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Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction
by George One Time in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on 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.
sparky1

"an overlapping year" or an overfapping year?
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Knorr Family
by vienne in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for 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..
sparky1

"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 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for 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..
sparky1

I am not aware of the pillow fight story. Could you elaborate. Were you ever a Witness?
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Animals
by unsure in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if 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"..
sparky1

"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 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for 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..
sparky1

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 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for 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..
sparky1

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.
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Knorr Family
by vienne in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for 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..
sparky1

Philostorgos...........because we 'are brothers under the skin' and have shared similar life experiences.
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Knorr Family
by vienne in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for 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..
sparky1

Thank you Desirous Of Change. I will do just that:
My post on Knorr soup and any connection with Nathan Knorr was satire.
P.S.: To my knowledge Nathan Knorr had no connection with the Knorr soup company.
P. P.S.: Good luck Vienne with your project. The Knorr family deserves to be included in your early history writings since Nathan Knorr had such a huge influence on the Jehovah's Witness religion prior to the establishment of the modern day Governing Body in the 1970's.
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Knorr Family
by vienne in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for 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..
sparky1

"Folks, won't you try my soups. Their taste is 'heavenly' and they will open to you a whole 'New World' of flavor. Each spoonful will 'resurrect' your taste buds and transport you to a 'paradise' of pleasure. They come in 144,000 varieties and are fit for only a small 'remnant' of kingly palate's. Remember, Knorr soups have been delighting 'overlapping generations' since 1874. Yes my soups are indeed 'food at the proper time'!"
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JW marketing image
by neat blue dog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
picture from a recent watchtower:.

what diversity.

what corporate synergy.
sparky1

Selling religion is no different than selling any other product: