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1914.... Quotes that mislead the reader

by drew sagan in

one of the main ways the watchtower is able to mislead people is by impressing them that they actually fortold the events of 1914. they point to magazine articles and simply make stuff up in order to 'prove' that years in advance they announced that christ would return in 1914. typical is this quote: why, then, do the nations not realize and accept the approach of this climax of judgment?

it is because they have not heeded the world wide advertising of christs return and his second presence.

since long before world war i jehovahs witnesses pointed to 1914 as the time for this great event to occur.

Wild_Thing

Didnt Russell and the rest of bethel, stand on Brooklyn bridge waiting for armageddon in Oct 1914 ??
Im sure I read somewhere that they did
October has 31 days. Winter time. The bridge is very breezy.
Urban legend.
Not exactly urban legend, just wrote time, wrong location. The Russellites stood on a bridge in Pittsburgh on Good Friday in 1878, dressed in white robes, waiting for the rapture. (As reported in a Pittsburgh newspaper.) Russell later denied he was there. He said some of his more "radical" followers were there. Who knows.

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JW article "Armageddon, Inc." in the Saturday Evening Post

by Wild_Thing in

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has anybody ever seen the article in the saturday evening post called "armageddon, inc"?

i can't post it due to copyright issues, but if you have access to a library or university archives, it is definitely worth it!

it was printed in 1940, but other than the references to the "judge" it reads like it was printed yesterday!

Wild_Thing

Guess what! I found it online ... the original with all the pics!

http://www.catholic-forum.com/members/popestleo/armageddoninc.html

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JW article "Armageddon, Inc." in the Saturday Evening Post

by Wild_Thing in

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has anybody ever seen the article in the saturday evening post called "armageddon, inc"?

i can't post it due to copyright issues, but if you have access to a library or university archives, it is definitely worth it!

it was printed in 1940, but other than the references to the "judge" it reads like it was printed yesterday!

Wild_Thing

Thank you, Gordy. Yes, that is the article! It doesn't have the pictures, but just the words are worth having. Rutherford was like a worshipped celebrity. I think he should get full credit for starting the JW cult ... not Russell. It makes me nausous! I wonder how many JW women secretly wanted to throw their panties at him.

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JW article "Armageddon, Inc." in the Saturday Evening Post

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

has anybody ever seen the article in the saturday evening post called "armageddon, inc"?

i can't post it due to copyright issues, but if you have access to a library or university archives, it is definitely worth it!

it was printed in 1940, but other than the references to the "judge" it reads like it was printed yesterday!

Wild_Thing

Has anybody ever seen the article in the Saturday Evening Post called "Armageddon, Inc"? I can't post it due to copyright issues, but if you have access to a library or university archives, it is definitely worth it! It was printed in 1940, but other than the references to the "Judge" it reads like it was printed yesterday! It is 7 pages long and covers the history of Russell and Rutherford and has several pictures ... some quite hilarious. One of them is a picture I have seen on the internet of Rutherford with his "bodyguards".

The article begins:

F
OR conscientious cussedness on the grand
scale, no other aggregation of Americans is a
match for .lehovah"s Witnesses. Defiance of
what others cherish and revere is their daily meat.

And I can't resist posting this picture. Hilarious! If you can't tell, the old lady is holding a hearing horn up to her ear. The caption below says : "How's that again? The officer is having a difficult time telling this Witness she can't distribute literature without a permit."

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HOW THE JUDGE STOLE CHRISTMAS

by Mary in

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de judge hated christmas!

"i must find a way to keep christmas from coming!

i must stop christmas from coming!

Wild_Thing

Very cute!!! And you are talented, too!

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Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!

by Wild_Thing in

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i have been doing some research and came across this.

you can go here directly .

click on the image to toggle between big and small.

Wild_Thing

Thanks, cabasilas! I didn't think about saving it as a pdf file. And I do have many scans, but I am still working on collecting more. So far, I have concentrated my search from the late 1800's to about 1930.

The thing that is really frustrating to me is that I know that there are probably a lot of newspaper articles about Russell in the Pittsburgh paper, but they have not digitized their archives, so it is difficult to find newspaper scans short of going there in person or paying for a third party newspaper archive membership, and they may or may not have the Pittsburgh papers.

I would love to see the actual newspaper article where it says that Russell stood on a bridge waiting for the rapture in 1878. I know it was a Pittsburgh paper.

It is also amazing to me how many advertisements the early watchtower took out in newspapers. They aren't litte ones either! Most of them have graphics and almost always has Rutherford's pictures, and those cost a lot of money to print. They really poored a lot on money into marketing.

This one shows the beginning of the irony. From May 12, 1928:

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My family is held so tight

by whatlite? in

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does anyone have any suggestions?.

my sister has not spoken to me in almost two years.

she thinks i am an apostate for knowing the watchtower joined the un.

Wild_Thing

It took some time, but my family and I now have an unspoken mutual understanding. They don't say anything to me about not being a witness, and I don't say anything to them (or challenge them) about being a witness. Sometimes it makes it awkward, and I sometimes I wish so bad I could show them things to wake them up, but it in reality, they probably wouldn't listen or believe me, and it would only serve to alienate them. I talk to them frequenltly and see my neices and nepthew often.

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Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!

by Wild_Thing in

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i have been doing some research and came across this.

you can go here directly .

click on the image to toggle between big and small.

Wild_Thing

This is from September 24, 1921, Oakland Tribume, Oakland, California. They actually state the 1925 date as being the end of the world.

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Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

i have been doing some research and came across this.

you can go here directly .

click on the image to toggle between big and small.

Wild_Thing

I hotlinked it. How about here: http://wildthing44.bravehost.com/1919%20Apr28%20Oakland%20Tribune%20(Oakland,%20California).jpg

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Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

i have been doing some research and came across this.

you can go here directly .

click on the image to toggle between big and small.

Wild_Thing

I have been doing some research and came across this. You can go here directly . Click on the image to toggle between big and small. I have a few others that are just as good, but I thought this one was the best so far. They paid for a full page ad to declare the end of the world! Sheesh!

I didn't shrink the image because then the small newspaper print becomes unreadable.

From April 28, 1919, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California.

Edited: I decided not to embed the image because it is so big.

Wild_Thing

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Didnt Russell and the rest of bethel, stand on Brooklyn bridge waiting for armageddon in Oct 1914 ??