I remember listening to this comment this sister gave, and she was like: We dont need wordly education. We have more edcation then them and we didnt even pay for it. I'm thinking to myself .
Did you beleive you were A intellectual when you were a JW
by jam 39 Replies latest jw friends
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nancy drew
I think that people who take chances make mistakes move on to new ideas are the real intellectuals. As long as a person is growing and courageous enough to step forward and say "i was wrong now I understand why and i don't care what the price I will not continue in something I know is wrong out of fear" than their on the right track.
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beenthere26yr
That's the smug, arrogant attitude the GB wants you to have.
Why do you believe they discourage higher education.
They don't want you to know that you're not the smartest grain of sand on the beach.
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Mad Sweeney
Yup. I used to think I was pretty smart. Ignorance is bliss, indeed.
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NomadSoul
Interesint thread. I left before adulthood so no telling how I would've been like. But I do remember thinking I was pretty smart since all I did was meetings and school work. Other kids didn't have much time to actually go through their homework. They were actually also being busy being kids.
So it wasn't a surprise that I was the smartest kid in the class... until High School. Most of my classes were AP, and that's when I met my challenge. I met other nerds and geeks who were by far smarter than I was.
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WontLeave
Actually, in my experience, being among JWs will make anyone feel that much smarter. It's similar to the saying "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." The problem with that saying is that the one-eyed man would be different and instead of being king, he'd more likely be killed.
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Terry
I just remembered something from long ago....
I moved to California in 1974 after I had been in "the Truth" for 11 years, having full-time pioneered and also having served time in Federal Prison over the so-called christian neutrality issue.
In California I made my first "worldly" friends in many years. Devout christian friends who helped my family immesurably gave me a glimpse that the official characterizations by the Society of christendom's christians was way off kilter.
Anyway...a very sincere Presbyterian friend invited me to speak informally at his bible study group with his young friends. (We were in our 20's).
He wanted me to teach the group the best methods of studying the bible. I jumped at the chance to share my (obviously) superior knowledge and training thanks to the Theocratic Ministry School I had benefitted from since 1963.
About 20 people showed up and I began sharing the JW methodology.
Well!!
What an epiphany!
Inside of ten minutes the questions and discussion began. It was quite neutral, friendly and earnest in tone.
The bottom line was this; THEY KNEW MORE THAN I DID!!!
I was flabbergasted.
This group had bible dictionaries, commentaries, hermeneutics texts, references and skills far beyond anything I'd ever seen before!!
I suddenly felt like those hominid apes at the beginning of Kubrick's 2001 Space Oddysey when the giant obelisk appears!!
An amazing LEAP FORWARD in my personal evolution was taking place and I could feel my brain tingling.
My eyes opened up and my brain exploded!
I had been embedded in a STRONG DELUSION of education that was nothing more than pitiful parochial cult indoctrinations!
WOW and double WOW!!
That was a genuine light bulb moment!!
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snowbird
What everyone said, especially Scully, Prophecor, Tracy Lee, and Terry.
Syl
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kazar
Yes, I did believe I was an intellectual because I had "the truth". I was arrogant and intolerable. I don't know how anyone put up with me.