Russell sued the Eagle for libel, demanding $100,000 in damages for "injury to his reputation, good name, fame and standing."
$100,000 in 1912 = $2,500,000 today.
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A Brief History of MONEY and the Watchtower religion
by Terry inwatch tower corp has changed a long-standing policy in regard to donations which had been in place a long, long time.
to appreciate how drastic these changes have been, you'd have to know how it was from the beginning.. .
watch tower corp has changed a long-standing policy in regard to donations which had been in place a long, long time.
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This week's resurrection video, will it backfire on the wt?
by prologos inthe resurrection is supposed to be a joyous occasion?, if it ever happened!
--well, this week's showing at the hall was the opposite, it was about death with violins playing in the background.
a recently bereaved member, , full of tears, (like many others) could not contain herself.
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Like it or not this video may be more important to the GB than we might first realize. Consider the facts. Every single JW is going to have to face, whether they like it or not, the stark reality that every single person alive in their family or in their congregation or in the community is going to eventually die. The GB know this and also know that they too will be replaced with yet another overlap of the overlapping.
Death is inevitable. This video is no more "food at the proper time" than is the existence of a funeral home proof of a future resurrection.
Consider the following phrase used by the GB in recent times: "faith in the resurrection hope."
"Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for." - Heb. 11: 1 NW
A future resurrection is a hope that JWs have. The GB are encouraging JWs to have faith in their own individual hope of a resurrection.
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Why is it ok for witnesses to go to Church backed hospitals?
by stuckinarut2 inif witnesses should "get out of babylon the great" then why is it ok to go into hospitals that have been set up, and have funding from churches?.
isnt that a little contradictory or hypocritical?.
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Imagine the situation in which JW parents -under the advise of their local body of elders and only after the elders had contacted the Service Department at Watchtower headquarters for instruction- were told NOT to take their sick and dying child to the only hospital in the area because it was church-backed. -
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Circuit Overseer Guidelines (tg-E) October 2015
by wifibandit incircuit overseer guidelines (tg-e) october 2015. http://bit.ly/1utgizt.
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The World's End
by AnonVet ini just got done watching the world's end.
wow.
just substitute the "blanks" with "witnesses" and it's spot on.
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Didn't mind the film but was always wanting the TARDIS to suddenly materialize and for Dr Who to step out. Of course this never happened.
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TRUTH or OPINION--which is it when the Governing Body speaks?
by Terry inwhen and why did the governing body suddenly appear?.
the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses, for all practical purposes, did not really exist as it does today, until a dangerous crisis** had developed in the watchtower religion at the headquarters beginning of the 1970’s.
historically, the founder of the watchtower corporate empire was a men’s clothing entrepreneur named c.t.
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So charismatic was Russell’s persona, many Bible Students began looking at him as more than just a man. These people characterized him as the last prophetic messenger.
The Laodicean Messenger from Revelation.
Well written Terry.
You wrote in a comment:
Russell specified that the Society was to never publish another journal, meaning they could only publish The Watch Tower, which is why when the Judge began to publish The Golden Age, he did so against Russell's wishes, and he published it under a different name.
Technically the Watch Tower Society never published another journal, they merely hold the copyright. Rutherford circumvented this part of Russell's will by using a corporation he himself set up, the People's Pulpit Society (later name changed to Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York), to print and publish. -
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CLAM - 24th March 2016 (Video Vignette)
by Nicholaus Kopernicus invideo - "use insight when comforting others"this was a wt contrived video of a sister who was widowed a year ago, and turns to members of the boe after a meeting in the kingdom hall in a distraught emotional state accompanied by suicidal thoughts.
two members of the boe saw her in her own home later that day.she conveyed that she wanted her life back - that her heart had been ripped out.
the elder acknowledges that "you and dan had a wonderful relationship".
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It's quite possible this video was NOT made with the sister's fictitious situation in mind, i.e. loss of husband in death for which the JWs are most likely not to blame. This video will more likely be used to deal with the main problem within the JWs, namely:
- a JW marriage mate leaving, possibly an elder running off with a sister he has been comforting;
- A JW marriage mate, or non-believer, leaving as they see the increase in JW delusion and fanaticism (think of Geoffrey Jackson's delusional appearance before the ARC);
- a JW marriage mate getting d'fed (for whatever reason the local BOE or WT legal department can make up);
- a JW marriage mate seeing the TTATT and becoming a so-called "apostate";
- a JW marriage mate or family member completing suicide themselves;
- a single JW female reaching old age with no husband or children to care for her and realizing she has nothing because she stayed single all her adult life to put kingdom interests (read "Watchtower") first because "the end is so close";
- a JW marriage mate turning out to be a child molester.
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July 2016 W T Article Gives Reassurance to Aging Publishers
by BluesBrother incongregations are full of older ones who were led to expect the end when they were still young enough to work ,and stay forever young.
now these ones face a sparse old age with little provision set aside.
the article ""do not be afraid .
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Interestingly I typed in the following phrase "retirement among the elderly" in the Watchtower Online Library and got only one match, an article on why people give up on life:
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/s/r1/lp-e?q=retirement+among+the+elderly&p=par
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The restaurant at the end of the universe
by Xanthippe ini sat outside at a cafe with my cappuccino for the first time today.
the sky was blue, the birds were singing, i could hear a woodpecker in the tall trees.
i closed my eyes and felt the sun on my face for the first time in months and i thought, i could sit here until the end of time.
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Favorite character, definitely Zaphod Beeblebrox (both of them).
“I'm up to here with cool, okay? I'm so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.” - Beeblebrox, Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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JW Chef Refuses to Cook Black Pudding
by cofty insainsbury's has been forced to apologise after its jehovah's witness chef refused to serve a customer black pudding with his full english breakfast.alan mackay was stunned when he was told he could not enjoy the staple, made up of animal fat, blood and oatmeal, with his meal at the branch in arnold, nottingham.after receiving his incomplete dish the former police officer was told the black pudding would not be served because it was against the religious beliefs of the chef to do so....
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