Do any of the current Governing Body have academic qualifications?

by usualusername1 42 Replies latest jw friends

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  FedUpJW

  It's OK to be a high school dropout if you do it for God.

  I heard that! Back in the early seventies nearly every high school kid I new did just that. They quit school "to pioneer before the end in 75."

  Of course now forty-two years later they have no education of value, have no decent paying employment, have no savings, and have only managed to pioneer for a couple years until they moved out of mommies basement. Now they fave the reality of life with basically nothing except the good-will of others who did not buy into the fake promises.
  
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  sparky1

  I think the more important and telling question would be: Do any of the current Governing Body have any Common Sense?
  
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  jp1692

  Listener: Jackson ... left school at the age of 15 (with a certificate).

  So he's a high school dropout. Thanks for posting.
  

  I'm not sure what the process was when Jackson left school at 15, but I know that the current process in the US is so low that those that pass really only need to demonstrate very limited skills in English and basic algebra and geometry. That's it.
  

  Anyone of even below average intelligence can pass it. It is not even remotely rigorous or difficult.
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  LoveUniHateExams

  Considering the level of quality of his video presentations, I suspect that Lett may have finished Kindergarten -
  

  I remember watching a WT broadcast by Lett and he said he had been talked into pioneering at age 18 instead of university.

  Stephen Lett ... university ... really?!
  
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  jp1692

  Frankly, it's bizarre the way most JWs celebrate ignorance as if it's something to be proud of.
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  blondie

  Acts 4:13 NIV

  13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
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  EverApostate

  Graduates from University of Middle East Myths.
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  jp1692

  Besides the fact that the Bible is no longer an authoritative source to most of us here, the relevant point is that the WT Leaders, aka the GB 2.0, were not and never have "been with Jesus."

  That guy died over two thousand years ago and has been "invisibly (and inconsequentially) present" ever since. He's dead. Gone. Deal with it.
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  blondie

  the WT Leaders, aka the GB 2.0, were not and never have "been with Jesus."

  No one claiming to be Christian could have said that about themselves after the death of the last Christian from that time assuming Jesus ever existed. But jws do believe that Acts 4:13 would be an answer to the question being discussed as I see it. Then no individual or layperson in the Christian group is qualified if they don't have a higher formal education. What I feel that none of those appointed as "leaders" have even a decent bible education.
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  jp1692

  No one claiming to be Christian could have said that about themselves after the death of the last Christian from that time assuming Jesus ever existed.

  Exactly!

  But jws do believe that Acts 4:13 would be an answer to the question being discussed as I see it.

  More delusional beliefs from JWs, the least educated people among any religion in several developed countries, the US included.

  Then no individual or layperson in the Christian group is qualified if they don't have a higher formal education.

  Well that would make sense.

  What I feel that none of those appointed as "leaders" have even a decent bible education.

  Agreed.