by Princess Daisy Boo 43 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
She was in her eighties, lived through the depression, lived through the war, spent time in a concentration camp, escaped East Germany, had 2 marriages, 4 children, one of whom died young, and I could go on and on
Its certainly understandable what can she be taught about life. I think most older people feel that way. I would have loved to talk to her about her life.
H4O
I never even made an M/S feel crap now , and I tried a little bit as well
My cousin was made an elder in his late twenties...he wasnt married and had such a sheltered life I wondered at the time how he could provide any advice to a person as he had no life experince. In a conversation about medications for depresssion he stated that people that were suffering from depression should "just get over it!".
An elder in their 20's???? As a 39 year old woman I would ROTFLMAO everytime they opened their mouth.
I thought the same thing. Some kid come in here tellin me a little sumtin' sumtin' I don't think so.
Me: I changed your diaper, you get on outta' here.
lisa
The Governing Body though older don't have much more experience either,,most no children,,not a real job in the real world, yet they think that they are qualified to 'govern' people all over the world. Their reality wisdom and experience is zilch.
Hey, if they get baptized at age 6, then for sure they could become hounders at age 10 or so. It seems they are getting in a pickle with the number of hounders that are leaving or turning apostate, that they need to get them in while they are still too young to realize that they are being screwed.
back in the 70's,,,elders under 30 were pretty common. Especially if you lived where the need was "great". Our PO was 27 around 1973. Out of the 4 elders we had then only one was local... and older than 40. All the rest were transplants there to pioneer and build up the population at the Hall.
~Hill
Maybe they're making the young men elders, because the older JW men are getting wise and getting out.
I think it is a joke to have a 26 year old elder. I most certainly would not if I were still a dub go to someone like him for advice - I mean he is a nice kid and all but the fact remains - he is a kid! He and my sister have no idea about life as they pioneered whilst living at home until they got accepted into Bethal.
And no, he doesn't know anyone - as far as I can tell - he is not from a particularly influential family and they were sent to the congregation that they attend bu Bethal so who know!!!
I was appointed in my late 20s in the late 1990s. I've been on BOEs that had elders in their mid-20s. I thought I was too young but had been a MS for almost 10 years so they felt that helped me "qualify". Really, being a WT elder is about doing a bunch of parts and administrative duties.I was very compentent at that duty. I never really worried about people coming to me for advice because there were others that would fill that role. And sheparding is so rare that I didn't worry about that either. And I usually managed to wiggle out of JCs.
I was the youngest at the time on the BOE and myself and the other young elder would be assigned to handle issues with the kids. Never really got called on to provide advice to someone older on life issues. I probably would have asked someone else to do it anyway as some of the other comments show that getting life advice from someone young enough to be your son isn't usually received very well.
Really, what choice do they have? Most of the guys I know that were appointed around the same time I was have either been deleted or have stepped aside. I think the burnout rate on the young ones is just as high as it is on the older ones. If they could drop the burnout rate, then they wouldn't need to appoint guys in their 20s to run their congregations.
