i consider myself an amateur watchtower history buff.
i have always read that maria frances ackley russell, charles taze russell's first and only wife, went to a teacher training college and was a teacher for a number of years before marrying russell.
but, i have never seen proof that she truly did finish college and became a certified teacher.
Awesome! I had heard/read that she did some of the early writing in the Watchtower magazine.
Yes, she did. If you compare writing styles of the early Watchtower writings, you can tell which ones she wrote and which ones were penned unedited by CTR. His had a lot more grammar mistakes!
i consider myself an amateur watchtower history buff.
i have always read that maria frances ackley russell, charles taze russell's first and only wife, went to a teacher training college and was a teacher for a number of years before marrying russell.
but, i have never seen proof that she truly did finish college and became a certified teacher.
I consider myself an amateur Watchtower history buff. I have always read that Maria Frances Ackley Russell, Charles Taze Russell's first and only wife, went to a teacher training college and was a teacher for a number of years before marrying Russell. But, I have never seen proof that she truly did finish college and became a certified teacher. Here is proof! This is significant because it is proof of how much more educated she was than Russell, a man who would go on to create an organization that rallies against higher education.
Maria is certificate number 660.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=5uMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
greetings, techies:.
i'm teaching a class right now and my students' desktop computer is showing microsoft word upside down.
we share documents between our two computers but cannot because of this crazy turn of events.. any ideas?.
Haha! I use to do that to some of my friends at work on April Fools Day. Sometimes I would turn it sideways, and I would walk in and they were trying to work at their computer with their head cocked sideways because they couldn't figure out how to fix it. Haha. It was all in good fun and the prank was always returned in full. :)
i heard avoidjw.org is under legal attack from the watchtower society.
it's a shame because it's such a wonderful resource.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cmhopfvoim.
does anyone know what is happening with this site?
Control of information is very powerful. Evidently powerful enough to cause the Watchtower to spend a lot of money on lawyers to squash and bury any information they don't want disseminated.
just watched this movie last night.. the premise of the title and film centers around the mother of young girl, who was raped, murdered, and set on fire by an unknown killer.
convinced that the local police could be doing more, she erects billboards outside of town, calling into question the efforts of the town's beloved chief of police.
this does not sit well with the other townspeople, and soon, the town priest comes to visit and admonish her.and after hearing him tell her if she came to church more regularly, she would be able to find the peace and resolution she needs over her daughter's death, she delivers this speech to him:.
I thought it was a good movie. My only objection to the movie is how they portrayed people from Missouri. Every single character was a racist, backwoods, ignorant person. We're not ALL like that in Missouri!
just a thought.
would those who are resurrected (if it existed) to the new system have bellybuttons.
When I was a kid, the visiting Circuit Overseer told me a "riddle". He said that a man was resurrected that they have confirmed is the original Adam. How did they know for sure? The answer was "because he didn't have a belly button". I know ... lame.
i haven't stopped laughing since i heard this.
a pimo in my last congregation told me that an elder has been removed from his elder position.
apparently he grabbed another elder by the throat, put him up against a wall in the back room and punched him in on the nose... during an elders meeting on thursday evening after the meeting.. the congregation were running round like headless chickens wondering what to do?
PE's stories sound as crazy as the stories I could tell. I believe every word of it.
i haven't stopped laughing since i heard this.
a pimo in my last congregation told me that an elder has been removed from his elder position.
apparently he grabbed another elder by the throat, put him up against a wall in the back room and punched him in on the nose... during an elders meeting on thursday evening after the meeting.. the congregation were running round like headless chickens wondering what to do?
I grew up an elder's kid. We always had to stay late after the meeting with the other elder wives and kids when the elders had to meet after the regular meeting. One time, when I was around 12, the elder's meeting got so heated, we could hear them screaming at each other and at one point, pounding on the table (I think). My mom and the other elder wives made us get out our songbooks and sing "Kingdom Melodies" to drown them out so we couldn't hear what they were saying. It was crazy!
jw: didn't we just hear somebody say that the sun's gonna blow up?.
me: well, they were saying that it will expand and eventually burn out.. jw: but it can't do that, it just keeps blowing up inside and getting more power.. me: well, they were talking about stars in general, how they have a life span.. jw: but god didn't make it that way, it's firmly established to time indefinite.
it's not like the sun is a regular star.
JW: But God didn't make it that way, it's firmly established to time indefinite. It's not like the sun is a regular star. Who gave them that right to decide?
Stay in school, kids. Stay. In. School.
the oldest reference i can find is 2012, as follows:.
"think of that if you are ever tempted to violate god’s command not to associate with your disfellowshipped relatives.
" the watchtower 2012, 4/15/ p. 12 par.
Technically, while not spelled out as an official doctrine, Charles Taze Russell was the first to start shunning relatives. He was convinced his wife's sisters and friend was poisoning her mind with apostate ideas. He wrote letters to all of them forbidding any of them from speaking to his wife. During their divorce proceedings, it was indicated that Russell had gone around to most everyone and told them not to speak to his wife.
I am not sure when it became an official practice, but it was way earlier than 2012. I know they emphasized it heavy in the early 80s after "The Great Apostasy" and Ray Franz was df'd.
