I just checked the IRS charitable organization website! This is the first time they have begun posting tax returns on charitable organizations. For the fiscal year 2016 they reported $1,590,239,000! in assets. LV101, for tax purposes, Watchtower of NY is the 'umbrella' or group corporation used to file tax returns for all the US corporations. So this amount is total for all US corporate assets. THIS IS INCREDIBLE!
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Watchtower Tax Return
by Tahoe inphoto credit: dallas canadathis is from only one of the corporations and before the recent kh sell offs.
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Charlie Russell, A Zionist Hero
by fulltimestudent ini was rather surprised today as i explored some archaeological news for my macquarie asian history fb page, to be suddenly confronted with this heading in the israeli haaretz media site.. before herzl, there was pastor russell: a neglected chapter of zionism.
years before theodor herzl proposed creating a jewish state, charles taze russell was traveling the world holding jewish mass meetings, beginning in 1879, at which he urged jews to find a national home in eretz israel.
... and this quote from charlie's zion's watchtower (p. 329, 1892: .
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For the sake of historical accuracy, J.F. Rutherford was also a Zionist until he turned his attention to the promulgation of the idea of an earthly 'Great Multitude'. He was the author of the publication COMFORT FOR THE JEWS written in 1925 and expanded on Russell's Zionist theology.
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Knorr Family
by vienne infor a secondary project, i need basic biography of n. h. knorr's parents and brother and sister.
we have some details, which i have posted on our history blog: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if you can add to this, please do..
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"Then explain why when soup was served to the Bethelites, he insisted on only serving Knorr soups." - RubaDub
If my memory serves me correctly, we rarely if ever had soup at Bethel. I also worked as a substitute waiter at Bethel and had access to the kitchen and food preparation area. Never did I see any Knorr products in the food store rooms. If you have knowledge of your claim, I would like to see it.
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Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction
by George One Time inon tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.
he mentions health and viewing pornography.
those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.
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What form of pornography are they talking about? Sexual pornography or religious pornography?
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Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction
by George One Time inon tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.
he mentions health and viewing pornography.
those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.
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"an overlapping year" or an overfapping year?
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Knorr Family
by vienne infor a secondary project, i need basic biography of n. h. knorr's parents and brother and sister.
we have some details, which i have posted on our history blog: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if you can add to this, please do..
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"He lived with his parents into his 20s" - vienne
According to the PROCLAIMERS book, on page 91 it states: "On September 6, 1923, Brother Knorr became a member of the Bethel family in Brooklyn." That would make him 18 years old when he started his Bethel service and so he would no longer be living in his parents home. If you have evidence to the contrary, that would be interesting to see!
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Knorr Family
by vienne infor a secondary project, i need basic biography of n. h. knorr's parents and brother and sister.
we have some details, which i have posted on our history blog: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if you can add to this, please do..
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I am not aware of the pillow fight story. Could you elaborate. Were you ever a Witness?
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Animals
by unsure inif humans have to suffer to have free will and to disprove satan's challenge to god as mentioned in the bible...then why the f*ck do animals have to suffer as well?
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satan's challenge involved humans and not poor animals.. i'm looking for an honest explanation from believers.. at this point, the older i get, the less i believe in a god who is "love"..
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"I ask you where HUMANS get the concept of love from," - johnamos Probably from the same 'source' as they got the concept of hate, greed, lust, guilt, shame, fear, prejudice and on and on. Humans are a complicated species that think, emote, and react along a continuum of both 'good' and 'bad' moral and ethical choices. In other words, who the hell knows why we are the way we are.
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Knorr Family
by vienne infor a secondary project, i need basic biography of n. h. knorr's parents and brother and sister.
we have some details, which i have posted on our history blog: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if you can add to this, please do..
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I was a Bethelite in the mid 70's. 1974, 1975 and 1976. I was somewhat friendly with Sam Van Sipma who was one of the assistant editors of Consolation and Golden Age. I did not know Knorr personally but ran into him on occasion. I picked up bits and pieces of gossip from friends of his wife, too.
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Knorr Family
by vienne infor a secondary project, i need basic biography of n. h. knorr's parents and brother and sister.
we have some details, which i have posted on our history blog: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.
if you can add to this, please do..
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Thank you OrphanCrow for posting that interesting historical tidbit. I had heard at Bethel that Nathan was a distant relative to the founder of Knorr food products but never have I heard it out of the Bethel context. I am not a historian nor do I play one on television and so your post had meaning for me as an ex-Bethelite. As an interesting anecdote: One of the old 'old timers' that I knew at Bethel said that Rutherford thought more of Nathan Knorr than he did of his own son Malcolm. On one of their 'service trips' to Europe they went and visited the Swiss Alps. It was reported (but not actually written down for posterity) that on seeing the Alps, Nathan was speechless and cried like a baby at their beauty. Purely third hand gossip, but it possibly shows a more human side to the businesslike Knorr.