"Women are nothing but a hank of hair and bag of bones". Rutherford couldn't even get the quote right. It's from a Kipling poem. "...a rag and a bone and a hank of hair." Interestingly, that quote turns up in a 1936 Popeye cartoon, Hold the Wire, where Bluto is insulting Olive, while pretending to be Popeye. Did Rutherford use it before 1936? It's tempting to think that he sourced his theology from cartoons.
New instructions on not using sisters to manage KH computer ?
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Journeyman
Today WTC is hanging on by their fingernails and still belittling women who make up over 65% of their publisher base. It's a head scratcher.
That, coupled with the comment in the October WT about appointing COs in the mid-twenties, shows the current GB continue to be masters at shooting themselves in both feet, while at the same time boasting of how "Jehovah is enabling them to keep standing"!
There's an old joke about a drowning man who refuses help from rescuers on land and in boats, saying "God will save me!" and who drowns anyway. When he gets to the gates of Heaven he asks "Why didn't God save me?" and St Peter tells him: "God tried to save you - he sent you all those rescuers, but you turned them away!"
The GB are somewhat like that. They keep proclaiming that God will help them and rescue them when they are attacked, yet they keep making foolish and indefensible decisions and pronouncements, ignoring the advice of more moderate members - even after occasionally making some correct changes (like the recent relaxations on beards and women wearing trousers).
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TonusOH
NotFormer: It's tempting to think that he sourced his theology from cartoons.
Some of his writings would have been right at home in a Pogo cartoon strip.
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road to nowhere
Except Pogo was and is true. Digging at political party conventions and news media right now, even though the commentary was written on 1952
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Phizzy
Misogyny and an anachronistic attitude has always pervaded Org. thinking and actions.
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blondie
Reporting but no supporting (here is how the WTS says one thing but practices the opposite) But...as always the WTS goes a 180 degree in this statement: "Huldah—An Influential Prophetess
Upon hearing the reading of “the very book of the law” found in the temple, King Josiah ordered Shaphan and four other high-ranking officials to “inquire of Jehovah” about the book. (2 Kings 22:8-20) Where could the delegation find the answer? Jeremiah and possibly Nahum and Zephaniah, all prophets and Bible writers, lived in Judah at the time. The delegation, however, approached Huldah the prophetess.
The book Jerusalem—An Archaeological Biography comments: “The remarkable thing about this episode is that the male-female aspect of the story was completely unremarked. No one considered it the least bit inappropriate that an all-male committee took the Scroll of the Law to a woman to determine its status. When she declared it the word of the Lord, no one questioned her authority to determine the issue. This episode is often overlooked by scholars assessing the role of women in ancient Israel.” Of course, the message received was from Jehovah.
WT 2002 12/15 p. 22 (but note they quote from a non-WTS publication to support this; that these went to a woman to get a prophecy from god as well going past her husband headship!)(NOTE; WT 1963 9/1 p. 524 "Josiah realized that Jehovah’s anger was great against the nation for having ignored the divine Word and for disobediently doing everything God had told them not to do. Showing his great concern, he promptly dispatched a delegation of five persons to inquire of Jehovah through the prophetess Huldah. “Go, inquire of Jehovah in my own behalf and in behalf of the people and in behalf of all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is Jehovah’s rage that has been set afire against us over the fact that our forefathers did not listen to the words of this book by doing according to all that is written concerning us.” (2 Ki. 22:13) Through the prophetess, Jehovah confirmed everything that was written in the book. “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am bringing calamity upon this place and upon its inhabitants, even all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.’”—2 Ki. 22:16."
Mostly recently January 2024 Study WT p.16: "He trusts them. For example, Jehovah trusted Eve to help care for the entire earth. (Gen. 1:28) In doing so, he showed that he viewed her, not as inferior to her husband, Adam, but as a complement to him. Jehovah also trusted the prophetesses Deborah and Huldah to advise his people, including a judge and a king. (Judg. 4:4-9; 2 Ki. 22:14-20) Today, Jehovah entrusts Christian women to carry out his work. These faithful sisters serve as publishers, pioneers, and missionaries. They help design, construct, and maintain Kingdom Halls and branch facilities. Some of them serve at Bethel; others serve in remote translation offices. These sisters are like a large army that Jehovah mobilizes to accomplish his will. (Ps. 68:11) Clearly, Jehovah does not view women as weak or incapable."