Introducing myself..hello all... (page 3)

amicus

DannyBear,
I think I know you. If so, it would be a real treat to talk to you again! Does Canoga Park or Winnetka in the Valley ring a bell? I was a pioneer and MS 'fore I left for Colorado.

Nice to see your smile here - thanks for the encouragement over at Eden2 - Shelby set me back for a minute. Of course, she usually does with her regular posts, just hadn't received a personal one until then.

You and larc are just going to {i]have[/i] to swap stories - and be so kinds as to do it here - so we can all marvel at how little the jw world really is.

I was thinking the same thing about H20, I am registered, just haven't made a post yet. I liked it over there when they just transfered to coolboards, everyone was sooooo nice the members were even suprised how nice they were being to each other I got a kick out of reading those posts!- wendy

H20 is on good behavior? Is the CO coming to visit? I think that the regulars just haven't figured out how to give quick zings yet.

Nice to have you here.

waiting

Edited by - waiting on 17 February 2001 17:38:28

DannyBear

Amicus,

Yes, Yes, and check your e-mail. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Danny

DannyBear

Waiting,

LOL about h20 members not learning yet to give the fast zinger's! I think the layout of coolboard just doesn't allow for all the notorious bickering....hell maybe they will end up with a board like DFJ. No Farkel would never stand for it. CO coming for a visit? I think perhaps many a CO and DO if not a GB member has made a visit or two, to all of the active JW boards...what ya think?

Shelby is a rabid, bible thumping, evangelical, fundy....who has irratated almost everyone at H20...she is so fanatical, that she trys to changing her screen name to slide a little more preaching in. She was banned for 30 days not to long ago. Once you get her to shed her preaching suit..she is a delightful lady....showed herself to be big hearted toward someone in need. I have to give her credit for 'walking the walk'. Once she knows you are not a potential convert, she will leave you alone. BTW she does have a great sense of humor...and can quip with the best.

Thanks for welcome here Waiting.

Danny

larc

Danny,

Your mother probably knew my mother's aunt, Berta Peel. She went to a convention in Europe in the late 1920's with Bonnie Boyd and met Rutherford there, according to my mother. In 1938 Berta went to Bethel and worked as Rutherford's nutritionist. This was about the time that Bonnie Boyd married William Heath (from the Olin Moyle trial transcripts) (OM). Bonnie and William lived full time on the property next to Beth Sarim, called Beth Shan in the early 1940's (OM) Berta's husband divorced her in 1940 for abandonment (divorce records). She spent the winters at Beth Sarim with the rest of Rutherford's entourage, according to my mother. My cousin Jack visited Berta at Beth Sarim, after Rutherford died. She pioneered in the San Diego area until her death in the 1960's. I met Berta a couple of times when she came to visit relatives in Ohio, but she really didn't, in my presence at least, talk about her experiences.

DannyBear

Larc,

I can remember alot of animosity between Bonnie Boyd and my parents. There was alot of in-house politics and weird goings on in Bethel in the late 30's and early 40's. The judge was acting like a crazy man, with all the Moyle uproar...this all seemed very upsetting to my folks. They never really talked much about all the details of what happened...I only have bits and pieces as to what actually transpired.

All I know is that...what JF Rutherford got away with as the sacrosanct President of the WTBS....is far beyond what the Society or any of its supporter's in the know, will ever confess to. He was not a very pleasant man.

People have simply just given up their lives to this man-inspired religion...never really seeing how corrupt and vile...the whole big LIE really is. Blinders are standard issure to all who remain in its tentacles.

'freedom is sweet'

DannyBear

thinkers wife

O.K. Danny and Lark,
Now I am glued to the screen. I love this. More, more, please.
Also, just a side note Danny. Wasn't Judah-Ben Schroeder, conceived and raised at Bethel? That is just what I had always heard. Could be wrong.
TW

DannyBear

Mornin Thinker's Wife,

Apparently there was such rankor and jealousy floating around Bethel in those days, that accusations of gun threats and physical harm were being strewn around.

As you may have already read on the net, da Judge was no teetotaler, in fact he illegaly made his own wine and beer during the US Prohabition. Of course he was not even the remotest interested in 'paying Ceasar's things to Ceaser', but blatantly got others of the Bethel family to join him in breaking the law, including my own parents. Not so bad....hey that was the law of the land....this was 'Gods chosen representive'....go figure.]:)

Regards,

DannyBear

Frenchy

Larc and Danny, I must echo TW's sentiments. I'm sure the rest of the board would enjoy hearing about those things as well.
Thanks for the input.

-Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it-

DannyBear

Frenchy

I wish that I would have paid more attention, during those many family getogethers wherein, many of these early days at Bethel were discussed. My sister retains many 'covert' photographs of some of the Judge's excess. As you can well imagine, mom and dad, were not very forthcoming about all the 'messy' stuff...both loyal 'anointed' jw's to the end. Surely if any of my family reads these posts, they will be chagrined to say the least. I have decided it is their problem, not mine. They choose to remain subjects of a man-made organization, whose very roots are moldy and decayed.

I realize now more than ever, how dishonest and corrupt the entire operation really is. The r&f well trained and indoctrinated to protect the ORG at all costs. Thanks to JR,FF,NK, for this perverse attitude. Hayden Covington was at least honest under cross examination, admitting that every Jw must submit to ORG teaching whether right or wrong. Getting the average Jw to see this shame is a total different matter, eh?

I to would like to hear more of Larc's relative Aunt Berta if she can recall. Especially relating to the Judge's final days in San Diego.

Thanks for making me feel at home here Frenchy.

DannyBear

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