Astounding! How much do you REALLY know the history of the Jehovah's Witnesses? I bet you DID NOT know about this!

by park ave boy 31 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Crazyguy
    Crazyguy
    Actually Rutherford sat in as a judge for four days while the real judge was out of town. He got to keep the title.
  • Finkelstein
    Finkelstein

    I think it pays to reflectively keep in mind that Russel was a professional salesman and made money procuring investments associated with the Watchtower Corporation. I think he had a positioning amount of interest into the Adventist theology at the time " Wow Christ returning and new world order " teaching by other propagating men of his era.

    What he did was just take that information and put it into books to sell and make a profit, basically turning this alluring theology into a prosperous business model.

    Rutherford who took over the WTS from Russell was at one time a door to door book/encyclopedia salesman before he was a lawyer so there was an attraction to the WTS publishing company already established in the book publishing business..

    Rutherford just took what Russell had already established as a Gospel Evangelical preacher/ charlatan and reworked certain doctrines to sustain the interest and the continuing operations of the WTS.

  • Wasanelder Once
    Wasanelder Once
    lol
  • Tornintwo
    Tornintwo
    Marked for reading later, thanks
  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    $5 to $60 seems like a reasonable mark up to me. What would you count acceptable, $5 to $10 and not a penny more, or what?

  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown

    Sorta like Miracle Wheatus from a religious dirtbag.

    Sorry to teenage dirtbags and Wheatus I couldn't resist the joke.

  • redvip2000
    redvip2000

    Even if you know the mentioned scandals already, this is actually a good read. Some highlights:


    The bOrg had about 75,000 members around 1918 and 500,000 in revenue which is a lot at that time.

    The paper says that Rutherford had a "finely shaped head".. lol

    It explains that the organization had a lot of success in preaching to "ignorant people that live in farming communities" .. :)

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

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    ..........WatchTower`s Judge Rutherford


    .....................Criminal......................................................Drunk..

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    ...........Lived in a Mansion......................................Drove a Cadillac..

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    .............................................Died Of Rectal Cancer..

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  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown
    Ahh good ole fudge boozerford, they just don't make em like him anymore. This current GB would be so much more entertaining drunk and giving a Hitleresk speech/rant spitting all over the mic.
  • St George of England
    St George of England

    For one, Russell was called out for selling "Miracle Wheat" which costed $5/bushel back in 1918 but was selling it for $60/bushel and people were buying it up and he made tons of money.

    He did that in 1918? That's pretty clever since Russell died 31 October 1916.

    George

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