Heads Up: If you are an older JW, WT has no further use for you!

by AndDontCallMeShirley 36 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • villagegirl
    villagegirl

    Its not only old people, that can expose the WT for its muddled

    and embarrassing past actions and beliefs , its all the old books.

    Like the Finished Mystery , published in 1917

    "Old Light" ? Really ?

    Have you ever asked yourself why

    Christian writers in all churches,

    and notably, Thomas Aquinas, who wrote

    exclusively theological and

    philisophiical books, and wrote them

    from 1244 to 1274 are still read

    and studied in universities all over the world?

    His works stood the test of time, and he was living

    in the early Middle ages before the enlightenment.

    Yet Watchtower publications barely a hundred years old are considered

    useless 'old light" and too embaarrassing to publish and distribute ?

    Thomas Aquinas, here are examples of only a few books

    he wrote and that still read and studied in schools and universities.

    Exegtical, homiletical, and liturgical writings;

    Commentaries on Job, Psalms and Isaiah 1261-65

    Catena aurea ( The Golden Chain )

    Commentaries on Canticles and Jeremiah

    On the Principles of Nature, 1255

    On Being and Essence, 1252- 1256

    Commentary on the Gospel of Mattew, 1269-1272

    Against the Errors of the Greeks, to Pope Urban 1V, 1263

    Disputed Questions on the Power of God, 1259 - 1268

    Disputed Questions on Spiritual Creatures 1266

    Commentary of the Eight Books of Physics 1268 - 1271

    The Catholic Church does not hide these books, or prevent their

    followers from reading them, because they are "old"

    as does the WT of its old literature. It proudly displays them

    and uses them as still of interest to modern day theology

    and philosophy. The list of Thomas Aquinas's writings is too long

    to be contained in this forum.

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

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    LOL!!@ADCMS!!..

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    My JW Parents Believed The WBT$ Lies..

    "JEHOVAHS WITNESSES WILL NEVER GROW OLD AND DIE"

    Like Every JW Before Them.....They Got Old And Died..

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    ..............................................Would Like Me to Teach You How To..

    ...................................................... Never Grow Old And Die?!..

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  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    the older elder on the committee who was more compassionate, lenient and wanting to hold off on immediately DF the accused was portrayed as not following procedure. He was in the wrong. He was overruled by the younger elders who were more judgmental and harsh and voted to DF without much discussion. I wonder if WT, by the deliberate way they are portraying these older men, see them as a liability?

    That is a very keen observation.

    Fact is, that maybe the young GB members actually do think of Sam Herd and the other older GB in that way, too. They just can't kick them out though. Maybe Sam oughta have somebody tasting his orange juice at morning worship.

    Doc

  • JW GoneBad
    JW GoneBad

    wannabefree:

    Ages of GB members in 2014 ...

    Samuel Herd 79 yrs
    Gerritt Losch 73 yrs
    David Splane 70 yrs
    M Stephen Lett 65 yrs
    Anthony Morris III 64 yrs
    Geoffrey Jackson 59 yrs
    Mark Sanderson 49 yrs

    Now I know why (as a GB member said recently at an annual meeting) before an article goes to print it is checked and re-checked some 70 times for accuracy!

    These old GB members due to old age don't trust themselves to get things right-they need to have articles that they author reviewed nearly 6 dozen times before they get published and even then...time and time and time again we see revisions, updates, changes and other printed blunders!

    What a Joke!!!

  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    I didn't realize Herd was that old.

    African American @ 79 is past the average life expenctancy.

    Plus, isn't Sam diabetic? Probably has high blood pressure too.

    Looks like to me that GB 2.1 is going to be getting younger and younger.

    Talk about all these new changes.....................you ain't seen nothin' yet!

    Doc

  • wisdomfrombelow
    wisdomfrombelow

    I can't help but think that putting in such a high age requirement as 80 for the COBE is just a placeholder that they will use to lower it later. Perhaps the Governing Body will allow it's older members to retire and become GB Emeritus. That would be a real perk...work hard and get to retire to upstate NY...not work and work until they die. Since the individual GB members are not significant, only the body as a collective, perhaps they want to keep the GB fresh and flowing in the 21st century. Of course there is no retirement for locals but putting a time limit on privileges of service may increase the urgency to get them because if you wait too long it won't be available.

  • ADJUSTMENTS
    ADJUSTMENTS

    DOC,

    Havent you ever heard that black don't crack? The Caucasian-Americans on the body all look older than Samuel herd...

    Plus I think they all may have heart disease or skin cancer by now...

  • AndDontCallMeShirley
    AndDontCallMeShirley

    I once read that a great manager or business owner will never require an employee to do something the mgr/owner isn't willing to do. I wonder if the GB will be great 'managers' and retire themselves at 80? *

    First to go: Sam Herd.

    .

    * we all know the answer...I'm just fantasizing.

  • steve2
    steve2

    At the more youthful end of adulthood, isn't also increasingly the case in Western countries that there are problems finding enough suitable qualified males to take up positions of elders? I've heard of congregations having to merge due to lack of elders.

  • Newly Enlightened
    Newly Enlightened

    Good post ADCMS: Good observation about the elder training video.

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