Possible 2 Tier System?

by Englishman 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Englishman

  Someone - I can't recall who - posted an opinion that the JW relgion would shortly split into 2 separate bodies.

  As I recall, the poster opined that 1 group would remain as fundamental as it is now, whilst the other would go much more mainstream, maybe even abandoning contentious beliefs such as shunning and refusing blood.

  If I remember correctly, the writer felt that the 2 groups would still remain under the control of Brooklyn, but they would actually be of separate 'classes'. Something like ordinary Catholics and Jesuits, I guess.

  I can't find the post, but I think that it is an interesting concept. It would certainly solve many of their problems to have an elite class alongside a junior one, it would also allow the FDS to fade away gracefully. Maybe instead of being DF'd, a sinning member of the elite would just be relegated to the junior league.

  Englishman.

  Nostalgia isn't what it used to be....
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  battman

  Eman,
  Zounds, what a great idea!! Sign me up for duh minor
  league for sure!! Don't remember the previous thread
  but like the concept. IMHO you seem to be on target
  with significan changes ahead.

  Just as the printing press combined with inexpensive
  paper allowed Luther's message to gain a wide audience
  and change the dominant and controlling religious tone
  of his day so will the "net" accomplish the same effect
  in our day. The time frame will be greatly compressed!!!

  "a time for everything and everything in its time."

  battman
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  ballistic

  What about those who aren't sure why they were disfellowshipped? Which league should I try to get back into?
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  logical

  Heman,

  That would have been one of MDS's prophecies.
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  Englishman

  OK, Logi, I'll go into the members lists and check.

  Ta!

  Englishman.

  Nostalgia isn't what it used to be....
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  Yerusalyim

  I thought they already had a two tier system, annointed and not annointed.

  YERUSALYIM
  "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
  [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]
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  Englishman

  Yerusalem,

  Congrats on the 8 years BTW!

  The 2 tier system I read about would be far different from the FDS/R&F at present. The numbers would be far more equal, almost like a Premier League and a Secondary League, all or most of the FDS would have departed.

  It would give everyone involved an amazing opportunity to put DF'ing behind them, probably all DF'd persons would be automatically assigned to the Secondary league whether they were repentant or not. Presumably. All elders would be selected from the Premier League.

  Maybe the ladies would never be eligable to such a league.

  Englishman.

  Nostalgia isn't what it used to be....