Elders are just as misguided as everyone else, remember a time when you truly believed al the BS? Well elders do as well. I used to know a few genuine elders, what i have a real issue with is the fact that these (sometimes) well intentioned men have NO education or qualifications to act as counsellers to often disturbed and depressed individuals, people who need professional help are referred to a window cleaner....it is wrong
Are elders more "pure" than the other JW's ?
by JH 18 Replies latest jw friends
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darth frosty
Of course they are...so sayeth a majority vote.
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Hortensia
they are no worse and no better than anyone else. I knew some elders who were sincere about their responsibility and who tried to be true shepherds. The problem is the org. and the doctrine are such a load of crap, it does make it possible for pricks to advance to positions of power.
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Vernon Williams
There is an elder in Neosho, MO that was DF'd three times (I was thinking it was twice, however, I am fairly sure it was three...) for adultry. This guy was talking to me in the mid seventies, while I was at that little junior college over there, and I had asked about an "apostate" book. He said you did not need to read all that: just read the WT books and mags and you will be ok.
So, this guy was an ex-big business guy. He had an "office" in the apartment they lived in. Real pom-pus type. Strutter. So, here he goes about IN THE CONGREGATION, placing his penis in the bodies of women not his wife. Not just once......
Another elder here in Monett: same thingd: he is still an Elder.
Another Elder from Aurora was pressuring my daughter to marry him. This guy is nuts. He stated in the WT meeting we were lyers. I called a couple of other Elders in two other congs. They had had the same issue with him. They contacted the Elders in Aurora. I told him if he kept up his nutty-ness he would be removed. He said: "All I have to do is follow the rules and I would get my elder-ship back." He was deleted five years or so ago. He is, no doubt, back on the roles.
As I understand, one of the Elders that DF'd me for not lying as a pledge of loyalty, was DF'd for adultry, just recently.
This could go on and on. I have seen so much fecal matter in the form of Elder/MS actions and emotions. Elders "pure?"
Yeah....most are pure "something:" what that "something" is is up for grabs....
Shaking my head,
V
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greendawn
They do not excel in anything spiritual and they have no training as priests and pastors do. They are just a ramshackle arrangement that suits the interests of the FDS to keep the local dubs in fear and under control otherwise they have nothing worthwhile to offer to the R&F.
They are governed by the same vanity and greed as any other dub.
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stillajwexelder
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. TRANSLATION - Some elders are absolute pricks -give me a humble sister anyday and I will show you true Christian qualities
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wha happened?
If pure means an elder having an affair with your wife while cheating on his own, then yes. Elders are more pure
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ex-nj-jw
Are elders more "pure" than the other JW's ?
NO!
nj
Edited: Sorry that was so blunt, I can't stand Elders.
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Fleur
OMG thank you for the laugh this morning I can always use a good one to start my day.
Elders more pure than others? My response to that would be: Bwhahahahahahahahahaha-ha!
Hardly.
They'd like you to think so. But I've just seen too much to ever believe it. With my own two eyes, not hear-say.
I can't un-know what I know.
essie