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Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie
Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie
Leolaia (3/6/2008)
In September 2004, Farkel posted an article on this forum called "Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie." His essay, which subsequently was translated into several languages and which received over 10,000 views after the first month, spawned a thread that ran 28 pages and contained the collaborative research efforts of many in JWD. This thread was thought by some moderators to be the best in the forum -- not necessarily because of the claims in the original essay but because it inspired a staggering amount of research aimed at assessing the credibility of the claims made in the essay, as well as adding to our knowledge of this fascinating yet obscure chapter of Watchtower history.
And then, it was all gone. Through some software quirk, the thread became corrupted and would no longer load. But a number of participants in the thread had the foresight to download the thread and save copies of it -- though in varying degrees of completeness. Fortunately, it was enough to recover virtually all the content from the original thread. Last fall, I spent a week reconstructing the thread by creating tables in Microsoft Word that simulated the formatting of JWD, and by cutting and pasting content into the appropriate cells. After this painstaking work, I produced a PDF that has both the look and feel of the original thread. This PDF (13.7 MB in size) can be downloaded here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?gjslw10zzmw
I have also included an appendix containing similar material from earlier threads in JWD. Please use the bookmarks panel in your PDF program to easily navigate from page to page in the thread.
So what did the original essay claim? In short, here are several of its main revelations:
A JWD poster named larc (Carl Thornton) is the nephew of a woman named Berta Peale who was a close associate of JF Rutherford from 1937 to his death in 1942. (Verified by public records that show that the Berta who was an associate of Rutherford was indeed larc's aunt)
Berta told larc's relatives regarding Rutherford: "He was like a husband to me in every way". (Unverified, but larc's wife also testifies to this)
Rutherford was married and had a son, but he was separated from his wife. (Verified by public records, which show that Rutherford and his wife lived separately from the mid-1920s onward)
larc reveals that Berta herself abandoned her husband of 15 years to go to Bethel in 1938. Her husband Alfred Peale, a resident of Ohio, filed for divorce on the grounds of abandonment, which was granted in 1940 (Berta's marriage to Alfred is verified with public records, larc had a copy of the paperwork from Alfred's filing)
Berta was a friend of Rutherford's personal secretary Bonnie Boyd who travelled with Bonnie and Rutherford to Europe the summer before 1938. (Verified with actual ship records) Unlike nearly everyone else who came to Bethel, Berta started at the top.
Berta lived thereafter with Rutherford as his personal dietician, despite not having any training in nutrition. Rutherford already had a qualified dietician at Bethel, yet Berta assumed this job quickly after arriving to Bethel in 1938 (Verified with data from the Moyle trial transcript and public records)
A few months before Berta came to Bethel, Bonnie Boyd married William Heath, a Coca-Cola heir from Atlanta, GA. This was very controversial at Bethel at the time, as it broke rules on marriage with non-Bethelites (Verified with public records and the Moyle trial transcript)
Prior to Berta's arrival to Bethel, Bonnie had been one of Rutherford's closest associates, working for many years as his private secretary. Bonnie publically claimed to have been Rutherford's adopted daughter, even though she was not. (Verified with public records)
Farkel points out the following similarities between Berta and Bonnie: (1) Both women were among to "closest" people to Rutherford while he was president, (2) Both women were constant traveling and living companions, (3) Both women broke the organization's rules on marriage but were in Rutherford's good graces, and among other things, (4) Both were quickly propelled to the top of the organization.
Finally, there are a few other unverified stories that add to the suspicion of Rutherford's infidelity. Farkelreported an account, previously posted by AlanF, that once when Rutherford was staying at a hotel, the person who straightened up his room found a lady's hairpin in his bed. According to AlanF, this occurred in 1928 and the incident led to the stumbling of a number of Bible Students in the Buffalo, New York, area. Both claim that M. James Penton has been doing research on this incident. Moreover another poster, cyberguy, was friends with an elder from Long Beach, CA who knew Berta. He related that Berta had a bedroom adjoining Rutherford's in the train car they used in their travels, with a directly connecting door between the two rooms. He learned this when Berta met with the elders before she died and gave them a full confession, showing them home movies of the two of them together.
None of this proves beyond doubt that Rutherford had "improper" relationships with other women, but when taken together the evidence is especially suggestive. Various posters in the previous thread held different opinions on the matter, but larc effectively presents the case along these lines:
"I do like your questions they add a lot to our party, but let us analyze the situation. 1. Berta starts her career at the top of the organization, not at the bottom, like all other sisters. 2. She is hired as Rutherford's dietician, even though he already has one. The guy doesn't go to Europe and Beth Sarim, Berta does. Berta had no training whatsoever for this job. According to my cousin, Berta was the dumbest of the 6 children in her family, albeit, she was a classical beauty. 3. She wears scandalous underwear which would get a sister disfellowshipped today. 4. She lives at Beth Sarim until it was sold. Obviously, she was in good standing. 5. She left her husband in Ohio to move to Bethel. He had to file for divorce, and all the paper work was sent to Bethel. One thing I forgot to mention, my wife remembers Berta saying, Rutherford was like a husband to me, now now what does that mean? I used to be embarrassed about this, but I really don't care any more. Can I absolutely prove this. No, I have no photographs of them in bed, but I do think the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming."
Jim Penton also presented much of this evidence in his recent book Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution (the foreword of which was written by larc). On pp. 102-103, Penton wrote:
"There is also strong circumstantial evidence that he [Rutherford] was somewhat of a womanizer and may have had a mistress in the last years of his life. Regarding Rutherford's possible womanizing, Peter Moyle has written: 'It has also been known, albeit 'carefully covered,' that Rutherford liked his women and his whiskey.' In support of this allegation, family members of Rutherford's female dietician and nurse are convinced she was his mistress. The woman in question, a Mrs Berta Peale, was a close friend of Bonnie Boyd, Rutherford's stenographer. She accompanied Boyd to a Watch Tower convention in Europe at some point in the mid or late 1930s. At that convention she evidently met Rutherford. Thereafter, in June 1938, she abandond her non-Jehovah's Witness husband of fifteen years and moved to the Brooklyn Bethel where at least outwardly she became Rutherford's dietician and nurse. In November 1939 her husband, Albert Peale, filed for a divorce from her. It was granted in March 1940. Naturally, these facts raise serious questions. Why did Rutherford accept her at Bethel when she had openly deserted her husband? Such behaviour was in clear violation of biblical teachings as understood by Jehovah's Witnesses. Why did the judge make her his nurse and dietician when he already had a male nurse and when she had no formal training as either a dietician or a nurse? And why, finally, did he take Mrs Peale, an attractice southern belle, with him wherever he went? That was something he did not do with his male nurse, Matthew Howlett.
"Another strong indication that Rutherford may have been sexually adventurous is that his wife obviously felt quite bitter toward him. She had not lived with him for many years. His excuse was that she was an invalid and could not give him his 'marital dues'; however, there was more to the matter than that. He seldom if ever bothered to visit her. So when he was dying of cancer, both she and their son Malcolm practically ignored him even though both were living nearby in southern California.
"Despite Peter Moyle's assertion, the facts surrounding Rutherford's highly questionable relationship with Mrs Peale, his alienation from his wife and son, and various rumours that circulated among disillusioned Bible Student-Witnesses that raise questions about his conduct, there is no direct proof that he was sexually immoral. Still, with so much evidence to suggest he was, it is difficult to believe he was not."
However, Farkel's thread gave us all an opportunity to check out the claims and dig up new evidence. The field of inquiry widened beyond simply the question of Rutherford's likely infidelity, but towards understanding who these people were in this era of Watchtower history....what do we know about the families and lives of Bonnie Boyd, Berta Peale, the Balkos (the caretakers of Rutherford's mansion, Beth Sarim), Malcolm and Mary Rutherford, William P. Heath, etc. In the course of this research, we uncovered a number of new revelations. Among other things:
The caretakers of Beth Sarim, August and Blanch Balko, had two children born around the time Beth Sarim was built: Princess Bonnie Balko and Prince Joseph Balko. It is striking that they named their two children after the two other major residents of Beth Sarim: Bonnie Boyd and Joseph Rutherford. But here is the weird thing: Bonnie Balko was born and named "Bonnie" in 1929, before the Balkos moved out to California to live with Rutherford and Boyd. So what connection did the Balkos have with Bonnie Boyd and Rutherford BEFORE they took their jobs at Beth Sarim? There may have been a link with Bonnie's mother Victoria, who lived part of her life in Texas -- the same state the Balkos came from.
