by D wiltshire 7 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
I personally think CT Russel was an Ego Maniac. I mean common to think you are the Faithful and Discrete Slave that guy must have been wayyyyyyy out there, He must have surrounded himself with those that could feed his Ego.
They literally Worshipped the ground he walked on. What a Psycho, and what a bunch of assholes that followed him. I betcha nobody could get close to him unless they were a real kiss-ass.
Cast your vote.
Now you went and did it Dave...FredHall is gonna Stomp you......my vote....I think he was serious about what he was doing and believed he was right....It doesn't take long for someone to get a big head..... yeah.....I'd vote Ego-maniac.......My Mom is still a faithful follower of his...she's been since she was a teen....she really believes and lives up to what she was taught...I think the people who followed him are miss-guided souls...like most Dubs...anyway...that's my Two Cents.....CC
PS: Have you told your story Here yet????.....you aught to .....man is it a doooozy!!!!...I loved it ....you got big Cahoonies man!!
I don't think he was an egomaniac, but when he started interpreting prophecies in ways nobody else had thought of, he probably began to think that he must be something special. This feeling would have been reinforced by his growing band of followers. Most likely, he sincerely believed that he was God's mouthpiece, although that's really no excuse.
YES!
I read one of his books and he said that he was the greatest apostle since Paul.
I think it is possible that when he started out he was just an ordinary guy caught up in the events of his times who found himself first investigating the claims of the Second Adventists, then after a while found admiration growing to adulation as "Pastor" Russell, ulltimately surrounded with a bunch of yes men and an occasional nutty woman (not his wife, who he shunned) who claimed to be his "spiritual bride" showing up at HQ, plus his daliance with a teen-ager, eventually feeling a kind of invulnerability - "How could I get away with all this crap if I wasn't God's chosen one? Yes, I must be the Faithful Slave!"
I think much the same story unfolds with Rutherford, and Franz, also with Knorr for whom the org took the place of the ego, and is the same for leaders of other cults as well.
Edited by - Nathan Natas on 11 July 2002 21:50:38
There is no doubt how his followers viewed him. Read Rev. 3:14 and then check below:
Russell was a nutcase from day one.
In the beginning he was a harmless and semi-wealthy nutcase. Although the records state that he was wealthy in his own right, the fact is he and his FATHER made a lot of money, and once that business was sold and the money distributed between father and son, there's no evidence Russell made any more money ON HIS OWN except through Watchtower.
By the time his wife Maria sued for divorce (after 18 years of marriage) Russell was a raging lunatic. He had written two of the studies in the scriptures, and try reading them, there aren't many mental illnesses this man did NOT qualify for. Maria tried to help. She was responsible for some of the writings of the Watchtower (she was the one with the college education and teacher's credentials) and she moved to protect the magazine from Russell's rantings, but he had her kicked off.
Rusell said Maria was controlled by the Devil; that going against Russell she was going against God himself. Russell told everyone MARIA was sick; wrote letters to everyone saying MARIA was to be shunned. Typical of many persons with histrionc, paranoid, delusional, persecutional and narcisstic personalities, he turned on the person who loved and helped him the most.
One day Maria had had enough. She climbed through a window and ran for safety and protection to her family in another city. She never went back. She went on to sue Russell for over $9,000.00 (in 1900's value) that was paid for by his followers.
Ego - Maniac is a very everyday ordinary word to describe someone as ill as Russell was.
Dung,
I see youv'e been doing some reading.
