What I consider to be my most important contribution to this board had become corrupted somehow and I thought lost. While rooting around for some other information, I found a site that had reconstructed the entire 28 page thread! The thread is much more important than just what I contributed, because many, many people spent money and time doing further research and thread took on a life of its own.
This is an introduction provided at the site I found:
"In September 2004, Farkel posted an article on this forum called “Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie.” His essay, which subsequently was translated into several languages and which received over 10,000 views after the first month, spawned a thread that ran 28 pages and contained the collaborative research efforts of many in JWD. This thread was thought by some moderators to be the best in the forum — not necessarily because of the claims in the original essay but because it inspired a staggering amount of research aimed at assessing the credibility of the claims made in the essay, as well as adding to our knowledge of this fascinating yet obscure chapter of Watchtower history.And then, it was all gone. Through some software quirk, the thread became corrupted and would no longer load. But a number of participants in the thread had the foresight to download the thread and save copies of it — though in varying degrees of completeness. Fortunately, it was enough to recover virtually all the content from the original thread. Last fall, I spent a week reconstructing the thread by creating tables in Microsoft Word that simulated the formatting of JWD, and by cutting and pasting content into the appropriate cells. After this painstaking work, I produced a PDF that has both the look and feel of the original thread."
As I recall, the total page views was over 20,000. The link below provides a very nice summary of the facts and issues and a link to download the complete thread. It is about 14mb in size.
Rutherford Exposed Still LIVES!
Farkel
