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  18-Year Old Daughter Moves in with Boyfriend and studying to become a witness

  by RunAwayDaughter in

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  2. friends

  my 18-year-old-daughter, who has not finished high school, left south carolina on january 31 with her 22-year old boyfriend to move in with his family in california.

  they are jehovah witness.

  daughter: i love you too.

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  Wild_Thing

  I am third generation JW. My mother married when she was 15. My sister married when she was 18. My other sister married when she was 17. They will make sure they are married. Probably this summer. I'm so sorry. Always keep the door to communication open. She'll need someone to turn to once she realizes the truth.

  Also, this exact same situation happened with a family where I grew up. They moved the girl in with them. Helped her finish high school, got her baptized, and married to their son before the end of the summer. The local JW busy-body sisters even got involved and helped her dye her white wedding dress in tea because "white is supposed to symbolize purity" and she was not because she wasn't a virgin anymore. It sounds so cultish as I type this out.
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  Watchtower Telephone Books!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
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  watchtower telephone booksdownload1999https://we.tl/2wddq7vcwv2015https://we.tl/pfhhniienc2017https://we.tl/pjxyjtvbrx.

  petra!.

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  Wild_Thing

  I don't like this. It makes me nervous. There are crazy people everywhere, even among ex-JWs. It definitely makes everyone listed in those phonebooks a potential target for someone to harm.

  Many of those listed are 18, 19 year old brainwashed kids who were forced to watch a video about improper placement of their pillows. Releasing the old outdated ones is one thing, but releasing a current one, with current information is not very responsible.
  
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  What are the big black tanks that were installed and buried at Beth Sarim?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  i have been watching this video.

  at about the 4:40 mark, the footage shows a big black tank with two windows (they look like windows).

  at the 4:46 mark, you can 2 of the tanks already in the ground and they being installing a third one.

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  Wild_Thing

  If only they had the internet and social media back then to expose Rutherford ... it could have saved us all!

  Also, I live only an hour and half drive from Boonville, where he supposedly practiced law. I have considered going there and diving into their archives. Maybe this summer. Has anyone else already done this work?
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  What are the big black tanks that were installed and buried at Beth Sarim?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been watching this video.

  at about the 4:40 mark, the footage shows a big black tank with two windows (they look like windows).

  at the 4:46 mark, you can 2 of the tanks already in the ground and they being installing a third one.

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  Wild_Thing

  I was wondering if it was Bonnie Boyd. Are you saying that is who it is, or do you just suspect?
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  What are the big black tanks that were installed and buried at Beth Sarim?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been watching this video.

  at about the 4:40 mark, the footage shows a big black tank with two windows (they look like windows).

  at the 4:46 mark, you can 2 of the tanks already in the ground and they being installing a third one.

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  Wild_Thing

  It is interesting the little nuances you notice if you pause the footage periodically and just study the surroundings. I would love to know who the other people are in the video, especially the woman at the beginning.

  And it is really creepy when JFR sticks his tongue out at the beginning.
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  What are the big black tanks that were installed and buried at Beth Sarim?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been watching this video.

  at about the 4:40 mark, the footage shows a big black tank with two windows (they look like windows).

  at the 4:46 mark, you can 2 of the tanks already in the ground and they being installing a third one.

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  Wild_Thing

  Thanks, Finkelstein. That makes sense in context of the video, as well. They certainly had enough water. Those tanks are huge.
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  What are the big black tanks that were installed and buried at Beth Sarim?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been watching this video.

  at about the 4:40 mark, the footage shows a big black tank with two windows (they look like windows).

  at the 4:46 mark, you can 2 of the tanks already in the ground and they being installing a third one.

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  Wild_Thing

  I have been watching this video. At about the 4:40 mark, the footage shows a big black tank with two windows (they look like windows). At the 4:46 mark, you can 2 of the tanks already in the ground and they being installing a third one. They are huge. What are they? Bomb shelters?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNchfPqFmPk&t=333s
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  Watchtower History Gem: I Found When Maria Got Her Teaching Certificate

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

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  If you compare the dates each volume was published with dates of documented events in their marriage, I think it is safe to assume that Maria likely did not have any part in writing the 4th volume. Their marriage was on the rocks pretty early in the 1880s. It appears that as CTR became more fanatical with his views and self-aggrandizing, the more conflict there was in their marriage. I do think volume one was either a joint venture between the two, or completely penned by Maria.

  Studies in the Scriptures:

  Volume 1: The Divine Plan of the Ages (1886)

  Volume 2: The Time is at Hand (1889)

  Volume 3: "Thy Kingdom Come" (1891)

  Volume 4: The Battle of Armageddon (1897)

  Volume 5: The At-One-Ment Between God and Man (1899)

  Volume 6: The New Creation (1904)

  The Marriage of Charles and Maria Russell:

  1979 - Married

  1895 - Maria claims this was the first year that Charles first suggested separation

  1896 - Charles and Maria disagree about the editorship of the paper. Russell wrote letter to Maria saying their marriage was a mistake. He said, "For the past three years you have been cruelly forcing upon me the evidence that we both erred when we married."

  1897 - Separated in November

  1897-1909 - Drama, drama, drama until separation/divorce was final
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  Watchtower History Gem: I Found When Maria Got Her Teaching Certificate

  by Wild_Thing in

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  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.

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  Wild_Thing

  Just for the record, her name is actually pronounced MORIAH

  I have always wondered why a white English family in the mid 1850s would give their child a hispanic name!
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  Watchtower History Gem: I Found When Maria Got Her Teaching Certificate

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

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  Wild_Thing

  There are scientists who specialize in analyzing writing patterns to identify authorship. They have done that with books of the bible, with an unknown degree of accuracy. Since we have known samples of C.T.'s writing and known samples of Maria's writing, I would think it would be fairly easy for someone with the expertise to determine authorship of Studies in the Scriptures. I wonder how much this venture would cost? (More than I have, but I am curious).