GOVERNING BODY IMPRISONED. (page 2)

OhHappyDay

Amazing,
what u say is interesting.
Please share the results of your little research with us, ok?

Thankyou Farkel and Amazing. I knew that much was left out in the explanations that the WTS offered. In reading their explanations, I find that they are careful not to outright lie on issues, but manage to leave so much out that the things that they are representing become lies. :?
Amazing I will look forward to more of the transcript. Thankyou.

Pureheart

Room 215

Hi Pureheart, Fark, Amazing, et al.

This is a particularly muddled chapter of the WT's idealized history of itself: the charges and legal issues leading to the imprisonment were never unambigiously explained in any WT accounting of the incident that I'm aware of.

Also in its efforts to link this incident with Bible prophecy, it seems the Society can't make up its mind as to whether this punishment was meted out because the Society was tainted with Bablyonish teachings and erroneous ideas about neutrality, or were put into prison as martyrs for their unwillingness to compromise on their principles.

r51785

In my time as a JW I noticed that the WT Society liked to play up the idea that they were being persecuted. One got the idea that somehow the WT was being singled out for persecution. However when I left dubdom and later attended college and got to study history a little bit, I learned that the WWI period in the USA included a great deal of suppression of rights and freedoms which we in the USA normally take for granted (let's hope GWB doesn't give us a repeat performance today). The US Justice Dept under the leadership of Attorney General Palmer used the war to crack down on all sorts of folks, not just the Bible Students. It's been a few years but I recall a really good book which covered this subject was entitled "Make-Believe Presidents, Illusions of Power from McKinley to Carter", by Nicholas Von Hoffman.

nowaytess

This incident when the GB was imprison for 3 1/2 years from 1918 to 1922. The prophecy they Wt belive they fulfilled at the time was Rev. 11:1-8 about the 2 witnesses of Revelation.

Even in the height of being a JW, hearing this from the platform or the Wt sounded to me like someone scrathing thier nails on a chalkboard. I just felt they alway bragged about it. It never sounded right to me.

GOVERNING BODY IMPRISONED.

OhHappyDay

Pureheart

Room 215

r51785

nowaytess

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