"Please wrap me in a Roman Toga" - Russell's Last Words?

by slimboyfat 55 Replies latest jw friends

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  minimus

  Ohhh, he said, "Give m a yogurt". Anyone named Menta Sturgeon could mess that one up, I guess.
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  greendawn

  To the group that gathered around him he said: Armageddon didn't come in 1914 so unless you make them believe that it came invisibly I will lie in disgrace in my grave, but for good measure get the pyramid nearby to protect me from their curses on the false prophet.
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  ArtfulDodger

  Are you sure it wasn't Royston Vasey ?
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  jaffacake

  Yes slim, I have read about this. I also have a couple of DVDs about JWs & their history which mentions it. It may seem strange now, but remember that the Watchtower was founded on occultist and freemasonry symbolism.

  Been reading studies in the scriptures and even the finished mystery by Rutherford (I recently bought old copies of these to prove to myself it was not 'apostate lies and exaggerations). For years after Russell's death they were still teaching about Egyptology and getting messages from the dead Russell - unfortunately his ghost did not let on to Rutherford important facts like Christ's presence hadn't begun in 1874, which Rutherford was still teaching, despite the appointment by Jesus as the FDS, which of course Rutherford was refusing to accept - all very weird.
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  MidwichCuckoo

  Are you sure it wasn't Royston Vasey ?

  You're thinking of Bab's Cabs, not the 4.50 from Brooklyn.
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  sixsixsixtynine

  On a train that rumbled over a Texas prairie on a fall day in 1916 a gray-haired man collapsed of a heart attack.
  
  
  To a group that gathered round him, he murmured: "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"
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  jeanniebeanz
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  Oroborus21

  I don't believe the story as related in the memorial issue and elsewhere identifies those as his last words. It was one of his last requests, however, Menta Sturgeon relates that after making the toga from a bedsheet and laying Russell bag in beg, he got very cold. Menta lay next to him in an effort to keep him warm and they laid like that with Russell shivering for several hours. During which other things must have been whispered. Menta relates that he tried to ask Russell about other things to keep his mind occupied and asked about the Parable of the Penny to which Russell replied that someone else would have to write about that. Other things were probably said, I am not sure what the actual last words were.

  -Eduardo
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  sixsixsixtynine

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  funkyderek

  Menta Sturgeon relates that after making the toga from a bedsheet and laying Russell bag in beg, he got very cold. Menta lay next to him in an effort to keep him warm and they laid like that with Russell shivering for several hours.

  Imagine being found in bed with a dead guy who's wearing a toga and getting away with it.