A JW friend of mine spoke of a young Bethelite who had completed his higher education and is now serving as a Governing Body member. She was quoting this example of a "highly educated" GB member as proof that the WTS isn't opposed to higher education. Might she have been referring to this Judah Ben Schroeder, albeit inaccurately so?
Or is there some other GB member who had attended uni before?
Whoever she was referring to does not change the fact that the college-slamming Watchtower articles, the biased reporting of what goes on in colleges by the Awake magazine, the jaundiced tone of talks and demo's at conventions about secular careers, materialism and the spirit of independence and the absence of any Watchtower censure of prejudicial views towards higher education, proves that "Jehovah's organization" is opposed to higher education.
INQ
Judah Ben Schroeder NOT finishing law school
by Seeker4 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Inquisitor
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daniel-p
A four-year university education will give you an "elitist job"???!!! ROFL!!!!!!!!!
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one
Judah Ben Schroeder must be well ver 40 years old now, he is taking it slow or started late...
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Inquisitor
Judah Ben Schroeder must be well ver 40 years old now, he is taking it slow or started late...
Is that true? Judah Ben Schroeder is in his 40's? Then he can't be who my friend was referring to. Is there a university graduate sitting on the GB at all? Or is this a cleverly planted rumour? INQ
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one
gb member schroeder i beleive died of old age, i also beleive he had just one son
I saw his only son around 1978, he looked like he was at least in his late teens
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valkyrie
Why not write to him [JBS] and ask him yourself?
From the Columbia University website:Name: Judah Ben Schroeder Title: Student, SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES Dept: Political Science UNI: jbs2006 E-mail: [email protected] -
steve2
Judah Ben Schroeder is just another try-too-hard-to-please sucker who is too scared to go the full mile in his life for fear of the organization's guilt-producing disapproval. He tippy-toes near the edge of living a full academic, professional life and bows backwards under pressure to being a mere shadow of what he could have become were he to take full responsility for his own life. Like father, like son...
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luna2
Yeah, the Judah Ben thing has been beat to death.
Sorry, Seeker4. I didn't mean what I said to sound like a put down...I didn't express myself very well.
The WTS pisses me off because they are so inconsistant and because they have way too much influence over some of the most vulnerable of their
lemmingssheep. The ones that need the most encouragement to make something of their lives get stomped down, while many with advantages and opportunities go right on ahead and take advantage of them and, if they have enough clout in the congregation or play the JW game well enough, the rules are bent for them. Its very cynical. -
james_woods
Let me put this on the record - I think J.Ben is older than 40: When I last saw him about 1970, he must have been at least 9 or 10 years old. That was 36 years ago.
The tragedy here is not that he is attending a college (finally - and good for him) but the sorry fact that it took so long and only happened because he was one of the special and privileged few.
Wonder what he might have been able to do for the society and those associated if he had been allowed to go do college in the normal way?
And, no - I do not mean as a Duke university Lacross player...
James
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LDH
Judah Ben Schroeder is just another try-too-hard-to-please sucker who is too scared to go the full mile in his life for fear of the organization's guilt-producing disapproval. He tippy-toes near the edge of living a full academic, professional life and bows backwards under pressure to being a mere shadow of what he could have become were he to take full responsility for his own life. Like father, like son...
beautiful....