A fourteen year-old elder set this sister straight!

by Julia Orwell 14 Replies latest jw friends

  • Julia Orwell
    Julia Orwell

    I was supervising a class of 14 year olds and there were a couple of JW kids, a girl and a boy, both of whom want to go to Bethel. I told the boy I wasn't comfortable with all the changes the GB's been making over the years. I mean, I'm the teacher, right? Kids usually are interested in what I say about things.

    He cut me off sharply and told me in that authoritative, emphatic, overbearing manner that the changes are necessary and the GB has to move with the times, hardly letting me get a word in edgewise! It was like I'd pulled the string on one of those talking dolls. When he wound down, I told him the Bible is the truth and the Bible never changes, so why should the WT (and cited the July 2013 about the FDS) then out pours this stream, as if on autoplay, about the light getting brighter thus the GB's understanding of the scriptures needs to be constantly updated.

    Here I was talking to a teenage boy, but he had the manner, speech and trappings of an elder! I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I just assumed most JW kids weren't that into it, but this mini-elder had me scared for them.

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    It sticks with a few. He has been taught well and has the makings of a fine elder.

    Snark!

  • ÁrbolesdeArabia
    ÁrbolesdeArabia

    He is going to make a nice Chucky Doll C.O. in another eleven years!

  • Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    Billy the Ex-Bethelite

    I'm sure he'll do a fine job scrubbing toilets at bethel. He can spend all day reminding himself how privileged he is to be living obedient to WT in the very last moments of the last days of the last centuries of this system, so very near to that kingdom that was established in 1914... wait...

    Whatever you do, don't let him see this lesson from Sesame Street... aired in 1975...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhEcRrMA-M

  • a watcher
    a watcher

    ...Jesus said to them: "...Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have furnished praise." (Matt 21:15,16)

    Out of the mouth of children and sucklings you have founded strength, on account of those showing hostility to you, so as to make the enemy and the one taking his vengeance desist. (Psalms 8:2)

  • TheClarinetist
    TheClarinetist

    Not sure how to put this, but was this a public school, and if so aren't you afraid of getting fired for preaching to your students?

  • Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    Billy the Ex-Bethelite

    Good point "a watcher", JWs are like the Nazis--get the kids young and teach them obedience to "the Father/Führer". I'll never forget how we were taught as JW kids to pray for the slaughter of billions of innocent people because that's how we were trained by WT.

  • Julia Orwell
    Julia Orwell

    What? No. I wasn't preaching anyway; the kid asked me about it because the other JW kid knows I was a JW and brought it up. Also, in Australia, while there is no religion taught in public schools except through the chaplaincy program which is optional, you're free to talk about it in class. Kids often ask about religion. Now if I were trying to convert kids, that would be another matter.

    Still, this mini-elder will no doubt tell his parents what I said, and praise him for standing up for the 'Truth' and maybe encourage him to witness to me if I take his class again. He asked me if I still believe, and I said, "I believe in Jehovah and Jesus with all my heart." I left it at that because I don't believe in the WT but do believe in The Father and my Lord Jesus. That happified him ;)

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    The kid could be a sociopath. Not that he might be dangerous, just devoid of feelings, at least for now.

    S

  • Qcmbr
    Qcmbr

    If the light was much dimmer in the past that means the older a WT teaching is the less likely it is to be correct, no?

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