William Pratt Heath, himself wealthy from his family's interests in Coca Cola, had a sister Susette (also a converted JW) who married Eugene R. Black. Black was the president of the World Bank from 1949 to 1962. Prior to this he was a very successful New York investment banker. Such a close family connection with Bonnie Boyd is striking in light of Rutherford's constant vitriol against "Big Business" and international bankers.
We also discovered that William P. Heath himself had been married to another woman, Dorothy Smith Heath, whom he divorced just one week before he got a "quickie" wedding with Bonnie Boyd in Las Vegas. Divorce was still quite scandalous in the 1930s, yet we see that two divorces occurred around the same time with two of Rutherford's closest associates, William divorcing his wife to marry Bonnie and Alfred divorcing his wife Berta because she abandoned him to become Rutherford's dietician. Because of the timing of the divorce, William would have courted Bonnie while he was still married.
A big unexpected surprise was the finding that Malcolm Rutherford and his wife Pauline accompanied his father Joseph Rutherford, Bonnie Boyd, William Heath, and Berta Peale on the S. S. Mariposa, headed to Honolulu, HI. This calls into doubt the assumption that Rutherford had no contact whatsoever with his son. It is unknown however what happened between them and on what terms they left things when they parted.
The most significant discovery is that Bonnie Boyd's age varied widely (and maddingly) in the different records she was mentioned, especially immigration-customs records. This suggests that she falsified her age in government documents such as her passport. There was also a pattern in her age discrepency. In 1924, a year after she came to Bethel, she claimed she was 27 years old and born on 7/17/1896. This birthdate gradually drifted upward through the years, to 7/17/1898, then to 7/17/1899, then 7/17/1900, 7/17/1901, 7/17/1902, 7/17/1903, until finally she claimed an age of 34 and a birthdate of 7/17/1904 in 1938. This made her 19 years old when she came to Bethel in 1923. Finally, in the interview with a San Diego newspaper in 1942, she claimed that she was 16 years old when she first became a companion of Rutherford, as his "adopted daughter". This duplicity has made it almost impossible to determine when Bonnie was actually born, although I suspect that 7/17/1896 is probably the original birthdate, not the later more recent ones. What makes this intriguing is that a similar pattern of age misrepresentation surrounded Rose Ball, with whom Charles T. Russell was accused (by his wife Maria Russell) of having an improper relationship. In defending Russell from criticism in the press, Rutherford argued that Russell could not have acted untoward with her because Rose was only a little girl when she came to the household and, being an orphan, was treated like an adopted daughter. This claim turns out to have been false, as Rose was neither an orphan or a juvenile at that time (as public records demonstrate). Since Rutherford used this age deception as a means of defending the president of the WTB&TS from rumors of sexual immorality, the question is raised if the situation was similar with Bonnie Boyd's claims about her age and relationship with Rutherford.
I have started this new thread to continue the discussion and research. There are still many avenues worth pursuing in discovering new details about these persons from the Watchtower Society's past. I also hope the talents of some of the newer members of JWD may be applied to this subject.
Finally, it must be mentioned that sadly larc passed away a few years ago. He was a friend of many here and is greatly missed, and this thread is dedicated to him.
In my next post, I will repost Farkel's original "Rutherford Exposed" essay.
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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If the statement that soon follows catches your curiosity, keep reading. It was made by a beautiful woman who was Rutherford's constant traveling companion who did not work her way up the Bethel ladder (like almost all other women had to do) yet immediately came into his inner circle upon entering Bethel. It was made by a woman who abandoned her own husband of fifteen years to enter Bethel. It was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas. It was made by a women who during all of what I've described was an anointed sister and pioneer to the end of her life and was never reprimanded for any of the conduct I've just mentioned.
What did she say about Judge Rutherford?
She said, "He was like a husband to me in every way."
Before we get down to the details, let us review what we KNOW about Judge Rutherford as this gets to PATTERN of attitude and conduct:
He was a false prophet.
He was a tragic alcoholic.
He was a hypocrite who lived and traveled like royalty.
He was cruel, ruthless and vindictive.
It is my non-medical opinion that he was a narcissist and I will make comments based upon that assumption. Even if he wasn't clinically a narcissist, he exhibited a lot of traits associated with narcissism.
He had no genuine and close friends.
He was a man of hate, bitterness and revenge.
He was a federal lawbreaker who drank and had booze smuggled for him during Prohibition.
He was a man who scorned, even despised people who wanted to improve their own character and ethics.
He was an instigator who intentionally used his followers as pawns to start riots which hurt them but helped him get the publicity he craved.
He was a man who despite the fact he had no legitimate claim to the somewhat lofty title, insisted upon being called "Judge" for the entire time he ran the WTS.
He was a pathetic, rotten husband and father who was at least despised by his own son and probably by his own wife, neither of whom cared enough about him to go to his own funeral.
He was so disliked by his fellow Bethelites that only four of them attended his funeral.
He was a man whose prolific writings were so worthless that none of them are now being printed.
Narcissistic people consider themselves to be exempt from all the rules that should universally apply to everyone.
As a narcissist, he was a man who considered himself "above the law of the land" when Prohibition outlawed the possession and consumption of alcohol.
As a narcissist, he was a man who considered himself "above his OWN law" when he told people they could only gain salvation by preaching from door to door when he never did it himself as leader of the WTS.
As a narcissist, he considered himself "above the Christian law" of decency and honesty when he wrongly and intentionally vilified and libeled Olin Moyle and Walter Salter.
As a narcissist, he considered himself "above the Christian law" to be "no part of this world," when he meddled in politics in 1934 and praised Hitler while condemning the very government which allowed him to freely get away with his shennanigans.
In fact, the question could rightly be asked, "what (if any) rule or code of ethical conduct that he demanded of his followers did he himself actually obey?"
We are now down to the real question I'm going to ask: given the gross and unethical conduct of Rutherford I've just outlined, would he be more or less inclined to break yet another law, the Christian law against the commission of adultery? As a true narcissist, did Rutherford consider himself to be above the law against adultery?
The best evidence for or against this question would of course come from eyewitnesses, but most or all potential eyewitnesses are now dead.
Newly Revealed Evidence for Rutherford's Sexual Infidelity
The evidence comes from a man who is a long time poster on this board. He posts as "larc" and many of you like myself know him and have spoken with him. A number of you have personally met him. He not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times. She was a relative, being the aunt of his own mother.
Up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with Rutherford was kept by the family. They were ashamed of what she had done. On the other hand, "larc" has stated that no one in the family ever spoke poorly of her.
Obviously, this is evidence that no family member is or was out to "get" her. They have no reason to lie about a secret they've kept for so long.
This woman was a good friend of Bonnie Boyd before coming to Bethel in 1938. Bonnie Boyd was Rutherford's personal secretary. When this woman arrived at Bethel, she was immediately given a job as Rutherford's personal dietician, although she had no experience or training in that field and Rutherford already had a man in this position at that time.
Nearly all women have to start out in Bethel as maids or work in the laundry, which are the lowest of jobs. Why was she so lucky to get a top-notch job immediately upon coming to Bethel?
Why did she get to go everywhere Rutherford went, including traveling first class to Europe six to eight weeks a year and spending winters in the Beth Sarim mansion? Why did she become Rutherford's personal dietician WHILE TRAVELING when Rutherford already had a man as his personal dietician at Bethel?
Was it merely just because she was so beautiful and Rutherford had a fondness for beautiful women? Or is there more?
Her maiden name was Berta Teel. Her married name was Berta Peale. But before we discuss more about her, we will spend a little time talking about Bonnie Boyd. Bonnie Boyd and Berta Peale had some strange similarities and circumstances in their relationships with Rutherford.
