by sf 3 Replies latest jw friends
This 'log' is fairly recent, and SOME may not have 'stumbled' upon it. This time, in my searches, I entered 'Watch Tower' instead of 'Watchtower'. This is just one of many hits I've not WITNESSED as of yet:
http://www.gimpelfang.de/messageboard/data/483-1.html
Some of this is in english:
Edited by - sf on 18 September 2002 13:47:42
Edited by - sf on 18 September 2002 13:49:50
The problem here is, that no living JW cares about Russell. You could produce proof that he was a wife-abusing, scam artist, occultist - oh wait, that's been done - and it would be shrugged away.
Today's JWs may not be interested in Russell, but that may not be the point. There were two "holding companies"....follow the money... Are these holding companies still in existence today? Where are the assets, and who has control of them? Have they been used to siphon off money and property...and who benefits?? Who controls this thing?? I wish I had the time and resources to research this. I have this gut feeling that there is something more going on here than any of us know. What kind of a religion has shareholders, and a hundred corporations to hide behind??
cb
Here is another one:
*** yb75 42 United States of America (Part One) ***
The Bible Students had headquarters offices first at 101 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, and thereafter at 44 Federal Street, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. By the late 1880s, however, the accelerating work of publishing the good news and gathering sheeplike ones made expansion a necessity. So, Jehovahs people built their own structure. Completed in 1889 at a cost of $34,000, this four-story brick building situated at 56-60 (later renumbered 610-614) Arch Street, Allegheny, was known as the "Bible House." Origina
lly it was held in title by the Tower Publishing Company, a private concern managed by C. T. Russell that for some years published literature for the Watch Tower Society at an agreed price. In April 1898, ownership of this plant and real estate was transferred by donation to the Watch Tower Society, its board of directors evaluating the structure and equipment at $164,033.65.The Bible House served as the Societys headquarters for some twenty years.
