The magazine started out as "Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence." It changed its name several times between 1909 and 1939 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watchtower). There was no governing body at that time. Most of the changes would have been Rutherford's doing.
Posts by JeffT
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7The Watchtower & Herald of Christs presence / The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah`s Kingdom- Why the change & when ?
by smiddy3 ini`m wondering just when and why the g.b.of jw`s made the change as they did to their official magazine.?.
at first they were advertising his presence long before they claim he actually arrived .. 1879 was the first wt wasn`t it ?
and their advertising his presence ,when according to their beliefs he din`t actually arrive with his presence until 1914.?.
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Lack of zeal
by road to nowhere ini hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.
waste of a whole morning.
isolated.
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JeffT
It's hard to be zealous over the religious equivalent of digging holes and filling them up again.
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Wausau Wisconsin Bans Throwing Of Any SNOWBALL!
by minimus inyou can’t throw a snowball at a person as kids often do.
you can’t throw it in a park, at a building, anywhere.
comments please.
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JeffT
Two snowball stories.
In the fall of 1969 I was involved in a massive snowball fight at Washington State University, fought between fraternity members and non-fraternity members. Several hundred people were involved, five went to the hospital (I believe all recovered OK) and two or three thousand dollars worth of windows were broken.
I'm not sure of the date, probably in 1940 it snowed on the University of Texas, and of course a snowball fight broke out. A young woman threw a snowball at a guy that had attracted her attention. Unfortunately she missed him and hit the guy next to him. That man fired back and one thing led to another, they married two years later. I owe my existence to my mother's inability to throw a snowball and hit her intended target.
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Make Shunning A Hate Crime
by Lost in the fog inthe humanist organisation in the uk wants to protect non-religious people who leave their church/religion from being punished for doing so.
they want the religious hate crime legislation in the uk to be extended to people who are not religious.
i hope they will succeed.
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JeffT
Consider this: if the law makes it illegal for them to shun you, it also makes it illegal for you to shun them. If your crazy JW relatives crash your birthday party to tell you Jehovah is going to kill you, throwing them out of your house might be a criminal act.
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Unpopular Opinion on Convention Protests
by Jehalapeno ini think it's really sad that people that wasted countless hours preaching for a cult are deciding to waste more hours on that same cult after leaving it.. get a hobby.
enjoy life.. "the best revenge is a life well-lived.
" - some person said this..
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JeffT
For years, at the conventions in the Seattle area, there was a guy with a large banner that said "call 244-FREE" for information about the watchtower. He was never mean, he just there with his banner. At the last convention we went to, my wife jotted down the number, but later forgot about it. A few months passed and one night, as were discussing our situation, she remembered it.
We called and I found myself talking to a minister who ran a support group for ejw's. This was in 1988, long before the internet. That man (Ralph Parsons) and his group were instrumental in our exit. Make of that what you will. I was part of the group of protestors for a few years, then moved on to other things.
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Elon Musk, And The CyberTruck That Homer Built
by Simon ini think tesla and musk have officially jumped the shark.. did you see the "cybertruck" they released?
it's like the car that homer built!.
it has to be the ugliest vehicle ever built.
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JeffT
I'm not skeptical. All you need is cord that reaches from where you are to where you're going.
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Elon Musk, And The CyberTruck That Homer Built
by Simon ini think tesla and musk have officially jumped the shark.. did you see the "cybertruck" they released?
it's like the car that homer built!.
it has to be the ugliest vehicle ever built.
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JeffT
That's not a truck. It's a suped up mess designed to be sold to yuppies that want to talk about their "truck" but wouldn't know how to drive a real truck if you gave it to them. I see them all over the place around where I live. They will really like to virtue signal that they're driving an electric "truck" but they are entirely ignorant of where the batteries come from, what it takes to make one, or where the electricity for it is generated.
Simon, I talk to some aviation people on another board. Make sure your electric plane is a hybrid. That way, when you actually need to take something somewhere in it, you can take the battery out and replace it with a gas tank. The battery will just about get you from Fort Worth to Dallas.
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What Do You Think About Banning Plastic Bags?
by minimus inwe need to save the planet so we have to stop using plastic bags!
in massachusetts, the new law will be going into effect soon.
if you go food shopping, you only cat get paper bags.. what is your opinion of the state banning plastic bags?
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First On-Screen Crush?
by Simon inmany years ago, we lived in a world where the one tv in your house might be black and white, perhaps color if you were lucky, but either way the screen was small and the arial on your house would struggle to deliver a decent signal but often fail in a fuzzy mess.
most of the movies you saw were old, there was no home video or rental - you got a chance to see something and then it was gone.
planning your viewing was important to make sure you didn't miss something so you'd carefully scan the tv guide to pick out your favourites ... good job there were only 2 or 3 channels to look through.. but you could still see quality if you went to the movie theatre and there you got to see glorious film on a giant screen (which is only now being equalled quality wise).
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JeffT
Ursala Andress in Dr. No. I was twelve.
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PROVE IT!
by minimus inthat’s my attitude toward anyone making an assertion.
i’m sick of people saying such and such is true simply because we are saying it.
i would think that those here would agree because we all have been jehovah’s witnesses.
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JeffT
Very frequently when assertions are questioned I hear "Everybody knows 'X'"
Fine if everybody knows it, finding proof should not be hard.