Bonnie Boyd-Heath
Bonnie Boyd came to Bethel with her mother in 1923 and worked as a stenographer for W.E. Van Amburgh, a top-ranking Watchtower official. Yet that same year she then became a stenographer for Rutherford. In about 1931 she became Rutherford's personal secretary. According to her testimony in the Moyle vs. Franz trial on page 1367 she stated she took all dictation for all books and Watch Tower articles authored by Rutherford. Her husband William Heath testified that ONLY Bonnie saw Rutherford's writings until they were turned over for proofreading and publication.
Bonnie Boyd had a VERY important position in the WTS. She also lived in the lavish surroundings and manner as her boss. The same Moyle case has her testifying that she went on six to eight week annual trips to Europe with Rutherford and had done so for twenty years. (page 1382) Yet Boyd came to Bethel as a GIRL in the Fall of 1923 with her mother and Rutherford died in 1942, nineteen years later. A few weeks after Rutherford's death, the San Diego Union on February 18, 1942 quoted her as saying she was the "adopted daughter" of Judge Rutherford, and had been with him continuously since she was 16.
Why would Rutherford take a 16 year old GIRL as a constant companion? Rutherford considered women as inferiors who should keep their proper place as indicated by his oft stated comment that women were only "a stack of bones and a hank of hair." (September 15, 1941 WT, page 287) Once again, if Rutherford thought so little of women WHY did he have as a "constant companion" a 16 year old GIRL? Because he was generous and caring? No one knew him to be that.
Bonnie Boyd was one of the four or so "witnesses" who signed the deed to Beth Sarim in January of 1930. If she was only 16 in the Fall of 1923 when she came to Bethel, she would only be about 21 years of age when she signed the very significant deed to Beth Sarim. What did she, a very young women do to deserve such an honor of having her name attached to a deed of that importance?
In 1938 Bonnie Boyd married William Heath, an heir to one of the founders of the Coca Cola company. Heath was very, very rich. She continued to accompany Rutherford along with her new husband everywhere he went. But there was ONE thing that had changed. Her husband was heir to part of the Coca Cola fortune and she no longer was compelled to depend upon Rutherford to live and travel in his luxury, or worry about being tossed out of Bethel and back into the Great Depression.
From Olin Moyle's letter to Rutherford:
"Here again is shown unequal and discriminatory treatment. One brother left Bethel some time ago for the purpose of getting married, and, so I am informed, was refused the privilege of pioneering in New York, apparently as an official disapproval of his action in leaving Bethel. On the other hand when Bonnie Boyd got married she didn't have to leave Bethel. She was permitted to bring her husband into Bethel in spite of the printed rule providing that both marrying parties should have lived there for five years."
Why did Bethel break one of its ever-so-rigid rules and make an exception for a "lowly" women named Bonnie Boyd? What made her so SPECIAL that she was able to avoid the Bethel rules? Was it because of her husband's great wealth? Women are the lowest form of life at Bethel and were worse than that in Rutherford's time! Did Bonnie "have something" on Rutherford that caused her to be treated so differently? Was it her new husband's money that caused Rutherford to break his own rules for her?
The person reporting this testimony from another eyewitness stated:
"And according to Worth Thornton (a dear friend of mine, now deceased, was Knorr’s 'secretary,' wrote the Informant -- now KM), Bonnie had slept with half of the Bethelites in the 1950’s. The big-shots at the time evidently knew of the scandal but chose to sweep it under the rug."
Coincidentally, (or is it?) just a MONTH after Bonnie Boyd was married, Rutherford had a NEW, beautiful and female traveling companion who was much younger than himself: Berta Peale
Berta Peale
Berta met Bonnie Boyd sometime in the early 1930's. This was confirmed by her niece, "larc's" mother. It was also confirmed in the Olin Moyle trial transcript on pages 1299-1301. At the time, Berta was a full time pioneer and a member of the "anointed." During this time she traveled to Europe with Bonnie Boyd to attend a European convention of Jehovah's Witnesses.
There she met Rutherford. Her family had very little money. They moved from North Carolina to Akron, Ohio and her older brother struggled to support Berta and nine other people including himself during this time. This was the Great Depression and hardly anyone had money to eat, let alone to travel abroad.
Who paid for her expensive trip to attend a convention overseas where she met Rutherford for the first time? Since we know Rutherford financed Bonnie Boyd's trip, can't we also assume he likely financed Berta's trip?
In June of 1938 Berta abandoned her husband of 15 years and went to Bethel. This was just ONE MONTH after Bonnie Boyd became MRS. William Heath. Among herself and her three female sisters, Berta was by far the most beautiful according to "larc", her grand nephew. He had seen her a number of times as a youngster. A picture of her will be added to this article very shortly.
Later in 1938, Berta's husband filed for divorce on the grounds of abandonment and it was granted in 1940. Copies of the divorce filing by Alfred Peale for spousal abandonment and the final decree were sent to Bethel. Yet the Watchtower Society did NOTHING to punish Berta for leaving her husband without a scriptural reason. NOTHING!
Not only was she not punished or sent home she was given one of the two or three most envious jobs conceivable at Bethel: living and traveling like a Queen with the Watchtower King himself.
Why did Rutherford make her a "dietician" when he already had one and she was unqualified for the job? The Moyle trial states that she was a Practical Nurse, but a dietician is a specialty unto itself. It was also brought out in the Moyle trial that Rutherford already HAD his own private nurse, and ridiculed the notion that Rutherford needed two of them, since he was obviously healthy enough to travel and speak so extensively. In contradiction to what was claimed in the Moyle trial, "larc" stated that Berta's only job experience prior to entering Bethel was factory work! Why was she the only of his two dietician's to travel with Rutherford and stay with him in Beth Sarim? Why did she get this meteoric rise in privilege immediately upon entering Bethel?
"Crotchless Panties"
Some years after Rutherford died, Berta continued on as a pioneer and a "member of the anointed." She paid a visit to her relatives and gave her own sister some lingerie that was purchased in France while she was still at Bethel. They were a pair of crotchless panties and a bra with which had holes in the nipple areas. The relatives were shocked by this. She was "anointed." She was still a "pioneer." She wore crotchless panties! When "larc" was 13 he saw his aunt (Berta's sister Lona) wearing that "nipple" bra. He reacted like any normal thirteen year old boy: he loved it!
"The Hairpin Story"
It has been reported before that on one of Rutherford's trips during the time Berta was working for him, a maid at the hotel found a woman's hairpin IN Rutherford's bed. His female "assistant" was staying in an adjoining room with a door that could access either room. "larc" reported to me that Dr. M. James Penton a famous WTS researcher discovered that this incident occurred in North Carolina.
Is this significant? Berta Peale was from North Carolina. Coincidence? Perhaps. But consider the following from a poster named "cyberguy":
"She was his "personal dietician." He was way-up in years, she was very young, at least half his age at the time, probably even much younger! She had a bedroom adjacent to his, with a directly connecting door to his bedroom, in the Soceity's train car that was used to "preach the kingdom" during da judge's reign. She also went wherever da judge went, including frequent trips to Europe. Where were his wife and Son? For all practical purposes, they were separated and living a long distance apart; da judge made sure of that!?
"A good friend of mine was an elder in the hall in Long Beach, California, long after da judge's death, is the source of this information. She requested that the elders (my friend being one of the elders) meet with her (she was in her 70's), because she wasn?t sure if she would receive her heavenly reward. The elders met, and she told them the relationship she had with Rutherford over a 15-year period! She even showed them movies of the two of them, hugging and kissing, shortly before dropping this "bomb shell!"
"Anyway, the elders made contact with headquarters, and Nathan Knorr met with Birda [her name was actually "Berta"], while at a District Convention in California, shortly afterward. Nathan Knorr, with some other officials present, said that they long knew of the adulterous relationship, but for some reason, never said anything to anyone about it; they also told her that because this was so far in the past, not to worry about it! (Is this a double standard or what?)"
Indeed!
"larc's" cousin Sue (the daughter of Berta?s sister) told him that when Berta was young, she was so rebellious that she was the only one of four daughters her father needed to spank.
