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  What sort of people were the JW's who went to prison? Government study tells all

  by Terry in

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  do you feel a draft?

  (jw’s did-in the 1960s)i thought you might find it interesting to review exactly what the u.s. government thought, studied, and wrote about people of conscience during the vietnam war.what follows comes from official records…more than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the vietnam war were deferred, exempted, or disqualified.

  (cortright, david (2008).

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  Thanks for posting this, Terry. I had no idea such a study had ever been conducted.

  I can verify what you said about being counseled ordered not to reveal what you had been instructed about accepting alternative service. You couldn't agree ahead of time on anything. It was considered "making a deal" with the military. You were only allowed to comply with whatever sentence you got. I know this for a fact. My dad was a long-time "servant," now called "elder," and I heard him telling the same thing to my draft-age cousin who was facing the same thing you did. He went to prison, too, but I'm not sure exactly how long he was in.

  About the same time, another young JW I knew was actually sentenced to do hospital work. When his term was up, the hospital immediately hired him and he had a long and successful career with them. Talk about unequal treatment and outcomes.
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  Blood: When an Active JW is Health POA for non-JW

  by JW_Researcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  my mother has designated my sister as her ‘designated health care representative.’ my sister has sworn to my mother that, if my mother needs blood, my sister will not refuse it.

  there are no anticipated (key word) needs for blood at this time.

  my mother is in her early 80s.. my mother has never been a jw but is very familiar with all aspects of jwdom and understands the risk of my sister not allowing blood if my mother needed it.

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  Just in case anyone was wondering, my adult son was never baptized and is decidedly a non-JW. His mother is a devout PIMI JW, but trusts her son completely in all matters. She knows he loves her and can be counted on to always act in her best interest. She loves him very much, but has made it clear that J-Dawg and orders from his minions come first.
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  Blood: When an Active JW is Health POA for non-JW

  by JW_Researcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  my mother has designated my sister as her ‘designated health care representative.’ my sister has sworn to my mother that, if my mother needs blood, my sister will not refuse it.

  there are no anticipated (key word) needs for blood at this time.

  my mother is in her early 80s.. my mother has never been a jw but is very familiar with all aspects of jwdom and understands the risk of my sister not allowing blood if my mother needed it.

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  My adult son may be faced with such a sticky situation one day. He is his mother's (my ex) Designated Health Care Representative and will absolutely do whatever is necessary to make sure she has the best health care possible. She made him promise he would never authorize a blood transfusion for her. This puts him in an almost impossible position: either violate his mother's wishes and his promise to her, or risk losing his mother when she might be saved. I hope with all my being that this never arises.

  If it ever does arise, he risks being criticized either way. Certain relatives will say either (1) "You broke your solemn promise to your mother! How could you?" or (2) "You let your mother die! In a hurry for your inheritance?" Sheesh!

  All I can do is be there for him, come what may. I will support and defend him, no matter what he decides. I know his motives will be pure. That's all that counts.
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  Hotel Bossert facing foreclosure

  by RolRod in

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  2. friends

  so the hotel bossert once owned by the society is facing foreclosure .

  https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/05/06/brooklyn-heights-hotel-bossert-reported-to-be-in-pre-foreclosure/.

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  Wouldn't surprise me if WT, perhaps under a shell corporation, bought it back at a bargain price and then used unlimited free labor to fix it up so they could sell it again at a huge profit. You heard it here first, friends!
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  The story of a renegade anointed

  by Terry in

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  remarkable sister pettifog.

  this morning i arrived on my bicycle at the local starbucks early and took up a seat at the outdoor table in the fresh air.. that’s when it happened--a group of 3 older ladies at one of the other tables outside rose to leave and one of them walked over to my table and spoke directly to me.

  i was wearing earbuds at that moment and didn’t hear.

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  Great story, Terry! Thanks for running it again.
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  I Found Some Extremely Rare Rutherford Recordings

  by Nosferatu in

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  i was blown away when i found these watchtower records with rutherford on them.

  these aren't the ones that were used door to door.

  these are 16 inch records that were sent to radio stations to broadcast rutherford over the airwaves.

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  If you can figure out how to play them, please consider converting them to digital (mp3) and making them available to everyone. Lots of people would like to use them for research or just the fun of finding hidden "gems" of the old BS they used to put out.

  After you do that, I'd bet the originals would fetch a tidy sum on eBay.
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  Rod Serling might well say: Soup Herb

  by Terry in

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  rod serling might well say, "witness a man for whom success will never arrive even as his bright dreams slowly die.".

  (culver city, california 1980).

  soup herb.

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  Alas, no Soup Herb for you!
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  My personal favorite Jesus story (in woodgrain)

  by Terry in

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  my favorite jesus storya couple of years past retirement, i moved into a "retirement community" .

  old folks home) which was convenient like a hotel.. once a week there would be a coffee and doughnuts meet and greet get-together so you would know who your neighbors were.. well .

  .. i attended a few and missed a few.

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  Good story, Terry! Sometimes ya gotta go along to get along. In this case, it doesn't hurt anybody and you made a lot of old folks happy by "confirming" their delusion.

  Could I interest you in an autographed 8 x 10 glossy of Moses?
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  TIME MAGAZINE -Cult article - singles out Judge Rutherford

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,738983,00.html.

  big, blue-eyed judge joseph frederick rutherford, 60, lives in a ten-room spanish mansion, no.

  4440 braeburn road.

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  Oh yeah, forgot to point out that the article got Rutherford's name wrong. It's not James Rutherford, it was Joseph Franklin Rutherford.

  They also failed to state that his self-styled title of "Judge" was on the basis that he served as a temporary judge in a Missouri circuit for a few days. He was hardly the legal scholar he wanted people to think he was.
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  TIME MAGAZINE -Cult article - singles out Judge Rutherford

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,738983,00.html.

  big, blue-eyed judge joseph frederick rutherford, 60, lives in a ten-room spanish mansion, no.

  4440 braeburn road.

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  Like many others, I too wonder what happened to the Cadillacs. If anyone can come up with the VIN numbers, perhaps they can be traced. Wouldn't it be cool to actually have at least one of them in working order? I'm sure lots of us folks would chip in to make it happen if they still exist and we could find them.

  Oh well, just another pipe dream that's more fun to imagine than it is practical.

  Thanks for posting this, Terry! It was a great find.