followers.  You also don't know this, but you are in reality making Satan's work of misleading the masses much easier! 

Nick, it is Satan the Devil, the father of the lie, the original opposer of Jehovah God, that wants you, your family, your forum followers, and as many people as he can mislead to suffer everlasting death.  And he is very powerful and has done a superb job using his tools of false religion to mislead the majority of mankind.  In the very first prophesy in the Bible, found at Gen. 3:15, Jehovah God tells us that He would put enmity between the woman's seed and Satan's seed.  The woman is God's heavenly organization, and her seed is Jesus Christ and his true followers.  Satan's seed is his demons and false religion.  And that prophesy, like all in the Bible, has proven to come true.  All religions on the earth persecute and oppose and lie about Jehovah's Witnesses.  Why, there are even some countries that still ban Jehovah's Witnesses just as you have now banned me from your forum.  JW's are still jailed, beaten and murdered in many parts of the world, and suffered that same treatment even here in the United States for many years, simply because they try to spread God's Word!  And all this persecution they suffer is always instigated by the religious leaders of the world, most commonly the Catholics, but also other denominations. 

Why all this mistreatment when they are the most peaceful, law-abiding citizens in any country?  Why when they simply are displaying love for fellow man by spreading the good news as God's word counsels us to do?  Who do you think is behind this?  I think you know it is Satan the Devil and his coharts, which goes back to the fulfillment of the first prophesy in the Bible!  Jehovah's Witnesses are the ONLY people in the world who obey God's counsel to not be a part of the world because it belongs to Satan, and also the only people in the world who, young and old alike, obey Jesus' command to go and teach and preach the good news of God's Kingdom, to the tune of over 3 million hours per day!

In closing, I just want to say that I think you have a good heart, as evidenced by your love of people and trying to make them smile, but only Jehovah God can truly read hearts, and when He perceives that one's heart is right, He sends His loyal earthly servants to them to invite them to partake of His lifesaving spiritual food.  For your sake and that of your loved ones, I hope and pray that you very soon develop the kind of heart that is rightly disposed for truth, for everlasting life for you and your family on a restored paradise earth is hanging in the balance!

Terry