One time, "larc's" cousin Sue was looking through a family album with him. There was a picture of a man in the photo album alongside Berta. Sue told "larc" that the man in the picture was a married naval officer. It cannot be shown that they had an affair, but it begs the questions: WHY was an anointed pioneer in a picture with a married man? And why was she in the company of a military person?
Bonnie and Berta - The Similarities
1) Two women who were the "closest" to Rutherford during his later life.
2) Two women who were constant traveling and living companions.
3) Two women who were quickly propelled to the pinnacle of the WT elite.
4)Two women who broke the strictest of WT rules, yet not a thing was done about it.
5) One woman became a constant companion of Rutherford's when she was only sixteen years old. She was accused by a man not afraid of identifying himself by name of "sleeping around" in Bethel in the 1950's. Another women who magically received paid passage to Europe during the Great Depression and immediately upon entering Bethel received an elite job that not only was she not qualified to have, the job had already been filled by someone else? Who needed to have TWO Dieticians back then?
6) One beautiful and poor young women brought into Bethel who immediately became a "personal assistant" and "constant companion" only one MONTH AFTER another "personal assistant" and "constant companion" became married.
7) The Great Depression where no one had any money and would die for the opportunity to live the luxurious life of Rutherford.
8) Adjacent bedrooms with connecting doors for these women and the Judge in trains and in hotels. The Judge's habit of working at night in Beth Sarim when the rest of his housekeeping staff was asleep.
Crotchless panties and provacative bras worn by an "anointed pioneer" who was also a very rebellious child.
One lonely, horny old immoral drunk with all the power and money he could ask for who viewed women as only acceptable "if they kept their proper place."
One absolute dictator who broke all the rules he set for others who considered himself above such rules.
Testimony from a named informant that Nathan Knorr and others knew of Rutherford's infidelity with Berta and did nothing about it, thus keeping it covered up.
He had the lack of moral ethics. He had the motive. He had the victims willing or otherwise. He had the opportunity. He had the alibi and he had the cover-up. He had the people to continue the cover-up.
And now we have uncovered a new story about him.
Remember what Berta said:
"He was like a husband to me in every way."
Farkel
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
Post 9197 of 11123
Thank you Leolaia, for all the hard work in re-creating this important thread. The hypocritical nature of Rutherford, the real founder of the modern-day Jehovah's Witnesses, is nothing short of astounding. Anyone who claims God spoke through him is either ignorant of this history or is completely delusional.
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
Post 2668 of 20185
I remember reading those accounts with a feeling of utter revulsion and anger - revulsion that such a despicable creature could call himself the mouthpiece of God, and anger in that the Society has knowingly deceived many as to the true character of Joseph Franklin Rutherford.
Sylvia
Edit: Thank you, Leolaia.
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
Post 900 of 902
Three cheers for Leolaia ! ! ! Excellent work (as always).
So nice that all was not lost of the original thread. A real eye-opener that was, is and, hopefully, will continue to be.
~Merry
quietlyleavingRe: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
Post 1491 of 4500
thanks Leolaia
and thanks also to Farkel
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
Post 2420 of 2847
Leolaia,
Thank you so much for this. I missed the original post. I appreciate all your hard work!
Boy, its like a soap opera isn't it? Not suprising though. Rutherford (and others since him) have not a real spiritual bone anywhere in their bodies. Its always been and still is all about the $$$$$$$$$.
Want to get rich anyone? Start a religion! Peace, Lilly
LeolaiaRe: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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I must also thank everyone else who made all this possible....especially larc, but also Lady Lee, VM44, and one other person I forgot who thankfully preserved all our work by downloading the thread before it disappeared.
Merry Magdalene...I would like very much for you to repost your wonderful timeline in this thread. It gives an easy-to-follow overview of all the things we uncovered. But hold on, I need to make a few tweaks and I'll send you the text by PM.
I will also try to repost some of the key data from the previous thread to this new one.
takRe: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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I am astounded and shocked and sickend by what I am learning here at the JWD. Thank you for all your information.
VM44Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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Good work Leolaia.
Also to keep in mind when reading the above is the question, "Where was Mrs. Rutherford during this time?".
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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Thank you Leolaia, and everyone else that put this together.
This is great, im really want to share this with my jw brother, its the kind of thing i know he'll read.
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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Another question:
"When Rutherford came to California and was staying at Beth Sarim, did he ever visit his wife who was living in the Los Angeles area (Monrovia, California)?"
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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Wow! This is all news to me (I'm still kinda new here). This would make a good book.
Re: Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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Thanks Leo.
I arrived here towards the tail-end of this thread, but it was invaluable and has led to one of those obsessive thoughts that get lodged in the brain !!!
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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Thanks Leo You have done a great job in making this info available again.
I think your intro in Post 1 is an excellent way to present a synopsis of what the thread originally contained.
Excellent job
Burger TimeRe: Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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Wasn't this in the "Best Of" for awhile? I remember reading it when I first got on the board. Anyways I really dig the Rutherford keg picture. Sorry but he just looks damn cool in it. I don't care how mean or what he setup...the hat the lean damn exuding coolness.
Re: Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)posted 11 years ago (3/6/2008)
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The original "Berta and Bonnie" thread is still in the database, The search function "sees" it, but it is not accessible to the users of the forum. Simon will have to make repairs to the database in order to bring it back.
Informationer om Rutherfords første tid som præsid Anonym Jv (2)
Jeg vil nu bringe et inserat fra vor litteratur, der oplyser nøjagtigt om hvad der skete, da Rutherford blev valgt til præsident. Til Vas. Jeg ødelægger vel ikke din stort anlagte afslørings kampagne ? Jeg venter spændt på at se en ordentlig og seriøs begrundelse og bevisførelse for Rutherford var alkoholiker. Hvor stammer oplysningerne fra ? Hvem er fremkommet med oplysningerne ? Hvordan er de blevet berigtiget ? Hvor og hvordan er de blevet offentliggjort oprindeligt ? INSERAT. Forsøg på at overtage ledelsen Ikke alle støttede den nye præsident. C. T. Russell og J. F. Rutherford var meget forskellige. De havde hverken samme personlighed eller samme baggrund. Mange havde svært ved at acceptere disse forskelle. Efter deres opfattelse kunne ingen erstatte broder Russell. Nogle få, især på hovedkontoret, nærede direkte uvilje mod broder Rutherford. At arbejdet gik fremad og at han gjorde sit yderste for at følge de retningslinjer broder Russell havde givet, gjorde øjensynlig intet indtryk på dem. Modstanden voksede. Fire medlemmer af Selskabets bestyrelse gik så vidt at de forsøgte at fratage Rutherford den administrative ledelse. Situationen tilspidsedes i sommeren 1917 i forbindelse med udgivelsen af Den fuldbyrdede Hemmelighed, det syvende bind af Studier i Skriften. Broder Russell havde selv håbet at kunne skrive dette bind, men havde ikke været i stand til det. Efter hans død besluttede Selskabets arbejdsudvalg at to medarbejdere, Clayton J. Woodworth og George H. Fisher, skulle udarbejde denne bog, der var en kommentar til Åbenbaringen, Salomons Højsang og Ezekiels Bog. Den blev delvis baseret på det Russell havde skrevet om disse bibelske bøger, og andre kommentarer og forklaringer blev føjet til. Det færdige manuskript blev godkendt til udgivelse af Selskabets ledere og blev præsenteret for betelfamilien ved middagsbordet tirsdag den 17. juli 1917. Ved samme lejlighed blev der bragt en forbløffende meddelelse — de fire medlemmer af bestyrelsen der havde modarbejdet broder Rutherford var blevet fjernet, og broder Rutherford havde udnævnt fire andre i deres sted. Hvordan var reaktionen? Det kom som en bombe! De fire afsatte bestyrelsesmedlemmer greb straks lejligheden til at begynde en fem timer lang ordstrid i betelfamiliens påhør om ledelsen af Selskabets anliggender. Flere medlemmer af betelfamilien stillede sig på deres side. Modstanden fortsatte gennem adskillige uger, og urostifterne truede med at „omstyrte det bestående tyranni,“ som de sagde. Men broder Rutherford havde et solidt grundlag for at gøre det han havde gjort. Det viste sig at selv om de fire opponerende bestyrelsesmedlemmer var blevet udnævnt af broder Russell, var disse udnævnelser aldrig blevet stadfæstet ved afstemning blandt Selskabets medlemmer på Selskabets årsmøde. Juridisk set var disse fire derfor slet ikke medlemmer af bestyrelsen! Rutherford havde været opmærksom på dette, men havde til at