170 years of watchtower history.
this video was made using material researched from their own publications as well as outside sources.. this wasn't produced to bash the organisation but provide a background to its origin and path to today.
the organisation's falls on the merit that this is factual and not sensational.
170 years of Watchtower History
This video was made using material researched from their own publications as well as outside sources.
This wasn't produced to bash the organisation but provide a background to its origin and path to today. The organisation's falls on the merit that this is factual and not sensational.
It can be shown to JWs as a neutral piece even though the religion doesn't come out looking that great.
many witnesses in my opinion know nothing about the religion.
they don’t understand the history, the doctrines or the bible.
many people become jws because they were raised as witnesses so they take the plunge.
I was in a group of teenagers in my congregation and one by one they were getting dipped so I thought, "Why not?"
At this time there was no shunning policy (which, I believe started in the early 80s).
I was pretty well versed in the history re CT Russell and Rutherford as these fine upstanding gentlemen had been covered in a Tuesday night study book (Babylon the Great has fallen - God's Kingdom Rules - this might have been the title ?????). It was turgid and hard going but there was a sanitised version of the history with great emphasis placed on the imprisonment of Rutherford and his cohorts.
In respect of the fact that I was getting into a religion, I was fully cognisant. As to the whole shunning thing - it had yet to be invented as a loving and caring way to bring us all back into the fold.
this is my very first post.
i wonder if there is anybody out there who lives in devon, england, where we now live.
would like to here from you.. jdubhub
16 years ago? Wow. Moved to Devon recently - no hope of catching you up now, I guess.
