How many GB members were converts? How many are 2'nd generation?

by logansrun 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • logansrun
    logansrun

    I know that Fred Franz and Karl Klein were both converts to the JW religion, although Klein was quite young when he became a dub if memory serves me correct. Both are dead and have reached their heavenly reward, though (hahahahahahahahahaha). What about those alive today? You know, Jaracz and company?

    It seems to me, and I could be wrong, that most, if not all, members of the GB were raised in the Troof or became dubs as children. Does anyone have any input on this? Perhaps some of you ex-bethelites know.

    This might be enlightening for reasons which I can mention later.

    Bradley

  • blondie
    blondie

    Ted Jaracz -- Items specially appreciated by the conventioners were the invitation to visit the branch home and printery following the assembly and the introduction of Brother T. Jaracz, a graduate of Gilead and an American, as the new branch servant for Australia. (1951)

    Gerrit Losch --Loesch also revealed previously unpublished information about his own background: He was not raised "in the truth" and has no JW family members. Someone witnessed to him in 1958 when he was working in a hotel in Austria.

    Carey Barber ?baptized at 16 in 1921; Carey Barber was playing second violin in the WT orchestra

    John Barr ?born into a family of Bible Students

    Samuel Herd ?Nothing on internet or in WT-CD

    M. Stephen Lett ?Nothing on internet or in WT-CD

    Guy H. Pierce ?Nothing on internet or in WT-CD

    Albert Schroeder ?grandmother associated with Bible Students

    David Splane --Nothing on internet or in WT-CD

    Dan Sydlik ?his father, who belonged to the Bible Students, died when he was 3 years old and his mother had to raise the 6 children.

    Among the Governing Body members at the time discussed, only Fred Franz (now deceased) was out of his teenage years in 1914, being 21 years old then. As to the present members, George Gangas was 18, John Booth 12, Karl Klein and Carey Barber were 9, Lyman Swingle 4, Albert Schroeder 3, Jack Barr 1, and Lloyd Barry, Dan Sydlik, Milton Henschel, Ted Jaracz and Gerrit Loesch had not yet been born, their births coming after 1914.

  • Lucius
  • logansrun
    logansrun

    From the information that can be found I think it is safe to say that all of the GB were either raised in the Society or joined at a very young age (only a couple joined in their late teens/early 20's). Why is this important?

    One simple reason: most people cannot make educated decisions about such complex subjects at that age. They certainly have a skewed viewpoint of matters if they were indoctrinated into the belief system from babyhood.

    Basically, we are not talking about educated people who made an informed choice about the Dubs. We are talking about JW lifers who were as sheltered as a rat in a Skinner box on the North Pole. Telling. Very telling.

    Bradley

  • DakotaRed
    DakotaRed

    Guy H. Pierce?Nothing on internet or in WT-CD

    Guy Pierce was the CO of my area before becoming a member of the GB. He visited my home and sitting on my couch, said he became a JW in 1954 and declared he was a member of the annointed. Seems to me, the Society teaches that only those who were dubs prior to the 1930s could be of the annointed.

  • gumby
    gumby
    Basically, we are not talking about educated people who made an informed choice about the Dubs. We are talking about JW lifers who were as sheltered as a rat in a Skinner box on the North Pole. Telling. Very telling.

    Would not this same situation apply to ALL who were born into the religion? Many who are here on this forum were raised in it, sheltered in it, yet still had the brains and balls to get out. So can the GB.

    Gumby

  • little witch
    little witch

    I see that several of them have some connections to the bible students. Arent the Bible students sopposed to be more liberal, or am I mistaken?

    If they are, then I find it odd that they are in the positions that they are in. You would think they would lighten up on the members somewhat.

  • blondie
    blondie

    Little Witch, one group of the "Bible Students" renamed themselves Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931. Other groups broke off and became separate before that starting in 1918. So from 1879 to 1916 there were only Bible Students (no JWs). Starting in 1918, a group broke off, several other groups broke off after that. Charles Taze Russell founded the Bible Students. J.F. Rutherford renamed a small group of Bible Students, Jehovah's Witnesses, in 1931.

  • little witch
    little witch

    Thanks for the info, Blondie

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