begynde med ikke sagt noget. Hvorfor ikke? Han havde ønsket at undgå at give indtryk af at han gik imod broder Russells ønsker. Men da det stod klart at de ikke ville ophøre med at øve modstand, handlede Rutherford i overensstemmelse med sin myndighed og sit ansvar som præsident, og erstattede dem med fire andre hvis udnævnelse skulle stadfæstes ved det næste årsmøde, i januar 1918. Den 8. august forlod de misfornøjede tidligere bestyrelsesmedlemmer og deres tilhængere Betel. De var blevet bedt om at rejse på grund af den uro de havde forvoldt. Inden længe begyndte de at agitere for deres synspunkter gennem omfattende foredragsturnéer og brevskrivningskampagner overalt i De Forenede Stater, Canada og Europa. I sensommeren 1917 blev en række af bibelstudenternes menigheder derfor delt i to lejre — dem der var loyale mod Selskabet, og dem der var et let bytte for modstandernes falske ord. Kunne det mon tænkes at de bortviste bestyrelsesmedlemmer, i et forsøg på at få kontrol over organisationen, ville prøve at påvirke dem der deltog i årsmødet? Rutherford forudså denne risiko og fandt det derfor tilrådeligt at lodde stemningen i alle menighederne. Hvad blev resultatet? Ifølge en rapport som blev gengivet i The Watch Tower for 15. december 1917 gav et overvældende flertal blandt dem der stemte, deres støtte til J. F. Rutherford og de bestyrelsesmedlemmer der samarbejdede med ham. Dette blev bekræftet på årsmødet. Modstandernes forsøg på at overtage ledelsen var slået fejl. Hvad blev der af modstanderne og deres tilhængere? Efter årsmødet i 1918 skilte de sig helt ud og valgte endda at fejre mindehøjtiden for sig selv den 26. marts 1918. Den eventuelle enhed blandt dem blev kortvarig, og inden længe splittedes de op i en række sekter. For de flestes vedkommende gik medlemstallet tilbage, og deres virksomhed aftog eller ophørte helt. Det er tydeligt at bibelstudenterne kom ud for en vanskelig loyalitetsprøve efter broder Russells død. Tarissa P. Gott, der blev døbt i 1915, udtrykte det på denne måde: „Nu begyndte mange af dem der havde forekommet så stærke og så hengivne mod Herren at falde fra. . . . Alt dette virkede helt forkert i vore øjne, men det skete virkelig, og det gjorde os urolige. Jeg spurgte imidlertid mig selv: ’Var det ikke denne organisation Jehova brugte til at udfri os fra den falske religions lænker? Har vi ikke smagt hans godhed? Hvis vi skulle forlade den nu, hvor skulle vi så gå hen? Ville vi så ikke blot ende med at følge et eller andet menneske?’ Vi kunne ikke indse hvorfor vi skulle slutte os til de frafaldne, så vi blev.“ — Joh. 6:66-69; Hebr. 6:4-6.
Hvor er "han" begravet? ven.af.sandheden
Hvorledes skal en mand som J.F. Rutherford aggere, når man som ham ”ejer” en virksomhed der mange millioner ”ansatte”? Det giver sig selv, at for en mand der lider af magtliderlighed, samt har den opfattelse af sin egen person at være Guds stedfortræder her på planeten Jorden, er man jo i virkeligheden sådan nærmest en Gud. http://www.exjws.net/museum/rutherford.htm Vel og mærke en menneskelig Gud, der råder over et vist ”arsenal” af magtredskaber. Én af disse er ”forførelse”. Det gælder især overfor det modsatte køn altså kvinder der i depressionen i USA så en mulighed for et smukt og ”rigt” liv på et plan der kun var de få forundt. Bonnie Boyed; billedet! http://images.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5818/fyi.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/178655/1/1928-The-Messenger-PDF&usg=__MWzAuV_sxMPsjUB87H3Ql3EoK90=&h=307&w=510&sz=161&hl=da&start=1&um=1&tbnid=YTbdjULSzqcxzM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBonnie%2BBoyd%2Bwatchtower%26hl%3Dda%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1 Klik på billedet! http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5818/fyi.jpg Her er hvorledes denne situation bliver beskrevet af en betroet medarbejder på Watchtower i Brooklyn, der faktisk har kendt til disse ting ”inden for murene, indtil 1993 http://www.freeminds.org/organization/rutherford/barbara-anderson-s-visit-to-beth-sarim.html http://www.watchtowernews.org/media/barbbethsarim.mp3 ------------------------------------- http://www.freeminds.org/organization/rutherford/gangstas-r-us-a-satirical-comparison-of-judge-rutherford-and-al-capone.html Al Capone was one of the very few elite rich people who bought a 1930 V-16 Cadillac. That car cost between $5,400 and $9,200 and that was during the Great Depression. A new Ford that year only cost $600, which means one could buy about 15 new Ford automobiles for the cost of that one Cadillac. (Jehovas Vidner)Judge Rutherford was one of the very few elite rich people who did not own one of those V-16 Cadillacs: he owned TWO of them. Al Capone smuggled illegal whisky and sold it. Judge Rutherford smuggled illegal whiskey and drank it. Al Capone did not pay enough taxes on his ill-gotten fortune. Judge Rutherford did not pay ANY taxes on his ill-gotten fortune. -------------------------------------- And then, it was all gone. Through some software quirk, the thread became corrupted and would no longer load. But a number of participants in the thread had the foresight to download the thread and save copies of it -- though in varying degrees of completeness. Fortunately, it was enough to recover virtually all the content from the original thread. Last fall, I spent a week reconstructing the thread by creating tables in Microsoft Word that simulated the formatting of JWD, and by cutting and pasting content into the appropriate cells. After this painstaking work, I produced a PDF that has both the look and feel of the original thread. This PDF (13.7 MB in size) can be downloaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?gjslw10zzmw ; men alle link er sat ”ud af spillet”. Her får du imidlertid noget at tænke over: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/154191/1/Rutherford-Exposed-The-Story-of-Berta-and-Bonnie-redux ---------------------------------------------- http://www.exjws.net/museum/rutherford5.htm Bonnie Boyd had a VERY important position in the WTS. She also lived in the lavish surroundings and manner as her boss. The same Moyle case has her testifying that she went on six to eight week annual trips to Europe with Rutherford and had done so for twenty years. (page 1382) Yet Boyd came to Bethel as a GIRL in the Fall of 1923 with her mother and Rutherford died in 1942, nineteen years later. A few weeks after Rutherford's death, the San Diego Union on February 18, 1942 quoted her as saying she was the "adopted daughter" of Judge Rutherford, and had been with him continuously since she was 16. Why would Rutherford take a 16 year old GIRL as a constant companion? Rutherford considered women as inferiors who should keep their proper place as indicated by his oft stated comment that women were only "a stack of bones and a hank of hair." (September 15, 1941 WT, page 287) Once again, if Rutherford thought so little of women WHY did he have as a "constant companion" a 16 year old GIRL? Because he was generous and caring? No one knew him to be that. Bonnie Boyd was one of the four or so "witnesses" who signed the deed to Beth Sarim in January of 1930. If she was only 16 in the Fall of 1923 when she came to Bethel, she would only be about 21 years of age when she signed the very significant deed to Beth Sarim. What did she, a very young women do to deserve such an honor of having her name attached to a deed of that importance? In 1938 Bonnie Boyd married William Heath, an heir to one of the founders of the Coca Cola company. Heath was very, very rich. She continued to accompany Rutherford along with her new husband everywhere he went. But there was ONE thing that had changed. Her husband was heir to part of the Coca Cola fortune and she no longer was compelled to depend upon Rutherford to live and travel in his luxury, or worry about being tossed out of Bethel and back into the Great Depression. There she met Rutherford. Her family had very little money. They moved from North Carolina to Akron, Ohio and her older brother struggled to support Berta and nine other people including himself during this time. This was the Great Depression and hardly anyone had money to eat, let alone to travel abroad. Who paid for her expensive trip to attend a convention overseas where she met Rutherford for the first time? Since we know Rutherford financed Bonnie Boyd's trip, can't we also assume he likely financed Berta's trip? In June of 1938 Berta abandoned her husband of 15 years and went to Bethel. This was just ONE MONTH after Bonnie Boyd became MRS. William Heath. Among herself and her three female sisters, Berta was by far the most beautiful according to "larc", her grand nephew. He had seen her a number of times as a youngster. A picture of her will be added to this article very shortly. Later in 1938, Berta's husband filed for divorce on the grounds of abandonment and it was granted in 1940. Copies of the divorce filing by Alfred Peale for spousal abandonment and the final decree were sent to Bethel. Yet the Watchtower Society did NOTHING to punish Berta for leaving her husband without a scriptural reason. NOTHING! --------------------------- I'm surprised no one has commented on the most important thing about my last post...that William Heath Jr. had already been married before marrying Bonnie Boyd. He managed a Coca-Cola bottling plant in South Carolina in the late twenties and married a local named Dorothy. Then, in the latter thirties, he married Bonnie. Did he leave his wife to marry Bonnie or were they already divorced? That would be an interesting question. VM44....Beth-Shan: The House Coca-Cola Built? Re Beth-Sarim, I guess it depends on when he became a Bible Student/Witness and when he got his inheritance. I guess this is not known either? This would be a question the old timers might know.....I wonder if Ray Franz or other ex-Bethelites might know some of this old history....such as when he joined the BoD. Well, he was on it in February 1939, that is for sure, but apparently in 1930 he was still in South Carolina working for Coca-Cola. Now, his father died in June 1933 if my sources are right, so I suppose he didn't get his fortune until then. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/77915/14/Rutherford-Exposed-The-Story-of-Berta-and-Bonnie Venlig hilsen Ven af Sandheden.
