Witness bureaucracy paper for college

mkr32208

I've got to do a paper on bureaucracy in sociology (waste of time) class in college. Since I never pass up a chance to "anti" witness, I'm doing it on the layers of bureaucracy within the witness organization.

Unfortunately I've thrown all my witnoid books away (yay for me!) so I need some info! Let me see if I've got the levels right.

God Jehover
Jebus
Governing body
Regular anointed
Angels
District Overseer
Circuit Overseer
Presiding Overseer
Regular Elders
Ministerial Servants
Pioneers (Male)
Publishers
Joe Blows
Small children and animals
Worldly People
Demons
Satan

Apostates

Women...

So that's the list I came up with is that right? Am I missing a few levels? If anyone with a CD or library wants to help me with the research end of the paper let me know via pm or [email protected]!

greendawn

You should relegate the regular anointed to a position beneath the pioneers because despite what they say in theory aboout their status in practice they are totally marginalised.

Shawn10538

This is absolutely the funniest post I've seen in a ling time. LOL, and I never do LOL in my responses! The list is just hilarious.

tula

You left out the domestics.

your welcome,

Leona

tula

Regular anointed

wouldn't this make reference to the fact that there must be another group of annointed from which they must be distinguished?

Maybe an "unregular annointed"?

tula

where are the slaves?

and the apostates....where will they go?

Gopher

mkr,

Here's a fairly up-to-date source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses

It has a chart based on a 1971 Watchtower (which was the same year they put the elder arrangement into effect):

Gopher

Here's another thread on this subject posted last year: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/113950/1.ashx

Here is its list in order of descending influence. (I guess Danny Haszard ranks dead last.)

GB
Given Ones
Member of important GB-committee/WT-corporation
Zone Overseer
Branch Committee
Bethelite/Elder
DO
CO
City Overseer
Elders
Bethelite (not Elder)
MS
Wife of Elder
Pioneer
Auxiliary Pioneer
Baptized and in Service Above Country Average
Baptized and in Service Each-Month
Unbaptized Publisher
Baptized but Rarely-in-Service
Baptized and Inactive but attending meetings
Home Bible Study
Interested
Inactive
Inactive for so long that you can do anything (like smoking in public) without a committee meeting
DF
DA
actively participating in another belief
doing campaigns against the WTS-cult

tula

children in field service instead of being allowed "play time".

mkr32208

Awesome, thanks gopher. I really am doing a paper I just wanted the list to be a bit funny!

Witness bureaucracy paper for college

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