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  War is a Racket, by Smedley D Butler, 1935

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  i have just become aware of a book, published in the us in 1935, called 'war is a racket', by smedley d butler, a former marine major general who was very critical of the us involvement in ww1.

  since it was apparently a popular book at the time, and butler was a prominent figure, i am wondering if rutherford's adoption of the slogan 'religion is a snare and a racket' may have been borrowed from butler.. if so, it wouldn't be the first time rutherford drew upon familiar terms of the 20's and 30's to create slogans or wt articles..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I have just become aware of a book, published in the US in 1935, called 'War is a Racket', by Smedley D Butler, a former Marine Major General who was very critical of the US involvement in WW1. Since it was apparently a popular book at the time, and Butler was a prominent figure, I am wondering if Rutherford's adoption of the slogan 'Religion is a Snare and a Racket' may have been borrowed from Butler.

  If so, it wouldn't be the first time Rutherford drew upon familiar terms of the 20's and 30's to create slogans or WT articles.
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses President Robert Ciranko dies of coronavirus

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  fyi.

  this showed up on my google feed.

  i couldn't find an earlier story in the search box.

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  Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated - Mark Twain

  Seriously though, the WT has stated (according to my wife, who is on all the zoom meetings, etc) that over 800 JWs have died from COVID-19 complications.
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  F. W. Franz epic talk May 11, 1975 (clip)

  by lastmanstanding in

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  2. bible

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vwxeenkkoary-efyhnt75iqmagx0yywf.

  f. w. franz "times in which we are particularly interested" may 11, 1975. ;introduced by kenneth a. little, a much younger man than now for sure.. the clip is 8 minutes.. unfortunately, some idiot recorded over part of this day many years ago.

  i am hoping to find another copy in the box..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I never knew where Franz was coming from until I grew up and started to read a lot of the older literature. Franz was very much a product of 19th century thinking. By reading the Studies in the Scriptures, as well as religious literature of the 1800's, I saw that he was the last of his breed, the Russellite's rooted in 1800's beliefs of dispensationalism and millenarianism. It was going out of style already when Russell picked it up in the 1870's, and was nearly unheard of by the last half of the 1900's. Yet there is still was in the WT literature, due entirely to the frozen-in-time thinking of FW Franz.
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  F. W. Franz epic talk May 11, 1975 (clip)

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vwxeenkkoary-efyhnt75iqmagx0yywf.

  f. w. franz "times in which we are particularly interested" may 11, 1975. ;introduced by kenneth a. little, a much younger man than now for sure.. the clip is 8 minutes.. unfortunately, some idiot recorded over part of this day many years ago.

  i am hoping to find another copy in the box..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I heard a number of Fred Franz's talks. Mainly because we lived in the eastern US, and my brother was in Bethel from '76-'80. We would go to attend some of the NY conventions, and other places on the East Coast. That is where you would most likely hear FW Franz, as he didn't have to travel very far. If you went to one of the conventions at the Belmont Race Track you were nearly guaranteed to hear him. All his talks kind of sounded the same. He was nearly blind in his later years, so he didn't use notes. The result was a sort of rambling, free-association style of speaking. JWs at the time thought he was sort of a genius or something. He had a way of sounding like he was brilliant, but in reality he was just bat-sh crazy.
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  F. W. Franz epic talk May 11, 1975 (clip)

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vwxeenkkoary-efyhnt75iqmagx0yywf.

  f. w. franz "times in which we are particularly interested" may 11, 1975. ;introduced by kenneth a. little, a much younger man than now for sure.. the clip is 8 minutes.. unfortunately, some idiot recorded over part of this day many years ago.

  i am hoping to find another copy in the box..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Thanks for posting. I remember hearing his talks.
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  Craziest thing you ever saw in a KH?

  by dubstepped in

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  2. experiences

  i did this in my facebook group for my podcast and it was fun.. so what's the craziest thing you ever saw?.

  for me it was watching a brother have a heart attack during the meeting in the auditorium.

  i was a kid and noticed him shaking and acting strange.

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  I passed out myself one time, but I was sitting in the back because of feeling lightheaded. I gave my wife quite a scare.
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  Jephthah's Daughter

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
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  i have noticed that the foolishness of jephthah's vow to sacrifice his daughter gets bandied around a lot as somehow approved of by god.

  i never could understand how people could come to this conclusion.

  if i wrote about something terrible that my son had done, that doesn't mean that i am for that thing.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  So was it a human sacrifice, or a devotion to the Lord, like the WT maintains?
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  More on Maryland Conventions, 1970-1975! Do you Remember?

  by Atlantis in

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  1970 circuit assembly program, sherwood high school, maryland.. .

  rented schools were the accepted places for assemblies before 1970. the high school was used all the time.

  the last one in a school in maryland came in january 2,3,4 1970.. .

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  Brother Couch was big at Bethel back then. It seems to me he was a Gilead instructor, though I could be thinking of someone else.
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  My latest letter to WT demanding correction from their side

  by Kosonen in

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  brothers and sisters associated with the watchtower society may 9, 2020. i have tried to inform you of the necessary adjustments you ought to take in order to truly be in the truth.

  but my efforts have remained fruitless.

  you well know the biblical procedure.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Good luck Koso.
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  Memories of Maryland Conventions!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  posting for brother x. petra!.

  if you were a child during the years of 1960 to 1970, the question isn't; do you remember these conventions?

  the question is; how could you forget?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Yes, one of them was Brother Silloway ( I might have the spelling wrong). He was mentioned in the '75 yearbook, I believe. He had been tarred and feathered back during WWI. When I remember him he was nearly ninety and didn't say much. He partook at the memorial and that's about it, as I recall.