Vor nye eventyrdigter Vas. Anonym Jv (2)
Til vas Du oplyser: Al Capone ejede en cadillac. Rutherford ejede en cadillac Al Capone smuglede spiritus. Altså smuglede Rutherford spiritus ! Jeg ved ikke.... Har du spist svampe eller sådan noget. Har du et SERIØST dokumenteret bevis for, Rutherford smuglede spiritus ? Politirapporter eller lign. Ifølge Holberg: En sten kan ikke flyve, morlil kan ikke flyve. Ergo er morlil en sten.
lad der blive lys! ven.af.sandheden
http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/walter-salters-letter-to-j-f.html
Fra dram til dram billen76
Fantastisk brev. Jeg bemærkede især disse ord: "And oh, Lord, he (Rutherford. red.) is so courageous and his faith in Thee so great that he gets behind four walls, or surrounds himself literally with an armed bodyguard, and bellows away his dreams (Jeremiah 23:31,82) [sic] and sends us out from door to door to face the enemy while he goes from 'drink to drink,' and tells us if we don't we are going to be destroyed." mvh Billen76
God og spændende debat. :-) observatøren
Man lærer virkelig noget i denne debat. Ikke mange detaljer får lov til at ligge uberørt. Det er vel skæbnens ironi at det faktisk er AJV2 og FTG der er den direkte årsag til at vi får så meget at vide om deres mystiske sekt. Hvis de ikke havde været her for at "forkynde" (læs: få forkyndelsestimer på bogen) så havde vi ikke fået hvivlet alt det snavs op om sekten. Det er jo ellers slet ikke meningen at vi skulle vide alt dette. De to korsriddere forsøger jo med alle midler at undgå at noget ufordelagtigt kommer frem. AJV2 forsøgte en "afværge-dagsorden" ved selv at copy-paste noget som han troede kunne bremse afsløringerne. Værre blev det dog, skeletterne vælter ud af skabene. Jeg synes at det er rigtig sjovt og lærerigt - men jeg fatter altså ikke at deres ledelse ikke har kaldt dem til orden endnu. De skader da sekten mange gange mere end det de opnår. Snavset som der vælter frem er da efterhånden så tydeligt at selv "de svage i ånden" (de almindelige medlemmer) må kunne se det. Igen må man spørge sig selv om de ældste og andre der leder det foretagende i det hele taget kan tænke normalt. Hvis JEG havde været leder der, ville AJV2 og FTG have fået mundkurv på for længe siden. observatøren
En sag har mere en en side Anonym Jv (2)
INSERAT fra Jehovas vidners litteratur: I Canada begyndte kontorets leder, W. F. Salter, at erklære sig uenig med Selskabets publikationer; han gav udtryk for at han forventede at blive Vagttårnsselskabets næste præsident, og efter at han var blevet afsat, brugte han uærligt Selskabets brevpapir til at instruere menigheder i Canada og i udlandet om at studere materiale som han selv havde skrevet. Slut. Det kunne være interessant at se en ordentlig dokumentation, for påstandende mod Rutherfords gøren og laden.
Var Rutherford alkoholiker ? Anonym Jv (2)
Hr. Salter og Hr. Rutherford var vist ikke just perlevenner, ser det ud til. Men drak Rutherford mere end godt var ? Jeg vil gerne se et seriøst bevis. Så tror jeg på det selvfølgelig. En lægeerklæring for eks. Men at Rutherfords værste modstander skriver det,får mig ikke til at tro på det. Heller ikke latterlige forsøg på at vise whiskyflasker, der bliver bortautioneret, som i virkeligheden er fra den Skotske whisky fabrik Rutherford, der intet har med Jehovas vidnet Rutherford at gøre. Jeg synes I rammer bunden med den slags. Det var interessant at læse brevet igennem. Salter fornægtede alt hvad han tidligere havde troet på. Det er der nogen x-jv´er der gør. Salter vendte sig fra troen på Jesus blev nærværende i 1914. blandt meget andet. Mattæus 24:48 Men hvis den onde træl dér i sit hjerte siger: ’Min herre er længe om at komme,’ 49 og begynder at slå sine medtrælle og at spise og drikke med de uforbederlige drankere, 50 så vil den træls herre komme på en dag han ikke venter det, og i en time han ikke kender, 51 og han vil straffe ham med største strenghed og give ham hans lod hos hyklerne. Dér vil [han] græde og skære tænder.
de hemmelilge "protokoller" ven.af.sandheden
Ja, de ord har også strejfet mig. Det havde nok været bedre at bekende med det samme i stedet for at benægte som AnonymJv(2) er verdensmester i. Jag har en hane her på gården, der ikke orker at gale mere når AnonymJv(2) benægter, den har resolut smidt fjerene ind i ringen. . Jfr. Peter. På den anden side, mener jeg at det er væsentligt, at få afsløret det bedrag en verden må stå model til via Vagttårnselskabet. Men, bare vent jeg er først lige begyndt at lukke op for Joseph Franklin Rutherford hemmelige dokumenter. Venlig hilsen Ven af Sandheden.
