You da man, Wuz!
I believe Rutherford had sharecroppers or tenant farmers on that land of his in Missouri.
After he took the reins of WT stewardship, he certainly modeled it along the lines of a plantation.
Breaking the law under the guise of religion / getting away with slavery
by wasblind 68 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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wasblind
Da Man ??????
Mrs. Jones , Ziddina help me out here !!!!!!!!
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snowbird
ROFL!
Ok, I retract that.
Tee hee hee.
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kurtbethel
In a really brazen twist of irony, Boss Man affectionately calls himself "The Slave". TM
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Sulla
Forgive me, but I find this comparison of African chattel slavery and the experience of JWs to be offensive in the extreme.
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mrsjones5
Would you mind explaining why or do you want us to guess?
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Sulla
I'm all for a good hyperbole, mrsjones, but I think this goes much too far even for the boundaries of bad taste. West Africans were brought here literally in chains and were literally property. JW-ism, for all its faults, is still a voluntary organization. To end it, people merely need to exercise their will; we do not require the slaughter of 750,000 Americans to end it. "All the markings of slavery," with the JWs? Please, that's not even funny.
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mrsjones5
Wasblind, who happens to be a black woman as am I, wasnt making light of slavery in her comparison. In no form does Was appear to think slavery is or was a joke. Is there another reason why the comparison makes you uncomfortable or do you feel slavery in the Americas should never be brought up for comparison or examination?
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wasblind
Sulla,
I'm gonna give you a chance, to defend the WTS against my so-called exaggerations
WARNING: you better make it good, i'll even give you time, to get what you got to say together
Trust, your gonna need the head start
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Sulla
wasblind, you cannot be serious.
mrsjones, I think such a comparison, when taken seriously, distorts both the experience of slavery in the US and the experience of JWs. In the process, it does great violence to the crucial distinction: a JW can always simply decide to not be a JW. A slave would be killed. But, if I haven't given you reason to question your viewpoint, then your viewpoint cannot be changed. That doesn't make it less odious.