Information about Rutherford's time as president Anonymous (2)
I will now bring an insert from our literature, which details exactly what happened when Rutherford was elected president. To Vase. Well, I'm not going to ruin your large-scale disclosure campaign? I am eagerly waiting to see a proper and serious justification and evidence of Rutherford's alcoholic. Where does the information come from? Who came up with the information? How have they been corrected? Where and how have they been published originally? Inserat. Attempting to Acquire Leadership Not everyone supported the new president. CT Russell and JF Rutherford were very different. They had neither the same personality nor the same background. Many had difficulty accepting these differences. In their view, no one could replace Brother Russell. A few, especially at the head office, was directly reluctant to brother Rutherford. The fact that the work went ahead and that he did his utmost to follow the guidelines Brother Russell had given made no apparent impression on them. Resistance grew. Four members of the Company's Board went so far as to attempt to deprive Rutherford of the administrative management. The situation worsened in the summer of 1917 in connection with the release of the Completed Secret, the seventh volume of study in the Scriptures. Brother Russell himself hoped to write this volume, but had not been able to do so. After his death, the company's work committee decided that two co-workers, Clayton J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher, should prepare this book, a commentary on Revelation, Solomon's Song and Ezekiel's Book. It was partly based on what Russell had written about these biblical books, and other comments and explanations were added. The finished manuscript was approved for the release of the company's leaders and was presented to the Bethel family at the dinner table on Tuesday, July 17, 1917. At the same time, an astounding announcement was made - the four members of the board who had opposed Brother Rutherford had been removed and brother Rutherford had appointed four others in their place. How was the reaction? It came as a bomb! The four deposited board members immediately seized the opportunity to begin a five-hour strife in the pay family's hearing about the management of the company's affairs. Several members of the betel family stood on their side. Resistance continued for several weeks, and the urostats threatened to "overthrow the existing tyranny," as they said. But Brother Rutherford had a solid foundation for doing what he had done. It turned out that even though the four opposing board members had been appointed by Brother Russell, these appointments had never been confirmed by voting among the Company's members at the annual meeting of the Company. Legally, these four were therefore not members of the board at all! Rutherford had been aware of this, but initially had nothing to say. Why not? He had wanted to avoid giving the impression that he was against Brother Russell's wishes. But when it became clear that they would not cease to resist, Rutherford acted in accordance with his authority and responsibility as president and replaced them with four others whose appointment was to be confirmed at the next annual meeting, in January 1918. On August 8, the disgruntled former board members and their supporters left Bethel. They had been asked to travel because of the turmoil they had caused. Before long, they began to agitate for their views through extensive lecture tours and letter writing campaigns throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. In late summer 1917, a number of the Bible Students' congregations were therefore divided into two camps - those who were loyal to the company, and those who were easy prey to the false words of the adversaries. Could it be that they dismissed board members in an attempt to gain control of the organization, would try to influence those who attended the annual meeting? Rutherford foresaw this risk and therefore found it advisable to solder the mood of all congregations. What was the result? According to a report reproduced in The Watch Tower on December 15, 1917, an overwhelming majority of those voting gave their support to JF Rutherford and the board members who collaborated with him. This was confirmed at the annual meeting. The opponents' attempts to take over the management had failed. What happened to the opponents and their followers? After the annual meeting in 1918, they stood out completely and even chose to celebrate the memorial service for themselves on March 26, 1918. The possible unity among them became short-lived, and before long they were split up into a number of sects. For the most part, the membership went back and their business declined or ended altogether. It is evident that Bible students came across a difficult loyalty test for Brother Russell's death. Tarissa P. Gott, who was baptized in 1915, expressed it this way: "Now many of those who had appeared so strong and so devoted to the Lord began to fall. . . . All of this seemed completely wrong in our eyes, but it really happened, and it made us uneasy. However, I asked myself, 'Wasn't this organization Jehovah used to deliver us from the chains of false religion? Haven't we tasted his goodness? If we were to leave it now, where would we go? Would we not just end up following some human being? ' We couldn't realize why we should join the apostates so we stayed. ”- John. 6: 66-69; Heb. 6: 4-6. Tarissa P. Gott, who was baptized in 1915, expressed it this way: "Now many of those who had appeared so strong and so devoted to the Lord began to fall. . . . All of this seemed completely wrong in our eyes, but it really happened, and it made us uneasy. However, I asked myself, 'Wasn't this organization Jehovah used to deliver us from the chains of false religion? Haven't we tasted his goodness? If we were to leave it now, where would we go? Would we not just end up following some human being? ' We couldn't realize why we should join the apostates so we stayed. ”- John. 6: 66-69; Heb. 6: 4-6. Tarissa P. Gott, who was baptized in 1915, expressed it this way: "Now many of those who had appeared so strong and so devoted to the Lord began to fall. . . . All of this seemed completely wrong in our eyes, but it really happened, and it made us uneasy. However, I asked myself, 'Wasn't this organization Jehovah used to deliver us from the chains of false religion? Haven't we tasted his goodness? If we were to leave it now, where would we go? Would we not just end up following some human being? ' We couldn't realize why we should join the apostates so we stayed. ”- John. 6: 66-69; Heb. 6: 4-6. All of this seemed completely wrong in our eyes, but it really happened, and it made us uneasy. However, I asked myself, 'Wasn't this organization Jehovah used to deliver us from the chains of false religion? Haven't we tasted his goodness? If we were to leave it now, where would we go? Would we not just end up following some human being? ' We couldn't realize why we should join the apostates so we stayed. ”- John. 6: 66-69; Heb. 6: 4-6. All of this seemed completely wrong in our eyes, but it really happened, and it made us uneasy. However, I asked myself, 'Wasn't this organization Jehovah used to deliver us from the chains of false religion? Haven't we tasted his goodness? If we were to leave it now, where would we go? Would we not just end up following some human being? ' We couldn't realize why we should join the apostates so we stayed. ”- John. 6: 66-69; Heb. 6: 4-6. where should we go? Would we not just end up following some human being? ' We couldn't realize why we should join the apostates so we stayed. ”- John. 6: 66-69; Heb. 6: 4-6. where should we go? Would we not just end up following some human being? ' We couldn't realize why we should join the apostates so we stayed. ”- John. 6: 66-69; Heb. 6: 4-6.
Where is "he" buried? ven.af.sandheden
How does a man like JF Rutherford crave when, like him, "owns" a company with millions of "employees"? It is self-evident that for a man suffering from indigestion, as well as having the perception of his own person as being the deputy of God here on planet Earth, one is in fact such a closest to a God. http://www.exjws.net/museum/rutherford.htm Well and notice a human God who possesses a certain "arsenal" of power tools. One of these is "seduction". This applies especially to the opposite sex, ie women who in the US depression saw an opportunity for a beautiful and "rich" life on a level that only they were given. Bonnie Boyed; the picture! http://images.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5818/fyi.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jehovahs-witness. net / watch tower / bible / 178655/1/1928 The messenger PDF & USG = __ MWzAuV_sxMPsjUB87H3Ql3EoK90 = & h = 307 and w = 510 & SZ = 161 & hl = en & start = 1 & um = 1 & tbnid = YTbdjULSzqcxzM: & tbnh = 79 & tbnw = 131 & prev = / images% 3Fq% 3DBonnie% 2BBoyd % 2Bwatchtower% 26hl% 3Dda% 26sa% 3DG% 26um% 3D1 Click on the picture! http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5818/fyi.jpg Here's how this situation is described by a trusted Watchtower employee in Brooklyn who has actually known these things "within the walls until 1993 http: / /www.freeminds.org/organization/rutherford/barbara-anderson-s-visit-to-beth-sarim.html http://www.watchtowernews.org/media/barbbethsarim.mp3 --------- ---------------------------- http://www.freeminds.org/organization/rutherford/gangstas-r-us-a- satirical-comparison-of-judge-rutherford-and-al-capone. html Al Capone was one of the very few elite rich people who bought a 1930 V-16 Cadillac. That cost between $ 5,400 and $ 9,200 and that was during the Great Depression. A new Ford that year only cost $ 600, which means one could buy about 15 new Ford automobiles for the cost of that one Cadillac. (Jehovah's Witnesses) Judge Rutherford was one of the few elite rich people who did not own one of those V-16 Cadillacs: he owned TWO of them. Al Capone smuggled illegal whiskey and sold it. Judge Rutherford smuggled illegal whiskey and drink it. Al Capone did not pay enough taxes on his ill-gotten fortune. Judge Rutherford did not pay ANY taxes on his ill-gotten fortune. -------------------------------------- And then, it was all gone. Through some software quirk, the thread became corrupted and would no longer load. But a number of participants in the thread had the opportunity to download the thread and save copies of it - though in varying degrees of completeness. ,, It was enough to recover virtually all the content from the original thread. Last fall, I spent a week reconstructing the thread by creating tables in Microsoft Word that simulated the formatting of JWD, and by cutting and pasting content into the appropriate cells. After this painstaking work, I produced a PDF that has the look and feel of the original thread. This PDF (13.7 MB in size) can be downloaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?gjslw10zzmw; but all links are set "out of the game". Here, however, you have something to think about: http: //www.jehovahs-witness. net / watchtower / scandals / 154191/1 / Rutherford-Exposed-The-Story-of-Berta-and-Bonnie-redux ----------------------- ----------------------- http://www.exjws.net/museum/rutherford5.htm Bonnie Boyd had a VERY important position in the WTS. She also lived in the lavish surroundings and less than her boss. The same Moyle case has been testifying that she has traveled to Europe with Rutherford for six to eight weeks and had done so for twenty-four years. (page 1382) Yet Boyd came to Bethel as a GIRL in the fall of 1923 with her mother and Rutherford died in 1942, nineteen years later. A few weeks after Rutherford's death, the San Diego Union quoted here as saying she was the "adopted daughter" of Judge Rutherford, and had been with him continuously since she was 16. Why would Rutherford take a 16 year old GIRL as a constant companion? Rutherford considered women as inferiors who should keep their proper place as indicated by his often stated comment that women were only "a stack of bones and a hank of hair." (September 15, 1941 WT, page 287) Once again, if Rutherford thought so little of women WHY did he have as a "constant companion" to a 16 year old GIRL? Because he was generous and caring? No one knew him to be that. Bonnie Boyd was one of the four or so "witnesses" who signed the law at Beth Sarim in January of 1930. If she was only 16 in the fall of 1923 when she came to Bethel, she would only be about 21 years of age when she signed the very significant did to Beth Sarim. What did she, a very young women do you deserve such an honor of having her name attached to a matter of importance? In 1938 Bonnie Boyd married William Heath, and he was one of the founders of the Coca Cola company. Heath was very, very rich. She continued to accompany Rutherford along with her new husband everywhere. But there was one thing that had changed. Her husband was part of the Coca Cola fortune and no longer was compiled to depend on Rutherford to live and travel in his luxury, or worry about being tossed out of Bethel and back into the Great Depression. There's she with Rutherford. Her family had very little money. They moved from North Carolina to Akron, Ohio, and their older brother struggled to support Berta and nine other people including himself during this time. This was the Great Depression and hardly anyone had money to eat, let alone to travel abroad. Who paid for her expensive trip to attend a convention overseas where she met Rutherford for the first time? Since we know Rutherford finances Bonnie Boyd's trip, can't we assume he probably financed Berta's trip? In June of 1938 Berta abandoned her husband of 15 years and went to Bethel. This was just ONE MONTH after Bonnie Boyd became MRS. William Heath. Among herself and her three female sisters, Berta was by far the most beautiful according to "larc", her grand nephew. He had seen a number of times as a youngster. A picture of her will be added to this article very shortly. Later in 1938, Berta's husband filed for divorce on the grounds of abandonment and it was granted in 1940. Copies of the divorce filing by Alfred Peale for spousal abandonment and the final decree were sent to Bethel. Yet the Watchtower Society did NOTHING to punish Berta for leaving her husband without a scriptural reason. NOTHING! --------------------------- I'm surprised no one has commented on the most important thing about my last post ... that William Heath Jr. had already been married before marrying Bonnie Boyd. He managed a Coca-Cola bottling plant in South Carolina in the late twenties and married a local named Dorothy. Then, in the laugh thirties, he married Bonnie. Did he leave his wife to marry Bonnie or were they already divorced? That would be an interesting question. VM44 .... Beth Shan: The House Coca-Cola Built? Re Beth-Sarim, I guess it depends on when he became a Bible Student / Witness and when he got his inheritance. Is this not known either? This would be a question the old timers might know ..... I wonder if Ray Franz or other ex-Bethelites might know some of this old history .... such as when he joined the BoD. Well, he was on it in February 1939, that's for sure, but apparently in 1930 he was still in South Carolina working for Coca-Cola. Now, his father died in June 1933 if my sources are right, so I suppose he didn't get his fortune until then. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/77915/14/Rutherford-Exposed-The-Story-of-Berta-and-Bonnie Sincerely, Friend of Truth. but apparently in 1930 he was still in South Carolina working for Coca-Cola. Now, his father died in June 1933 if my sources are right, so I suppose he didn't get his fortune until then. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/77915/14/Rutherford-Exposed-The-Story-of-Berta-and-Bonnie Sincerely, Friend of Truth. but apparently in 1930 he was still in South Carolina working for Coca-Cola. Now, his father died in June 1933 if my sources are right, so I suppose he didn't get his fortune until then. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/77915/14/Rutherford-Exposed-The-Story-of-Berta-and-Bonnie Sincerely, Friend of Truth.
Our new adventure poet Vas. Anonymous Jv (2)
To vase You state: Al Capone owned a cadillac. Rutherford owned a Cadillac Al Capone smuggled liquor. So Rutherford smuggled spirits! I don't know .... Have you eat mushrooms or something. Do you have a SERIOUSLY documented evidence of Rutherford smuggling spirits? Police reports or similar. According to Holberg: A stone can't fly, morlil can't fly. Ergo is morlil a stone.
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From dram to dram billen76
Fantastic letter. I especially noticed these words: "And oh, Lord, he (Rutherford. Ed.) Is so courageous and his faith in Thee so great that he gets behind four walls, or surrounds himself literally with an armed bodyguard, and bellows away his dreams (Jeremiah 23: 31,82) [sic] and send us out from by to the face of the enemy while he goes from 'drink to drink,' and tells us if we don't go to be destroyed. etc. Bill7676
Good and exciting debate. :-) The observer
You really learn something in this debate. Not many details are left untouched. It is the irony of destiny that it is actually AJV2 and FTG there is the direct reason why we get so much to know about their mysterious sect. If they had not been here to "preach" (read: get preaching hours in the book) then we would not have gotten all that dirt up about the sect. It is not at all meant that we should know all this. The two crusaders, by all means, are trying to avoid anything unfavorable. The AJV2 tried a "ward off agenda" by even copy-paste something he thought could slow down the revelations. Worse, however, the skeletons fall out of the cupboards. I think it's really fun and educational - but I don't think their leadership has called them to order yet. They then damage the sect many times more than they achieve. Dirty ones who are coming forward are then so clear that even "the weak in spirit" (the ordinary members) must be able to see it. Again, one has to ask himself whether the elders and others who lead the enterprise at all can think normally. If I had been looking there, AJV2 and FTG would have gotten a muzzle long ago. observer
A Case Has More One Page Anonymous Jv (2)
INSERTED BY Jehovah's Witnesses Literature: In Canada, the office's head, WF Salter, began to disagree with the company's publications; He stated that he expected to become the Watchtower Society's next president, and after he had been set aside, he dishonestly used the company's letterhead to instruct congregations in Canada and abroad to study material he himself had written. Connect. It might be interesting to see a proper documentation, for allegedly against Rutherford's doings and drafts.
Was Rutherford an alcoholic? Anonymous Jv (2)
Sir. Salts and Mr. Rutherford was not exactly the girl, it seems. But did Rutherford drink more than was good? I want to see a serious proof. Then I believe in it of course. A medical certificate for example, but that Rutherford's worst opponent writes it doesn't make me believe it. Also, no ridiculous attempts to show whiskey bottles that are being evacuated, which are actually from the Scottish whiskey factory Rutherford, which has nothing to do with Jehovah's witness Rutherford. I think you hit the bottom with that sort of thing. It was interesting to read the letter through. Salter denied everything he had previously believed. There are some x-jv's who do. Salter turned from faith in Jesus became present in 1914. Among many other things. Matthew 24:48 But if the evil servant in his heart say, 'My lord is long to come, '49 And beginning to beat his companions and eating and drinking with the imperious drinkers, 50 then the gentleman of the fool will come on a day he does not wait for it, and for an hour he does not know, 51 and he will punish him with the utmost rigor and give him his lot with the hypocrites. There [he] will cry and cut teeth.
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have also struck me. It would have been better to confess immediately than to deny as Anonymous (2) is the world champion. I have a rooster here on the farm that can't bear to cry any more when Anonymous (2) denies, it has resolutely thrown the feathers into the ring. . Cf.. Peter. On the other hand, I think it is important to have the deception a world has to model through the Watchtower Society. But, just wait I'm just starting to open up Joseph Franklin Rutherford's secret documents. Sincerely, Friend of the Truth.
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